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Convention Exclusive Prints + Tara Plushie

Hope you're having a good weekend! Today we've got a few previews of some convention-exclusive prints we'll be selling, starting next weekend at OffKai Expo in Burlingame, California! Tickets for OffKai are already sold out, but if you managed to grab one beforehand then stop by our booth. We'll have a ton of merch for our games, including new keychains, physical copy bundles, and these convention-exclusive prints.

2024-05-26 20:29:31 +0000 UTC View Post

Women Wednesday

Happy Women Wednesday! Here's some new artworks by Theo of some of our women~

Juliet Birthday 2024

Happy birthday Juliet!! To celebrate her birthday today on May 11th, adi drew a new illustration for her~

You can download the high res version below.

Merch Updates + OffKai Expo

Merchandise Sale

We're going to be changing how we print and ship certain merch items, particularly shirts and other apparel. We plan to start offering higher quality garments with better image printing quality, and making them available to ship alongside other items from our store instead of needing to be a separate purchase. However, this means that we'll be carrying fewer designs and variations overall, and we're going to be bumping our baseline shirt price up to $...

Lock & Key Progress Update - April 2024

Hey there, magical friends! How are you? It’s Rachel here with another update on Lock and Key: A Magical Girl Mystery!

We’ve spent this month continuing our revamp alongside script revisions, resulting in both a newly polished third act and more great art! While a majority of said art is unfortunately spoiler-filled (it is a mystery, after all,) we do have a brand new Nightshade to round out our fully updated cast! Say hello to the new, improved, and definitely super cool r...

Without a Voice is now playable in browsers!

Our toxic fantasy yuri visual novel Without a Voice is now playable in browsers 💕 This includes the voice acting, so if you still haven't tried Without a Voice then now's a good time!

play it on itchio

 The Kickstarter for physical copies of WaV and merch for it is also still ongoing, but will end in about 9 days, so don't...

Papercraft Hanna by Ryono

Today's art post is a special one! It's a papercraft of Hanna by Ryono! If you're a Vocaloid fan, you may know her art from the music videos for Ojamamushi/おじゃま虫 by DECO*27 or Puzzle/パズル by クワガタP ! Ryono's artwork is created using tape and paper in addition to the illustrated elements. In addition to the final digital version, we've also included some detail shots of the original piece too so you can se...

Tara Plushie Coming Soon!

Today is Tara's birthday, so what better day to share that she's getting a plushie coming soon? We first shared a small preview of this plushie in our Patron-only Discord channel in our server, so be sure to join if you haven't already.

2024-04-19 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Without a Voice Update + Kickstarter Out Now!

The massive update to Without a Voice and the Kickstarter for physical copies of the game are now LIVE! 🎉

Steam - itch.io

This update includes some improvements to the game but most notably, Without a Voice is now with a voice! Cassidy is now voiced by Shara Kirby and Elowen is voiced by Natalie van Sistine. You can...

Miho Wallpaper + Avatar by Caps

Originally meant to be January's wallpaper, we ended up shuffling things around. Miho's now here to celebrate the start of spring!

Love in a Bottle Delay

Hi everyone, this isn't a post we want to make but it's one we need to make.

Love in a Bottle, as you may know, is a yuri dating sim developed by loveandisle that we're publishing through our publishing wing Bellhouse. While the game is very, very close to being done and will definitely be finished this year, it won't be ready in time for our announced April release date.

While the routes are finished writing-wise and all of the CGs are illustrated, the game still needs more time ...

Lock & Key Progress Update - March 2024

Long time no see, my fellow Magical Girl Appreciators! With the end of March (ALREADY) at hand, I thought it might be a good time to give you all an update on Lock and Key! As you’re probably already aware, our Magical Girl adventure has been undergoing a major revamp with regards to art, UI, and even an expanded story! Today I’d like to share some of that updated art; specifically, our new and improved sprites! While Sherri and Kealey’s new designs are public, I figured our lo...

Without a Voice - Fourth Anniversary and Exciting News!

It's been four years?! Time passes so quickly for us mortals… Happy fourth anniversary to Without a Voice! We have received so much support and love over the years, and we're so grateful. Somehow it's been four years since we released the game in 2020, and eight since we first announced it in 2016, phew!

It's been a busy few months at L³. Just a few days ago, we released the head well lost, the dullahan ...

Melanie Painting Study by Theo

This piece is a bit older, but no less beautiful for it. We'll be sending postcards of it out to our merch club patrons soon, along with the seasonal illustration for folks who've been pledged for the past 3 months!

Twofold Spring Illustration by Theo

The weather's warming, finally...

This beautiful illustration was drawn by Theo for the Steam Spring Sale! If you haven't yet, you can pick up Twofold for 10% off as part of the sale!

National Park Girls 5th Anniversary

Hey everyone, Syon here!

