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I have to delay Enter The Eternity and The Code of Crystals because my computer is making noises that sound expensive. More info to come in the End-Of-Month devlog

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I found this in my game sketch folder. Enjoy ✨

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End of May Update

Wait, what do you mean it’s already June?? Wasn’t it March yesterday? It’s already my birthday in three weeks?? Time blindness aside, enjoy my monthly devlog ✨

The good news is, some more assets are drawn for Enter the Eternity and for The Code of Crystals. I’m still a one-person team, but with how busy May was, progress was still made, and that’s what counts.

Here’s what I want to work on in June:

Two Second dates have been fully coded in, so I want to get the rest of the second dates in and playtested as well.

I want to get assets for at least two third dates done.

I dislike a background that I drawn for the Eternity/Other World, so I want to redraw it.

I also realized that I absolutely hate Henry’s magical boy outfit. I have a new design for him which is almost finished, I just need to render/shade his sprites.

Sadly, this devlog will be a little short: I spent the month of may moving across the city I live in and I might have a new job that I absolutely need sooo 🙏 let’s hope that I get it. I clearly did not finish two “parts” for The Code of Crystals and may be too ambitious for Enter The Eternity. I will get them done, but I will have to slow down their development due to everything happening outside of the internet.

I still want to release Enter the Eternity around the end of 2025.

Thank you for your support and let's make some good progress in June 🥂✨ Have a great day, everyone!

Enter the Eternity is a dating simulator in which Michi (name customizable) signs up to study at the Matsubara Institute for a semester and lives in a shared house. The problem is: every single one of your roommates is a magical girl (or boy, or person)!

How will you survive abroad with magical girls? Will you be able to adapt to this new life and make friends? Better yet, will you end up dating one of them?

[itch.io]

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End of April Update

Hello, you lovely people! April’s over, and so are my hopes to survive the summer if we’re already getting temperatures this high in early May, so it’s time for an Enter the Eternity and The Code of Crystals update! ✨

The good news is: every second date has been written and all the assets (every background, NPC, and CG) have been drawn! All I have to do is code everything in the game and make it functional, which, I will admit, is not my favorite part but has to be done to get a game. (My favorite part is checking for and fixing bugs.)

I still think April has been very productive and I am still on the right track for an end-of-2025 release.

Other good news will concern The Code of Crystals, as I started working on chapter 2 again and got a good chunk of it written out. My goal for May is to have at least two finished “parts” (out of seventeen).

Please note that a “part” is not necessarily a dialogue scene. It can be a puzzle, an “interrogation”, an interactive section which is not necessarily a puzzle, etc. Chapter two will be at least twice as long as chapter one, and I hope that you guys will like it!

The bad news is that work was extra slow in April and I may have to pick up another job. :/ I’m giving myself until July. If I don’t get more project opportunities by July at my day job, I may have to start looking for a secondary job :(

But I’ll manage. I will finish Enter the Eternity before the end of this year. 💪✨

TL;DR:

April goal (every second date) was achieved.

May goal is to work on Aiko, Ameni, and Connor’s third dates for Enter the Eternity.

Secondary May goal is to get two parts done for Chapter 2 of The Code of Crystals.

Thank you for your support and let's make some good progress in May 🥂✨ Have a great day, everyone!

Enter the Eternity is a dating simulator in which Michi (name customizable) signs up to study at the Matsubara Institute for a semester and lives in a shared house. The problem is: every single one of your roommates is a magical girl (or boy, or person)!

How will you survive abroad with magical girls? Will you be able to adapt to this new life and make friends? Better yet, will you end up dating one of them?

[itch.io]

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Do you have plans to localize <Enter The Eternity> into Simplified Chinese?

My honest answer is: As of right now I'm not planning to localize Enter the Eternity into any language aside from English. However, if I find a translator willing to take care of the Simplified Chinese localization, I would be willing to consider it!

I just want to be sure I can pay them a fair wage before agreeing to anything. My day job is localizing games and writing subtitles, so good wages for translators is something I'm very passionate about.

Thank you for being RainSpice Studio's first tumblr ask! Have a lovely day ✨

Enter the Eternity is a dating simulator in which Michi (name customizable) signs up to study at the Matsubara Institute for a semester and lives in a shared house. The problem is: every single one of your roommates is a magical girl (or boy, or person)!

How will you survive abroad with magical girls? Will you be able to adapt to this new life and make friends? Better yet, will you end up dating one of them?

[itch.io]

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techbros won't save us—it's up to us to imagine a better future. so why don't we start with games?

Games for a Better Future is a game jam about envisioning a better tomorrow! make games about overcoming obstacles, rebuilding & repairing, happy endings or even practical skills.

What's accepted:

Fiction, non-fiction, or educational games & stories

Games made just for the jam or games previously released sometime in 2025

Any genre and medium of games (digital or physical)

Zines and literature, though we want to focus on games. Consider making a Twine game or Ren'Py visual novel!

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End of March Update

Hello everyone! April's here, and so are my spring allergies, so it's time for an update!

I will not split my personal life update and game update this month, but I will keep it short and sweet. While I wasn’t able to finish what I set out to do in March, I also think I overestimated how much I could do on top of a freelance job, trying to move out, and new ways to regulate my ADHD. This studio still only has one person wearing many hats, and there are only 24 hours in a day.

