#the code of crystals

[rainspicestudios]

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]

[ciphox]

requests on twitter <3

[tinydancerfreelancersblog]

[pinkd3mon]

NEW KIRBY FORGOTTEN LAND CONTENT I COULD CRYYYYYYY

OF COURSE ILL DRAW MY CRACK THEORIES LATER!!!!!

[444prilsbae]

[kittydoesthings]

A bunch of Crystal Run doodles I haven’t shared yet plus some updated refs

[star-stimz]

007n7 or c00lkidd stimboard? Specifically the forsaken versions

007n7 STIMBOARD

1--2--3--4--5--6--7--8

[the-ipre]

hello everyone i have begun to rotate a dead boy detectives restaurant au, mainly because im putting edwin on expediting and crystal as a waitress and i think they might kill each other

[captainfairygodmother]

Look me in the eyes- my heartbroken, seen-too-much-tragedy eyes- and tell me that '"I'm right across the hall" (shy smile) "I like your jacket" (rapidly disappears behind the door and slams it in her face, embarrassed)' isn't the most hinting-at-a-relationship, these-girls-are-so-in-love-with-eachother, it's-love-at-first-sight scene ever. I bet you can't. I'll wait.

[samsayswhatever]

Dead Boy Detectives Ship Names

This is where I'm at ship-wise. Any suggestions? Any more rare pairs I'm missing? Better ship name suggestions?

Edit: I've been informed its "Payneland" not "Paynland"

[rainspicestudios]

Happy 2025! [RainSpice Studios plans & updates for the new year]

Hey everyone! Happy 2025 from RainSpice Studios. I hope this year will be kind to everyone and that many good things will be coming your way.

And speaking of good things, I'm cooking some projects that are just itching to be released and available for download. But before we get into that, let us talk a little about the games that were released in 2024.

This won't be a lengthy recap of 2024, as the games speak for themselves, but I am still proud of myself for releasing a full game, a chapter one, and a demo, during a very stressful year both in terms of world events and my personal life (I graduated college, I'm moving, all of that good stuff).

Stardust★Arcadis was my first ever release, and a game I struggled to finish. I lost all of my progress because of PC issues, I rewrote the story a few times, and I released it after working on it since 2019 (2022 if the moment when my PC broke doesn't count). However I love the characters, I love the setting, and despite the many hardships of game development, I had a fun time working on it.

I'm planning to release more games in this universe in the future, including a remastered version of St★Ar.

The Code of Crystals started as a novel collaboration with my best friend. Said collaboration never got finished, and I had a lot of inspiration for stories I could tell with these characters, most of these darker than the original project. Thus I used the characters I made for this former collaboration and started crafting this narrative, and the release of Stardust★Arcadis AND the 2024 edition of Phantasia Jam was a perfect opportunity to get started!

Chapter one will be re-release this January and Chapter two will be released in either late 2025 or early 2026. Stay tuned for more info!

Enter the Eternity, oddly enough, also started as a collaboration, but the idea of a dating simulator with magical girls was too good to let it collect dust and never get finished, especially since its inspiration board kept drawing me in.

With my best friend's blessing, I could re-use the idea, so I created a new cast of characters and got to work, and had to do even more work after I found out that the backgrounds I bought from someone on itch.io were made with an AI image generator, which disgusted me so much it powered me to redraw every single background by hand and I will keep doing so for the entire game. While it is more work to do on my part, RainSpice Studios will never endorse AI generation in any shape or form.

At first I worked on it while I worked on Stardust★Arcadis, which explains why the demo was done on such a short notice, but it has now became my primary project for 2025 and I am aiming to release it around November/December at best.

What's the plan for 2025 then?

My primary goal is to release Enter the Eternity and my secondary goal is to release The Code of Crystals chapter 2.

I aim to finish all first dates for Enter the Eternity AND re-release chapter 1 of The Code of Crystals in January. The dates are already written and coded in the script files, so my focus is to add in all the sprite expressions, draw CGs and backgrounds, and add all the necessary music. As for TCOC, I wanted to remake its menus and add a scene with Eranis that I did not have time to add before the end of the game jam. While the UI code I bought doesn't work, its images are pretty, and I am happy with the result.

