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, …
Tag Archive: Saku
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 …
Aug 01
Weekly Update #625: SHINRAI Saku Beta-Test Phase
Today, I’m extremely excited to announce that the beta-test phase for SHINRAI Saku – Blooming Beyond Despair has officially begun! And just in time for the start of our anniversary month, too!
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 …
Jul 11
Weekly Update #622: Saku Notebook Content
At the moment, I’m working through all the missing notebook and bonus content for SHINRAI Saku – Blooming Beyond Despair. This past week, I’ve finished writing the remaining trivia entries and all the ones for Raiko‘s diary. I really enjoy using the notebook sections to deepen the world-building and to share as much of the knowledge …
Jul 04
Weekly Update #621: Anniversary Preparations
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!
Jun 27
Weekly Update #620: The Final Track
Today, we’re both super excited and also a little bit sad to unveil to you the final addition to SHINRAI Saku‘s OST: its credits theme! On the one hand, this is another major step forward regarding the completion of this project. On the other hand, it means that our composer Crescendo‘s work is done on it …
Jun 20
Weekly Update #619: Soundtrack Complete & More Saku Progress
As Jurassic June continues, so do my threads on Twitter and Bluesky, in which I share all the dino media-related nods I’ve put into GENBA no Kizuna. So, if you haven’t yet, do check them out to not only see what obscure references you may have missed, but also what some of the design choices were …






