photocopycat
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
A.P. Nam is the pseudonymous creator of Punch n' Beat, a comics zine heavily inspired by the late-90s manga and anime series Di Gi Charat. She is also inspired by a lot of other things like British seaside puppet shows, Hinduism, the struggles of first-generation diaspora immigrants against themselves, and by superhero comic books, and by Cormac McCarthy, and by Garfield, and by fellow artist L.I. Amber who is inspired by Chrono Trigger, and by...
Too many things to list, actually. There are too many things.
She barely understands her own life.
She needs some reading time to sort through it.
An epistolary, kinetic novel of 26k words, made for MIXED MEDIA QUEER VN JAM 2026. Mixed media aesthetics with an original electronic soundtrack and plenty of mental illness to go around.
Optional content warnings available in txt format upon download.
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just finished reading and loved this so much. the overlap between fiction and reality (and each informing the other) made the characters feel that much more fleshed out and entwined with their own art.
The character relationships and development in this are deliciously complex and very realised. I liked the bittersweet but uplifting tone on escaping child abuse/generational trauma, and exploration of how it interfaces with being first-generation diaspora. The laser beam tape animations were cool and clever too! I've doodled punchy a couple times but I didn't like it so you have to wait.
thank you!! i had fun making the images in one sitting and im glad the 89 cents i spent on red streamers were well spent. take all the time you need on that drawing i will be very very happy whenever i see it 🙂↕️