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marron's day on steam next fest!

i have a new demo up on steam for steam next fest for marron's day! check out the spiffy new wrapper!!!

this should allow me to have stuff like steam achievements in the steam build as well a...

sample package for marron!

i printed samples for marron's day gb package and it turned out well! going to print more for a small run of cartridges i want to sell at an in-person event next month.

download: toranoana web-only assets

today i'm participating in the indie web only event early takes (you can visit here! https://event.toranoana.jp/web-o...

october update! + a little download

now that i'm done with tokyo game show (thank goodness) i am going to back to my regular scheduling! here are my plans for this month.

• finish marron's day!!! so i'm not announcing th...

  2024-10-03 13:33:57 +0000 UTC View Post

september postcard & thanks page!

i just exhibited at tokyo game show this weekend (four days) so this month's postcard is a silly combination of a drawing + a photo i took at the event!

i was thinking about what size ...

marron's day demo update

i made a quick update to the demo - now the minigame has you picking turnips & not flowers! (i just thought it looked cuter so i changed the graphics...)

i'll update the steam demo short...

new demo for marron's day for TGS!

the new demo for Marron's Day is up on steam for the tgs sale page that went up today!!!

it features a different part of the story than the previous demo (& a little fishing 🎣) - chec...

i was supposed to have an announcement to make an hour or so ago

the new marron's day demo is up on steam now & i'll post about it publicly later...

but the sale page for tokyo game show that was supposed to go up at 7:00PM jst today (2:00AM pst) has n...

download: tokyo game show demo - early access

edit: demo was updated a bit (added some extra info re: fishing controls)

i have finished the Marron's Day demo in time for tokyo game show!!! the game is also coming together very well.

you're just imagining it coming to steam!

so this is sudden but you're just imagining it will be coming to steam!

click the link above to wishlist (& share it with people who you think might want to play it)...

working on marron's day steam demo...

with some image size issues! 😂

currently the steam version is a very simple sameboy edit which just boots sameboy directly, but i am getting some help to make a cuter wrapper for i...

september update!

it's september & this month i'm going all in with tokyo game show prep...!

these are my plans for the month.

• finish new demo for marron's day for tgs! (this will also be on...

  2024-09-02 04:10:30 +0000 UTC View Post

august postcard & thanks page

hello! i've sent out august postcards - this one moves! it's my first time playing around with voxels & it was interesting working in a 3d space. i might try it again in the future.

i've ...

interview by kamoyanagi housoukyoku

i had a quite long interview with kamoyanagi housoukyoku & the article is out today! the article is in japanese but i talk about things like how i got into indie dev, the visual novel scene in ...

wrote an article for after journey's end

the article i wrote for after journey's end, an online game design journal written by game designers, is out now!

it's in english & japanese on my own personal blog (linked above) & ...

marron's day progress (animated background tiles!)

i've had a lot of progress on marron's day these last couple of weeks - here's a little peek at one of the maps!

i have figured out how to do animated bg tiles in gb studio so now there is a...

some writing about A YEAR OF SPRINGS - early access

i wrote a short article for something a friend is putting together which will come out online later this month, but you get to read it first!

it's about how i show the choices you can't take ...

august update!

hello it's august! july was busy for me & august will be busy again with mostly the same stuff!

• still working on marron's day (aiming for new demo for september & full release...

  2024-08-02 06:24:52 +0000 UTC View Post

july postcard & thanks page!

hello! it's the end of the month so i have updated the thanks page on my site ( https://npckc.net/#thanks )

i have also ...

my game at google i/o bengaluru for the indie games accelerator!

i just came back from google i/o bengaluru and the google indie games accelerator graduation in india, so here are two photos of the event!

(i actually participated in the accelerator with A ...

july update!

it's july now, and i have this month's update for you. it's going to be a mostly background work month for me.

• i finally have enough done on this to show more (see screenshot) but i'v...

  2024-07-05 00:20:01 +0000 UTC View Post

A TAVERN FOR TEA now in german & traditional chinese!

surprise!

A TAVERN FOR TEA is now in german & traditional chinese! thanks to Antonio Moss (Toni Nerdson) for the german tl & sikv for the traditional chinese tl ✨️

you c...

june postcards & thanks page

it is the end of june & the end of pride month so i decided to see if i had enough characters in the right colour palettes & it looks like i did...! 👀

thanks page is updated here:...

ubasute, out now!

i did the art for a godot wild jam game with my friend andrew kiya who did programming and story!

(i wanted to wait until we fixed one game-breaking bug before sharing but we can't upload a ...

game jam notes

i did art for a game jam game with a friend and we (barely) managed to finish! the game is actually already out but the programmer is updating the build to fix a game-breaking bug so i will share a...

pet shop tacos collab!

i went to blaise tacos yesterday to check out the pet shop collab menu and it was yummy! the craft cola in particular was really nice (:

the collab menu is running until the end of rhe month...

pixel art for game jam!

i'm making some art for a game i'm working on with a friend for godot wild jam - not sure we'll finish in time but i'm enjoying the process!

here's the player sprite (may still be twe...

timelapse of some fanart...!

somebody shared this game on bluesky that looked exactly to my liking so i started playing it on the bus on the way to the hospital & i actually missed my stop because i was so engrossed in the...

june update!

hello! it's june! happy pride!!!

this is what i'm working on this month.

•  A TAVERN FOR TEA update - this is already out on mobile actually (pc will come later) - i've made ...

  2024-06-07 00:21:00 +0000 UTC View Post

pet shop taco collab stickers

here's a timelapse video of the sticker designs i made for the pet shop taco collab! it was fun thinking up what to do... you can see where i changed my mind multiple times for the first sticker ha...