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Ep. #214 - Being a Japanese solo dev with Nito Souji

In our new episode we have a talk with Nito Souji. He's a solo indie game dev from Japan and describes himself as a shut-in aka Hikikomori for 10 years working on a shut-in themed beat'em'up Pull Stay. Listen to some interesting insights! Enjoy! The interview starts at minute 1:35:00

Links related to this episode:

• Get Pull Stay: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1179890

• Pull Stay's homepage: https://impress.games/press-kit/nito-souji/pull-stay

• Nito Souji on X: https://x.com/EternalStew

• Nito Souji on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/NitoSouji

• Nito Souji on Discord: https://discord.gg/dS4xBTg
• Nito Souji on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/nitosouji
• Nito Souji on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nitosouji/
• Nito Souji on itch.io: https://nitoso.itch.io

 

News mentioned in this episode:

• A community driven Version of the free-to-play game "Arctic Combat" has been released: https://warfareterritory.net
• Kickstarter to start its own Pledge Manager: https://landing.kickstarter.com/pledge-manager
• Retro Future's Game Boy Kiosk's restoration Videos: Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y2ao4gwWqg / Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNfveIxnOIw
• Robocop: Rogue City - Official Unfinished Business: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjUAXyDJNSs
• Arcades and Love Longs - A Ballad of Walter Day: https://www.arcadesandlovesongs.com

• Foenix F256K: https://c256foenix.com/?v=0b3b97fa6688

• Playable build of Markus Brenner’s F256K port of Ultima III: https://github.com/minstreldragon/F256_Ultima_3

• Thomas Christoph’s SID Symphony announcement: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15Uw5QMkdP/
• Andrew Fisher’s 64 Dreams Project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zzap642021annual/64-dreams
• Road Runner for the C64: https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Road_Runner

Bradlees is where the cool kids got their MacGregors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradlees

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Intro rendered by Matthias Kohlen and music by Remute: https://www.remute.org

Promo by MayTree

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