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1	Ikiki is a Japanese indie game developer team known for their quirky and [[NintendoHard very hard]] FreewareGames. Ikiki was founded by Ūta (ウータ), and nowadays he is the only member of the team.
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3	They released many (more than 50 and counting) games in their website, "[[http://ikiki.la.coocan.jp/himoji/ Himojimura]]", but they are only available in Japanese. You will need the help of google translate.
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6	Several of the games Ikiki has produced have Website/TVTropes pages of their own:
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8	* ''VideoGame/{{Nikujin}}''
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11	!!Ikiki's games display following tropes:
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13	* AuthorAppeal:
14	** Sound effects and voices from ''VideoGame/TeamFortressClassic'' are used in almost every game. Ūta was an enthusiastic player of TFC.
15	** Ūta doesn't seem to like offices and companies. From 2010s, his games often have office buildings to destroy, evil employees and bosses to kill.
16	* BlackComedy: Their Mini-games are often darkly humorous.
17	* CaptainErsatz: Their games often have the characters who are very similar to ones from ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'', like the poop-obsessed brothers called Moreo and Burigi.
18	* ChromosomeCasting: Most of their games don't have any women at all.
19	* EndlessGame: Some of their mini games don't have the winning condition, like ''Aorin-Man'' or ''Nozumou''.
20	* EpicFlail: The protagonist of ''Tekkyu-man'' (literally, Flail-man) uses a big flail to kill everything and destroy durians.
21	* ExcusePlot: All of their games don't have complex plots.
22	* FullFrontalAssault: Many characters in their games don't wear clothes while fighting or killing each other. Genitals aren't depicted, though.
23	* GatlingGood: Bosses and [[GiantMook giant enemies]] of their games often use a minigun as their weapon.
24	* {{Gorn}}: Characters tend to die messily, especially final bosses.
25	* {{Ninja}}: Ikiki has created lots of ninja-themed platformer games, like ''Nikujin'' or ''Kusemon''. Their first game, ''Hosonaga No Yabou'' (the Ambition of Hosonaga) was also ninja-themed.
26	* NintendoHard: Most of their platformer games are fiendishly hard.
27	* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Some games were inspired from news stories.
28	** ''Teppodon'' 's protagonist fights against the evil organization with nuclear missiles. The title of the game is very similar to North Korean missile, Taepodong (テポドン in Japanese katakana).
29	** In ''Yaozumou'' , you take part in match-fixing as a sumo wrestler. This game was inspired from match-fixing allegations in professional Sumo scene in 2011.
30	** ''Haijin'' was inspired from contamination incidents of yakisoba breads in 2015.
31	** The protagonist of ''Mongo-man'' has to play ''VideoGame/PokemonGo''-like phone game [[DrivesLikeCrazy while driving]].
32	** ''Aorin-man'' was created around when fatal road rage incidents (called Aori-unten in Japanese) got national attention in Japan.
33	* RocketJump: The protagonist of ''Binboman'' has an infinite supply of concussion grenades, and you can use it for jumping, or boosting your speed.
34	* ToiletHumor: Many games (especially early ones) involve human feces. For example, ''Tarenageshi'' is a game that you fill your brother (Moreo)'s mansion with your infinite supply of shit.
35	* StealthBasedGame: In some games like ''Nikujin'' or ''Hakaiman'' , being stealthy is pretty important.
36	* SuicideAsComedy: In ''Tobioriya'', you "save" suicidal people who throw themselves from the building... By shooting them with a bow and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice pinning them into the wall of the building]].
37	* SumoWrestling: Some of their games have Sumo wrestlers as the protagonist or enemies, like ''Nozumou'' or ''Yaozumou''.

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