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Renkon
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tally ho! 👋 nonbinary 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 日系４世 in japan 🗾 slow reader 📚 yuru camper 🏕️ 御朱印 hunter ⛩️ 日本語 self-study 💮 blogging @ https://renkotsuban.com 🖥️ the english-speaking half of @nicegear.games 🎮 runs @indietsushin.net 📰
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Renkon @renkotsuban.com · 3d
New #blog post! Talking about some recent New Year's Happy Hour streams and the games we played in them, plus a few other game recs that we enjoyed over the winter holidays.

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📏 The Weekly Measure: 2026 W02
Happy New Year! Talking about some recent Happy Hour streams and the games we played in them, plus a few other game recs that we enjoyed over the winter holidays.
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nickvv.me
Really fun playthrough by @renkotsuban.com and Daikon (no relation)!

Thanks for checking it out!
January 11, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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ecter.bsky.social
Aaaaaaaa! Thanks for bringing "My Card Is Better Than Your Card!" to my attention.

I love that kind of "badge crafting" gameplay. Just like in Path of Exile, Inscryption, Witching Stone etc.
But here it's also very cute and easy to learn :3
January 10, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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indietsushin.net
Today's games:
🐹 Hammy & Tammy in The Time Wheel by Pkdotts, @odinsillydoodle.bsky.social, @nobonoko.bsky.social, Danionel, and @jumpmanfr.bsky.social
💀 Invasive Spectral Projectiles by @hacksawunit.bsky.social
🐿️ Chico and the Magic Orchards DX by @daikon.games

www.youtube.com/live/dF9R9-A...
Happy Hour! Hammy & Tammy, Invasive Spectral Projectiles, and Chico and the Magic Orchards!
YouTube video by Nice Gear Games
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January 11, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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indietsushin.net
Daikon and I will be #streaming #HappyHour tonight from 9PM UTC+9! The show is a #Japanese and English bilingual stream introducing some cool #IndieGames we found. Come hang out and find new stuff to play!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF9R...
Happy Hour!
YouTube video by Nice Gear Games
www.youtube.com
January 11, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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even-kei.bsky.social
Angeline Era is out NOW!!! ^.^ here's a breakdown of some elements and techniques I used to create the HUGE visual world of Era. Ultra-dense action and secrets meant a bigger focus than ever on visual clarity and communication! ⚔️🔍

See it in action!!
store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...
Cube-based environment art (along with melos’s “auto-cuber” tool) allows for the efficiency and complex secrets-hinting of 2D tilesets combined with the benefits of 3D lighting and atmosphere. Large “EnviroChunks” with flexible triplanar materials quickly establish setting in the background of scenes. Gestural vertex colors quickly and beautifully define characters that pop against the environment and look good small or large onscreen. iNaturalist.org can be an amazing resource for game artists, featuring species id and many public domain community photos of life on Earth! Matcap materials are good for creating shiny or translucent objects while maintaining a simplified/stylized look.
December 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
renkotsuban.com
New #blog post! Talking about some recent New Year's Happy Hour streams and the games we played in them, plus a few other game recs that we enjoyed over the winter holidays.

renkotsuban.com/posts/2026-0...
📏 The Weekly Measure: 2026 W02
Happy New Year! Talking about some recent Happy Hour streams and the games we played in them, plus a few other game recs that we enjoyed over the winter holidays.
renkotsuban.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social
First ARB newsletter for 2026 covers fiction in translation from French and Japanese, history, sociology, photography, plus 2026 recaps: highlights, podcasts, translations mailchi.mp/c2900a8e112c...
January 6, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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indietsushin.net
Today's games:

😼 Dungeon of Hank by @marlowedobbe.com
〰️ Wave Leads You... by powder
💣 THE GOOD OLD DAYS by ヨコゴシステムズ
📚 Tiny Bookshop by neoludic games

Please check out these cool and awesome #IndieGames!!

www.youtube.com/live/7LkITQf...
Happy Hour! Dungeon of Hank, Wave Leads You..., THE GOOD OLD DAYS, and Tiny Bookshop!
YouTube video by Nice Gear Games
www.youtube.com
January 4, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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nicegear.games
今年もゲーム作る。リリースは会談の季節に合わせて夏を目標。
#gamdedev #indiegame #ゲーム制作 #hamayumishi
January 4, 2026 at 10:35 AM
renkotsuban.com
One of our resolutions this year is to actually stream every week, or as close to it as possible!! Let's goooooo
indietsushin.net インディー通信 Indie Tsushin @indietsushin.net · 9d
Daikon and I will be #streaming #HappyHour tonight from 9PM UTC+9! The show is a #Japanese and English bilingual stream introducing some cool #IndieGames we found. Come hang out and find new stuff to play!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LkI...
Happy Hour!
YouTube video by Nice Gear Games
www.youtube.com
January 4, 2026 at 8:09 AM
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museumofscreens.bsky.social
Hello everyone, it is finally time to wrap this year with the Museum of Screens' Favorite web games of 2025!

I will be taking a week long break as usual, so see you in 2026!

museumofscreens.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/m...
Museum of Screen’s Awards 2025: My favorite web games of the year
Hello everyone and welcome to the final blog post of 2025! Let’s not sugarcoat it: the year has been very bad. The state of the world is worse than ever, as such as the state of the videogame…
museumofscreens.wordpress.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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vinemossgames.bsky.social
The final vignette break and final game of the year is here ✨ We Disentangled One Day shows the unraveling necessary after a relationship runs its course: vinemossgames.com

Thank you for playing and believing in what we do all year 🌱

#narrative #indiegamedev #artgame #breakup
December 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
renkotsuban.com
🎉 あけましておめでとうございます！！ Happy New Year!! 🎉
December 31, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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indietsushin.net
HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 🎆🎉🥳🥂🎊

Today's games:
🍄 MOMIBOSU by @pengxpeng.bsky.social
🃏 My Card Is Better Than Your Card! by @utustudios.com
🦆 Windswept by @weatherfell.bsky.social

Here's to another great year of awesome #IndieGames!!

www.youtube.com/live/OuSdZBw...
Happy Hour! 2026 New Year's Special!
YouTube video by Nice Gear Games
www.youtube.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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nanaekawahara.bsky.social
Hello I introduce myself🐶
I'm Nanae, Japan-based illustrator.

