September 24th marks Aspen's birthday! To celebrate, here's a brand new illustration of her with a certain fox, illustrated by adirosa~
You can download the higher res version below!
2024-09-24 17:32:08 +0000 UTC View Post
We're entering the final week of our game jam, as teams are wrapping up and polishing their projects. Here's some updates from last week from each of the teams!
We've hit the final week! It feels like the jam just started yesterday… September really flew by. Anyway, given this'll be the last progress report before Upwards, Rai...
2024-09-23 18:21:01 +0000 UTC View Post
(see week 1's update post here)
We're on week 2 of our internal game jam and we're still going strong! Each of our teams has a big update list for you, so please enjoy~
Hello! Progress on Upwards, Rain! The Post Office of Farewells has been exciting this week and I can't wait to get into it, so let's… not!
Last week had the huge milestone of the writing b...
2024-09-16 19:30:15 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm back with another batch of screenshots from Clymene's route in Love in a Bottle! If you haven't met her yet, you can see my previous post with screenshots from her route or play the demo for our upcoming point-and-click yuri on Steam & 2024-09-13 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
As we recently announced, a few of our members are doing an internal game jam to make brand new (and free) yuri games for you all in September! If you don't know, a game jam is where developers have a set amount of time to make completely new games - in our case, we have 3 weeks to make new yuri & yuri-aligned games.
Now that over a week has passed since we began, it's time for a small update from each of our teams!
Hi! I'm caps, the scenario lead, write...
2024-09-09 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Today we announced the Studio Élan Garden Variety: Dandelion Set, an internal game jam where we'll be working on four titles through the month of September. If you've never heard of a game jam before, it's where people work together to make games in a limited amount of time, sometimes with a theme. For us, we're making yuri-themed games in 3 weeks during September!
These...
2024-09-01 22:24:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Today we're announcing a brand new collaboration!
We're happy to announce a new partnership with renowned yuri game developer company SukeraSparo, known for works such as "The Expression Amrilato".
With SukeraSparo's help, we're planning a crowdfunding campaign to help fund the Japanese translation of Please Be Happy, our emotionally-moving slice-of-life yuri visual novel about a foxgirl, which will also feature new special goods too!
We look forward to working together with...
2024-08-30 00:30:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again, Magical Girls! It’s Rachel here with another Lock and Key update. We’ve been hard at work developing more choice-based scene variations and improved CGs, the latter of which you’ll be able to see multiple examples of in the revamped demo - but you can also see some of the updated artwork here! There’s also some fun extras to look forward to, like these super cute chibi versions of...
2024-08-28 17:59:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone! Today I've got some screenshots from Clymene's route in Love in a Bottle. These are from her second event, but if you want no spoilers at all then it's best to skip this post.
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It's a double art day! To celebrate Twofold being in the Wholesome Games Steam Celebration (and currently on sale on Steam & itchio), Theo illustrated a new art piece featuring the trio!
A higher resolution v...
2024-08-15 17:40:47 +0000 UTC View Post
August is halfway over, which means... It's our favorite foxgirl's birthday! Happy birthday, Miho ❤️
To celebrate, here's a brand new artwork of her by adi!
A higher res version is attached below as well as the banner crop.
2024-08-15 15:37:36 +0000 UTC View Post
As we've mentioned in previous update posts, Lock & Key is getting an art upgrade! The main artist, milkgrrl, is redoing some of the artwork to make it more stylized and expressive. Most of these artwork upgrades are finished and we've shown off some of them before, so today we're compiling a lot of the new artwork into one post.
For reference, this is what the old character sprite art look...
It's been a bit since we've shared any updates on this fairy-featuring fable, so today we're gonna change that! GUI artist Faerieko recently started on the menus and textbox for the game, so we're able to start putting together some early screenshots for Steam. We'll be launching the Steam page for that as soon as possible!
2024-08-08 23:43:56 +0000 UTC
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Hello again, Magical Girls! It’s Rachel here again with another Lock and Key update. As we close in on our Kickstarter launch date, we’ve been spending our time finalizing the new assets and structural changes to the revamped demo as well as getting a few little extra goodies for the campaign page! They’re still in the works at the moment, but we’ll be sure to share them once they’re ready to go.
As we look toward the beginning of the campaign, we’re also taking time to do t...
2024-08-02 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya everyone, just a quick post today! We're going to be at Otakon in Washington, DC this weekend - we'll be at booth 102 in the Dealer's Room, sharing a booth with our friends at Studio Nekomata. Here's where we are on the map!
Like at Offkai Expo, we'll have physical copies ...
