Typhoon Dragoon🌪️🐉

I reviewed other people's games for a decade. Now I'm making the game of my dreams in Japan: Typhoon Dragoon. #indiedev #gamedev #godot #rpg #anime

Microwave Aimé #wip #godot #gamedev #rpg #anime #indiedev

WIP Glorious T-Pose 3D Aimé asserting dominance #godot #rpg #indiegame #gamedev #anime

For our Ludum Dare 60 entry, Ghost in the Egg, our incredible 3D Art Director @ricardomenin.bsky.social made this fanart of our hero Aimé Eida as a poster! Y2K is indeed one of out great passions and inspirations. 👀

It’s 2002, it’s raining, and you just got your brand new Moonpet, your NEW BEST FRIEND. Ghost in the Egg is the @typhoondragoon.bsky.social team entry to Ludum Dare 60 - Old Tech. Now available on itch, link below! #indiegame #godot #gamedev #ludumdare #analoghorror

The @typhoondragoon.bsky.social team will be participating in Ludum Dare 60 this weekend! The theme is OLD TECH. The name of our game will be "Ghost in the Egg". We have been working on it since earlier today 💪🏻

Frontier of Blood and Sapphire. 7:00 am. The Typhoon, and The [♍︎□︎❒︎■︎] #gamedev #indiegame #rpg #godot #japan #anime

☯︎👍︎♋︎⧫︎♋︎●︎⍓︎⌘︎♓︎■︎♑︎☸︎【Ｃａｔａｌｙｚｉｎｇ】「触媒」 #indiedev #gaming #jrpg #indiegame #gamedev

Typhoon's new 3D art director @ricardomenin.bsky.social is already creating some amazing things for the game, including the Ressaca! Within the next few weeks, we have much more to show. The game is finally becoming visually interesting :)

Lighthouse's Vigil is coming soon to Steam! 👀 #wip #gamedev #indiegame #godot #ludumdare

ressaca (n., Brazilian Portuguese) — undertow. also: a hangover. #gamedev #indiegame #rpg #japan #brazil

Back to the basics: working on how Typhoon Dragoon feels! Hikaru built a movement sandbox for Connor focused on control feel: acceleration and turn tuning, input buffering and an intent-driven camera! It's WIP, but it's getting better! #gamedev #godot #indiegame #rpg #japan

You can find more of the game at typhoondragoon.com, as well as at @typhoondragoon.bsky.social and @typhoondrag_oon in any social media!

Thank you to @ricardomenin.bsky.social for bringing Typhoon’s 3D world to life, and to my dear wife Pangami, my source of unbounded and limitless strength, for beginning her journey as Typhoon’s narrative designer and co-developer.

Typhoon Dragoon is my attempt to honor those fans by trying to create The Ultimate RPG. My heartfelt thanks to Matthew Moss, Tokyo Game Bridge, and Le Wagon Tokyo for making this showcase possible.

For 15 years as a reviewer, I have advocated for developers listening to real, true lovers of the medium: people raised on Zelda, Pokémon, Final Fantasy, Fire Emblem, Xenoblade, and more, especially those disappointed by an industry increasingly driven by passing trends instead of its fans.

It is the greatest and most ambitious creation I have ever undertaken. It will take years, but putting it into the hands of real players, to test, challenge, and break it, will make it stronger and give us the confidence to bring this vision fully to life.

Typhoon Dragoon is one episode, born from an event that changed me forever. In 2018, after an accident, doctors told me I lost my life for five minutes during surgery. To me, it felt like three months. Dragoon is my attempt to give form to what I experienced, and to the strange place I saw.

I first imagined Typhoon 13 years ago as a series I want to finish before I die. Back then, I called it “my very own Final Fantasy.” Since then, Typhoon has been shaped by everything I love: games, anime, Japan 🇯🇵, Brazil 🇧🇷, and the people and beauty of our world, even Serbia! 🇷🇸

Watching people step into worlds we created was surreal and humbling. To everyone who played, shared feedback, found problems, or simply stopped to talk with us: deeply and genuinely, thank you!

