#Keyframes Summer

[blerdyotome]

(Blank) House Launches Kickstarter for Amare Slice of Life College VN, Keyframes

[blank-house]

what…did you guys put in elio….he’s so cute…..i need to get romantical with him….

JUST WAIT UNTIL SUMMER, BUDDY. YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET.

[annemaynova]

HEY!!! DO YOU LIKE OUR LIFE??? WOULD YOU LIKE A LIFE SIM FOCUSED ON COLLEGE AND THE EXPERIENCES HAD WHILE FINDING YOURSELF (AGAIN)?

MAY I HIGHLY RECCOMMEND KEYFRAMES BY BLANK HOUSE?

Keyframes is a life-sim visual novel centered around the idea of change in your college years. Play through the last two weeks of your spring semester wherein you meet a trio of boys who are delightfully chaotic in all very different ways! You play as one of four personality types, going through your years at Wyrn-Mayer uni as a political science major with your upperclassman & bestie Cameron, as well as your rommate and other bestie Deja!!

Meet the flirty-at-first, sarcastic and game loving Percy, the athletic, cheery and emotionally available Elio & the stand-offish, tall & deadpan Jamie!! immerse yourself in a world with as much variety and replayability as Our Life!!

At the end of October the kickstarter to fund the Summer Season begins, but the Spring semester is FULLY FREE!!! WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE!?

(Your sanity. the boys will burrow in ur brain and not leave)

If you loved Derek, Elio is your man. If you think Baxter's charming you'll adore Percy. If you're a cove girlie, Jamie will have something for you!! Something for everyone!!!

images above taken from the itchio page found HERE

[tulipvalyn]

This game is so good that i had no choice but to make my own mc so now i'm glad to introduce you to my sweet girl Dahlia <3

I'm going to be honest, i'm not sure if theres a volley team but fuck it we ball, i just couldn't get out of my head that match that we play agaisn't Elio... actually i can't get any of the scenes out of my skull...

[winged-self-indulgence]

Summer!MC: So we can either do something dumb that could very well get us injured. Or we can listen to Deja and not do the thing

Cameron: Well surely there’s a clear right answer here

Summer!MC:

Cameron:

Summer!MC: *proceeds to throw five packs of mentos into a barrel full of diet coke* RUN

[galpalaven]

can't be bothered to fill out the whole bio for them rn but my girls for @blank-house's Keyframes VN~

Miri is my Jamie route and Penny is my Percy route :3

[karaonasi]

Playing Games

🎮🎮🎮

I recently played the Keyframes VN demo and can’t get the character Percy out of my head—well, when Baxter Ward isn’t occupying it.

I’ve been reading the dev blog of Q&A’s to glean what I can about him. So a few days ago I was playing with some ideas about what friendship with him might look like prior to any chance of romance with him.

🎮🎮🎮

“Come in!” came the voice from the one occupied bedroom in the dorm suite. Kimmi let herself in, making her way toward the unmistakable gaming sounds coming from the room with the open door.

“I thought we were gonna study, Pretty Boy,” she teased, setting down her book bag by the door.

Percy braved a glance up from the screen with a bright, flirty smile. “Hey Dutchess. Do we ever study when we make plans to--oh shit!” he returned his attention quickly back to the game.

Kimmi snorted and circled closer so she could get a view of the TV screen. “Going old school, huh Tozaki?” She laughed, watching the screen go red before growing dark. “Shouldn’t you be better at this game by now?”

From the side, she could see his dark eyes roll. “It’s the Legends Edition. So not that old. And I’m trying Insanity Mode.”

“Why?” She asked, climbing onto the bed but far enough to give him some space.

He shrugged though he was still biting his bottom lip in concentration. “Better than studying Organic Chem?”

She laughed. “You got me there. I’ll take PolySci over that any day. Who you planning on romancing?” she asked, changing the subject. She knew there was no way of stopping Percry from procrastinating when he had his mind set on it--no matter how easy-going he pretended to be.

“Mass Effect One: Lia--dammit!” his screen went from red to black again.

She laughed. “Just go normal mode. You know you want the story more than the tactics anyway.”

“And you just want the romances--correction. Romance. Singular, Miss Casual Mode.”

“Yup,” she replied, complete with a pop to her pronunciation of the P.

He sighed. “Fine…” He re-loaded the game and toggled the difficulty setting. “Happy?”

Kimmi smirked. “No. But I would be if~~”

Percy’s eyes rolled a second time. “Fine. Go ahead.”

“Like you hate it,” she teased, scrambling up and kneeling behind him on the bed to play with his hair.

“Ah! That’s better!” he sighed dramatically, leaning back against her.

“I wasn’t volunteering to be your gaming chair, Scooter Boy.”

“Awww, Princess, you should feel blessed to be under me.”

Kimmi let out an undignified snort. “As if, fuq boi.” She smacked him lightly in the back of the head. When he relented and returned to sitting, she repositioned herself, pulling out his hair tie and running her fingers through the shaggy layers of his black hair. She laughed when she noticed the ‘paused” indicator flash on the screen as her companion let out a soft sigh.

