Since I’m (sadly) back from my trip now and have a bit more time on my hands, today, we can finally continue where we left off a couple of weeks ago when I started talking about the inception of our latest visual novel release SHINRAI Saku – Blooming Beyond Despair. So, if you haven’t checked …
Category Archive: Dev Blog
Sep 25
Weekly Update #633: A Visit To The Real Tenrinto
Since I’m currently still in Japan, which makes progressing on VN development a little tricky, we’re gonna do something similar again to last week when I reported on my visit to Shirakawa-go, the real life reference for Higurashi no Naku koro ni‘s village of Hinamizawa. And this time, we can even tie things directly to our …
Sep 12
Weekly Update #631: GENBA Day, Trainer Terano & Trip
Originally, I was planning to continue talking about our latest release, SHINRAI Saku – Blooming Beyond Despair, continuing on from where I left off in last week’s blog post, which focused on the project’s inception. I kinda overestimated how much time I’d have this week, however, so we unfortunately have to save “Part II” for another …
Sep 05
Weekly Update #630: The Blossoming Of SHINRAI Saku – Part I
It’s already been a little over a week now since the release of our latest visual novel SHINRAI Saku – Blooming Beyond Despair. And with it finally out, I can also, at long last, start delving much deeper into the project, particularly how it even came to be. So let’s get right into that, shall …
Aug 29
Weekly Update #629: 10th Anniversary Music Track (+Video)
As you might have already seen, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of our very first VN release a couple of days ago on August 26. The celebrations aren’t quite over yet, however! We’ll keep them going for an entire week and today, we’re excited to do so by sharing a special music track we asked …
Aug 22
Weekly Update #628: Final Release Preparations
Only a few more days until August 26 when we will celebrate the 10th anniversary of our first VN SHINRAI – Broken Beyond Despair. And, of course, when we plan to publish our latest project, its direct follow-up SHINRAI Saku – Blooming Beyond Despair! In case this should be the first time you’re hearing of it, …
Aug 08
Weekly Update #626: Polish & Release Prep
If you’ve read last week’s blog post, you already know that the beta-test phase for our upcoming project SHINRAI Saku- Blooming Beyond Despair has finally begun! I completed my first playthrough last Sunday and, ever since then, we’ve been busy fixing the encountered issues and generally adding some more polish to the overall experience. There …
Jul 25
Weekly Update #624: Achievements, Credits & Notebook Progress
As mentioned in last week’s blog post, we’re planning to add achievements to SHINRAI Saku – Blooming Beyond Despair and, after determining their number, unlock conditions, titles and descriptions, all that’s missing now are the respective icons, so that’s one of the things I’ve worked on this past week and you can see some of …
Jul 18
Weekly Update #623: Profiles, Achievements & Choice…?
As mentioned in last week’s blog post, I’m currently working on all the extra content for SHINRAI Saku – Blooming Beyond Despair, which includes everything you’ll be able to read in the notebook: trivia, diary entries and character profiles. After already having finished the former two categories by last Saturday, this past week, I’ve mostly …





