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Brand New Whatever @brandnewwhatever.com · 26/02/2026

Don't play ONE NIGHT IN KAWAMI if you hold any degree of sympathy for annoying influencer wannabes. #indiegames #VisitKawami

A close-up of Mohawkadour, the annoying influencer. He wears a garish yellow and pink suit, rocks a blonde hairdo that mixes a Mohawk and a Pompadour, and has a pencil-thin mustache.

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Brand New Whatever @brandnewwhatever.com · 25/02/2026

"Protected by his headphones," you say? Felix should totally hang out with Tanya... Let's say she knows a thing or two about that approach. Come on, Felix—all you gotta do is #VisitKawami. 🎧

Tanya, your guide in ONE NIGHT IN KAWAMI, wears a pair of black headphones as she winks and smiles to the camera. She's got read hair, brightly-colored clothes and pretty much is the best friend you haven't met yet.

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Brand New Whatever @brandnewwhatever.com · 05/02/2026

Places you will visit in my game Show the environments, maps or spaces from your game 🫶 Share and spread the drop #indiegame

A scene from One Night in Kawami, our free kinetic novel. It's a night setting at a train station by a river. It's 8:50pm. The next train, leading to Renkaku, departs at 9:00.

A scene from One Night in Kawami, our free kinetic novel. On the streets of Kawami, red neon lights by the subway exit. A group of people look at a gospel quartet with neon-lined gowns.

A scene from One Night in Kawami, our free kinetic novel. It's an alley right outside a nightclub. One can see a dumpster by the Staff Only access door.

A scene from One Night in Kawami, our free kinetic novel. The venue is empty. A banner with "TTT" stands behind the drumset on a stage, and a guitar rack is on the wall.

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Brand New Whatever @brandnewwhatever.com · 10/11/2025

Time for a new Brand New Whatever logo! I mean, not THIS one; it's been done already.

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Brand New Whatever @brandnewwhatever.com · 18/09/2025

"What have you been up to, BNW?" We're glad you asked! Here's a FULL REVEAL of the games we were working on. Also, we're testing this new tool that transforms pictures into something completely different if the viewer is affected by NDA.

A picture of a robot-shaped cake. But is it cake? Or is it robot? The mind boggles.

TACTICAL versus STRATEGIC! A striking picture split in red and blue.

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Brand New Whatever @brandnewwhatever.com · 27/03/2025

'memba when ONE NIGHT IN KAWAMI got voiced reactions by @jonnalynnalonso.com (Tanya), @callmedashawn.bsky.social (Gilbert), @vanessabenvo.bsky.social (Inga) & casting director @moyceover.bsky.social (Mohawkadour)? Oh, yeah. It was back on... that dead bird website. Yuck. Follow 'em! #VisitKawami

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Brand New Whatever @brandnewwhatever.com · 11/01/2025

In order to reach a wider audience, ONE NIGHT IN KAWAMI is getting patched to remove all DEI content. The story will remain the same, but all characters will be replaced by Mohawkadour. [Release Date: NEVER, because Brand New Whatever isn't made of bigots, not caters to this demographic.]

A close-up of Mohawkadour, the annoying influencer. He wears a Harish yellow and pink suit, rocks a blonde hairdo that mixes a Mohawk and a Pompadour, and has a pencil-thin mustache.

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Brand New Whatever @brandnewwhatever.com · 23/10/2024

If you play Cobra Kai 2: Dojos Rising and see this NPC wearing a plaid shirt with rolled-up sleeves and cargo shorts, that's @jigu.com.br - other team members from Flux Games are there, too! #CobraKai2 #Cameo #NPC

A three-dimensional model of Jigu for a video game. He's doing the T pose and wearing a plaid red shirt with the sleeves rolled up, green shorts and black sneakers.

A three-dimensional model of Jigu for a video game. This is a closeup of myself, possibly flattering to his image.

A screen capture from the Cobra Kai 2: Dojos Rising video game. Tory and Sam, from the TV series, look at each other as others in the back look at them. Jigu's character is on the left side of the screen with a palette swap: white plaid shirt and brown shorts.

