Last month, we were premature in announcing that we were ready to go to Full Release on Steam - the point at which a game exits Early Release and is re-launched on the store as a complete product.

We actually wrote about this in our last post titled 'Happy Valentine's Day!!', but thought we needed to be a little more clear what's going on.

As we always do, we listened to our fans who asked for more content, better replayable options, and how to know more clearly when the 'experience' is over.

The current build is a stand-alone experience that introduces you to the Goddess, three other Mistresses, and ends with the player having a second encounter with the Goddess. The gameplay is linear and guides you through how to interact with the characters, respond to commands, and use punishment and reward tokens.

We are expanding on this build to add in a forced sex reward scene with Mistress Nega Yuki (a scene previously ONLY available to Patrons) and we are adding an alternate ending with the Headmistress that has never been seen before. Players will soon have the choice to spend their reward with Mistress Nega or decline and redeem it with the Headmistress instead. The final encounter with the Goddess will also change depending on the choice you make.

We are also adding in an emotion system for the Mistress's expressions and improved animations.

The Threshold 'experience' will stay in Early Access until we are satisfied that the content is complete, polished, and provides players with the experience they have been looking forward to.

As a small dev team of two working part-time around full-time jobs and family, we have dedicated the last 18 months to building a solid foundation for an entire new game world, which is showcased in this standalone polished, game 'experience'.

We want to create more!! More content, more story, and more Mistresses!

To do this, we had to make the hard choice to start generating more funding support than what we could achieve through Patreon alone.

By choosing to break our larger vision of a full game into complete, stand-alone experiences that will eventually be hooked up together into an integrated game and released on Steam, we are taking a risk with our fans and the larger Steam community. It's a risk that we hope you'll support us in taking as we release polished content for you to enjoy while also generating the funding necessary for one of us to begin working on the DomSim world full-time.

We know this is an unconventional approach and we have to ensure that what we release in this 'experience' and future experiences is worth your time and money!

And if you're ever unsatisfied, please, please, please take full advantage of Steam's refund policy!!

If you love what we are making and want to help, then we can use your assistance! Here are a few ways you can do that:

1. Post a review! Let people know what you love about it! This will help others find is and try it and help us spread the word.
   
2. Join in on the discussion on Discord! Let us know what you think, share your ideas, and discuss the endless possibilities with us.
   
3. Support us on Patreon! Get access to preview and playtest builds and follow along with more detailed development posts.

Games exit early access and go to full release on Steam when they are finished with their content and features, but we've decided we're not ready yet.

New content will include an alternate ending, a masturbation JOI scene, improved animations, and facial expressions for our Mistresses.

The best part is that if you've already purchased our game, you get these improvements for FREE when they come out. Just keep the game downloaded and in your library.

If you're just discovering Dominatrix Simulator, these upcoming features are not in the game yet, but you can still get them by either buying the game now and waiting for the updates or just adding us to your wishlist. If we're on your wishlist, you'll find out when our new content is released.

If you love our game, please consider leaving a review. When we started charging, Steam reset all our review ratings. So, while the reviews are still there, the rating score is gone.

Thank you all for your ongoing community engagement and support!

After all the hype, the new release is here! We can't wait to hear what your thoughts about this fresh look, sound, and improved gameplay experience!

• Fully voiced
  
• Gender fluid options
  
• Respond to questions
  
• Perform tasks
  
• Experience different story options

Try playing obediently, but make sure you try disobeying, as well!

Leave your reviews and comments here!

Join us on if you want to meet our community of fans, get quick troubleshooting help, ask questions, or follow along with development: https://discord.gg/9FCdPVj

Thank you all so much for following our early release development process and for your interest in our game!!

Full Release on Steam coming soon!

It’s been almost a year since we’ve updated our early release content here on Steam, so we’re really excited to share that we are about to put out a new update - the complete tutorial and introduction to the Dominatrix Simulator game!

2019 was a tricky year for us, development wise, as real life kept intruding on our ability to make progress on the game, but we persevered! We’re proud of what we’ve put together, not just from a game design and player experience perspective, but also in terms of a unique world of art and music.

The upcoming release completes our tutorial and introduces you to Mistress Nega Yuki, our cruel and selfish hedonist!


You’ll also meet our new Goddess - a much more regal and imposing figure designed by our Lead Artist, Just Jeff.


We’ll share more about what’s in the release when it’s ready to launch. In the meantime, here’s a sneak peak of all our new environments!

