Even the word analgesic itself has a scientific background; the term means a pain-relieving drug.

Riyou Hayashi, an analytically-minded Japanese-Taiwanese researcher, calls the bustling Tokyo his home.

And Ing-wen Lin, a kind and considerate Taiwanese scientist, lives in Taipei.

The three main characters of Sephonie observing a lifeform that looks like a giant pair of lungs growing a flower

ForAnalgesics blog, the duo wrote a post reflecting on the fourth anniversary of Even The Ocean.

Im certainly informed by many old and contemporary lo-fi games, Kittaka tells me.

One of the biggest influences that I must acknowledge on Sephonies art style is the contemporary Italian illustratorAndrea Serio.

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Humour is incredibly human and connective and in real life it often expands into unexpected emotional spaces.

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Sephonie requires the ability to navigate 3D space," he explains.

Andrea Serio’s Morena, an original sketch for the book “Il Peso della Farfalla” by Erri de Luca. Pencil and crayon.

While that feels frustrating, I think that’s okay.

I tend to think more players should keep this in mind when giving feedback to small teams.

I had to ask Kittaka: what was it like to release such a transformative, richly personal work?

A crop of several frames of Marina Kittaka’s comic Good Ol' Charlie B.

Napkin is really beautiful.

Napkins comment cards and NPWs web web app stuff).

“Part of writing as mixed-race for me, is to illustrate the differences within a group of peoples.

One of the three characters in Sephonie leaps across a gap between some rocks on the shoreline of the titular island. A large lizard watches

Especially against the narrative of a country’s marketing of e.g.

What it means to be Japanese, or outsiders' perception of Japanese people,” he says.

“These things usually mean a lot less than what an individual person is actually doing with their life.

A screenshot of Sephonie showing a bipedal humanoid creature sitting on a subway train

It’s good to have perspective.