🎉 Exciting news! 🎉

K-pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut was part of PQube Asia's first-ever showcase! 🚀

This incredible event showcased the full lineup of upcoming releases for 2025 and beyond, and we’re excited to share that K-pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut captured attention as one of the featured titles!✨

Get ready, because K-pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut will be coming your way in 2025 and we can’t wait for you to experience it!

🎥 Check out the full showcase here:

Long time no see, Manager 👋🏻

We’re very thankful for your endless support and patience during the development of
‘KISS : K-pop Idol StorieS - Road to Debut’ ːsteamthisː

💎💎 Today, we’re back with some exciting news for you!! 💎💎

As the game has a bit of variables and more characters for the management aspect, we did further study on the run schedule UI visual.
We hope that the informations are clear and easy to understand, while maintaining the colorful and clean visuals.

Our team's favourite is weighted on C, but we would like to hear which one is your favourite?ːsteamhappyː

We also have a preview update for a new feature: 'Battle'.
We will show you more once we add more 'fun' to this feature. So excited! ːsteamhappyː

During the GDoC (Game Devs of Color) Expo from:
September 19th at 10am PT/ 1pm ET to Saturday, September 21st at 10am PT/ 1pm ET, 2024,

we’ll broadcast a pre-recorded stream showcasing the latest gameplay of ‘KISS : K-pop Idol StorieS - Road to Debut’.


Last but not least,

KISS : K-pop Idol StorieS - Road to Debut is selected as one of the nominees.

To vote, you can go to the link below:
{LINK REMOVED}https://tinyurl.com/votekisslevelup2024

{LINK REMOVED}The September days are here...
Thank you for the wishlist and share ːsteamhappyː 💕

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Xoxo,

KISS Dev Team

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KISS: K-pop Idol StorieS has been selected to be one of the Steam Summer Women-Led Games Sale 2024.

As we keep silent and still need more time and working hard on the demo,
We're uploading a new pre-recorded preview of the game.
We're still alive and working really hard to keep improving and get everything done.

We hope that everyone can patiently wait for our future announcements.
Thank you so much to everyone, and Women-Led Games innitiatives for the opportunity!

Thank you !💕

Xoxo,

KISS Dev Team

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• Instagram[www.instagram.com]
  
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It is our pleasure to announce that 'KISS: K-pop Idol StorieS - Road to Debut' is a part of the Storyteller's Festival 2024.
Sorry if you find a similar announcement with the previous one, as we held a 2nd session on the main page today.

As we're still working hard on the upcoming demo (yes we do a lot of improvements),
we would like to stream the 1st Playtest version played by our devs and LeeMar V, the super cute V-tuber from Malaysia.

Leemar also have her livestream back in January 29th, 2024, Monday, 09.00 PM PST which you can watch again through her Twitch.
https://twitch.tv/leemarv

Please wishlist the game or follow our Steam, Twitter, or best is joining the Discord channel,
if you're interest to try the upcoming 2nd Playtest.
https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/1662160/KISS__Kpop_Idol_StorieS__Road_to_Debut/
As the close playtest will be held closed for our mailing list subscribers, discord members, and everyone who filled the playtest form before.


Thank you !💕

Xoxo,

KISS Dev Team

[linktr.ee][discord.gg]More KISS: Kpop idol StorieS updates on social media:

• TikTok[www.tiktok.com]
  
• Instagram[www.instagram.com]
  
• Facebook[www.facebook.com]

It is our pleasure to announce that 'KISS: K-pop Idol StorieS - Road to Debut' is a part of the Storyteller's Festival 2024.
As we're still working hard on the upcoming demo (yes we do a lot of improvements),
we would like to stream the 1st Playtest version played by our devs and LeeMar V, the super cute V-tuber from Malaysia.

You can support her on Twitch January 29th, 2024, Monday, 09.00 PM PST
https://twitch.tv/leemarv

Before we get the demo up, we may held the 2nd Playtest as a close playtest for our mailing list subscribers, discord members, and everyone who filled the playtest form before.
It will be announced around end of February or early March 2024. *finger cross!

