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Hello World.

We would like to share a few elevated but profound words to answer the recent drastic events.

First of all we want to say a capital and honest THANK YOU to our faithful and supportive followers, especially after our extremely long period of complete silence which is a result of many colliding factors, including personal health and family issues combined with the harsh realities of life.

Despite our difficulties we were constantly aimed at reorganizing and reestablishing ourselves to continue our work in a better and more effective way.

However the current situation around content filtering and online move space uncertainty is a large obstacle in our way to proceed with a clear vision on our road ahead, so we would like to share our stance on the topic of adult-content specifically:

Most discussions seem to be oblivious or shying away from the fact, that

Sexuality and erotica are not just wares of indulgence and business, not even just a matter of artistic liberty and most definitely not a token of social and political rivalry based on primal instinct and sensitive nature. They are an organic instrument for optional use to help physical, mental and spiritual well-being if it is handled consciously and with caution, and this is more important to recognize than ever if we consider that sexual and general frustration on global measure is at its peak since a very long time due a multitude of problems beyond adult entertainment.

Our work since the beginning is based on our solid belief, that desires are better be served within - perhaps culturally bold and controversial but - morally grounded and safe boundaries, rather than being suppressed by the weight of guilt, shame and social "red flags" based on misunderstandings, dogmas, moral panic and exaggerated sense of danger, turning them from natural desire into forbidden goods that inspire dark curiosity, extreme and distorted thoughts, urges and moral frameworks mixed up with anxiety and frustration as a result of being oppressed by society. As the famous phrase says, "life finds a way".

Giving people safe, artistic and artificial space to explore and nourish desire and fantasy prevents harm, not causes it, while it is proven to be capable of helping even personal and cultural growth.

Itch.io is one of the very few safe havens in the video game industry where this form of entertainment is allowed and supported to reach and serve a broader audience, which makes it especially important in our eyes. From the start we put our grateful trust in their open-minded approach, and their risk-taking of controversy on the altar of this liberty. And this is why we think that they deserve broad public support from every direction, instead of leaving this site and this aspect of it at the mercy of decision-makers behind closed doors. The profound and deeply human values we pursue and serve should not be ignored or cloaked but exposed and discussed.

We hope this moment leads not to silence, but to dialogue, and to a deeper recognition of the role adult creativity can play in human health, freedom, and art.

We’re still here and we’re still dreaming and building.

We wish the best for everyone and we wish for a safe playground to create in. We'll come up with studio updates as soon as we can.

Take care and keep reason, creativity, liberty and harmony - and the space to live in - strong and alive!

Fair enough, thank you.

This feature makes any change only if you set this slider to the left. If you didn't have to do so to reach stable frame rate or to avoid jittering, you're good to go without it.

Then maybe this more intense set will give you something. We are still looking for new ideas. The general idea in makeup was to base it on earlier time periods, relying mostly on charcoal with a scarce amount of "rare" or exotic materials that fit the overall color theme, in ways that resonate with the character herself. Like giving her many faces of different cultures, eras and archetypes while keeping her unique style. But we want to make the palette diverse enough with exceptions or extremes, so thank you for your suggestion.

A lot of time has passed indeed, and your doubts are understandable. The new movement/behavior pattern system intended to replace to current version is still in development. Beyond updating the Nymph Queen, this module is intended to be the final formula, that's flexible and streamlined enough to work with in long terms, similar to how other games and teams have a core logic for handling different features, like combat and enemy behavior. Besides, the current released version of this system that controls both movement pattern logic and facial/vocal reactions is still too limited in terms of handling numerous reaction types and weaving them together to have a satisfying level of organic feel, which would be the major goal to get rid of the robotic shifts and repetition and its limitations/complicated editing surface. One of the most important aspects of this project (and our global mindset) is to improve immersion in the actor's behavior and we want to make this a full circle now, that requires no further inventions just depth in detail in the future.

The logic of the new system is laid out, but implementing it is time-consuming with dead ends from time to time, and with us getting overambitious at some points. This task is in highlight now. Many things in code are rebuilt (rebuilding) from ground up again to keep the strong and replace the weak parts of the app. We were expecting much faster progress but like always being said, future is always in flux, and unfortunately we are bound to attend to other duties as well. There is no intention of cancellation at all, we just simply want to bring our best effort to reach the intended definitive quality of this project (especially after such a long wait from you all). Also it would be difficult to cut out an actual update release from this mass now because many things in code are interconnected.

Your interest is honestly appreciated, we love this project at least as you do, and we hate to disappoint you. We cherish this project with all its artistic and technical aspects as a gateway and foundation of many new possibilities in the genre on other platforms as well, for there are concepts and half-done solutions for larger PC projects as well which we would love to pick one of to work with finally.

Along with this code network, the optimization and visual aspects are improving too, hopefully satisfying you when the update is public.

It would be bold or unfortunate to tell a date in these circumstances, but we are nearly at the finish to make a nice solid piece of work, but a strict deadline can't be promised in this situation. That's what can be said.

As always, Thank you all for your interest, appreciation and support.
Work is in progress with hard efforts, hopefully it won't take much longer.
Take care

Thank you for your interest and care about the Nymph Queen. The project is still completely alive and we spend as much time as we can to proceed with it. Development and solution experiments come with dead ends from time to time and this leads to delays which we dislike at least as much as you do.
Some additional days are required for final adjustments. We try to be quick, but quality is in focus. We can't wait to show you the refinements. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Thank you all for your interest and comments. We are very glad to see such appreciation from you. A major update is intended to be finally released on the weekend of 26th November. This is not a strict deadline but an intended date though (for the main priority is to connect all "wires" in the proper way). The design and production of the content takes time but hopefully it will worth waiting. Until then. Take care and stay tuned!

Thank you.

We are focusing on extending the android version right now, but it is under consideration.

We are glad you like the demo so far. Yes, it is a one time purchase to have access to the latest full version, no matter if it's beta or not.

Thank you for your kind words and for your long appreciation.
We are glad that you enjoy our improvements. There were chaotic and critical periods indeed, but all those were about to reach this point finally, and to bring closer what is coming.
We wish you all the best.

Thank you

Reasonable question, however 'Climax' shouldn't be considered as an "action". Aurora's responses to the action will be extended soon enough including this topic as well, we didn't put such a thing in (along with other things) yet only because a half-done one would look worse than nothing. Many things feel machine-like or automatized yet, but the goal is to get rid of that feel as much as possible. Stay tuned, we are about to update things pretty often this time.