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Secret Minigame

Hey everyone, I want to give some more info on a new feature since I only briefly mentioned it once before and a lot of people probably missed it. This h...

RoE Devlog 10

Hey everyone, we're making a lot of progress on our milestone version 0.10 and still have 11 out of 25 art assets left to finish. To recap, this release ...

Version 0.10 Update

Version 0.10 is moving along.  So far we've completed 11 out of 22 planned renders.  Most of the ones that we've finished are the romance & h-scenes, which are by far the most complicated because of the animations and layers.  O...

July 2022 Pinup

Final poll results were:
Raisa: 16
Lucine: 14
Lena: 13
Rithe: 8
Eryn:  8

June 2022 Pinup

Final poll results were:
Eryn:  15
Rithe: 13
Raisa: 12
Lena: 7
Lucine: 3

May 2022 Pinup

Final poll results were:
Lena: 17
Eryn:  16
Lucine: 15
Rithe: 7
Raisa: 6

Version 0.10 Progress

Hey everyone, we're moving into June so I want to give an update on when to expect the next version of Refuge of Embers. Version 0.10 is going to have more renders and new content than any of our previous releases. Since this is going to be the en...

Concept art for the festival background

Discord Server Launched

Hey everyone, we have a discord server now.  Come on in and hang out, we're livestreaming some artwork right now.  I'm going to update the reward tiers to include the new benefits shortly, but here's a quick breakdown of what you get wit...

Discord & Livestreaming

We're heavily considering starting a discord server and possibly even livestreaming drawing sessions.  What kinds of features would you want to see?

Mini Release Tomorrow

We were originally hoping to finish up with our mini release by the end of today to squeeze it in before the month ends, but we still have one final render to wrap up so it looks like it'll be out tomorrow instead.  We both wanted to add this...

April 2022 Pinup

Final poll results were:
Eryn:  24
Raisa: 15
Lena: 8
Lucine: 8
Rithe: 7

RoE Devlog 9

Hey everyone, as mentioned earlier we're getting ready to drop another mini release to replace version 0.095 with some bug fixes, performance tweaks, and the last of the content we wanted to complete before moving forward in the story.  For t...

Quick Update

We're getting ready to post a proper devlog in a bit, but we're going to be doing another mini release to replace the current supporter version within a couple of weeks. We're down to the last few sample content images, but all of the other placeh...

March 2022 Pinup

Final poll results were:
Eryn:  23
Raisa:  13
Lucine:  10
Rithe:  7
Lena:  6

Touch-Up Renders

We're just about done touching up some of our early renders that didn't look quite right.  All of the existing creek renders have been fixed and a new one has been added.  We also reworked Lucine's first render.

Placeholder Backgrounds Finished

All done, the last remaining placeholder backgrounds have now been replaced with the final artwork.  This weekend we'll finish the final touch up renders and get started on a new render with Eryn.

February 2022 Pinup

Final poll results were:
Rithe:  20
Eryn:  17
Lucine:  10
Raisa:  10
Lena:  8

Quick Update

Hey everyone, we'll be spending this weekend wrapping up what we can and will have the new release out on Monday the 28th.  

Upcoming Release Update

Hey everyone, the finish line for version 0.095 is fast approaching, so it's about time for an update on where we are with everything.  This weekend we'll be finishing up the last couple of new renders that we need to be able to release. &nbs...

H-Scene Progress

The first render in the new h-scene is finished.  The x-ray view and impregnation overlays can both be toggled based on your content preferences.

Upcoming H-Scene

January 2022 Pinup

Final poll results were:
Lena:  23
Rithe:  9
Eryn:  8
Lucine:  8
Raisa:  9

New Title Screen Finished

Just finished the new title screen, and in the upcoming release you'll see some advanced parallax effects.  Next up we're fixing up a few existing renders and moving on to the new h-scene.

We've made a huge dent in our list, but still ...

Another Render Down

We've wrapped up another render for the 0.095 release.

RoE Devlog 8

Hey everyone, with the month coming to a close I wanted to share what we've been up to since our release a few weeks back.  We're excited to finally finish the prologue, but realized we would be looking at a longer than usual release window t...

December 2021 Pinup

Final poll results were:
Eryn:  18
Raisa:  15
Lena:  12
Rithe:  10
Lucine:  5

Version 0.09 Last Update Before Release

Hey everyone, we finished the last animation for version 0.09 and are just about ready to release, but we're going to take a few more days to add more sample h-scenes into our menu:

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November 2021 Pinup

Final poll results were:
Lena:  17
Lucine:  10
Eryn:  9
Raisa:  6
Rithe:  2

Home Stretch

In the devlog I mentioned that we'd have a better idea of the release date for 0.09 by the end of this weekend.  We managed to get a lot done but there's still a bit left to do on the animation.  We should everything wrapped up by the en...