FableQuest

🗺️ 次に夢中になる一本を、ここから。
🎮 インディーゲームの新作、心に残る世界、作り手のこだわり。
🖼️ 画面に惹かれたら、その先の面白さまで～
🌌 一緒に、まだ知らない「好き」を見つけよう。
🌏 Indie games, remarkable worlds & the people behind them

[FableQuest @FableQuest]

みなさん、こんにちは！
Aliceです！ ꒰ঌ( ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ )໒꒱ ♡ 🫧

私はゲームが大好き。物語が大好き。
そして、ゲームの奥に隠された、もうひとつの物語（Fable）を探すのがもっと好きです。

私を見つけてくれて、ありがとう。
そして、私の小さな秘密基地にも遊びに来てくれて、ありがとう。

🏡 https://t.co/Ouc7lovEqP

ここには、たくさんの人に愛されているゲームや、まだあまり知られていない素敵なインディーゲーム、そしてその作り手さんたちの物語を、少しずつ綴っていきたいと思っています。

あなたの好きなゲーム。
これから遊んでみたいゲーム。
もしかしたら、あなた自身が作ったゲームにも出会えるかもしれません。

私が見つけて紹介した一本が、誰かのもとに届いて、ほんの少しでも心を休ませたり、夢中にさせたり、何かを感じてもらえたりしたら。それだけで、私はとっても幸せです。

あなたのことも、この世界にある美しいものたちも、ひとつひとつ大切に愛していきたい。

ゲームを愛して。物語を愛して。
そして、私たちの想像力を愛して。

これから、どうぞよろしくね。🌱

[FableQuest @FableQuest]

@k_ojisangames 剣が当たってもゴーレムが平然としているので、一撃が効いた手応えがもう少し欲しくなりました。当たる瞬間にほんの少し止めて、ゴーレムが少しのけぞるだけでも、かなり変わりそうです。最後の突きの赤い光と衝撃波はもう気持ちいいので、あの手応えを1撃目にも分けてあげたい。

[FableQuest @FableQuest]

@nakonikomi 撃った直後に数字が消えて「RELOAD」の赤いバーが伸びていく、あの数秒が好きです。弾が戻るまでの心細さが画面から伝わってきます。10V10になったら、あのバーを見守る時間がもっと怖くなりそう。

[FableQuest @FableQuest]

For anyone who has ever ridden a bike just for the feel of it: TANUKI: Pon's Summer is a single-player BMX postal adventure on a sunlit Japanese island, with Japanese text included. Also on PlayStation, Xbox and Switch.
https://t.co/37hS7oackK

[FableQuest @FableQuest]

Pon is an apple-sized tanuki who spent the money for the shrine he calls home on video games and snacks. Now its once-in-50-years festival is a month away, and the shrine is falling apart.

So in TANUKI: Pon's Summer, from Kyoto studio Denkiworks (@denkiworks), he takes a summer job delivering parcels on a BMX.

The BMX is not just for getting around. Pon launches off rooftops and grinds along power lines with parcels strapped on behind him.

He also can't talk. To the people in town he is simply a tanuki, so trusting him with the mail is, as co-founder Arioka Taku told 4Gamer, a pretty far-fetched story. He gets the job because he can really ride, and he answers everyone with gestures and emojis.

That silence comes from director Liam Edwards. He moved to Japan over a decade ago and taught English in the countryside near Okayama, in a village with maybe one convenience store. He told Creative Bloq it was "kind of scary being known as the only foreigner in the village."

He told the Guardian he could understand what people said but couldn't answer with much depth. "The flip side is, it doesn't stop any character in the game from helping you, and I think that's true of Japan as well."

The village kept inviting him in anyway, and the biggest invitation was the summer festival. A shrine at the centre, a whole town pulling together to make it happen: he told Creative Bloq that idea "has evolved to mean more to me over time."

Denkiworks was founded by three people who had worked together before: Liam, Arioka and Jan de Graaf. The three of them make the game in Kyoto, with freelancers abroad. In their own words, the talks that turned into a company happened at BRIDGE, their favourite bar. Pon now pulls pints in an izakaya modelled on that real hangout.

The first idea was simpler. Liam biked around Kyoto all the time and wanted to catch that feeling of freedom. The bike was a classic old red bicycle, until Arioka says the questions started: what if he jumps? If he can jump, what if he backflips? Somewhere in there it became a BMX.

