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Game announcements, build logs, and what we've learned marketing indie games and AI tools with no ad budget — from the studio behind Jank Yard and Watashi Colorizer.
Jank Yard Hits Steam: Build It, Jank It, Send It
Our physics party game about building a gloriously bad vehicle for every challenge — and sending it anyway — now has a Steam page. Here's what it is, how it plays, and why a wishlist matters more than you'd think.
July 2026 · 4 min readMore Articles
What Is a Physics Party Game?
A small genre with a very specific job: make a room full of people laugh at the same accident. Here is what separates a physics party game from a physics sandbox, a party game, and everything in between.
July 2026 · 5 min read
Games Like Trailmakers: 8 Build-and-Send Physics Games
Trailmakers scratches a very particular itch — bolt a machine together out of blocks, then find out whether it survives contact with reality. Here are eight more games that do it, and what each one does differently.
July 2026 · 7 min read
$0 Ad Spend, $200/Week Revenue: How We Grew Watashi Colorizer with SEO Alone
A real case study on growing an indie SaaS product to sustainable revenue using nothing but search engine optimization. No paid ads, no influencer deals — just content, technical SEO, and patience.
March 2026 · 8 min read
Building Watashi Marketing: Why We Made Our Own Marketing Tool
The origin story of Watashi Marketing — why existing marketing tools were too expensive for indie developers, what we needed, and how we built an AI-powered alternative.
March 2026 · 6 min read
AI Tools for Indie Developers and Creators in 2026
A practical guide to AI tools that actually help indie developers and creators ship better work, market effectively, and save time — without enterprise budgets.
March 2026 · 7 min read
Watashi Colorizer: How AI Manga Colorization Works
A behind-the-scenes look at the technology that powers Watashi Colorizer — from virtual image splitting to intelligent batching to publish-ready output.
March 2026 · 5 min readColorizer Guides
Guide to Bulk Colorizing Manga & Webtoon Chapters
Why we built a bulk colorization pipeline, the engineering challenges we faced, and what production-scale chapter colorization actually requires.
Guide →How to Colorize Manga: A Publisher’s Perspective
How colorization fits into modern publishing workflows, the quality standards that matter, and the pitfalls we learned to avoid.
Guide →How AI Manga Colorization Works
Why we chose Google Gemini, how virtual image splitting was born out of necessity, and what separates publisher-grade AI from hobby-grade tools.
Guide →Best Manga Colorization Tools in 2026
We evaluated every colorization option as a publisher who colorizes chapters at scale. Here’s what we found and the criteria most reviews miss.
Guide →Colorizing Manga & Webtoons for Scanlation Teams
How scanlation teams are using AI colorization, the team workflow design decisions we made, and what we learned from the community.
Guide →Manga vs Manhwa vs Webtoon: What’s the Difference?
How manga, manhwa, and webtoon formats differ from a production standpoint, and why colorization needs to adapt for each.
Guide →Also by Watashi Games
Watashi Colorizer
AI-powered manga & webtoon colorization. Upload entire chapters, enforce character palettes for consistent colors, and translate into 30+ languages.