Last Friday, I had the incredible opportunity to showcase two of my games, Typhoon Dragoon and Lighthouse Vigil, at the @tokyogamebridge.bsky.social Tokyo Game Show Community Fest. 🧵 #TokyoGameShow #IndieGame #GameDev #RPG #Godot #Japan #Tokyo

I was able to showcase a new build of our game! I also sketched out a cute little manual 🍀🎣 @tokyogamebridge.bsky.social Thanks for the opportunity! @slightlyhaunted.bsky.social Please check out my other friends games as well! @tanjou.bsky.social @adlanar.bsky.social @silver978.bsky.social

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We’ll be showcasing Typhoon Dragoon at the 2026 Tokyo Game Bridge Tokyo Game Show Community Fest on Sep 18th in Meguro, Tokyo at Le Wagon Tokyo! 🌪️🐉 This will be the first-ever public showcase of the game! Come play with us! More info below 🧵 #indiegame #gamedev #godotengine

I'll also be bringing Lighthouse's Vigil with @slightlyhaunted.bsky.social! bsky.app/profile/slig...

I'm extremely happy to announce I'll be showcasing Typhoon Dragoon for the first time ever publicly in Tokyo next week during Tokyo Game Show! The game is still in a pre-alpha stage, but your feedback will be much appreciated! Thanks for @tokyogamebridge.bsky.social for the spot!

We’ll be showcasing Lighthouse’s Vigil at the 2026 Tokyo Game Bridge Tokyo Game Show Community Fest on Sep 18th in Meguro, Tokyo at Le Wagon Tokyo! 🕯️🌊 Come play a demo of our original game, which is coming soon to Steam! More info below 🧵 #indiegame #gamedev #godotengine

Continuously working into making TYPHOON a reality! We'll have special news soon 👀

I made a tutorial showcasing the basic chain sequence of attacks between the characters! Break! Fell! Catapult! Plunge! This way we'll be able to make diversified combos on our enemies while manipulating their state in the field! #wip #gamedev #indiegame #godot #jrpg

Recently, we made Ouro/Manoir: Rondo of the Warden as a submission for Holo Indie! The game is a raising cozy horror sim based on our beloved Ouro Kronii's Suki Suki Daisuki cover! Though rejected, we wanted to show it, and try again in the future. #krotime #kronillust #OKTK

Y'are snared in me own threads o’ Fate! This is Ronan Santiago. With energy spilling from his fingers, a scholar's clumsiness and chaos worth following, he's the Compounder of the Alchemical Trio at the heart of Typhoon Dragoon. You can count on him to topple the impossible!

Typhoon Dragoon now has controller support, and a revamped combat UI to match! It already feels much more satisfying to test!!! #gamedev #indiegame #godot #jrpg

I was recently told that Typhoon needs the most indispensable JRPG feature of all: A fishing minigame. 🎣 It’s a tempting proposition indeed… What other minigames can no JRPG live without? #gamedev #indiedev #JRPG #anime #Godot

Typhoon Dragoon has been the focus of my hopes and dreams for a good while now. The project is heading for a braver and bolder phase. I made this illustration to celebrate the progress and to open the doors for what is to come. Please read and share!

Part of the Titan I am building, I made a helix-like slope around the lower part of the leg. For a while now I've been looking to find an excuse to include Nier Automata-like 2.5D sections in the game, and this was the perfect opportunity. #gamedev #godot #indiedev #jrpg

I implemented a basic floating dash feature on top of running to increase speed but also look ✨cool✨. The phantom effect gets colored by the currently equipped element the player is using. #indiedev #gamedev #godot #3dgame #RPG #JRPG

The totems from the previous demos will be summoned by a larger entity in our adventures and act in coordination to trap and defeat our heroes. Here's a small demo of that working in a simulated scenario. #indiedev #gamedev #godot #3dgame #RPG #JRPG

Here's each of the bullets in a bit more detail, showcasing its variants. I will probably make more with time, especially considering this is not the only planned bullet hell section of the game. #indiedev #gamedev #godot #3dgame #RPG #JRPG

Here's another demo! We're heavily inspired by Nier Automata, and we're planning a boss fight that will have several bullet hell sections in 3d environments. I've implemented 4 types of bullets with different reactions. #indiedev #gamedev #godot #3dgame #RPG #JRPG

Here's a clip of it in action! Elemental enemies, objects, or even player weapons will be able to naturally trigger environmental reactions, like lighting up bushes with fire 😄 #godot #indiedev #gamedev #3dgame #rpg

I'm slowly but surely implementing the elemental system I created in the world environment and not just combat. By the game's release I would like for the element system be part of the living, breathing world of Typhoon Dragoon. Excuse the ugly ass 3D for now 😃

tanjou.typhoondragoon.com

Howdy! Alongside @typhoondragoon.bsky.social’s new homepage, I finally made my own portfolio website too! From now on, I’ll use it as my personal hub! It even has a small blog too! Link in the reply!