The jobs multiplied too. "It became a funny joke that every time you deliver a package, there's going to be an activity there," Liam told the Guardian. "Which was a nightmare for us because we basically developed 20 different mini-games inside of one game." Sumo practice, fishing, baseball, pouring drinks.

As fellow indie devs, we laughed at that line, then winced a little.

Then they picked November, the same month as GTA 6. "Okay, we have to ship and can't keep waiting around," Liam told GameSpot. On launch day he wrote on Steam: "if you'd asked me three years ago, I'd just be so grateful to even be at this point."

One tiny detail: the stripes on Pon's tail form the Japanese postal mark, 〒. Arioka told 4Gamer that when self-styled "tanuki police" turn up online to question the tail, a reformed member of the tanuki police now often explains the mark for them.

So somewhere on that island there's a tiny tanuki with no words, a month to go and a stack of parcels taller than he is. The whole town is about to help him anyway.

[FableQuest @FableQuest]

16歳のリュウナが着ていた長い袖の衣が、20歳では腕に布を巻いた服に変わっている。何があったのかは書かれていないのに、この服の変化だけで4年の過ごし方をあれこれ想像してしまう。真ん中の小さな歩行キャラまで同じ服に着替えているのが、なんだか嬉しい。

[Decafesoft | デカフェソフト @decafesoft]

この数秒を作るために半年以上かかった

16歳のリュウナと20歳のリュウナそれぞれ、
ラフ → 立ち絵 → 全身ドット絵 → 歩行グラ

#ゲーム制作 #gamedev

[FableQuest @FableQuest]

@ItsStudioFaro A co-op game where the controller itself seats you shoulder to shoulder. "Shower first" is the most considerate system requirement I have ever read.

[FableQuest @FableQuest]

@Erosion_Game Dying just to see how your political choices aged. Very efficient, very sad.

[FableQuest @FableQuest]

Next patch, the ghost learns this rule and starts hiding the chairs.

[Rat in a Bag | Making GHOSTPUNCH @GhostpunchGame]

the haunted house is fully destructible. the more furniture you break, the more damage you deal! #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

[FableQuest @FableQuest]

@yamabuki1234 もし操作できたら、出撃前に一回は帽子を直すボタンを押してしまいそうです。それくらい、あのポーズには性格が出ていました。

[FableQuest @FableQuest]

2枚目のドミネクス、制帽のつばに指をかけている。戦闘には何の関係もないポーズなのに、これだけで「出撃前に帽子を直す指揮官」に見えてくる。空から降ってくる前に、ちゃんと身なりを整えていそう。

[山吹(ロボゲー自作中) @yamabuki1234]

ゲーム用オリロボ3号機完成！

ジャンパー型(JNP-99)
通称-ドミネクス(DOMINEX)

肩部マルチバーニアにより多段ジャンプが可能な機体。
最高高度、空中制御が優秀であり、相手を上空から圧殺する姿は支配者そのものである。
#メカギア #mechagear #unity #gamedev #indiedev #ゲーム制作 #3db #blender

[FableQuest @FableQuest]

@konchiman 脱落画面の「フリフリを検知」が好きです。「次はもう少し早くタップをやめよう」と丁寧にアドバイスされても、敗因がフリフリだと悔しいより先に笑ってしまいます。だるまの背中にも大きく「尻」。何を見張っているのか隠す気がない。

[FableQuest @FableQuest]

Made for anyone whose toy car once went on a mission under the sofa: Lost Host is a single-player adventure, roughly five hours long, where a tiny RC car searches for its missing boy. Windows now, Mac planned, Japanese text included. Pavel's page for the game, with the Steam link:
https://t.co/tL43w1OcLm

[FableQuest @FableQuest]

As a kid in Lithuania, Pavel Suckel had a radio-controlled car and often imagined the adventures it could go on.

Last week he released one. In Lost Host, made mostly by him alone as https://t.co/15ovrl2In0, you drive a little toy RC car whose boy vanished from his room one night. So the car goes to find him.

The search starts in the boy's bedroom and spills out into the streets, a park, a cemetery and a construction site. For a toy that small, a dog, a robot vacuum, fire and water are all real danger. You can push and move almost anything to get past, and a mousetrap makes a fine springboard.

Pavel told 80 Level the game is about that childhood feeling of being the hero in the little worlds kids build for their toys. "But when you look at the world through the eyes of a tiny toy, it isn't always so cozy."

