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download: plastic tape - early access!

i have a new game for you!! codes have been sent out by email. (sorry about the mojibake - i tried to send a bandage emoji 🩹 but mail merge killed it...)

edit: sorry i did the thing where i forgot to make the game page public! it should work now 🙇

i'm going to be submitting this game to blossom jam for spring themes but actually i created it under o2a2 requirements! (i'm not submitting to the o2a2 queer jam though because one of the organisers says they have publicly support...

bg for my next game

this is the look i'm going for with my next game! it's going to be very minimal assets 👀 i'm having fun playing around with small palettes again... i thought about going with 4 but just having one extra colour gives me a lot of space to play around.

also unrelated but i went to an indie game event called tokyo sandbox & there were SO MANY COOL GAMES there - listed just some of them here if you want to check them out! 2023-04-15 13:51:51 +0000 UTC View Post

some pictures of tiny wanderer @ now play this!

my game tiny wanderer's being shown at now play this in london right now & some friends who are exhibiting shared these photos with me! so i'm sharing them with you (: from what i hear people are having fun & i'm glad. 

april update!

hello, it's april & that means i officially am only a freelance game dev/translator now with no other job...! your support on patreon helps me a lot with this, so thank you.

i spent this first week of joblessness just dealing with various boring but necessary government things like switching over my health insurance & pension... i'm still waiting on confirmation that all the paperwork is finished but i've done all i can on my end right now, so i can properly start my new dev lif...

new game: you are dough

i made a tiny game for bitsy jam #71 fermentation!

become bread now: https://npckc.itch.io/you-are-dough

march postcards sent!

hello! march postcards have been sent out to your email inboxes. the thanks page on my website has also been updated! https://npckc.site/#thanks

it's been a very busy month for me with

• the douZINE release at the beginning of the month - just hit the halfway goal! still a ways to go to reach the final goal though so please share with any friends that might be interested 👀 2023-03-31 14:14:56 +0000 UTC View Post

download: you are dough - early access

i ended up suddenly making a game for the latest bitsy jam so here it is...!

download codes have been sent out too. (you can play in browser but the download is the .bitsy source code if you want to look at the innards.)

i was feeling a bit stressed about various things & this is the game that came out 🥖

A TAVERN FOR TEA is out now!!!

you can get it on

steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/2319470/A_TAVERN_FOR_TEA/

itch https://npckc.itch.io/a-tavern-for-tea

android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.np...

download: A TAVERN FOR TEA - early access

i just sent out codes for A TAVERN FOR TEA itch & steam!!! you can play it right now on itch (look at the nice version code number 2.00 in the screenshot ☺️)

steam codes are also in the email BUT note that i don't think you can use them until the game officially releases which will be on march 24 @ 21:00 jst (give or take a few hours, since i am going to be manually pressing the release button).

honestly i'm so happy with how this has turned out... i got to update all the ...

A HERO AND A GARDEN on google play pass!!!

hello A HERO AND A GARDEN is now available on google play pass which means if you have google play pass you can play for free on your phone!!

it was like last week that i was told it'd be released in may but then a day later i was told it would actually be released this week and it is, apparently, already out! so check it out if you're on android ♥

https://play.google.com/store/a...

tiny wanderer @ now play this 2023!

my little photography game, tiny wanderer, will be shown at now play this in london starting april 1!

https://twitter.com/nowplaythese/status/1637467867250565121

i won't be able to go (flights are expensive!!!) but if you are in the area check it out & share some photos of it with me if you will, so i can feel like i'm there too...!

i've never been to london or even the uk...

A TAVERN FOR TEA title theme!!!

for the first time ever, A TAVERN FOR TEA has a title theme!!

the game actually for the jam version only had one song, so the title screen was silent, but the steam version will have four songs in total (main theme, title theme, title theme night arrangement, main theme night arrangement)... 4x the music!! sdhizumi's doing a great job with the new tracks already though.

(as you can probably guess since i'm only uploading the title theme now, the game is still very very in progress...

secret news re: a hero and a garden

i can't speak about it in detail yet but just wanted to let you all know...!

something is happening for a hero and a garden on android probably next week so if you don't have the game yet and were thinking about buying, it might be worth waiting just a little bit longer until i post an announcement next week in case it changes anything for you!

(if you've been following my games on android you can probably guess what this is but i can't announce it until it happens haha, originall...

me on other social mediaaa

twitter has been kind of on fire for the past few months and while i still post updates there, i've been trying out other places too! 

i've decided to use my neocities page more to post about general things not specific to my own games! i got a url for it and you can find it at https://tnywndr.cafe. it has an rss feed but you can also follow it on neocities if you have a neocities account.

i've been busy with douz...

douZINE#1 out now!!!

my side project douZINE issue 1 is out now!!! it's a zine anthology of five doujin/indie games from japan and they are all fantastic. i translated DON'T SAY YES into english just for the zine too.

i've been very lucky with my games & have had a lot of people play them, but there are so many games i love that i think should have more spotlight, which is part of why i'm doing this project! i hope it'll get more people to look at the amazing games being made here. 

get the b...