We hope that you can give us your honest feedback, and maybe suggest us your language preferences?
As it will be the closest version to the public demo.

If you noticed, we also have updated this new trainee's data menu, together with the dress up features.

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/1662160/KISS_Kpop_Idol_StorieS__Road_to_Debut/
Thank you for reading and supporting us!💕

Xoxo,

KISS Dev Team

[linktr.ee][discord.gg]More KISS: Kpop idol StorieS updates on social media:

• TikTok[www.tiktok.com]
  
• Instagram[www.instagram.com]
  
• Facebook[www.facebook.com]

Hi, everyone! 🥰🎶
Welcome to the latest KISS update for December 2023.

Before concluding this year, we would like to share some progress and additions based on the last playtest feedback.


Our team has prepared several costumes for you to choose for your idol group’s debut, and here's one of them:

Some trainees will have similar themed costumes with different styles.

Now, we're curious – which idol group do you think has a great style? Refer them to us for inspiration! Maybe we might use it as a reference for upcoming designs.



We have added a feature that allows you to revisit the dialogs you have acquired before.

To start with, here's the initial view (WIP) of the dialog history feature developed by our programmer while awaiting the UI design from the artist:

Then, our artist enhanced its appearance with an appealing UI design:


We conducted a poll on Twitter and TikTok[www.tiktok.com] some time ago. The result was that many feel 5-6 members are the ideal number for a K-pop idol group:

But, how about you? If you missed the poll, feel free to share your thoughts by leaving a comment in the discussion below!


Be sure to follow and wishlist KISS: Kpop Idol StorieS - Road to Debut so you won’t miss our future announcements.

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Thank you for reading and supporting us! As always, your feedback means the world to us 💕

Xoxo,

KISS Dev Team

Thank you to everyone who tried our first playtest build and joined our Discord community[discord.gg].

We’ve received all of your feedback

Let's start with some major feedbacks that we’d like to address for future updates.
But hopefully we can finalize everything soon and having the Demo up.



Yes, we are very excited about this feedback.
Since we will definitely be adding more trainees in the future.
We plan to add three more trainees, and currently all of the characters's characteristic were handcrafted or manually designed by our game and narrative designer.
In this first playtest, we hope to test the feeling of being a manager to better understand and get to know your trainees.❣️🥰


We feel sorry if you've had any awkward experiences. But no worries, English proofreading is on its way.

Since localization requires a lot of work and cost, while we plan to add more languages in the future.
Would you kindly let us know which languages you think are important to have? 🙇🏻‍♀️
Chinese Simplified/ Traditional? Japanese? Let us know!



There will be various mini-games prepared for the future depend on the schedules and events happened.
However, we've heard that not everyone is a fan of rhythm games or QTE.🎙️🎵
So, we will provide you with a chance to runaway. 🏃🏻‍♀️💨💨💨
However, in return, there will be some consequences regarding the rewards.

If you've been following our social media, you might have seen a few of them 🤫🔎
We can't wait for you to try them!


You're right. the current playtest's playtime is only 5 weeks, only half from the initial Demo's planned for 10 weeks long. 📋
But the goal we wanted from playtest is to understand your expectation about the game as early as we can. So if there's some changes, we can do that as early as we can.
While we have built the system, this playtest is just our first baby step.
In the next updates, beside more trainees, we will certainly have longer playtime.

📣So, please stay tuned for the next announcements.📣

While the playtest is still here until sometime, we will work hard and probably close it when we received enough feedbacks.
But, You can also send your suggestions regarding KISS: Kpop Idol StorieS through our Discord community Anytime!
by clicking through this link ▶▶ Join KISS: Kpop Idol StorieS on Discord[discord.gg]

[linktr.ee][discord.gg]We may post the updates as well on our social media.
Helping spread the words, is also helpful for a small indie team like us.
Twitter - @WisageniGames
Instagram - @wisageni_games[www.instagram.com]
Facebook - Wisageni Games[www.facebook.com]
TikTok - @wisagenistudio [www.tiktok.com]


Happy weekend, and See you in next dev log or announcements! 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏾‍♂️

Xoxo❤️ ,

KISS Developer team

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Firstly, thank you for everyone who have registered for our First Playtest in KISS: Kpop Idol Stories.
We will send you an email ASAP to make sure that you're in as the playtester. ːsteamthumbsupː

If you haven't registered yet, you can directly press the 'Request Access' Button in the main page.
And while waiting, our Community Manager, Tiffany will play the earlier build.
(there's a slight changes with the live playtest build version).

