Important Changes (Patreon)

I hope everyone had a good time during the holidays and I wish everyone a happy 2024. We have kicked off the year with the drop of Early Access for 9.9, which isn't a massive update, but sets up the ground work for the lore expansion and the addition of Ruby in 10.0. With that said, we have some important information to share regarding the future of our work.

First things first, I personally feel deeply thankful for the longtime support me and my team has been receiving throughout the years. We all know 2023 in particular was rough, and while a lot of supporters left, a lot of them still remained and kept with us. We want to give back to this community the same way you've given to us. Thus, all official updates to our games from here on out will be posted for free. The content will no longer be paywalled and you won't need to be pledged/subscribed to my Patreon to download the latest released version. However, we still want patrons to have some benefits, so the official Discord channel will still remain mostly for patrons, Bitch Boys and Puppies will still be the only ones participating in polls and Early Access will still be locked to Puppies. We will also make sure EAs release in a more playtested and stable state, so being a Puppy will actually have the benefit of being able to play early, instead of paying to chase bugs.

We are currently putting up a version of Domina, with the more extreme scenes stripped out, that we are going to post on Steam for free. The way we'll be handling how we're distributing updates after this is still being debated. There's a point to be made about going to Steam full-force, which will probably make everything easier and streamline the way players transfer their saves from older versions to newer, but that would mean all extreme content and fetishes will need to be separated and applied on top of the game as a patch or something similar, so there's still some thought to go into this. Your advice will be appreciated. 

Other than Steam, I'm also personally looking into porting Domina for mobile. The process is a bit more complex than initially considered, but I think it's worth the time; we all really watch porn from mobile after all. As for a Mac port, Domina's version of RPG Maker has dropped support for it years ago, so I'm not sure if it's possible. There is however mac software that allows you to run Windows applications, such as Wine, that reportedly works with Domina just fine.

In other (and bittersweet) news, we have decided to stop development of Maple Hills College. We have realised that developing and managing two expansive games like Maple and Daemonum 1 & 2 is a bit of a stretch for such a small dev team, and ultimately would just make both games suffer both in quality and update speed. We are choosing to focus solely on Daemonum Imperatrix instead, which is what we're known for in the first place. Progress on Ruby has already started and the foundations for Daemonum 2 is already being built (on the newer RPG Maker, so Mac support for that will be possible). All the work for Maple Hills College, the art pieces and dev work, will not go to waste, as we are transferring all our assets to a second dev team. These are friends of ours and already experienced in game dev, and will probably be able to do more with Maple than we ever could. I will also be personally helping with Maple development in my spare time, so if you're a fan of my work, you'll definitely be enjoying what they produce as well. MHC will still be a femdom game and will still primarily follow on Domina's footsteps. We'll talk more of this later on as we have more to share.

Lastly, I recently found out the Wiki page has been taken down due to nudity. I will be rebuilding it porn-free ASAP. 

Thank you for the read,

Dekarous