indietsushin.net
Highlighting indie games and developers from Japan! If you are in Japan and make games, we wanna know!
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！
https://indietsushin.net
Run by @renkotsuban.com and @nicegear.games
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Today's games:
🐉 Dragonsweeper by Daniel Benmergui
🌵 愉快でくだらないゲーム by @phenikigames.bsky.social
🪓 Ember in the wilderness by @milliesquilly.com
🏰 Escape from Castle Claymount by Studio Look
Please check out these cool #IndieGames!!
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Today's games:
🍬 pinboll by Leo Schweiger, Flo Eberhard, and Sebastian Schweiger
🫧 Depth Survivor by SinclairStrange
🇱 LOK Digital by @draknek.bsky.social
Please check out these cool and awesome #IndieGames!
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Today's cool #IndieGames:
🦟 Enemyn't by Daniel Tortorici Bartús, @clovelt.bsky.social , Guille Rodríguez, and Javier "Jasku" Sevidanes Quincy
🔫 Tower of Hermes by @eufrasiodev.bsky.social
🖼️ Alma the Captive by Mineo
🧀 Sebastian's Quest by @finjico.bsky.social
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Yesssss come hang out in the UTC+9 zone 😆
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Of course!! Any time ✌️ And I hear ya on doing updates consistently being hard (see: the state of Indie Tsushin this past year or so 😔) I hope you are hanging in there and getting a lot of well-deserved rest 💜
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Thank you so much!! 🥰 (also sorry for late reply!!)
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We eagerly await the next GSK guest article 👀 ahahaha
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It was really cute, and the music is so fun!! 🎵
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Ahhh sorry didn't see this til just now! We actually bought a copy of Hot Wax on itch right after the stream and have been playing it a lot ahahaha. Can't wait for those new modes 😆
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Anytime!! ✌️
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Today's games:
🐙 Asaha Town by @asahapixelart.bsky.social and yudai
🪟 Trip's Tower by #LITHOBREAKERS (StationKTKR)
🌟 「CODENAME: CRANE」 by @yuusharuby.bsky.social
Please check out these cool and awesome #IndieGames!
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Today's games:
🕯️ Hot Wax by @punkcake.club
⏰ Ord. by Mujo Games and @stuffedwomb.at
😠 What Friends Are For by @shin.itch.io and @beatscribe.bsky.social
🦇 わくわくダークライダー by どしが
Please check out these cool and awesome #IndieGames!!
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(pt2)
☁️ NebulasweeP by どしが
🎰 Slot & Dungeon by @sparkwinggames.bsky.social
💎 Crystal Breaker by TERARIN GAMES
🔮 DigDigDrill by Toorai
🍄 QUESTER | OSAKA by Thousand Games
Please check out these cool and awesome #IndieGames!!
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Happy New Year!! I will come back later today to add time stamps and links to the games we played, but for now it is time to pass out!! Good night and welcome to 2025!!!!!
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P.P.S. Over on my personal account, I wrote a thread with some of my quick thoughts on the entries to the 30th #3分ゲー contest! (This might get recycled into a full article on Indie Tsushin if I get the chance!!)
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I'm excited for 2025 and talking about more games! I hope you all are having a restful end-of-year holidays, and hope to see you soon on the other side of 2024!! 👋
P.S. If you didn't see the earlier announcement, we're gonna start our marathon NYE stream in 40min!!
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- Get the 2025 Winter issue out (and hopefully get back into a more regular update schedule, if not monthly then at least bimonthly)
- Be more consistent about streaming Happy Hour (again, sorry for the many ドタキャン this year🙇)
- Find more J devs on here and move away from Twitter for good LOL 😭
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THAT SAID, I have big plans for 2025, and am really hoping I can get my stamina up in order to carry them out. For starters:
- Get the Year 2 ebook out!! I already have the cover art, I just need to compile it!
- Finish up the three (!!!) interviews in my inbox and accompanying game profiles
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Without getting too into the weeds, 2024 was not a great year for me. I struggled to focus on updating the site much, which I think you can see in the marked decrease in articles from 2023. I would like to sincerely apologize to my contributors and interviewees for my slow pace this past year 🙇
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And finally, rounding off the year was an incredible writeup of Rodem the Wild by guest writer @cdrom.ca! A real hidden gem of a release from the 90s era of Macintosh games with some incredible visuals and hand-drawn charm!
