Help fund five adult visual novels by Dharker Studio on Steam for PC, Mac & Linux. Also gain access to all games releasing in 2016.
Hi backers,
The live stream ask me anything is now live on youtube, you can use the link below to join me and hang out with me and talk about the games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPAjbclbj1s
I hope to see you there.
Greetings backers,
It is time for another all game update. But first an update on the Bounce series kickstarter... The new campaign is doing exceptionally well, and like this campaign it has now funded the development of five new games in the Bounce series.
With the campaign continuing to grow, we have added more stretch goals, to unlock more content including more artwork, dakimakuras and animations. If things continue to go well we may even be able to include another two games at an even higher stretch goal level. Possibly funding 7 new titles for release throughout 2017.
So checkout the campaign now, so you dont miss your chance at receiving these games and being apart of it.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dharkerstudio/the-bounce-visual-novel-series
Now without further ado, let's jump in to the main updates.
As already announced, Summer Fling's development is now completed. Everyone with a copy of this game can play the full game on Steam right now. Steam Achievements, Trading cards and Cloud Saving have all been activated. The uncensored patch is available now via the http://www.dharkerstudio.com website. In addition all rewards are being distributed via backerkit, including the DRM-Free edition.
The game is also available on Nutaku right now as an early release exclusive, Steam and MangaGamer versions will be officially released next week on June 16th.
The following rewards have now been distributed for Summer Fling via backerkit:
All rewards are therefore complete, leaving just the physical edition of Summer Fling, these as has been mentioned in previous updates will have promo art created for them when Julia (artist) returns from her short break and will then be put into production. Images of which will be provided when they are finished.
Work continues on Army Gals, we have now received the full and complete script and have selected 25 additional suitable scenes for specific illustrations to be completed (on top of the ten scene sets already created). If there is time before release (now nearer end of the year) we will add even more artwork to the game.
Now that we have the completed script we have begun to work on the games coding in earnest. Once it is in a functional state we will begin uploading beta's for testing via Steam. Until then we will continue to develop more artwork for the game. This game is one of the most complex we are creating thanks to this campaign and so we want to ensure it is great, to this end we will be aiming to create 9 animated scenes within the game and also add some level of voice acting.
Rewards for this game will be distributed closer to the time of completion. More details of which will be available in the coming months.
As with Army Gals work continues, we did receive a script, but after going over it we have decided that since Negligee's art is looking so amazing, the script could be better, and longer, as such we will be passing the script to our favourite writer, who will re-write it once she has completed her current work,
In other news we have recently hired a new background artist, who has started work on Negligee as his first test and the art he is coming out with has been amazing (examples below) as such from now on he will be working on all of our games as well as re-developing all backgrounds for the Starlight Drifter game currently in Early Access.
Next big update should see us releasing CG scenes from our artist. We then expect to begin beta around the end of July to release it in August/September time. More Negligee rewards will be released then to go with the Dakimakuras that were already released via Backerkit in a previous month.
A quick update for this game, the script is complete and coding has begun, once the new background artist has completed work on Negligee, he will begin working on Battle Girls 2140 backgrounds so that we can get beta going by August. Artwork has been passed over to a new artist, with a similar but slightly more cute style that suits the games style. Artwork begins next week so much more content will be provided next big update.
The fifth and final game of the series funded via kickstarter is now underway as well. Utilising the same team that created the original highschool Romance. This spiritual sequel follows similar themes, but in the new setting, that of a school of magic. The script is underway now with the writer who should complete it by the end of the month.
After which coding will begin as well and a beta released asap for our backers to enjoy and test. As shown above we have also begun character development for the game, which will include a group of Magi, a succubus demon and a couple of students. The game features a female protagonist and only female-female relationship options and so is a yuri based game as previously announced.
Thanks for your continued support.
More updates and news will be coming next month.
Greetings backers,
I am happy to announce that Summer Fling version 1.0 is now live on Steam for those with early access to try. It has now been altered to make it the steam edition, but patches are available as always on the DharkerStudio.com website.
All artwork has been added to the game, sadly after having trouble with a voice actor we have been unable to implement voice acting. But we are hopeful to find a replacement for a post release addition of voice acting soon.
For those interested in official release information:
Summer Fling will release on Nutaku tomorrow, which will be selling the adult edition exclusively for a short period of time.
The Steam edition will release on June 16th 2016 alongside the MangaGamer adult edition as well.
