Chuhai Labs

About Chuhai Labs

Chuhai Labs is an indie game studio based in Kyoto, Japan. The server is run by the studio team and open to people interested in game development, the studio's work, and the broader culture around games and Japan.

Conversation centers on games (both current industry talk and retro collecting), life in Japan, Japanese food and drink, and occasionally peeks into what the studio is working on. The server has voice channels for real-time chat. The studio's founder, Giles Goddard, was the first foreign developer at Nintendo Japan and worked on Star Fox, 1080 Snowboarding, and Mario 64—that history tends to come up naturally in discussion.

If you're into game development, retro gaming, or just want to hang around a studio and talk shop with actual game makers, this is a straightforward place to do it. No pretense, just people who make games talking about games and the things that go with them.