a magical witch named bell lives in a small non-magical town, where she spends her days fixing trinkets and creating gadgets. she's the only magic user here, but for some reason, magical mishaps have been happening all over town...
MAGICAL WITCH BELL AND HER NON-MAGICAL FRIENDS is a short visual novel i made for yuri game jam in 2017, but now it's availa...
2019-08-02 00:35:07 +0000 UTC View Posthello! hope all of you in the northern hemisphere are managing to beat the heat this summer. (for those of you in the southern hemisphere, stay warm!)
i've sent out july postcards to everyone so they should be arriving in your inboxes now. please let me know if there's any issue and you don't get it!
thank you all for your support again this month 💜
2019-07-31 04:54:03 +0000 UTC View Post
so, this month i've mostly been working on updating my android games to comply with google play's new requirements. (i'm sorry i don't really have any images to show or anything - it's just boring codey stuff!) i'm also working on bringing magical witch bell to android, so i've been fiddling with the ui to make it more smartphone-friendly. there's also yaoi game jam, but i plan on doing the bul...
2019-07-20 13:52:02 +0000 UTC View Post🍉 happy july! it's summer in the northern hemisphere now. here's an update on stuff i plan to do this month:
hello! marron helps a friend has been released! i'm very happy with how it turned out - it was made for the two-week-long friendship jam and is a very cute game about helping out your friends (if it's ok for me to say that myself...!).
i hope you'll enjoy playing the game as much as i did making it 💛
for p...
2019-07-01 14:56:55 +0000 UTC View Post
along with the early access release, the art collection & .gb file (for playing on gameboy!) for Marron Helps A Friend is HERE! (the .gb file is also available for free on the itch.io page.)
i had a lot of fun writing the character profiles so i hope you enjoy.
2019-06-30 13:09:08 +0000 UTC View Post
hello! my game for friendship jam is DONE and is now up for all of you to play on itch.io! 💜
the game can be played in browser on pc/smartphone and on gameboy if you have a cartridge/emulator to play the .gb file!
2019-06-30 13:03:16 +0000 UTC View Posthello! i've just sent out june postcards. (they're pride month themed!)
for the digital version, you should have received in your email 1 unmarked postcard + 1 animated postcard.
(it contains VERY VERY SLIGHT spoilers for my latest game, so if that is a concern, i suggest playing the game before clicking the image thumbnail! the game will be out for patrons later today.)
pleas...
2019-06-30 06:38:51 +0000 UTC View Post
hi! i'm hard at work on friendship jam right now so here's a quick look at what i'm doing for the maps.
i'm using tiled map editor, which i got on itch.io a long time ago but never really used... it turns out it's very very good for making maps though so it's been useful for friendship jam!
for the jam, i'...
2019-06-21 08:50:33 +0000 UTC View Post
for the last two weeks of june, cloverfirefly & i will be hosting FRIENDSHIP JAM, a jam for creating games that focus on friendship!
sometimes in games & media, friendship is sidelined in favour of romance, so we want games that put a spotlight on friendship, which is equally good & valid!
if you'd ...
2019-06-05 01:05:43 +0000 UTC View Post🌈 happy pride month! this is a quick list of stuff i'm doing this month:
hello! may postcards have been sent out.
for the digital version, you should have received in your email 1 unmarked postcard + 1 postcard with a message on it.
please let me know if your postcard does not arrive 💌
2019-05-30 11:16:49 +0000 UTC View Post
hello! pocket friend has been released!
now it's not really a game as such - which is why it was submitted for the not a game jam game jam. pocket friend is a friend for your pocket, for those times when you want to do something but don't want to do it alone.
maybe there's a movie you want to watch, ...
2019-05-27 13:27:25 +0000 UTC View Post
instead of an artbook (since there isn't much art for pocket friend - you have to come up with a friend yourself!), i've included a premade pocket friend as an example of how to make a pocket friend.
(you might recognise the friend if you've played A HERO AND A GARDEN 👀)
i hope you all make your own friends to keep you company!
2019-05-26 12:25:39 +0000 UTC View Post
ok so i know there was absolutely no prior warning, but i made a very very small paper game. it's called pocket friend, and it's a friend for your pocket.
i saw the not a game jam game jam a couple of days ago and was inspired to make this tiny friend that you can print out and put into your pocket.