Enjoy the eye candy feast we have for you!

Much Love,

deviant.tech

PS: We need to take a minute to give a huge shout out of thanks to our amazing community of Patrons who've been supporting us over the last year. All of the funds donated have entirely funded the new art and music, making this game now uniquely Threshold House!

Those same amazing Patrons are currently playtesting the latest build, helping make sure we get the final kinks out. xx

Hello, all you naughty little kinksters,

It's been a while, so we have lots to share! First of all, we can't thank you enough for your interest in Dominatrix Simulator! All your enthusiasm and positive feedback inspires us to be that much more naughty and creative for your virtual pleasure.


One of the greatest challenges we had when we first started was finding an artist who could bring the lewd world of the Dominatrix Simulator to life through the environments and characters that inhabit the House. We are so so excited to have found an excellent professional artist who does just that! With their help, we are refreshing the game with all new custom environments, some of which you'll see if you try the new puppy playtest build.

All the new art is entirely funded thanks to amazing fans like you who support us on Patreon. The community's support and encouragement have enabled us to bring our debaucherous and surreal vision to life and we think you'll really enjoy the results.


Speaking of results, we are in our final stages of playtesting brand new content for Dominatrix Simulator. Mistress Yuki-Onna absolutely loves puppies and is super-excited to train you to be her perfect little pet! In this playtest, she'll patiently teach you all the commands good puppies should follow, test you on them, and then praise you or chastise you based on your performance.

This collection of scenes represents our first foray into tasks for the player and introduces several new features and environmental art.

We will release this content publicly as a part of the full experience on Steam once it is ready, but in the meantime, if you want to get a taste of what being Yuki's good little puppy feels like, you can access the playtest as a Patreon supporter here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/31273985

If you do give it a try and have feedback or thoughts or want to connect with us and the wider Dominatrix Simulator fan community, don't hesitate to join us on our Discord Server here:
https://discord.gg/UxUDEE6



Dual-Pose Recognition

To allow you to answer Mistress Yuki-Onna with your paws as a good little puppy should, we've updated pose recognition to differentiate between more than one pose at a time. Since puppies can't speak, you now can raise one paw for 'yes' and another paw for 'no'!

This feature will give you more ways to communicate with all Mistresses in the future and allow for much more dynamic in-game interactions!

Behavioral Conditioning

The puppy play scenes in this test build are all about learning to properly act like a puppy. It is built on the concept of slave training and introduces a series of poses over time that the player can learn, practice, and even get tested on! The content gets progressively more challenging over time.

As humans, we have the most fun when learning. As it turns out, so do puppies and slaves! Feel a sense of accomplishment and pride as you build skills over time and are increasingly challenged by the Mistresses. But beware! The better you do, the harder you'll get. 😘

Again, thank you so so much for your patience and support. Thanks to you, we continue to work towards that supremely immersive and deliciously kinky experience that, let's be honest, we've all been searching for.

Mine truly,
Devilish Domina 💋

This month, we are working on quite a few different things! We're not 100% which of these will be ready for release at the end of the month, but you can expect to see them in the near future.


For last month's release, we put out placeholder content for the sex minigame we have planned for Mistress Nega Yuki. This will actually be a rhythym game in which the player must thrust to the beat of the music to make her orgasm. There are lots of unique elements to this that has Deviant researching and testing quite a few systems:

• ensuring players can see Nega well
  
• tracking head movement to the count of music
  
• creating a UI feedback system so you can see how long you are sticking to the beat
  
• the mechanics for how it will reset when you fail
  
• animation responses that match your thrusts
  
• and more!
  

We've been using placeholder art up until now for the cuffs on player wrists. These cuffs represent your 'enslavement' to the house and hold the punishment and reward markers you earn for how well you perform a task for a Mistress. Obsidian are for punishments and bloodstones are for rewards. Our regular artist, Just Jeff, has done an amazing job designing a hammered metal cuff with stones that hover and rotate above the socket!


Many of our fans have asked if they can have a body to look down on to feel more immersion, so with the help of our Patron funding we are doing just that!! Players will see a male or female body when they look down, depending on whichever gender they chose to play as. Complete with genitalia!


Like much of the other art in the game, we have been using placeholder models for the other slaves in the House (such as the one the Headmistress spanks). Again, with help from our amazing Patrons we are introducing new models for our slaves - with enticingly, kinky costumes! A preview of the design will be put up in a Patron only post so that we adhere to the public posting rules here.


