Élan Festival Recap 🌼 (Patreon)

Didn't get to watch the stream live? Here's a recap for the Élan Festival!

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Our first announcement for Bellhouse was for Who is the Red Queen, a dark and graphic girls love visual novel taking place in a twisted version of Wonderland. Help Alice solve the mystery of the Red Queen and avoid death.

We will be helping the developers bring the game to Steam, in an updated and expanded edition! In addition to some script touch ups, this new version of the game will add additional songs to the soundtrack, as well as new and revised art.

Our second Bellhouse announcement is Love In a Bottle! Follow Ankora the Love Demon as she strikes out on her own for the first time, on a mission to prove she's able to make it on her own, but more importantly, let all of the HOT SINGLE WOMEN know she's available.

Pilot our unreliable protagonist into a happy ending! Or watch her fail at every turn and make a fool of herself. The choice is yours!

Our third and last Bellhouse announcement is about Twofold, the follow up to Salty Salty Studios' First Snow!

Revisit the art club with Olive, a college student struggling to stay afloat between all of the stress and responsibilities they have in their life and are now in the middle of a feud between two friends, Caprice and Millie. Help Olive survive the semester and follow one of two intertwined paths in this story of love and family.

We also had a few Heart of the Woods announcements! The first is that the soundtrack for Heart of the Woods is coming to vinyl! It will be a two-LP gatefold release, featuring both the Snowfall and Moonlight halves of the soundtrack, as well as 2 extra tracks for Snowfall. There are also two new cover illustrations drawn by adirosa and each order comes with a Tara sticker.

preorders are open now!

Our other Heart of the Woods related announcement is that it is getting a physical release via Limited Run Games! You'll be able to get a physical copy for the Playstation or Nintendo Switch versions of the game once they go up for preorder later this year.

There will be 2 versions- a regular edition with just the game and a reversible cover drawn by Satchel, and a Collector's Edition that will include the game, soundtrack, art book, and more. Stay tuned for this!

Speaking of Heart of the Woods, as a last mention- we have some left over merch from our Kickstarter! If you want to pick up the fairy tale keychains or physical PC edition / art book / soundtrack, you can for a limited time. Once the merch runs out, it's gone!

Heart of the Woods KS Merch

Our next update is a new look at Lock and Key, our magical girl visual novel we announced in 2020! The demo is close to being done, so you can look forward to it in June on Steam and itch.io. We've also changed the full name of Lock and Key to Lock and Key: A Magical Girl Mystery.

The last- but certainly not least- announcement was Our Home, My Keeper, a brand new visual novel written in collaboration with ebi-hime!

When Paige purchases an old house out in the English countryside, she thinks it'll be the perfect opportunity for her to focus on her next novel. Deadlines are hanging over her head, and she needs all the help she can get. What she isn't expecting is for excitement and inspiration to come in the form of Fay, a friendly fairy who's occupied the house far longer than Paige has.

One last note- we have Élan Festival merch! We have 3 spring-themed keychains available for preorder, a souvenir ticket stub for the event, and a "I hope to survive elanfest22" shirt. Yes, that last one is real and only available for another day or two.

Thank you to everyone who watched this first Élan Festival live and thank you for supporting us here on Patreon! We hope to do this kind of event again sometime in the future, but for now the team is going to focus on bringing all of these announcements to fruition.