Announcing Bellhouse's 2nd release - Without a Voice by L³!
In the depths of a dark and unforgiving forest, an exiled princess whiles her time in solitude. For a girl raised in the lap of comfort, the woods are 2020-03-06 01:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Today, we're excited to announce our new publishing wing: Bellhouse, by Studio Élan.
At Bellhouse, we'll be publishing small games that we didn't make ourselves, but that we think are neat. Many of these titles will be side projects from Studio Élan members and friends. One thing that they'll ...
2020-02-29 19:05:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Valentine's Day!
Have you heard the sounds of magic in the air? Sweet Dreams, the Celeste Academy theme song, is up for download for you all!
If you haven't heard it yet, take a listen above. Honestly, we've been putting it on loop all day! Thanks to all of your support, we're able to create projects like this: stories filled with love, magic, and gay. We're going to keep expanding Celeste Academy as much as we can! Also, because of you all, games like Lock and Key, Summer a...
2020-02-15 00:00:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Carida uses her knife to slide the chopped tomato into her pot. “What they didn’t know was that this moment would be recorded in history… the beginning of the Spaghetti Alliance!”
“This is the most commentary I’ve heard for dinner, and I was around after ...
2020-02-14 15:07:41 +0000 UTC View PostWhat's up gamers,
I'm here today with another update on the progress for Highway Blossoms: Next Exit. Things are cruising along right now, with the first draft of the script done and with edits and rewrites about to start. We realized after finishing the roughs that the two stories, revolving around Amber + Marina and Tess respectively, were a bit disjointed. So, we're adding a couple more scenes and details that'll help tie those two narratives together. The art and music are ...
2020-02-08 22:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Video description: with izzy's message arriving safely, there is only one more left to go. the more that i learn about human beings, the less that i feel i understand. it seems that they are very prone to give advice that they should follow themselves. perhaps this is what makes them different. i have met many different beings, but i find humans to be the most interesting.
yet, there are mysteries. i still don't understand fully COOL. can you tell me a co...
2020-02-05 21:31:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Video description: hanna's message has arrived safely, and there are still more to come.
i am not sure that i understand nostalgia. every human seems to interpret it differently. is it a good feeling? a bad one?
perhaps someday i will experience nostalgia. i hope that i can recognize it.
i have improved my understanding of time. for example, i can confidently say that i will see you in approximately 10,080 minutes.
does this also...
2020-02-01 15:58:11 +0000 UTC View Post
video description: a message from quinn! this is just one of many. what did you think? is four years a lot for humans? quinn says it is a lot when a person is alone, but because it can be filled with many new things, four years can past by very fast. time is a very hard concept to grasp. i do know the words for it. i think i should say, "see you in 168 hours!" how is that? very "COOL"? please comment if it is "COOL".
The first audio log...
2020-01-22 21:44:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Carida huffs and wipes her forehead. An assortment of snacks are laid across her kitchen: cookies shaped like swords and shields, a loaf of monkey bread, and a carefully laid out tray of cheese and crackers.
She places the covers on all the plates to protect them du...
2020-01-14 08:27:46 +0000 UTC View PostWhew, that title was a mouthful. Anyway, here's a quick teaser of the remix that Singto Conley is doing for us of the Heart of the Woods Ending Theme. It'll be included in the HotW Collector's Edition and digitally once that comes out.
Check it out on 2020-01-07 18:11:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hiya!
Another year has come and gone, but it's also the start of a brand new one. We're more excited than ever for what the future holds for us and for our ongoing projects. Now that the Backerkit is closed we'll be working on processing and delivering the Kickstarter goods as well as bringing voices to Heart of the Woods, which is nearing completion!
As you probably saw yesterday, we've released a new poll for Celeste Academy where you can decide Carida's next date, as written by...
2020-01-03 01:22:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Carida lays in her bed, breathless. In pajamas and freshly showered, the last few hours seem even more vivid than before.
The moonlight filtering through the canopy and onto the forest floor, Lulina’s haunting voice echoing into the night, and the lights that swirled and spun around them…
She closes her eyes. Her mind runs in circles and her heart beats loudly in her chest.
... 2019-12-31 07:36:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Tonight is the first night of Hanukkah! To mark the beginning of the wintertime festival of lights, Sherri and Kealey are lighting the first flame of the menorah together.
We here at Studio Élan wish you a very happy Hanukkah!
Art by theo
2019-12-22 19:54:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey y'all,
I'm here to pop in and give you a quick update on the progress for Highway Blossoms: Next Exit. In case you missed it, HB:NE is a story DLC for Highway Blossoms that we announced a couple of months ago. It's set roughly a month after the end of the main game, and sees Amber and Marina, as well as the Trio, return to the city of Las Vegas.
It's been a really interesting experience working on this expansion. I expected writing Amber and Marina again to be lik...
2019-12-17 20:38:21 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, Rachel here! As you may have heard, I’m going to be directing our newly announced game, Lock and Key. As such, I wanted to take a minute to talk about why we decided to go with magical girls and the significance of the genre to yours truly.
I’ve wanted to explore the magical girl genre for years, and even had the basic concepts for Lock and Key established before HotW’s rele...
2019-12-11 20:20:16 +0000 UTC View Post
What does it mean to be a magical girl?
This is the question at the heart of Lock and Key, a magical mystery set in a world shaped by your interpretation of the magical girl genre.
Sherri and Kealey Cohen, now a married couple in their late 20s, left the title of magical girls behind them over a decade ago. Now on the verge of losing their powers and entering a life of true normalcy, a string of unexplainable murders forces them to come out of retirement for one las...
2019-12-07 18:00:33 +0000 UTC View PostHey ny'all,
Perhaps one of the most important polls of your life. We need your help to decide on a crucial character detail for Hanna, one of the heroines from Samayuuni. She's very sentimental, with a fondness for taking pictures and scrapbooking and more. One of her most treasured possessions is a stuffed animal that was gifted to her by a dear friend long ago. Problem is, we can't decide what s...
2019-11-22 14:05:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Carida's body sways slightly as the trolley bell rings, and the car jolts to a stop. She descends the steps patiently behind a young man with a cane, the only other one disembarking, turning to give the driver a wave as she hops from the final step before realizing that there isn't one. Of course--she remembers with a smile as she notices the faint aura running along the wires racing down the road pa...
2019-11-21 07:10:55 +0000 UTC View Post
We created this Patreon page back in mid-2018. It feels so close, yet so far away... Back then, we'd just released the demo for Heart of the Woods, and the full release of the game was still half a year away. We were looking for your support, hoping that you'd believe in us enough to pledge a bit of your hard-earned money to help push us along. With that support, we were able to release Heart of the Woods to resounding acclaim, and we were able to continue our dream of...
2019-11-19 17:48:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Meowdy! In addition to writing Quinn, I'm working with Adi on the art for Samayuuni. This post is just to talk a bit about the characters from my POV, and hopefully provide some insight into their overall designs.
👀 The main character… more on her soon~☆
Meowdy!
minute here with this month's Patreon update. If you're reading this, we heart you so much. Thank you for the support! We hope the new tier setup is to your liking, because we really are excited for you all to see what we have in store for the coming months. From now on, expect a bigger amount of meatier posts, like sneak peeks from our games! Which, btw, we have quite a few of. Our $5 patrons can expect to see more of these games in the near fu...
2019-11-02 00:51:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
This has been a super busy month for us! Most of it has been devoted to the Kickstarter, of course. That just concluded yesterday, and we managed to raise a whopping 32k! Considering we were worried about even hitting our base goal when we launched, raising almost double our target amount has been pretty crazy. Every time we'd pass a new thousand dollar threshold there'd be a litt...
2019-11-01 23:46:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
As the title says, we're once again going to be changing our Patreon tiers around. The tl;dr is that we're going to be condensing down to just two tier levels: $2 and $5. The $2 tier is replacing our $1 tier (though if you're currently a Patron for $1, you can stay at that level and continue to get everything you've been getting!) and will get you monthly updates as well as voting privileges. The $5 tier gets you… everything else.
To e...
2019-10-29 19:23:28 +0000 UTC View Post( Welcome to Celeste Academy! New here? Why not check out our Celeste Academy introductory post to get started! We're celebrating the spookiest month by making this month's featured poll + date open to the public, so invite all your witchiest friends to cast their spells for this month's vote! )
2019-10-23 05:41:44 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends, it’s me, Adi! I love Celeste Academy too much so I wanted to do a little bit on my favourite MagicMotioner Lindseeeeeey! I hope you all enjoy and have a lovely day!
Every Thursday for the last couple of weeks, Lindsey has been streaming in a ...
2019-10-15 17:14:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Barks, meows, roars, and several sounds that are impossible to name rumble like distant thunder as Carida approaches the Familiar Shelter. Well, it's unfamiliar to her, since this is her first time visiting.
Located just a short walk from the Celeste campus, the Familiar Shelter is a temporary home for abandoned and neglected fami...
2019-10-08 01:26:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Sorry this post is a bit late compared to when the announcement went up. Anyway, we're super thrilled to announce the voice actors for Heart of the Woods. Narrowing it down to this cast was an endeavor. We had dozens of amazing auditions, and the selection process was difficult. We wanna give a sincere thanks to everyone who applied. With that said, here's the cast, and be sure to check out the trailer as well! Rachel wrote the script, while minute put the whole thing toge...
2019-10-01 05:51:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's sneak peek is offers a glimpse of what's to come in our upcoming game, Samayuuni. Joining us for this game is advarcher as a background artist, and what you see below are some of his first works for us. Samayuuni is going to cover a LOT of different locations, so this is just a glimpse of what's to come.
