Apr 11

Weekly Update #609: More Shizue & Ritsu Expressions

For the last couple days, I’ve returned to sprite art again, adding a few more expressions to various members of the SHINRAI Saku cast, primarily our sibling duo Ritsu and Shizue. These two pose a bit more of a challenge, since I couldn’t simply look at old sprites and redraw what I did in the past. All-new characters need all-new expressions after all, so I had to carefully go through the script and imagine what faces they’d make during their dialogues. And above, you can see a few new examples of that!

I particularly like the one in the bottom right! That was fun to draw w

There are still a couple more I gotta take care of. The most difficult part is not to go too wild and try to condense the workload by coming up with expressions that can work for multiple situations/emotions. Maybe I’ll talk about the process in more detail in the future, as I don’t think I’ve done that before. But for now, I gotta get back to work, since it’s another tightly packed day, so…

Sorry for once again having to keep things so short! Please enjoy the rest of your weekend and, until next Saturday, take care :3

Apr 04

Weekly Update #608: More BG Art & Mystery Game Jam Start

After finishing the more detailed staircase background for SHINRAI Saku (which 5$+ tier patrons can now check out here), I went on to quickly whip up some super simple ones, like the one you can see above, depicting only a wall with some hanging scrolls. These are intended for a few super short dialogue exchanges during which I couldn’t really re-use any of the other BGs and for which it wouldn’t have made sense to draw something extremely elaborate, when you’re only going to see it for, like, three minutes.

I’ve provided an unobstructed view at the BG above and one other simple BG in a second Patreon post available to 1$+ tiers.

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Mar 28

Weekly Update #607: Growing Track List

Today, we’re super excited to share our composer Crescendo‘s latest contribution to the SHINRAI Saku OST! You can find a preview down below, but as always, supporters of her Ko-fi (3$ memberships) and our Patreon (5$+ tiers) can also listen to the full track!

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Mar 21

Weekly Update #606: BG & BGM Progress

Alrighty, before we get to anything else, here’s a quick little reminder that the Spring Sale is currently underway, but only until March 26, so if you or anyone you know has been interested in our murder mysteries SHINRAI – Broken Beyond Despair (50% off) and GENBA no Kizuna (25% off), do be sure to make use of this opportunity, as it’ll be quite a while until the next discount!

The same applies to Jun‘s adventure visual novel Neko No Sentouki (15% off) which I was heavily involved with regarding its English translation. It’s also available on both itch and Steam and we’d deeply appreciate if you’d at least check out the store pages to see whether it might be up your alley or not!

Now, with that out of the way, let’s get to this week’s progress update on our next project SHINRAI Saku – Blooming Beyond Despair!

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Mar 19

Spring Sale 2026

Spring is finally here and with it the annual Spring Sale! In other words, you’ll get yet another chance to grab our two murder mysteries (and their complete soundtracks) at a discount! Only until March 26, 10:00 AM PST, though!

So be sure to head over to Steam or itch right away, where you’ll find GENBA no Kizuna and its OST for 25% off and SHINRAI – Broken Beyond Despair and its OST for 50% off!

There’s also a soundtrack bundle available for both games, allowing you to save an additional 10%!

Unsure whether our VNs might be your jam? You can always read some player impressions on SHINRAI here and on GENBA here!

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Mar 14

Weekly Update #605: Back To Backgrounds

I just started working on another BG for SHINRAI Saku, which I’ve already shared a preview of over on Patreon, available to 1$+ tiers.
It’s been a while since I posted something for the lower tiers, so I decided to finally change and make up for that. Once the BG is done, though, the final version will be available only for the 5$+ tiers again, as usual.

But in any case, if you do support us over there, be sure to check this post out, as it contains three WIP-steps of the BG and some additional info about it!

Other than that, I’ve continued working on the sound effects and moved on to the next part of the script, applying a lot more polish again. Our composer Crescendo has been briefed on the next track task as well and seems very excited to work on it, but it’ll still be a bit until we’ve got the next preview to share. And since there isn’t really anything else to show or tell, due to the nature of what I’ve been working on this past week, I guess we’ll have to leave things on the short side again. Though that’s kinda fine with me, as I do wanna get right back to working on that BG anyway, haha. So yeah…

As always, please enjoy the rest of your weekend and, until next Saturday, take care :3

Mar 07

Weekly Update #604: More Kamen Expressions

Today, I’m super busy and therefore don’t have much time to type something up, so this post will have to be on the short side again.
In exchange, I decided to share with you a little peek at my SHINRAI Saku folder with the rest of Kamen‘s expressions:

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Feb 28

Weekly Update #603: Kamen Expressions & Other Project Shout-Outs

Today, I want to share another look at the facial expressions I’ve been working on for SHINRAI Saku, so here’s a look at some of Kamen‘s, from her trademark dissatisfied glare to an exhausted sigh:

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Feb 21

Weekly Update #602: New BGM Preview

Since our new composer Crescendo finished the latest addition to the soundtrack of SHINRAI Saku literally just yesterday, we naturally couldn’t wait to share it with you and once again prepared a little public preview, while supporters of both her Ko-fi (3$ memberships) and our Patreon (5$+ tiers) can listen to it in full!

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Feb 14

Weekly Update #601: More Facial Expressions

Title and picture say it all! This past week, I’ve mostly focused on more expressions for various characters and so I thought I’d share a couple of them, since it’s finally something not too spoilery again! So there you have a disgusted Nobara and a perplexed looking Rie!

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