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What's new in Pominis: Summer 2026
The Pominis releases from June to August 2026: a new creator home, the agent-and-canvas workflow in VN Studio, and short video moments in scenes.
Pominis shipped three releases this summer, on June 4, July 31, and August 10, 2026. Here is what each one changed and where to find it in the product.
August 10: a new home for creators
The creator home is the front page of your workspace. It combines a prompt box that asks what you want to make, your recent projects, and the community feed with Recommended, Follows, and Events tabs. The aim is to get from an idea, or from an unfinished project, back into your workspace without hunting for it.
The community feed can be filtered by format: Visual Novel, Phone Story, Hybrid, and Visual Presentation. It is a quick way to see what each format looks like when it is finished before you choose one for your own project.
July 31: story creation, from idea to canvas
This release introduced the workflow VN Studio is now built around: a chat with the Pominis agent on one side and a canvas on the other. You describe a rough premise, confirm a startup brief, and the agent builds an editable branching story, with an outline, characters, scenes, and choices, while the canvas keeps every scene in view.
The canvas is not only a preview. You can open any scene and change its route, choices, and media yourself, and ask the agent in plain language for larger rewrites.
June 4: bring story scenes to life
The June release added short video moments and put visual refinement next to the story structure. From a scene you can turn its image into a short clip and describe the motion you want, or refine the image itself, without leaving the chapter you are working on. For lighter movement, scene motion effects such as a slow push-in, rain, or fireflies apply to the still image in the player.
Video and image generation use credits, so these tools are best spent on the scenes that carry a story's turning points.
One way to try each release
- Creator home: type a one-sentence premise into the prompt box and let it open a new VN Studio project.
- Agent and canvas: on the scene board, open a scene with Edit scene and change where one choice goes, then play the draft to see the difference.
- Video moments: pick the one scene where something should visibly move and use Turn to video; try a Scene Motion effect on the others first.
The full list
The release history page lists every public Pominis milestone with its date, including the earlier releases that added image editing, reusable characters, and continuing from an ending.
The next release, on September 29, 2026, adds game import from Ren'Py, WebGAL, and Twine, text stories, and co-creation; its entry is on the same page.