douzine 1 cover timelapse

i drew a cover for douzine 1! here's the timelapse. all the games in #1 are reeeally cool so i can't wait for the bundle release 👀

march update!

hello! it's march, which is also my last month of working at my current job before going freelance/indie...! so it's very very busy with various things.

here's my plans for the month:

• releasing douzine issue 1 next week on 3/10! douzine's my side project where i showcase doujin/indie games from japan in a bundle because there are a lot of cool games here & i want more people to know about them. the games in #1 are all very very exciting & i translated one fresh for t...
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february postcards & A TAVERN FOR TEA steam page!!!

february postcards have been sent & the steam page for A TAVERN FOR TEA is out now!!!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2319470/A_TAVERN_FOR_TEA/

please go wishlist it & help me with the algorithm 🙇

(also you can see in the video how i was drawing a hand but gave up 😂 the hand was just not working with me that day...)

the thanks page on my website is also...

so many translations!!

the game is coming along and translations are coming in...! still missing final text for some but everything should go ok for the launch of A TAVERN FOR TEA next month on steam with a total of 11 languages o:

as a note, right now my patreon money is all going into translations essentially since i get the money from patreon in paypal in usd, then i pay it out from paypal in usd to translators... so thank you all for supporting me here so i can get my games translated into more languages ...

working on the trailer!

pretty happy with how it turned out! going to make a jp version too if i have time...

now i have to work on getting the rest of the steam page ready - i think i should be ok on schedule to post the steam page at the beginning of march & then release the game on march 24th...!

getting ready 👀

doing a lot of the busy work (making graphics &c.) while also working on the actual game... i think i'm going to post the page as coming soon at the beginning of march! i haven't decided yet though - i want to have the actual game closer to being ready first, so i can have a release date on the page too when it's up. 

A YEAR OF SPRINGS was on tv

so actually yesterday A YEAR OF SPRINGS was on tv (for like a very very short bit, maybe a minute).

the picture's a screenshot from the show!

the experience was actually pretty rough for me though so i don't think i would do it again. the people who came to interview me were kind of pushy & even when they were asking questions, it felt like they had very specific answers they wanted me to reply with (so kept asking the questions but in different ways to try to get me to answer...

post-game tea mode

working on a post-game tea mode! keen-eyed people might notice also that the visuals have been upgraded from 720p to 1080p... plus the background is a bit neater than before.

the epilogue is pretty much done being written so i just need to actually implement it in the game plus also add a few other features for the steam version... right now my goal is to have it ready for end of march! 

global game jam games!!!

i made games for global game jam last weekend! there are a bunch so i'm going to introduce them one by one.

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OKUTAMA STATION 3 (browser & windows .exe):

this one i wasn't actually planning on making but i had extra time so i made a point-and-click adventure on my own in between working on other stuff! the music is by sdhizumi as usual - and the music was made in just 7 minutes! (the rest of the game took longer haha) 

i wanted to try m...

timelapse of global game jam game art!!

i made some games for global game jam last weekend - here's a timelapse of art i made for one of them!!

mainly i actually was working on a board game with a team but in my extra time i made a very little point and click adventure, and that's the art shown in the video here. 

i'm going to make a public post after this linking to the different games but i wanted to share this secret timelapse with you first 👀

february update!

hello! it's a new month so i have a new update for you.

i'm actually going to put the famires game i was working on on the backburner for a bit because i suddenly really wanted to go back to an old game...

so i'm going to be adding a very little epilogue to A TAVERN FOR TEA! along with some new translations! 👀

i don't know when i'll actually have this out but my plan is to release the update on itch & android while also releasing the game for the first time on steam. ...

january postcards have been sent!

hello it's the first postcard of 2023! please check your inboxes for the email postcard.

i actually drew it while stuck at an airport in the end of 2022 so that kind of seeped into the postcard idea. i'm hoping that i will have a less eventful end of year in 2023! 

my thanks page has also been updated for the month: https://npckc.site/#thanks

thank you for being here with me at the start of 2023! i've got lots ...

download: famires date demo - early access

famires date is still very much a work in progress (i'm not sure when i'll be finishing it yet either! right now the goal is end of february...?) but i wanted to share the demo of it with you!

this is an updated version of the demo i had at tokyo game dungeon 2 (i fixed a couple of bugs & added a little dialogue). it's very short, under 5 minutes! i wanted to keep the gameplay short so people could get a quick idea of what the game was & then get a little receipt printed.

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tokyo game dungeon event report!

i showed a demo of my new game famires date (plus an old demo of a pet shop after dark) at tokyo game dungeon this weekend! here's my event report.

i was actually very unprepared unfortunately since i was still finishing the gb game demo right up to the day before with some last minute fixes on the morning of... but i managed to get everything set up ok for noon, the start of the event.

there were more people than i expected (according to the organiser there were 1200 people inclu...

famires date demo is coming together

i'm still putting everything together but i think i should have my demo ready for sunday (for tokyo game dungeon the event i will be showing at)! 

here's a screenshot of how it's looking so far - gb studio has changed a lot since i first started using it & it has a lot of great new features, like being able to show avatars next to the dialogue...!