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Welcome to the development blog of ARCADEA! ARCADEA is a adventure game currently in development on RPG maker VX Ace. It follows a girl named Maisie on a quest across the fantastical world of Arcadea to find someone precious to her....  About Characters FAQ Download Twitter

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Working on increasing resolution quality for the game. Fullscreen mode now has images on the sides instead of black bars (placeholder image for now).

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The ARCADEA demo is now available in Russian! Thank you Anna Lacrow for the translation!

Download:

itch.io: https://aishin.itch.io/arcadea

Steam:

ARCADEA on Steam

Follow Maisie on a quest across the fantastical world of Arcadea to find someone precious to her....

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something about your art is just so dreamy and nostalgic to me. it just immediately grabbed my attention when i first saw it and have been in the back of my head all this time since, i don't think i've ever felt so much from any other art!! keep up the good work and thank you for all you've done all these years, I'm looking forward to the full game <3

Wow that's such a nice compliment, thank you so much 🥹 I'm happy you like my art so much! Dreamy and nostalgic things are nice, aren't they? I'm glad my art evokes those feelings 😇

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What sort of music would the characters listen to?

Interesting question! I haven't really thought about it all that much, but here are some general ideas:

Maisie : Not very interested in music. Probably listens to old CDs that her family owns or whatever is on the radio.

Emi: Before coming to Arcadea, she only listened to classical and piano music. After coming to Arcadea, she discovered a variety of music and loves anything upbeat and happy.

Amerie: She likes relaxing, melodic music like ballads, lullabies, and music boxes. Anything she can read or sleep to. She enjoys Emi's piano playing as well.

Soda: He loves all music but especially appreciates unusual, off-beat music with weird time-signatures or stylistic sampling. A music fanatic who introduces the denizens of Arcadea to all sorts of genres.

Morinne: She prefers songs that focus on lyrics or singing ability. She likes to appreciate the artistry of the songwriter/singer. However, she doesn't really understand the 'weird' music Soda likes to listen to.

Citrus: She doesn't really listen to a lot of music, and doesn't have any particular preference. However, she does enjoy humming along to whatever she hears playing.

Jas: He likes a variety of music: alternative, rock, pop, techno, country, oldies, metal, etc. What songs he likes and dislikes depends on his mood at the time. Will give any song/genre a chance.

Quetzal: He doesn't seek out music himself, but he is curious about it and listens to whatever the other Isle Leaders show him. He plays folk songs on his ocarina every once in a while.

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Just played the Demo, and I’m very excited to play the game in its entirety when it comes out! I love the story and the world so far; and I’m very impressed with the aesthetics. Keep up the amazing work!!

Thank you sooo much!~ I really really appreciate it !

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is there a specific way you come up with color palettes? its so hard with pixel art

Pixel art is really hard! In order to make it look neat and clean, you want to limit the number of colors used as much as possible (no more than 2-4 colors for shading for each color). My art generally has a light pastel, desaturated look for a dreamy vibe, so I just adapt that into pixel art. I lean towards cooler colors like purple and blue and basically never use black. It helps to look at references like limited palettes or pixel art used in other games. I reference Maplestory sprites myself quite often. It all depends on the aesthetic you're going for!

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I'm so excited to hear that the 5th Isle is complete, keep up the good work!

Thank you!! Will do :D

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Hello! I'd like to say that you're doing a great job on the CGs, and to not worry too much about how quickly you get them done. Good things take time :)

Thank you so much!~ I really appreciate the understanding c:

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ARCADEA Development Updates > Going into 2026

Hello everyone! Hope you all had a great holiday~ This year flew by for me. I can't believe it's already over...

I just wanted to do a quick update on the game's progress since the last one was around a year ago. Since then, I've been working hard on completing the 5th Isle . 

Unfortunately, progress had been slower than expected this year. Not to go into too much detail, but my full-time job has been extremely stressful and brain fog/fatigue has been quite severe. I have started doing physical therapy and taking iron supplements and other vitamins to combat it. Thankfully, I am seeing results, so game dev progression continues on (albeit slowly)!

I'm happy to say that the 5th Isle is finally complete! This was a very difficult part of the game for me to write, so I'm glad it's finally done. I am excited to see what the play testers think of it. (I'll replay it a couple more times before sending it off though...)

The 6th Isle is the final Isle and this will either be the easiest to work on or the hardest depending on my brain. It is the part I've been thinking about the longest (basically a decade now), but executing it is another story. I'll do my best to finish it in a satisfactory way. In my opinion, endings are the most important part of a story,  so I want to do it well!

Once again, I apologize for taking so long and thank you all for your continued patience with me. Working on a project for this long often feels demotivating as time passes and little progress is made, which leads to an endless cycle of increasing demotivation. 

However, at this moment, my motivation is high and I couldn't be more excited to work on ARCADEA in 2026. 

Thank you for your support as always!

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Happy Holidays everyone! Thanks for your support this year as well ~

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Hello, I found your game on itch io and really liked the look of it. At first, I thought the game was very popular and that there must be a Russian translation, but it turns out there isn't. So I'm writing to you to ask if I can translate your game into Russian. I hope to hear from you soon :) . Good luck!

Sure, go ahead! I would appreciate it 😇

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Working on cgs. There's quite a few left...

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If you haven't already played the updated ARCADEA demo, you can try it out at Steam Next Fest starting 10.13! Available in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese!