• Dev Blog

    Happy New Year 2024 from Studio Élan!

    With another year in the books, we’d like to once again wish everyone a happy New Year from us here at Studio Élan. Even compared to past years, this one really flew by. We started it off having just released Please Be Happy, and beginning work for Summer at the Edge of the Universe. In March, we launched our Kickstarter…

  • Dev Blog

    Happy New Year 2023

    Hello and welcome to the end of another year! As we bid farewell to 2022, like always, we wanted to leave off with a couple brief messages from members of our team. This has been a busy, busy year and we’ve really appreciated everyone’s support all throughout it. We’ve asked Melanie to put together a quick video to wrap things…

  • Announcement,  News

    Please Be Happy is out now on PC! Play it now on: Steam ♥ itch.io Despite her years spent observing humans, she still has a lot to learn about their culture and society. She’s made a living so far as a thief, her heightened senses allowing her to easily take advantage of people. She’s also seen a lot of the…

  • Announcement,  News

    A Big Halloween Announcement or Two

    Happy Halloween everyone! Today, we’re excited to announce that the Studio Élan family is getting a little bigger, as we’ll be officially merging with Studio Coattails. As the co-developers of Highway Blossoms, we’ve worked closely with Coattails for years and have several overlapping members and projects. So, we decided to make it official and join forces once and for all.…

  • Announcement,  Bellhouse,  Dev Blog,  News

    Who is the Red Queen is out now on Steam!

    Who is the Red Queen is now released on Steam! Who is the Red Queen? is a horror fantasy lesbian visual novel developed by 4noki & co. that follows Alice falling into a strange and familiar Wonderland in search for the Red Queen’s missing pieces. As our third Bellhouse title, we’re excited to finally bring this to you! The game features over 30,000…

  • Announcement,  Bellhouse,  News

    Who is the Red Queen will release on Steam later this month!

    Who is the Red Queen? is a horror fantasy lesbian visual novel that follows Alice falling into a strange and familiar Wonderland in search for the Red Queen’s missing pieces. This is our third Bellhouse title, our publishing branch for WLW and LGBT+ games we did not develop but think are cool and should reach more people! The game features over 30,000…

  • Dev Blog

    Happy New Year 2022

    Hello everyone, and happy new year! There’s still a few more hours before it rolls over here on the west coast of the US, but we know several of you are already living in the future. No matter what kind of year you’ve had, we hope your 2022 is even better. We don’t have a big blog post this year,…

  • Dev Blog

    Happy New Year 2021!

    It goes without saying that 2020 was a hell of a year. We had a lot of cool plans fall through because of Everything Going On, but still managed to accomplish a lot. Every year when I sit down to write these posts and reflect on what we’ve done, I’m a little surprised. It ends up being more than I…