Happy Lunar New Year All! I hope everyone has an awesome Year of the Dragon! During my trip to Japan, I visited a few local libraries and was thrilled to see my books there. The one above is from...
https://tieryas.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/my-books-in-libraries-in-japan/
I was very happy to visit my Japan publisher, Hayakawa. Last time I’d been there was 2017! I can’t believe it’d been 7 years! The Christie cafe (named after Agatha Christie) was awesome. I ...
https://tieryas.wordpress.com/2024/01/23/visiting-my-japan-publisher-hayakawa/
I I was very excited to be a guest speaker at Eiwa University in Shizuoka. I spoke with two classes and they were both a lot of fun. When I speak with students, I usually go through my career and...
I had a fantastic time as a guest on the FM Shimizu Radio Program in Shizuoka! There was lots of great discussion, lots of great questions from listeners (as well as some nice poems!). Thank you ...
https://tieryas.wordpress.com/2024/01/16/guest-on-fm-shimizu-in-shizuoka-japan/
Hi friends! I want to share the announcement trailer for Touch Detective 3 + The Complete Case Files for Switch! I had a blast working on this with the original dev team and Nicalis on the locali...
https://tieryas.wordpress.com/2023/10/30/touch-detective-complete-case-files-trailer/
Hi friends! Ira, the fantasy bullet hell roguelite game drawing on Asian (esp Korean) mythology, is out today from Nicalis. I wrote the story for it and had a blast doing so. The art is beautiful...
I’m always thrilled to write about the genius of Hideo Kojima & am honored to have written the foreword for Hideo Kojima: Progressive Game Design from Metal Gear to Death Stranding from the awe...
Hi friends, I’m excited to share that the fantasy bullet hell game I wrote drawing on Korean mythology, Ira, is coming out next month! Excited to share this one with everyone! Here’s a Gemats...
https://tieryas.wordpress.com/2023/09/07/ira-releasing-in-october/
I’m pretty thrilled my first game with Nicalis game out today called Cramped Room of Death. I think I’ve mentioned, while I wrote the story, it’s on the shorter side. But it’s a super fun...
https://tieryas.wordpress.com/2023/07/20/cramped-room-of-death-releases/
I wrote a steam log about writing for Cramped Room of Death and some of the process behind it! It was really fun creating the backstory and working with the team to bring the cutscenes to life. I...
https://tieryas.wordpress.com/2023/07/09/writing-the-backstory-for-cramped-room-of-death/