Iori Branford

@ioribranford.com

🎮✨ https://ioribranford.com 🎮👨‍🔬 https://ioribranford.itch.io 👨‍💻 https://github.com/ioribranford

I was going to change Rose's official title font to Alita Brush, used in the current demo. I thought it looked more wild, like Rose herself. But The Rumor, still used in the stores, kept calling to me. And as often happens, it won me back. Rose is loud, bold, but not as feral or savage as Alita.

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Rose's Steam tags mysteriously changed themselves overnight and there's no diff record? (Original order in ALT text) If these are actually better (are they???) and someone at @steampowered.com noticed me angsting over the tags and felt sorry for me, well, an email would've be nice but thanks?

Original tags:
Beat 'em up
Female Protagonist
Pixel Graphics
Anime
2D
Side Scroller
Cute
Retro
Action
Singleplayer
Indie
Arcade
Colorful
Hack and Slash
Funny
Fighting
2D Fighter
Top-Down
Martial Arts
Adventure

Mysterious new tags:
Female Protagonist
Cute
Retro
Indie
Arcade
Colorful
Hack and Slash
Funny
Fighting
2D Fighter
Top-Down
Adventure
Cartoony
Medieval
Linear
Action
Martial Arts
Beat 'em up
Anime
Singleplayer

Indie dev stuck for new indie games to play? Just start looking at your game's More Like This. You'll probably find a game that excites you, because some things in it excited you enough to put them in your own game.

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Rose of Dragontail demo updated with Full Controller Support! With correct buttons for Switch, PS1-5, Xbox, even keyboard if you're into that (why) ...Yeah not much to look at, but took nearly every hour of the last week devving, polishing and fixing non-stop

Rose of Dragontail demo update 2026.2.6 Improved pile driver: Damage to held enemy 15->30 Damage to nearby enemies 10->25 Better slam effect sprite Nearby enemies get knocked away from you instead of all in the same direction Fixed held enemy going into a bugged state if you got grabbed out