Development Update: April 28th, 2025

Yep.

I’ve been spending a few days fixing up WHI for the JP translation. Fixed some bugs and added variables that the translation can use to move things on the UI around so things can be aligned better.

I’m also done (about) 50% of the (exteriors) for the Chapter 2 update! There’s like 80 exterior maps and I’m done just over 40 of them. It’s a big update. I hope to take another bite out of it this week, the mapping might take until the end of May.

By Latteswiirl. This one caused kind of a ruckus.

Because then Alice made these and people just started posting them non-stop in the Discord server, half the server was Yap Yap and the other half was Movie.

Movie

Lydie as a floating spooky ghost maid by Justjall! Cute as heck and animated, which is what Lydie is not!

By Kori. I’m running out of pithy things to say these too are just cute together.

By Rinne!

By Artemichu. If there’s a String Tyrant anime then the audience is in for a big surprise.

By Elisami. FINALLY the most important Bottled Starlight character, Koops’ cat Niko, gets some fan art. Look at this handsome fellow.

YOU THOUGHT I WAS DONE? By Xandra.

Also by Elisalami. The rarely-seen Tennis Christine!

By Shinezenii. Actually this seems like it’s lewd? Like this is a rilmani private moment we shouldn’t be seeing? Am I a voyeur?

Now there we go, just a cute girl smiling broadly. By Dayne-duh.

I think Lydie now has more costumes than Princess Peach did. By Xandra.

“Can you draw the WoR cast as anthropomorphic animals?” “Sure but what does Chris become” “Snek” -Actual conversation
(Chris hates snakes)
(By Xandra)

Apparently the bricks took forever and a half to do but the piece turned out great! By Toffee.

Three pieces where we ask ourselves “What if there was a cowgirl quest in chapter 3?” and Dias answered with the cutest darn cowgirl Jeanne ever. I have to assume Night is going to wrangle them. Yeehaw.

Where to find us:

Our Patreon and Subscribestar are great places to support development! You can also get cool bonus stuff like concept art and early releases of Pandemonium!

If you want extra pictures of cats, you can follow us on Bluesky.

And there’s always Our Discord. You can shout at Salty *in person*.

You can ask us anonymous question on Whisp.sh. If you’ve ever wanted to get smarmy answers to questions, or just know more lore, that’s the place!

We also have a Wiki! We’d appreciate it greatly if people keep it maintained for us. :3

Bottled Starlight Games:

Runes of Pandemonium, the big adventure TF RPG, always free on Steam and Itch.io.

Witch Hunter Izana, a battle-TF RPG. Available on Steam or Itch.io.

Witches of Ravenbrook, a battle-TF dungeon-crawler. The prototype is out now and free on Itch.io.

String Tyrant, a survival horror game, is on Steam and Itch.io.

Other Bottled Starlight Stuff

Salty writes a book series, with audiobooks and illustrations, called Tales of Strings.
Instruments is out now on Itch.io.
Passed Hand is now on Itch.io!
Spiderweb Theory is now on Itch.io!
Urban Explorers is now on Itch.io!

Mario is currently working on bringing the Pandemonium story series to Itch.

We have some ridiculous merch on Redbubble and Teepublic if you want to be the center of conversation (derogatory / celebratory).