こんにちは！イラストレーターの河原奈苗です。
犬と音楽が好きです🌟
Mainly use Japanese but can speak English as well.
I looove music and dogs.
Plz check my works on the links below!

PORTFOLIO🏠 nanaekawahara.com
ALL LINKS🫖 lit.link/nanaekawahara
#artshare #illustration
my works' layout from all link feed 'litlink', my favourite things are gathered. リンク集litlinkは左のようにレイアウトして、これにサイズを合わせて右に二つ作品をおきました
October 18, 2024 at 5:55 AM
renkotsuban.com
Got some fun games lined up for tonight's NYE marathon 👀 Feel free to drop in/out as needed and help us ring in 2026 in style!!
indietsushin.net インディー通信 Indie Tsushin @indietsushin.net · 14d
It's almost time to ring in the new year, which means another New Year's Eve #HappyHour #streaming marathon extravaganza!! Join us tomorrow night (December 31 21:00 UTC+9) as we play through some cool #IndieGames and welcome in 2026!!

www.youtube.com/live/OuSdZBw...
Happy Hour! 2026 New Year's Special!
YouTube video by Nice Gear Games
www.youtube.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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machineiv.bsky.social
888 to 685. 203 votes over them.

In the words of the noted philosopher, “To the extreme, I rock a mic like a vandal, light up the stage and wax a chump like a candle.”

Thank you all. Next step? The #iHunt feature film that’s currently in development!!!

www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
Audience Choice Awards | Short of the Year
Vote for your favorite short films in the Short of the Year Audience Choice Awards. Watch, vote, and support independent filmmakers.
www.shortoftheyear.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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keezyyoung.bsky.social
1-page comic
a ghost makes friends with a cat, but they can't touch. the last panel the cat is also a ghost and he has picked her up and is petting her and smiling
December 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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indietsushin.net
It's almost time to ring in the new year, which means another New Year's Eve #HappyHour #streaming marathon extravaganza!! Join us tomorrow night (December 31 21:00 UTC+9) as we play through some cool #IndieGames and welcome in 2026!!

www.youtube.com/live/OuSdZBw...
Happy Hour! 2026 New Year's Special!
YouTube video by Nice Gear Games
www.youtube.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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calamitynolan.bsky.social
I released an #indiegame this month! I made it for the #20SecondGameJam, it's called Rush Boss: CurseRime and I think you should play it if you like Hollow Knight + Silksong! calamitynolan.itch.io/rush-boss-2

Here's a bunch of videos, gifs, and screenshots detailing the 3 week #gamedev process 🧵
Rush Boss: CurseRime by calamitynolan
20 Seconds to Beat the Boss!
calamitynolan.itch.io
December 30, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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bungakureport.bsky.social
読売新聞「今年の3冊」欄（2025年12月28日（日））で、菊池信彦編『人文学を社会に開くには。　パブリックヒューマニティーズから考え・行動する』が紹介されました（選・清水唯一朗氏）
bungaku-report.com/blog/2025/12...
December 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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retronauts.bsky.social
One week early for our Patreon subscribers: with 2026 around the corner @jparish.bsky.social @atariarchive.org @benjedwards.com & @pettycommajared.bsky.social look backwards to the games of 1976 and 1986
Sign up & listen here: www.patreon.com/posts/146874...
cover art by Greg Melo: a gathering of video game heroes who debuted in 1986 (Kunio-kun, Simon Belmont, Pit, Link, the hero of Dragon Quest, one of the Bubble Bobble dinosaurs, the ship from Arkanoid) surrounded by enemies who debuted in 1986 (a big dragon, Doh, Medusa, a slime, a Metroid)
December 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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zackdavisson.com
Shigeru Mizuki's THE DEFINITIVE YOKAI FIELD GUIDE is coming to English this April!

The was a personal request by Mizuki to have translated--the last such request he made. He felt it was the culmination of his work as an educator on Yokai.

amzn.to/4jmUDIG

@dandq.bsky.social
December 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
renkotsuban.com
The #iHunt books are super fun and incredible, I highly recommend them. Also check out this short film (in the QRT) and vote for it!!

filamena.wixsite.com/olivahillaut...
December 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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enikofox.com
christmas is over but our sales aren't store.steampowered.com/bundle/15673...

kitsune tails is the award-winning gay fox girl SMB3-like, 33% off

midboss ($5) is a turnbased body snatching roguelike, kitsune zero ($2.50) has more fox girl platforming and UHD ($1.64) is a cute block pushing puzzler
A screenshot of the dance in kitsune tails, with kiri dipping a shocked looking yuzu. Above them is a pull quote: "Nintendo wasn't brave enough to put lesbian fox girls in Super Mario Bros. 3" GamesRadar+ midboss key art showing the imp holding a plague rat and zombie head, as well as the warlock, ghost, and skeleton ultra hat dimension key art showing the protagonist bea in a witch hat surrounded by blobby creatures called spluffs wearing a variety of other hats kitsune zero art showing yumi, a brown haired fox girl, protecting yasunori, a cute nerdy wizard guy from a scary samurai
December 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM