Darktoz

nostalgic...

Ha! I've done it! I managed to get the old render engine running again and I have rendered the first Femdom City scene in ages :D. So it is time to finish the story up to Day 100 and add some endings :).

I hope I can do this rather fast, but it is quite a lot of fun, takes me back to my starting days! Poser Pro, the render engine, was the one I started the whole Darktoz journey with. I had the fear that it would piss me off having to work in an older engine again, but right now I am enj...

The Game User Interface!

So, first of all, let us take a look at the results of the poll last week! The Hotel made it a little closer in the end but could not hold up against the Farm. I think ponyplay is such a huge turn on for most in the femdom world and I gotta admit that I get to tackle that in a big side quest. I am not quite sure how to approach the story line, if you visit it or you get abducted and have to flee...we will see, I guess.

I have started some Femdom City renders in the meantime, getting fam...

Sidequest Poll: Hotel vs Farm!

Ah, the old laptop is no longer of good service so I will have to install the old render engine Poser Pro on my new PC and then move the library over in order to start femdom city renders again. Will let you know next week if it all works out.

Since Day Four is done and we have to decide on what is next I think this is a good time to get a feeling for what the community wants! What I have planned is two side quests: One rather small one...it is most likely going to be Tara because of t...

What are we going to do here...?

Thank you all for the positive feedback on Day 4! I was a bit worried that not all of the bad endings would be to your liking, but it turned out that Downtown had at least something for pretty much everyone to enjoy :).

The plan is for Day 4 to become public on wednesday, which marks the update to be complete and that means we move on! Now almost all the "main heads" of the game are introduced (one big one still missing...I know...)

2024-11-10 16:30:04 +0000 UTC View Post

The gates of hell are open! :)

Happy Halloween :)
I know it is two days late, so let us just say someone let the gates open and therefore I bring every supporter the new 0.4.2 update! Enjoy:

Download Windows/Linux
Download MAC

2024-11-03 16:31:21 +0000 UTC View Post

Your shadow is moving ... :)

Guys, I have just made 0.4.1 available for the gamer tier (a little earlier), so please enjoy it:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/114696899

I have heard that the inventory is still a bit buggy, but did not have the chance to look into it. I am also sorry if I didn't answer your message in the last days, but there have just been so many messages that I might have missed a few. If it is really important an...

Day 4 - 0.4.1 Release! Android+Memory Room+Bugfixes!

Guys thanks for the positive feedback on this special Day 4 Episode! I was worried if you guys liked the a bit darker - more bad ending focussed - more fun episode of Blackmore but it seems like you did!

Here is 0.4.1, it fixes typos (not many in this episode which was surprising, but maybe you will discover some more), the inventory, the Duchess Boot scene, a chastity error on the sybian ride and Dollhouse blackscreen.

Also all the memory room links are working now when you unloc...

Shadow over Blackmore: Day 4 Release

Now, here we go! Biggest release EVER :)

As always, tester tier gets it first:

Download Windows/Linux

Download Mac

(Android will come once we made sure there are no gamebreaking bugs)

Old saves should work!

The me...

Red Room Release Party on Wednesday

Thanks for being patient with me, I really needed an entire week off from writing dialog, it was just getting too much. The game is done, I will be hunting down the last few bugs today and I will select another club music theme...but even if I fail to do that somehow, the game will be released on wednesday.

I wanted to release it today, but I am currently staying at an older hotel (family birthday celebration of uncle and grandma), so the upload is pretty much impossible. And in case I ...

...2...1...wait...

I wish I had better news but this week was just awful. I had two crucial errors while playtesting, and one was just because I am stupid. It is the same bug I encountered last time, which is i did not properly name all my (new) labels (you cannot let your labels start with a number, renpy has a problem with that). But that is just annoying and took a bit of time.

 The other error, and sorry but h...

Downtown in 5...4...3...

Good week in terms of progress, meaning the game is coming ... "soon" :D . Soon means most likely next sunday...if not, I will let you know early and it will be released during the week (we've had releases on wednesdays before, the veterans remember ;). I know most prefer a sunday release, so I will give it my best!

 Like always, unexpected things can happen, so keep in mind that I don't take lo...

The shadow is moving...

...again. Whenever I think I am close, gamemaking shows me that everything is hard work. Some real life stuff came in the way and now I am behind my schedule. I feel like this always happens when I am giving estimations. And this is not a knock on you guys for asking, it is just me having the expectation to always be productive, but that is not the case.

Still, I am aiming for a release in two weeks....

S00n...

...ok! Productive week! I am done with all the postwork production of the pictures, all the missing busts and with a bit of luck I will finish puttin the animations together today and all the imagemaps tomorrow. That means we are getting closer and closer to a release, maybe 2-3 weeks away would be my estimation, depending on how smooth the dialog implementation goes (no rush, quality over speed, like always).

2024-09-15 15:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Done with huge updates? ...

The render images are finally all done, and the MC is ending Day 4 in his bed, sleeping after a very hard day, going through a whooping 27 animations and almost 700 pictures. Still a lot of things to do, like rendering all the remaining busts, postwork plus adding the imagemaps and all the dialog...but now it is going downhill.

I think for the next update we will try something different, splitting it up in two parts. When the update is going to be released it will be almost 5 months. So...

The Futaslider - Finally...

Was close but I didn't finish the last scene unfortunetly, mostly because it is a bit tricky. Basically I have to render it twice. Spoilers ahead: Sigrun, the tall viking that you met on the last day...is one of the characters the futa slider was really invented for. Meaning she can be either a muscular female or futa, depending on how high the futameter is.

 So if you say the right words and do...

...in the render treadmill...

The picture above is the last lounge idea that I finally went with. I like it a lot but like most other club areas it is full of reflections and light sources. Meaning the "biting" scene happening there was a pain to render once more.

If things go very well I will be finishing all the renders and animations this upcoming week! It is the last days in the hot treadmill of rendering for sure so wish me luck :)

2024-08-25 15:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Goooood progress + Apple phone app pay changes!

Before we get to the progress, I need to adress some things for those using an apple phone to follow the progress. iOS - Apple iPhones are a closed environment. Meaning unlike android, apple has full control on what kind of apps run there and not. That is the reason none of my games are available for the iPhone, unfortunetly (there are some phone jailbreak mechanics but i won't go into that).

It seems like Apple takes things a step further now: charging Applications like Patreon and oth...

i am on the road and...

i am sorry guys i messed up. i am currently on the train to visiting my parents and i forgot to make the post for the week ready. it was not a good week anyway, not a lot of progress made. still fiddling around with the club, especially "dancing vampires". also i underestimated what is still missing, because the club is only the last thing of downtown, but getting back to your motel room and the next dream sequence are also happening. so it is club - going home (with a mistress, of course) - ...

The club is...

Not the best of weeks in terms of progress :(. I have some trouble with the lighting in the club and the duration of the render time. I think I am splitting the club in 3 areas: Dancefloor, lounge and fun.

Fun being something like this:

 Early artwork: I call it the blood tank. Problem again: Water+Lights=Long ass render time. Also lots of reflections and I feel like not all of them ar...