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Progress Update #8: July 27, 2021

So, some days I put a bit of myself into what Jack has to say... 

Honestly, it is a pretty big struggle. Marketing entertainment is already a pretty big fucking headache, but when you have to fight all of the various community rules about what you can and cannot do, something as simple as posting a screencapped video of your game on Reddit or YouTube becomes a huge pain in the ass... And most of the rules are absolutely nonsensical.

And what really blows my mind is... We don'...

Progress Update #7: July 7, 2021

We've been hard at work making flowers; here's a little sneak preview from a work-in-progress of the water lilies (one of the 6 different kinds we'll try to squeeze in for July). The flowers will be another example of getting to know the girls, and boosting your liking.

Each set of flowers can only be harvested so often; match the identical pairs to create a bouquet, then work out which of the girls would like it.

This little scene also reuses the water animation tech from the...

NEW RELEASE AVAILABLE! Vol 7: The Ridge

We're super proud to say that we're keeping to our (somewhat brutal) schedule of meaningful, large updates every month. This month is a particularly big and special update, with all kinds of new stuff:

• Players can now unlock a new area to explore called the Ridge (6 new rooms)
• Players can now unlock Cabin D on the ship
• Added new characters - Olga, Jenny and Misun
• Added new quest lines for Raven, Maria, Karen, Gabby and Rick
• Added new music for R...
  2021-06-25 01:07:06 +0000 UTC View Post

This is why indie games are better.

I'm very proud of this, not because it happened, but because this is... pretty much how it usually goes around here. We may not offer t-shirts and mugs or a million "How I am feeling today" posts - but what we DO offer is "We're making a boatload of updates, and constantly fixing this game" - THAT is where your patreon $$ goes.

And thank you SO much for supporting us!

We made a Walkthrough!

Just a quick update today.

For anyone wanting a little guidance around Tuvatuva Island, we made a walkthrough. We're still adding content to it - but it's open to anyone who wants to contribute. 

You can find it here. 

https://paradiselust.fandom.com/wiki/ParadiseLUST_Wiki

Hope it helps!

How Our Artists Give Head

So - we were playing around with getting some new sex scenes put together... and I realized a bunch of our fans probably don't know how things actually get put together around here. And to be honest... it's pretty darn un-sexy making sexy things! 

Anyway -for anyone curious - this is how we put together Cath's head... Courtesy of our tech artist, Sven Nudes. Thanks Sven! 

We get so busy, I forget to put up fun dev-stuff like this, but when I do, I'll keep it Patron only....

Progress Update #6: June 3, 2021

The first "Big Monthly Early Access" update is out and seems to be relatively error-free. A few bugs, but overall it was a smooth and successful update. There were issues - but... that's life in game development. Everything has bugs - you just hunt them down, fix, and move on... If they all go as well, we'll be pretty pleased. 

We have some new builds coming up in the beta-branch that fix a few of these bugs - but nothing serious implemented in terms of new content. 

So ...

Games We Love Shoutout: Guild Project!

Continuing our weekly "Lewd Games You Should Try" series - Guild Project. It's an old school turn-based dungeon crawler inspired by classic JRPGs- Guild Project that allows you to manage a party of heroines as they complete quests across a number of exotic fantasy environs, squaring off against mischievous monster girls in the process!

Here's Some Info from the Developer: 

The Adventurer's Guild is an organisation whose influence keeps getting strong...

Update 6 Released!

WOOHOO! It's been a month since we launched Paradise Lust on Early Access, and it's time for our first official Early Access Update. It's actually Update 6, if you count the monthly updates we did before Early Access... So half a year of Paradise Lust getting actively supported and updated.

The "Relaxing on Tuvatuva" Update includes:

• New "relaxation activities" with the girls
• New x-scenes w/ Gabby, Cath, & others
• New quest w/ Raven, Mar...
  2021-05-28 00:47:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Crosspost Shoutout: Monster Girl Hunt

One of the things I have been most surprised by since starting to make lewd games is how many wonderfully kind, supportive people there are in the community, and I've been looking for a way to support  some of our fellow devs...  

