SHINOJO

About

Shinojo (しのうじょう) is a one-person Japanese board game studio run by designer Takahiro Shinozaki, who previously worked on digital games at Capcom, Arelia and Aquavia and now lectures at a game vocational school. The studio's stated motivation is to make analogue games that survive beyond the platform life of app titles, and it produces small-print card and board games for friends, family and partners to play casually. Its catalogue is dominated by mahjong-family card games (Jandwich, Kikkasai, Yaochu!, ALL GREEN, Maguro Zukushi) alongside kanji-draft, dice, stamp-card and cat-farm-management de…