News from the Atelier Sentô

Making a game is soooo challenging but it’s also really fun! We cannot wait to reveal the final game! If you want to support us, wishlist #TheDollShop on Steam 😉

The livestream can be watched right now:

The Doll Shop will feature 3 different endings, 6 collectible bonus scenes, and even a hidden post-game with a new perspective on the story!

Wishlist on Steam:

Our horror game The Doll Shop has been selected by Big Festival in the BIG Highlight category!

Spending some quality time with Cecile’s doppelganger in Death Stranding 2. 👍

A snowy village inhabited by ominous shadows… An old house full of creepy dolls… And in the midst of all this, a lonely young man hiding a dark secret.

Will you uncover the truth?

Coming soon…

Our March newsletter is online! 🌸

Learn more about our upcoming projects:

If the Atelier Sentô was a real place… ⛩️

Our patreon page has grown over the years and we wanted to turn it into something special. We had the idea to design a map where you unlock different spaces, like a mini RPG game.

So we opened our watercolor box and started painting…

Want to stay at our digital ryokan, get access to our studio and receive exclusive gifts from our souvenir shop?

All the information is right here: https://www.patreon.com/c/ateliersento/about

So much has happened in 2025, but the major events have been our cameo in Hideo Kojima’s video game Death Stranding 2, our collaboration with Mokuhankan on a series of Japanese traditional prints, and the release of vol.2 of our Tokyo Mystery Café comic book series.

We wish you all a wonderful 2026!

There are currently more than 170 pine trees in The Doll Shop, each one carefully placed by hand in Unity.

First snow this morning… ❄️

Everything is so quiet outside.

It’s the perfect atmosphere to draw some snowy landscapes for The Doll Shop, our upcoming video game.

With a hot cup of tea, of course! 🍵

More info about the game:

Thanks a lot for your message! ☺️

⭐️ We draw our pages at a size that’s slightly larger than the printed pages. (If it’s too large you may loose details when printed.) Usually, we add 2 or 3 centimeters. But it depends on the look you want: We like to keep sketchy lines and we don’t want our pages to look too clean (which may happen if you reduce them too much when printing).

⭐️ Some publishers have standard formats so they give us templates and we use them to create our pages.

⭐️ Sometimes, there are no templates available. So we browse through our comic book collection (or we go at the bookstore) and we look at the different formats available to create our own templates.

⭐️ When painting, we paint over bleed sections indeed. We try to cover a larger area than necessary, just in case.

⭐️ We do our thumbnails using the same template than the final pages but smaller. When they’re done, we just have to print them at a larger size and use a light table to draw the final pages.

A woodblock print designed by us and handprinted by Mokuhankan, a traditional Japanese ukiyoe workshop set in Asakusa, Tokyo.

There is definitely a ghost in this machine, don’t you think?