hitogata

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• Patch Notes·11 Apr 2026Official

  APRIL UPDATE

  ITS BEEN EVEN LONGER, HASN’T IT? To me, these last two months have been even longer yet even shorter than ever before. Sometimes its been some of the the worst times of my life, sometimes its been some of the best times of my life. Everything is confusing and weird. Despite all this, I've been doing really good!BORING GAME UPDATE: I’ve completely restructured how I’m handling development. I’m trying to develop a rough version of the game from beginning to end. Beforehand, I made the game area-by-area which is insane in hindsight. For this rough version I’m using temporary assets, but all of the programming (and 50% of the script) is final. I should have done this from the start, LOL.(This means the first half of the game is 90% done, while the second half is aiming to be 50% and fully playable + locked in before the end of the year.) I took also a 2 week break due to personal mental + physical health reasons. During the break I was practicing art, music, writing, working out, and trying to experience as much media as possible so I can develop a new headspace. (IT WORKED WITH FLYING COLOURS.) FUN GAME UPDATE: The newer stuff in hitogata is REALLY good apparently. That's all. LOL. Here's some stuff, you may have seen some of it on my twitter (@keibetsuu)!!NEW SINGLE?!?I felt SO lame for not showing off anything too interesting, so here! This is one of my favorites from the soundtrack! LOBOTLOID killed it once again! I hope you enjoy!!friendly? | LOBOTOLOID and keibetsuu | keibetsuu (bandcamp link!)CLOSING THOUGHTS:It's been kinda hell-ish this past while... Because of it, I had to take 1/4th of the past two months off. Yet somehow the progress I made has been REALLY good. I think I did more in March than January to February combined. I expect this flow to keep going! Thank you SO much for reading this! The full game will NOT disappoint!!!(If you've read this far, check out the movies 'muholland drive' and 'worst person in the world'! I haven't been able to stop thinki...
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• Patch Notes·10 Feb 2026Official

  FEBRUARY UPDATE

  ITS BEEN A WHILE, HASN’T IT. These last two months have been the longest- yet also shortest- months of my life. I’m bewildered by the amount of attention hitogata has been getting. I sincerely thought about 20 people would play the demo, not like, THIS MANY. All of the feedback means SO MUCH like you have no idea. GAME UPDATE: It’s so scary to show anything off because I want the experience of the full game to be as blind and spoiler free as possible. HOWEVER… I’ll oblige. (audio is super unfinished or not present, dialogue and visuals and etc will most likely be touched up, this is a SUPER huge WIP.)I haven’t been working on the game as much due to working on the demo and other hitogata related things, but it’s still coming along! im trying to find new workflows to get faster at this. DISCORD SERVER:Not much to say here. JOIN IF U WANNA!https://discord.gg/sB99uPzQDREAMSCAPE 4 + DEMO JAPANESE TRANSLATION!?!:A Japanese translation is (mostly) finished! It’s going to have some issues/imperfections upon release due to Japanese not being my native language, so I’d love to hear some feedback on it.ALSO.... in the middle of January, the translation was playable at the DREAMSCAPE4 games convention in Tokyo!! It felt like a total fever dream. The reception from it has been great too (APPARENTLY.) The demo will release in the upcoming days, I’m a bit shy and might just release it on itch exclusively for a while. (for reasons stated above.)SOUNDTRACK: The hitogata demo soundtrack is on youtube AND bandcamp! It’s totally free to download! Shoutout to LOBOTOLOID for going above and beyond!youtube: https://youtu.be/K1Qi40P84wU?si=4BvoJwjOz-Q-ZWUJbandcamp: hitogata demo soundtrack | LOBOTOLOID and keibetsuu | keibetsuuSICK NEW GAME COVER:As you may have seen, there's a kick(butt) new game cover drawn by LOBOTOLOID! I redid the steam page and various assets, using this cover as a base. Expect to see more updates to the steam page soon! (also, expect to see some updates to the game...
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• Announcements·19 Dec 2025Official

  DEMO IS OUT NOW!

  WELL WELL WELL! THE DEMO IS OFFICALLY OUT ON STEAM! GO PLAY IT! (if you wanna…..)To mark the occasion, let me say a few things!hitogata as a game started off as a story idea, which became a comic idea, which became a game by accident. I’m (MOSTLY) making it mostly on my own, with my wonderful friends pitching in and assisting (check out @leylenangel and @LOBOTOLOID and @RobotChimpG on twitter!!). The fact the game got this far is still blowing my mind. I was driven to make something that appealed to me in every single way and I’m glad to see it click other people!!Currently, the game is JUST over half done (outside of redo's, polishing, bugs, bonus content, etc). If you want a release date: I genuinely have no idea. Think of the farthest possible release date you can muster and multiply that by 1000. That seems like a safe bet for now!Thank you to everyone who had faith in this game to be gnarly for the last while. Blah blah blah. All that corny stuff. (I really do mean it though like holy f^%%#$% idk where i'd be without you!!!)Anyway, I promised to show something off, so here’s some old (and new??) concept art/storyboards! (Please be aware, these are mostly SUPER SUPER old and outdated!)
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• Announcements·13 Dec 2025Official

  DEMO RELEASE DATE!!

  IMPORTANT UPDATE - The demo on steam has been delayed due to unforeseen circumstances. However, you can play it right now on itch.io!!hitogata (DEMO) by keibetsuu-Hello! I’m excited to announce that the demo will be releasing on the 16th of December! The amount of work me + the team have put into the game this past year has been INSANE and I’m oh-so-proud of how it is turning out.The demo is planned to cover 1/5th of the full game, but I doubt that’ll stick. Hitogata has always been envisioned as a game that starts slow- but then evolves into a full sprint foaming at the mouth monster by the end. So I hope you enjoy.Once the demo comes out, I’ll try to have a proper update on the state of the game and even show off a few small things. SO STAY TUNED FOR THAT!
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