.iris - A Passing in the Night

"A Passing in the Night" demo is now out on Steam! It's a short demo for a short game but we hope you enjoy it.. please share pics from your walk, we'd love to see them! Link below.

A Passing in the Night - TGS Interview With Developers 'dot iris' www.nettosgameroom.com/2026/10/a-pa...

I wrote postmortem about SOLASTALGIA which was exhibited at an event organized by @thisisdotiris.bsky.social and @futurala.bsky.social in July I cover some new visual additions, technical behind the scenes, inspirations, and translation farfamahar.github.io/blog/tama-in...

Thanks for trying the demo!

Doing a short talk at Tokyo Indies next week~

Patched the Steam demo and fixed some launch & freeze errors.

New gamedev vlog is out, about our new demo and randomness as usual youtu.be/XfiGfxnXK6w?...

不穏すぎる夜散歩ゲーム、人気フリーゲーム進化版『Dungeon Sweeper Plus』、スケボー騎士ローグライトのSteam無料体験版が一挙配信。PLAYISMの尖り新作3連発 https://automaton-media.com/articles/newsjp/20261008-472463/

We'll be hanging around tomorrow too at TGS

9/17-9/21 東京ゲームショウにPLAYISMブースで体験版を出展させていただきます！！夜のお散歩バッグもあります。奇妙で静かな10分の散歩をしに来てください！ "A Passing in the Night" will be showing a demo at Tokyo Game Show 2026 at the PLAYISM booth! Come on a 10 minute walk and grab a bag to accompany you on your night strolls 🌃 (bags are limited!) #tgs2026

I put aside a few hours to make a short game on Decker for NFTS Game Poems jam. is it a poem? is it a collage? it is called The Fugly Fish and it is about feeling like you are a weird fish. play on browser dotiris.itch.io/thefuglyfish

our walking sim has 2 special viewing modes to observe the environment with!

Most of our adventure game, APITN is in behind-the-MC 3rd person POV but we like fixed camera too so we decided to implement the best of both worlds #screenshotsaturday

zines!

i gave a talk about my favorite part about making despelote at gdc and they made it free to watch! it was a really nice opportunity to gather all my thoughts and put into words this idea that games can actually be really great at capturing the world. watch it here! gdcvault.com/play/1035816...

release within the next few weeks

New devlog~ we also talk about prepping for and the contents of the event we recently co-hosted, Dissonance: "Unrest" youtu.be/Ubpm0JezK7Q?...

Had a chance to play this and many other great games at Dissonance 不穏 last weekend. Visual metaphor & memoir in bitsy form. Also so interesting to recreate a personal game from many years ago with a stronger technical, creative skillset along with a recontextualized life perspective. Remake/Re-view

Thank you to all the visitors, friends and participants who came to Dissonance: Unrest. Really appreciated the sense of a small and quiet community forming around strange / wonderful games in Tokyo. It was a great event and a pleasure to co-organize as .iris with futurala!

I’m so grateful to @thisisdotiris.bsky.social and @futurala.bsky.social for believing in my game and inviting me to be part of this 🙏🏻 It was such a tightly curated display of weird and unsettling games

⚫✴️ Hello! I’ll be exhibiting my game Meet Me at Shinjuku Station: Remake, at Dissonance: Unrest this weekend! 📅 6/20~21 📍 Parthenon Tama, Tokyo 🖥️ dissonance.tokyo A huge thank you to @thisisdotiris.bsky.social and @futurala.bsky.social for inviting me to be part of it.

Exhibiting APITN Dissonance ver. tomorrow in Tama, Tokyo. yeee

"Enter a world of games that resist comfort" Sat June 20 13:00–19:00, 19:30~ Panel Discussion Sun June 21 11:00–17:00 I will be showing a Japanese version of SOLASTALGIA this Saturday and Sunday in Tokyo. Also at 7pm on Sat, me and Sivani will give a live reading and noise performance of the game.

Showing our game in Tama soon

「人間はなぜ「不穏」を恐れながらも、「不穏」に惹かれるのか？ 不穏なゲームをプレイして、その答えを探してください。」 TAMAインディゲーム展覧会Dissonance 6月20日21日（土日）開催 パルテノン多摩 @futurala.bsky.social @thisisdotiris.bsky.social dissonance.tokyo

Thrilled to announce that "A Passing in the Night" will be published by PLAYISM!

making a game about when you feel like your lived reality is so much like a nightmare that living in a literal nightmare world would almost make you feel better about it #screenshotsaturday #スーパーゲ制デー

testing on a low-end setup #gamedev

It's been a challenge trying to balance the walking pace & the mood of APITN. We've settled for now on adding 3 modes: normal / hyperfocus / zoneout, to keep things slower but vibey/music-oriented #gamedev #ue5 #walkingsimulator #screenshotsaturday

Forgot to announce here that we are showing "A Passing in the Night" at "Dissonance: Unrest" in June with some very cool & weird games (we're co-organizing the event as well!) DATES 6/20~21 LOCATION Parthenon Tama, Tokyo PRE-SALE TICKET ¥300 WEBSITE dissonance.tokyo

Had fun meeting awesome people at GAEMZ Tokyo yesterday 🩵

New devlog! about the patience needed to both make and play walking simulators #indiegamedev youtu.be/tb-HsDsubBs?...

adding an overlay of associations, words and images that appear when you enter space-out mode #indiedev

went on a #bitsy gamedev tangent on my free time, it's a tiny ode to my childhood pet bird dotiris.itch.io/saffron

made a little vlog about exhibiting at #Bitsummit, an indie game convention in Kyoto this summer youtu.be/dtJgu2Xtou4?...

building #gamedev #setdressing

new mini devlog up~ youtu.be/b6hI7M4l9x0?...

The surreal adventure game we're working on, "A Passing in the Night" will be exhibiting in Kyoto at Bitsummit the 13th this July 18-20 at Booth [1F-D18] with a new playable demo! Hope to see you there! bitsummit.org/game/a-passi...

our game was featured in a couple of Japanese articles including Famitsu. lots of lovely musings on night walks

#devlog reflecting on our time exhibiting at Tokyo Indie Games Summit! youtu.be/BocD7XVMhgw?...

Finished our first event successfully at #TIGS2025 in Kichijoji last weekend! We showed our early demo which is also the introduction / prologue to "A Passing in the Night".