Juniper Blue

We build software and games, and the motion, 3D and type that go with them.

Juniper Blue is a small software and creative studio. Our own game, Kana Dash, is in development for iPhone and the web.

Colorado · Tokyo · since 2019

Work

Kana Dash

Our own game. It is a runner where a bear dashes through gates by picking the right reading of Japanese kana, vocabulary and kanji.

The clips and stills on this page are recorded from the current build.

In development for iPhone and the web

  • Kana Dash: the bear runs toward a gate that introduces a new kanji.
  • Kana Dash: the bear cuts through the gate with the correct reading.
  • Kana Dash: the bear collects coins on the road between gates.

BearBank

A personal finance web app we built. The dashboard shows what a portfolio is worth, how it changed over the year, what was paid in and taken out, and where the money sits.

It also keeps a trading journal that records each prediction and scores it later.

Private beta

BearBank trading journal with sample data: a note field, a prediction record with its hit rate, and a dated journal entry.
Shown with sample data

Kinbai storefront

We designed and built the online store for Kinbai, a Japanese skincare brand. The clip is the live home page, recorded in October 2026.

See the Kinbai store

Intro film, excerpt
Refill film
Render of the pump head with the cap removed.
Render

Kinbai Peony, 3D and motion

For Kinbai's Peony cream we made the product 3D model, a set of renders, an intro film, and a film showing how the refillable bottle comes apart.

Services

Software and games

Picture

Design

Studio

Juniper Blue was founded in 2019. We are based in Colorado and work between Colorado and Tokyo. Software comes first here: apps, the web and games. The picture and the design are made in the same studio as the code, so what we ship looks the way it was drawn.

We like software that teaches. Kana Dash, our own game, exists to make Japanese reading stick, and we build, test and balance it ourselves.

Contact

Email us

contact@juniper-blue.com