"What is dead, may never die!"

"But rises again, harder and stronger!"

Welcome back everyone!

The events of the past 2 days have shaken the adult developer community here on Patreon.

To those who were unaware of the situation, I'll try to sum things up.

About 40 hours ago I've received some messages from you guys that other developers are getting suspended. My page followed soon after.

Patreon sent me an e-mail, along with the suspension, in which they told me that some of the publicly facing aspects of my page are not in line with their Community Guidelines, and they are happy to help to make it suitable again, offering guidance as they put it.

They did not mention anything about my game, nor did they seem interested in it, or any paid / Patron only content.
They did not ask me to change anything in the game itself, or in Patron only posts.

What they are concerned about is the publicly visible things.
In their community guidelines they specify a few topics, which has become known in the adult game dev community as the infamous 'Big 5.'

Those include, [loli, beastiality, necrophilia, rape and incest]

Now, incest is a borderline category. They mention Game of Thrones, which has incest in it, as being okay. So the content of the game is not affected, as long as it is Patreon only.
They asked me to remove the free version of my game from Patreon, as it contains incest, and potential non-consensual elements. (seems like mind control is not a good thing in their books)

I changed the things they asked for, and now the page is back up.

Getting a free version out somehow is in the works. I have to know more before I proceed with that.

What about the future?

Now, the most important thing is that the page is up and running again.
My priority is to bring you guys the content you are here for.

There are a lot of questions that are left unanswered. What is okay, what is not? What can I link to, to provide a demo/free version to people, among others.
I will ask Patreon these questions, and many more, as we adult game developers deserve to know what is allowed and what isn't, not just guess based on the community guidelines adult sections, which is shorter than this post.

Until I get my questions answered, I'm going to tread carefully with anything public. The Patron only content is going to remain the same.

In the meantime, I already thought of backup plans. Plans that will lead to great things. Once Episode 8 is out I can dedicate time to do these things.

Speaking of Episode 8.

The last 2 days was a total nightmare (pun not intended), and I imagine I'll have a lot of things to do still. I've been helping out the other adult devs, so they won't get hit like many of us did, and I'll continue to do so.
With that, Episode 8 development has suffered a bit of a setback.

Now, I had 2 options. Delay the game to early next month, or try to finish on time by cutting some content.

I decided to go make a 3rd option, and release the game this month, but delay the early access release 2 days to 29th, and the general release to 30th, and work day and night until release to be able to finish with all the content that was originally planned present in the game.

I apologize to the Elite tier patrons for this. And as an apology, I will work even more, and even harder next month, to be able to give those 2 days back to them, and release Episode 9 FIVE days earlier to them.

I think I'm right in thinking that most of you don't expect this from me. Your messages and support throughout this time was really helping out keeping everything together, and it felt great. But I feel like I owe you this.

Well, I made this post a little long, but I wanted to tell you guys the full story and let you know that this has only made Lewdlab and Dreams of Desire stronger!

So the new early acces release date is 29th, general release is 30th.

Thank you guys so much for your support, it really warmed my heart to see it!

- Dr Sin