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Early Access Release 0.1517 - Nozomi Rewrite Conclusion?

Well, here it is! It's been at least two months of toil but I've FINALLY written a version of Nozomi's reworked route through to a semblance of a conclusion. I'm far from happy with the current version, especially as I've had to scale back my ambitions for it just to get it done, but for now I'm just gonna have to step back and work on another part of the game before I get completely fatigued.

At the very least though, I do think even in this state it's an overall improvement over the o...

Even in Sorrow, a Black Lily Blooms

Hello! How's everyone doing? I hope you're all staying safe and healthy in these weird, scary times~

Me? I'm doing alright. Haven't left the house in three weeks but I'm holding up. I think ^^; Anyway, Penlight's still coming along, even if recently it's felt a bit like monkeys mashing a typewriter when it's come to getting anything done. So while I'm frustratedly trying to get my next update ready I thought some of you would like to know of another visual novel production that you may ...

Public Release 0.1515 - Nozomi Route Continuation

Hey, gang!

The writing focus on this past month has been solely on getting Nozomi's rewritten storyline shipshape, and while progress has been way slower than I'd have liked, there's now some meat on its bones this time around with some all-new scenes fully developed and even a CG to go with them.

And talking about CGs, the new art is the thing I'm most proud of this month. We managed to cram four new CGs into this (Hiroko's new one is my fave), and even got to replace the last of...

Early Access Release 0.1516 - Nozomi Rewrite Continuation (Part 5 D:)

Uuurrrrggghhh,

Okay, for one reason or another (pandemic-related depression, writer's block, burnout, take your pick) it just hasn't happened this past fortnight. Not for want of trying, but yes, the words haven't exactly flowed recently.

While banging my head against the wall trying to get Nozomi's rewrite done, I figured I'd go back to basics and run through the entire story front to back again. The result of that has been a bunch of edits to the script running from the beginnin...

Early Access Release 0.1515 - Nozomi Rewrite Continuation (Part 4 o.o)

Dear cakes,

My muddling through with Nozomi's expanded story continues, as I've laid down some preliminary dialogue for days 7 through 10 and about half of 11, right before a major scene kicks off. I knew this would be a challenging struggle for me but geez, this thing is kicking my butt! The fight will continue through to next month when I hope to FINALLY get this thing written start to finish.

In sunnier news, the art upgrades have really come along this month! We have here a pr...

Art Update - Delusion Route Confrontation Scene

Note - As usual with these art updates, there may be spoilers ahead. This post concerns the Delusion route, where Kyou impresses his desires on Nozomi and her friends instead of simply listening to them.

Hi, cakes!

This is a scene I've wanted to get drawn since pretty much the start, so I'm quite chuffed about it happening now ^^ It's from the Delusion route, the very first storyline written for Penlight, and depicts the scene towards the end when Nozom...

Public Release 0.1513.1 - Nozomi Route Rewrite (Preview)

Hellooooo,

It's been five weeks since the last public release of Penlight, and the game's been in a bit of a transitionary period. My time's mostly been focused on rewriting Nozomi's main path, with the intention of increasing its length, working some more fun kinky scenes and generally fleshing out Nozomi's character some more. I'm hoping by the time I'm done, Nozomi's paths will hold up as well as her friend's, and provide a more satisfying journey into consensual kink than her origin...

Art Update - Sayori Alter Path Ending #1

Note - As usual with these art updates, there may be spoilers ahead. This post concerns Sayori's most recent Alter path written last month, specifically one of the endings. 

Hello again, cakes!

Sayori's most recent scenes have been pretty easy to design CGs for, so that's a big part of why a decent number of them have now been made~ This time I had a go at designing some art for one of the endings, where Kyou has made the choi...

Art Update - Hiroko Tennis CG

Hi, cakes! 

Hiroko might have had a quiet time with the story updates lately, but that doesn't mean I've forgotten about her ^.^ This latest CG I've commissioned depicts her at the start of her route, and honestly it's about time we had an image of the school tennis star actually doing the two things she's supposed to be good at: Tennis and raaaage~

Anyway, I freaking love this image. It just missed the cut for last weekend's early access release, so expect it with finished l...

Early Access Release 0.1514 - Yep, Nozomi Rewrite Continuation (Part 3)

Hey, cheesecakes! First early access of the month is here~

So, I'm still not happy with my recent progress as I muddle through Nozomi's major rewrite of her route. Catching the flu didn't help, that took me out for about a week, but at least now things are slowly beginning to take shape following the very rough outlining I did last month. There's at least 10,000 words worth of new scenes, with the new CG I had made earlier playing nicely with them~ 

I'm really anxious to find...

