The Last Secret - News

Who's your favorite?

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 15:05:00 +0000

Players of "Sweet Science" are voting about their "most favorite character", and here are the current results:

Azuki is on number one with a big lead. For all her fans, I have good news: There will be a sequel of "Sweet Science" wit her as main character... Look forward to "Kieta Memory – The Girl from the Stars". Here's a first version of the title menu:

The voting is still ongoing: If you haven't voted yet, just play through "Sweet Science" and leave your vote at the end of the game!

Dere Quartet: End of March!

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 09:09:00 +0000

Dere Quartet will be published on Steam end of March 2025. It can be wishlisted already now:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3470430/Dere_Quartet

Enjoy the fun in this short visual novel about your new favorite tsundere, yandere, kuudere and deredere girls!

We are currently working on a German translation as well and hope that to be ready in time.

The Beautiful Island: Out now!

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 09:04:00 +0000

The Beautiful Island has been published on Steam 10 days ago, and now it has already a 94% "positive" rating!

The game can be played here for free:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2828660/The_Beautiful_Island/

At the end of the game, we collect opinions about the political situation of Taiwan. We will publish such opinions on this webpage. Thank you for your support!

New games: "Dere Quartet" and "My Silly Science Summer in the Past"

Sun, 29 Dec 2024 06:09:00 +0000

We're working on two new games: "Dere Quartet" and "My Silly Science Summer in the Past"

"Dere Quartet" is a fun game about cute deredere, tsundere, kuudere and yandere girls...

Here's a link to the opening video as a litte sneak preview:

Opening video of "Dere Quartet"

"My Silly Science Summer in the Past" will follow parts of the story of "Sweet Science", but with a female protagonist and different endings. It also features several original songs.

Estimated time of arrival for both games: mid-2025

"The Beautiful Island" will be published in February!

Sun, 29 Dec 2024 06:08:00 +0000

Here's the Steam page:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2828660/The_Beautiful_Island/

If you want to playtest the game already, please contact us!

Announcing "The Beautiful Island"

Fri, 26 Jan 2024 01:26:00 +0000

We are working on our next big projects: The Beautiful Island

It will be a more serious game, set in a world not dissimilar to ours where war has devastated an island. You visit the post-war place and try to find out about the fates of a few people whom you met pre-war. What happened to them? Can you change their future to the better?

A trailer will be published in the next couple of days. Check out the screenshots in the gallery...

RELEASE!

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 20:30:00 +0000

Sweet Science has been released! If you were waiting for the complete game, now your time has come... Have fun in Silversee Castle!

Get the game here!

On the finishing lane...

Tue, 15 Aug 2023 05:40:00 +0000

The game is currently in beta. What does that mean? We collect feedback from test players and adjust the game accordingly. We also might add some minor scenes here and there, but the game is basically finished and completely playable!

If you want to test the game by yourself, please contact us, then we can give you access. Same, if you want to make a let's play video or stream your gameplay.

The game will be available on itch.io for download. To make it available on Steam will take a while, as Steam has currently some problems with AI art and first needs to sort them out, so basically we are in the waiting line there for a few months already, and this could go on for much longer. If you think that's annoying, then please contact them. (Maybe they care about customers...?)

In the meanwhile, we are working already on the next project, but no spoilers yet!

How to hug

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 07:46:00 +0000

AI still struggles with pictures having multiple characters. At least as long as you want to fix these characters' appearances in any meaningful way. It just lacks the concept of different persons: if you say you want a girl with blue hair and a boy with red hair, then you mostly end up with a girl and a boy, both having some arbitrary colors between blue and red... Keep trying and you might get the right result, but if the boy is supposed to wear glasses and has short hair and the girl not and there are even more parameters, then it's getting tricky and NovelAI will not get it.

What to do?

One possibility that we have used a lot is to copy paste: just design the characters separately and then add them together in your graphics software. Works for pictures where the charaters do not interact too much, like our huge group photo:

However, if you want some interaction, e.g. two girls hugging, then this fails.

What to do then?

You can use two pictures as a start:

Here I've used the description of Patti (left) and Azuki (right) and told NovelAI that there are two girls looking like that and hugging. The results were good. (Okay, you might notice that Patti's arms... well... but that's fixable...)

In the next step we then superimpose both pictures on two layers and just remove one person from each layer. In reality that needs a lot of fine tuning, as the postures are not exactly identical, but you can see that the amount of changes that need to be done are definitely doable, even for someone who is not a professional artist.

In the final picture, we added two more girls to the left and right, some background, and so we get a sweet farewell scene:

It's not perfect, I know, but overall it's quite sweet, I think. What do you think?

Beta version ready!

Sat, 08 Jul 2023 02:45:00 +0000

The beta version of "Sweet Science" is ready for test players now!

If you want to play the whole story for free, then now is your chance... Just contact us to get access.