The name
KIKAI in Kikai Pixel over STUDIOS. Use it wherever Kikai-kun is in the picture.
- For dark groundsSVG, the name, for dark groundsPNG, the name, for dark grounds
- For light groundsSVG, the name, for light groundsPNG, the name, for light grounds
Press kit
Press
Facts, logos and Kikai-kun, ready to use. Questions and interview requests: hello@kikaihq.com.
Download everything
One ZIP: every logo and Kikai-kun file below, as SVG and PNG, with the paragraph about the studio and how to use them.
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About Kikai Studios
Ready to paste.
Kikai Studios is part of Kikai LLC, a Massachusetts company formed on October 14, 2026. Its founder is Noah Jean-Pierre Hathout, a robotics and AI engineer in Boston. The studio makes games, pixel art and the tools behind them. Its first game, Burn Rate, a co-op game for up to four friends, is in development. Keepsake Quest, custom games each made for one person, is opening soon.
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Facts
- Studio
- Kikai Studios
- Company
- Part of Kikai LLC, a Massachusetts limited liability company formed on October 14, 2026
- Based in
- Greater Boston, Massachusetts
- Founder
- Founded in 2026 by Noah Jean-Pierre Hathout, a robotics and AI engineer in Boston. noahhathout.com
- Makes
- Games, pixel art, and the tools behind them. Keepsake Quest, custom games each made for one person, is opening soon.
- Games
- Burn Rate, a co-op game for up to four friends about running a doomed AI startup out of Mom’s garage. In development.
- Mascot
- Kikai-kun (キカイくん): the Kikai mark, awake. Drawn at 32 × 48 pixels.
- The name
- Kikai is two Japanese words that share one character, 機: 機械, machine, and 機会, chance. Kikai Studios is the chance half.
- Web
- kikaistudios.com · the company: kikaihq.com
- Contact
- hello@kikaihq.comOne address for all of Kikai.
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Logos
Pixel drawings: scale the PNGs by whole numbers only (2×, 3×, 4×), or use the SVGs at any size.
The lockup
The pixel mark beside the name, for places where Kikai-kun is not. It is never shown beside him: at rest, he is the mark. View opens it on a page of its own.
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Kikai-kun
Transparent grounds. The PNGs are 8× (256 × 384); the avatar is 400 × 400 on his dark panel, centered on his face for a round crop.
Idle
Happy
Curious
Excited
Asleep
Avatar
- For a round cropSVG, Kikai-kun’s avatarPNG, Kikai-kun’s 400 px avatar
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Using them
Use these files to write about Kikai Studios and Burn Rate. Keep them as they are: don’t redraw, recolor, stretch, outline or animate them, and keep clear space around them. Scale pixel art by whole numbers so every pixel stays square. Show Kikai-kun or the lockup, never both side by side. Don’t place them so they suggest Kikai Studios made, sponsors or endorses something it doesn’t. Anything else, ask at hello@kikaihq.com.