{"site":"Yomimono","license":"CC BY 4.0 (citation required)","generated_at":"2026-05-25T07:07:00.647Z","story":{"id":"r_8f7f2992f63d4b4da540f53d","slug":"debug-nephemee-developer-noroma-talks-buggy-world-and-cute-characters-at","url":"https://yomimono.id/debug-nephemee-developer-noroma-talks-buggy-world-and-cute-characters-at","headline":"Debug Nephemee Developer Noroma Talks Buggy World and Cute Characters at Bitsummit","summary":"At BitSummit PUNCH, developer Noroma discussed DEBUG NEPHEMEE, an adventure game published by Toei Games. Players control four mini-games simultaneously to fix a buggy world inhabited by cute animal-like Nephemy characters. Noroma, a former engineer, cited Cave Story as a major inspiration and described learning programming, art, and music from scratch.","why_it_matters":"The interview reveals how a solo developer with no prior art or game-dev experience built a multi-screen puzzle game inspired by Cave Story, now backed by a major publisher's indie label.","published_at":"2026-05-25T05:16:20.000Z","source_count":1,"sources":["4Gamer.net"],"citations":[{"source":"4Gamer.net","title":"ADV \"DEBUG NEPHEMEE\" Where You Control 4 Screens Simultaneously. Developer Noroma and Toei Games Talk About the Buggy World and the Cuteness of Nephemy [BitSummit]","url":"https://www.4gamer.net/games/002/G100205/20260523018/"}],"license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"studios":[],"people":["ノロマ"],"type":"news","domain":"games","is_roundup":false}}}