

Na-Ga is the chief artist and character designer, and additional character designs are provided by Tsubasu Izumi and Yūnon Nagayama. Nostalgia and the maternal bond are prominent themes in the game. Although Air also features a rural, seaside setting during the summer, the development team aimed for Summer Pockets to have a different feeling to it. Maeda decided not to write the scenario due to similarities in themes with Key's visual novel Air, which he primarily wrote. Kai was brought in to direct the project, as well as co-write the scenario with Hasama and Yuu Niijima. The game's concept is by Jun Maeda, who felt that the game needed to make readers cry.

Once there, he gets to know four girls who are the focus of the story. The story is set on a fictional island on the Seto Inland Sea and follows the life of Hairi Takahara, a young man who uses the recent death of his grandmother as an excuse to escape to the island after an unpleasant incident. Summer Pockets is Key's 13th game, along with other titles such as Kanon, Air, and Clannad. It will be released on Jfor Windows and is rated for all ages. Summer Pockets 「サマーポケッツ」 is an upcoming Japanese visual novel video game developed by Key, a brand of VisualArt's. They include Shiroha Naruse, who forgot her summer vacation Ao Sorakado, who is pursuing the legends of the island Kamome Kushima, a high-class girl looking for a pirate ship and Tsumugi Wenders, a younger girl trying to find herself."

Hairi grew up in an urban setting, but after an unpleasant incident, he uses the recent death of his grandmother as an excuse to come to the island to take care of her estate sale. The protagonist is Hairi Takahara, a young man not native to the island. "Summer Pockets is set on an isolated, rural and peaceful island on the Seto Inland Sea called Torishirojima, which has a population of about 2,000 people.