Our music, too, has been placeholder content! We recently found out that one of the songs we use is not public domain, so we have very quickly moved to secure a composer who will create custom music for the game.

Each Mistress will have her own style, but all of the music across the game will be more cohesive. Thank you, again, to our Patrons for funding us to bring these kinds of changes to you!

We are excited to share with you our newest early development release for Dominatrix Simulator, a story-driven fully-voiced-over BDSM game that’s being built from the ground up for VR!

For Steam users not signed up as Patrons, you'll meet several new Mistresses and experience a "punishment", part of our ongoing release of tutorial content. This is free content as we are still in early development and just want to show you where we are headed!

A core aspect of game play is training players to respond to cues, which this new content includes: slap, begging as a puppy, and responding to a spanking! Our next free public release will introduce a "reward" scene with Mistress Nega Yuki.

If you'd like to see more of where we are headed with the Nega Yuki scene, consider supporting us on Patreon, but this is not required!!

We've also introduced some slight improvements for keyboard and mouse users, but we'll be adding a lot more between now and the next update and have recently brought on more help to get the job done.

Discord: https://discord.gg/UxUDEE6

We really hope you enjoy the new content! As always, your feedback is greatly appreciated.

Greetings all you wonderful kinksters!

We are excited to share with the early release version of Dominatrix Simulator: Learning the Ropes!!

To access the new content between now and Jan 30, 2019, you will need to be a patron and use a super-secret early release pass phrase!

No money? No problem! This month's content will be free for all by this time next month!

Thank you all for your incredible patience as we persevered in our vision to bring you a much higher quality release than we originally planned!

While Deviant was sorting out those pesky game play bugs that were freezing characters and blocking functionality, Domina was busy creating animations, recording VO for Nega and Yuki, and reviewing the script, yet again, to make sure it felt smooth from a player perspective!

We hope you agree that this version was worth the wait!!

Although we are still using placeholder models for Nega and Yuki, as well as placeholder environment art, we have a number of extras we feel makes this early release much more enjoyable!

• First cut voice over for all characters
  
• Some animations, as well as character poses
  
• Full pose support for players
  
• New game mechanics (spanking, rewards/punishments)
  
• New sound effects (UI for rewards/punishments, spanking, and slave sounds)

We’ll be taking a short break after this to recoup and fix any issues you run into with gameplay before we start on the next round of new content!

Enjoy and don't hesitate to let us know what works and what doesn't! Every bit of feedback helps us determine how to improve the game for everyone.

Hello Patrons and Fans!!

Thank you all for your incredible patience and support as we work to bring this release to you! As promised, we want to keep you up to do date with how it's going.

One of the things Deviant and I are most excited about is being on three weeks annual leave from work! And while most crazy cats are spending tons of time with family over the holidays, as expats living abroad, we don't get to do that😢. So while we miss family and friends, we're super excited to devote tons of time to this amazing game!

Over the break, we have plans to not only complete the early release of Dominatrix Simulator: Learning the Ropes, but also to work on polishing the content and start working on the next release!! 🙌🎉

Earlier this week, we did playtesting and compiled a list of bugs that were interfering with gameplay enough to be not only annoying, but seriously immersion breaking! Each night this week, Deviant's been working through the list and has fixed many of the issues:

🐛 Getting rid of blurry textures

🐜 Disabling pose tracker from moving when the journal is open

🐛 Fixing an issue with the pose tracker not appearing / disappearing correctly

🐜 Darkening the background of subtitles so they can be read when superimposed over white clothing

🐛 Adding a debug skip for playtesting

🔨 Fixing environment behaviour during spanking scene

💎 Adding punishment and reward markers on player hands

Each of those was surprisingly gnarly to sort out!

And he's added a new feature:

👏 'Show wrists' pose

Over the next day or two, Deviant will be addressing these other issues:

🎤 Adding rough VO for Yuki and Nega

👯‍♀️ Adding more transition poses for Nega and Yuki

We should be doing another round of play testing in the next day or two, which means we are much, much closer to our release!

As hard as we tried, we won't be able to release the new content today. Deviant keeps running into technical issues that take the whole evening to troubleshoot and resolve and there are still a few of those left. I've promised him a special reward when he gets them fixed to make sure he stays properly motivated!

Rather than promise a new date, we promise to give you updates every couple of days so you know what we know, when we know it! It shouldn't be too much longer. And then you can experience your first virtual spanking ;)

Much torment,

Devilish Domina