iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's just table-setting and non-interactive for now, but this week I put together a ferris wheel for the Marin Shores Pier. The art still needs more polish, but I've been wanting some sort of big tourist attraction on the pier and I'm glad I've got something in place.

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Not quite the return to fun features I was hoping for, but the shelves you place in your house'll represent the items you put in them.

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A few days ago, my best friend of 17 years and good boy, OG, started having health complications that snowballed over the course of a weekend, leading to us making the heartbreaking decision to let him rest for good. (1/3)

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

As a character customization head, I've always disliked having to choose between "your hair looks beautiful, magnificent, exactly how you wanted" and "oh, you're wearing a hat now, okay here's a ponytail" and so early on in Sunkissed City's development, I came up with this.

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I didn't like shop owners having to be stuck standing behind their shop counters all day, so I added this tiny little interaction so that they could wander about freely while still being findable and interactable.

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Someone mentioned Rune Factory's fish sword and it reminded me of my favorite weapon in the Way of the Samurai series (BIG TUNA). Anyways, it's a secret, but if you use any fish as an upgrade item for a weapon, well...

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I've been working on how NPCs behave after you marry them and I thought it would be a cute touch to have them always wake up facing you (unless you do something that makes them think otherwise...)

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Once you've built up friendships with the people of Apollo, they'll lend a hand with maintaining the gardens you've set up around the city !!

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I gotta make the sound less annoying, but I wanted to visually and audibly indicate how your interactions with characters changes your friendship levels.

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Plussed up the foliage in the forest a little bit. I've been a little unmotivated lately, so mindlessly drawing plants has been a good reprieve.

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Domino runs the smithy, but is maybe more into the craft for how ripped it keeps his physique.

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Your hoe/shovel can be used to cover up holes you create with them. Hat tip to Pokopia's treasure blocks for inspiring this change !!

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Got all my Pokopia towns to level 10 and and so I finally had the time to implement this thing I liked from it. I spent awhile figuring out what to call it, because "pester" was accurate but maybe too mean. So NPCs will occasionally "approach" the player with gifts.

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I drew a bunch of modular rugs this week...

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Took a few days off "actual" work to realize a joke idea I had back when I was rewriting Junimo Kart. "What if Junimo Kart was actually a Kart."

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Just for the record (and because this is THIS platform and not the "other"), the context for this line is basically me saying "I left ConcernedApe LLC in spite of my salary because it felt right to do." I can deal with trolls, but this person has been stalking my friends/family and harassing them.

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

My brother has been helping w/ music for the game! One of his tracks fit the museum, but it was too upbeat for when the museum doesn't have any artifacts on display, so I came up with a system of transitioning between versions of songs depending on donation milestones !

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Useful little QOL thing -- when you catch a fish, the game will show you all of the other fish that are currently available (for the current weather, time, and location), which can be a big help if you're trying to complete your fishing collection.

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Another small QOL thing I've shared with the Discord but haven't here, you can check the range of things like sprinklers or beehouses by briefly highlighting them.

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I think it's time I have to admit to myself that SKC's 2025 release window's slipped :(. I've been working very hard on the game, but generally, this year was more taxing on my mood than I thought it'd be.

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Added the sun and moon to the sky (and surfaces that reflect it, like windows and bodies of water). The moon also shows different phases depending on the time of month.

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I teased this on my Discord, but I finished Siouxsie's summer outfit too!

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

It's something I had planned for awhile, but I spent today writing systems to allow Siouxsie to change into her work uniform to cover up her tattoos when she's on the clock at Ramen-ya ATSUI.

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I just checked and 12K wishlists, so thank you all !! Only 1 DAU, but the game has Acai as a fruit tree now, so I consider this weekend a success

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

After working on some tropical fruits suggested by my Discord, my girlfriend, who often has, hmm... "creative" ideas, said I should add a "Durian that you can make into a weapon." While I haven't added a "stink gun" (???), as she suggested, I thought Durian would be fun to add.

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I made some changes to how farm animals produce items. It's no longer a "this or that" situation, so some animals, like sheep, can produce multiple types of items at once (wool and sheep milk). Sheep milk can then be used to make Pecorino Cheese !!

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Since the game takes place in the city, it didn't really make sense for the player to be building old rickety windmills, but I still liked the idea of having something you could build on your garden plots that would have some ambient motion, so I came up with these buildable wind turbines.

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Worked a bit decorating the Marin Shores Aquarium today.

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

This past week, I celebrated my birthday! Secretly, I was hoping to have the game out by now, but I was happy to have enjoyed both my first camping trip in decades and some fanart from my longtime friend/collaborator instagram.com/lia_pchan/ instead.

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I wrapped up Juliette's Summer outfit and her second event !! She starts out a little mean and more than a little judgy, but I'm hoping people stick it through with her!

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I've hit 100k wishlists on Steam !! Thank you all for your support !! I'm open for questions about the game if you've got any !!

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

With some help of my Discord, I worked out Juliette's outfit in summer !!

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I've been spending some time working on bird stuff. You'll be able to identify when certain birds are nearby by listening closely to the ambient noise! (birders, feel free to school me if that's not at all how cardinals sound irl)

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Just a little work on how waterfalls get rendered ingame! I apply a little scaling near the top of the waterfall for the illusion of perspective, and so that it looks like the water is getting faster as it falls further downward.

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

After a week break, I returned to wrap up the animation for my splash screen!

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I've had a Talent in the game to show how NPCs respond to gifts you've given them in the past, but it was kinda tucked in an easily ignored UI element. I think it's much easier to parse this way !!

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I was just noodling with some music and was trying to write a theme for the Museum, but I think it ended up fitting in better with Phoebe's character. Here's her first friendship event with the music and all of the new character emotes I've been working on !!

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Spent the day putting the finishing touches on her portrait and in-world sprite! Here she is ingame!

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

WIP of Hildegard (Hilde), who maintains the Apollo City Museum !! There're still a lot of details I've gotta fill out in her artwork, but it's been super fun working on characters again, since it's my favorite part of games like these.

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

FINALLY wrapped up the first draft of the ingame map. The map is drawn to scale, so NPCs are positioned exactly on the map as they are in the game world (with some logic to "group" nearby NPCs together so that you don't have a bunch of overlapping icons).

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Recently I've been all over the place in terms of work on Sunkissed City, but one thing I can share is that I've added more of those cute Animal Crossing-y reactions/emotes to the game, which I've been peppering into the game's friendship events!

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Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee @mrpodunkian.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Worked a little bit on the farm animal movement! Baby animals, like chicks, follow adults, but also, if you've nurtured an animal's friendship high enough, it'll approach you when you get close and follow you around too !!

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