Happy NIGHT @ SKY HOUR the Sixth! Today, SKY HOUR WORKS celebrates the 6th year anniversary of our debut release A NIGHTMARE'S TRIP, and the 5th year anniversary of SPACE / MECH / PILOT! We're keeping things light but aren't empty-handed - let's start with our headliner announcement:
NEODITRONIX - the next SKY HOUR WORKS published release, comes to Steam on October 22nd!
TRAILER: [dynamiclink href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWMoHJqBLso"]
We're excited to announce another project joining the SKY HOUR WORKS library - introducing NEODITRONIX by log(), the dreamcore rhythm experience. NEODITRONIX is a freeware rhythm adventure game, made as a passion project by a friend of our doujin circle, and we're excited to assist with its launch on Steam, as well as assist in additional funding for licenses for 1.0 launch content. Part side-scrolling adventure game, and part arcade rhythm game, this game is aiming for something a lot more deeply personal as a work, which is why I found it to be a good fit for the label and picked it up without question. It's made as a love letter to both the genre and SKY HOUR WORKS as a whole, so it's an honor to help collaborate and bring this release to life.
Chapter 0 will release on October 22nd and as mentioned before, will be completely free to play. No microtransactions, no locked paid content. This is a freeware doujin release in the classic sense.
Steam page will be live sometime in the next few days!
SEASON 0 BUNDLE
For the first time ever, both ANT and SPACE / MECH / PILOT are being bundled together on Steam! Combine this with any ongoing sales for an extremely cheap discount! Take a look here:
[dynamiclink href="https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/60279/THE_NATURA_PROJECT_SEASON_0/"]
There'll also be an Anniversary Sale to commemorate the day, running for this week on Steam and itch!
UPDATE ON MAINLINE SHW PROJECTS
With UNBEATABLE on the horizon, I've called for a temporary pause on internal SHW projects until that is wrapped, but some people are still touching up things here'n there! HAOxSORA =THE SKY'S ABOUND= -RIDE TO OUR FINAL- is still in development and we've been working on both new music and assets for it semi recently. We're still waiting for some team members to be available again to resume RE: DECEIVED VOICE as well. I aim to be pushing more for SHW projects in 2026 once I'm a lot more free - for now, I'm prioritizing our currently published projects, both Beatblock and Neoditronix, while supporting Hajimeli with their future efforts as a part of our continued collaboration between SHW and them.
My hope is for RE: DV and HAOxSORA's Steam release to mark the full release of the originally promised SEASON ONE collection of the games, which is still planning on including a physical release! Really sorry about that delay - as it turns out, making games while working full-time on others is hard. Oops! I could say all of this stuff might release in 2026, but I'll give an actual estimate once we're making progress on those things again. That'd make a whole lot more sense then another gajillion year delay, lol.
OTHER THINGS
Although you can purchase A NIGHTMARE'S TRIP (and it is on sale literally right now), beginning today, the game has now been added to the Internet Archive, ensuring its preservation and free, safe digital access. We would, however, extremely appreciate it if you are able to purchase the game if you can!
We will do an upload of SPACE / MECH / PILOT onto the Internet Archive in 2026.
In case you missed it, we helped launch Beatblock to great success, and are happy to announce the game has sold over 4000 copies in its first week and recouped within the opening 24 hours. The Beatblock team BubbleTabby aims to continue their work on bringing the game to a final 1.0 release!
That'll be all for tonight. We hope to resume more frequent updates and return to our internal projects once people within the group have more time. Despite it all, we still are doing this mostly because it's fun, and is to us, our hobby side-thing outside of our day jobs. The fact that people love this small, low-key thing that we do all these years later means a lot, and we hope to keep that up and expand further into bringing our doujin works to public events in 2026.
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-JEFF (SKY HOUR WORKS Director)
