Hey guys!
First off, I want to say that there will be a small delay on the update drop: we will most likely upload the build this weekend. It will be a shorter update, consisting of Nate’s first day. Jumping to another route after working on one for a year and a half is always a big whiplash for us… and the fact we haven’t written any Nate focused content in close to three years means there was a lot we needed to relearn about the fox before being able to put out something halfway...
2025-05-02 06:11:22 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys!
Had a super busy February, sorry I’m so late with a post!
Between a week long visit from the in-laws and the yearly crunch around Valentines from my day job, I found myself stretched very thin for time to work on anything.
Not wanting to leave you guys too high and dry, I managed to finish up a new battle test for The Book of Annwyn. Building off of feedback from the first test, I’ve adjusted the battle system to further emphasize the strengths of the original ...
2025-03-11 08:19:54 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys!
It’s been… way longer than I expected (unless you also play Homecoming, than it’s only been a month, hah). When we finished the last update in August of last year, I never expected the following build would come half a year later. But Homecoming took a lot of time, and real life always has a habit of getting in the way.
2025-02-16 21:13:44 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys!
It’s been… way longer than I expected (unless you also play Homecoming, than it’s only been a month, hah). When we finished the last update in August of last year, I never expected the following build would come half a year later. But Homecoming took a lot of time, and real life always has a habit of getting in the way.
However, maybe this long wait was for the best… This might be my favorite update I’ve ever worked on in the history of Santa Lucia’s develop...
2025-02-03 04:37:06 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys,
Getting pretty close to releasing this update!
We wanted to release it on the 20th, but I think it'll be best for it to come out as usual, on the first/second of month (so, February). Gives me more time to work on all those CGs (and a little WIP preview of it, as a treat.)
Also, some of you might notice Carlos has... "features" I kept omitting in previous CGs/Sprites. I decided I'd start adding back nipples in SL (I know, this is real important stuff), and I'll prob...
2025-01-24 05:33:22 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys!
Dev here.
First, I’d like to wish everyone a happy new year. I hope the new year will treat everyone with kindness!
Sorry, no build at this time once again, but with this absolutely gigantic Homecoming update finally shipped and out of the way a few days ago, we can finally fully go back to work on Santa Lucia. Can you believe I made more than 20 sprites in two months, from September to November? That was a big reason why the progress on SL halted for a while. W...
2025-01-02 05:00:57 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys.
I didn't do that much better mentally this month. I don't want to charge you guys if I haven't done any work at all, so I'm going to pause for this month. Hopefully next month I'll be back to my old self.
Sorry,
~Dzahn
2024-11-29 08:22:06 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys.
First off, happy Halloween! Dev whipped up a cute piece showing Russell and Soutarou swapping clothes for the holiday which I’m attaching to this post. He’s really proud of it and it’s given us some ideas for fun little pieces we can do in the future.
On a more serious note, we didn’t have a great month. Between sick parents, sick Dev, and my own mental health being in a constant regrettable freefall, I’m a bit humiliated at how little I m...
2024-11-02 07:21:58 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
First thing’s first, I want to apologize. We don’t have a build for Santa Lucia or Homecoming prepped yet! ^^’
However, I did manage to put together a small test demo for the battle system I have in mind for The Book of Annwyn. I’ll be attaching that to this post so you guys can check it out and give me feedback on it. It’s definitely rough, but I’m interested to know if it’s even “fun” or if I should try taking the system in a...
2024-10-02 06:27:55 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Sorry for the slightly late report. Had some things that needed to be settled before I felt comfortable writing this.
First off, I need to announce the retirement of our secondary musician and close friend, Lesli. You’ll probably recognize him more by his stage name of Hop-Skip and The Chewtoys. Due to big life changes, he made the tough decision several months ago to withdraw from making FVN music and social media altogether so he can focus on the up...
2024-09-03 06:08:16 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys, Devilizer here!
Phew, this update was a doozy. I’m typing this blurb the night of the 2nd at 5 am, finally having finished everything I had do (or so I hope). The day we were writing kept getting bigger and bigger, and with it, the amount of work we ended up needing for it. It’s funny how we have this story all planned ou...
2024-08-16 17:59:43 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys, Devilizer here!
Phew, this update was a doozy. I’m typing this blurb the night of the 2nd at 5 am, finally having finished everything I had do (or so I hope). The day we were writing kept getting bigger and bigger, and with it, the amount of work we ended up needing for it. It’s funny how we have this story all planned out, and yet it still manages to surprise us sometimes. It’s like it’s got its own wants and needs and we’re just being strung along for the ride! For...
2024-08-02 19:28:28 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys!
Another month’s passed, and how quickly they seem to fly!
As much as I wanted to have more to show you guys, I’d rather wait until everything I’m working is closer to completion before revealing anything too early. We’re gearing up for Carlos’ update, but I’ve mostly spent most of this month dedicated to personal commission work and Homecoming.
Working on a single VN is tough, but being the only artist on two at the same time is pretty exhausting! We t...
2024-07-02 06:38:10 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
It’s June, and without a new build drop this month that means it’s time for another progress report! First thing’s first, I want to announce the winning concepts for the SFW and NSFW side story polls from earlier last month.
For the SFW story, the winner is “Blood on the Snow” featuring Ben and Karina during the timeframe of Jess’s death.
For the NSFW story, the winner is “The Thing that Fills (the Void)” featuring Be...
2024-06-02 05:57:31 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys!
As mentioned previously, we wanted to give our highest tier Patrons ($15 Tempest tier) the chance to vote on polls deciding the next side stories we’ll focus on.