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Brand New Whatever @brandnewwhatever.com · 07/10/2024

DID YOU KNOW? During the development of One Night in Kawami, the placeholder art for the mysterious guitarist in the end was the amazing Mdou Moctar? Yes, the Tuareg singer & composer and the one accountable for the TITANIC riff for "Tarhatazed". Unfamiliar with his music? Homework time.

A picture of Tuareg guitar player Mdou Moctar. Smilling, he holds a white guitar while wearing a blue suit and a white scarf on a stage.

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Brand New Whatever @brandnewwhatever.com · 17/09/2024

We've been here since this place was nothing but an empty plot of land. Or sky.

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Brand New Whatever @brandnewwhatever.com · 01/04/2024

Paint the City of Rivers red in ONE FIGHT IN KAWAMI -- because when visual novels don't get the message across, one-on-one violence is the only possible answer. Coming soon. Maybe. #VisualNovel #VN #FightingGame #VisitKawami #BrandNewWhatever #OneNightInKawami #OneFightInKawami #April1st

A character selection screen, similar to versus fighting games. Gilbert, a stylish bouncer, is currently selected. Other characters include a redhead wearing headphones, a smug bodyguard, a mop-haired weirdo, a young woman, a young woman with blonde and red hair and heterochromia, some guy with a weird hairdo, and a mysterious woman wearing sunglasses that looks similar to someone else in the cast. Spooky.

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Brand New Whatever @brandnewwhatever.com · 15/02/2024

(Or should we say eight little surprises? This is brought to you by randomization!). Meet the cast... - Jonna-Lynn Alonso is Tanya - Dashawn Ricks is Gilbert - Vanessa Benoit is Inga - Aaron Moy is Mohawkadour (and casting director, too!) Welcome to Kawami. store.steampowered.com/app/2615810/...

A montage of the game's voice cast and their respective characters. Top row: Jonna-Lynn Alonso, Dashawn Ricks, Vanessa Benoit, and Aaron Moy. Bottom row: Tanya, Gilbert, Inga, and Mohawkadour.

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Brand New Whatever @brandnewwhatever.com · 15/02/2024

As Mohawkadour always says, "Kawamian influencers will not be silenced!" One Night in Kawami's first major update brings voice reactions for all four people Max interacts with during their night out in the City of Rivers - along with two neat little surprises on the game's logo and title sequence.

A montage of the four characters from One Night in Kawami: Tanya, Gilbert, Inga, and Mohawkadour. The caption says: "version 1.1 is live, voice feature update!"

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Brand New Whatever @brandnewwhatever.com · 01/09/2023

That's right, everyone: in the face of recent changes on the birdsite, Brand New Whatever no longer has a presence there. We've downloaded all its content and plan to bring some of it to Bluesky as a brief walk down memory lane. It's been three years, you know - and we're just getting started.

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Brand New Whatever @brandnewwhatever.com · 22/06/2023

ONE NIGHT IN KAWAMI (PC, Mac, Linux & Android sideload) is the first BNW Original. Fully self-developed, funded and published, this 15-minute-long visual novel teases a longer story full of indie rock, urban fantasy & mystery (and dunking on annoying influencers!). [...]

A promotional image for One Night in Kawami, a visual novel. A mysterious woman with blonde and red hair smiles at the camera, her eyes out of the viewfinder's reach; she stands on the street of a neon-lit street in the game's fictional setting of Kawami.

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Brand New Whatever @brandnewwhatever.com · 22/06/2023

COBRA KAI 2: DOJOS RISING (GameMill / Flux Games) had BNW founder @jigu.bsky.social work as a writer and Fableware's Arthur Protasio as lead writer. We've handled story structure, cutscenes, dialogues & barks - all with the Cobra Kai writers' room's blessing and approval. [...]

A promotional picture for Cobra Kai 2: Dojos Rising, a video game inspired by the series of the same name. Johnny Lawrence, John Kreese, and Daniel LaRusso - the three main senseis of the martial arts series - stand side by side, as the scheming Terry Silver looms behind them, his back to the camera. They all wear karate gi, rocking the colours of their respective dojos.

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