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Supersized spring salutations, everyone! Clock here coming at you with a new development journal for Growth Academy! Spring is here, and it’s finally warming up, which means it’s time for a new build for Growth Academy! This is a big one for our favorite big, beautiful business woman, and so just as we start up with new opportunities, we’d like to welcome you to come and take a look at what all we’ve done, such as:

NEW SCENES!

And so, we reach another ending for a beloved route, something I wish to congratulate https://www.deviantart.com/the-murp for after all of his hard work, which pays off this build in big ways!

Scenes

  • Akira’s Route: FMG095, FMG096

  • Alice’s Route: WG100, WG101, WG102, WG103, WG103G, WG103B

  • Okisho’s Side Route: WGB001, WGB002, WGB003, WGB004

Scene edits

  • Alice’s Route: WG062

  • Naomi’s Route: GTS016 and GTS017 are now core scenes

  • Shiori’s Route: AE052, AE079

  • MC Scenes: MC005, MC024

  • RM Side Route: RM002

NEW ART

We have a whole slew of new and updated art assets this build! You can expect:

CGs

  • Three new CGs on Alice’s route

  • One new CG on Akira’s route

  • One new CG on Naomi’s route

New Sprites

  • Naomi

  • Akira

  • Tomo

New outfits

  • Aida

  • Alice

  • Shiori

  • Keisuke

Updated sprites

  • Tomo

  • Minori

  • Keisuke

Colored size ups

  • Okisho

  • Tomo

  • Keisuke

Backgrounds

Several new backgrounds for Alice’s endings

I’d also like to take a moment to welcome our new artists to the dev team! We’re excited to have ya aboard, and can’t wait to share your creations with everyone!

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And with that, I’d like to thank you all for following the development of Growth Academy. These milestone builds always get me really sappy, so I won’t take up too much of your time, but we hope you enjoy what we’ve done this build! Go and check it out in the new build section when you have the chance, and until next time, we hope to see you all for a celebratory summer!

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Dev team hasn’t been keeping up with this thread but the game development has been steady.

Alice’s route is now finished (reached the last scene but more content is still planned)

And the side route WG character, Okisho, has had her route started.

https://www.deviantart.com/clockworkphysicist/journal/Latest-Demo-Build-of-Growth-Academy-2025-March-1178553294

Enjoy!

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Hoppy April everyone. Clock here, with a new development journal for Growth Academy! We hope all of your easter celebrations and spring cleaning have gone well, as we have been hard at work getting some new treats ready for ya after last months build! What have we been working on? Well how’s about we pop open this egg and take a look?

Shiori has some old scenes currently being worked on for rewrites, similarly, we are planning on upcoming CGs as well!

Naomi has two scene rewrites complete, one rewrite in progress, one new CG in progress, and a new outfit in progress!

Akira has two new scenes, as well as new CG and new expressions completed!

Alice has a new CG planned, and a new outfit completed! (Also, have you Unlocked Okisho’s route yet? >;3)

Aida has one scene in progress, and one new outfit completed! Similarly, she has some new music which will be showing up in route thanks to Post-Bop!

Finally, we have a new outfit for Yuki being planned, two new MC scenes in development, two new outfits for Kei in development, an update to Kei’s character icon and Kei’s size 2 completed, nurse Kiyomi’s sprites in development, a new font for character dialogue implemented, brand new backgrounds, added previously missing bgs with alternate time of days, some replacements for pre-existing backgrounds, and a rain overlay animation for selected scenes implemented!

I’m also pleased to give you more info about the upcoming MC010 scene! It is our second holiday event and a highly replayable scene with multiple different versions depending on choices the player will make in the route of their choice. Players will have option to hang out with Tomo, spend some introspective time with Kei or experience one of the variants tied to each main girl - Alice, Aida, Akira, Honoka, Naomi or Shiori, so we hope you enjoy it when it’s finished!

With that, I think that wraps up this dev journal in a nice foil wrapping and places it snugly in a basket! Thank you all for following the development of Growth Academy, and we hope to have even more fantastic things for ya next month!

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A while back i tried a little this game and, to be honest i got kinda lost and lose interest. The game is not bad, quite the contrary, is super good and i like the fact that there is options for each type of growth,the art and i saw some glimpses of the improvements and additions that each update has included. But i think i got a little lost and overwhelmed with the amount of content and scenes it has. Recently i tried again but i noticed that i missed the 9/10 scenes of pretty much most of the characters after i choose the scene were the mc noticed the growth of Shiori. I tried to do each part equally, so i wouldn’t miss scenes or content, but after that i got a little sad because the next parts showed the characters already on the first stage of their growth and missing the some parts and context was kind of a bummer for me. So i ask to anyone who has played this game before: how i should really play this game?, i stick with one or a few characters first?, can i really play all scenes if i do them in a certain order?

Again, this game is not bad, i saw some videos of people playing this game and since then i really wanted to play it and try all routes and i saw that a secondary wg route was added (which is really good for those who don’t really like Alice).

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Don’t try to see everything in one run, don’t let the check failed icons get to you, and if you don’t like a character, it’s fine to avoid them. Pick a favorite girl by event 8, and give her more attention than the rest. Personally, I savescum but only for the player skill checks.