“What was I saying again?” he asked as she teased out the edges that framed his face. While he played, they continued to banter about romances: Kimmi teasing him for sleeping his way through the galaxy and Percy teasing her about her faithful devotion to one LI through the series of games. All the while her fingers worked a french braid into her friend’s thick hair.

Until the door opened with a noisy chorus of voices entering the common room of the suite.

“Perse?!” Elios’s voice called out.

“I see Kimmi’s bag, she must be here too,” Deja’s voice added.

Without letting go of the almost-finished braid, Kimmi leaned over his shoulder, flashing an impish grin. “Wanna mess with them?” she murmured just loud enough for him to hear. Percy answered with a mischievous smirk of his own.

“Hurry, get it back on, Babe!” he stage whispered loudly enough for the next room to hear and handed her the hair tie.

“My hands are kinda…busy, Percy,” she said with feigned urgency as she carefully twisted the hair tie around the end of his new braid and gave it a little pat.

“Uh--We’ll be out in a minute!” Percy called out.

The room beyond went silent.

Then broke out into hurried half-whispering.

“Since when have they…um…”

“Do we dare check--”

“No!” Several voices shouted at once.

“I don’t want to know.” That last one was definitely Jamie’s voice.

Kimmi and Percy’s foreheads lightly clunked together as they struggled to keep their laughter silent--which ultimately failed, the two falling over onto the bed in loud peals of mirth…to the great relief of their friends.

Except for Jamie who truly didn’t care one way or the other.

🎮🎮🎮

Find the VN at

And their blog at @blank-house

[gebo4482]

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania by Tully Summers

[karaonasi]

I love this boy

So cute! I love it!

thought about percy in glasses and nearly fainted

[blonndiec]

The biggest thing we got robbed was the summer episode in the height of their pinning.

I NEED TO SEE THE COMPLETE SCENE OF THE SHOWERS.

Must have been important…they running at the beach and this one in the ending.

And let’s not forget THEY MADE A COUPLE COLLECTION FIGURE OF THEM WITH MAKKA. Where? AT THE BEACH. Must mean something🥲💖

And you know? IT MUST HAVE TO BE RELATED that picture of Viktor drinking at night. And when he is combing Yuuri's hair? That too. And where does that appears? YES, IN THE ENDING. 😭

I need this lost episode. I need at least the keyframes, the storyboard. I NEED MORE.

[womenenthusiast2]

the girlies to celebrate the (belated) funding of the summer season of keyframes!!

[onelastskip]

YIPPEE!!! Introducing my mc from hit visual novel Keyframes by Blank House - Chi Aubade! I wanted to replicate the style and oh my god it took so long, never again, but yeah this is originally Deja's title card thing, sorry my beautiful wife,,, Anyway I'm just going to ramble about this game now- I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!

there's another one with some more stuff about her, anyway- I've completely fallen in love with this story, the characters, they have my whole heart </3

Ermmm just some thoughts about the game in general it is just so awesome how the character relationships are done, it just feels so rewarding to go back and find some extra dialogue because I'm closer to a different character or something (I'm just assuming that's what it is - i might just be stupid) BUT REGARDLESS! I lauvvv that they're gonna fall in love at different speeds and all that jazz, it's just beautiful. I am actually so excited for the kickstarter I am prepared to eat ice soup to fund the next part OH MY IM SO HYPED!

Side note: Usually I'd change the last names of my ocs but the season names are perfect. Like they legit feel soooo prettiful. I will have to draw fanart for my other mcs- oh my god speaking of the mcs, the personality system is literally?? So genius. Freaking so amazing it felt like a completely different experience. While my fall baby is my og now as a Percy fan I have to say- Summer is crazy. I thiink ii literally wanted to throw my computer across the roomm, he's soooooooooo. I want to throw him agianst the wall. I love him too much. AHH!! I'm so excited to learn more about him PLEASE just a crumb of spoilers, I will stay quiet I swear. It's for playlist purposes, how am I supposed to make a relationship playlist with this shallow level of understanding smh. YIPPEE I'M SO EXCITED FOR THE KICKSTARTER!!!

Just realised i spent this entire time talking about the game instead of my oc hmm guess that means I need to draw more soon >:D Anyway focusing on my visual novel college life is about to destroy my university real life, goodbye goodbye!

[blank-house]

If funding and time wasn't an issue, what would you add into the game? What features/ideas did you guys have to cut because it just didn't seem feasible? I'm really curious what your guys' "ideal" version of the game would be.

Honestly? My ideal version is already happening or uhh i.e none of the super important features/ideas I wanted in game have been cut yet! So I’m optimistic (and delusional) that that will remain the same as we continue development.

That being said— we did have to cut like three minigames from the spring demo because it was a programming and art effort that didn’t really net much gain?

For example, in the rainy event— I wanted to do a cooking mama segment where you actually did have to chop, season, and stir the pot to make the soup. But from a development perspective, it didn’t add anything to the narrative and it ultimately would’ve been a waste of our time since it wouldn’t be reused.

Soooo bye bye it went!

[minthe-drawings]

Time to reintroduce Cerise, my summer☀personality MC for Keyframes ✨

Extra doodles:

[tulipvalyn]

Dahlia in her spring fits 🌸

[winged-self-indulgence]

Deja: Do you have a self-care routine?

Summer!MC: "Keep going bitch" said to myself in different accents.