2019-05-26 12:17:26 +0000 UTC View Post
🐻 caption tool, a simple tool for adding image & sound captions to renpy, has been released. it's the same system i used in last day of spring, just compacted into one little zip file with a cute bear mascot.
i was going to release this later this month, but the minor fixes that i needed to make (changing the music & fixing font/choice ui) took les...
2019-05-22 10:43:47 +0000 UTC View Post
my caption tool for ren'py is now up for patrons! it lets anybody add the caption system in last day of spring to their own ren'py game.
i think i've made it fairly simple, so i'd be really happy if people would use this tool to add image & sound captions to their games...! (please let me know if you end up using this.)
there's an explanation in the game itself as well as commen...
2019-05-21 13:52:20 +0000 UTC View Postthanks for helping me reach my first patreon goal - it's exciting to think there's one of you supporting me for every day of the month 💜
i want to ask you all how you would like to receive these postcards - my plan is to send them to your patron emails from my own email, but then i thought maybe you would prefer to just 'receive' them as a patreon update instead to avoid clogging inbox...
2019-05-20 03:47:58 +0000 UTC View Post
thanks to all your support i've reached my 30 patron goal which means... an exclusive digital art postcard sent to patrons every month! 🎉🎉
from now on, i will be sending a digital postcard to all patrons at the end of every month! so anybody who has already paid their pledge for may should look forward to seeing some art at the end of may... 👀 i will be posting a poll later...
2019-05-20 03:37:01 +0000 UTC View Posthello! this is an update to let you know what i will be doing this month:
🌷 last day of spring has been released this 30th of april, on the very last day of the heisei era.
i was planning on working on something else this month, but somehow this happened instead. in one night, hot springs, we had haru's perspective with her making a lot of different choices, so i wanted to try showing erika's perspective as well.
(in the fu...
2019-04-30 11:58:46 +0000 UTC View Postsince i'm still waiting on android to approve my game release, i've been setting up a discord server in the meantime.
i've made a little server as a place to chat & share things i make. i'd be really happy if you'd join to do the same 💜
i'll be opening this server up to the public after last day of spring is released but am sharing it with you all first! all patrons get...
2019-04-30 10:58:37 +0000 UTC View Post
hello! here is the last day of spring art collection. i've included some sketches that didn't make it into the game as well - hope you enjoy 💜
2019-04-30 09:01:44 +0000 UTC View Post
i'm so excited to share this with you all - 🌷 last day of spring is DONE! (minus some coding hiccups i will explain below...)
i'm still working on the artbook as well as the soundtrack - those should both be ready for the official release on 4/30.
as said above, there are some coding hiccups, which is why this build is version 0.9. in this build, japanese isn't properly included ...
2019-04-27 14:49:00 +0000 UTC View Post
erika is planning a spa day for her trans friend haru.
she keeps running into different issues though...
and haru seems to be having problems of her own.
hello! i have decided on a title for my next game. it'll be called 🌷 LAST DAY OF SPRING. the game is a sequel (ish) to ♨️ ONE NIGHT, HOT SPRINGS. this time, the main character is erika, who is trying to pla...
2019-04-21 00:18:25 +0000 UTC View Post
i've been working on a phone-style menu for a new game. i'm pretty happy with how it looks, so i'm sharing it here!
features:
- option to show different icons for different people
- different coloured text bubble for whoever's talking
- no text bubbles around stamps! (like in normal messaging apps)
*the second stamp is only a placeholder
i've been fairly sick this ...
2019-04-16 14:30:34 +0000 UTC View Post
not sure where this is going to go, but i'm working on a little game right now.
ideally i want to release it at the end of april, but i have a lot of other commitments this month so i don't want to say for sure that i will.
just sharing the wip with you all so that you can see the stuff i'm working on even if it doesn't work out!
2019-04-06 13:56:59 +0000 UTC View Posthello! since nanoreno is over, this is just an update to share my april plans 🌸
this is my current list of things i'm sure i want to do this month:
hello! it's a little bit late, but the original soundtrack for 🌱 A HERO AND A GARDEN can now be downloaded on bandcamp!
the tracks were written by me with a guest track by sdhizumi, who also arranged/mixed the soundtrack. i hope you like it!
download: A HE...
2019-03-31 06:51:12 +0000 UTC View Post
hello! to go with the official release, here is the A HERO AND A GARDEN art collection!
since there are slight spoilers in the artbook, i recommend only looking through it after playing the game.
(the image in this post is one of the sketches for the game! it is also included in the art collection.)
2019-03-29 10:45:40 +0000 UTC View Post