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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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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
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How i feel talking on social media about all the cool UX/UI features with switch-anytime-anywhere gamepad and mouse input in my puzzle editor. #solodev #indiedev
Short king trying to chat up a girl who seems entirely uncomfortable and uninterested mene
September 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Sign up to the Club Piczle newsletter 💌 today to receive the September issue tomorrow!

🔸PWOP progress
🔸My thoughts on GenAI and LLMs 👎
🔸My first #gamedev job in Japan
🔸Free #nonogram puzzle!

Sign up now! 👉 news.piczle.club
A banner showing a Tokmyo train in the background and the Piczle heroes in the foreground with big bold letters saying CLUB PICZLE NEWSLETTER
August 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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LIES!
A business card for a coffee company called Nanpoo Coffee with the unlikely tagline "happiness is possible".
August 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Cat & vending machine
#japan #summer
A photo of a cat sleeping on a wooden table with underneath it a water bowl. To the right is a bright red vending machine.
August 27, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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The Kirby Cafe Petit is located in the worst spot (a busy underground thoroughfare in Tokyo station) but these adorable little puddings are pretty tasty (and cute).
#tokyo #kirby #characterstreet
A Kirby Cafe box with, in front of it, a yellow Kirby pudding and a strawberry pudding in a pot that makes it look like a Kirby
August 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Logic puzzle dev with a little detour into image editing software dev, ish.

Pls wishlist! 🙏
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
August 21, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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I *love* really detailed, granular, plentiful play statistics, however it's always a *real* pita to implement... 😅 But hey, someone, somewhere will be OCD enough, like me, to want to know how many times they pressed undo!

#unrealengine #blueprints #indiedev #solodev #gamedev
A screengrab from an Unreal Engine project showing a whole mess of Blueprint nodes
August 10, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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It's too hot 🥵 outside! Stay indoors and enjoy logic-puzzling at sizzling 🔥 discounts instead!

The PICZLE SWITCH 🎮 SUMMER SALE is on now!

www.nintendo.com/us/search/#q...

#hanjie #お絵かきロジック #イラストロジック #puzzle #logicpuzzle #nonogram #indiegamedev #solodev #madewithunreal
A switch summer sale banner showing Gig on a beach fanning themselves while sweating
August 7, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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This is me trying - and utterly failing - to do "late night radio voice", trying to create one of those "relatable" #gamedev tiktoks. Not sure I am doing this right... 😅

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

#solodev #indiedev #nonogram #steam
August 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Achievements are fun to design!

(1 day later) Oh right, I need JPGs for Steam achievements.

(2 weeks later) About 75% done... kill me....

#gamedev #solodev #steam #achievements
A censored capture of a PC folder containing 286 items
August 5, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Fan-art crochet Gig a Piczle fan commissioned. 😍
#piczle #hanjie #お絵かきロジック #イラストロジック #puzzle #logicpuzzle #nonogram #indiegamedev #solodev #fanart
A screenshot taken from Instagram user okimi.bunny of a custom made crochet Gig character
July 27, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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The next Club Piczle Newsletter 📧 goes out on Friday, August 1st. Sign up before then to receive it!

🔸 No more Piczle crossovers?
🔸 (My) design rules for nonograms
🔸 Steam/Itch.io censorship
🔸 Free nonogram!

👉 news.piczle.club

#hanjie #お絵かきロジック #イラストロジック #logicpuzzle #indiegamedev #solodev
A Club Piczle newsletter banner showing our three Piczle heroes (Score-cha, professor Matrix and Gig)
July 25, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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It took a Piczle player to point me towards the obvious; that a colour wheel around the cursor is a great way to select a colour in a #nonogram, without moving your focus away from the puzzle to the UI.

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

#hanjie #indiegamedev #solodev #madewithunreal
July 20, 2025 at 7:47 AM