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#IndieGames #RetroGames #Macintosh
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Guest writer @mojilove.net was kind enough to share his thoughts with us on translating Operation STEEL (an STG by @undermog.com) into Japanese! A great look into the process of game translations
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#Translation #Japanese #IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev
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We explored the world of Monstrous Park and its unsettling inhabitants, and spoke with @kanna8721.bsky.social about wrangling such a huge and charming cast of characters!
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#IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev #VisualNovel #NarrativeGames
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We checked out the super unique 1D turn-based roguelike with charming hand-drawn art and intriguing story Yumeiri, and spoke with @ishinoura.bsky.social!
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#IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev #Roguelike #TurnBased #NarrativeGames
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We played Missile Dancer 2 and spoke with developer Terarin about loving and making STGs of all stripes! We also spoke a little about making Crystal Breaker (out now!!)
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#IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev #STG #RetroGames #PixelArt
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We checked out the fantastic looping VN/roguelike/deckbuilding card game Toroidal: Awaiting the Spring by SameSameSummation, and spoke with @samesamekun.bsky.social!
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#IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev #NarrativeGames #Deckbuilding
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We looked at YOUNG TEAM SOUNDS, an upcoming novel game by POST COMMERCIALS ALLIANCE. We also spoke with @eabase887.bsky.social of PCA about working on this striking title
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#IndieGames #GameDev #IndieDev #VisualNovel #NarrativeGames
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We played through Magic Story 2, a super charming dungeon-crawling turn-based RPG, and spoke with developer @h-rukaka.bsky.social!
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#IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev #RPG #JRPG #HSP #DungeonCrawler #TurnBased
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We played through the demo of Rumia Throws, an upcoming puzzle platformer with open-ended solutions to getting through the levels, and spoke with @tosa120.bsky.social!
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#IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev #PuzzleGames #TouhouProject
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We loved our time with Five Years Old Memories (also out now!!) and speaking with @komi-tsu.bsky.social about making games that speak to the child in all of us
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#IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev #FlatGames #NarrativeGames
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We got to try out Witching Stone (out now!!) by @tayl1r.itch.io and speak with him about making this fun puzzle deck-building roguelike with gorgeous #PixelArt!
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#IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev #PuzzleGames #Deckbuilding #Roguelike
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We looked at the extensive and gorgeous #PixelArt games of @maskedmelon.bsky.social and @to-nyoko.bsky.social! We also got to speak with this husband-and-wife duo about doing #GameJams together!
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#IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev
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In May, we went to #TokyoGameDungeon 5 and checked out a ton of games! Here were fifteen of our highlights:
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#IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev
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We were proud to have guest writer GSK (Gosokkyu) go over the wonderful library of @nizakashii.bsky.social, and spoke with them about their obvious love for playing and also making games!
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#IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev
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We careened around in our trusty kei truck in the appropriately titled DriveCrazy, and spoke with @takao.tubezgames.com about working on this game in Early Access!
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#IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev #RacingGames #KeiTruck
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We visited Asobiba, a board game cafe, and picked up a fun title called SIGN! We also spoke with Naoki Sekino about making with the other staff members!
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#BoardGames #CardGames #AnalogGames
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We played the #PICO8 prototype of MOTION●REC by @donutshunter.com and spoke with them about developing the full game (releasing next year!)
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#IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev #ThinkyGames #PuzzleGames
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In March, we played 3文字限定・対戦クロスワード (Three-Character Limit: Battle Crossword) and interviewed developer @motteke7.bsky.social about making puzzle games!
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#IndieGames #PuzzleGames #IndieDev #GameDev
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2023 was the final year for the cherished #フリゲ (free game) event, where people would nominate and vote for their favorite free games of the year. We spoke with Yatarou Akamatsu about running the event from 2008(!!)
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#IndieGames #FreeGames #IndieDev #GameDev
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We played Matsuro Palette (at the time, titled Death Palette in English on the Google Play store) and spoke with @sleepmuse! Game has since gotten an English loc by @lizbushouse.bsky.social!
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Played through the nostalgic 里山のおと 夏草こみち (Satoyama Note: Natsukusa Komichi) and interviewed developer satoyama note! Super charming world and characters
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#IndieGames #AdventureGames #Japan #IndieDev #GameDev
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In February, guest writer @squimmy.bsky.social wrote about nebu soku's ingenius puzzler Magicube. We also spoke with nebu soku about making thinky games!
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#IndieGames #ThinkyGames #PuzzleGames #IndieDev #GameDev