🌻VisuStella April 2025 Report

Hello Adventurers~🌻

Here's a collection of our reports for April. As always, feel free to share your thoughts or feedback—we truly appreciate it. We know things may seem a bit overwhelming on our end at times, but we're steadily working through our operational challenges and striving to give you all a better experience moving forward!

✦ Introducing Kiranyaki

We’re excited to introduce our newest team member: Kiranyaki! 🌟
They’ve recently joined the VisuStella team and have a few words to share with you all:

"Thank you so much for having us! We’re excited to be part of the VisuStella community. Our role is to support VisuStella operations by helping create new free assets for everyone to enjoy.

We're still pretty new to the world of game development and creation, but we’re eager to learn and grow. It’s our hope that the assets we help produce will inspire and support you in bringing your games to life. Thank you for giving us a chance to be part of your creative process!"

Kiranyaki is already hard at work behind the scenes, and we’re so happy to have them on board. Please give them a warm welcome! 💖

✦ Collaboration with GGG

At long last, we’re excited to share that the VisuStella Worlds: Fantasy Realms commercial license is officially in motion! ✨

We’re currently in the final stages of negotiations with GGG’s DLC team regarding distribution, and things are looking promising. This has been a long time coming, and we truly appreciate your patience as we worked through the many details behind the scenes.

This collaboration marks a big milestone for us—it means that soon, you'll be able to use Fantasy Realms assets in your commercial projects under an official license! We know many of you have been waiting for this opportunity, and we're just as eager to bring it to life.

✦ About Stella Character Generator

There’s been a bit of confusion around the initial release of our engine, so we wanted to clear a few things up. Due to certain circumstances and feedback, we ended up drifting from our original goal. The engine was never meant to be seen as "early access."

To clarify: Stella Character Generator was first and foremost designed with Visual Novels in mind—not RPGs. Sideview sprites and character sprite support weren’t part of our original vision. They were added to make the generator more flexible and accessible—especially for those who wanted to import their own assets. Even so, we still stand by our original vision: this generator was made with Visual Novels in mind. Looking back, we realize how that may have sent a different message to our user base. It’s one of those growing pains that come with creating our first product, and for that, we sincerely apologize.

We also want to address a clause in our terms that’s caused some misunderstanding. When we ask users to seek permission before using the engine to create and redistribute their own asset works, we’re referring to large-scale collaborations or derivative tools based on the generator itself. We do allow collaborations! It’s just important to check in with us first. Unfortunately, some of this was misinterpreted, partly due to language barriers, and we’re sorry for any confusion that caused.

✦ Development Progress

Thank you once again for your patience! We've been busy behind the scenes squashing bugs and refining visuals to make sure everything works smoothly.

1. We’ve finished all the generator assets—from male and female adults to children. Every part now includes both sideview and character-equivalent graphics. We’re currently in the process of cleaning them up and ensuring compatibility within the engine.

2. There’s a small bug in the “DLC install” function of the new editor, related to how masks are handled. (This function is designed to make importing both custom and official resources easier.) One of our team members is on vacation until May, so this fix will take a bit more time.

We did consider releasing the software early, but we want to make sure that—at the very least—all included resources and core features work flawlessly before we do.

Thanks again for sticking with us. Your support means the world! 💛