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Score Studios LLC
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I am James Kay / Score Studios, a Tokyo-based independent videogame developer, creator of the Piczle series.

Club Piczle: : www.piczle.club
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Sign up to the Club Piczle newsletter before Sunday to get it in your mailbox on February 1st.

👉 Piczle World of Puzzles, new features
👉 Revisiting old projects, embarrassment
👉 Hot springs in Japan, why you should
👉 Free puzzle code!

✉️ news.piczle.club

#indiegamedev #indiedev #solodev
A banner with big chunky letters saying "Club Piczle newsletter" with in the background a snow monkey enjoying a dip in a japanese hot spring
January 29, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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Piczle World of Puzzle players have already created hundreds of Steam Workshop nonograms! I had to organise them and add a recommended section because that is crazy many!
👉 s.team/a/2174300

#hanjie #お絵かきロジック #イラストロジック #puzzle #logicpuzzle #nonogram #indiegamedev #solodev #madewithunreal
A screenshot from Piczle World of Puzzles showing user-made Steam Workshop nonograms, numbering 197 already. A screenshot from Piczle World of Puzzles showing user-made Steam Workshop colour nonograms, numbering 122 already.
January 22, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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Shibuya, graffiti covered building waiting for demolition.
#reference #tokyo
Graffiti covered building Close up of a smiley faced graffito
January 20, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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The engine I use & the game I'm making

#UnrealEngine #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev
A black image with the Unreal Engine logo in white The splash image for Piczle World of Puzzles showing the game's logo and the Piczle characters on the left A screenshot from Piczle World of Puzzles showing nonogram gameplay A screenshot from Piczle World of Puzzles showing numbernet gameplay
January 14, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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Not much time left to grab two awesome "very positive" rated nonogram games at 50% off!
PCSOS 🐮 s.team/a/2591070
PCRF ⚔️ s.team/a/3134280

#hanjie #お絵かきロジック #イラストロジック #puzzle #logicpuzzle #nonogram #indiegamedev #solodev #madewithunreal #steam #wintersale
Banner showing Piczle Cross Story of Seasons and Piczle Cross Rune Factory at 50%off in the Steam Winter Sale
January 4, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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Mostly, the building is really great. Here's a few details of the facade. I used to walk past this semi-regularly and somehow never really looked at it. 😅 #reference
Sign over the entrance of the puppet theatre Detail of the façade of the Puk puppet theatre Detail of the façade of the Puk puppet theatre Detail of the façade of the Puk puppet theatre
December 29, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Took the kid to the Puk puppet theatre for a performance of Strawberries In The Snow. Pretty cool theatre experience with lots of history!
www.puk.jp
The exterior of the Puk puppet theatre Signboard for the Puk puppet theatre Poster for the show "Bonfire of the 12 months" or "Strawberries in the Snow"
December 29, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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I absolutely *need* Jay's cardigan...
A screen cap from Red Letter Media's Best Of The Worst showing host Jay Bauman wearing an awesome cardigan based on the Overlook Hotel's carpet from The Shining.
December 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Piczle World of Puzzles (s.team/a/2174300) now has an option to change colour nonogram puzzles to use CUDO's Easily Distinguishable Colors for all Color Vision Types (jfly.uni-koeln.de/color/ichiha...) so people with colour vision issues can focus on the logic of the puzzles. #accessibility #gamedev
Two version of the same colour nonogram puzzle, one with the puzzle's original colours, and one with the colours replaced by CUDO's easily distinguishable colours for all colour vision types
December 21, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Piczle Cross: Rune Factory and Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons are both 50% this #SteamWinterSale!
That is a tonne of quality nonogramming for very cheap!

👉 store.steampowered.com/franchise/Sc...

#hanjie #お絵かきロジック #イラストロジック #puzzle #logicpuzzle #nonogram #indiegamedev #solodev #madewithunreal
A banner showing Piczle Cross: Rune Factory and Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons both being 50% off this Steam winter sale
December 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Literally every right-winger calling into a left-leaning podcast for an argument being asked what their pronouns are:
A pack of nuts from the brand MENGUY'S
December 14, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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The 🍂Piczle Autumn Sale🍂 is on *now*, until Dec 11th, save up to 80% on Piczle games!

👉 www.nintendo.com/us/search/#q...

