📰 2023 January Zine Issue and Wrap-Up!

Written by Renkon

2023年 1月 27日

To prove that last month was not a fluke, I come to you once more with the インディー通信 Indie Tsushin 2023 January zine issue!

Title card for the インディー通信 Indie Tsushin 2023 January Issue
Get it on itch.io Get it on Ko-Fi

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:

2023 January インディー通信 Indie Tsushin Zine Issue

👑 Unity Room and Unity1Week

実況OK (OK to stream)

Talking about Unity Room, a site full of Japanese browser games made in Unity, and the Unity1Week Game Jam!

👑 Pickup! Unity1Week: Re

Unity1Week

Our top forty games from the Unity1Week: Re Game Jam!

🎮 密密(ひそひそ)-ステルスタイピングゲーム- (Whisper Whisper: Stealth Typing Game)

Title screen for Whisper Whisper

Game profile of the stealth typing game 密密 (Whisper Whisper) by ボブ寺１５０!

🎮 もしも シナリオ (What If Scenario)

Screenshot from もしも シナリオ by tnk. Hana is sitting near a window and drinking cocoa while talking about how the rain is going to turn to snow later that night.

Game profile of the narrative puzzle game もしも シナリオ (What If Scenario) by tnk!

🎮 日常を届ける藤原くんの手紙～２通目 (Fujiwara’s Letters Deliver Everyday Life ~ 2nd Letter)

Screenshot of the newswriting club room where Yutaro is about to start his story.

Game profile of the comedic mystery visual novel game 日常を届ける藤原くんの手紙～２通目 (Fujiwara’s Letters Deliver Everyday Life ~ 2nd Letter) by Studio Rough Sketch!

🎮 百獣エスケープ (100animalease)

Title card for 百獣エスケープ (100animalease) by sewohayami

Game profile of 百獣エスケープ (100animalease) by sewohayami!

🎤 Interview with tnk

Screenshot from Cut And Turn (Rocket)

We spoke with tnk about What If Scenario and their other works!

🎤 Interview with Studio Rough Sketch

Screenshot from Fujiwara's Letters Deliver Everyday Life ~ 2nd Letter, in the AV room with a picture of Kou Ito introducing himself.

We spoke with Studio Rough Sketch about Fujiwara’s Letters Deliver Everyday Life and their other works!

🎤 Interview with sewohayami

Title screen for SEKISAI

We spoke with sewohayami about 100animalease and their other works!

🎤 Interview with Shiina Akutaro

Screenshot from Whisper Whisper of two ninjas in an attic looking down at a lord's chamber. The ninja on the right says, Let's go.

We spoke with Shiina Akutaro about their game dev group Bobdera 150 and their game, Whisper Whisper!

ICYMI

🎊 2023 New Year’s Special

As promised, we streamed a five-hour marathon New Year’s Eve special!

🎪 Tokyo Game Dungeon 2

We streamed a selection of games we played and liked from Tokyo Game Dungeon 2! Please look forward to more in-depth writeups about the games in next month’s issue!

Mastodon

Indie Tsushin is now on Mastodon! I’ll be using that account to post site updates, as well as the occasional live-toots of events!

Say hello to Adele!

Adele the purple penguin, holding a giant pink microphone.

And finally, you may have noticed our new mascot, Adele! They previously starred in Nice Catching Up With You, Daikon’s game for the Unity1Week: Re game jam. I love them to pieces.

📰 2022 December issue

Title card for the インディー通信 Indie Tsushin 2022 December Issue

Check out the 2022 December issue and its games if you haven’t yet! And be sure to look through our full catalog for more great stuff!

🍸 Happy Hour!

Nice Gear Games presents 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

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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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