Tag Archive: Raiko

Jan 12

Steam Detective Fest 2026

The Winter Sale may have just ended, but Steam is kicking off the New Year with a Detective Fest! And naturally, both SHINRAI and GENBA no Kizuna were invited to be a part of it. In other words, you get yet another chance to grab our murder mysteries at a discount!

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Jan 03

Weekly Update #595: Plans For 2026

First of all, Happy New Year 🎇 Or あけましておめでとうございます (akemashite omedetou gozaimasu) as it says on the right side of the image above. What does it say on the left side, though? 一緒に咲きましょう (isshoni sakimashou): let’s all bloom together 🌸 Given our new project’s title and our plans for the year, I figured that’d be a perfect …

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Oct 11

Weekly Update #583: Saku Sprite Progress

As you can see, this week has mostly been dedicated to whipping up some more expressions for various characters in SHINRAI Saku. My current goal is to get everything playable until scene 07 when the first big shift in the story takes place, so while I’m going through the script, giving it some more polish, …

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Aug 26

Release Anniversaries & SHINRAI Saku Store Pages

August 26 marks the release date of both SHINRAI – Broken Beyond Despair (nine years ago) and GENBA no Kizuna (one year ago). To celebrate the occasion, we’re currently running our annual anniversary sale which you can learn more about in a separate post here. That’s not all, though! While our newest project is still …

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Aug 26

Anniversary Sale 2025

Today, both of our murder mystery visual novels celebrate their release anniversaries! It’s been exactly nine years now since the launch of SHINRAI – Broken Beyond Despair (2016) and one whole year already since GENBA no Kizuna has come out! As part of the celebration, we are once again running a little sale which will last until …

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Aug 16

Weekly Update #575: Sprite Progress & Store Page Approval

A couple of days ago was Raiko‘s birthday (August 14)! In celebration of that, I shared some of her finished sprite variations for SHINRAI Saku over on social media, so if you’re curious about that, be sure to click that link! At least one of them, I’m also gonna leave here, though. Namely her “thinking” …

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Aug 02

Weekly Update #573: Even More Background Progress!

After the previous week being kinda slow due to me catching a cold, these past few days have been incredibly productive and I’m very happy with the progress I’ve made on SHINRAI Saku – Blooming Beyond Despair! And as you could already guess from the title, most of said progress has been related to its …

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Jul 12

Weekly Update #570: Saku Sprite Progress

Now that we’re finally able to fully delve back into development of SHINRAI Saku – Blooming Beyond Despair, I’ve decided to kick things off and properly get back into the groove by taking yet another look at the sprites. Since our main goal right now is to translate the first three scenes of the script into …

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May 31

Weekly Update #564: Even More Sprite Progress

Since I’m very short on time today, we’re also gonna have a really short update today! My work on sprite variations for SHINRAI Saku has continued and patrons can now check out some of the results of that in the form of a new sprite preview for Raiko! Her “curious head tilt” sprite, which I’ve …

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May 24

Weekly Update #563: More Facial Expressions

Last week, I showcased some of Nobara‘s facial expressions for SHINRAI Saku – Blooming Beyond Despair. Today, it’s Raiko‘s turn!

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