Score Studios LLC
@scorestudios.bsky.social
I am James Kay / Score Studios, a Tokyo-based independent videogame developer, creator of the Piczle series.
Available for work: https://www.jcbkay.com/
Club Piczle: : www.piczle.club
Available for work: https://www.jcbkay.com/
Club Piczle: : www.piczle.club
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Piczle World of Puzzles Early Access trailer
YouTube video by ScoreStudiosJapan
www.youtube.com
Did a PWOP early access trailer. Hopefully to release soon?
Pls wishlist! store.steampowered.com/app/2174300/...
#indiedev #gamedev #nonograms #steam #earlyaccess #wishlist #solodev #madewithunreal
Pls wishlist! store.steampowered.com/app/2174300/...
#indiedev #gamedev #nonograms #steam #earlyaccess #wishlist #solodev #madewithunreal
I created a little video detailing just *some* of the accessibility features in Piczle World of Puzzles!
Please wishlist! s.team/a/2174300
#hanjie #お絵かきロジック #イラストロジック #logicpuzzle #nonogram #indiegamedev #solodev #madewithunreal
Please wishlist! s.team/a/2174300
#hanjie #お絵かきロジック #イラストロジック #logicpuzzle #nonogram #indiegamedev #solodev #madewithunreal
The Making of Piczle World of Puzzles - Accessibility
YouTube video by ScoreStudiosJapan
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I created a little video detailing just *some* of the accessibility features in Piczle World of Puzzles!
Please wishlist! s.team/a/2174300
#hanjie #お絵かきロジック #イラストロジック #logicpuzzle #nonogram #indiegamedev #solodev #madewithunreal
Please wishlist! s.team/a/2174300
#hanjie #お絵かきロジック #イラストロジック #logicpuzzle #nonogram #indiegamedev #solodev #madewithunreal
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What a coincidence!
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
What a coincidence!
Who could have guessed that 3 hour Youtube exposés on a 2nd monitor while you're working would be *the* perfect way to experience 1990s Sierra adventure games?
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Who could have guessed that 3 hour Youtube exposés on a 2nd monitor while you're working would be *the* perfect way to experience 1990s Sierra adventure games?
As someone for whom the Steamdeck became my nr. 1 most played console (I hardly touch others anymore) I am extremely interested in Valve's new hardware - but also, I am not in the market for new hardware right now so it's also...you know...fine.
November 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
As someone for whom the Steamdeck became my nr. 1 most played console (I hardly touch others anymore) I am extremely interested in Valve's new hardware - but also, I am not in the market for new hardware right now so it's also...you know...fine.
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Pro tip when you launch a game. You're gonna get *so many* key requests - ignore them all. Straight into the bin, report them as junk. They're 99.9999% scammers and key resellers.
Any streamer/reviewer worth their salt will buy the game or be one that *you* contacted.
#gameDev
Any streamer/reviewer worth their salt will buy the game or be one that *you* contacted.
#gameDev
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Pro tip when you launch a game. You're gonna get *so many* key requests - ignore them all. Straight into the bin, report them as junk. They're 99.9999% scammers and key resellers.
Any streamer/reviewer worth their salt will buy the game or be one that *you* contacted.
#gameDev
Any streamer/reviewer worth their salt will buy the game or be one that *you* contacted.
#gameDev
Are there any scheduling sites/apps that do more than offer the same scheduling options as social media sites themselves already do and some AI guff about the best time to post or which tags to use? Really not interested in paying $30 for that...
November 12, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Are there any scheduling sites/apps that do more than offer the same scheduling options as social media sites themselves already do and some AI guff about the best time to post or which tags to use? Really not interested in paying $30 for that...
Me watching the latest episode of The Chair Company...
a man in a suit and tie is looking at something
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is looking at something
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Me watching the latest episode of The Chair Company...
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“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
If you needed more proof the IOC is a trash organisation and that the Olympics are terrible...
The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal.
www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...
www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...
IOC set to introduce blanket ban on transgender women in female sport
The ban is reportedly expected to come into effect early next year
www.the-independent.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
If you needed more proof the IOC is a trash organisation and that the Olympics are terrible...
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
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
November 11, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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
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
Occasionally when I muse about potentially switching engines I am always thinking of Godot, and *never* Unity - I simply don't trust that they won't screw me over at some point in the future. Epic could decide to screw me too, sure, but so far they've only done the opposite of that.
November 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Occasionally when I muse about potentially switching engines I am always thinking of Godot, and *never* Unity - I simply don't trust that they won't screw me over at some point in the future. Epic could decide to screw me too, sure, but so far they've only done the opposite of that.
I wonder if I'll be able to find my kid some Kirby/Famimart goods or if, like Kirby Cafe reservations, they're all snapped up middle aged geeks. 😓
November 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I wonder if I'll be able to find my kid some Kirby/Famimart goods or if, like Kirby Cafe reservations, they're all snapped up middle aged geeks. 😓
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
I think the one thing, of all the things that is kinda breaking my suspension of disbelief in Plur1bus, is how the other 5 were reacting. Like... Kim Wrexler is absolutely right like wtf?
