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10 years of game development! 🎉Jan 8, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsGuess what? I've been an independent game developer for 10 years now! 🤯 When I left EA Chillingo at the end of 2014, I was just eager to make my own games… I never for a minute imagined I’d still be here 10 years later with my own little business! 😊 My first released game, One Night Stand, was made during Nanoreno Game Jam, and it exploded in popularity and kinda took over my life! https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/43313223/9d953034b85f0bdd6e19dccad706d117a541413b.png When things settled down, I realised my previous project I was working on would require a larger team to create the vision I had for it. So I started working on the semi-autobiographical ‘Memories’ while continuing to work on One Night Stand localisations, console port and physical edition. However, in 2019, my personal circumstances changed. I became disabled and struggled to work at the same pace I did before. Then 2020 happened, and Memories didn’t feel like the right game to be putting out in the world anymore. My life and everyone else’s was changing, so I wanted to make something more hopeful (and bittersweet)… In came VIDEOVERSE! https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/43313223/c987a39660f9f04c20594178f7b95672a8eb4924.jpg After three years development, VIDEOVERSE launched on August 7th 2023 to critical acclaim. I never expected the reviews to be as glowing as they were and it seemed like switching my focus in 2020 was the right call. Sometimes, I feel sorry for my unreleased projects…but One Night Stand and VIDEOVERSE wouldn’t have existed without them. And hey, I haven’t fully given up on finishing them either, but indie development is certainly more competitive now than it was 10 years ago, so – for the time being – I’m focussing on smaller, more manageable projects! 💪 What's next for Kinmoku? Entering 2025, I’m continuing support on VIDEOVERSE (including a Japanese localisation) and already far along with my 👀 next project 👀 ! The story is written, in-engine and even features character and background art...but there is still a lot to do! However, this next project will be smaller than VIDEOVERSE, so I’m hoping to release before the end of the year. The tricky part now…is coming up with a title! To stay updated with my games, please follow me here or consider subscribing to my newsletter on www.kinmoku.games Thank you for reading and best wishes for the new year! Update notes for 2.32Jan 3, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHello everyone, A new update has gone live today (2.32) which updates the game engine and fixes three ending achievements that had stopped working. If you recently played the game and these achievements didn't unlock for you, please update and load the game. The missing achievements should unlock immediately! :) Apologies for the inconvenience and thank you to those who alerted me to the problem. If anyone is still having issues, please contact me at contact (at) kinmoku (dot) games and I will take a look. Thanks again for supporting One Night Stand!Update notes for 2.31Nov 17, 2024 - Community AnnouncementsHello, Update 2.31 contains a fix for Steam achievements. Please update your game for achievements to work correctly from now on. Apologies for the inconvenience. This was caused by creating last week's build – 2.3 – on a different computer. Thanks again for supporting One Night Stand!One Night Stand – Update 2.3Nov 14, 2024 - Community AnnouncementsHello everyone, it's been a while! ːons_shewavesː A small new update has just released for One Night Stand. It features: A clearer credits page Translation fixes ...and a whole new look for Kinmoku (that's me!) Please update so you have the latest version of the game! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26739532/7d0626f21497e218867a54fd623d889c101bfa1d.gif Inspired by the early roots of visual novels – from PC-98 to Sega Saturn – the new splash artwork features Kinmoku in their studio. If you look closely you can see references to Kinmoku's games, and even their dog, Goro! To learn more about the developer, please check out the new website at www.kinmoku.gamesSteam Summer Sale 2024Jun 27, 2024 - Community AnnouncementsHi all. The Steam Summer Sale has just begun and One Night Stand is now on sale! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26739532/32a231112d5abba80e3308b59d55b5ad904c643f.gif If you’ve already played One Night Stand, my newest release – VIDEOVERSE – is also available for less than $10. VIDEOVERSE is a decision-based narrative adventure focusing on character development, friendship and love, set in an early online gaming community! It's a longer experience which launched on August 7 2023 to critical acclaim, with 90 on Metacritic and 92 on OpenCritic – I hope you can check it out! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26739532/29dda703ff452650d655bf9759745b07a2776c6d.gif Enjoy 70% off One Night Stand and 25% off VIDEOVERSE until July 11 – Happy gaming!Steam Spring Sale 2024Mar 15, 2024 - Community AnnouncementsHi everyone. The Steam Spring Sale has just begun and both of Kinmoku's games – One Night Stand and VIDEOVERSE – are now on sale! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26739532/68cf8169920b3d243bb900742ada96f54c55f9e3.png For those of you unfamiliar with VIDEOVERSE; it's a decision-based narrative adventure focusing on character development, friendship and love, set in an early online gaming community known as Videoverse! It launched on August 7 2023 to critical acclaim, with 90 on Metacritic and 92 on OpenCritic. I think if you enjoy the realistic conversations in One Night Stand, you'll enjoy VIDEOVERSE, too! Enjoy 66% off One Night Stand and 25% off VIDEOVERSE until March 21 – Happy gaming!Happy Holidays from Kinmoku!Dec 21, 2023 - Community AnnouncementsIt’s that time of year again for the Steam Winter Sale – Enjoy 66% off One Night Stand until January 4th 2024! For those of you that may not know, in 2023 I released my second game – VIDEOVERSE – which is also on sale at the moment. VIDEOVERSE is a narrative adventure game set in an old school online social gaming network, which is inspired by Miiverse, MSN Messenger and early 2000s message boards. It's received some pretty cool reviews, with 90 on Metacritic and 92 on OpenCritic, making it one of the highest rated games of 2023! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26739532/e24c0105f8c63c26537ec877eef3432e13c8dfa6.jpg On the surface, VIDEOVERSE looks quite different to One Night Stand, but if you enjoyed the gameplay of One Night Stand – making narrative choices while getting to know someone – I think you’ll love it! VIDEOVERSE is a longer experience with around 4-7 hours of gameplay depending on how many side quests you want to do, plus there are a few different endings which reflect your play-style. I hope you're able to give it a try! Thanks again for supporting me and One Night Stand over all these years, and best wishes for 2024!One Night Stand is part of Steam Visual Novel FestAug 8, 2023 - Community AnnouncementsI'm excited to announce that One Night Stand is taking part in Steam Visual Novel Fest, which started yesterday and lasts until August 14th. To celebrate, new players can enjoy 75% off. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26739532/86107ad30047d5f1712a10396b0a9c5040541eec.png Another visual novel in the sale, which you may be interested in, is my next game VIDEOVERSE – A narrative adventure about love and friendship, inspired by Miiverse! VIDEOVERSE sends players back in time to a fictional video game era, where players can foster friendships, share fan art and browse the lively gaming communities. Compared to One Night Stand, VIDEOVERSE is a longer experience which has also taken me much longer to make! Like One Night Stand, it focuses on deep connections and is full of choices. You may also find a few One Night Stand references in there, as well! Thank you and enjoy the festival! ːsteamhappyːOne Night Stand 2.282Mar 25, 2021 - Community AnnouncementsHello everyone. This update fixes achievements. Yesterday, some users reported that achievements had stopped working after the big update. This was caused by the latest engine updates not supporting Steam achievements correctly. This unfortunately means that Mac OSX 10.15+ can no longer be supported. I have contacted the Ren'Py developers directly and hope this issue will soon be resolved so Mac OSX 10.15+ will be fully compatible. Until then, I advise Mac OSX 10.15+ users to download One Night Stand on itch.io, as this version is 64bit. Thank you for your patience.One Night Stand celebrates 5 years!Mar 24, 2021 - Community AnnouncementsWow! It's been 5 years since the Nanoreno game jam version of One Night Stand released on itch.io! I can't believe it's been that long already! Thank you all for supporting One Night Stand and helping it become such a beloved indie visual novel! To celebrate, One Night Stand will now be playable in Japanese and Italian on PC, Mac and Linux! Download the latest build and select the flags from the main menu to enable. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26739532/c69d7a192da2fe251f6d22edcfe627bfeda614cf.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26739532/a45836dd7b2d21f9fe071205aac2226df0f8c714.png This build will also update Mac builds to 64bit, meaning One Night Stand will now be playable on OSX 10.15+. For Playstation 4 owners, a physical edition of One Night Stand, featuring the new artwork above, is on the way! You can pre-order your copy now over at Red Art Games' website. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26739532/2c5b395d332d257a0811b700792af9738e300cf4.png I hope you enjoy the latest update. :)One Night Stand is now playable in Traditional Chinese, Spanish and PortugueseOct 2, 2019 - Community AnnouncementsI am happy to announce that One Night Stand is now playable in Traditional Chinese, Spanish and Portuguese! Download the latest build and select the flags from the main menu to enable. This week, I'm also celebrating the launch of One Night Stand coming on consoles! Play One Night Stand on Playstation 4, Xbox One or Nintendo Switch. A huge congratulations to Ratalaika Games who managed to port Ren'Py to consoles! And thank you to you all for your continued support :) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26739532/2c3b7dc4db53ff9dc04c6edd190330e8233a3c09.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26739532/7fff3566647d2f89b1faebde01fb3d04bdbbf4c1.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26739532/484f979de56c2561b176f0457e8cc28baba508c4.png Update 2.252Apr 11, 2019 - Community AnnouncementsJust a small update this time! An achievement bug stopping Chinese and German players from getting "Coincidence much?", "Sure, why not?" and "How unfortunate…" has been fixed. Some spelling and formatting errors have also been improved. Thanks again for playing!Have You Played One Night Stand?Mar 26, 2019 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. One Night Stand is a perfect study in awkwardness. When you wake up in a stranger’s bed with a stinking hangover and no memory of the night before, just what is the polite thing to do? Get dressed and leave as quickly as possible? Pry into her wallet to try to find out her name so you don’t look like a total jerk? Or perhaps you make a go at some small talk, chatting about the stacks of books and records