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A Year Of Springs dev npckc is bringing their fantasy tea-brewing sim to PC
If you’re a fan of visual novels, you’ve likely come across developer npckc for their work on A Pet Shop After Dark and A Year Of Springs – one of the best visual novels on PC. They’re now bringing Tavern For Tea – a lovely-looking tea-brewing sim – to PC, after it launched on mobile a few years ago.
Soyuz Spacecraft Docked To ISS Springs Coolant Leak
The cause and severity are presently not known. There is no immediate danger to the crew. The leak was discovered during preparations for a planned spacewalk, which has since been cancelled. This Soyuz is the return spacecraft for three of the ISS’ residents, but after this failure a replacement spacecraft may need to sent up.
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Rumoured Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla spin-off Mirage springs an art leak
What looks like promotional material for an unreleased Assassin’s Creed game is being shared online today, starring someone in assassin garb for the first time in seven years. The images show what’s purported to be artwork of something called The Forty Thieves Quest for the rumoured Assassin’s Creed: Mirage, also known by the development name of Rift.
A Year Of Springs dev npckc “never planned” on making games, but wanted to tell kinder LGBTQ+ stories
To call the current state of the world today ‘tumultuous’ would be a bit of an understatement. For LGBTQ+ people – and trans people in particular – the increasingly extreme rhetoric and legislation being weaponised against these communities can feel all-consuming. Yet it comes at a time when diverse representation in media, including games, is improving. As the number of characters stated to LGBTQ+ grows, what is more effective representation: making it possible to see your own experiences on screen, or make those experiences understandable to someone who isn’t LGBTQ+?
People who know of it would perhaps cite the work of developer and translator npckc, who I recently spoke with at the recent Japanese indie gaming event Bitsummit. They were there to showcase their latest game A Pet Shop After Dark, a departure from visual novels like A Year Of Springs trilogy into horror storytelling (“more spooky than outright horror,” as they later clarified) that’s set to release later this month. Beyond the trilogy and their newest work, they’ve translated the works of other developers and worked on other smaller games and game jam projects.