i have been making A BRAND NEW VN for strawberry jam (link is nsfw-ish)
if you don't wanna know anything about it before i release it at the end of the month, you should click away now!
otherwise, im gonna talk about the premise and why i'm making this! LET'S GO!!
so, the theme of the jam is to make a horny game. eevee (who is hosting the jam) 2023-02-06 20:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
slightly more than usual this month?! i'm feeling really good about my art, which makes me want to draw more. but i've mostly been working on another piece of candy otherwise, haha.
this post contains TREAT SPOILERS, so if you don't want to know anything, forget you saw this new character design!!! lol
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first, some explanation: when i released chapter 7, i added some extra stuff throughout the previous chapters! this included access to BAD END THEATER when you visit the netherworld in chapter 4. the witches there hint at bad endings, so i thought today i'd reveal my evil plans...
what'd i'd really love to do for trea...
2023-01-30 20:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
i posted a bit about this on cohost last week, but i OFFICIALLY STARTED on treat 8!!
...unfortunately, i really wanted to work on comics instead!!!!! so i only made a little bit of progress. the gif above is from the first area of chapter 8, which will look more like the postcard from chapter 5 when i'm done with it:
2023-01-24 00:53:58 +0000 UTC
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HEY EVERYONE! i was originally gonna wait until next week to start planning this, but i've been on a comics kick lately and decided to get a headstart!
for this event, i'd like to do daily updates leading up to valentines day, in a format similar to the 2018 fanmail event. basically: ask whatever you want, and i'll draw it like this:
2023-01-18 23:15:07 +0000 UTC
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it's my silly joke game from 2016!!! (and 2017 and 2018 and now 2023...)
i had been updating it every year for april fools before, but after 3 years of making them, i couldn't think of a fun idea to write for mochi. and i didn't like feeling obligated to keep doing them anyway, so i decided to retire the joke... little did i know, inspiration would strike when i least expected it. so i updated the game on a whim! this is what happens when i'm free to make whatever games i want, hehe 8)<...
2023-01-16 22:37:45 +0000 UTC View Post
surprise!!!!! i spent the last couple days updating my old april fools game. in january. but yknow, i just felt like making it... so here it is!
!! THERE ARE SPOILERS FOR DREAMING TREAT AND MOCHI IN FROSTING !! so if you aren't caught up on treat for some reason, you should hold off on this one... or if you want to save it to actually play on april fools, then please, by all means! lol.
a couple notes:
hey~! got the psds together quickly this time!!!
we're not doing an art collection or anything, so you guys get some EXCLUSIVE CONCEPT ART from me today hehe. enjoy!
2023-01-09 22:29:31 +0000 UTC View Post
heheh, i mentioned i wanted to do game jams this year, but i bet you didn't expect to see one so soon ;)
back in november i was chatting with chunderfins (the super cool animator i hired for BAD END THEATER) about working on more games together, and he mentioned he had been talking to npckc (another good pal!) and Miragey (who i hadn't met before) about doing the next ...
2023-01-09 20:56:39 +0000 UTC View Post
i teamed up with some pals to make a game for ludum dare! (it's a 72-hour game jam that just finished!!)
we made a ska-themed rhythm game where you try to grow a big artichoke for the harvest festival. i did the character art! there are 3 endings depending on your score, so do your best to stay on beat ;)
>> down...
2023-01-09 19:21:04 +0000 UTC View PostMY NEW SYRUP 2 BUILD IS OUT!!!!!!!! (for higher tiers only! sorry ;o;)
this post contains some minor spoilers, so feel free to come back and read this later if you'd rather go into syrup 2 knowing nothing! (it shows a new character i hadn't revealed publicly yet, and you can infer some plot stuff from the early chapters. that's about it.)
ok maybe it's no...
2023-01-03 02:08:23 +0000 UTC View Post
happy new year! it's time for my annual update. no preface this time, let's just dive in!!!
treat 7 came out in august of last year, on moxie's birthday! since then, i've been taking a break from the series to work on other stuff, but i was still planning it on the side. mainly, i needed to decide on some things in syrup 2 first, because one of the places you can go in that game is also a place you'll visit in treat 8! i got all that stuff figured out, ...
2023-01-01 20:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
i'm all worn out from finishing up my syrup 2 build (omg i drew a lot for it) but i still managed to doodle some nice extras for u guys :)
IT'S READY...! this build has over 2 years of progress and polish since the demo version! it might take like 5-6 hours to play through the whole thing, so make sure to take breaks!!
[[ download unavailable ]] (2025 update: sorry a new build is coming and the old one was hosted through itchio, so it was deleted when i launched the public game page)
you can check...