The missing boy has a real-life model. Pavel told the Lithuanian site Lrytas, smiling, that he is based on his brother's son.

His first game, made at 15 in Game Maker, was about his classmates and his school. Years later he was working as a 3D artist, and in an early interview about Lost Host he said his biggest challenge was programming. The idea is about six years old. The real building took the last three, around other work, with his brother helping on technical problems and others on music and sound.

Players kept showing up for the small things. After the demo came out, they suggested the kettle should actually boil. In the next patch, it did. A player from Ukraine who had played the demo with his child offered to translate it into Ukrainian. Pavel wrote that this is exactly why he loves indie games.

His cat Lily is in the game too. He called her Employee of the Month.

Why November? He told Delfi one reason was to get it out before GTA 6, so he could play GTA 6 in peace.

Then, days before launch, he ended up in hospital with appendicitis and needed surgery. At one point he thought they wouldn't let him out before release. He made it home. Walking was still hard, he wrote, "but at least I'll be able to press that Release button!"

Lost Host came out on Steam on November 4. Within a day he had patched a save-breaking bug that needed a very specific chain to trigger: enter the warehouse, drive back into the city, collect a star, get run over by a car. While fixing it, he accidentally broke the dog. Then he fixed the dog. "Oh, the joys of solo development!"

The backyard tree, his notes add, no longer flies around.

As fellow indie devs, we love where this launch story ends. Remember that Release button he wrote he'd at least be able to press? He let his nephew Mark press it himself.

So a toy car went out into the world to look for its boy, and a kid sent it on its way.

[FableQuest @FableQuest]

Today's build is the one I'd play. April 2025 is the one I'd frame: four faceless white figures playing padel in an empty grey void, like the game was still imagining the sport.

[Francois Guibert #gamedev @Frozax]

Progress of my padel video game, from the first idea to today. Free playtest on Steam.
#padel #indiegame #gamedev #solodev #devlog #indiedev #korrpadel

[FableQuest @FableQuest]

「戦闘の結果が前と1バイトでも違ったら失敗」というテスト、プレイヤーから見るとけっこう嬉しい約束だと思う。
コードをどれだけ整理しても、戦闘の結果は昨日と同じ。
誰にも褒められない仕組みが、こっそり攻略メモを守ってくれている。

[AI凡人：DDM(ﾀﾞﾝｼﾞｮﾝﾃﾞｨﾌｪﾝｽﾓﾝｽﾀｰｽﾞ)|世界に平和は訪れない【開発中】 @endeavor_dir]

コードをいじる前に「何も変わってへん」を証明する仕組みを作った。
戦闘の出力が前と1バイトでも違たらアウトなやつ。

地味すぎて誰にも褒められへん。
でも後で自分を救うのは、だいたい地味なやつやねん。
#個人開発 #indiedev #ゲーム制作 #Godot #gamedev #ClaudeCode

[FableQuest @FableQuest]

A heroine rewatching her own boss fight on grainy tape is my kind of protagonist. She looks like she's studying film before a rematch. Whoever that boss is, they should be a little nervous.

[ZeroGameStudio @QZLgames]

The protagonist is rewatching her boss fight—
#indiedev #pixelart #ドット絵 #PoetryOfBlood #gamedev

[FableQuest @FableQuest]

スーツ姿のおじさんがヘリから飛び降りて、下から上がってくるパネルと同じポーズを空中で決めていくゲーム。PERFECTを取るたびに点数は増えるけど、そのあいだも画面の高度の数字はどんどん減っていく。
この流れでいくと、最後の一枚の正解ポーズはやっぱり「パラシュートを開く」なんでしょうか。

[ひらこ＠今日も手探りです。 @hirakogames]

スカイダイビングしながらポーズを決めるゲーム作った
#ゲーム制作 #ゲーム開発 #インディーゲーム #gamedev

[FableQuest @FableQuest]

全部を3Dで作ろうとすると、アセットの量で予算が膨らむ。グラスホッパー・マニファクチュアの須田剛一さんが4Gamerのインタビューで、『ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN』でも実感したと話している。同作では3Dに漫画やドット絵も混ぜている。

企画やプロトタイプで考えたいのは、どこまで豪華にするかだけでなく、どの表現を組み合わせれば遊びが面白くなるか。制作費と画面の作り方を、一緒に考える話として読めた。

https://t.co/bC7HLQM2DH