- Nightshade Winter 2025 Updates - 23 December 2025
The Winter Sale is currently on, with big discounts on the Eldritch Nightmare Duology and a sale for Life as Designed as well. Be sure to let your friends know that now is a good time to experience the Nightshade universe! There's a bit of news about the games as well, so let's go over some of that here: Blooming Nightshade and Flowering Nightshade These two games will eventually get a minor UI update based on a related project, though I'm postponing the update for the moment in the hopes of finishing the final planned story for Flowering Nightshade first. Once that story is ready, I'll try to get the updates for both games finished around the same time. Streaming Guidelines Hopefully better late than never, I've put together an actual page detailing some guidelines to streaming or recording these games. I'd highly recommend taking a quick look before playing these games on stream, sinc…
- Nightshade Winter 2025 Updates - 23 December 2025
The Winter Sale is currently on, with big discounts on the Eldritch Nightmare Duology and a sale for Life as Designed as well. Be sure to let your friends know that now is a good time to experience the Nightshade universe! There's a bit of news about the games as well, so let's go over some of that here: Blooming Nightshade and Flowering Nightshade These two games will eventually get a minor UI update based on a related project, though I'm postponing the update for the moment in the hopes of finishing the final planned story for Flowering Nightshade first. Once that story is ready, I'll try to get the updates for both games finished around the same time. Streaming Guidelines Hopefully better late than never, I've put together an actual page detailing some guidelines to streaming or recording these games. I'd highly recommend taking a quick look before playing these games on stream, sinc…
- Nightshade Winter 2025 Updates - 23 December 2025
The Winter Sale is currently on, with big discounts on the Eldritch Nightmare Duology and a sale for Life as Designed as well. Be sure to let your friends know that now is a good time to experience the Nightshade universe! There's a bit of news about the games as well, so let's go over some of that here: Blooming Nightshade and Flowering Nightshade These two games will eventually get a minor UI update based on a related project, though I'm postponing the update for the moment in the hopes of finishing the final planned story for Flowering Nightshade first. Once that story is ready, I'll try to get the updates for both games finished around the same time. Streaming Guidelines Hopefully better late than never, I've put together an actual page detailing some guidelines to streaming or recording these games. I'd highly recommend taking a quick look before playing these games on stream, sinc…
- Nightshade Winter 2025 Updates - 23 December 2025
The Winter Sale is currently on, with big discounts on the Eldritch Nightmare Duology and a sale for Life as Designed as well. Be sure to let your friends know that now is a good time to experience the Nightshade universe! There's a bit of news about the games as well, so let's go over some of that here: Blooming Nightshade and Flowering Nightshade These two games will eventually get a minor UI update based on a related project, though I'm postponing the update for the moment in the hopes of finishing the final planned story for Flowering Nightshade first. Once that story is ready, I'll try to get the updates for both games finished around the same time. Streaming Guidelines Hopefully better late than never, I've put together an actual page detailing some guidelines to streaming or recording these games. I'd highly recommend taking a quick look before playing these games on stream, sinc…
- Nightshade Winter 2025 Updates - 22 December 2025
The Winter Sale is currently on, with big discounts on the Eldritch Nightmare Duology and a sale for Life as Designed as well. Be sure to let your friends know that now is a good time to experience the Nightshade universe! There's a bit of news about the games as well, so let's go over some of that here: Blooming Nightshade and Flowering Nightshade These two games will eventually get a minor UI update based on a related project, though I'm postponing the update for the moment in the hopes of finishing the final planned story for Flowering Nightshade first. Once that story is ready, I'll try to get the updates for both games finished around the same time. Streaming Guidelines Hopefully better late than never, I've put together an actual page detailing some guidelines to streaming or recording these games. I'd highly recommend taking a quick look before playing these games on stream, sinc…
- Nightshade Winter 2025 Updates - 22 December 2025
