For #MotivationMonday we would love to show the before and after of our official poster for our upcoming game: "Tactichord: Glam Strategy"! 🎸 Our artists have made our visions come to life. ⚡ #indiedev #indiegame #gaming Our playtest is now open: store.steampowered.com/app/3389400?...

In Episode 4 of #EnduringPlay, a #GameDev podcast, @gamedeventura.bsky.social from @ichigoichiegames.bsky.social gets candid about the ups & downs of running indie studios; from the dark moments to the satisfaction of sustainable hours for quality games. Listen at enduringplay.com + other platforms!

In Episode 4 of #EnduringPlay: A #GameDev Podcast, @gamedeventura.bsky.social of @ichigoichiegames.bsky.social shares his insights on being an open-minded creative director in games adapting based on player feedback Listen now at enduringplay.com: www.gamedevelopmentstrategyguide.com/enduring-pla...

My feet are exhausted! My skin is toast (more on that later), but for now I'm gonna crash. Tomorrow is another exhibition day.

The end of Gamescom coverage comes into view, here's an enormous preview of all the other games I played at the show. Including Super Meat Boy 3D, Tactichord, LEGO Voyagers, He-Man and Piggy One Super Spark! For @nintendonwr.bsky.social 👇 nintendoworldreport.com/feature/7220...

On the way to #gamescom2025, eventually (delayed ✈️)

You know I've been called a lot of things by a lot of home appliances but...

It's the twentieth anniversary of the first production game I worked on from start to finish, Ossu! Tatakae! Ouendan! Thanks to Retro Gamer and Alan Wen for the interview!

wrote about the spirit of public good that birthed public media in the U.S., the Senate's vote to halt all federal funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and what this really means for your favorite NPR and PBS stations, both local and national: slate.com/technology/2...

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

In Japan this week I showed our upcoming game Tactichord at @tokyoindies.com First time at the event, was a lot of fun!

Bitsummitビジネスデイ、開始です！ IP1-18でお待ちしております （3Fのステージのすぐ左！） Bitsummit business day. We're at IP1-18, to the left of the stage on 3F! GAMES: www.tokyoindies.com/posts/bitsum...

the Steam Summer Sale is nearing its end, make sure to get all of the amazing In Stars and Time stuff on sale!! That means the art book and game, plus a discount on the full experience bundle! 💞 store.steampowered.com/app/1677310/...

Our Tactichord cutscene #comic artist Ellen is back in the office this month so I needed to add another monitor to my setup. For most of the administrative things I do this isn't necessary, but it's much appreciated when comparing lots of panels like this. #indiegame #handdrawn

To make things a little less physically confrontational, we've migrated the Tactichord "drum slam" to a "drum spin" that is a shout out to Twisted Sister's Dee Snider from "We're Not Gonna Take It". I also added some thunder #sfx to the special attack #vfx. #lowpoly #indiegame #animation

🚨 Detective Dotson is 50% off on Steam 🚨 Please consider buying this short and sweet cozy bollywood adventure. It's a 96% "Very Positive" rated game But we have completely gone under the radar 😅 🙏 Please repost and tag a friend 🙏 We need your ❤️

Did you know that we make not only music video games but music productivity software as well? We've collaborated with Reason Studios on their Arpeggio Lab creative MIDI tool. Discover new melodic ideas with the Arpeggio Lab today! Read more here: www.reasonstudios.com/arpeggiolab

It's #screenshotsaturday so here's part of the gameplay loop of Tactichord: Glam Strategy that we're very excited about. As you play through a level, you get to choose the lyrics that the charming Joey will sing at the end of the level, during the wrap-up musical video! #indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly

It's another #screenshotsaturday so here's an action shot of glammed up Lance hitting a powerful shred on an hapless hater! #lowpoly #indiedev #gamedev

Lightning #VFX in Tactichord has been a part of the design since the first concept, but we haven't found a satisfying way to implement it yet. In terms of luminescence I think we're very close, though motion and form we still have a bit of a ways to go. #lowpoly #indiegamedev #stylized

Picard management tip: It's okay if your second in command has a different management style, as long as you both agree on the goals.

We are making a graphic push right now, many #animation are being produced so we're seeing if our system in #Unity is scaleable. For serious moments it's important to have the characters be able to articulate their feelings. #indiegame #lowpoly #gamedev

Hi #pitchyagame, we're making Tactichord: Glam Strategy! It's a turnbased tactics game about heavy metal, teenage angst and becoming a rock legend! Rock haters into fans with stylish power moves, customise the band and generate unique music videos through play! Wishlist here! tinyurl.com/2p9k3r24

@petefrasermusic.bsky.social and colleagues doing a really hot set of Freddie Hubbard in Stockholm tonight. Incidentally we have two of the musicians from @ichigoichiegames.bsky.social title Backbeat playing.

