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KANA RAIN · VISUAL DEVELOPMENT

A garden, imagined.

Concepts created before implementation, and the artwork that brings the game to life.

Concept board showing a rainy Japanese garden and glowing droplets with rain spirits — The first sketches
A quiet garden, a luminous drop, a little companion. The starting point for the visual direction.

Painted rain garden with a little turquoise spirit and glowing drops — The feeling of rain
A second concept explores the full scene, depth, lighting, and the rain spirit.

Production background with clear dark mist above a pond and stone lantern — Room for reading
The production background keeps the central sky quiet so kana remain readable.

Transparent rain spirit sprite sheet with idle, happy, worried, and sleeping poses — A companion for every moment
Four transparent poses used for greeting, correct answers, mistakes, and pauses.

Transparent water sprites: teal drop, coral stained drop, splash, and ripple — One drop at a time
The gameplay drop, error state, success splash, and pond ripple. Kana are overlaid as real text.