The Winter Sale is currently on, with big discounts on the Eldritch Nightmare Duology and a sale for Life as Designed as well. Be sure to let your friends know that now is a good time to experience the Nightshade universe! There's a bit of news about the games as well, so let's go over some of that here: Blooming Nightshade and Flowering Nightshade These two games will eventually get a minor UI update based on a related project, though I'm postponing the update for the moment in the hopes of finishing the final planned story for Flowering Nightshade first. Once that story is ready, I'll try to get the updates for both games finished around the same time. Streaming Guidelines Hopefully better late than never, I've put together an actual page detailing some guidelines to streaming or recording these games. I'd highly recommend taking a quick look before playing these games on stream, sinc…
- Nightshade Winter 2025 Updates - 21 December 2025
The Winter Sale is currently on, with big discounts on the Eldritch Nightmare Duology and a sale for Life as Designed as well. Be sure to let your friends know that now is a good time to experience the Nightshade universe! There's a bit of news about the games as well, so let's go over some of that here: Blooming Nightshade and Flowering Nightshade These two games will eventually get a minor UI update based on a related project, though I'm postponing the update for the moment in the hopes of finishing the final planned story for Flowering Nightshade first. Once that story is ready, I'll try to get the updates for both games finished around the same time. Streaming Guidelines Hopefully better late than never, I've put together an actual page detailing some guidelines to streaming or recording these games. I'd highly recommend taking a quick look before playing these games on stream, sinc…
- Nightshade Winter 2025 Updates - 21 December 2025
The Winter Sale is currently on, with big discounts on the Eldritch Nightmare Duology and a sale for Life as Designed as well. Be sure to let your friends know that now is a good time to experience the Nightshade universe! There's a bit of news about the games as well, so let's go over some of that here: Blooming Nightshade and Flowering Nightshade These two games will eventually get a minor UI update based on a related project, though I'm postponing the update for the moment in the hopes of finishing the final planned story for Flowering Nightshade first. Once that story is ready, I'll try to get the updates for both games finished around the same time. Streaming Guidelines Hopefully better late than never, I've put together an actual page detailing some guidelines to streaming or recording these games. I'd highly recommend taking a quick look before playing these games on stream, sinc…
- Life as Designed is Now Available! - 28 August 2024
Life as Designed, the romance and coming-of-age story featuring Cho Fukuda, is now available for purchase! Cho Fukuda has spent much of her adult life as a freelance costume designer, to the point that she feels like she's been typecast. Her motivation to work on projects that all feel the same flounders until she ends up botching a commission, leaving her with no leads and the feeling that she's made a mistake with her life. With Cho out of a job for the time being, she and her girlfriend will soon have to explore how their love will adjust to this new challenge. Taking place about ten years after the events of Eldritch Academy, this visual novel continues the story of Cho Fukuda and her friends Akomi Miyazaki, Kagami Nakayama, and Yue Ishikami. (Some knowledge of Eldritch Academy is recommended, but not required to understand this story.) This game explores how the direction of Cho's…
- Life as Designed will release on XX XX! - 19 August 2024
Life as Designed, the romance and coming-of-age story featuring Cho Fukuda, will be releasing on XX XX! The planned price is $6 USD or the converted equivalent.
- Life as Designed Demo Released + Other News - 22 March 2024
The demo version of Life as Designed is now available for download! In this demo, you can play through the first three scenes of each of the main routes. Also, the original announcement for the demo on my blog featured a few other announcements as well, which you can find here. In particular, the post introduces Mysteries of Akiramine, a series of short stories that focuses on Shizuka Hirose (from Shireishi and Eldritch University). I hope everyone enjoys the demo! Which character's story will you try first?
- Version 3 Hotfix Update (Steam Only) - 28 April 2023
A small update has been made to Eldritch Academy's v3 release. Changes to the way the script tracks story completion in v3 made the achievement "Director's Tenacity" difficult to unlock. This hotfix should make it possible to unlock this achievement in v3. In addition, the conditions for the achievement should now be checked in additional situations. (Previously, it only checked on game start. Now, it will also check upon reaching the end of the credits of most endings.)
- Version 3 Hotfix Update - 18 March 2023
A small update has been made to Eldritch Academy's v3 release. Previously, error messages would sometimes appear at the edge of the screen in some situations. This hotfix should remove most (if not all) of these messages.
