This month's illustration is by dims! It's Melanie in her winter outfit from a couple years ago~ We'll be sending postcards of this out to merch club members at the end of the month! We'll also be sending out the bonus illustration for everyone who's pledged to the tier for the past three months.
Hey everyone,
After the hustle and bustle of October, November was a much chiller and slower month overall. Between vacations and post-release breaks, a lot of us have been taking time off or working on other things. Still, as always, there's been some progress and announcements! Here's what's up:
-In terms of Patreon, the items for October and November's merch club went out a few days ago! Sorry on the delay for those ones. We'll send out this month's as soon as the illustrations...
2023-12-06 21:52:24 +0000 UTC View PostThese postmortems were written to celebrate the 1st anniversary of Please Be Happy and were included in the anniversary booklet that we released, too.
Adirosa Postmortem
In just a couple days, it'll be the one year anniversary of releasing Please Be Happy. This time last year I was frantically putting the game together, at a grueling pace of… what was it… implementing 3-5 scenes every day? I remember feeling both despair and determination at knowing t...
2023-11-21 21:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a .pdf version of the anniversary merch booklet that we released back at Elanfest a few weeks ago. It contains some new art, the postmortems we shared earlier, as well as a bonus short story.
Hey y'all,
As promised, here's the early access link to pick up a copy of the Highway Blossoms and Please Be Happy records from Very Ok Vinyl! Sales will open to the public 24 hours from now, so there's one day of exclusivity to you guys. There are also just a fewwwww copies of the Heart of the Woods soundtrack left too, which are available for a discoun...
2023-11-21 19:08:49 +0000 UTC View PostJust a quick note to say that you guys will get 24 hour early access to the Please Be Happy OST vinyl and Highway Blossoms Dusk vinyl from Very Ok Vinyl! We'll make another post at 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern time on November 21 with the details. Sales will open up to the general public a day later! There are a few cool variants for the PBH soundtrack, so if you're a collector, you'll wanna check em out early, because quantities are limited.
2023-11-21 01:19:21 +0000 UTC
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This week's merch club illustration is by Ma_draws, with this super cute picture of Miho. We'll also be sending out postcards of last week's Melanie illustration as a bonus!
This month we have another bonus Melanie artwork illustrated by Sayuui! It has our girl in front of a beautiful field of stars instead of flowers this time.
Hello, world!
We've finally reached the end of one of our busiest months in a long time. Now to relive it by going through everything that happened in October!
We started off the month with the 2023 iteration of our Élan Festival! We announced and showed so much during that that it would take a whole post of its own to recap it all. So it's a good thing we posted one of those! You can als...
2023-11-02 02:32:05 +0000 UTC View Post
HAPPY TWOFOLD EVERYONE!!! Big big big congrats to the developers for releasing Twofold and if you are not currently playing it, what are you waiting for!!! A very special month and wallpaper as Caps, the person behind these swag wallpapers is also TF's director! Included are three avatars as well as the wallpaper itself.
2023-10-29 17:48:17 +0000 UTC
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After over a decade in the making, Twofold is finally fully released and playable. Follow Olive, a college student struggling to get through their classes and on the brink of failing when they're given one last chance—take a filler course and pass it. Through this they find themself in the middle of a feud between two former friends which has swept up their clubs and the people around them.
T...
2023-10-27 21:10:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone! I hope you've all been enjoying the Summer demo. For this month's illustration (and wallpapers), we have an illustration of the main cast of Summer from Myuto! Myuto is one of the original artists from Highway Blossoms and a close friend of ours.
The wallpaper comes in 2 desktop, 2 mobile sizes, and I hope you use whichever is most appropriate for you!
We'll also be sending out postcard versions of thi...
2023-10-20 20:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Friday! Our latest LGBT+ romance visual novel, Twofold, releases October 27th on Steam and itch.io. The game has been in development for over a decade and we're so happy to help bring it to the world next week.
2023-10-20 18:21:11 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone! Thank you so all so much for the kind words regarding the covers. I'm finally at my computer after a month of traveling, so I wanted to share higher quality versions of the vinyl covers for everyone! I've also attached them to this post for easy downloading.
I'm so excited to own these in vinyl format! Very OK Vinyl has always been such a delight to work with, and this time is no exception. I've drawn some yet to be revealed stickers too so hopefully that along with the pre...
2023-10-13 01:21:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Weren't able to attend the Élan Festival premiere or want all of our updates in text format? Here's a recap of everything!
p.s. you can also rewatch the video here on our YouTube.
Our first announcement is that Please Be Happy has passed over 5k copies sold! PBH will be celebrating its 1st birthday-anniversary next month and to celeb...
