📰 2022 December Zine Issue released!
2022年 12月 30日I come bearing year-end gifts for you! Let’s get the big one out of the way: the インディー通信 Indie Tsushin 2022 December zine issue!
The zine is viewable in browser on itch, and available for download in PDF, ePub, and MOBI formats on itch and Ko-Fi. 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:
2022 December インディー通信 Indie Tsushin Zine Issue
🎮 るる子の事件簿！！ (Ruruko Case File!!)
Game profile of るる子の事件簿！！ (Ruruko Case File!!) by AZ.
🎮 Shadow Break and Super Shadow Break
Game profiles of Shadow Break and Super Shadow Break by bunaguchi!
🎮 city::ephemera
Game profile of city::ephemera by INFINITE TEARS!
🎮 Battle of Windows
Game profile of Battle of Windows by yumehiko, tsukihiko, and komekami!
🌟 Developer Spotlight: Squimmy
We spoke with Squimmy about making games and participating in game jams!
🎤 Interview with AZ.
We spoke with AZ. about their experience making games, including their most recent title, 「るる子の事件簿！！」 (Ruruko Case File!!)
🎤 Interview with bunaguchi
We spoke with bunaguchi about Shadow Break and its follow-up Super Shadow Break!
🎤 Interview with yumehiko
We spoke with yumehiko about Battle of Windows and their other works!
🎤 Interview with Squimmy
We spoke with Squimmy about making games and participating in game jams!
Announcements
🎙️ Streaming Unity1Week: Re
Last night, we wrapped up streaming some of our favorite games from the ongoing Unity1Week game jam! The evaluation period closes on January 1st at 8PM JST, so get your ratings in while you still have time!
🎊 New Year’s Eve Streaming Marathon
Help us ring in the New Year with a marathon stream covering some cool and interesting indie games that we enjoyed in 2022! Check our YouTube channel to see when the stream starts!
ICYMI
🍸 Happy Hour!
Subscribe to our YouTube channel and tune in every Thursday from 9PM UTC+9 for Happy Hour, a bilingual show introducing some indie games!
And now, a word from our sponsors
Just kidding! インディー通信 Indie Tsushin is ad-free, does not (and will never!) run sponsored content, and is mostly made by two people in their spare time. We write the articles, buy the games out of pocket, conduct and translate the interviews, lay out and edit the website and zines, pay for hosting and recording equipment, and so on. We do all this because we are gigantic nerds and hope that more people can play and appreciate Japanese indie games and their developers. We would gladly do it even if we never made a single yen from this.
BUT! If you enjoyed the zine, please consider buying our zines! Any amount would be more than enough, and would go a long way towards boosting our morale and keeping us going. Not only that, it lets us pay guest writers to appear in the zine! If you can’t afford to donate, don’t even worry about it! Indie Tsushin will always be available to read for free and will never go behind a paywall. You can help us a ton just by sharing our articles and videos, or rating and reviewing our zines on itch.io. Thank you so much for all of your kind support!
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🙏 Thanks for reading!
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