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Merch Sale!
This week, as part of Citrus Con, Canvas Menagerie (and our other boys love game, Asphodelium) are on sale! You can get the art book DLC for 15% off. Canvas Menagerie Artbook The merch for Canvas Menagerie is also 20% o…
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1st Anniversary!
Happy 1st Anniversary to Canvas Menagerie! A year ago today, Canvas Menagerie released after 3 years of solo development. Thank you everyone who has spent time with Niko & Ren and growing alongside them. If you haven't…
Patch notes - Canvas Menagerie
Happy Halloween!
The ghost bunny has visited us once again...! Happy Halloween, everyone! 👻🐰🎃
Patch notes - Canvas Menagerie
Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival has started!
The first ever Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival has started! It's a new festival focused on celebrating romance visual novels with over 200 visual novels from 100+ developers—including us! Our romance visual novels ar…
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Storyteller's Festival 2025
The Storyteller's Festival is now live! This event is a festival focused on celebrating story-driven games, primarily visual novels, ran by our friends at Two and a Half Studios. Canvas Menagerie and 2 of our other game…
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Canvas Menagerie is out now!
After 3 years of development, Canvas Menagerie is now fully playable! Canvas Menagerie is a comfy slice-of-life boys love romance about a group of actors going through their mid-20s together while filming together. Foll…
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Canvas Menagerie releases in 3 days!
There’s only 3 days left until Canvas Menagerie releases on Steam & itchio! After 3 years of development, it’s finally ready to be fully released. The full game sits right at 138k words with 15+ CGs, so around 10-12 hou…
Patch notes - Canvas Menagerie
Season of Pride Event + Release Date!
Today marks the beginning of Season of Pride presented by MidBoss, IDGA, and Gayming Magazine! It's a festival celebrating a variety of queer games, including visual novels... like these! Steam post image Together with…
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Steam Next Fest + Updated Demo
It's been a while but Canvas Menagerie finally has an updated demo, just in time for the Steam Next Fest event. If you haven't already, please wishlist the game on Steam as it helps out with development! Here's a brief…
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July Updates - Writing Complete
It’s the start of August so it’s time to look back at progress made in July, of which there were a lot. First off and more importantly, the first draft for the entirety of Canvas Menagerie is complete! Act 1 & 2 are alr…
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May Updates – Editing & Playtesting
May was a very hectic month for me personally, so there wasn’t much progress made this month – but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t any! I wrote about 4k words for Canvas Menagerie. I also did a fair amount of editing for…
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Women's Day Sale + Game Updates!
Hiya, today is the first day of the Women's Day Sale on Steam! It's a 10-day long festival celebrating games made by women and women-led teams. Canvas Menagerie is taking part in it as well! To go with the festivities,…
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January Updates - New Chapters + Art
Canvas Menagerie is a large boys love story told over 3 Acts, which represent different stages in the relationship between the main character Niko and his love interest Ren. Act 1 is them meeting and falling for each ot…
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July Updates - Writing and Scene Direction
The total script has now passed 95k words! Several scenes were added to the middle section of Act 2, namely involving Ren and a certain character introduced in Act 2. Canvas Menagerie is structured to be somewhat episod…
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