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The Hikari First Interlude VN will release weekly developent updates. Hikari WAS just a comic, all are now public except the "Quickies".
All subscribers get access to subscriber ONLY renders, the quatity of which depends on the level of subscription, ranging from holiday specials, to behind the scenes renders, NSFW versions of renders, all the way up too full commisions!
All subscribers get access to the Hikari Discord where the art community shares their work and all the comics and images found here are co-hosted appropriately!
Please come join the Discord to be added as a Legacy Subscriber in the event you would like to pause support!
To reduce the potential impact of piracy on our Subscribers, all download links are tagged with unique hashes for each subscriber and a personal download link will be provided through Subscribestar private chat.
Visual Novel Downloads: - The Team Sasa ($5) will receive a download link once a month with the last general build seven weeks deferred. - The Team Hikari ($10) will receive a download link once a month with the last general build two weeks deferred. - A new tier "Team Rhea-ka ($25) with a subscriber limit of ~30 will receive a download link weekly with the latest (in development) build.
- NEW subscribers or subscription changes, to expidite reciept of benifits, please send me a PM through Discord or a Subscribestar chat stating the tier you've subscribed too and if you would like a Windows/Linux or a Mac build. - Any new subscription will immediately receive a new personal link to the last applicable build prior to 17:00 EST the following Saturday. (Sooner if I can, quicker to join the Discord and PM Atherin. I'll get you your link asap.) - As of February 2026, the compressed size of the VN is about 750MB. A "Core" package will be available for general download and key files with new content will be contained in the private links. To run the VN the recipient will need to download both and place the "game" folder from the version Patch into the Core version directory.
Below are the version links. Updates release every Saturday at 17:00 EST.
Please come join the Discord to be added as a Legacy Subscriber in the event you would like to pause support!
To reduce the potential impact of piracy on our Subscribers, all download links are tagged with unique hashes for each subscriber and a personal download link will be provided through Subscribestar private chat.
Visual Novel Downloads: - The Team Sasa ($5) will receive a download link once a month with the last general build seven weeks deferred. - The Team Hikari ($10) will receive a download link once a month with the last general build two weeks deferred. - A new tier "Team Rhea-ka ($25) with a subscriber limit of ~30 will receive a download link weekly with the latest (in development) build.
- NEW subscribers or subscription changes, to expidite reciept of benifits, please send me a PM through Discord or a Subscribestar chat stating the tier you've subscribed too and if you would like a Windows/Linux or a Mac build. - Any new subscription will immediately receive a new personal link to the last applicable build prior to 17:00 EST the following Saturday. (Sooner if I can, quicker to join the Discord and PM Atherin. I'll get you your link asap.) - As of February 2026, the compressed size of the VN is about 750MB. A "Core" package will be available for general download and key files with new content will be contained in the private links. To run the VN the recipient will need to download both and place the "game" folder from the version Patch into the Core version directory.
Below are the version links. Updates release every Saturday at 17:00 EST.
Totally upfront, this only has 2+ weeks worth of progress in it, there was about a month of "experimenting" with mini-games that left several versions... unpresentable. So what do we got?! - Continue main story after the dream sequence. Hikari had her memories stolen by her... "Mother?" the hell? - Krish needs a boot in the face. - Cleaned up some stuff in Chapter One, namely the Much Beloved... "Game Overs". Those got some of the newer mechanisims I've been working on for the post credit cut scenes rubbed on em. There's also a more natural story in them. I wouldn't remove the little sex scenes, but they make more sense now... I hope. - New music for the main menu. I lisen to it all day every saturday as I develop/test/repeat...
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I'm updating the monthly goal to 1k per month... which... means this thing threatens to actually become truly legit. Something I'm not entirely prepared to accept.
Goal is the same, refresh the hardware. In the year between setting the $400 mark and now ram has gone from $150 to around $1000 for the same product. I was able to put one machine together before all that and am using it now but everything is still rendering on a trio of 1080ti's, nothing to sneeze at, but I'd like to do better. The chipsets are garbo, two 10 year old Ryzen 3's. Those need to get upgraded to Ryzen 7's like in the box we built last year.
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Looking at upgrading the hardware, perhaps to support AI for future projects. The current pair of machines being used for Hikari have been around for 8 years now and although have been upgraded, they are reaching the end of their serviceable lives.
These both originally cost $600 lol and came with GTX1050's. Not bad for the price. Since then they've both been upgraded with GTX 1080ti's (I love them), and 128GB of ram. But they are using 9 year old Ryzen 3's and pretty outdated motherboards.
A mediocre new PC w/ Ryzen 7 and a 5080 is running about 3k right now... god lord.... a Ryzen 9 w/ a 5090 is twice that?!
Ok so hopefully prices will be more affordable when we reach this goal!
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