Highway Blossoms News

Happy holidays everyone! No matter what you celebrate (or don't celebrate) we hope that you find yourselves warm and comfortable today. We have a bit of news regarding Highway Blossoms.

The specific details can be found here on our announcement post. That page has all of our HB news. At the top is a link to the full post, which includes some info on our next game HRP, too. The full post is NSFW, the one I linked isn't. Click at your own risk; we're not responsible for upsetting any prudish mothers or grandmas. Also, Steam might advise you not to open the link. I promise it's safe, unless you have an allergy to badly formatted blog posts.

Here's a tl;dr of the HB news, though:

-We're releasing an HB light novel called "Dusty Trails" which focuses on Joseph, Tess and Mariah. A light novel is a book that's supposed to be kind of easy to pick up and read. It doesn't have tons of pictures and music like a visual novel. We might do physical copies of the light novel in the future.

-Physical copies of Highway Blossoms will be available on the Sekai Project webstore soon. It comes with the game in a DVD case, and includes the soundtrack as well.

-Some cute art for the holidays

Closer to summer, we'll have some news on a few other things that we hope to do with the game. Please look forward to it.

Once again, happy holidays!

Happy holidays everyone! No matter what you celebrate (or don't celebrate) we hope that you find yourselves warm and comfortable today. We have a bit of news regarding Highway Blossoms.

The specific details can be found here on our announcement post. That page has all of our HB news. At the top is a link to the full post, which includes some info on our next game HRP, too. The full post is NSFW, the one I linked isn't. Click at your own risk; we're not responsible for upsetting any prudish mothers or grandmas. Also, Steam might advise you not to open the link. I promise it's safe, unless you have an allergy to badly formatted blog posts.

Here's a tl;dr of the HB news, though:

-We're releasing an HB light novel called "Dusty Trails" which focuses on Joseph, Tess and Mariah. A light novel is a book that's supposed to be kind of easy to pick up and read. It doesn't have tons of pictures and music like a visual novel. We might do physical copies of the light novel in the future.

-Physical copies of Highway Blossoms will be available on the Sekai Project webstore soon. It comes with the game in a DVD case, and includes the soundtrack as well.

-Some cute art for the holidays

Closer to summer, we'll have some news on a few other things that we hope to do with the game. Please look forward to it.

Once again, happy holidays!

Remember when I said the last update would probably be the final?

Yeah, me either.

Thanks to the efforts of the translation team Mehlate, a free Russian language option has been added for Highway Blossoms. To use it, please activate the beta branch of the game by navigating to Highway Blossoms in your Steam library, right-clicking the title, clicking "Properties" and choose the "betabuild" option from the Beta tab. Then, load the game and go into "Preferences" and choose "Russian" as your language. This translation was created by Mehlate and we're very grateful for their efforts. However, please be aware that neither Alienworks nor Sekai Project can guarantee its quality or accuracy.

For users with the Mac Sierra OS, it's important to activate the beta branch. Sierra brought with it a change that makes all games created on Ren'Py unplayable without a particular change. Please download the new build from the beta branch to fix that. Because it requires fundamentally altering the game engine, we can't promise save integrity. Hey, at least this time it won't be on us.

Last but not least is something that I've forgotten to bring up for the past several updates: Alienworks has a public Discord server that everyone is welcome to join if you wanna chat with us, or other fans, or just lurk.

As always, thanks for your support, and we hope you continue to enjoy Highway Blossoms.

Remember when I said the last update would probably be the final?

Yeah, me either.

Thanks to the efforts of the translation team Mehlate, a free Russian language option has been added for Highway Blossoms. To use it, please activate the beta branch of the game by navigating to Highway Blossoms in your Steam library, right-clicking the title, clicking "Properties" and choose the "betabuild" option from the Beta tab. Then, load the game and go into "Preferences" and choose "Russian" as your language. This translation was created by Mehlate and we're very grateful for their efforts. However, please be aware that neither Alienworks nor Sekai Project can guarantee its quality or accuracy.

For users with the Mac Sierra OS, it's important to activate the beta branch. Sierra brought with it a change that makes all games created on Ren'Py unplayable without a particular change. Please download the new build from the beta branch to fix that. Because it requires fundamentally altering the game engine, we can't promise save integrity. Hey, at least this time it won't be on us.

Last but not least is something that I've forgotten to bring up for the past several updates: Alienworks has a public Discord server that everyone is welcome to join if you wanna chat with us, or other fans, or just lurk.

As always, thanks for your support, and we hope you continue to enjoy Highway Blossoms.

Hey guys,

Long time no talk. First off, I just wanted to say thanks again to everyone who has played HB. We're super stoked that most people seem to like it. Coming across people who have changed their profile pics on Steam and social media to use HB characters is seriously heartwarming. And we read every single review that's left for the game, so thanks to those who have left 'em.

Anyway, we just pushed what's probably going to be the last update to HB for a while, setting the changes from the 1.32 beta to live. If you opted into the beta previously, you shouldn't notice anything different.

If you enjoyed Highway Blossoms enough to want to follow the rest of what we're working on, then I've got good news: Just today, we posted a new trailer from our upcoming, 6 route visual novel "The Human Reignition Project." It's a BxG, romance/thriller game, due out sometime next year. The new trailer also premieres our brand new opening theme, REIGNITE, with vocals by Sasaki Sayaka (Girls Und Panzer, Nichijou, Planetarian) and composed by ARTE REFACT (Love Live, Idolm@ster, and more). You can check that out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD4GtZLkUcQ

We held a Kickstarter campaign for HRP last year which is what enabled us to put so much into the game. However, we wanted to give our newer fans a chance to grab some of the stuff we offered during that. So, we've opened pre-orders on a few select items like body pillows and physical copies of the game. You can pick those up at https://the-human-reignition-project-an-english-visual-nov.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

For the most concise description of HRP and to see where the money's going, please check out the Kickstarter page. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/the-human-reignition-project-an-english-visual-nov/description You'll see, however, that we've upgraded the sprites from what's shown on there - the versions in the trailer are the most recent ones.

As always, thanks for checking our stuff out. If you want more frequent, smaller updates (as well as the occasional extra bit of HB and HRP art) be sure to follow us on Twitter @AlienworksDev