We are happy to have completed the first game that this campaign funded. As mentioned before Julia is taking a short break now, but on her return she will be finishing the promotional artwork for the DVD boxset before moving on to the Beauty Bounce game art.
Please enjoy Summer Fling.
P.s. A larger update will be coming soon with information on all game developments.
Hi backers,
First of all... I am throwing away the one a month update plan, as it actually is more time consuming than posting more frequently, as it takes a long time to prepare the massive update before sending... Also I want to keep you all informed of the latest art and news more regularly so from now on I will be posting an update whenever I have something decent to share or an update to a beta test in progress etc.
The first great new for those interested in Negligee, (formerly named My girlfriend) the main character artwork for the game is now complete... The game itself will feature four characters.
(left to right):- Hannah (protagonist), Jasmine, Charlotte, Sophie
The game itself is set in a lingerie store so you can expect to see all of these great characters in a variety of... well... lingerie of course.
We are also happy to announce that the Negligee Dakimakuras are also complete, created by the same artist who created the character art (who previously worked on Huniepop)
For those who have taken note on backerkit we have now sent out the following rewards in full to our backers:
The top two items of this list were sent out in the last few days, to access most of these items you need to login to backerkit and check your rewards to find instructions on how to download or view the keys.
With how good the game is starting to look, we will likely be looking to increase the content of this game as we move forward. The script is ongoing but we are now looking into the possibility of adding animation to this game as well to compliment the great work the artist is doing. We are also considering expanding the script further to accommodate additional routes through the game and extra endings.
Greetings backers, welcome to our second major update...
P.s. we have only posted updates below on games that have news, so if something isn't shown it's because there hasn't been enough progress to warrant a update this month.
First up is Summer Fling, our original plan was to begin beta now and release the game in June, however after going through the current script for the game, we feel it is far to short, and what is more if you remove the adult content for the steam edition, there is very little left.
This game was always meant to be a fun and frivolous story, but having begun the coding of the game we feel it would be better if we could extend the story and make it enjoyable in both the adult and censored editions. We therefore now intend to release the game in July and will begin beta late May once the revised script is completed.
Next up is Starlight Drifter, a lot of changes have been going on, in the development of this title, for instance we have rebuilt the games artwork almost from scratch including logo (see above), we rebuilt the graphical user interface and upgraded the game to a 1080p resolution and we have had the character art revamped by a new artist.
Above are the latest character designs for the crew members of the Starlight that will appear in this first game. We have now decided to ensure the best possible release and best possible content to release this game in two instalments, the first story will be released in June/July, whilst the second instalment will be in early 2017.
Both games will have their own independant storyline so they wont be 'to be continued' and players wont need to play the first to enjoy the second, though it may be a help ;) both games will this way be better and more enjoyable for everyone. With this change in mind we fully expect to have a lot of great artwork to show off over the coming weeks leading up to the release. The Beta for Starlight Drifter will be starting again before the end of April.
We are happy to announce that the script is completed, by our favourite writer Kayzda, who has written some of our best titles including Highschool Romance released last year. In addition artwork continues at a good pace...
With the script now finished we have begun the process of coding the game ready for beta to begin, because this is a very large game, one of our biggest to date with a lot of choices and variables that alter the path the game takes we are aiming for beta to begin in June. By which time we should have a large amount of artwork ready for the game as well. Then we will take things slowly with decent updates regularly to fix bugs and the like before releasing on schedule we believe in August.
Our next game originally titles My Girlfriend is now close to having the script finalised. Whilst the script is being worked on we have been hard at work finding a suitable artist to work on the game. Originally our plan was to utilise the talents of Julia again... But shortly after the campaign ended one of our favourite artists returned and has been working on the game art ever since to create the main characters...
Above are the first two characters of four for the game by artist 'Kopi'. For those looking at the art and thinking it has a familiar style to it, it is worth noting this artist previously worked on the game Huniepop so is a well established artist. We think her style really suits the Yuri game that is set within a lingerie store and look forward to showing more artwork in the coming months.
As with other games the script for this game is almost finished and though a little more linear than some of the other large titles, it does include several large scale mech battles which we can't wait to begin illustrating and possibly (if patreon goes well) animating also.
The above are the current characters that have been completed, we expect the final character and the script to be finished in the coming weeks, after which we will begin the process of determining the final art that is needed to make the game shine.
That is all the news for now, we expect even more news and artwork to be available in May's update, and will be posting other smaller updates in between with other important info and polls, so watch out for those soon...