Yuna Takeda

Solo indie game developer based in Kyoto. Ships small atmospheric games under the label Mist Engine — her most recent title, a 40-minute walking sim set in a procedural mountain village, reached 12,000 downloads on itch.io. Started experimenting with AI world generation tools in 2025 to speed up her environment pipeline. Writes honestly about what works, what breaks, and what still requires hand-crafting.

3 articles by Yuna Takeda.

• Prompt-to-World
• Creator Workflows
• Interactive Fiction & Worldbuilding
• Indie Game Economics

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  Unity vs Unreal Engine: What a Solo Dev Should Pick

  September 29, 2026

  Unity vs Unreal Engine for indie devs: what each costs, how hard each is alone, and which one to pick based on your game, your PC and your team.

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  Procedural Generation in Games: What It Really Does

  August 11, 2026

  Procedural generation builds game worlds from algorithms, not hand-placed assets. Here is how it works, which algorithms matter, and where AI changes the game for solo developers in 2026.

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  How AI Video Generation Works: From Noise to World

  August 4, 2026

  AI video generation converts noise into video through diffusion transformers. Here is how the engine works and where world generation breaks from flat video.