We appreciate your patience as we worked around to bring this game ready for you,


Since our purpose is to gather as much valuable feedbacks,
After you’ve finished playing the game, we will greatly appreciate if you could fill in this Feedback Form through the link below:
{LINK REMOVED}https://bit.ly/kissfeedbackform

For faster communication and feedback, we encourage you to join our Discord channel by clicking this invitation link ➡ https://discord.gg/PVGKBueRdu
You’ll also find a Feedback button on the left side of the game that’ll lead you to our Feedback form.

Keep in mind that we plan to release the game in several languages, but for now the Playtest is currently in English and PC only (keyboard and/or Xbox controller).

We hope you'll enjoy the Playtest build as much as we enjoyed creating it for you.
Thank you for helping us and we can’t wait for your feedback!


Xoxo,


KISS Dev Team ːsteamhappyː

Drop by at our booth in HALL 03.2 Stand no E - 018 g- F 019g

It’s the new month in August and we’re excited to give you some updates on what we’re currently working on in KISS.

Steam VN Fest and Playtest!

Apparently, we want to open the playtest today, coinciding with the Steam VN Fest.
Our team has been working very hard over the past week, but there's still not enough time.
We need to make sure of a few details here and there.


Would you be interested in joining?
If yes, please fill the form below, and we will soon reach you and send the link once the page is live.
Fill out this form and prepare to play![forms.gle]

The more diverse the player we got, the more constructive and valuable the feedbacks..
We believe that it can make the game better.ːsteamhappyː
Or if you're a streamer, let us know when you plan to stream it later so we can repost/retweet it.ːsteamthisː
Let's just spread the good news together.ːsteamthisː

Devs streaming is also coming soon this week.
If you just want to watch, our devs will also stream the playtest build in our page until the Steam VN Fest is over. ːsteamhappyː

Rhythm Mini Game - Step by Step

Beside Playtest announcement, what we'd like to showcase today is the development journey of one of our minigames, rhythm games.
We've been iterating the gameplay and visuals.

We're fans of DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) and Pump It Up-type games.
And this rhythm game is the first thing that came to our minds that fits with the KISS concept, a management simulation about K-pop, idols and music.
So, if you're also the fan of DDR or Pump It Up, we hope that you’ll love this too!

This is the first look of the basic idea of the game. We started with the WASD keys on keyboard.

After the game is working, we started to get the 1st looks, and laying out the UI.
From left to centered, we also tried different backgrounds.


We still wanted to have more K-pop feels in the game.
So we added more polishing and animation, and this is the final look of the game.


What do you think?
Do you have another mini-game you wanted in mind? ːsteamhappyː ːsteamhappyː
Or guess what's the next mini-games we will add?

Schedule Tree

Besides the mini-games, we also added a new feature to help players plan a better schedule while playing.

Through the Schedule Tree, you'll be able to see what tasks next and how to unlock them, giving you clearer ideas on what to choose and focus on in the game.
The early prototype still a bit messy...

We've tried to clean it up a bit, and voila!
Hope that it's clear enough and informative now.
As you can see, the Schedule Tree mainly will have 3 big categories. Tehee! ːsteamhappyː

Gamescom and TikTok!

We’d also like to announce that KISS: Kpop Idol StorieS - Road to Debut will be joining Gamescom this year.
So if you’re interested in trying the game, have a chit chat with our team at the event, or just say Hi! or Hwaiting! ..kindly visit our booth at Hall 3.02 stand E 018g - F 019g.

Besides our Twitter, now We finally have a TikTok account[www.tiktok.com].
Not just showing the game.. Sometimes we're also showing the making process, and more about the devs daily life.

So, let's call it a wrap for KISS today’s devlog!

Thank you so much for keep supporting us through the long journey of development.