Here's some #UI and #conceptart that will be in Tactichord as the story progresses. Our lead 2D artist @mcbrau.bsky.social‬ puts together these amazing tributes to the pulpy 80s magazines, centered around the protagonists of Tactichord, Gemini. #indiegame #handdrawn #characterdesign

Ready to go with Brass, Banana Bash, and Tactichord at indie game night!

Tonight at H62, Indie Game Special: Try Tactichord: Glam Strategy by Ichigoichie, a mashup of turn-based tactics and music games. Rock on turning foes into fans. Would you like to know more? tactichord.com

You'll be able to play the demo version of Banana Bash! at Syntax Error, Stockholm, Sweden on June 1st. www.syntax-error.se

We have another public playtest this weekend! So I'm getting ready for that and setting up the builds and backup stuff. I think for fun I'm going to turn on the alternate costumes as well, which we can now do via the debug menu in the game. #lowpoly #indiegame #characterdesign

In Tactichord choices you make in the story affect your party. This required a lot of under the hood work which Magnus put together in short order. Proof of this is everyday Ricky being swapped out for a fantastic 80s robot, MPG. #lowpoly #80s #indiegame #indiegamedev

I'm back from adventure on the high seas! Last weekend we joined the Moderskeppet Gaming cruise to do our first public playtest of our upcoming #TBT game Tactichord: Glam Strategy. We got lots of great feedback and even got Cloud from Final Fantasy to give us his thoughts! #indiegame #gamedev

It was really cool working with our old colleagues down the street again on another Reason Player.

#UX! You can iterate forever making things more clear. There's a reason there are tons of books on pleasing UI/UX. I changed the quickstart for people that didn't have time to read the story. Here is the game in a single card. Do you have an idea what it's about? #indiegame #gamedesign #retrogame

More Tactichord emotes are here... I say rejoice, enjoy my dear! 🎵

Picard management tip: Don't try to go at maximum speed all the time. You'll burn out your engines.

So busy these weeks! I feel like I've been doing a hundred things a day. The last week I've been going around replacing a lot of voice over, audio, sound effects, and writing lyrics. I've been taking screenshots when looking at the post-level playback where the songs you build are played.

YOTTO and Guy-J!

As seen in company Slack today. Submitted without context.

All four members of our Tactichord band now have eyes. For the first time... ever? It's like "duh" to anyone else, but since we started then stopped the face expressions a full year ago and it kept getting pushed down the backlog, this is breathtaking for me. ^^;; #indiegame #lowpoly #indiegamedev

When I say camcorder effects what do you think of? Solarization! There are a lot of rendering issues to adjust here but we added some approximation of the old video camera built-in trick using tone mapping in Tactichord. #indiegame #stylized #lowpoly #postprocessing

Facial emotes are controllable now in Tactichord. Just Diane to start but Julia will have the other band members ready soon, then we can see singing Joey during the level playbacks. #lowpoly #animation #indiegame #indiegamedev

Today the art team put down their styli to do some writing. They holed up in the conference room working on ideas for side-quest levels in Tactichord. Three of these ideas were fleshed out into full scripts codified in the #yarnspinner language we use for cutscenes. #indiegame #indiegamedev

We have a system now to add emotes to all characters in Tactichord. Next sprint we'll animate them in cutscenes and during the music videos. Here we see some of the expressions Diane can make with her eye and mouth pair in her four costumes. #lowpoly #indiegamedev #characterdesign

We're working on "living the dream" of an 80s MTV hero in Tactichord. In level five there is a layout where Joey starts next to one of the converted fan pits. They're facing towards him, it's a nice moment. Some extra moody lighting could make it even better. #indiegame #leveldesign #lowpoly

This week we added the "head tilt" animation more character rigs in Tactichord, and the members of the band can look at each other, this is a big deal! It seems right now there is a loop in Ricky's setup that starts him grooving when he looks straight again. #indiegamedev #gameui #lowpoly

My favorite Rod Stewart act is.... FACES. It was time to start implementing expressions. Diane's shader is also getting a lot of improvements this sprint. Anyway, now we can start toggling different expressions. We should be able to trigger these in cutscenes soon! #lowpoly #indiegame #texturing

I'm back from #GDC2025. I'm still jet lagged. I have a mountain of stuff to do. Some people have asked for the slides to the talk I presented, so here they are! Thanks to all who supported me! #careerbuilding #communication #hiring drive.google.com/open?id=14Nn...

The #comic #cutscenes are going into our #indiegame Tactichord. Ellen lines and inks panels, and then Caroline assembles them in video with transitions and appear animations. I really like the rotation on Lance's guitar playing, it fits the music exactly! #storyboarding #characterdesign