Happy Valentine’s Day, my beloved raccoon friends! I am here in my fanciest party dress to share the love, and there’s a lot of love to share today! There’s three things on our agenda today that we think you’ll be pretty happy about: a game update, an update to our studio that we’re excited to share, and finally news about merch.

Let’s talk about in-game content first: today we’re releasing Obscura 2.0.2! This is the small update we promised at the start of the year. This update fixes a couple of small errors in the Chapter Two content where characters would talk about things that the player could choose to skip, whoops! But even better, this update contains an extension to the Extra Story, giving you a second date with Vesper.

The Extra Story is unlocked in the Extras menu by reaching a good or neutral end to all four love interests’ first chapter, and the first part can be unlocked and played in the demo! If you unlocked it in the demo, it should still be unlocked in the paid version of the game (and if it’s not, that’s a bug! Please report it!). To see the new date, you’ll need to reach the end of either Keir or Cirrus’ second chapter. That’s Ending 25 or Ending 31, for those keeping score at home.

Mugi made proper standing sprites for Vesper, as well as a CG to unlock, to really max out their charisma levels! We hope you enjoy your second date with the MC of our romance game, it’s been a ton of fun to work on. 

Now, let’s talk about Rotten Raccoons! Without getting too deep into the nitty-gritty, Rotten Raccoons itself won’t be making any major changes. We’re happy with the way we’re structured at the moment, and we’re going to keep making Obscura alongside our regular work. But we are building out our business a little more, and for that we have to introduce the Kaguya Project!

The simple explanation is that our producer, Yamiochi, works in helping Japanese games get a foothold in the Anglophone game industry, and she wants to fulfil her dream of being an indie visual novel publisher using this experience. So Yamiochi, Mugi, and myself (Violet) are starting an indie visual novel publisher! We’ve already started work with a game being made by a team of two(!), and we’re excited to see what the future holds for this project. Personally, this is extremely exciting stuff!

But if all you’re worried about is Obscura, which is fair enough, the only thing you really need to know is that Kaguya Project is made of Rotten Raccoons team members, and you can rest easy when you see Obscura merch being sold through the Kaguya Project name. It’s all us, we haven’t made a deal with an outside party! We’re just consolidating things under the Kaguya Project umbrella to keep things simpler on our end.

And oh, what’s that about merch? That’s right, we’re finally getting ourselves together to make a little merch line-up! We’re still waiting to see a few products to approve them before they go on sale (Mugi is not going to let sub-par prints go out!), so we’re not launching the shop just yet, but we felt like the time was right to confirm that it’s happening!

We’re grateful for your patience while you wait a little longer for us to be open for business. We’re starting fairly small in terms of the number of things we’ll be selling, but we’re extremely excited about what the future holds! And since we didn’t want to leave you on just that, Mugi has made a little preview of an edit she’s done for one of our future offerings. Remember the gorgeous art she did for the Chapter 2 announcement? Well!

That’s all from us for now, but we’ll be back very soon with a February round-up. Thank you so much for your love and support!

Love,
The Rotten Raccoons Team 🦝💙