Mostly some news today.

Steam Daily Deal

First off... Angeline Era got a Daily Deal on Steam! This is actually our studio's first ever! Wow! We put it on the deepest discount yet (-25%) and are running it for 2 weeks straight. Head on over to Steam if you'd like to buy it. This comes right on the tail end of our main localization push (for now) - 8 languages total, phew!

Angeline Era T-shirts

We're selling t-shirts for Angeline Era for $29.99! It's a pretty small run of 200 so get your t-shirts now!! Featuring Marina's album art for the game on a nice maroon/red T-shirt. I haven't gotten mine yet but am looking forward to it.

Studio Updates

• Marina was also in Japan! It was nice to see her in person as the last time we did was back in 2022(!!) when giving our talks at UBC in Vancouver! Hopefully it'll be sooner than 3 years before seeing each other again, haha.
• Marina and I have been brainstorming our next game! As we adjust to post-Angeline-Era life (and I work on Danchi Days), it's still pretty early on, but is looking to be interesting. To shake things up (and especially coming off of such a gameplay heavy game like Angeline Era) we're trying to start with more of a story focus this time rather than our usual gameplay-first to see where that leads us. Most recently we revisited some of my past stories and story ideas, like my 2022 short story, Aloesian Mode. Before that, Marina did some prototyping and I went through a bunch of older game/prototype ideas. There's some fruitful directions in there, but for now it's looking like thinking about story/theme first.
• Angeline Era got nominated at the 2026 Independent Games Festival! We didn't win, but were nominated for Grand Prize and Design, and I got an honorable mention for Audio which was really cool to finally get some recognition for my musical work.
• The Angeline Era console ports are coming along nicely! I can't confirm anything about release plans yet... stay tuned.
• Danchi Days is coming along nicely. There's 5 chapters and we're working our way through the 3rd. We'll have some news to share in coming months about the game, maybe even something for fans of Moro-Q...
• Coming in 2 weeks (May 1st) for next Bandcamp Friday, I'm rereleasing the bonus/outtake music from my 2016 platformer Even the Ocean for free! Info on that here: https://bsky.app/profile/hantani.bsky.social/post/3mhywsrbwks2y