• 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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    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,…

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    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…

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    Lock and Key – A Letter from the Director

    Hey there, everyone! I’m Rachel, writer/director for Lock and Key. We’ve had quite a year, huh? It certainly doesn’t feel like it’s been that long since we announced Lock and Key last December, but here we are again! I still haven’t forgotten how excited you all were back then, and I can’t thank you enough for all the enthusiasm you’ve…

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    Happy Anniversary, Heart of the Woods!

    365 days. 365 days ago, Heart of the Woods was released into the wilderness of the internet. Every day since then we’ve been more and more grateful to the community that’s formed around it and the people who’ve shared their love for it. You guys have helped all of us share the stories we want to create. Thank you! Now,…

  • Dev Blog

    Happy New Year 2020!

    2019 is finally wrapping up. As we prepare for a new decade full of hopes and opportunities, we’re giving ourselves the chance to look back and soak in all that happened for us at Studio Élan this year – and, gosh, what a year it’s been. February 15th saw the release of Heart of the Woods, our modern-day fairytale and…