Details of the one-hundred and fifty-second early access release. For Cheesecake and above backers.
Hey, cakes!
This update continues the work from earlier this month, with a more complete version of the Switch storyline script. It's a bit patchy, and I had to leave a spot unfinished mid-scene where I got blocked, but otherwise the script has now been written up to the big new scene I premiered in the previous update.
I had also hoped to include the CG I had planned...
2026-01-31 23:09:19 +0000 UTC
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Details of the one-hundred and fifty-first early access release. For Cheesecake and above backers.
Hello, cakes!
This release sees me starting my work on the new Switch storyline in earnest! As a reminder, this is the story path that occurrs during Nozomi's route where Nozomi is given the penlight and once she's had some fun, the pair of them agree to take turns with it from then on.
I've outlined a good chunk of how most of one path (the one where Kyou wants to tal...
2026-01-17 21:35:00 +0000 UTC
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¡Hola a todos! Espero que hayan tenido una buena navidad y año nuevo.
¡Para esta actualización, tomé algunas decisiones osadas! Primero que nada, y creo que es importante comenzar con esto, este lanzamiento viene con una gran actualización de motor. Penlight ahora corre en Renpy 8, lo cual necesité para ejecutar algo de código nuevo. Esto ha causado unos cuantos problemas en esta actualización para los usuarios de Android, pues algunas imágenes CG no cargan adecuadamente. Espe...
2026-01-10 21:11:25 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone! Hope y'all had a good Christmas and New Year~
For this update I made some big bold decisions! First of all, and I think it's important to start with this, this release sees a big engine upgrade. Penlight is on Ren'Py 8 now, which I needed to run some new script. This has caused a few problems in this release for Android users as some CG images don't load correctly. I'm hoping to have these fixed by next month. The disruption should be worth it though, and I'll get into ...
2026-01-10 10:14:44 +0000 UTC
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Details of the one-hundred and fifty-first early access release. For Cheesecake and above backers.
Heeey, cakes! Hope you're all having a lovely festive holiday~
We're ringing in the new year with some big bold decisions and a little surprise! First of all, and I think it's important to start with this, this release sees a big engine upgrade. Penlight is on Ren'Py 8 now, which I needed to run some new script. I'm hoping it doesn't raise any compatibility issues for any of...
2025-12-31 22:14:50 +0000 UTC
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¡Hola a todos!
En esta ocasión trabajé en algo así como un popurrí. Con un conjunto de piezas pequeñas de escritura que le dan cierre a varias historias que se han quedado por el camino por varios años.
¿Y cuáles? Pues primero, está una en la línea Crédula de Hiroko, donde Kyou deja en paz a Hiroko pero luego se compromete a hacerla cumplir su palabra. Este básicamente se reconecta con el sendero en el que continúa haciéndole bromas con ligeros cambios de diálogo...
2025-12-14 00:33:52 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
I've been working on something of a grab-bag this time, with a bunch of smaller pieces of writing that closes off several short story paths that have been left hanging for many years.
Which ones? Well first, there's the one in Hiroko's Gullible storyline, where Kyou stops messing with Hiroko but commits to making sure she keeps her word. This one basically loops into the story path where he keeps pranking her with some minor script changes. The second is for the R...
2025-12-13 12:56:51 +0000 UTC
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Hello, Angels!
While I'm working out the details of the next game update, I figured some of you might like to see some unused CG art from the recent Nozomi Trance story's scenes. Included here is a download for both CGs that occur in Kyou's living room while Nozomi's in her mindless state, in both their original and bonus versions. Unusually, the bonus version is the more clothed one this time XD
Anyway, enjoy and I'll see about getting the next update for Penlight out before Chri...
2025-12-10 16:28:06 +0000 UTC
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Details of the one-hundred and fiftieth early access release. For Cheesecake and above backers.
Hiii cakes!
Sorry about the lack of meaningful updates this month. I've been working on something of a grab-bag this time, with a bunch of smaller pieces of writing that closes off several short story paths that have been left hanging for many years.
Which ones? Well first, there's the one in Hiroko's Gullible storyline, where Kyou stops messing with Hiroko but commits to...
2025-11-30 21:27:44 +0000 UTC
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¡Hola a todos!
Para esta actualización decidí trabajar en dos senderos cortos que ocurren por el final de las rutas de Nozomi y Sayori. La de Nozomi está en su ruta de Trance, donde en el clímax de la historia Kyou le dice que "apague su mente" al intentar volver las más oscuras fantasías de Nozomi realidad. Pero ¿es eso lo que ella realmente quiere?
