That's right—one week from today we'll be launching a Kickstarter to fund PC physical copies of Please Be Happy, Heart of the Woods, and Highway Blossoms!
(this is a mockup of the webstore editions)
Like we said in the March update post, these are only going to be the PC editions of the game, although the physical Switch and PlayStation copies of Heart of the Woods should go on sale t...
Please Be Happy and Twofold will be participating in The Storyteller's Festival on Steam later this month!
The Storyteller's Festival is a Steam event hosted by Two and a Half Studios to celebrate narrative-driven games. The event will be hosted from March 25th to April 1st.
To announce this, adi and theo collaborated on a new artwork of Aspen and Millie!
"Welcome home, my love."
This month, we have another illustration by Roarke, also known as LavenderIncubus. Includes a phone wallpaper version if you'd like to use it~
2023-03-01 20:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone,
With another month in the books, we've got big news to share today. The Summer progress train continues, with a good chunk of Izzy route writing being completed. Sarah finished up a couple more songs for the soundtrack, too, one of which we'll be sharing in a post later this month. It's one of my recent favorites; I keep listening to it just for fun, even when I'm not working on the game itself.
2023-03-01 19:37:26 +0000 UTC
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Here's another cute icon and wallpaper combo by caps, this time featuring Tara!
If you missed it, you can also see the Aspen wallpaper they did last month.
Feel free to download them and use them as your own avatars or laptop...
2023-02-27 20:34:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello friends! It's adi again with a new schedule!!!
It's a little useless, but there is some information on it... Basically, Wednesday/Friday I'll have to see based on how far along I am on the other days. I have a trip coming up so I won't be around next week and the week after, so I'll have to see what needs finishing before I go.
As always, you can find me going live at Studio Élan [LIVE]!
H...
2023-02-26 13:48:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Meowdy everyone! A few years ago we had a CuriousCat account where we answered some of your questions about us and our VNs and now we've decided to bring it back in a different form!
Just for our patrons, you can use the link above to submit questions for us to answer in future Q&A Patreon-exclusive posts. These will be their own posts that we'll do sporadically, so feel free to submit questions at any time!
Some general notes:
Hi everyone, it's adi!
I've been streaming some of the work I've been doing for Summer, and starting from this week, I'll be streaming some stuff that won't be posted publicly yet 👀
You can find me going live at Studio Élan [LIVE]!
Here are the links to the patreon-only streams - please don't share this and catch you there!
Today, 4 years ago, we launched Heart of the Woods and invited you all to explore Eysenfeld's mysteries with us. So as a special treat, we have a new artwork as well as a short story to go with it!
This lovely Tara Morgan artwork is by lavenderincubus!
And to go along with it, Rachel wrote a short story based on the art that 2023-02-15 18:48:44 +0000 UTC View Post
We're having a sale for Valentine's Day on our webstore, where a few items that feature some of the couples from our games are on sale for up to 20% off. You can see the full list of items that are on sale here. Additionally, we have a bonus discount just for patrons: use the code newchapter23 to get an additional 10% off your order. This applies sitewide, not just items that are on-sale righ...
2023-02-07 17:20:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Meowdy! This is Theo, CG artist for Twofold and writer for Quinn's route in Samayuni.
For 2/4, aside from the comic, I did some personal work to celebrate Caprice's big day. The process is sort of similar to how I work on Twofold CGs, so I thought it'd be fun to see it come together.
The color sketch! I looked at a ton of different aquarium photos, but the feel I ended up being drawn to w...
2023-02-05 18:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone, it's 2/4 which means it's Twofold day! To celebrate, the developers of Twofold, Salty Salty Studios, have prepared a lot of exciting updates about the game.
For starters, we have an official casting announcement! Our protagonist Olive will be voiced by Dottovu who you might remember from Please Be Happy as being the voice of Miho and Lisa Reimold will be reprising her role as the energetic Caprice.
Would you like to hear them? Maybe... watch an in-game preview from...
2023-02-04 17:50:00 +0000 UTC View Post
To help show off the club members, we'll be releasing a series of comics featuring the cast of Twofold! As Caprice's birthday is tomorrow (2/4), here's her comic first. These comics are illustrated by theo!
2023-02-03 21:28:59 +0000 UTC View PostHello hello, from a month into 2023. We hope everyone has had a great start to the year so far. We know we sure have!
If you've tuned into one of the recent art streams then you'll have already seen, but we're diving into our next big project: Summer at the Edge of the Universe. After letting it simmer for a couple years while we worked on Please Be Happy, we've been off to a quick start. As it stands, we have 14 music tracks done or over halfway done, at least 60,000 words of script wr...
