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Highlighting indie games and developers from Japan! If you are in Japan and make games, please link your stuff so we can cover it!

日本の面白いインディーゲームと開発者を英語で紹介するサイト！もし日本で活動している開発者の方はあなたのゲームを教えてください！ぜひ紹介させていただきます！

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Announcing the release of the 2024 February issue compiling articles from the インディー通信 blog! Join us in celebrating these from !

https://nicegeargames.itch.io/indie-tsushin-2024-february

The zine is viewable in browser, and available for download in PDF, ePub, and MOBI formats. We also have digital postcards and the Japanese interview editions (インタビュー特集) to download. It is PWYW so everyone can enjoy it! We really hope that you will check it out!

Here's what's inside:

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🎮 Magicube

Guest writer @squimmy talks about the thinky puzzle game Magicube, a game by nebu soku that works within the limitations of the PICO-8 engine and simple game mechanics to create dozens of challenging puzzle levels!

https://indietsushin.net/posts/2024-02-13-Magicube

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🎮 里山のおと 夏草こみち (Satoyama Note: Natsukusa Komichi)

Head into the peaceful countryside of Japan with Satoyama Note: Natsukusa Komichi by nyacchu and michi of satoyama note! Brush up on your knowledge of animals, traditional Japanese customs, and natural phenomena as you follow the summertime story of Fox, Tanuki, and Frog. Can you pass the Tanuki University exam?

https://indietsushin.net/posts/2024-02-14-Satoyama-Note-Natsukusa-Komichi

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🎮 Death Palette

Daikon plays through the horror adventure game, Death Palette by SleepingMuseum! Who is this mysterious girl in the cursed painting, and can you finish her portrait without meeting an untimely demise?

https://indietsushin.net/posts/2024-02-20-Death-Palette

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🌟 Spotlight on Furige 20XX

We look back at Furige 20XX, an annual event from 2008 to 2023 where people could vote for and share their favorite free games. We spoke with organizer Yatarou Akamatsu about running the event, about free games, about online bubbles of video game discourse, and much more.

https://indietsushin.net/posts/2024-02-28-Spotlight-on-Furige-20XX.html

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🎤 Interview with nebu soku

We had the chance to pick the brain of thinky puzzler nebu soku! We talked about designing puzzle mechanics and levels using PuzzleScript and PICO-8, and about working on their first full-fledged release, Magicube!

https://indietsushin.net/posts/2024-02-17-Interview-with-nebu-soku.html

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🎤 Interview with satoyama note

We spoke with nyacchu and michi of satoyama note about making games that capture the feeling of the present-day Japanese countryside in the lovely visual novel, Satoyama Note: Natsukusa Komichi!

https://indietsushin.net/posts/2024-02-18-Interview-with-satoyama-note.html

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🎤 Interview with SleepingMuseum

We could bear-ly (sorry) contain our glee when SleepingMuseum agreed to speak with us about the horror adventure game, Death Palette! We also talked about their previous escape room games and auto-runners, and where they got the idea of bargaining with paintings. Check it out, kuma!

https://indietsushin.net/posts/2024-02-24-Interview-with-SleepingMuseum.html

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We did it, fam! Over a million views on IndieTsushin.net!! 🎉🥳🎉

Hoping to get something big up tomorrow, and then FINGERS CROSSED, the belated February issue on Wednesday!! Squeaking in just before the end of the month aaaaaaaa

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We could bear-ly (sorry) contain our glee when SleepingMuseum agreed to speak with us about the horror adventure game, Death Palette! We also talked about their previous escape room games and auto-runners, and where they got the idea of bargaining with paintings. Check it out, kuma!

https://indietsushin.net/posts/2024-02-24-Interview-with-SleepingMuseum

Angle from below the portrait looking up. The girl says, 'Oh, you're finally awake?'
Sun shining a single ray of light into a dark cemetary. Girl in the center holds a parasol, while a demon bear chef approaches her.
Kuma in a spacesuit complaining that they should be on earth right now eating an ikuradon.

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Daikon plays through the horror adventure game, Death Palette by SleepingMuseum! Who is this mysterious girl in the cursed painting, and can you finish her portrait without meeting an untimely demise?

https://indietsushin.net/posts/2024-02-20-Death-Palette

Table with two white macarons sitting on top, with overturned chairs and other bricabrac nearby.
Black and white portrait of the girl with an apple floating next to her head. Around the apple is a spinning wheel of red, yellow, and blue paint blobs.
The girl's neck craned at an unnatural 90-degree angle, one eye squinted closed and the other wide open and red. She is holding up a red apple next to her.

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Head into the peaceful countryside of Japan with Satoyama Note: Natsukusa Komichi by nyacchu and Michi! Brush up on your knowledge of animals, traditional Japanese customs, and natural phenomena as you follow the summertime story of Fox, Tanuki, and Frog. Can you pass the Tanuki University exam?

https://indietsushin.net/posts/2024-02-14-Satoyama-Note-Natsukusa-Komichi

Tanuki lecturer wearing a hapi coat and standing in front of a crowd of tanuki students.
Index page for dokudami, a kind of flower. The description is written in brushstroke calligraphy and describes the plant's characteristics.
Colored illustration of Fox, Frog, and Tanuki reclining on the grass. There is a note from the artist explaining that although the illustrations in the game are black-and-white, this is what the characters would look like in color.

