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Retrospective 2019
🕑 Added 2020-01-27 00:01:00 +0000 UTC2019 was a year of exposure and community building.
When we first started this project in 2018, it was really just a one-man show for a while. Deviant Dev was able to mock up some early concepts and start to connect in the adult game dev community, but it wasn't until I came on board that Dominatrix Simulator became more than just an idea and a world started to form.
Looking back on our early prototypes, we cringe a bit. Videos of our first build are floating around on the internet somewhere as proof of just how rough our mock ups were! And yet, what we were doing was getting people's attention because it was different not only for VR, but for the adult game community.
We stayed humble and took advantage of the chance to learn and grow, taking feedback and criticsm with a positive attitude, along with listening to fan ideas. The feedback and requests we received early on let us know when we were on the right track or weren't being ambitious enough with our innovation!
We are awed by the buzz our game generated and all the momentum we built.
We want to acknowledge and thank all the different adult game devs we've collaborated with in some way and wish all of them luck in the current and future endeavors!
- OxoPotion (now retired, creator of Poke Abby)
- Project Ayla (still in early development)
- Sacb0y of Moimoro Soft (creator of The Couch)
- EsoDev (creator of Esoteric Erotica)
- HentaiVR
- VoiceLikeCandy
- Alexia (voice of Lily in #subversegame)
- Lord Arioch (creator of Seeds of Chaos).
We are still quite small by game dev standards, so we've been been downright honored to find our game covered by so many reviewers in the past year:
- Mashable
- Daily Dot (written by Ana Valens, creator of Blood Pact twine)
- The Sun (not all reviewers are kind, but press is press!)
- LewdVRGames.com
- FutureofSex.com
- SexTechGuide.com
- Shady Corner (adult game reviewer and developer of Shady Cart)
- VR Legion (love from Germany, requires translation)
Honestly, I've been pretty terrible about staying on top of marketing and media, so when I started hunting around to see what else was said about us over the past year, I was delighted to find out we'd been shared widely by fans across social media - Some of them with significant fan followings:
- YouTube - DarkJack
- YouTube - YVRGame
- PornHub - WeLoveGiantess
- Twitter - See fans whose comments we've retweeted!
Staying connected with our Patrons.
There were definitely times real life took over and we had to step back from the project for short periods of time. We're disappointed that sometimes it meant we couldn't stay connected to all of you and keep you updated on what we were doing.
In spite of all of that, our Patron community of support has stayed steady and strong!
And when life settled down, we found ourselves drawn time and time again back to our fans and backers, knowing that you were cheering for us to keep going.
Somehow, we've managed to also build an amazing community of really great fans on Discord have kept us entertained, motivated, and supported all along the way!
Thank you for everything you have given over the past year. Your interest. Your time. Your feedback. And your support!
Much love,
Devilish Domina 💋and Deviant Dev 😈