November 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I think the one thing, of all the things that is kinda breaking my suspension of disbelief in Plur1bus, is how the other 5 were reacting. Like... Kim Wrexler is absolutely right like wtf?
Today Unreal decided to just be an obtuse pr*ck and throw up obscure bugs and weird side effects at me that I spent all day failing to sort out. Yes, yes, it's a skill issue, but today seems especially egregious. I'm not *this* stupid (I think). 😰
November 9, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Today Unreal decided to just be an obtuse pr*ck and throw up obscure bugs and weird side effects at me that I spent all day failing to sort out. Yes, yes, it's a skill issue, but today seems especially egregious. I'm not *this* stupid (I think). 😰
Invest in Score Studios! My last quarter did approx $12 billion better than one of the largest tech companies in the world!
ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.”
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
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That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
November 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Invest in Score Studios! My last quarter did approx $12 billion better than one of the largest tech companies in the world!
I think this is the first season of Taskmaster where a contestant didn't endear me regardless of what I felt about them before Taskmaster. Most contestants really shine in this setting but this one is obviously doing their persona/act and I'm not buying it at all.
November 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I think this is the first season of Taskmaster where a contestant didn't endear me regardless of what I felt about them before Taskmaster. Most contestants really shine in this setting but this one is obviously doing their persona/act and I'm not buying it at all.
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Using ai for reference is one way to legitimise it but also will make you worse in time. If you care about the art you make you should care about what influences it and where your ideas come from. The world is massive with tens of thousands of years of art and culture and history you can learn about
PSA if you care about your support going to art that is influenced by AI
November 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Using ai for reference is one way to legitimise it but also will make you worse in time. If you care about the art you make you should care about what influences it and where your ideas come from. The world is massive with tens of thousands of years of art and culture and history you can learn about
Seeing a lot of gamedev tiktoks along the lines of "we made a massive mistake with our game, nevertheless we didn't and found success". Is this what chatgpt is telling people to make for social media exposure? It's all so transparent...
November 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Seeing a lot of gamedev tiktoks along the lines of "we made a massive mistake with our game, nevertheless we didn't and found success". Is this what chatgpt is telling people to make for social media exposure? It's all so transparent...
"I'm having a productive day!"
UE crashes somehow reverting about an hour's worth of work.
Cat has catastrophic puke event in the *most* inconvenient location requiring quite some clean-up.
"I guess I'm done with work today...🤬"
UE crashes somehow reverting about an hour's worth of work.
Cat has catastrophic puke event in the *most* inconvenient location requiring quite some clean-up.
"I guess I'm done with work today...🤬"
November 7, 2025 at 3:25 AM
"I'm having a productive day!"
UE crashes somehow reverting about an hour's worth of work.
Cat has catastrophic puke event in the *most* inconvenient location requiring quite some clean-up.
"I guess I'm done with work today...🤬"
UE crashes somehow reverting about an hour's worth of work.
Cat has catastrophic puke event in the *most* inconvenient location requiring quite some clean-up.
"I guess I'm done with work today...🤬"
Just received an "important" update to our automated cat litter tray's privacy policy (!!). I wonder if they're training AI on our cats ' output, which would explain a lot about genAI "art" looking that way.
November 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Just received an "important" update to our automated cat litter tray's privacy policy (!!). I wonder if they're training AI on our cats ' output, which would explain a lot about genAI "art" looking that way.
I love how Arc Raiders has thrown a grenade into the "Unreal = terrible performance" crowd who are now scrambling to find other things they know nothing about to shit on 😅
November 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I love how Arc Raiders has thrown a grenade into the "Unreal = terrible performance" crowd who are now scrambling to find other things they know nothing about to shit on 😅
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Just checking you all know about Spirit Swap, the game that came out this year that I directed alongside many incredibly skilled friends and workers! We’re a majority (uh I’m pretty sure 100% tbh) marginalized people co-op and self-published! Please check out our trailer I love it so much!
Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3 to is OUT NOW!
GO GO GO!
✨ store.steampowered.com/app/1592170/... ✨
GO GO GO!
✨ store.steampowered.com/app/1592170/... ✨
November 6, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Just checking you all know about Spirit Swap, the game that came out this year that I directed alongside many incredibly skilled friends and workers! We’re a majority (uh I’m pretty sure 100% tbh) marginalized people co-op and self-published! Please check out our trailer I love it so much!
We need some new game award categories, like "most investor returns earned by sacking the team" or "most ludicrous sales projection" or "best mealy-mouthed 'refocusing the business' press release after a mass layoff" or "least effort AI 'assisted' cash grab remake" or...
November 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
We need some new game award categories, like "most investor returns earned by sacking the team" or "most ludicrous sales projection" or "best mealy-mouthed 'refocusing the business' press release after a mass layoff" or "least effort AI 'assisted' cash grab remake" or...