So - we're gonna start doing Dev Support Posts - a weekly or bi-weekly series of posts highlighting and supporting some of our fellow lewd game creators, especially creators who may be flying under your radar. 

We're starting with Monster ...

Progress Update #5: May 20, 2021

So - we've just about locked down the content for our big monthly update - it's all in and we're testing it now. Lots of new things to see and do. 

Some of what we've worked on last week includes: 

Little stuff:
- Fixed issue where too many popups can be opened at a time.
- Fixed issue where quest notifs would no longer show if it was interrupted.
- Progress for pairs and sorting minigames now update properly.
- Characters' lips now move dur...

Progress Update #4: May 13, 2021

We made good progress last wee - adding in a big huge scene with Cath with WAY more options than we probably needed. But it was an experiment, and we think it turned out pretty sexy. It also opens up the Cath storyline a good bit.

Additionally, we're making good progress on the "Relaxing" moments - you can now take a shower, take a swim with a couple of the girls, have a drink with Karen, and a few other activities. This is part of our continuing to revamp the energy system to make it m...

Progress Update #3: May 6, 2021

Ok - we're heads down working - not a lot to share other than "good stuff coming" - but we did make a few changes to the Patreon:

1) We're now offering 1-Year @15% off subs. Dunno if anyone is into that, but... well, there was a tick box and I ticked it. So there. 

2) We are officially now offering Steam keys at the $6 Crewmember level. We did that as a sort of EA special -a nd we've decided to keep doing that through the whole of the Early Access period.

You may wonder...

Progress Update #2: April 29, 2021

So - what’s new?

Obviously the “Big New Thing” is the launch into Early Access on Steam. How did that go? The short version: “It went pretty well.” Nobody is going to be retiring off the amount of money that we made there, but it is a really good start for an early access adult game, and we're pretty sure that if we can consistently release more content and improve the content that we have we can continue bringing people to our game. So we’re pretty pleased.

In terms o...

Who made our EA Launch a success? YOU did!

So - we finally did it. We're up on Steam as an Early Access game. And so far the response has been very positive. We're not getting rich, but we've sold enough copies already to pay some of our bills, and let us breathe a bit easier about all the $ we've invested in this so far.  

So what happens next? Well, to be VERY clear, **THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING!** In fact, this is where we (hope to) increase the cadence of our updates. The plan is to get to 2 week small, meaningful updat...

Introducing Gabby!

So - I wanted to keep doing a deep dive into some of the great girls of Tuvatuva - survivoirs of the wreck of the Moby Dick. Gabby is "Miss Bummblebee Peach" - hailing from Georgia in the USA. 

Gabby is dressed in her old college cheerleader outfit because of the Cultural Appropriation Ball that was being held on the Moby Dick the night of the big storm. She wasn't real sure what the "cultural garb" of a grad student from Georgia would be, but she happened to still have her old che...

Introducing Maria...

Feb 24: Been doing some new content for Maria... Miss Tres Pepinos Tequila hails from Mexico City, loves telenovelas, romance, and strong men who know how to treat a lady.

The "Maria" thread is all about getting to know her desires and ambitions. She's an ambitious girl who will do what it takes to get to her dream: Being one of the hottest telenovela actresses in Los Angeles! The Miss World Media pageant is a steeping stone in that direction for her... As is her job as the pinup girl f...

REYNA or MARIA

Chase is settling in to write a big chunk of new story (after the Andrea sequence and Gabby/Cath sequences we're finalizing now). He needs your help on which of the two girls needs more love, as he starts writing it on Monday.

Reyna?

or Maria

New public build: The Sexting edition

This is probably our biggest 'monthly' build yet, with a lot of new systems coming in. You can now pick up the girls contact details while flirting with her, and once you hit 20 and 30 points of liking she will send you a sext on the new ingame mobile phone app.

We also continue the story of Raven, adding two new minigame types there, as well as a big new Questline for Andrea. That con...

Collectibles

One of the ideas we wanted to play with was the idea of collectibles; that sitting around the world there are hidden parts of posters or photos that tell you some of the back-story of the characters.