#logicpuzzle #nonogram #nintendoeshop #solodev #indiegamedev #madewithunreal #hanjie #お絵かきロジック #イラストロジック
A Piczle Autumn Sale banner
November 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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The Amazon Black Friday Market in Roppongi Hills, with its raffles and colouring, is giving strong Temu vibes. No amount of ¥¥¥ wasted on fake snow is going to make this look any less of a consumerist carnival of the damned... We're so cooked.
Gaudy orange entryway to consumerist hell branded as an Amazon Black Friday Market
November 22, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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A stack of pancakes
November 16, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Piczle World of Puzzles will go into Early Access on December 1st. Play FREE logic-puzzles, or make and share your own! Wishlist now!

store.steampowered.com/app/2174300/...

#hanjie #お絵かきロジック #イラストロジック #nonogram #indiegamedev #solodev #madewithunreal
A banner showing Piczle World of Puzzles
November 11, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Thanks @rainyfrog-en.bsky.social for the copy of Detective Dotson for #NintendoSwitch (releasing tomorrow: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...) and the promotional keychain! 😎🔎
A physical copy of the Nintendo Switch game "Detective Dotson" and a promotional keychain of said game.
October 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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The Kirby car cake from Kirby Cafe Petit is super cute and really looks the part!
But how does it taste?
Yeah, it's fine. I guess. 🤷‍♂️
A cake shaped like Kirby swallowed a car
October 12, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Not much time left to grab three awesome Piczle nonogram games at massive discounts in the #SteamAutumnSale!

Get them now while you still can!
👉 store.steampowered.com/developer/Sc...

#hanjie #お絵かきロジック #イラストロジック #puzzle #logicpuzzle #nonogram #indiegamedev #solodev #madewithunreal
A wide banner show the three Piczle games on sale in the current Steam Autumn Sale, from left to right, Piczle Cross Adventure at 90% off, Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons at 50% off and Piczle Cross: Rune Factory a;sp at 50% off
October 5, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Piczle Cross: Rune Factory, currently 50% off in the Steam Autumn Sale, just got an update adding bonus puzzles based on the awesome Guardians of Azuma!!

store.steampowered.com/app/3134280/...

#お絵かきロジック #イラストロジック #nonogram #indiegamedev #solodev #madewithunreal #GuardiansofAzuma #RuneFactory
A promotional banner for Piczle Cross: Rune Factory showing the game's logo, the heroes Ares and Alice and the words "Bonus Puzzles".
October 2, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Sign up before Wednesday to receive the October edition of the Club Piczle Newsletter📧!

🧩 What's coming up in Piczle
🧩 Monetising the F2P Piczle World of Puzzles
🧩 Why I'm not traveling to the US (not what you think)
🧩 Free nonogram!

👉 news.piczle.club

#hanjie #nonogram #indiegamedev #solodev
The Club Piczle Newsletter banner, with in the background a screenshot of middling golf video game Pro 18 World Tour Golf, and our Piczle heroes (Score-chan, professor Matrix and Gig) to the right hand side
September 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN! 😅

Oh, we need some kind of puzzle here. Oh, i don't know from puzzles, let's just throw in:
A blasted sliding block puzzle
September 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Oh, oh, only 0 Yen for 1 whole month? How about absolutely the f not Google, it's *never* going to happen. You'll just have to force it on me, at which stage I'm deGoogling entirely.
A pop up message in Google Drive saying "Try AI directly in your favorite apps … Use Gemini to generate drafts and refine content, plus get Gemini Pro with access to Google's next-gen AI for ¥2,900 (scratched out) ¥0 for 1 month"
September 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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I'm very happy with my puzzle editor and Steam Workshop integration! 😊

Wishlist Piczle World of Puzzles now! 🙏
store.steampowered.com/app/2174300/...

#hanjie #お絵かきロジック #イラストロジック #puzzle #logicpuzzle #nonogram #indiegamedev #solodev #madewithunreal
September 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Holy 🫢 🤯

Wait till Mr. Thompson-Bamsey finds out about Piczle World of Puzzles 😅
A warning before an article about nonograms that reads "At the time of writing, I have 329 hours in Piczle Cross Rune Factory. I’ve been playing it since February this year. This article is a recommendation but also a warning."
September 4, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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The funnest part of being a #solodev is having nobody around to tell you "no!" when you crowbar your own little peculiarities into your games, like this Ammi Phillips painting I am slightly obsessed with, which I turned into a puzzle for Piczle Lines 2: Into The Puzzleverse
#indiedev #gamedev #art
The painting "Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog", by Ammi Phillips (1788-1865) The pixel art base for the puzzle based on the painting for Piczle Lines 2
September 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM