Dorumeka

This is a thank you

Hello my patrons. As I mentioned in my previous post, I've prepared a small surprise for you. While I'm away from game development, I've been working on my character art skills.

I made a lewd version of Aika Sumeragi from Aika Zero, and I'm making my .blend file fully available only for you. Please, refrain from redistributing them. These are just for you.

The link takes you to my Gumroad store, but you'll get a 100% off discount if you purchase the project right there. You will n...

Hi

Hello everyone. As some of you might know by my latest updates in the discord, I'm currently going through a difficult period regarding health. I can't work on very mentally demanding things as I've been doing with Orchid Rain for quite some time.

In the mean time, I'm trying to improve my character art skills, and I thought I could share some of that with you. I'm working on a young Aika Sumeragi model. I plan on doing a lewd art piece with her. After I finish it I will share it with y...

Progress with mechas

This is how they're working as of now. They have movement AI, destroyable weapons/systems, but are otherwise indestructible to protect its pilot. The pilot can be any NPC, though not one of your reinforcements, as I haven't worked on that at the moment.

Started working on a new enemy

Heavy assault mecha, piloted by a regular enemy. Used by Orchid Rain Corp. to establish total dominance in the field.

Weak points:

• Main cannon energy storage balls
• Secondary rapid-fire side turrets
• Searchlights at the top of the cockpit
• Control systems panel at the back

Possibly driveable by the player in the future.

I made a survey so that I can know you better

Hello all. The past days I've been thinking about what would the most important things be for me to focus more attention to. I'd really like to know what you want more in the game, and what you want less. This survey is anonymous, but you need to be signed into your google account to ensure that you can only fill the survey once. I won't know what your answers are, so rest assured that your privacy will be completely respected.

Mission 07 updated

I added some more accessories. Check it out here.

Mission 07 public build released

This build features the new customization and accessories systems. You can also make use of the call for reinforcements mechanic. While in game, press the G key on your keyboard to throw a Doruball that will spawn one of your combat ready characters.

Patrons, you can claim your download here.

Cheats file for Mission 07

 Put this file in Orchid Rain - Mission 07 build_Data > StreamingAssets to enable cheats in the game! 

Some unique appearances possible with the new Accessories system

Coming with Mission 07, there are some new accessories that you will be able to freely equip and colorize on your captured characters. Here are some examples of the sort of outfits you can create. I will continue adding more accessories in future updates to the game too.

In addition to the new appearances, you will now be able to see your customized characters with the new "call reinforcements" feature. While playing a mission, you will have the option to spawn any of your captured char...

Mission 07 early build updated

New bunny suit accessories with custom colors!

Accessory color picking

I'm going to try to make all future accessories compatible with this feature. The new accessories I'm adding to the game as part of the bunny suit set can be colorized with any color you want. This is how the system is working so far. I'm going to push this update to the Mission 07 early build in a couple of hours.

Adding accessories

In the last update to the early build I implemented an accessory management system to further customize the appearance of captured characters. While I'm still working on code, I also started working on new accessories for this system. These images show the work in progress new set of accessories that you can freely add to any character, though they will look better on nakeds.

The last missing piece were the shoes. I'm exploring solutions to dynamically add high heels to the characters. ...

Mission 07 early build updated

Hi all. Sorry for the long delay! These new set of features are proving to be challenging for me to code. In this update you'll be able to access a new sub menu in the Character management terminal, at the bottom of the Customization tab, called Accessories. Here you can equip and unequip cosmetic accessories for your characters. Currently there are only a few, the ones that come with the came as of now, but I'll add more in the future.

You can equip/unequip the officer hats, the differ...

Mission 07 early build

Hey all, I started working on character customization. You can start trying it out using the Character Management terminal.

Download here ($5+ patrons only).

Test run map making live stream

When this post is 4 hours old I'll probably be live doing a map for the game. If you are interested in making a map using the game's map editor project, come hangout!

Updated Mission 06

Mainly I retouched the lighting in The Institute areas to better match the lighting in the rest of the game. Specially inside Sex Research you'll note the colors are flatter, instead of softer as it currently was.

I've also tweaked the AI a little to try to make it more responsive after the big "nerf" that the last update ended up being, due to some of my optimization methods.

Link to the itc...

Cheats file for Mission 06

Put this file in Orchid Rain - Mission 06 build_Data > StreamingAssets to enable cheats in the game!

Mission 06 public build released

I've made available the latest version of the game on itch. This time I'm including the free demo right from the start. I will try to make the time to produce a couple of maps for the game in the coming days, hopefully try to record a video with the process as well.

Note to patrons who have played with the early builds. If boots taken off are not being saved, you'll need to clear your progress. Go to settings and press the Clear Progress button, then restart the game.

Patreon taxation changes notice

Patreon is apparently changing some things about how taxes are calculated for your pledges. Though there isn't specific information about this, we creators have been told that you guys might be charged an unspecified amount more than before, depending on where you are in the world. I can't imagine this would be a very big increase in payments for you, but I don't have much information on this.

I've set your rewards to "digital download", as I think that's the most accurate category for ...

Ability to take boots off added to Mission 06 early build

Use the middle "terminal" (black box) in the room you start in The Institute. Go to the Customize tab and you'll see two buttons you can use to remove the foot wear if the character has any. This change to their appearance will be saved to your personal save file.

$5+ patrons, here! 

I updated the Mission 06 early build

Full changelog in the download page.

The momentary "testing level" has all doru types. Their personalities are randomized. This temporary map provides an easy way to start capturing enemies.

$5+ patrons, this way 

Showing a bit more of the new sex system

I'm making the current first person sex compatible with this new system. I also tweaked the animations (and will continue to do so, probably, for ever). I'm not totally on board with some of the facial expressions, so I will keep working on them as well. Also, excuse the terrible UI! I'm focusing on functionality for now.

Streaming Orchid Rain on Plexstorm

I'm making another stream, this time showing the new facial animations on the Naked and Neko characters. I'll try to keep it some time running.

Mission 06 early build available: $5+ patrons only

 I decided to upload an early build so you can see the new sex system and try capturing some enemies. In the download page are detailed instructions.

Don't expect your captured enemies to remain after future new versions. For now, that will tend to happen. Don't get attached!

New sex system WIP

I've talked about this in the Discord at greater lengths than in here, but I'll give you a sumary.

As part of The Institute "sandbox-y" systems that I'm doing, I'm making some progress with the new sex system. When in The Institute, you'll get to manage your captured enemies and use them to have sex, either with each other, with other unlocked game characters (available in the future) or with yourself in 1st person. This video shows two captured enemies spawned in The Institute having s...

I'm making a livestream to showcase the AI of Orchid Rain

I grabbed on to this idea today to start giving me some motivation to pick up development once again. I'm still kinda under the weather, but all the same work must continue.

No idea how long this stream will last! I have it running on a dedicated PC that is a bit older and cheap, so I'm just hoping it doesn't just catch on fire or something.

Should I wait for next month?

I'm uncertain if I'll have enough new features for a new release this 30th. Almost always at this stage the majority of the work go to things that are really not that visible at the user end of the game. Saying that, I want to ask you if you'd rather wait until the next month or if you'd be okay with a smaller new build of the game.

Here are the new things so far in Mission 06:

• A blocked-out but otherwise incomplete new area for the game, The Institute
• A working fac...
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Giving facial expressions a serious go now

I've finally started to seriously work on adding a facial expression system to the game, as a preparation for the new sex system. In this second batch of testing I'm adding more shapes to mix and see what expressions I can define, For now I'm manually tweaking values in Unity to see how they look, but soon I'm going to start coding and thinking in the system's logic.

About Mission 06 build

This month was a bit difficult productivity wise, and I didn't accomplish everything that I planned initially. I still have a week, so I'm prioritizing the more "visible" part of the new features for the game I was aiming for the Mission 06 build. That is a new sex system that will go hand in hand with the meta-game mechanics that will take place in The Institute.

Depending on how much progress I make in these days, I'll determine if a new build can be released this month. I'm trying to...

Optimized NPCs

These past days I've been sick, so my output went down a bit, but I managed to make some progress in an area that started to worry me. When populating The Institute with some test NPCs, I discovered that there were some areas in my code that were piling up badly, and performance of the game was dropping unnecessarily. I took the time to make some optimizations and now maps can handle a higher number of characters.

I'm still working in optimizing, but so far I'm seeing good results.