2022-12-30 02:01:55 +0000 UTC View Post
i wrote these ones literally years ago but never drew them until now! that's actually true for the baezel ones i've been posting this month too... i had the thumbnails sitting around forever, and wasn't sure if i'd ever make them real. but i like them! so i finally did, haha.
anyway, these are going up as daily updates in mid january! enjoy~
2022-12-26 20:26:16 +0000 UTC View Post
i was digging through old files and found some images from when Ratalaika (the publisher of Syrup's console version) asked me to make themes for PS4 and vita! they ended up never releasing them--vita was impossible anyway since they shut stuff down at the time (early 2020)... so i decided to share them now, as a little extra gift to you guys. sorry that the vita ones are pretty low res... they're at least cute to look at, haha.
happy holidays!! <3
2022-12-24 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View Postyou can read my super long post about it HERE
and (spoilers) i announced my newsletter at the end of it! signup page is now LIVE!!
i have another patron post scheduled for tomorrow, so apologies in advance for the spam :) happy holidays, everyone!
2022-12-24 03:49:01 +0000 UTC View Post
first of all, happy birthday gumdrop! and second, sorry i'm writing this pretty late today! i've been playtesting syrup 2 for the past 3 days straight... i mean, i've been working on it every day for ~2 weeks now, but it took 3 full days to play through the entire game from start to finish (fixing bugs and adding things as i went along).
i uh... had planned to write more today! like explaining some of the cool features i added since the previous version. but i think i have to save that ...
2022-12-20 06:05:06 +0000 UTC View Post
it's the last set of new profiles! because there's 4 instead of 6 this week, i threw in some drawings i just finished for syrup 2~ (it's for the weekly paycheck screen, the art changes based on how much money you made hehe)
2022-12-12 20:00:05 +0000 UTC View Postfirst: it’s been a hot minute since i gave any gamedev updates, so i wanted to mention my goal for this month is to finish a work-in-progress build for syrup 2!
i made a lot of progress the last time i worked on the game, so now i’m basically just finishing up any rough assets, and putting in new songs. there’s been A TON OF CONTENT added since the demo, and i can’t wait to see peopleâ...
2022-12-05 20:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
i've spent a lot of time recharging and playing video games this month, so i haven't felt like drawing too much ;o; i do still have some scribbles to share though.
i've been meaning to post these for like 2 months ;_; sorry for the delay!!
contract demon is just the main script since there's nothing special in the other files, but bad end theater is full of stuff! here's a quick summary:
here's the next batch of the new character profiles! i loved drawing these <3 the last batch is coming in 2 weeks~
2022-11-28 20:00:05 +0000 UTC View Posthello!! i've never done a formal survey before, so this is a little exciting. i wanted to gather a bunch of (anonymized) info on what kinds of people are playing my games/following my work.
there are 14 questions, split into 6 sections:
i'm still on a break from gamedev, so i've mostly been working on comic things. this'll be another somewhat rambly update, so i'm sharing a little gif i made with it this time :)
i stumbled on this really great youtube channel recently that teaches animation basics in a really fun and approachable way. their attitude is like, "there's no wrong way to animate something! just do what wo...
2022-11-22 02:48:20 +0000 UTC View Post
i've been meaning to update the character profiles for a long time, but it was a daunting task to draw all 16 of them. until one day... i finally felt like doing it, so i did! THEY'RE SO CUTE...
oh, but i'm not gonna be switching over until like january--that's why i'm only posting a few at a time for now!! hope you enjoy :)
2022-11-14 20:22:20 +0000 UTC View Posthi guys! posting pretty late today because… im tired!!! i spent last week finishing my new starry flowers comic and posting that, and otherwise i’ve just been resting. because of this… i have no game updates to share :'( instead i'll just barf some of the thoughts and feelings i've been having lately. sorry this will be a bit scattered!
i'm really on a comics kick right now. i don't know what it is--the past couple days i was reading some to get inspired, ...
2022-11-08 02:26:15 +0000 UTC View Post
happy halloween!!! here's my drawings from this month.
trying to finally finish the full comic!!!!!! keep an eye on my itch.io if u want it, since this is the last preview i can share on patreon ;o
first couple pages are here (i posted them back in may!): https://www.patreon.com/posts/starry-flowers-1-66483117
2022-10-31 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View Posti shared a lot of screenshots/gifs from syrup 2 last week, so here's a song this time!!
i'm still refining some parts but this is mostly done :) it plays during like.. all the best scenes.... or maybe that's just my pastille bias. anyway, enjoy!
2022-10-24 21:56:14 +0000 UTC View Post