It's absolutely insane to think about it, but it's officially been five years since the first episode of National Park Girls launched. As cliche as it is to say, it feels like both a lifetime ago and not very long ago at all. Either way, I'm so glad we got Episode 5 out before reaching this milestone. That would've been embarrassing.

To celebrate this occasion, I'm stoked to reveal that we've got a couple announcements for ya!

The first of these anno...

Studio Élan 2024 Survey

Happy International Women's Day everyone!! I hope all of the fellow women out there are having a lovely day.

We've been working on something (big? small?) this week and are ready to start it- our next studio survey! It's been 2 years since our last studio survey so it's time for a checkup.

We use these (anonymous) surveys as a benchmark for how well we're doing, what areas we can improve on, and what you'd like to see from us in the future. It's a bit long but just remember paragr...

March 2024 Monthly Update

Here's a look at what we did in February!

-We figured out some longstanding issues for Izzy's route in Samayuni, so Syon's been working on revising that outline while progress continues on the other routes! We've got a long haul ahead of us as far as work on Summer goes, so expect a lot of "we made more writing and art progress in Summer!" posts as the year goes on. We'll be releasing a slightly updated version of the demo again sometime in the future - no major changes, but we're updat...

Morgan & Abby Full Art + Merch Club

Adirosa illustrated a new artwork featuring Morgan and Abby for the 5th anniversary of Heart of the Woods earlier this month, and here's the full illustrations!

The standalone versions of Morgan and Abby are attached as well~

We're also about to send out out next merch club edition! In case you haven't heard, we have a new tier called Merch Club where every month you'll get sent a sticker...

Heart of the Woods Morgan Wallpaper by Caps

To celebrate the 5th Anniversary of Heart of the Woods today, Caps' newest wallpaper features Morgan! 

Magnolia Miho&Aspen by Deji

Meowdy everyone!!! One of my extremely skilled friends Deji agreed to draw for one of our monthly illustrations and I, being extremely biased, wanted to get my girls with flowers in a spring-themed illustration!!!!!! I hope merch club members are excited to receive this postcard in the mail - I'm so excited to add it to my collection!

Plushies again?

So if we were to do another plushie now that we've done a Miho plushie, who would you want it to be? (this poll will close in 48 hours)

Love in a Bottle's demo released!!

You can now play a slice of Love in a Bottle, our latest ecchi yuri visual novel, for yourself as part of the Steam Next Fest!

This demo allows you to meet all of the women you can date in the full game as well as explore the town and try out a variety of hair style & outfits for Ankora~

2024-02-05 18:32:24 +0000 UTC View Post

Love in a Bottle Progress & Updates

Hi everyone! With January coming to and end, we were able to share a lot of new looks at our future projects, namely dropping the Summer at the Edge of the Universe demo and a demo preview of an unannounced project. Now, we want to share some progress & updates for 2024-01-30 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Snowy Curio Wallpaper + Avatar

January has almost come and gone so before it ends, here's a snowy day with Curio from Samayuuni, illustrated by caps!!

The demo for Sama has been in development for quite a while—have you had a chance to check it out on Steam or itch.io?

Either way, here's a ...

Love in a Bottle Parents CGs Process

It's time for more LiaB CG processes! If you haven't seen the previous one, here's a look at the process for one of Ankora & Sandy's CGs.

Next up, we've got kind of an unusual CG. Meet Ankora's birth mom, Quomi… circa a few hundred years ago and prior to like 10 pregnancies or so. I had the idea that Ankora's mom was once a plucky young beauty, functionally a PC98 bishoujo eroge protagoni...

(Merch Club) Hanna x Summer Kiss Illustration by Loveedreams

One of the cool parts about being one of the people that runs the Patreon is I get to decide who's featured in illustrations, especially for ones like this where there are a few potential love interests. Maybe there's just a teensy bit of bias!

Anyway, this month's illustration is by Loveedreams - be sure to check out her work! We'll be sending out postcards of this piece along with a bonus for merch club at the...

Love in a Bottle Campfire CG Process

Howdy, y'all! love "land" ""alyssa"" isle here! I've got some CG previews for my game Love in a Bottle for you today. These are spoilers, so please proceed with caution if you want to experience the game with completely fresh eyes, OR, plan to experience very specific and very convenient memory loss after reading this post.

We're giving a special spotlight this time to Sandy!

Sandy was or...

Happy New Year 2024

With another year in the books, we'd like to once again wish everyone a happy New Year from us here at Studio Élan. Even compared to past years, this one really flew by.

We started it off having just released Please Be Happy, and beginning work for Summer at the Edge of the Universe. In March, we launched our Kickstarter campaign to produce physical copies of our games and artbooks, which we shipped out later in the year in July. In June, we sponsored OffKai Expo, where we had a booth ...

Pitstop - A Highway Blossoms Short Story

From the Coattails patreon itself, Pitstop is b