Announcing the first Élan Festival, an event celebrating LGBT+ visual novels! 🎉
For the past few months we've been hard at work on our games, but we've also been planning something new - an upcoming event featurin...
2022-04-30 01:14:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Meowdy everyone! I hope you are all well! While I haven't had wallpapers to post, I've been working hard on the CGs for Please Be Happy - and in fact, I'm nearly done! Just three left.
I wanted to show off one of the earlier CGs I had done, in which Aspen and Miho are helping out at the library! Miho's doing her best!!!...
2022-04-17 05:22:43 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone,
We're posting a day late because we didn't want people to think a post yesterday was an April Fool's, totally not because we forgot. Anyway.
March was another good month of progress for us overall. Sickness and some personal circumstances did set things back a bit, but for the most part it went well.<...
2022-04-02 22:04:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, it's adi! I'm excited to tell everyone that the Highway Blossoms OST Vinyl have been pressed and shipping has begun! It's really been such a wonderful experience working to make these, and I'm truly h...
2022-03-15 23:50:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello and meowdy everyone, it's adi! We've been hard at work on all of our games, and I wanted to preview a little fun something for all of you.
Sarah's been doing an incredible job with the LAK original soundtrack! I was given the okay to preview a little snippet - so here's the first thirty seconds of it!
As a l...
2022-03-13 02:12:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Meowdy everyone! It's adi here! Thank you for your patience everyone!!
It's a little overdue, but I've finished the January wallpaper - and therefore, the 12th wallpaper!!! Even though it took a bit longer than I hoped, I wanted to do something special for this one. I've never attempted a picture with 12 characters in i...
2022-03-05 09:04:26 +0000 UTC View PostHey all,
We hope everyone is doing well and staying safe. We've been buckled down working on stuff like always, and before we knew it, February was over. Here's what's been going on.
-More PBH progress! The CG's for Chapters 2 and 3 are now complete, with adi somehow doing a whopping 11 CG's this past month, on to...
2022-03-01 20:12:18 +0000 UTC View PostToday, February 15th, we're celebrating the 3rd anniversary of Heart of the Woods' original PC release! Although it was a written a couple months ago, today we're posting an untitled short story that Rachel wrote, focusing on the friendship between Abby and Morgan. Enjoy!
When Tara and Maddie forged ...
2022-02-15 17:23:36 +0000 UTC View PostHi all,
Just to start things off, if you haven't already heard, the Playstation and Xbox versions of Heart of the Woods will be coming out in just a couple weeks, on February 14th! These are the final ports of the game that we've been working on, so we can't wait to have them all wrapped up and completed.
Aside fr...
2022-02-02 20:02:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Meowdy everyone, it has been... a hot (or cold, for the northern hemisphere) minute (or uh, months)!!!
I hope everyone has had a good holidays! I've started to experience a bit of hand pain from December, so I've been taking it a little slow but I've been feeling a lot better so hopefully I will catch up soon! Sorry and...
2022-01-31 06:33:43 +0000 UTC View PostIt's time to enjoy First Snow for the second (or third, or more if you've already replayed it) time.
One of the first titles we've published under our Bellhouse wing, First Snow by Salty Salty Studios, has just received a free ...
2022-01-21 23:11:55 +0000 UTC View PostHello, and happy new year! We hope everyone had a pleasant holiday season and a safe start to 2022. If you missed it, we posted a couple messages from some of our members in a post for the occasion. We chose to forego doing a longer,...
2022-01-02 23:05:54 +0000 UTC View PostHi all, and welcome to December.
It's been unusually dry here in Colorado, so I'm crossing my fingers for some snow soon. I don't ski or snowboard, but the aesthetic is nice at least. The snowy mountains and forests that I grew up around were a big influence on Heart of the Woods, and even Highway Blossoms at times. On ...
2021-12-03 02:39:55 +0000 UTC View PostHello hello everyone, hope you've had a lovely week so far! We've got several merch & sale updates, so I (Arimia) will go over them quickly.
Back by popular demand, we've reprinted ridere! This is an art book featuring illustrations by our very own adirosa, including her birthday artworks for our characters.
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2021-11-26 22:48:01 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone,
As promised, here's the early access for the Highway Blossoms Dusk Record! To pre-order your copy, please go to the Very Ok Vinyl website and click the "login using password" button at the very top right. Enter the password "ELANPATREON" t...
