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ONE WEEK UNTIL FEARBONDING IS OUT!

Sweet and viscous like honey, that's how fear tastes to Hinata, a demon. True terror is hard to come by, so the day he meets Kosuke, his new goal is clear:

He Needs to Tame This Terrifying Man.

Wishlist on Steam!

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Stricken by grief, Honoka's life seemed to stop while those of others continued. That is, until she discovered the forbidden art of blood magic. She's the quiet and moody protagonist of our upcoming dark fantasy yuri game A Tithe in Blood!

🩸 Wishlist now on Steam

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The demo of Pre-Odyssey: Love at First Quack is now available to download on Steam!

Download it here

The demo features the first 30 minutes of the game.

Full release will be on June 17!

STORY:

Princess Helen of Sparta is the most beautiful woman in the world, coveted by almost all the kings and princes of Greece.

Suitors from far and wide have flocked to their palace in hopes of winning her hand in marriage-

…But this isn’t about her.

Enter Penelope, Helen’s less popular cousin.

While staying at her uncle's palace, she encounters one of Helen's supposed suitors, the notorious 'trickster king', Odysseus.

However, this Spartan princess is also notorious in her own right...

... As the favorite daughter of Prince Icarius?

No, not that one.

I mean, as the notorious 'duck girl'.

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Ok, while I did get some more writing done (fingers crossed to be onto the second part and ending of "Forget Me Nots Club" maybe next week, that or programming again! :D) I decided to show a bit of a WIP drawing I'm making of the cast of "Lovely Magicals" for next month!

While I'm sure you can guess why they'll be getting a new drawing in June, hint hint Pride Month (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶), I'm also hoping to be able to announce something involving Pride Month too if things go well! But for right now, enjoy Alex and some of the flags that represent them!

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Results of this Week's Mangolei Co-Working Session 🥭

Mango started working on a female LI's sprite

Blini continued working on our teaser trailer

Trmin tweaked a few things in our Twitch integration

TuffToff polished a few UI elements

Firn revised the first draft of our script

Berin continued reading through it and adding comments

daschoe finalized the first version of our prototype scene and added a typewriter effect to the dialogue

Here's a preview of a male love interest who is a bit further along!

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Starlight Stayover's demo is out on itch.io, play it here!

Seeking inspiration for her next artwork, a traveling artist spends a night at the House of Refulgence and gets to know it's odd owner.

If you have some odd 15-20 minutes to spare and like when the moons are weird, when a house is weird, or when a guy's weird, give it a look!

I had a lot of fun making this for the Ossan Jam 2025, it's a good jam, there's old men in there

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WHEN THEY COPY YOUR SNAPS

An: IM SO SORRY GUYS FOR BEING INACTIVE FOR A WHILE ˚‧º·(˚ ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥ )‧º·˚ I'm back now!!

𝑨𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: 𝑻𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒂 𝒃𝒐𝒘 𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒖 <𝟑

ℭ𝔬𝔯𝔡𝔢𝔩𝔧𝔞: 𝔘𝔫𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔥𝔦𝔪 ℑ 𝔠𝔞𝔫 𝔞𝔠𝔱𝔲𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔶 𝔟𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔨 𝔦𝔱.

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April Updates — Asphodelium Final Artwork

It’s the last day of April, so today I'm spending a bit of time to go over some of the progress I made this month for Asphodelium, my melancholic boys love visual novel about cults, killing, and killing cults.

With the full game slated to come out towards the end of June, I had to finish up some of the CGs in game. The extended cut adds several new cut scene artworks, such as this dance CG.

Towards the end of the new storyline, Hazel and Aster take some time to enjoy the festival and dance amidst the crowd. It’s rather romantic to dance underneath the moonlight, isn’t it?

You can see the art timelapse (art process) for this scene on YouTube!

This scene is a culmination of the new storyline, resulting in several different endings from this point onward depending on your choices. With this extended cut, new choices have been added that will greatly affect your relationship with Aster, including brand new bad endings. Who is Aster, really? How you go about that will determine what ending you get.

In order to get it ready for the full release, I’ve also been scripting the new scenes into the engine. You can see the new CG up above already in engine, so almost all of the game is fully scripted.

The majority of the work left is making sure the new scenes fit in seamlessly into the existing programmed parts and other additional touches.

If you haven’t already, wishlist it on Steam! Every wishlist helps out in the algorithm.

— Arimia

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Using blood magic, a young woman travels to an alternate version of her town where she meets an enigmatic mage—but all actions have consequences.

A Tithe in Blood, our next dark yuri fantasy visual novel, releases in less than 2 months! 💕

There's currently a demo available on Steam and itchio with full Japanese voice acting!

Wishlist it on Steam

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I am organizing a charity bundle for cancer research on itchio❗❗

If you are a creator (comics, books, games, etc. any medium is okay!) or an influencer who would like to participate, please reach out or view the instructions in on itchio—thank you so much!❤️

SUBMISSION PAGE

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Ok, another scene in "Club Forget Me Nots" redone, just going a bit slower than when I was writing it for the game jam so that nothing needs to be reworked again, you know? :3

At the very least, I'm liking the new versions of the scenes!

I'd love to have more to show at the moment, but right now I'm just in that weird area between finishing projects and working on projects that cannot be shown right now that I can only state that progress IS happening, but can't be shown, maybe once programming starts again!

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Results of this Week's Co-Working Session 🥭

Mango finished our protagonist's default sprite and starting working on a love interest 👀

Blini immediately got to work putting it into our WIP trailer and animating it

Trmin did some finishing touches on the Twitch integration ✨

Berin is in the middle of checking our draft for consistency with characterization and world-building

And Firn did first minor revisions! ✏️

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The Kickstarter campaign for our magical girl yuri visual novel only has a week left!

We've reached our 1st stretch goal for Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery, but time is running out to get the Kickstarter exclusive rewards. Support us here!

If you've ever wanted to play as a magical girl solving crime with her lovely magical girl wife, be sure to check out the demo~

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Writing for "Club Forget Me Nots", doing any rewrites that I felt was needed, but also taking it easy since I can feel my wrist getting some pain, of all things! ( – ⌓ – )(¬`‸´¬)( – ⌓ – )(¬`‸´¬)

Still, light writing still means stuff is getting done! :DDD