2023-02-02 20:10:13 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Over on our second YouTube channel adi has recently started livestreaming artwork for Summer at the Edge of the Universe. If you've missed her live, you can see the sped up versions of the art streams and be sure to turn on notifications for the channel!
Here's some of the work in progress character artworks she's done so far:
2023-02-01 17:52:35 +0000 UTC
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Hi all, today's post is a twofer. First up, we have a cute Aspen wallpaper/avatar combo drawn by Caps! Caps is one of the lead developers of Twofold and First Snow, and also helped out a lot with the scripting of Please Be Happy.
Additionally, we have a few more of the early scene drafts. This is a follow-up to <...
2023-01-19 21:55:53 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone, hope you're having a great January so far! As our first (non-New Years) post for 2023, we have a few updates for Summer at the Edge of the Universe, our upcoming good-vibes-only solarpunk visual novel.
In our last post we said that we would be focusing on Samayuuni as our big project. Now, we have some new artwork to share for it!
As a preview just for our news...
2023-01-18 21:33:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello and welcome to another new year!
As we bid farewell to 2022, like always, we wanted to leave off with a couple brief messages from members of our team. This has been a busy, busy year and we’ve really appreciated everyone’s support all throughout it. We’ve asked Melanie to put together a quick video to wrap things up, as she looks back on what we did this year and what’s coming in the next one.
To summarize things to come:
Part of the reason it took so long for us to release Please Be Happy is because we started the script over after getting a decent chunk of the way into the story, and reoutlined the plot as a whole. Following up on Heart of the Woods, we wanted the story to have a breezier pace and more focus on dialogue, compared to HotW which was very prose-heavy. At the time, we figured the total length would clock in somewhere around 60-70,000 words, which is roughly the length of Fi...
2022-12-20 17:08:33 +0000 UTC View PostIf we were to, say, make a plushie for one of our characters... who would you like to see the most?
2022-12-08 20:55:19 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
2022 is almost at an end, and like lots of other people, I'm a little stunned by how fast this year has gone by. This has easily been our busiest year to date, and 2023 doesn't look like it's gonna be any slower. It's been about a week and a half since we released Please Be Happy, but we're already looking ahead to the future.
Obviously, releasing PBH is the biggest news we've had in a while. It's our first full game since Heart of the Woods came out in early 2019, s...
2022-12-02 05:07:35 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! Over the next few months, I'll be drawing a few Please Be Happy images for patrons only, and I wanted to hear your thoughts on what you'd like to see, and then we could run some polls! Whether it's any of the characters solo or couple pictures, I'm open to any ideas - just comment down below!
If there's any stories you'd like to see as well - I'd also be keen to hear.
2022-11-28 04:57:38 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, happy holidays! We're having several sales going on right now, both for our games and merch, so here's a quick glance at all of them.
Over on Steam, itch.io, and GoG, all of our (non Please Be Happy) games & DLC ...
Whoops, I forgot to crosspost this yesterday! PBH is now available!!! I drew this one.
- adi
2022-11-23 01:35:21 +0000 UTC View Post
After over 3 years of development, we're so excited to finally bring you Please Be Happy- our latest wlw visual novel, from several of the creators behind Heart of the Woods and a few new faces.
Only 1 more day until Please Be Happy releases on PC! Today's countdown artwork is by @RatedKatzchen, an amazing artist who's worked with some of us in the past!
2022-11-21 00:06:17 +0000 UTC View Post
There's only 2 days left until Please Be Happy releases on PC!
Today's countdown artwork is by @ToppeHatte, one of the developers for First Snow and Twofold who also worked on Please Be Happy
2022-11-19 23:10:59 +0000 UTC View Post
We're excited to announce an original ending song for Please Be Happy, Someone Someday!
Composed by @esselfortium and sung by @Dottovuu, the voice actress for Miho, the song will release on November 21st, 14:00PST on YouTube.
It also features live strings by the talented Michaela Nachtigall, as well as lyrics by Josh and Adi.
It'll be ...
2022-11-19 13:44:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Please Be Happy releases in just 3 days! Today's countdown artwork is by @azworth, our wonderful programmer for Please Be Happy and a fellow visual novel developer!
2022-11-18 23:34:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Please Be Happy releases in 4 days! Today's countdown artwork of Aspen is by @huixcia, an illustrator who helped work on the backgrounds for both Please Be Happy and Heart of the Woods
2022-11-17 23:54:29 +0000 UTC View Post