With July just having started, it won’t be much longer now until our anniversary month will come around as well. As such, we’re getting deep into the preparation phase for it now. This year will be rather special, after all, as we celebrate multiple big anniversaries at once!
- August 26 will mark the 10th release anniversary of our very first project SHINRAI – Broken Beyond Despair
- In September it will even have been 15 years since I originally came up with the story and wrote it as a simple novel under the title “Night of the Vanishing Corpses“, never intended to become a VN back then
- On October 29, it will also have been 5 years since the console ports released
- And then, of course, GENBA no Kizuna is also celebrating its 2nd release anniversary this year
As you can see, these are some pretty impressive numbers (that honestly make me feel pretty old) and so, we naturally want to celebrate all these milestones with something special this year. First and foremost, that includes the release of our latest project SHINRAI Saku – Blooming Beyond Despair, an additional epilogue episode, dealing with the aftermath of the original SHINRAI.
While I do have some other ideas for fun things to create for these anniversary celebrations, completing Saku is obviously our top priority. Right now, Natsu is in the midst of coding, making this new story fully playable, while I’ve moved on to working on the credits and bonus content. So, while there definitely is still a bit to do (including thorough testing, of course), we’ve made a ton of progress in these last few weeks and months and are very close to finishing up now!
Still, we’ll have to see to how much of the other stuff I have in mind I’ll actually get around to. Because of that (and because I also wouldn’t wanna spoil things this early), I’m not gonna say much else about our anniversary plans yet.
Anyway, one thing I’ll definitely do will be to share a lot of behind-the-scenes development stuff on social media, a little bit like my GENBA threads on Twitter and Bluesky, in which I posted about all the dinosaur media-related influences, references and Easter Eggs that went into our prehistoric murder mystery. So, if you’re curious about that kinda stuff, do keep your eyes peeled!
We’ll talk about everything else more the closer we get to August 26. But for now, it’s time to get back to that bonus content, so…
As always, please enjoy the rest of your weekend and, until next Saturday, take care ^w^
