Bionic Heart

At the age of twenty, Riva began his career, designing small-scale games for the Italian market. He took a seven-year sabbatical until 2003, when he discovered the shareware distribution model and created the sports management video game Universal Soccer Manager using BlitzBasic. He moved to C/C++ language and published 10 more games under the Winter Wolves label, then opened a new company, Tycoon Games, on which he has published 6 games: the space war game Supernova 2: Spacewar, the dating sim game Summer Session, the visual novels Heileen and Bionic Heart, College Romance: Rise Of The Little Brother, and Spirited Heart. For the games Summer Session and Heileen, he moved away from C/C++ to embrace Python programming language and in particular the tool Ren'Py. The stories of The Flower Shop: Summer In Fairbrook and The Flower Shop: Winter in Fairbrook were written by Ayu Sakata from sakevisual. Starting from 2020, some of his games were ported and published to consoles by Ratalaika Games.

• Release date — Title(s) — Genre(s) — Platform(s) • 2003 — Universal Soccer Manager — Sports management — Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • 2004 — Spin Around — Puzzle game — Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • Ignazio The Frog — Pac-Man clone — Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • Universal Boxing Manager — Sports management — Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • Quizland — Quiz game — Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • The Goalkeeper — Simulation video game — Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • Supernova: Galactic Wars — Strategy video game — Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • 2005 — Magic Stones — Card game, Role-playing video game — Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • 2006 — Universal Soccer Manager 2 — Sports management — Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • 2007 — TV Station Manager — Simulation video game — Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • 2008 — Supernova 2: Spacewar — Strategy video game — Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • Summer Session — Visual novel, dating sim — Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • Heileen: Sail Away — Visual novel, dating sim — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • 2009 — College Romance: Rise Of The Little Brother — Visual novel, dating sim — Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • Spirited Heart — Visual novel, dating sim — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • Bionic Heart — Visual novel — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • Heileen 2: The Hands of Fate — Visual novel, dating sim — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • 2010 — Card Sweethearts — Card game — Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • The Flower Shop - Summer In Fairbrook — Visual novel, dating sim — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • Vera Blanc: Full Moon — Visual novel, detective game — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One • Vera Blanc: Ghost In The Castle — Visual novel, detective game — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One • 2011 — Love & Order with Christine Love — Visual novel, dating sim — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • Planet Stronghold — Role-playing video game, visual novel — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • Always Remember Me — Visual novel, dating sim — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • Spirited Heart Girl's Love — Expansion — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • The Flower Shop - Winter In Fairbrook — Visual novel, dating sim — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • 2012 — Loren The Amazon Princess — Role-playing video game, visual novel — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • Loren The Amazon Princess: The Castle of N'mar — Expansion — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • Heileen 3: New Horizons — Visual novel, dating sim — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • 2013 — Heileen 3: Sea Maidens — Expansion — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • Bionic Heart 2 — Visual novel, dating sim — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • Nicole — Visual novel, dating sim — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One • 2014 — Roommates — Visual novel, dating sim — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One • Tales of Aravorn: Seasons of the Wolf — Role-playing-game, visual novel — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • 2015 — Bad Blood — Expansion — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • 2016 — Planet Stronghold: Colonial Defense — Visual novel, card game video game — Android, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • C14 Dating — Visual novel, dating sim — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S • Heirs And Graces — Visual novel, dating sim — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • Queen of Thieves — Visual novel, dating sim — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • Never Forget Me — Visual novel, dating sim — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • 2017 — Amber's Magic Shop — Visual novel, dating sim — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • 2018 — Cursed Lands — Role-playing video game — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • Love Bites — Visual novel, dating sim — Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • 2019 — Corona Borealis — Visual novel, dating sim — Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows • 2020 — Planet Stronghold 2 — Role-playing video game, visual novel — Linux, Microsoft Windows • Volleyball Heaven — Visual novel, dating sim — Linux, Microsoft Windows • 2021 — Tales From The Under-Realm: Hazel — Visual novel — Linux, Microsoft Windows • At Your Feet — Visual novel, dating sim — Linux, Microsoft Windows • Summer In Trigue — Visual novel, dating sim — Linux, Microsoft Windows • Love Notes — Visual novel, dating sim — Linux, Microsoft Windows • 2022 — The Curse Of Mantras — Card game, role-playing video game — Linux, Microsoft Windows • Tales From The Under-Realm: After Midnight — Visual novel — Linux, Microsoft Windows • 2023 — The Beastmaster Princess — Visual novel — Linux, Microsoft Windows • Save The World — Visual novel — Linux, Microsoft Windows • Tales Of Aravorn: An Elven Marriage — Role-playing video game, visual novel — Linux, Microsoft Windows

• In The Company of Wolves: Celso Riva Interview from rockpapershotgun.com • Interview from gamesetwatch.com • Interview from pig-min • Interview from Indie Superstar