La de Sayori es en su línea Alter, donde Kyou usa la temida frase durante una fuerte discusión luego de haber resistido pr...
2025-11-08 23:04:29 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone~
For this update I decided to work on two short paths that occur towards the end of Nozomi's and Sayori's routes. Nozomi's one is on her Trance storyline, where in its climax Kyou asks her to "become mindless" as he attempts to make Nozomi's darkest fantasies a reality. But is that what she really wants?
Sayori's is on her Alter storyline, where Kyou triggers her alter during a heated argument after having resisted the temptation to do so earlier. If you're stuck o...
2025-11-08 09:58:49 +0000 UTC
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Details of the one-hundred and fiftieth early access release. For Cheesecake and above backers.
Hello, cakes~
So first the bad news. This is the first month in a long, long time where I don't have any new art to show off. I have a couple of CGs in the pipeline for Nozomi's latest sub path, but there's been a delay with my artist over getting the sketches in so it'll just have to wait until later I'm afraid. Sigh.
In more positive news, that new Nozomi path has now b...
2025-10-31 21:13:50 +0000 UTC
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Details of the one-hundred and forty-ninth early access release. For Cheesecake and above backers.
Hello, cakes!
For this update I decided to work on a short path that occurs towards the end of Nozomi's Trance storyline, where Kyou attempts to make Nozomi's darkest fantasies a reality. But is that what she really wants?
To find the new writing, start Nozomi's route and make the following choices when prompted: "Respect her boundaries", "No thanks", "Put you back in ...
2025-10-19 19:34:36 +0000 UTC
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¡Hola a todos!
Esta actualización completa el nuevo sendero de la línea Crédula de Hiroko, e incluye un nuevo CG para la escena que ocurre justo después de donde nos quedamos el mes pasado. ¡Espero que lo disfruten!
Para la próxima, pasaremos al siguiente sendero pendiente de escribir, el cual pretendo que sea una de las historias restantes de Nozomi o Sayori. ¡Nos vemos entonces!
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2025-10-11 23:19:29 +0000 UTC
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Hey, everyone!
This release completes the new path for Hiroko's Gullible storyline, and includes a new CG for the scene that follows on from where we left off last month. I hope you enjoy reading it~
For next time we'll be moving on to the next unwritten path, which I'm intending to be one of Nozomi or Sayori's remaining stories. See you then!
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2025-10-11 08:53:20 +0000 UTC
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Details of the one-hundred and forty-eighth early access release. For Cheesecake and above backers.
Hi, cakes!
Yep, taken longer than I thought. Again. But I've finally got this path of Hiroko's Gullible storyline crossed off! This release completes the story, and includes the new CG for the scene that follows on from where we left off last month.
I hope you lot will enjoy reading it, and now it's done we'll be moving on to the next unwritten path, which I'm intendi...
2025-09-30 22:04:36 +0000 UTC
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Hello, cakes!
Today I wanted to share a little of what's being worked on for this month's CG art. This one depicts the scene that was partially written in the last release of Penlight, so spoilers for anyone who hasn't read the new scenes on Hiroko's Gullible storyline. As always, the sketches can be seen by clicking on the linked text below.
Here, Hiroko has just woken up from Nozomi's little trance session and the pair briefly talk about the experi...
2025-09-25 18:26:17 +0000 UTC
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¡Hola a todos!
Estuve repensando un poco el nuevo sendero de Crédula en el que estuve trabajando el mes pasado. Verán, inicialmente no planeaba que fuera mucha cosa, solo un poco de diálogo y un epílogo algo corto y ágil para dar cierre. Estuve más o menos siguiendo el bosquejo que escribí hace un par de años, el cual no me gustaba mucho en primer lugar, ¡por lo que tal vez no sea sorpresa que me costará tanto realizarlo!
Así que, dicho eso, aquí está el resultado de...
2025-09-13 22:52:09 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
I had a little rethink about the new Gullible story path I was working on this past month. See, I hadn't initially intended it to be much; just a little more dialogue and a somewhat short and snappy epilogue to wrap it up. I was more or less following the outline I wrote out for it a few years back, which I never really liked all that much in the first place, so maybe it's no surprise that I was struggling so much to get it done!
So with that said, here's the resu...
2025-09-13 10:42:35 +0000 UTC
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Details of the one-hundred and forty-seventh early access release. For Cheesecake and above backers.
Hello, cakes!
This time around we have a little more for the new-look Gullible story path, with an interesting new scene and a CG to go with it! I think the CG is a particularly good one and includes a very simple looping animation; something we've not seen in Penlight before~ Sadly my artist didn't have enough time to complete the images so I've gone with the outline sket...
