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just a little translator writer guy in 🇯🇵 | J-E Game Loc / ゲーム翻訳家 Proj. Coordinator @ Dragonbaby | Narr/Auth. Consultant ✍️ ハーフ | He/Him | Bi 🏳️‍🌈 Credits: Kamitsubaki City Ensemble, Star Ocean TSSR2, Boyhood’s End, Farmagia, Blade Chimera
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Angeline Era's demo's in Steam Next Fest! Perfect for people seeking: ⚔️ wild, challenging Action-Adventure 🏃🐎🐟 🐟 Strange, memorable bosses 🗺️ Levels you find on your own 😮 Vaguely Ys-y Bump Combat! 📚 Thrilling story (..not in demo) Tag a streamer who'd like it! store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...

Don’t sleep on Boyhood’s End! It’s shaping up to be a great game. www.siliconera.com/preview-boyh...

Jindai Botanical Gardens were very lovely today!! snowdrops and camellia were in bloom, as were some plum blossoms. very cold and windy tho. nice umbrella pine. 🌲

Ben thinking about this off and on over the year since I posted it. Another topic that has come up in game dev discourse: The idea that games can have more in common with theater than with movies. I think "games as theater" and "jank = good, or at least co-occurs with good" are closely related

People who work for you aren’t stepstools for you to achieve greater heights, they’re the foundation upon which you’re given a chance to grow and thrive, and if you respect and take care of them you shouldn’t need to live in fear about them getting poached or whatever. It’s so short-sighted and dumb

Like lettering, manga translation comes with its fair share of compliments and complaints. I spoke with Stephen Paul, David Evelyn, and Casey Loe about the ins and outs of the job and what happens when spirited discourse turns to harassment. gizmodo.com/why-harassme...

It's hard to know what to say or whether it's even worth adding to the doom - what I will say is buy your trans friends' weird zine, their album, their art game - buy them a beer or a soda or a meal - give them some ko-fi money for doing absolutely nothing. We gotta protect trans kids and adults.

OMG LOLZORZ it's time to get your butt totally PWNED by KAngel. ✨Typing of the Net ✨ from WSS Playground released last week and you should buy it unless your an epic N00b! ( ≧ᗜ≦) Can you even type tho? Can I haz cheeseburger more like can I have NOOBBURGER (rofllllll). get rekt lmao. 🤣🤣🤣 🙏BLESS🙏

Many Japanese Americans are recoiling from Trump's immigration crackdown. “This brings back all kinds of memories, even tears,” said one 91-year-old Berkeley resident. “You don’t think I’d remember much, but it’s amazing how much I do.” www.kqed.org/news/1202191... via @kqednews.bsky.social

i took a photo of the new year sunrise but i forgot i had black and white film loaded. still looks nice but the colors looked even nicer. trust me bro.

Is real Osaka not cyberpunk enough for ya? 🫵 Fed up with only finding metroids in your vanias, and instead want to uncover the truth of a forgotten past? Well, we gochu homies - #BladeChimera is here, and available in 9 languages for some demon-smacking, ledge-jumping joy. ⚔️

What a true friend tells you.

I made a small game, it's a winter greeting card. Available on the browser, and on your smartphone too. "keep warm and go" 暖かくして出かけよう komitsu.itch.io/keep-warm-an...

This 2025 stop calling yourself a "content creator" You're an artist, graphic designer, a video editor, an entertainer, musician, a streamer, a cook, a craftsman, an animator, a storyteller, a writer, a painter, a woodworker, a tailor... You are not a faceless "content" machine.

loving the flora in ireland. 10/10 great moss and lichen

One of my pet peeves when playing games is bad subtitles. Tiny text, illegible fonts, no speaker names, poor line breaking, the list goes on! Movies and TV have standardized style guides, so why don't games?! Anyway, so I decided to rant about it. j-entranslations.com/why-do-video...

japanese author: I'm going to make a character who is a duck. he's going to end all his sentences with -kamo :) english translator: jesus fuck I need to come up with 300 duck puns

damn yall weren’t kidding about the weather being awful in the UK huh

sometimes you just gotta make it yourself

We've prepared a short preview of the Danchi Days demo for you!🌟 Are you a streamer and want to play VERY soon? Send us a DM!! (more on the game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3107530/Danchi_Days/)

every take like this (e.g. "another Earthbound-inspired RPG about depression") reveals someone who's exposed only to the top 0.00001% of indie games that see huge success. indie is, by its nature, antithetical to the mainstream. you won't find much with the top gaming outlets/content creators

like what do you even call this taste in music. apparently i had a “romantic diner jazz doo-wop” phase in May?? i listened exclusively to Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons???

wasn’t this the guy whose wife was caught taking bribes and committing stock manipulation

After years away from game dev, I couldn’t stay silent about my people’s dehumanization. I made Dreams on a Pillow 🍉a game inspired by a famous Palestinian folktale about the 1948 Nakba. I’m crowdfunding it now—please back & share! 🔗 launchgood.com/1948

one of my goals in life is to finish getting an armful of tattoos, join a ren faire/larp here in Japan, and act like the most stereotypical thief possible. black hood, double daggers, eyepatch, the works.

Minor point: I started watching House of the Dragon recently and I could NOT parse the medieval fantasy turn of phrase they were using. Part of it was probably my ADHD, too. Subtitles immediately made the show more enjoyable. Subtitles are great! Support people who write subtitles!

Marron's Day is out NOW on steam, @itch.io & gameboy! featuring... 🐰 adorable animal friends 🧸 cosy minigames & heartwarming story 💖 cute pixel art & beepy chiptunes 🎮️ store.steampowered.com/app/2620590 🎮️ npckc.itch.io/marrons-day please share! it means a lot 🥕 #indiegamedev #gameboy #gbstudio

just when i thought the menswear guy couldn't get any better, he pulls out a fantastic thread dissecting popular myths around japanese fashion culture. big ups 👏 👏

今日の晩ご飯 ✨豚汁✨