What I got done in March was:

1 Full CG.

2 Lined CGs.

Every background was modeled and sketched. Two were lined and one was finished.

2 NPC sprites.

Which is drastically less than what I originally planned. However, I have a new plan for April, and my goal for next month is to finish every second date and the scene that comes after the second dates, at least the art for it, in order to start working on the third dates in May.

As my day job is mostly writing (translator/subtitle writer), I have to admit that my motivation to write for my own projects has gone down and my motivation to draw has gone up. I might hire writers down the line, if my subtitles make enough money to allow me to add people to the RainSpice Studios team! But in the meantime: I’ll be writing Enter the Eternity and The Code Of Crystals and other projects for the foreseeable future, so time to get to work 💪✨

Thank you for your support and let's make some good progress in April 🥂✨ Have a great day, everyone!

Enter the Eternity is a dating simulator in which Michi (name customizable) signs up to study at the Matsubara Institute for a semester and lives in a shared house. The problem is: every single one of your roommates is a magical girl (or boy, or person)!

How will you survive abroad with magical girls? Will you be able to adapt to this new life and make friends? Better yet, will you end up dating one of them?

[itch.io]

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"I want webcomics where I can change the story" read visual novels "I want games that focus on the narrative" read visual novels "I want games that are easy to play" read visual novels "I want to play shoujo / yaoi / yuri manga" read visual novels "I want to read really queer stories" read visual novels

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End of February Update

Hello everyone! February ended, so it's time for a game update ✨

Now, February was busy, both in terms of game work and my personal life. Enter The Eternity is still in active development when I'm not at work, and I managed to finish two long scenes (Aiko and Ameni's second dates) and a few scenes that are unlocked in-between dates. I'm still aiming for a late 2025/early 2026 release.

If I'm honest, The Code of Crystals was put on the back burner, however I did manage to draw a few CGs. I have no idea when chapter 2 will be released, but progress is still being made.

I also started working on a few future projects and a potential remake of Stardust★ Arcadis whenever I have a spare five minutes, but these are not on the active development list (yet?).

On the side of IRL news, please skip this paragraph if you're only here for game updates and not for any information on what's going on backstage, clients for subtitling come and go. I still need to make a living, and I feel like March is going to be busy for me.

Thank you for your support up to now and I hope I will still be able to make some good progress next month!

Have a lovely day, everyone!

Enter the Eternity is a dating simulator in which Michi (name customizable) signs up to study at the Matsubara Institute for a semester and lives in a shared house. The problem is: every single one of your roommates is a magical girl (or boy, or person)!

How will you survive abroad with magical girls? Will you be able to adapt to this new life and make friends? Better yet, will you end up dating one of them?

[itch.io]

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happy new year

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End of January Update

Hello everyone! The first month of 2025 is coming to a close so it's time for a game update! I only focused on Enter The Eternity in January, but next month will also have information on The Code of Crystals chapter two.

Now the good news is: all of the first dates are done! Which means that 35% of the game is finished, which is more than a third! Each route has three dates, a good end, a "best ending", and a message in the bad ending. ✨

On the side of IRL news, please skip this paragraph if you're only here for game updates and not for any information on what's going on backstage, I'm starting to find clients! (My irl job is to write subtitles.) While that means I'll have a little less free time for video games, it also means that I'll spend less time sending resumes around and waiting for HR to answer when they never do. 🤷‍♂️

Thank you for your support up to now! January was a really good month in terms of game progress and I hope that February will be even better.

Have a lovely day, everyone!

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Enter the Eternity is a dating simulator in which Michi (name customizable) signs up to study at the Matsubara Institute for a semester and lives in a shared house. The problem is: every single one of your roommates is a magical girl (or boy, or person)!

How will you survive abroad with magical girls? Will you be able to adapt to this new life and make friends? Better yet, will you end up dating one of them?

[itch.io]

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Enter the Eternity Demo Update

Hello everyone! I've been made aware of a sentence that was weirdly written and a minor bug. The demo has been temporarily taken down and version 1.1 will be uploaded tomorrow at 12PM GMT. Thank you for your patience!

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there's over 32,000 free visual novels on itchio with more being added daily. do yourself a favor and play some indie shit:

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The Code of Crystals (Chapter 1) has been updated! + Game Information

You heard it here first,

[THE CODE OF CRYSTALS CHAPTER 1 IS AVAILABLE ON ITCH.IO]

It has been re-released with a prettier UI, an additional CG for Eranis, and some edits here and there.

But if it's only chapter 1, why is it 10€? 10€ is the price of all five chapters combined.

As of right now there is no way to only buy the first chapter and I understand that you would not want to buy a game that is not technically "finished". However you may very well wait until all five chapters have been released before buying.

There is also a demo which you can download in order to try out TCOC and see if it is a game you would enjoy.

Chapter two will be released in late 2025 or early 2026 and I hope to see you there when it comes out 🖤

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TCOC Chapter 1 re-release coming soon 👀🥂

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... soo is anyone around here creating or about to create a visual novel game? *looks around curiously*

Message me?

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Announcing... the first ever Otome Games Celebration, a Steam festival just for otome games! 💖

I'm happy to announce that we've been approved for an otome-oriented festival on Steam in May. This will be a great time for otome fans to get discounted otome, try out demos, find new otome to follow, and more.

If you're an otome developer, you can submit your game to be included in the event. Developer sign-ups are open until March 7th!

More info