on her shelves to try to establish a better relationship? Or maybe you get caught trying on her underwear and get turfed out the door in the nip. All things are possible in this beautifully observed visual novel, where feeling intensely uncomfortable has never felt so damn right. (more…) One Night Stand celebrates its third birthday!Mar 22, 2019 - Community AnnouncementsHello, It's been three years since the original, game jam version of One Night Stand came out! To celebrate, we're having a half-price sale for the next three days. Tell your friends! Happy birthday to us! :D Update 2.251Feb 25, 2019 - Community AnnouncementsGood news for Chinese and German players! The bug which was stopping Chinese players from finishing the ending "In a Twist" has been fixed. Small graphical improvements have been made to the Chinese and German versions as well. Also, there has been an engine update. See https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/changelog.html for more information. Thank you all for continuing to enjoy One Night Stand!One Night Stand is now playable in German and Simplified Chinese!Sep 26, 2018 - Community AnnouncementsI am happy to announce that One Night Stand is now playable in German and Simplified Chinese! Download the latest build and select German or Chinese from the main menu to enable. Thanks to everyone who helped make these translations possible. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/26739532/7fbae5fff0c44eee4165649a9da294479be8460f.jpg https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/26739532/6164c67afd49bc3b3fd9cb47749dd40f22fbede3.jpg One Night Stand is now playable in brazilian portuguese and French!Jun 21, 2018 - Community AnnouncementsI am happy to announce that One Night Stand is now playable in French and Brazilian Portuguese! Download the latest build and select French or Brazilian from the main menu to enable. 2.24 also fixes the following bugs: Crashes when replaying a reset game, main menu flickering, a typo when clicking on the notebook, and the True Friends replay not working correctly. Thanks again for your continued support! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/26739532/831084b04aa4b175dcf9c8bbdbc9c647209ef346.jpg https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/26739532/0c066b527412a317c0fcb5e391355c6d7a672e9c.jpg Enjoy the Steam Summer sales!Update 2.23Feb 19, 2018 - Community AnnouncementsJust a tiny update this time! An achievement bug has been fixed. Thank you for bringing it to my attention and continuing to support One Night Stand!Update 2.23Feb 19, 2018 - Community AnnouncementsJust a tiny update this time! An achievement bug has been fixed. Thank you for bringing it to my attention and continuing to support One Night Stand!This 'xxxhibition' complete with dildo joysticks was the highlight of PAX AustraliaNov 1, 2017 - PC GamerThis year at PAX Australia I was given a wristband with an R18+ rating on it, certifying I am a real adult who is allowed to look at real adult games. Australians campaigned long and hard for 18+ games to be sold here and the system's still not perfect, but I'm glad to see official recognition that games aren't just for children. With this wristband I could have lined up to play South Park: The Fractured But Whole over on the show floor, but instead I chose to spend the last day of the con at an 'xxxhibition' of games for adults. It's a hike from the show floor to the theater building and then up two flights of stairs to room 214, where a sign with an eggplant emoji welcomes visitors to this showcase of sexy games. It's not a place you're likely to stumble across by accident while looking for the Injustice 2 booth. Compared to most of the con it's a calm and quiet space, illuminated by fairylights and a widescreen monitor where people play Genital Jousting (a game whose publisher chose not to submit it for classification in Australia, and which cannot be sold here) with controllers made from dildoes. In the middle of the room is a kiddie pool full of sextoys and around the walls are stations where you can play The Sims 4 with the WickedWhims mod installed, visual novels about intimacy, some of Robert Yang's games about gay culture, and Luxuria Superbia with another custom controller, this one designed to evoke a vulva complete with "twin-clit controls." This xxxhibition is curated by the Blushbox Collective, a group dedicated to highlighting games about love and romance as well as sex, and Bar SK, a videogame bar that hosts indie games and whose owner makes custom controllers like the dildo joysticks here. There are no games about building a harem of anime girls, no VR humping simulators. Whether it's laughing at Genital Jousting's wobbly wangs or discussing what to say to someone you wake up beside in visual novel One Night Stand, these games and this environment are designed to foster intimacy rather than boners. Katie Stegs, one of the co-founders of Blushbox, talked me through the xxxhibition. PC Gamer: Tell me about Blushbox. How did it start? Katie Stegs: It started as a collective in the beginning of 2016 and the reason we started was because Kim Allom from Defiant Development wanted to go to Lyst Summit, which is a symposium in Norway about love, sex and romance. She rang me up like, "Have you heard of this? It's really awesome." So we started this collective over here and we raised a bunch of money and went over to this convention. It blew our minds, like, "Wow, this is awesome. There's nothing like this in Australia. We've got to do something for this side of the world." It's so under-represented, under-talked-about. We have three core tenets: we curate resources, we create events, we prototype games. This is one of ...
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