We’ve been toying with different ideas for a while now, and we’ve finally settled on something we feel will be fair for everyone.
To keep a long story short, there will be two polls: one for SFW side stories, and another for NSFW ones. We realized leaving both options together in one poll wou...
2024-05-16 05:25:43 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys, Devilizer here!
As some of you might already know, April marked my immigration to the USA to finally be with Dzahn (a major part of what caused this build to be delayed another month). I’m pleased to say that I’m fully moved in, and ready to get back to work on Santa Lucia. There was some… challenges when I touch...
2024-05-16 05:02:32 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys, Devilizer here!
As some of you might already know, April marked my immigration to the USA to finally be with Dzahn (a major part of what caused this build to be delayed another month). I’m pleased to say that I’m fully moved in, and ready to get back to work on Santa Lucia. There was some… challenges when I touched down, as the airline I flew with lost my luggage (which had my computer, my tablet, and virtually everything I possessed), which was a major source of ...
2024-05-02 08:43:10 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone.
It’s funny how quickly plans change in real time. Today I was intending to drop our first grand update on our new development schedule, but in the first week of March Dev and I finally got the good news we’ve been waiting for almost two years for. We finally got the immigration visa for him to live in the United States with me. Naturally, this meant we’ve had to spend a ton of time this month prepping for the international move. By next weekend, Dev will offic...
2024-04-01 17:29:04 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys.
Yeah, I know it's a bit overdue, but here's the result of the Chris or Kane poll. Kane wins by a landslide, which wasn't unexpected but it's definitely humbling to see the difference.
In the end, this works out better for the Santa Lucia project as a whole. With us recently revealing plans for Last Sorrow, Chris dropping from the spotlight in Ben's story gives me a ton of wiggle room to make him a more interesting and integral character in Last Sorrow's story. so I would...
2024-03-18 18:40:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys,
Just wanted to put this here as well, some Nate art for his fans! I'd recommend following us on Twitter if you haven't so you can see all our posts there as well, but I think posting it here makes sense as well.
I might also start putting up some Patreon exclusive art whenever I get the time. Not sure how common it'll be, but I'd like to make everyone's patronage be worth it!
I'm also thinking of doing a poll for the theme of the future short story I'm planning ...
2024-03-09 20:03:49 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys!
Have you ever had any burning questions that you wanted answered? Ever wanted to ask us something and get a… semi-direct reply? Well, I've got some news for you if you have!
We’ve opened our very own Retrospring account! For those who don’t know, you ask a question (which can be anonymous), and the answer we give will be posted on our socials!
I’m not expecting a huge flood of questions, but I think this might be a fun way to keep in touch with our au...
2024-03-02 05:03:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Today I’m doing the first “progress report” update since our Patreon model change earlier this year. Before I continue I really have to say...thank you guys so much for giving me the breathing room to do this. I haven’t felt this creatively liberated in a long time! I’ve been able to dedicate time to projects I’ve been mulling about in my head for years now, with one of them I’m going to share some details on later in this post.
For now, though, we’re...
2024-03-02 04:45:11 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
It’s been a while since we’ve released a short story. This one is an extremely important one, too, since it serves as an introduction to the larger narrative at play in the Santa Lucia universe. I can’t wait to hear what you guys think!
We went all out on the production for this story. Dev busted his ass not only writing the story, but also with making one of the centerpiece CGs accompanying it. We’ve even got a second CG to go along with it, which we commiss...
2024-03-02 04:37:26 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
As a reminder, this is the last build that is going to release on our old release schedule. You can read more about the changes going forward into 2024 at this link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-year-new-97396726
This mon...
2024-02-15 18:01:31 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys!
The update to the Patreon tiers has gone through. It's important for you to adjust your pledge now if you want to continue having access to our content!
Thank you for your time and I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience! I thought it was going to be simpler to adjust things than it ended up being.
Cheers!
~Dzahn
2024-02-04 19:29:59 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
As a reminder, this is the last build that is going to release on our old release schedule. You can read more about the changes going forward into 2024 at this link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-year-new-97396726
This month we continue the project I started last month of revamping the dialogue for select characters. For this build, I finished up th...
2024-02-02 07:39:55 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
As a reminder, this is the last build that is going to release on our old release schedule. You can read more about the changes going forward into 2024 at this link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-year-new-97396726
This month we continue the project I started last month of revamping the dialogue for select characters. For this build, I finished up th...
2024-02-02 07:04:00 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Happy new year, hope everything’s been going well for you so far! Despite some obstacles on our end, things have been going very well, too. In fact, Dev and I are just about finished with the immigration process to move him over here to the States. By March at the latest, we should officially be living together 2 years after our wedding, hehe…
On the other hand, though, this is a huge change in our lives. It’s also a big increase in our cost of living, so we ma...
2024-01-29 05:45:04 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! Happy New Year!
This month we decided to tackle some longstanding issues the game has had narratively. A common problem we see people bring up is that they have a hard time getting through orientation on the first day. It took me a while to really nail down what I believed the problem to be, but after several rewrite rough draft...
2024-01-15 18:42:14 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! Happy New Year!
This month we decided to tackle some longstanding issues the game has had narratively. A common problem we see people bring up is that they have a hard time getting through orientation on the first day. It took me a while to really nail down what I believed the problem to be, but after several rewrite rough drafts I think I figured out that it has to do with two things.
First, I added another perspective to the opening moments of the game. Ideally, this w...
2024-01-02 09:26:06 +0000 UTC
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