- Eldritch Academy v3 Release - 2 March 2022
The long road to version 3 is over! With this update, Eldritch Academy can now be played with the new art, music, and script. Some highlights of the changes: Character and event art redrawn to match the style of Eldritch University Custom music in the same style as Eldritch University UI adapted from Eldritch University and a widescreen aspect ratio Improvements to the script, particularly in removing filler/duplicate scenes and making the choices feel more organic (More information on the changes can be found in some of the devlogs from during the process.) Note that your save games from previous builds will NOT be compatible with the new version! (Not even the v3 beta's saves are safe.) The underlying code has changed too much to promise that old saves will load, so you will have to start a new game to see the changes. However, a lot of the persistent data (particularly ending complet…
- Preparation for v3: Launch Settings - 27 February 2022
As part of preparation for the v3 update, the launcher settings have been modified to use the new filenames. However, this means that the game may give an error when trying to quickly launch it from the Steam Library shortcuts. To open the game when trying to play v1 (original) or v2 (current), there is an alternate launch option that is available when launching the game from the main library page or the collections page. Make sure to select "(v1/v2)" as your launch option from the menu that appears. (If you use shortcuts, you may need to update your shortcuts.) Once v3 releases, both launch options will remain available, with the default option launching v3+ and the alternate option launching v1/v2.
- Nightshade Games Survey - 10 January 2022
In order to gauge what level of interest there might be in potential features and such for the games set in the Nightshade universe, I've put together a short survey. The survey can be found here: link Just to be clear, the only features that are currently planned for certain are: Eldritch Academy v3 update Additional stories for Flowering Nightshade Life as Designed for PC/Android The other features brought up in the survey are being considered, but interest in them will be important in determining their priority going forward. If you have other suggestions regarding potential features for the games, be sure to leave a comment and let me know!
- Eldritch Academy v3 Beta Available! - 13 September 2021
The beta that was referenced in this announcement is now available! Testing for this build went a lot smoother than I expected it to (thus the quick turnaround to release), but it's still possible that some bugs or issues made it through. If you notice any issues (outside of the unimplemented content in Act 4 and the endings), be sure to make note of them in the discussion forum. Speaking of testing, the one difficulty that I did have during testing was getting the Steam client to download the proper build. This is a more involved process than I recall it being, so I'll give some steps to follow if simply switching the beta branch isn't working: Open the game's properties in the library and go to the Betas tab. Select "v3_beta" (or none to return to the current default build) Uninstall the game and close the Steam client. Re-open the Steam client and navigate to the game in the library…
- Eldritch Academy v3 Beta Announcement - 11 September 2021
Last year, I announced that Eldritch Academy was getting a major update for Version 3. After a lot of on-and-off work, that update is nearing completion. In the meantime, I figured it was time to give a better look at the update while the last chunk is implemented. For that reason, I'm planning to make a beta branch for the game here on Steam once I've double-checked the common route for any major bugs or issues. What's in the Version 3 Beta? The current plan is to have the full game be available in the beta, though some scenes will not have finalized art implementation and final script checks. In general, this is the breakdown: Prologue/Act 1/Act 2/Act 3: Implemented Act 4/Epilogue: Art not implemented, script under review Aftermath stories (standalone): Implemented Bonus Features: Implemented If there are any major issues in the "implemented" scenes and features in the beta, bug repor…
- Flowering Nightshade Released! - 11 June 2021
Flowering Nightshade (v7) is now available for download via Steam! Check out its store page here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1652030/ Almost five years have passed since Himeka sought friendship and romance at Solana Academy. She and her friends have grown now, and have to face their adult responsibilities. As a direct sequel to Blooming Nightshade, Flowering Nightshade continues the lighthearted romance story that began there. The player may choose to resume one of the six romantic storylines from Blooming Nightshade or begin a story featuring a new character. Features 6 returning love interests, with stories focusing on the transition to adulthood and maintaining long-term relationships A new character and storyline Each story is longer and more focused than the story routes seen in Blooming Nightshade I hope people enjoy this continuation of the story of Himeka and her friend…
- Flowering Nightshade Store Page - 29 May 2021
The store page for Flowering Nightshade is now visible! Go here to learn more about the game as it is prepared to launch on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1652030/ Due to recent updates to the Ren'Py engine and some code that needs to be updated to properly track Steam Achievements, the game will probably be made available on Steam with the v7 update. The current plan is to have the update ready sometime this summer. I hope everyone looks forward to seeing the game come to Steam!