2024-07-31 16:51:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Having fun this summer? Here's a new wallpaper and avatar by Caps of Summer!
Howdy-o, friends! This month's illustration is by Kino Nekko and stars the slang-slinging park Yellowstone. This will be going out to merch club members as a postcard!
Hello, this is papaya, the scene director/scripter for A Tithe in Blood. I'm responsible for putting everything together in the engine among other tasks related to directing scenes, like requesting or creating additional assets and effects.
Time sure flies, doesn't it? You blink, and suddenly an entire act is already 85% scripted. As it turns out, working on a visual novel set in the winter when you're enduring a hot summer really motivates you! I'm going to be digging into the next act...
2024-07-15 20:18:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hop in the water or enjoy the shade with some treats~
Here's a new Twofold illustration drawn by Theo for the Steam Summer Sale! If you don't have Twofold yet, you can pick it up for 20% off as part of the sale on Steam a...
2024-06-29 16:00:23 +0000 UTC View PostHello again, magical friends! CD Rachel here with another L&K update and some dev insights!
This has been a big month for us; some new additions to the team have steered us in a bold and well-oriented direction that I know will lead to Lock and Key becoming the best version of itself it can be. That also means a more efficient dev cycle and smoother progress, and that’s always a good thing! In more immediate terms, it also...
2024-06-28 18:20:46 +0000 UTC View PostThere's only 1 more week to order Tara's Makeship Pride Month plushie! This is a limited run and after next week she won't be available. If you want your own Tara plushie, be sure to grab her while you can.
Like I said, she's part of the Pride Month campaigns on Makeship, which means she'll come with a b...
2024-06-25 20:44:37 +0000 UTC View Post
To celebrate the release of A Tithe in Blood's announcement & demo, caps illustrated Honoka for this month's wallpaper & avatar!
Time for another LiaB CG process! Next is a CG I struggled with a little bit. (p.s. if you haven't read the previous CG process posts, read them here!)
Right off the bat, you might be noticing something funny. Why is Ankora's sketch so loose compared to Sandy's!? Well, I actually wasn't sure if I wa...
2024-06-20 19:46:18 +0000 UTC View Post
In just a few days, it'll be the 8th anniversary of Highway Blossoms' release... Crazy! We'd originally hoped to have the first volume of the light novel out this month to celebrate, but unfortunately that's not gonna happen because we're still pretty early in that process. We do have this adorable art of Tess, though. Our merch club backers will be getting postcard with it this month!
She was illustrated by Usahiko 2024-06-11 01:25:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a link to access all the new and limited-restock items that we just made available! Here are some of the highlights:
-Physical copies of Blackberry Honey by Ebi-Hime
-A new set of VirPro keychains
-Our collab merch with Studio Nekomata
-the final few Meemo plushies
-the...
2024-06-07 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, happy pride month! A few of us recently went to California for OffKai Expo, an annual vtuber convention held in Burlingame. We had a booth there, helped sponsor the event by providing some artwork, and even held a panel at the convention! It was a really great time and a well organized convention. We even met some of you there - if you said hi to us, thanks for dropping by! Seeing people who actually know about our games (and even like them!) was really inspiring.
At OffKai...
2024-06-06 21:38:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Our second game announcement for the night at OffKai Expo is a collaboration project!
Fleeing a life that you couldn’t bear, you sought to find a purpose in the mountains. The cold winds called to you and promised adventure. Scraping together your life savings, you flew to a cold, distant place. But adventure has a price. Now you find yourself in a small mountain town as the villagers prepare for t...
Announcing our first new game of the night from our OffKai Expo panel - A Tithe in Blood!
A Tithe in Blood is a dark, atmospheric mystery yuri visual novel. Asakawa Honoka, a university student from Sapporo, escapes her everyday life by using blood magic. This allows her to travel to another world from her own–and with it, she meets the mage named Yasue. However, things in this ...
The time is here - you can now get your very own Tara plushie via Makeship! Pre-orders have started and will be up for the whole month of June.
Tara is part of their Pride Month campaigns, which means every plushie will have a plushie-sized pride cape come with it!
2024-05-30 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Hello again, Magical Friends! Gosh, has it really been an entire month already? I don’t know about you, but May passed in a blur. What a strange time of year.
Over the last month, our team unfortunately suffered some deeply unfortunate events on personal and familial levels. As such, progress has slowed down somewhat in order to allow time for everyone to recover. Élan has always been amazing when it comes to supporting its team members and promoting a healthy work/life balance, and ...
2024-05-28 19:15:28 +0000 UTC View Post