📰 2023 May Zine Issue and Wrap-Up!

Announcing the release of the 2023 May zine issue compiling articles from the インディー通信 Indie Tsushin blog, celebrating and introducing indie and doujin games from Japan!

The zine is viewable in browser, and available for download in PDF, ePub, and MOBI formats. It is PWYW so anyone can read it! We really hope that you will check it out! Here's what's waiting for you:

2023 May インディー通信 Indie Tsushin Zine Issue

👑 Pickup! Indie Games Connect 2023

Fifteen interesting games from Indie Games Connect 2023 on April 30th!

🎮 G Braver Burst

Daikon wrote about G Braver Burst by Yuusuke Takeuchi, a burning hot 1v1 mech battle simulator available on Android or in your browser!

🎮 バーチャル恐竜館 (Virtual Dinosaur Museum)

Wrote about walking around the Virtual Dinosaur Museum by Kakeru Fujimiya and being transported back into being a little kid who was gaga for dinosaurs!

🎮 Neko Can Dream

Wrote about Neko Can Dream, a gorgeous and surreal Game Boy-styled adventure game made by Nekobungi Sumire. Dive into people's dreams and figure out how to turn them into canned dreams. It's a haunting and strange story, and one that I really hope more people check out.

🌟 Translator Spotlight: Taylor McCue and Fuglekongerige on He F-cked The Girl Out Of Me

We are excited to present interviews with both Taylor McCue, creator of the powerful He F-cked The Girl Out Of Me, and Fuglekongerige, who translates and introduces indie games in Japanese. This article is also available in Japanese.

🎤 Interview with Yuusuke Takeuchi

We had the chance to speak with Yuusuke Takeuchi about mechs, Patlabor, and G Braver Burst!

🎤 Interview with Kakeru Fujimiya

We had the chance to speak with Kakeru Fujimiya about CG art, dinosaurs, and the バーチャル恐竜館 (Virtual Dinosaur Museum)!

Other Announcements

🌷 Announcing the 2023 Spring Collection!

We've released the 2023 March, April, and May issues as the 2023 Spring Collection:

The 2023 Spring Collection contains no bonus content, but is a way to support the site for a minimum of $10 and get all three issues in one convenient itch page. It's also currently in a bundle with the 2023 Winter Collection, where you can pay a minimum of $15 for all six issues! If you want to see Indie Tsushin grow, please consider getting the 2023 Spring Collection, or sharing it with people that you think would be interested in reading about Japanese indie games!

🎉 Indiepocalypse Presents: Indie Tsushin

Our special issue that Andrew of Indiepocalypse commissioned from us broke even, so now it's been passed over to us! To celebrate, I added some community copies, so be sure to grab them and see how Indie Tsushin got started! I also wrote a blog entry about working on this.

🏖️ Summer Vacation

Just a heads up that we are planning to combine our June and July issues and release it on June 30, with the next release after that in August. This is so that we can have a bit of a summer break! We may still update the blog during July, but if we do, those articles will go in the August issue, and we will be skipping the July release.

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📰 2023 April issue

Check out the 2023 April issue and its games if you haven't yet!

🍸 Happy Hour!

Subscribe to our YouTube channel and tune in every Thursday from 9PM for Happy Hour, a bilingual show introducing some indie games!

And now, a word from our sponsors

Just kidding! インディー通信 Indie Tsushin is ad-free, does not (and will never!) run sponsored content, and is mostly made by two people in their spare time. We write the articles, buy the games out of pocket, conduct and translate the interviews, lay out and edit the website and zines, pay for hosting and recording equipment, and so on. We do all this because we are gigantic nerds and hope that more people can play and appreciate Japanese indie games and their developers. We would gladly do it even if we never made a single yen from this.

BUT! If you enjoyed the zine, please consider paying for it, or sending us a tip through Ko-Fi! Any amount would be more than enough, and would go a long way towards boosting our morale and keeping us going. Not only that, it lets us pay guest writers to appear in the zine! If you can't afford to donate, don't even worry about it! Indie Tsushin will always be available to read for free and will never go behind a paywall. You can also help us a ton by sharing our blog links, and by rating and reviewing our zines on itch. Thank you so much for all of your kind support!

🙏 Thanks for reading all this!

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