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Month: January 2017
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Dekki
I’ve known Mike Sheetal for most of my life in Tokyo. One of the co-founders of the design/advertising agency UltraSuperNew, he switched gears a bit last year by founding a new game-oriented creative agency called Playbrain (bringing him back to his game dev roots). This week saw the launch of a new project by that agency, a…
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Friend & Foe’s Excellent PSX Adventure
Tokyo-based (well, mostly) Friend & Foe‘s Vane is a game I’m incredibly looking forward to playing when it comes out. They’ve just shared an interesting blog post on the experience they had showing the game at PSX, and how despite the hurdles, taking part in a show like that can be well worth it for devs.
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Borderless Cafe
Borderless Cafe is another site to add to your “Tokyo Cafe Hunting” folder — come on, we all have one, right? I especially like the posts under the “tokoyocoffeescene” tag. Thanks go out to Patrick Benny for the heads-up on this one.
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Beams Beyond Tokyo
Not only does the new Beams Beyond Tokyo book from Rizzoli look fantastic — a celebration of the brand’s collaborations through the years — I’m also happy to see that my buddy W. David Marx is one of the contributors. These Rizzoli coffee table books tend to be incredibly well made (oh, you know, like…
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Learning the Pokemon Card Game by Song
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Well this is definitely a fun way to learn a card game. Here’s a slick video made to teach players the basics of the Pokemon card game, with instructions given through the lyrics of the song that accompanies the video.
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Yukino Ohmura
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The cityscape you see pictured, by Yukino Ohmura, used nothing but small round stickers — view more of the artist’s work here. Found via this tweet.
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DQ2, GIF Edition
I really love this animated GIF, in part because I happen to be playing Dragon Quest II right now (although at a much slower pace than my recent Dragon Quest run).