It's time for a trip to the stars!
We're thrilled to share with you guys a demo for our next big game "Summer at the Edge of the Universe," a solarpunk story. In this game, Summer Nansen reunites with her three best friends for an intergalactic journey to the edge of existence.
This demo contains (almost) all of the game's first act, up to around the point where the routes split off. We estimate it'll take between one and two hours of playtime. We're looking at releasing the full ...
2023-10-01 23:18:43 +0000 UTC View Post
The second ever Élan Festival will air on our YouTube channel tomorrow at 4PM PT / 7PM ET, where we'll show off new projects, game updates, and more! The video will be archived so if you miss it, don't fret.
The Élan Festival is our annual showcase & celebration of our LGBT+ games with updates on our projects, exclusive previews, and announcements about things to come. This is our second year hosting the event and you can see our first event 2023-09-17 16:44:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Today we have an adorable new illustration of the Highway Blossoms gals by Chadolbaegi! Thanks so much to her for the art~
The final episode in the National Park Girls series is playable now on Steam and 2023-09-08 20:54:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey y'all,
Short update because we're running late (as you can see from the date). We'll have plenty of stuff to share in a few weeks though!
-August had a LOT of work hours spent on National Park Girls and Twofold. After a couple years of anticipation, the final episode of NPG will be releasing tomorrow! The NPG team has been hard at work ever since episode 4, and they can't wait to get it out the door at last. adi's currently putting the finishing touches on the NPG artbook whic...
2023-09-08 03:15:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi there!
A bit late, but August's wallpaper by Caps features miss Madison Raines from Heart of the Woods. She was the victor of the poll we held earlier in the month! It's been a good few weeks for Maddie on the Patreon. Like always, there's both a wallpaper and an avatar available to use.
Check out other wallpapers by Caps here in the tag!
2023-09-04 00:55:56 +0000 UTC View Post
This Friday we have a special announcement- the release date of National Park Girls Episode 5, the final episode in the series!
That's right, the episode 5 will release exactly 2 weeks from today. It's been a long time coming and the finale is finally here. 2023-08-25 15:50:42 +0000 UTC View Post
As a special gift to our $5+ Patrons to celebrate the upcoming release of National Park Girls episode 5, the final episode in the series, we'll be giving away copies of episodes 1 and 2 for free!
Hello everyone! We hope you've been surviving the heat!! There's a lot of lovely flowers that bloom in summer, so be sure to appreciate the unique blooms that only appear this time of year. I went to see water lilies in the nearby gardens.
For this month we have a beautiful picture by chadolbaegi of Maddie surrounded by sunflowers! I've attached a phone wallpaper version of this image as well.
-adi
2023-08-23 02:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Princess Allison gazed out her window, a warm breeze rustling the thin cotton sleeves of her gown.
It's getting warmer now, she thought. If I stroll through the gardens now, perhaps...
She shook away the thought, stamping down the bud of hope pushing up through her heart. It's best not to overthink these things. Still, flowers bloomed tall and widespread below, their perfu...
Unbelievably, it's been three whole years since First Snow was released! That's right, in the middle of summer!!! It was one of our first Bellhouse projects and we are honored with the amount of love that it's received.
As a little bit of a thank you, we have a princess AU for Allison story post (with illustrations) also posting about now by Theo! It's very lovely, so be sure to read it!
"I haven't read First Snow though!"
Well, what are you waiting for? 2023-08-19 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Meowdy! It's Theo! I'm here to talk about ✨POLISH ✨!
Making Twofold as best as it can be is super high on our priority list. I think we've definitely got something extremely special from a directing, story, and overall feeling standpoint—so, why not make it shine with extra flourishes and designs?
The main things we're looking at right now are sound effects and ambience, voice acting, UI animations and smoothness, and extra visuals like chibis, effects, and cut-ins. I'm Theo...
2023-08-08 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHey y'all,
Here's the rundown for this month's happenings!
-We finished the script for the Summer at the Edge of the Universe common route! Clocking in around 27,000 words, it's a good bit longer than PBH's was, although this one has a little bit of branching, so a playthrough will be closer to 20-23k words. Now, it's time to put everything together. We've also begun recording voice acting for the demo/common route, and just finished a 3 hour session with Summer's VA earlier today...
2023-08-02 02:59:38 +0000 UTC View PostAugust 1st is Olive from Twofold's birthday! To celebrate, we've got a lot of new stuff to share featuring them.
First off is the voiced comic you can see above! Olive is voiced by Dottovu and August is voiced by Felicia Valenti.
Second is a few new screenshots.
The Twofold team is hard a...
2023-08-01 17:08:31 +0000 UTC View Post