After finishing the Valentine’s artwork earlier this week, I was finally able to fully commit myself to the writing for GENBA no Kizuna.
As mentioned in the posting regarding our plans for February, I am currently working on a very detailed outline for the entire rest of the game, so today, I would like to elaborate on that a little, and talk about story planning in general.
Feb 15
Weekly Update #287: GENBA Story Planning
Feb 14
Happy Valentine’s Day 2020!
As voted by our patrons, this year’s Valentine’s artwork depicts Raiko‘s cheeky mom during her high school days, when she would often help out at her parents’ café. This is also where she eventually met her future husband Yuuichirou, who would frequent the café alongside his best friend Henjin.
On the first Valentine’s Day after the three of them had gotten acquainted, Rihatsu showed up not with the usual serving, but with a little home-made surprise for her beloved Yuu~
As always, the image has been added to our gallery and patrons can download a zip package, containing a hi-res version, as well as a transparent “no BG/text” version of just Rihatsu herself!
Feb 08
Weekly Update #286: Valentine’s Preparations
Very quick update today, as I’m kinda short on time, but there isn’t anything major to report, anyway. With Valentine’s Day coming up in less than a week, I’ve been working hard on the monthly artwork and will hopefully finish it within the next two days. I’d really like to have my part on it done by Monday, so that I can finally get back to my main task for this month: working on the outline for GENBA!
Either way, patrons will be able to get a first look at this year’s Valenine’s artwork either tomorrow or the day after.
There sadly isn’t really much else to say at the moment. It’s been kind of a busy week, so I wasn’t able to accomplish as much as I would have liked to, but even if I had, it’d be difficult to elaborate on, much less share any previews “orz
Anyway, please enjoy the rest of your weekend and, until next Saturday, take care! :3
Feb 01
Weekly Update #285: Plans For February
Before we get into today’s main topic, let’s start with a quick little update regarding the progress I’ve made over the past seven days!
As mentioned in last week’s blog post, I worked on the base sprite for GENBA no Kizuna‘s second witness character, which was my main focus this week. I’m not completely done yet, as a few details remain to be fixed. There are also some things still bothering me, but I can’t quite figure out why they do. I guess I’ve just been working so much on this guy, that it’s become difficult for me to spot issues, so maybe I’ll have to get some distance and take a look at him again in a couple of days.
Jan 25
Weekly Update #284: The Mysterious Witnesses
Alrighty, this time, it’s going to be a bit harder to talk about my progress for this week, let alone show any of it. It’s not like it’s about something that would ruin the mystery or even the story of GENBA no Kizuna, yet I would still consider it kind of a “spoiler”. Or rather, it’s a surprise I’d like to keep a secret until the full game is out. I might pose teasers in the future (if I figure out a good way to do it), but for now, I’ll kinda have to keep you a little bit in the dark (feel free to speculate, however, as you might easily be able to take a guess as to why I want this to be a surprise w).
Jan 18
Weekly Update #283: Art Poll, Music, Merch & More CG Progress!
Once again, I’m feeling very happy with the progress I’ve made this week! There’s quite a bit to talk about, so let’s get right into it:
First of all, we have published a new art poll on Patreon! If you support us there, you can now help us decide which character will be featured in this year’s Valentine’s artwork! The poll lasts until the end of the month, so be sure to cast your vote by then!
Patrons can also check out the newest addition to GENBA no Kizuna‘s soundtrack! The full BGM is available for download, as long as you have pledged to the 7$-tier or higher (you also get access to the full versions of all the other tracks that have been composed so far). As always, I think that Solo did a great job, so if you’re curious about his latest composition, you can find it right here!
For non-patrons, we have also released a short preview of the track on Twitter and Instagram.
Still on the topic of Patreon, there is actually another new blog post available to patrons now, which features some new art assets I’ve been working on this week. Unfortunately, this falls into more of a spoiler category, so I don’t want to share much of it publicly, yet. I can show you a little preview screenshot, though:
Jan 11
Weekly Update #282: CG Progress
First off, here’s another little reminder that we have published a summary of 2019, as well as an overview of our plans for 2020, so if you are curious about the development progress of GENBA no Kizuna and our goals for the next months, be sure to check them out!
Now, with this out of the way, let’s jump into our first proper progress update of 2020!
Jan 04
Weekly Update #281: Plans For 2020
Happy New Year everyone and welcome to the first weekly update of an entire new decade!
As you can tell by the title, this blog post will give you a little overview of our goals for 2020. Before we get to those, however, here’s a little reminder that we have also published a rather lengthy summary of 2019. So if you haven’t seen it yet and you’re curious how last year went for us, and what we have achieved throughout it, be sure to check it out right here.
Now, without further ado, let’s jump right into our plans for the new year!
Dec 28
Weekly Update #280: 2019 Retrospect
This year has been a rather eventful one. A lot of things have happened and there have been some pretty big changes in my private life, which inevitably affected the development of our current visual novel project, the murder mystery GENBA no Kizuna.
Overall, I am happy with where I am right now, but there were quite some obstacles to face along the road, especially during the second half of the year. But let’s start at the beginning and do a little recap of what we have accomplished over the past 12 months, because even though I wasn’t able to reach all the goals I was aiming for, I am still proud of the progress we have made on GENBA!
Dec 24
Merry Christmas!
Oh my, just like Rei last year, Amber doesn’t seem all too happy to be wearing this kind of outfit and usually, she wouldn’t. However, if a certain someone asks her to, she (luckily) can’t bring herself to say “no”. Our little raptor Kira also doesn’t seem too sure what to think of this, but I certainly have nothing to complain about w
If you’re a patron, you can download a higher resolution version of this artwork over here. You’ll also get the full version of the artwork (I had to cut off a bit of the bottom in order to fit it into our usual image format) without any background/text.
The image has been added to our gallery, so be sure to check that out for a whole slew of artwork, not only by us, but also by a lot of other, very talented artists!
With this, we wish you a very merry Christmas and hope that you will be able to thoroughly enjoy the holidays!
Until next time, take care! :3
