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Last week, I primarily worked on the credits and results screen for GENBA no Kizuna, figuring out how to handle the Detective Ranking this time around. Ever since then, I’ve moved on to the game’s extras section!

Tags: Artwork, GENBA, JulyMarte, Ryuunosuke

Apr 27

Weekly Update #508: Detective Ranking

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I’ve mostly wrapped up work on the credits for GENBA no Kizuna now. All that’s left to do in that regard is the Patreon section, as I’m still waiting for some of our patrons to tell me if and how they’d like to be credited. So, in the meantime, I’ve moved on to tackling the Results Screen of the game, which will show you how many Detective Points you’ve earned and what Detective Rank you have achieved upon conclusion of the investigation.

Tags: Amber, GENBA, Koiriin, Screenshot

Apr 20

Weekly Update #507: Credits

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As you can see from the title, this past week, I’ve been primarily working on the credits sequence for GENBA no Kizuna, so I figured we could delve into that topic a little more today. There are essentially two parts to the credits: the credits themselves and the “epilogue” scenes interspliced with them, just like it was the case in SHINRAI – Broken Beyond Despair or how you might know it from the Ace Attorney games.

Tags: Fanart, GENBA, Himatsu, Ryuu-chan

Apr 13

Weekly Update #506: Quick Progress Update & Mystery Gamedev Website

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Last week, I talked a bit more about the connection between SHINRAI – Broken Beyond Despair and GENBA no Kizuna and how, even though there is a chronological order to them, you can really play them in any order you wish. So, if you want to learn a bit more about that, be sure to check out the respective post linked above!

As for today, I’m just gonna leave you with another quick update, as I’m once again incredibly busy. My work on the credits, extras and bad ends for GENBA continues and I really wanna try to wrap it up soon, so that we can finally hand the game over to beta-testers. The biggest hurdle right now is overcoming my perfectionism, since I wanna keep tweaking various things a bit more… “orz

Anyway, I’m aiming to finally have the bad ends fully done by tomorrow evening, so maybe that might be a topic to delve into a bit more next week. But for now, I’ll just get back to work! Well, almost… I want to highlight something as you could already tell from the title: the newly updated website for our Mystery Gamedev Community! It’s still a work in progress, but now features a database containing mystery games (nearly 200) which you can search for by various means (keywords, release dates, demos etc.).

As of right now, only games available on Steam can be discovered, but itch games will eventually be added as well!

So, if you’re itching to delve into some mystery games, do check it out! And if you want to discuss said mystery games or learn more about how to make your own or even partake in a mystery game jam, head on over to the Mystery Gamedev Discord which is close to reaching the 300 member mark, so yeah… it’s grown quite a bit since it was established last year!

Now, with all that said, please enjoy the rest of your weekend and, until next Saturday, take care :3

Tags: GENBA, Mystery Gamedev

Apr 06

Weekly Update #505: Which Order…?

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I’ve talked about the differences and similarities between GENBA no Kizuna and SHINRAI – Broken Beyond Despair before, particularly when it comes to the feel of both projects, how we approached them or how the mysteries and characters are handled (which you can read all about here). However, I haven’t properly addressed yet how exactly the two projects tie into each other and how they are connected in terms of their plots. And since I’m currently working on the GENBA stuff that really highlights its connection to SHINRAI, I figured it’s a good time to finally tackle this topic and answer an important question:

In which order should you ideally play them?

Tags: GENBA, SHINRAI

Mar 30

Weekly Update #504: Another Quick Update

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Alright, since today was pretty busy and it’s a bit late now, we’ll unfortunately have to settle with another super quick post today.
And I figured I might as well take the opportunity to direct you towards a couple other, lengthier posts we’ve published recently.
With GENBA no Kizuna nearing its completion, we have started to get into some release-relevant topics, the two major ones discussed so far being:

Tags: GENBA, Music, SHINRAI

Mar 23

Weekly Update #503: Quick Progress Overview

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Last week, we’ve unveiled GENBA no Kizuna‘s theme song “Dig Deep”, so if you haven’t heard it yet, be sure to check it out here!
We’ve provided a lengthy preview in the post, while patrons can even check out the full song! I’m really happy with the result and think everyone working on it did an absolutely amazing job, so I just had to highlight it again!

And since we’re already on the topic of highlighting things, I’d like to do the same with another new fan art that was sent to us recently, once again drawn by “Ryuu-chan” who… drew us another adorable Ryuu-chan, together with a very beautiful Amber!

(The way they look at each other, hnnnnnnnngh…!!)

Tags: Amber, Fanart, GENBA, Music, Patreon, Ryuu-chan, Ryuunosuke

Mar 16

Weekly Update #502: GENBA’s Theme Song

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As you may have seen me mention every once in a while, our composer Solo Acapello and I have been working on a vocalized theme song for GENBA no Kizuna for quite some time now. And given that this song has finally been completed, I thought it’s about time I finally talk about it in more detail! In fact, I have just published a new post over on Patreon, in which I delve really deep into how the song came to be, what the process of working on it was like and, of course, you can even listen to the full 4:23 minutes of it and read through the lyrics!

I also wanted to give non-patrons an idea as to what the song is like, though, so here are the first 1:40 minutes of it:

Tags: BGM, GENBA, Lunacy, Patreon, Solo Acapello, suponjiii, Theme Song

Mar 09

Weekly Update #501: Quick Progress Update

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