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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.

Available for work: https://www.jcbkay.com/

Club Piczle: : www.piczle.club
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I'm still focusing on my backlog so my GOTY 2025 is 8 years old.
November 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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to say it plainly: everyone was all about indie when only white men with access to Steam and other resources that allow you to focus on your art project were doing it in the 2010s. Now that others have broken in, funding has magically dried up and the industry is “dead”, according to the same guys.
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
If these companies are so convinced genAI is the dog's knees why do they always pretend it was just "placeholder art, not REAL, not-terrible art that we were planning to put there but forgot" when they get caught? You fired 80% of your workforce for this, now lay in that bed of filth!
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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好評発売中!【Switch】『探偵ドットソン』
情報集めには、ミニゲームにも挑戦します。

任天堂ページ:https://tinyurl.com/y7uk5jem
公式:https://tinyurl.com/y2tdh5m4

#NintendoSwitch
November 16, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Attention Indie Devs!

I just need 15 seconds ... of your game footage! A lot of people jumped on the 15s video trend, so I thought it would be cool to make a compilation to help indies get some visibility.

The anti-spam key is "kook".

lonewulfstudio.com/indieshowcas...
Lone Wulf Studio 2025 Indie Showcase Submission
Submit 15 seconds of game footage from games you worked on in 2025!
lonewulfstudio.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Some absolute pancake has dumped a bag of Lego in our building's garbage room that I am hoping to adopt now because, seriously, who the hell does that?
November 16, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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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
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
The Making of Piczle World of Puzzles - Accessibility
YouTube video by ScoreStudiosJapan
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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seen this trend in the current animal fest.
on one hand, i kind of cant hate the hustle.

same time we got two games in the event, spammed down because of literal pages of tactics that seem to be about maximising key words and exposure.

seems very bork.
#GameDev #IndieDev
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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What a coincidence!
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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
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
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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
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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
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
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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...
“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
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...
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
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
November 11, 2025 at 4:52 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.
November 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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
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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
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
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