2025 will be another busy year for me as I try to find a full-time job to sustain myself, launch some new projects more-or-less related to video games, move out again, among some other irl things. But here at RainSpice Studios, I love making games, and will keep making them for the foreseeable future.

If you read down to here, thank you so much!

There's a lot to do so I'm going back to work 💪 I'll update you guys when I reach a milestone or I find something interesting to share.

So stay tuned! And as said, I wish you guys a kind, good, exciting, fun, and game-filled 2025. Thank you for your continued support and here's to more projects this year 🥂

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[RainSpice Studios itch.io] [Stardust★Arcadis] [The Code of Crystals] [Enter The Eternity]

[ciphox]

ghosts on the first

(alt under the cut)

[edwin-paynes-bowtie]

I think part of the reason I've been so frustrated with the Cameodens is that it's transparent to me that Jayden is not intentionally playing a bisexual character.

George clearly perceives Payneland as a potential couple, and the writers have advocated for bisexual Charles in the past. But Jayden.... his Charles is straight. He does not have the authority to decide his character's sexuality, and he's not the one writing Charles as straight or bi or whatever. But his portrayal of Charles is heterosexual, and like, it's hard to grasp that (for me as well) but possibly necessary to do so.

(This isn't intended as a criticism of Jayden or anyone else. It's just... the reason these cameos are causing anxiety is that the actor fundamentally disagrees with everyone else's interpretation. I'm acknowledging that.)

[that-trans-autistic-guy]

Charles and the Missile Toads

this was a meme in the save dbd discord server (which you should join) and it developed some lore along the way. so, please come with me as we explore the story of Charles and the Missile Toads.

Charles' house was never decked out for the holidays. If anything happened for the holidays, it was because his mom snuck it around his father. As such, he didn't know much about any kind of decorations. Now, part of that is as a kid, he misheard "mistletoe" as "missile toad" and since they sound close enough alike, no one could correct him. He was always sad that the places he went in public never had missile toads, but he'd figured it was just something people did in their homes.

After he died, the first holidays came around in the agency. It was the first place, and person, he considered to be home. So, he wanted to show it with a missile toad. He was frustrated that none of the shops around had any missile toads, so he decided to make one himself. He found a toy frog and a toy missile, wrapped them together with ribbon and hung it in the office.

Edwin was incredibly confused when he saw it for the first time and asked what it was. Charles reply was, "It's a missile toad! Ya know, it's what people put up in their homes during the holidays. Figured it belonged here!" It took a moment but Edwin figured out the mishap but he didn't tell Charles. The younger ghost was so excited about it, and he hadn't missed that he'd called their office a home. So, he nodded along and said it must've been something he'd missed over the past decades. The missile toad stayed, and was safely tucked away when the holidays finished. And every year after, the missile toad was brought back out. A few more were even made over the years.

Then came the first holidays with the girls. Charles was really excited and hung all his missile toads. Crystal came in first and immediately asked what the decorations were. He excitedly said, "It's missile toads! Ya know, the holiday tradition. Could never find any out in the shops but it's what you put around any home!" She just stared at him before saying, "What? Charles, mistletoe is like a plant that you hang up. People kiss under it. It's not missile toads."

Never has a face dropped so quickly. He sniffled as he pulled down his missile toads, embarrassed as hell. He was incredibly quiet for the next few days and Edwin was not happy. Crystal had rarely felt so guilty. So, she went out and made more missile toads. She sat the Rude Boy down and gave them to him. She said that she didn't want to make him feel bad. That if he wanted to hang up missile toads, he should.

Edwin chimed in, saying that they'd been putting up missile toads as a decoration for their home for thirty years. Surely, that must make it a tradition. Charles smiled, asking if he meant it. When he got confirmation, he raced around the office and hung up all of the missile toads, old and new. Once he'd finished, he spun both of them around in massive hugs. "Better than some dusty old plant, eh?" They can't help but agree.

(Niko comes in a few days later, sees the missile toads and continues her day with a smile. She figures out the whole thing pretty quick and never asks about it.)

(here is the meme that inspired all of this)

[kittydoesthings]

*procrastinates on drawing the Beasts as Gems for four days*

[blue-saaaaargent]

entering levels of brainrot previously unseen but hear me out. dead boy detectives luca AU