Maria, as the brand representative for Tres Pepinos Tequila, has a poster from her pin-up days.  You'll find pieces scattered around the island, and once all the pieces are collected you'll be able to assemble it and use it as a wallpaper on your phone.

In case you thought the ...

0.3.4 goes public

We're a week behind schedule on this one, somewhat frustrating. Behind the scenes were doing a bunch of things to try to make the initial hour better, and more fun.

The big push is opening up the world, and giving the player control over the world faster. This isn't being implemented in 0.3.4, but over the next few weeks we'll be opening up quests faster, letting the players have more control over which story-lines they want to pursue and making the game less linear.

We've al...

Public Release #1 : 0.2.6

We had some fun getting our page for Steam set up; the capsule art all used Cathy, and Steam kept bouncing it as 'adult', despite her being fully dressed in a tank-top and shorts. In protest, one of the team-members made this reaction GIF.

This build is mostly bug-fixes / streamlining quests and dialog from the beta-build I posted earlier this week, but I thought I'd put it up here for those of you who prefer to avoid Beta builds.

Win32: 2020-11-05 10:18:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Release Candidate 1

And we're ready with a Release Candidate (RC) for the next public build. Android is still work in progress; it's taking too much memory and affecting everything that's not a high-end flagship. I'll continue to tinker with it, see if I can't drop resource usage. The rest are up; fixed since last build are a lot of quests, better signalling for the two optional quest-lines, lots of bug-fixes and some optimizations.

Win64: 2020-11-04 14:03:47 +0000 UTC View Post

Beta builds (Update 1)

You can always spot how troublesome a build has been by its naming convention. Some people just add a number, which is how you end up with Final.zip, Final1.zip, Final2.zip, Fuckthis.zip and Pleasepleasepleasebefinal.zip, followed by Pleasepleasepleasebefinal2.zip

In my case I prefer doing just a simple letter, so if a build is 0.2.1, and all I'm doing is fixing a few bugs without adding any additional content, it would be called 0.2.1a, 0.2.1b, etc.

It's not the *first* time I'...

Progress Update #1: Oct 20, 2020

We've been busily beavering away at the game; lots of new rooms, new characters, new gameplay and some quite steamy scenes.

The plan is a closed beta the last Thursday or October, followed by a public release the first Thursday of November. The goal is to keep that cadence, a public build every month. If you're interested in participating in it, join us in Discord (Invite: https://discord.gg/vht6e9b)

We're looking...

Android build

After a bit of work, it looks like the Android build is ready for testing. I had to spend a bit of time optimizing it and driving download sizes down, but in the end it looks and plays quite nicely. Let me know if you find anything going wrong!

Mirrors:
FILESUPLOAD - MEGA - 2020-10-07 01:23:24 +0000 UTC View Post

Puppeteering

One of the things we put a lot of effort into for Paradise Lust was the Puppeteering system; trying to give the various characters emotional range, and expanding on the VN story. I wanted to give you a quick look at our tools and processes for that.

As an aside; let me know if this kind of "behind the scenes" thing is interesting for you guys, or if you'd be happier without knowing what goes on in the sausage factory, in the comments.

Public Beta

It's been a hectic week of bug-fixes, changes and running around in circles, but Public Beta is launching tonight, on time and on schedule (ish).

Thanks for all the wonderful help in testing and getting the game ready; not the real work begins!

The builds can be found here:
 

Win64:  MEGA - 2020-10-01 11:46:49 +0000 UTC View Post

Setting up rooms

We got a question about how rooms are constructet; back in the beginning of the project (so long ago that it was called Lust in Paradise, not Paradise Lust), I did a little video of the first room in the game, the Cove.

We like building quickly, and using quick photobashing to get the world set up. The first time a room goes into the game, it usually looks something like this: 

Bas...

Closed Beta is OUT!

And our Steam only Closed Beta is out. We're working to get a new public build every month (first Thursday of the month, so we've got Friday to deal with problems without running around with our hair on fire over the weekend). There's also a beta-branch that'll update daily; if you're interested in seeing game development *as it happens*, that's a good place to hang out.