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Daikon and I will be tonight from 9PM JST! The show is a and English bilingual stream introducing some cool we found. Come hang out and find new stuff to play!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR7SxUfYVug

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Today's games:

🐸 里山のおと 夏草こみち by satoyama note https://satoyamanote-natsukusakomichi.carrd.co/
🍚 回転DooooN!! by テッペイ https://gameparade.creators-guild.com/works/1025
🐌 DRINKRIME by 72studio https://unityroom.com/games/drinkrime_202309_demo
⬜ The Strongest TOFU: fragile adventure by Zounoashi Games https://store.steampowered.com/app/2408680/The_Strongest_TOFU_fragile_adventure/
🧭 TO:NORTH by realkey https://realkeythefox.itch.io/tonorth-jp
🍄 CRAFT ROGUE by takevabu https://takevabu.booth.pm/items/4580991

Please check out these cool and interesting !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR7SxUfYVug

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Announcing the release of the 2023 December-January issue compiling articles from the インディー通信 blog! Join us in celebrating these from !

https://nicegeargames.itch.io/indie-tsushin-2023-december-january

The zine is viewable in browser, and available for download in PDF, ePub, and MOBI formats. We also have digital postcards and the Japanese interview editions (インタビュー特集) to download. It is PWYW so everyone can enjoy it! We really hope that you will check it out!

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We've also released the 2023 October, November, and December-January issues as the 2023 Autumn Collection:

https://nicegeargames.itch.io/indie-tsushin-2023-autumn-collection

The 2023 Autumn Collection contains no bonus content, but is a way to support the site for a minimum of $10 and get all three issues in one convenient itch page.

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And we are pleased to announce インディー通信 Indie Tsushin: Year 1, a digital book that includes all of our material from 2022 to 2023. The gorgeous cover was done by none other than @ruby!

https://nicegeargames.itch.io/indie-tsushin-year-1

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And without further ado, let's see what's in the 2023 December January issue!

🎮 闘う受験生 Entrance Exam (Fighting Test-Taker: Entrance Exam)

We played through 闘う受験生 Entrance Exam (Fighting Test-Taker: Entrance Exam) by HesoRider! It's a horizontal shooting game against personified school subjects. Can you pass the exam and get into the school of your dreams, or are you doomed to spend another year as a rōnin?

https://indietsushin.net/posts/2023-12-10-Entrance-Exam

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🎮 Dramatic Road: The Origin of Wind

Daikon wrote about the high school strategy RPG, Dramatic Road: The Origin of Wind by Alaska Ohdanbu! Join together your school's myriad clubs with their unique strengths and traits and relive the burning days of your youth!

https://indietsushin.net/posts/2023-12-17-Dramatic-Road-Origin-of-Wind

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🎮 Retro Game Aliens

Daikon reflects on the importance of preserving the culture of retro games along with the titles themselves while playing Retro Game Aliens by qbert. It's a set of '80s-style Japanese adventure games, and comes with accompanying zines that go in-depth on the real-life games that inspired this collection! Includes Daikon's original Japanese essay.

https://indietsushin.net/posts/2023-12-24-Retro-Game-Aliens

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We were delighted to be able to speak with Giichi Totsuka of the doujin circle qbert! We discussed their coverage of PC and video games from the 1990s up to now, the research and interviews that went into their Adventures in Video Game History zine series, and all the care and love that went into the development of Retro Game Aliens!

https://indietsushin.net/posts/2023-12-28-Interview-with-Giichi-Totsuka

Scorpion from Royal Coffin menacing the player with its huge pincers. Dialogue reads, 'There is a scorpion. It appears to have its guard up.'
A red-haired woman walking down the street and glancing to the side at the player in Nymph Street.
A screenshot from Father's PC Quest of a Windows 95-style desktop with many icons, and an open My Documents window filled with folders labeled with dates from the 1990s.

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Daikon reflects on the importance of preserving the culture of along with the titles themselves while playing Retro Game Aliens by qbert. It's a set of '80s-style Japanese adventure games, and comes with accompanying zines that go in-depth on the real-life games that inspired this collection!

https://indietsushin.net/posts/2023-12-24-Retro-Game-Aliens

Title screen of Ouke no Hitsugi
Title screen of Nymph Street
Photo of the three zine issues from the Adventures in Video Game History series by qbert.

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It's the @itchio Creator Day! As always, though our individual issues are PWYW, we also have the 2023 Winter, Spring, and Summer Collections that bundle together three issues and are $10 each!

https://nicegeargames.itch.io/indie-tsushin-winter-2023-collection
https://nicegeargames.itch.io/indie-tsushin-2023-spring-collection
https://nicegeargames.itch.io/indie-tsushin-2023-summer-collection

You can also check out our full library of issues!

https://itch.io/c/2079506/-indie-tsushin

Thank you so much for all of your support!!

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Announcing the release of the 2023 November issue compiling articles from the インディー通信 blog! Join us in celebrating these from !

https://nicegeargames.itch.io/indie-tsushin-2023-november

The zine is viewable in browser, and available for download in PDF, ePub, and MOBI formats. We also have digital postcards and the Japanese interview editions (インタビュー特集) to download. It is PWYW so everyone can enjoy it! We really hope that you will check it out!

This issue contains:

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里山のおと 夏草こみち (Satoyama Note: Natsukusa Komichi) has a Steam page!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2673700/_/

And a new trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnDAM8cvtWc

I love the Fox and Tanuki series with all my heart, please check out this game if you can!

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