Art Update - Atsuko Akemi Sprite Art

Hello, cakes~

This one's hardly exciting, but I may as well show you how Nozomi's mom looks now that I had a little left over in last month's art budget to get her sprite done. Her role's expanded slightly since she was introduced, as she now shows up in Nozomi's rewritten path, so I figured it was also timely to do it. 

There may be something more fun to show later in the week. We'll see~

Art Update - Nozomi Trance Path Rewrite: First CG!

Note - As usual with these art updates, there may be spoilers ahead. This post concerns Nozomi's rewritten storyline which is very much a work in progress. Specifically, it's about a scene that's been outlined in the early access releases this month.

Hello again, cakes! 

As you well know, I've been working/struggling hard trying to rewrite Nozomi's main path. This allows, among other things, more chances for Nozomi to explore her MC kink with Kyou....

Early Access Release 0.1513 - Nozomi Rewrite Continuation (Part 2)

Hello again, cheesecakes!

So, as promised here's another early access update for you. I'm sad to say that I'm continuing to struggle with getting Nozomi's rewritten route nailed down, but it's taking shape piece by piece as I got the outline done. It's VERY rough towards the end, and that later parts are almost a complete copy-paste from the previously-written path for now, so not all of it is going to make sense for the time being. But it should serve as a good template to get a proper...

Art Update - Sayori and Kyou CG

Hi, cakes!

Below is a spoiler for the Sayori Alter path. So even if most of the people reading this will have seen the scene it depicts by now, I'm gonna include it down below instead of making it the header image. 

There's not been a lot to show this month art-wise, as instead of brand new material I had a couple of the previous CG sets added to. But I got something to show you today ^.^

So yeah, this is for the part wh...

Early Access Release 0.1512 - Nozomi Rewrite Continuation

Hello, cheesecakes (and people from the future, reading this post when it gets unlocked)!

This is another update where I've been badly disappointed by my own output. Elongating Nozomi's main path and adding more kinky scenes (while still keeping it out of sex game territory), while I still think it's a good idea, setting up the scenes and playing them out in a somewhat realistic way has been more challenging than I thought and I've again struggled to nail the dialogue and narration in a...

Public Release 0.1510 - Sayori Alter Route Completion

Hi everyone!

This month's public release is pretty much all about Sayori, as the path I previously showed a draft of has now been written out to a conclusion. To see it, Kyou needs to start her route, suggest making her think she's someone else and decline every opportunity to switch Sayori back from her altered state. What follows is, I think, one of Penlight's more interesting storylines so I hope people enjoy it~

In other news, there's a couple more CGs this month, adding a lit...

Early Access Release 0.1511 - More Sayori Alter Stuff & Nozomi Story Update

 'Sup, cheesecakes! February's just started but already I got an early access release for you ^.^

Note - I drop some spoilers for Penlight's story in this post, so be advised if you haven't read everything you wanted to yet.

Although I planned to get a mini update release out for you folks the other week, the work I ended up doing turned out to be more substantial than I realized and releasing it unfinished wouldn't be useful, so I ended up keeping it for thi...

Art Update - Nozomi Stage Show Scene

Heya, cakes! It's been a while, but work started on the third and final CG of the month so I wanted to show you how it's shaping up.

This is supposed to depict Nozomi participating in the stage show that got Kyou so excited a year ago. Honestly pretty impressive that he noticed the little lip bite on Nozomi's face, suggesting she might be a little more into the pocketwatch in front of her than most would be in her position~

Or maybe he didn't notice at all and he just made some ge...

Early Access Release 0.1510 - Sayori Alter Path Continuation

Hey, cheesecakes! 

Not gonna lie, this was an extra challenging writing period for me. Much as I love the concept of this story path I've been writing for Sayori's Alter route, trying to tie things up has been a difficult slog and I'm not super happy with the result. I've hammered out a conclusion to one of the possible resolutions to Kyou's cartoonish recklessness, but there's a lot more to do that I hope to be inspired for sooner or later.

Some more bad news is that the CG ...

Art Update - Rooftop Group Scene

Hi, cakes!

The second CG of the month is a group scene! This will be used early in the Delusion route, when Kyou first approaches them up there, but this CG could evolve over time to encompass a number of rooftop scenes with the girls being drawn in different poses and expressions to convey the mood.