Honkers best girl!

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So, I progress to a certain point before characters reach their first growth stage and stick to one character?. I guess it’s fine and I prefer to stick to one character route than just trying to do each one at the same time. I’ll restart then and go with Honoka, since it was her route I was trying to follow.

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BadIdea4 is correct, it’s best to have multiple save files that focus on one girl at a time.

All of the girls eventually will get to a point in their route that triggers “routelock” where the player is locked in to exclusively pursuing that girl and the other available scenes in the other girl’s routes become unavailable. This happens around the mid 20s of scenes for most of the girls but it varies.

This was done because the story tries give a realistic treatment of the subject matter and it’s not reasonable that most, if any, of the girls personality-wise would be interested in a non-exclusive relationship with the protagonist. So no harem ending, but each route allows for a deep exploration of a relationship with the girl and the changes she’s going through.

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I understand. I’m not personally a fan of the “harem route” of some games, is just that I was concerned that I was missing or skipping moments of the game. As I said before, is great the the game gives options and the story is good. Thanks for the reply and yes, is good to have multple save file.

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Just curious are there any additional scenes like WG060S for Alice?

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The closest to that is likely WGFMG004, which is one of the crossover scenes with Akira that occurs at size 5. This is unlocked after WG074, but before WG079 and you need to have played other WGFMG scenes in the file.

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Blossoming forth from the dirt I rise, hey everyone, Clock here with another Development Journal to show our progress on Growth Academy! I hope everyone has been enjoying their springtime as we transition into summer; I know we have been using it to get everything ready for the upcoming Matsuri celebration at Seichou, which we hope to have written and ready for you in the upcoming build! Along with it, here’s what we have been working on!

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Honoka has one new scene in progress, as well as a new outfit which is finished and ready!

Shiori has some new CGs in the works, as well as some new expressions in progress and completed!

Naomi has a new outfit complete, a new CG in progress, and a brand new scene rewrite in progress!

Akira has 2 two new scenes (One main route and another dream scene), and two CGs finished!

Alice has new expressions in progress, as well as new CGs in progress!

Aida has steady progress is being made on PRG 062 as well!

Finally, we have more progress on MC010, the Matsuri! Kei, Tomo, Akira and Alice variants completed, Honoka and Aida variants in finishing stage of development, Naomi and Shiori variants in advanced stages of development. We also have an additional MC scene (MC032) completed, two outfits for Kei completed, a new outfit for Kei planned, and as an exciting one: new placeholder sprites for the nurses Kiyomi have been implemented in selected scenes!

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That’s all for now, but we’re excited for next month when we can bring all of this to you! Until then, thank you all very much for following the development of Growth Academy, and May the squish be with you!

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June-tidings everyone! I hope everyone has enjoyed their festivities this month, or even just finding some time to be yourself and enjoy life! To end if off, we have a big celebration coming, along with lots of new art and scenes for you to get a look at, some which are bigger than your wildest dreams! All of this, in the new build of Growth Academy, which is out now! What can you expect?

Art Updates

  • New outfits: Keisuke, Honoka, Aida, Naomi, Alice

  • New sprites: Aida, Akira, Naomi

  • New expressions: Aida, Alice, Akira, Shiori

  • New sizes: Keisuke

  • New CGs: Akira’s route, Alice’s route

  • New character icon: Keisuke

  • New and updated backgrounds

  • New features: Rain overlay implemented in selected scenes, new font for character dialogue, updated font colors for various characters, Debug Mode visual refresh, Kei’s outfits implemented on all routes

  • Placeholders: Nurses Kiyomi uncolored sprites, future Yuki’s outfits, placeholder backgrounds

Music

  • Reignition, Plug and Play by Post-Bop

Writing

  • Aida’s Route: PRG061

  • Akira’s Route: FMG097, FMG098, New Dream Scene

  • Honoka’s Route: BE059, BE060

  • MC scenes: MC010, MC032Scene features unique “scenes within scene” with characters from the route of your choice. Please check the guide below for more details!

Rewrites:

  • Naomi’s route: GTS008, GTS009

Scene edits:

  • MC scenes: MC005, MC008, MC009, MC013, MC014, MC024

  • AE route: AE022, AE029, AE034, AE039, AE040, AE053, AE069, AE072, AE090, AE100, AE100G, AE100D

  • BE route: BEGTS005

  • GTS route: GTS035, GTS036

  • PRG route: PRG042

“A scene within a scene”, you may ask, “What does that mean?”. Well, simply put, this scene is a HUGE one, a big celebration for all of Seichou! You will make descisions for how to celebrate, and this will lead you to many different options which all nest into their own individual scenes based on how you want to play! Spend it with friends, potential lovers, or even take some time to sneak around at your own leisure! 150 pages worth of writing went into this event, and a ton of hard work, so I hope you enjoy what we’ve done! A special thanks to everyone who made this scene what it is! As a little starter, check out the walkthrough made by Haen to show you how to get started with the event! With that thank you all for following the development of Growth Academy! Happy celebrations, and may your summer be bright!

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