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Early Access 0.1524.2 - Nozomi Reversal Path Update

Welp, it's been a whole extra day's work that I wasn't expecting, but here it is! 

This release brings a wealth of visual upgrades to various CGs as well as a couple of all-new ones, not to mention Risa's sprite getting brought up to par with the main girls. Her upgraded sprite's been put to good use in some newly-written scenes~

Speaking of, I did hit a block for Nozomi's Reversal story as I expected, so I decided to simply write up the outline I made in the previous update ...

News - Early Access Release Delayed Until Tomorrow

Hi, cakes! 

I mentioned this on my discord, but just to let the rest of you know, I've made the decision to delay this weekend's early access release until some time tomorrow. 

There's a good amount of new stuff to show, and I had a very productive weekend overall, but in the end I just ran out of time to get everything ready to show. And rather than release an update tonight with the game in its current state, I want to finish things up properly and put out a complete u...

Art Preview - Nozomi Reversal Route CG

Hello, cakes! We've got one more upcoming CG to show before the weekend's early access release and it's another good'un~

I didn't know if it was worth spoilering this. I think it's faiiirly common knowledge that there's a part in the game where Nozomi gets hold of the penlight, and this occurs quite early in her route. So, enjoy a couple pics of her turning the tables on her common interest buddy/stalker for a change.

2020-07-17 15:38:45 +0000 UTC View Post

Art Preview - New Risa Sprite Art

Told you we'd be seeing more of her~

Risa's a character I've been wanting to use more but, outside of Hiroko's storylines, I couldn't find any good reasons to involve her. That changed with my recent writing, and her expanded role has meant she needed at least a new outfit to go with her inclusion in a certain new scene. 

And while I was thinking about that, I figured I may as well g...

Public Release 0.1522.2 - Story Updates, Spanish Translation & General Polish

Hi, everyone!

This past month has had me making little improvements and additions to the game that didn't involve an awful lot of writing. Not that there isn't any new written content, but most of what we're looking at here is a lot more art (including a proper title screen at last!) and something I'm particularly happy about: The beginnings of a Spanish localization for Penlight!

It's in its early stages, and you need to go through the game's menus to get to it, but the first two...

Art Preview - Hiroko Route CG

SPOILER WARNING - This article talks about Hiroko's storyline, so be advised if you haven't read her route yet. Click the link in the article below if you want to see the full image preview. 

Hi, cakes!

This latest CG I'm getting done concerns Hiroko on her original storyline, and depicts a scene that occurs in the dramatic portion of the route. It's when Kyou, having realised he has romantic feelings for Hiroko, decides to rush out and tell her while he's st...

Early Access 0.1523.2 - Sayori Alter Path CG and Sleeper Agent Outline

Hey hey, cakes!

This is the release that I wanted to give you yesterday, but for the new art not arriving in time. That's been taken care of now, so have a quickie update! 

Besides the art upgrade, I also finished outlining the alternate choice you can make near the end of the Villainous Sleeper Agent storyline, so look out for that too if you want. Check the updated flowchart guide if you're having trouble finding the added bits from today and the weekend.

Enjoy the mi...

Early Access 0.1523.1 - Nozomi Reversal Route Outline

Caaaaakes!

This past fortnight I took it upon myself to take another crack at Nozomi's Reversal storyline. I'm slooowly getting there, and I worked in one of the scenes I've had in mind for some time, but we're still a long way off from a conclusion. Still, I now have an outline for the first week and as ever you're welcome to check it out and give critique if you can't wait for a more complete version~

I also outlined part of one of the unexplored choices in the Villainous Sleepe...

Art Preview - Sayori Alter Storyline CG

Note - SPOILERS in this article! This one is about Sayori's Alter storyline. Click the links in the article below if you want to see the full image previews. 

Hey, cakes! Let's start the month with another CG preview ^^

This one's something I wanted art for as soon as the scene was written, both because I didn't have as many ideas for Sayori-led CGs as the other girls, and also because I really wanted more scenes that don't involve everyone being in Kyou's ho...

Art Preview - Nozomi Kneeling Scenes

Note - Yep, SPOILERS ahead! This time we're talking about a couple of scenes late in Nozomi's storylines, and also the Villainous Devotion story path. Click the links in the article below if you want to see the full image previews.

Hi, cakes! Let's finish the week with another art preview ^^

This time I went for a CG set that could cover two very different scenes at once, both requiring Nozomi to kneel down by Kyou's couch. First up there's the part on Nozomi's ma...

