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Fall in love with visual novels from September 1-9 in the Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival ! Canvas Menagerie is currently taking part in the Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival , a Steam festival dedicated to romance visual novels from around the world, hosted by Studio Élan! F
This week, as part of Citrus Con, Canvas Menagerie (and our other boys love game, Asphodelium ) are on sale! You can get the art book DLC for 15% off. View game page The merch for Canvas Menagerie is also 20% off this week with discount CITRUSCON26! You can find our webstore here
Happy 1st Anniversary to Canvas Menagerie! A year ago today, Canvas Menagerie released after 3 years of solo development. Thank you everyone who has spent time with Niko & Ren and growing alongside them. If you haven't played it yet, Canvas Menagerie is on sale for the Steam
The ghost bunny has visited us once again...! Happy Halloween, everyone! 👻🐰🎃
The first ever Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival has started! It's a new festival focused on celebrating romance visual novels with over 200 visual novels from 100+ developers—including us! Our romance visual novels are on sale, including Canvas Menagerie and our other boys love
The Storyteller's Festival is now live! This event is a festival focused on celebrating story-driven games, primarily visual novels, ran by our friends at Two and a Half Studios. Canvas Menagerie and 2 of our other games are taking part in it! Asphodelium is a melancholic lite ho
After 3 years of development, Canvas Menagerie is now fully playable! Canvas Menagerie is a comfy slice-of-life boys love romance about a group of actors going through their mid-20s together while filming together. Follow Niko, a transmasc TV actor as he falls for his celebrity c
There’s only 3 days left until Canvas Menagerie releases on Steam & itchio! After 3 years of development, it’s finally ready to be fully released. The full game sits right at 138k words with 15+ CGs, so around 10-12 hours of story. You’ll be able to play it on December 18th h
Today marks the beginning of Season of Pride presented by MidBoss, IDGA, and Gayming Magazine! It's a festival celebrating a variety of queer games, including visual novels... like these! Together with some friends we're celebrating queer visual novels in the festival. Check them
It's been a while but Canvas Menagerie finally has an updated demo, just in time for the Steam Next Fest event. If you haven't already, please wishlist the game on Steam as it helps out with development! Here's a brief overview of the demo changes: Easier to read subtitles - in t
It’s the start of August so it’s time to look back at progress made in July, of which there were a lot. First off and more importantly, the first draft for the entirety of Canvas Menagerie is complete! Act 1 & 2 are already past the first draft with Act 1 currently receiving
May was a very hectic month for me personally, so there wasn’t much progress made this month – but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t any! I wrote about 4k words for Canvas Menagerie. I also did a fair amount of editing for Act 2 of Canvas Menagerie, proofreading what’s there and try
Hiya, today is the first day of the Women's Day Sale on Steam! It's a 10-day long festival celebrating games made by women and women-led teams. Canvas Menagerie is taking part in it as well! To go with the festivities, we'll be running a playthrough of the demo through Steam broa
Canvas Menagerie is a large boys love story told over 3 Acts, which represent different stages in the relationship between the main character Niko and his love interest Ren. Act 1 is them meeting and falling for each other, Act 2 is them starting to date, and Act 3 is them gettin
The total script has now passed 95k words! Several scenes were added to the middle section of Act 2, namely involving Ren and a certain character introduced in Act 2. Canvas Menagerie is structured to be somewhat episodic, where each Act is a different focus on the character's li