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15 Feb, 16 tweets, 8 min read
Kodansha Game Creators Lab, a program offering twice-a-year grants of ¥5m for up to 2 years for select indie devs, as well as one-off ¥5m payments for runners-up, has announced their first batch of winners (bumped up to 7 in each category due to demand) daysneo.com/info/GCL202102…
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primary grant #1 went to Hytecka, a dev with a popular following on youtube who's been attempting to make "the world's most interesting action-RPG", taking cues from Monster Hunter, For Honor, Souls, etc
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primary grant #2 went to ramuramu of Fantasy Factory, creator of freeware RPGs including their latest WIP effort, the action-RPG Yuuen Monogatari (fan-translated as "Faraway Story") fa2.s372.xrea.com/es/download.htm
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primary grant #3 went to Tokitamago, a dev who made the very popular free sound novel Shoukasen (now on iOS/AND) as a student, spent 15 years working as a career dev at a big studio & is now working indie🇯🇵

apps.apple.com/us/app/fan-ren…
play.google.com/store/apps/det…

primary grant #4 went to GHRIAN STUDIO, whose most recent game, the side-view military strategy game Orderly Strife, is available on Android 🇯🇵

play.google.com/store/apps/det…🇯🇵

primary grant #5 went to Yoshiaki Nakamichi—I could be wrong (& JP fans seem just as unsure) but I believe this is the same dev behind Smash Hockey (AND) & the long-in-dev fighting game Last Standard, a game that was originally signed to Sony's UNTIES

primary grant #6 went to Ayabane Koin, an analog game dev I'm completely familiar with—at a glance, they make/write a lot of stuff exploring the link between games & spiritualist practices like astrology, fortune-telling, etc🇯🇵
primary grant #7 went to tokoronyori, creator of melancholic adventure games including Renal Summer, a game where you play as the kidney of a dog in the final stages of kidney failure

play.google.com/store/apps/det…
apps.apple.com/app/id15221919…
that's *unfamiliar with, oops
secondary grant #1 (which is a one-off ¥50k payment, not ¥5m, gotta typo every name & number...) went to kaifu of Akamurasaki Games, creator of the early access game Dungeon Crusher Kiritan store.steampowered.com/app/1098560/Du…



secondary grant #2 went to RAMCLEAR, analog game dev behind such murder mystery games as Sid Updyke's Calamity Troopers & Slaughter's Palace ramclear.booth.pm🇯🇵
secondary grant #3 went to Production Exabilities, creators of the upcoming Ace Combat/Armored Core mishmash Yuyoku no Fraulein/Wing of Darkness store.steampowered.com/app/1179060/Wi…
secondary grant #4 went to Megarock, creator of the free cover shooter/RPG hybrid Black Obsidian freem.ne.jp/win/game/19527🇯🇵 here's a look at his next WIP game, tentatively titled Gunslinger
secondary grant #5 went to Mumi-san, the student dev whose swinging action game MotchaGirl was released on Switc via the Play, Doujin! initiative store-jp.nintendo.com/list/software/…🇯🇵
secondary grant #6 went to Room 127/127号室, a team involved with the production of the games for the TV Asashi program Kaishin no Ichi-ge, a variety show where the talent pitch & produce smartphone games that the public can actually play
secondary grant #7 went to analog game dev "ALLGREEN(オールグリーン)", and I can only presume that's Takahiro Shinozaki aka Shino, a fairly prestigious dev with many games under his belt including a party mahjong game with that title... but, why not use his established tag?

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