2021-11-05 18:16:52 +0000 UTC View PostIn yesterday's update, I mentioned something exciting happening today. I'm super thrilled to announce that we'll be releasing selected tracks from the Highway Blossoms soundtrack on vinyl!
Specifically, this release will includ...
2021-11-05 00:23:06 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
We hope you had a good Halloween. I always look forward to the day after it, when Halloween candy goes on clearance sale to make way for Christmas stuff at the grocery store. It's the most wonderful time of the year. In keeping with the spirit of things, we've got a few treats to share today.
-First u...
2021-11-04 00:31:47 +0000 UTC View Post
MEOWDY EVERYONE!!!
Tis the season... of Halloween! We're back with a BRAND! NEW! EPISODE! of I Told You So!, and also voice acting for the two that were added last time! These are all set post-Heart of the Woods, so make sure you play that one first!
We have amazing voice acting&n...
2021-11-01 00:02:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Meowdy everyone and Happy Halloween, I come with the most self indulgent wallpaper ever!!!!!
"But adi," you may ask. "It's not November yet?"
Aha! That is where I use the power of TIMEZONES... because while you are Happy Halloweening, it'll still also technically be November 1st here in NZ!!! I pulled this wallpap...
2021-10-31 22:00:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons! I decided to draw this month's wallpaper closer to the start of the month instead of near the end of the month, which is a change up for me!!! I wanted to get my Patreon posts ready earlier and then get stuck right into doing a bunch of in-game art for PBH.
As you may have noticed! 2021-10-12 20:30:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi y'all,
Unlike last time, we do have a good amount of news to recap from the past couple weeks! On that note though, real quick, we're probably going to move back to just doing once-a-month updates unless we actually have something worthwhile to report for the mid-month ones. Lately a lot of those updates have just be...
2021-10-01 21:10:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Meowdy patrons! It's adi here!
I wanted to talk about how the PBH script evolves from outline to final with one of the earlier scenes in the demo - specifically the very first one!
Outline:
Miho is hiding on an airship as it arrives. A voice announces that they’ve arrived, which m... 2021-09-30 22:54:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, it's Adi again! Today I wanted to talk about how you can do some little steps to really enhance the feeling of your itch.io page. It's nothing advanced (since honestly, I don't know how to do something more advanced either) so it should be easy to follow along!
Because this is design-related, it's all subje...
2021-09-21 07:07:03 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone,
Pretty brief update this time, because a lot of it's more of the same. So, to get right to it:
-Work on the Please Be Happy script is continuing. I've gotten past one of the biggest hurdles in it storywise (or at least will be coming back to it later) so there's a much more consistent writing groove n...
2021-09-18 05:54:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello lovely patrons! I hope you're having a lovely month. Sorry about the delay on the technical posts from last month - I will work hard to catch up soon, but this image wouldn't leave my mind so I wanted to finish this wallpaper for everyone as soon as possible!
2021-09-17 19:58:19 +0000 UTC
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My mind is going a mile a minute. Why did I leave Alessia unattended for so long? Why didn’t I take her with me? How did the Rail Office even find us? I went out of my way to find an out-of-the-way inn they’d just skip over... But every second I spend musing over my slip-up is one I could--and very much should--b...
2021-09-09 17:17:24 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone,
Hard to believe August has already come to an end. As with the mid-month update, this hasn't been our busiest month, but there's still a few things to talk about.
For Please Be Happy, adi's been continuing to plug away at the backgrounds, and completed 7 (!!!!!) this month alone. In case you missed it...
2021-09-01 02:58:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello to our lovely patrons! I've been hard at work for this wallpaper since the start of the month, and I'm happy to have it ready for you before it became the next month!
This month's theme was an outfit swap. I asked on the patron-only channel on Discord on how we should do the swap, and this was the more popular res...
2021-08-21 09:45:46 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone,
These past few weeks have been filled with a lot of us being sick or on vacation, so there's not quite as much to report as usual. Still, that doesn't mean we've been totally without any progress!
If you've been hanging out in our Patreon channel on Discord, you might have seen adi livestreaming some ...
2021-08-17 22:04:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Ah, how I’ve missed having a roof over my head and a bed under me. The inn we’ve found isn’t that luxurious, or even above-average, but I’ll gladly take it over the bedroll at this point. The mattress, the pillows, the--
“...Honorine, what are you doing?”
Alessia’s voice snaps me out of my reverie, a...
2021-08-10 00:12:34 +0000 UTC View Post
