Hey everyone!
Welcome to the official Itch.io page for After Hours Interactive. We are incredibly excited to finally open the doors to our studio workshop and invite you to join us right at the ground floor of our development journey.
We are a two-person independent team dedicated to crafting deep, high-fidelity, choice-driven narrative life-simulation visual novels using the Ren'Py engine. Our goal is to build reactive worlds full of complex characters, branching story logic, and mature themes where your choices carry genuine weight under the hood.
Who We Are & What We Do
We wanted to combine our unique strengths to build something incredibly polished:
- Shaunna (Art & Narrative): Handles our master world-building, narrative script direction, and high-fidelity character illustrations and environmental renders.
- Zac (Programming & Systems): Handles our custom Python structures, choice variables, game implementation, and studio operations.
Our Development Focus Right Now
Behind the scenes, we are actively in production. We are building the foundational code systems, mapping out complex relationship variables, and rendering early character assets.
Join Our Brand-New Discord Community!
Join our Discord server so we can hang out, chat about game mechanics, and share updates in real-time.
If you are a Patreon backer, make sure to link your Discord account in your Patreon settings! The moment you do, our automated system will instantly hand you your custom community role on the server and unlock exclusive backer spaces.
Thank you so much for dropping in early. Having your support at this stage of production means the absolute world to us, and it gives us the fuel to make this project something truly special. Stay tuned—our very first development updates are already cooking!
Love AHI Dev Team <3
Website: https://afterhoursinteractive.dev
Discord: https://discord.gg/rMtPCbHAh
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/afterhoursinteractive/
X.com (twitter): https://x.com/Ahinteractive
General Email: hello@afterhoursinteractive.dev
Support Email: support@afterhoursinteractive.dev
Studio Transparency & Production Note
*A Quick Note on Payments:* We want to be 100% transparent about our timeline. Everything we share right now is completely public. We will not be paywalling any content until we have a tangible, playable alpha build ready for playtesting. Even then, our early test builds will remain open and accessible as we get our footing, ensuring you get real value before any premium tiers lock in.
*Expect Some Creative Silence:* We are currently working incredibly hard on our initial concepts, asset rendering, and early backend development. Because we want to focus entirely on production, please expect some quiet periods from us until we have established a milestone that is genuinely worth communicating.
A quiet feed doesn't mean a dead project—it means the compilers are running! The project is fully alive, moving forward every single day, and we look forward to bringing you some incredibly exciting project news the moment it's ready for the spotlight.