June 2022 Monthly Update (Patreon)

Hi everyone,

We're almost halfway through the year! Let's leave it at that.

This has been another jam packed month for us. Obviously the biggest event was the Élan Festival, where we announced a bunch of stuff. If you missed it, here's a recap!

-We announced several new upcoming Bellhouse titles: Who Is the Red Queen?; Love In a Bottle; and Twofold. Please consider adding all of these titles to your Steam wishlist

-To commemorate the event, there are some spring-themed keychains as well as a souvenir ticket available on our webshop. We also put up some leftover merch from the Heart of the Woods Kickstarter for sale.

-The Heart of the Woods soundtrack is now available to order on vinyl from Very Ok Vinyl! We also announced an upcoming collector's edition of Heart of the Woods that will be released in collaboration with Limited Run Games for Switch and Playstation.

-In collaboration with ebi-hime, we're working on a brand new game titled "Our Home, My Keeper." More details on that will be coming later.

If you missed the stream or just want to relive it, you can find it on our Youtube.

Another announcement from the stream is that we have a demo for Lock and Key coming soon! After experiencing a lot of setbacks on our projects this past year or so, we've been making a lot of progress recently and are glad to be releasing some stuff soon. For now, here's a new teaser trailer for the game - which we've officially renamed to "Lock and Key: A Magical Girl Mystery" - that was also shown on our stream.

And of course, it's just not an update without some PBH news. Progress on the new Naninovel version of the game is underway, with adi working on converting the existing demo scenes into the new engine. We're also going to be doing final revisions and edits for the early chapters soon, so that those can be scripted as well. Adi put together a couple preview videos of what it's like. Here's one that shows how the sprites are set up in the engine, and this one is a preview of the first scene in Unity.

Finally, a couple of us, including myself (Josh) and adi will be at Anime Expo in Los Angeles in July. There might be some other members of the Heart of the Woods and Highway Blossoms dev teams too. We're not doing any panels or anything official at all, but feel free to say hi if you see us. We're also happy to sign stuff on request.

See y'all (maybe literally) next month!