Hey folks! We've got some important updates coming to Missing Stars, including some general typo/grammar fixes and adding new art assets. Please look forward to those changes coming soon. Secondly, I'd like to talk about another route cancellation. While it's unfortunate, the planned Irene route we've talked about amongst us developers has to be cancelled. We originally talked about adding her in as a "bonus" route for the Steam version, but we have run into issues and have thus had to cancel our plans for the route. But, we don't want to leave you assuming we're making this up. We do have an ..read more

Hello everyone! We're super excited to finally have Missing Stars out on Steam. Thank you so much for your support, and we hope you enjoy the game! As an Early Access title, we plan to correct any bugs, audio issues, typos, and general sprite weirdness as we find them. If you have any such issues to report, please be sure report on Discord, Steam, or itch.io. We'll do our best to get to them ASAP and post appropriate patch notes when fixes are ready. Once again, thank you all so much for your continued support over the years. Missing Stars has been our team's passion for a long time. We hop ..read more

Greetings, everyone! We have an update for you: After some (slightly frustrating) waiting from the Valve Review Team, Missing Stars is now available to wishlist on Steam! We're all super excited for you all to try out our new build (with updated content), coming out soon! (We'll drop a release date as soon as we're confident that everything is wrapped up!) Please spread the word on social media as best you can -- every little bit helps us get more attention! We'd love to see more people enjoy Missing Stars! For those that are Steam-averse, we have an updated build coming out on itch.io as we ..read more

Hey folks! It's time for another Missing Stars update! We've been hard at work making the magic happen behind the scenes, and we have a special treat for you: our official trailer! As for development updates: the team is in the process of quality testing our scripts and making sure everything looks good. We're confident that we'll be done relatively soon. Once we have a release date pinned down, we'll make another announcement! In the meantime, please like, share, or leave a comment on the trailer's YouTube page! Spreading the word about our visual novel is the greatest thing you can d ..read more

Hey there! Hope you are all enjoying 2023 so far.  Missing Stars has been in development for 11 years now, and we've had a lot of fun polishing it and making it a fantastic visual novel. We're now in the final stages of adding new CGs, music tracks, and making our new user interface. Speaking of, here's a preview of the new textbox in our debug build! We decided to increase the opacity, add a drop shadow for the text, and make a swanky new name box. Not everything is in place just yet, but we're happy with the look so far. Note: Erik is not, and will not be, any sort of machine or m ..read more

Trick or Treat, everyone! We've got two treats for you - some spooky artwork for all you lovely fans! Callie did a great piece of Irene dressed up as a vampire hunter! Likhos made a very sexy vampire Jeanne! Enjoy the rest of today's spooky festivities! -Hamadyne Twitter InstagramFacebook Official Somnova Discord ..read more

Hello everyone! It's been a while since our last update - sorry about that! We've all been busy with real-life responsibilities (work, getting married, etc.) so progress has been slow these past few months. However, we have some really cool things to show off! Fran, we felt, needed more expressions to expand their emotional repertoire, so they have received a significant upgrade to the number of available poses, expressions, and outfits they have. We're pleased with the result! They are now fully sass-equipped. As mentioned in previous posts, we've also been working on adding more ..read more

Hey everyone, it's Hamadyne here with a new update for Missing Stars: Act One. As we move further into the 2022, we've been making a lot of progress on the new build for Steam. Something we've been working on for a while is an improved save/load menu! Saving now has a more intuitive space for writing save messages. And loading... looks pretty similar! Very nice. Adam has been working hard at getting this menu looking super polished (and significantly less buggy than the older version), and we hope to polish the rest of the UI just as well as this menu is! Meanwhile, in the ..read more

Hey everyone! Hamadyne here, with some fun and exciting Missing Stars history for you. Some of you might already know this, but our current cast wasn't set in stone from the get-go. At one point, we had upwards of thirty character concepts to choose from, which made selecting them pretty tough. We had a lot of fun ideas but it all came down to a vote. Today, I'll go over some of the more popular characters that didn't make the cut! First up is one of my favorites, Agatha Schulz-Rhine. Early on, we had a lot of fun discussions about Phineas Gage and his radical personality change, and very ..read more

Hey everybody! This month's update will be a quick one, since not much as changed since our last update. We are all still working hard on Act 2 and beyond. The main bulk of our work so far is cleaning up the code for the game while we wait for more assets to be made. Once that's done, we'll have a much easier time making scenes for Missing Stars, and ensuring that editors, writers, and other developers can make Missing Stars the best visual novel it can be! Speaking of assets, here's a new CG we've been working on!  This isn't musical chairs, is it? This CG (plus a few more ..read more