📰 2023 May Zine Issue and Wrap-Up!

Written by Renkon

It's time for the インディー通信 Indie Tsushin 2023 May zine issue! Can you believe that this marks six months of releases? Thank you so much for reading along, we truly appreciate you all!

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 May インディー通信 Indie Tsushin Zine Issue

👑 Pickup! Indie Games Connect 2023

Fifteen interesting games from Indie Games Connect 2023 on April 30th!

🎮 G Braver Burst

Game profile of G Braver Burst by Yuusuke Takeuchi, a burning hot 1v1 mech battle simulator available on Android or in your browser!

🎮 バーチャル恐竜官 (Virtual Dinosaur Museum)

Walking around the Virtual Dinosaur Museum by Kakeru Fujimiya and being transported back into being a little kid who was gaga for dinosaurs!

🎮 Neko Can Dream

Game profile of Neko Can Dream by Nekobungi Sumire, a surreal Game Boy-style adventure game about diving into people's dreams and turning them into cans of dreams.

🌟 翻訳者スポットライト：テイラー・マッキュー作、鳥の王国訳 「彼は私の中の少女を犯し尽くした」について

この度、「彼は私の中の少女を犯し尽くした」の作者、テイラー・マッキューさんと、そのゲームの日本語訳をなさった鳥の王国さんへインタビューさせていただきました。

🌟 Translator Spotlight: Taylor McCue and Fuglekongerige on He F-cked The Girl Out Of Me

We are excited to present interviews with both Taylor McCue, creator of the powerful He F-cked The Girl Out Of Me, and Fuglekongerige, who translates and introduces indie games in Japanese.

🎤 Interview with Yuusuke Takeuchi

We had the chance to speak with Yuusuke Takeuchi about mechs, Patlabor, and G Braver Burst!

🎤 Interview with Kakeru Fujimiya

We had the chance to speak with Kakeru Fujimiya about CG art, dinosaurs, and the バーチャル恐竜館 (Virtual Dinosaur Museum)!

Announcements

🌸 2023 Spring Collection

We've bundled together the March, April, and May issues into the 2023 Spring Collection on itch! Getting this is a way to support the site for a minimum of $10 and snagging all three issues in one convenient itch page. It's also currently in a bundle with the 2023 Winter Collection, where you can pay a minimum of $15 for all six issues! If you want to see Indie Tsushin grow, please consider getting the 2023 Spring Collection, or sharing it with people that you think would be interested in reading about Japanese indie games!

🎁 Indiepocalypse Presents: Indie Tsushin

Our special issue of Indiepocalypse broke even, so now it's been passed over to us! To celebrate, I added some community copies, so be sure to grab them and see how Indie Tsushin got started! I also wrote a personal blog entry about working on this.

🏖️ Summer vacation

Just a heads up that we are planning to combine our June and July issues and release it on June 30, with the next release in August. This is so that we can have a bit of a summer break! We may still update the blog during July, but if we do, those articles will go in the August issue, and we will be skipping the July release.

ICYMI

🧹 Housekeeping

I've started adding banners to archived blog entries so that you can see which issue they were in! They look like this:

This article was featured in our 2023 May issue. Check out more articles and interviews in the full issue.

I also went back and shrunk down all of the images in the EZMReader files for all the back issues. They should now load much quicker in your browser now!

📰 2023 April issue

Check out the 2023 April issue and its games if you haven't yet! And be sure to look through our full catalog for more great stuff!

🍸 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!

We also have a Ko-Fi where you can make a one-time donation or sign up for our ¥‎300/month tier.

🙏 Thanks for reading!

That's all for now, but be sure to check the インディー通信 Indie Tsushin blog for the latest articles, follow our Steam curator account, subscribe to the RSS feed, and sign up for our monthly e-mail digest so you don't miss anything! Hope you enjoy the issue and games!

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