I’m officially on “vacation” now until mid-September, so for basically a whole month! Which really just translates to me having to spend 20 hours less every week on my part-time day job and dedicating all that time to VN development instead! And naturally, I want to make the most out of it, which I’ve already …
Category Archive: Dev Blog
Aug 12
Weekly Update #471: Quick Progress Update
First of all, in case you haven’t seen either of them yet, we’ve made two special announcement posts this week, one for Steam‘s Visual Novel Fest and the other for the Mystery Gamedev Community, which we have created with a couple of fellow devs in order to bring creators and enjoyers of mystery games together. …
Aug 05
Weekly Update #470: Plans For August
Can’t believe the year’s progressed this far already, but welp… here we are at the start of August again! And as you should know by know, it’s a month that holds very special meaning to us, since it’s the one in which we released SHINRAI – Broken Beyond Despair all the way back in 2016, …
Jul 29
Weekly Update #469: Background Art Done!
As you may have already seen on Twitter, all of the background art for GENBA no Kizuna is finally done! Which not only means that we are another big step closer to its completion, but that I can also give you some final stats on this category of assets now:
Jul 22
Weekly Update #468: BG Art Progress
So, this past week has once again been dedicated to mainly two things: script work and background art. I have actually finished up the final scene of our penultimate “chapter” now, but still need to work a bit more on the script for the last couple of investigation segments. Definitely wanna get that done by …
Jul 15
Weekly Update #467: Script Progress
As you can see from the title, I’ve primarily returned to script work this past week. With the BG art for the backyard done now, I can finally finish up the investigation segment for it, so that’s one part I’ve spent a lot of time on: thinking up and writing the background examination comments and …
Jul 08
Weekly Update #466: Chapter IV Progress Update
As mentioned in last week’s blog post, I’ve spent last Sunday fully dedicated to background art again and did, in fact, finally finish up both backyard BGs along with all of their variations! With this, almost all the BG art for GENBA no Kizuna is done! There is only one more location I gotta work …
Jul 01
Weekly Update #465: More BG Art Progress
Alright, so there’s your first look at the backyard of the Kaseki residence! It’s not 100% done yet, as I still need to fix the lighting conditions, but other than that, nothing else will change. By tomorrow evening, I’m planning to have both backyard BGs, including their variations (the investigation is supposed to take place …
Jun 24
Weekly Update #464: BG Art Progress
Phew, this was quite a busy week and, as you can tell from the title, it was primarily spent working on the missing background art! Honestly, I haven’t really worked on much else regarding GENBA. I’m just utterly committed to finishing the backyard of the Kaseki residence at the moment and will continue to work …
Jun 17
Weekly Update #463: Another Quick Progress Update
We are still continuing work on GENBA no Kizuna‘s final investigation phase, which, at the moment, primarily revolves around art asset creation for me. If you want to learn a bit more about what exactly is on my to-do list and even see some examples of recently created assets, be sure to check out last …