2025-08-31 20:54:10 +0000 UTC
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Hi, cakes!
I had a little rethink about the new Gullible story path I've been working on this month, and after my little diversion getting Just Friends ready for release I set to work on the new direction. See, I hadn't initially intended this path to be much; just a little more dialogue and a somewhat short and snappy epilogue to wrap it up. I was more or less following the outline I wrote out for it a few...
2025-08-21 18:34:31 +0000 UTC
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¡Hola a todos!
La actualización de este mes es bastante menor, entregando dos nuevos CGs para dar cierre a la historia de la Imitadora completada el mes pasado, y una pequeña adición a la línea Crédula de Hiroko con la cual no estoy del todo complacida.
Solo para recordarles a todos, esta nueva sección de la historia puede encontrarse comenzando la ruta de Hiroko y eligiendo las siguientes opciones: Convencerla de que tiene cosquillas, No ayudarla, Veamos qué tan crédula ...
2025-08-09 20:01:43 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
This month's update is pretty minor, delivering two new CGs to close out last month's completed Copycat storyline, and a short addition to Hiroko's Gullible story path that I'm not all that pleased with.
Just to remind everyone, this new part of the script can be found by starting Hiroko's route and picking the following options: Convince her she's ticklish, Don't help her, Find out how gullible she is, Stop for now, Put an end to my pranks.
So yeah, sorry f...
2025-08-09 09:03:07 +0000 UTC
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Esto es algo con lo que llevaba un tiempo en mente…
Verán, llevo incursionando con la idea de escribir novelas visuales por más de diez años. Siempre quise escribir algo como Penlight desde el principio, pero no tenía idea de dónde podría ser aceptado un juego así, ya ni hablemos de si tendría los medios para hacerlo. Así que por un tiempo atenué mis ambiciones y escribí algo un tanto más convencional. Algo un poco más SFW pero que igualmente tuviera un mensaje que dar, a...
2025-08-07 21:09:35 +0000 UTC
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This is something I've been mulling over for a long time...
See, I've been dabbling with the idea of writing visual novels for over ten years now. I'd always wanted to write something like Penlight from the start, but I had no idea where a game like it would even be accepted, let alone whether I had the means to make it. So for a while I tempered my ambitions and wrote something a little more conventional. Something a bit more SFW while still having something to say, that I could maybe ...
2025-08-05 22:57:35 +0000 UTC
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Hi, cakes.
After the high of finishing the Copycat story last month, I had hoped to take that momentum and get to finishing a minor path of Hiroko's Gullible storyline. I wanted to focus, check it off the list, and move onto something else quickly.
I know I've said I've struggled plenty of times before, but I don't think anything has blocked me as much as trying to finish this one! I thought maybe the time away and the aforementioned momentum would've allowed me to come back to lo...
2025-07-31 20:00:53 +0000 UTC
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Heya, cakes!
So here's the second part of our art updates for the month, which completes the illustrations for the Copycat storyline. It depicts the second version of events that occur during the scene where Akiko confronts our protagonist.
Obligatory spoiler warning for people who haven't read the second Copycat storyline. Click the linked text below to see the sketches.
The scene in focus is the part where Akiko, having mostly rid herself ...
2025-07-25 13:01:33 +0000 UTC
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Hiya, cakes!
A little progress report for the mid-month. I'm still plugging away at that extension to Hiroko's Gullible storyline, and it's giving me even more trouble than I expected so I'm not expecting another game update until the end of July. The remaining art for Copycat is coming along as planned though, so here's a few preview sketches of the next CG sequence for that route.
Obligatory spoiler warning for the Copycat storyline. Click the linked text below to see th...
2025-07-16 13:44:23 +0000 UTC
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¡Hola a todos!
La actualización de este mes incluye el segundo final de la línea de la Imitadora, así como CGs tanto para este y el primer final que debutó el mes pasado.
Para llegar al nuevo final, tendrán que seleccionar una nueva decisión que introduje en las escenas del fin de semana, y luego quedarse con Akiko en la escena posterior. Y se atoran, por favor consulten la guía que se encuentra adjunta en esta publicación, donde todo el nuevo contenido está resa...
2025-07-12 20:10:57 +0000 UTC
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Hi, everyone!
This month's update includes the second ending for the Copycat storyline, as well as CGs for both this and the first ending that debuted last month.
To reach the new ending you'll need to make a new choice that I've inserted into the weekend scenes, and then stay with Akiko in the later scene. If you're stuck, please refer to the guide attached to this post where all the new content is highlighted in green.
This update also includes a couple ot...
2025-07-12 07:48:23 +0000 UTC
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