Figuring out exactly how the scene was gonna look like took a bit of creativity, since the roof looks like this according to the in-game background I have for it:

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Public Release 0.1508 - Sayori Route Additions and CG Bonanza!

Hello again, folks! 

There's a few things in this release that I'm pretty excited to show everyone ^.^ Firstly, with the main sprite work done I've been able to turn the art budget to CGs, so we now have art depicting the start of the game, one of the main endings and the start of Sayori's Alter path. They came out really good, and I expect to insert more CGs at a good pace from here on out~

Hiroko's route had a second ending written for it, but Sayori's Alter path is the oth...

Art Update - Hiroko Generic CG Set (Part 1)

Hello! My art sketches for the first CG set of the month came in, so I wanted to share some of it with you folks~ 

The art being developed here is going to form part of Hiroko's generic CG set, and is intended to work in much the same way as the equivalent sets for the other girls to show them gradually dropping under the penlight in various locations (usually Kyou's living room), or occasionally just hanging out with him. 

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Early Access Release 0.1509 - More Sayori Route Additions

Hello again, cheesecakes! I hope you had a fantastic holiday season and a great start to the year ^.^

I've been back at work on the game after Christmas, but I think I can be excused the limited additions this time around; I took some time off to enjoy the holidays as well after all~ In the week I had, I was able to convert most of the previously sketched-out scenes of Sayori's new story path into proper dialogue, up to the end of Sunday night. I would've liked to have finished the thin...

Early Access Release 0.1508 - Sayori Route Additions and CG Bonanza!

Cheesecaaaakes~

This update is all about the CGs! While there are some story additions, the main feature here I think is all the additional art that I've been able to put into the game. As you've seen from the art updates, we now have a CG for the intro sequence, the game's original ending and the start of Sayori's Alter path, and the finalized art has all been placed in this release. With the bulk of the essential sprite art done, it was nice to be able to turn the focus properly on CG...

Art Update - Sayori Route CG

The third and final CG art in this month's series heralds the start of Sayori's Alter path, where Kyou basically gets her to loosen up a bit by having her play a happy alter ego, and finding it way more effective and impactful than either of them imagined~

Unlike Hiroko and her route, Sayori doesn't have that many obvious scenes that'd make for good CGs at the moment, so I wanted to make the attempt to give her something. This early scene in Kyou's bedroom, where she's showing off both ...

Public Release 0.1506 - New Sprites and Script Rewrites

It's been a little while, but public release day is upon us once again~

In terms of new writing, there's admittedly not much to offer this month, with an alternate ending for Sayori's route and a small extension of Nozomi's reversal path the main additions. However, there's been several rewritten scenes this time around. Mainly this concerns the opening parts of the game and is intended to characterize Kyou as more deluded and socially awkward while toning down the sociopathy when it co...

Art Update - Kyou Introduction CG

The second CG art, of a series of three this month, is in so I wanted to share an early sketch of the CG that will introduce readers to Kyou and his absurdly powerful penlight.

I guess there's not much else to say about this one~ It's a very simple visual that gives Kyou a presence in the game and sets the stage for everything that follows. Next week I'll be showing off the third and final CG of the month, and looking forward to having all of them proper in the last update of Penlight f...

Art Update - Delusion Route Main Ending CG

The sketch art I want to show off in this post is of the main ending for the Delusion route, so I'm not making it the header image in case I spoil somebody. Click through to see it~

For those who don't already know, this was the original ending for Penlight, and still my favourite for how effective it is, so it's only fitting that it be the first ending to get a CG attached to it. And god, I LO...

Early Access Release 0.1507 - Minor Story Additions. Also Kyou Sprite

'Sup, Cheesecakes! 

Our first update of the month is another modest affair, I'm afraid. The holiday season is really starting to chomp down on my free time to get things done, but I've been able to work a couple additions into the game. First is an alternate ending for Hiroko's route, much like I did last time for Sayori. Second is... well, Kyou's visually back in the game for now. I needed to make an updated design for his character anyway if I'm to include him in CGs like I plan ...

Early Access Release 0.1506 - Minor Additions & Rewritings

Alright, cheesecakes! I've gone ahead and released a bonus update for this weekend. There's been no progress on the Nozomi reversal path as I hoped, but there's still some interesting things to show here that may be of interest to some of you.

First, I had the whim to add a second ending to Sayori's route. It's a minor addition and things probably end there as you'd expect. Still, it's another item to cross off the list of things that needed doing~

The main feature of this update,...