Early Access 0.1522.2 - Nozomi Trance Path Minor Additions

Hello again, cakes~

So I've gone ahead and uploaded a slight update from last weekend's early access release. I've written up a couple of previously outlined story paths on Nozomi's Trance path, as a little bonus before I think to move my attentions onto other storylines again. The updated flowchart guide will show you where they are (marked in green). It's a relatively tiny update, but you're more than welcome to upgrade from the weekend's version and take a look :)

Next time I h...

Early Access 0.1522.1 - Story Updates, Spanish Translation & General Polish

Caaaaakes!

This past fortnight has had me spending a lot of time on beefing up the game in ways that didn't involve strictly writing a bunch of words on a page. There's finally a proper title screen! There's a recolour of the menus that play nicer with said new title screen! Spanish translation (up until the third day anyway)! More new art! I think they all contribute to give Penlight a more complete look, and I'm happy for getting it all done!

Buuuut, doing all that came *did* me...

News - Penlight Receives Partial Spanish Translation!

Hello, all!

Today I wanted to talk about something that's been happening behind the scenes that probably isn't exciting to a lot of you, but is something I'm nonetheless really stoked about. 

I have to say, as the developer of an indie visual novel that I'm still doing largely as a hobby, I had no plans whatsoever to consider localising the game into other languages. However, thanks to an opportunity offered to me by one of Penlight's biggest fans (you know them on my Discord...

Art Preview - New Penlight Title Screen

Hey, cakes!

The deluge of new arts this month continues, as I have yet another sketch of an upcoming work to show off~ 

This one is something I've wanted to get done for a very long time, although I had been struggling to come up with a decent design for it. Finally some inspiration struck, and I think what's being produced is the basis for a proper title screen that really helps to sell the moral ambiguity of the game while having much more visual appeal than the bland spira...

Art Preview - Villainous Devotion Ending CG

Note - Yep, SPOILERS ahead! This one concerns the ending of the Villainous Devotion story path. Click the link in the article below if you want to see the full image preview of this upcoming CG.  

Hey, cakes! Hope you're having a good weekend!

The new art's still coming in thick and fast, so there's a lot of new content I want to talk about ahead of next week's early access release~ This time we have yet another ending CG, which I think means more of the writ...

Public Release 0.1520.2 - Hiroko Route Continuation

Hey, peeps!

This month's mostly about Hiroko's new storyline, which was teased last time around. The whole thing's been written as a very seat-of-my-pants kinda thing, borne purely of a desire to write more stuff featuring her. I think there's some fun ideas in there, even if I haven't managed to put it all together yet... Yeah, I wasn't able to finish the thing in time and as a result there are still some sections left outlined in lieu of having proper script. It's playable start to en...

Art Preview - Sayori Route Intro CG

Hello, cakes! Time for a midweek art preview ^^

This time the focus is on Sayori as I wanted to have a CG introducing her, as a counterpart to Hiroko's tennis introduction. It's meant to depict the start of her storylines, where Kyou and her are interacting properly for the first time after he stumbles into her study club.

Sayori being studious and mildly obstructive was never ...

Early Access Release 0.1521.2 - Hiroko Route Conclusion(ish)

'Sup, cakes!

It's taken a fair bit of tinkering, but Hiroko's new storyline is finally playable from start to finish! Well, it ends abruptly as I couldn't figure out a good line to end it on but other than that it's all there! 

Most of you probably won't be surprised to hear I'm not too happy about this storyline either, but I don't think I'm going to get so hung up about it this time. This new bit of storytelling was completely based on little ideas I had with no clear endga...

Art Preview - New Hiroko Route CG!

Note - You know the drill by now: SPOILERS ahead! This one concerns Hiroko's original storyline, about halfway through. Click the links in the article below if you want to see the full image previews of the upcoming CG. 

My artist has been on a roll with the new images lately! Here, he's drawn for me one of the earlier scenes on Hiroko's route where Kyou's convinced her to assist him with his plans to do a stage show for the upcoming culture festival. Hiroko's had ...

Art Preview - Nozomi Route Ending CG

Note - There are SPOILERS ahead for the main endings of Nozomi's rewritten route, plus a little of Sayori and Hiroko's. You may want to skip this post if you haven't read them yet. Click the links in the article below if you want to see the full image previews of the upcoming CG. 

Yeah, so after having good endings drawn for Sayori and Hiroko, it was kind of inevitable that I'd want to complete the set :)

This CG concerns the main ending for Nozomi's main sto...

