White No Way Steps Onto Steam December 1 at 600 Yen
A team of eight that came out of a Wakayama Prefecture game jam and won the top prize at the GGX Games Showcase has turned a one-year round of event demos into a paid release at a low price.
Reporting from 1 source: Denfaminicogamer.
Pisutachio After-School Squad will release White No Way on December 1 on Steam and other platforms, priced at 600 yen in Japan and 4.99 dollars overseas. The action-adventure game turns the childhood walk home along the white lines into a stage, with click-and-drag foot controls, treasure-triggered fantasy worlds, and a 5:00 p.m. curfew set by the boy's mother.
The team is eight people, formed through GameGroveX2025, which is hosted by Wakayama Prefecture. The project started at GGX NEXUS JAM and took the top prize at the GGX Games Showcase, then went on to BitSummit PUNCH and other events while the team revised it over about a year.
The route home is the level. Treasures picked up along the way turn the ordinary street into fantasy stages, including a sprawling desert and magma, and the shape of the white lines changes with them. Falling off the line sends the player back to just before the fall. Passing the 5:00 p.m. curfew earns a scolding.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
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- Denfaminicogamer 少年時代の聖域「白線」を歩くゲーム『ホワイトノウェイ』が12月1日にSteamなどで発売。子供の頃に感じていた“小さな楽しさ”を追体験