Early Access Release 0.1520.2 - Hiroko Route Continuation (Part 2)

Happy Wednesday, cakes!

Following my little weekend slump, I decided to take a short break of a couple of days. I'm feeling a good deal better now, so I spent today getting this month's early access release shipshape for presenting to the general public in a few week's time. Don't expect any great changes from the weekend if you download this, but this build tidies up some of the rougher dialogue of Hiroko's new storyline, extends a scene or two and signposts the unfinished sections of ...

Early Access Release 0.1520.1 - Hiroko Route Continuation

Hey, cakes :(

So, this is another update week that hasn't gone to plan. Without wanting to go into details, I've had an extremely miserable last few days that did a lot to crush my motivation to write. I've tried to push on and do the best I can, but I've fallen short of where I wanted and I had to seriously compromise on quality for a lot of what did get done. Seriously, I'm not saying this to be modest. While I think the written script leading up to the first half of the weekend feels...

Art Preview - Hiroko Route Ending CG

Note - As is becoming typical of these art posts, there are SPOILERS ahead. This one concerns the main ending for Hiroko's route, on her original story path, so you may want to skip this post if you haven't read it yet. Click the links in the article below if you want to see the full image previews of the upcoming CG. 

Okay cakes, I got another art preview for you all~

Like I was saying, I wanted something lighter and softer to follow the robot stuff, so this...

Early Access Release 0.1519 - More Hiroko Path Outlining

Hellooo cakes!

This weekend's update has me showing the work I've done so far on Hiroko's new storyline. Proper dialogue's written out to day 4, and there's an outline plotted out from beginning to end. It's not final and there's still some issues to work out, but you're all more than welcome to take a look and offer feedback if you like~

Besides that, the Robot CG art is completed, and the new variants of it match up perfectly with the first. I'm really pleased with it! We'll hav...

Art Update - Robot Route Ending CG (Part 2)

Note - As before, potentially MASSIVE SPOILERS ahead. This post concerns the main ending of the Robot path, so skip this post if you haven't read it yet. 

Hi, cakes!

As promised/threatened on the last art preview, I went ahead and got the rest of the CG done for the main villainous robot path ending. As before, these images are NFSW.

The variants involving the other girls follow the exact same beats as Hiroko's, as you'd expe...

Public Release 0.1517.1 - Nozomi Route Conclusion & Hiroko Path Teaser

Hey, all! 

This month I feel is a bit light on new content, both on the writing and art front, but I did at least do what I set out to do this month: Finally pen a conclusion to Nozomi's rewritten main route. I think there are a lot of problems with it, and I'd hope to address at least some of them on a second writing pass, but there's one complete path from start to end and I hope you folks enjoy reading it!

Outside of that, I've dropped some teasers for two new storylines. ...

Early Access Release 0.1518 - Hiroko Path Outlining & Sayori Alter CG

Hey, cakes!

This update's another light one, although seeing as I only put one out a week ago that's probably not too surprising ^^;

The finished CG of Sayori's Alter path ending is in now, while my main writing focus has remained on Hiroko's new story path. Outlining the thing has been a very seat-of-my-pants affair, but it's slowly taking shape and in a way that should set it apart from her original path. Check it out~

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2020-05-03 19:28:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Art Update - Sayori Alter Path Ending #2

Note - As ever with these art updates, there may be MASSIVE SPOILERS ahead. This post concerns one of the endings for Sayori's Alter path, describing it in heavy detail, so you may want to skip this post if you haven't read that part of Penlight yet. 

Hi again, cakes!

After the hypno-horror of the last CG, I wanted to get something softer and lighter done before going back to finish it off, hence this next art I commished being for one of the game's nice and ...

Early Access Release 0.1517.1 - Robot Ending CG & Hiroko Path Teaser

Alright!

This took a bit longer than I thought, but still being unsatisfied with only a minor art upgrade for this month's releases I've gone ahead and released an additional update for my favourite cakes (That's you).

Yep, the Robot path ending CG (Or at least one of three) is in there now. No spoilers for those who haven't read it yet, but for those who have and want to see it in game, make sure you select #001 as the final choice to guarantee its appearance.

As a bonus I'...

Art Update - Robot Route Ending CG

Note - As usual with these art updates, there may be MASSIVE SPOILERS ahead. This post concerns the main ending of the Robot path, describing it in heavy detail, so you may want to skip this post if you haven't read it yet.

Caaaakes,

You remember when I said I'd make a CG of one of the happy endings eventually? Well guess what?

I'm still saying it. 

For now though, I'd like to present a preview of the CG...