Midnight Paradise [Lewdlab] (Полуночный Рай)

- 993 new renders
- 214 new animations

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I'll leave the spicy ones in the game for now ;)

Hey everyone

It's been a while. Let's start with what happened with Patreon in December and early January.

As we were getting ready to make a little Holiday update for MP I got an email from the dreaded Patreon Support team and the page was suspended. Well, I though this isn't my first rodeo, I'll solve it in a week or so, like I did in the past. They told me what they wanted and I did as they asked.
I won't go into details about the ridiculousness of their complaint this time, because it really made my blood boil. Nonetheless, I did everything I could and although it wasn't solved within a week, it took about 2 weeks to get it done. But then - no reply. Turns out they were out of office and I had to wait 2 more weeks to get a response and get the page un-suspended at the beginning of January. You might have noticed there was no charge from my page and even the Patreon Discord bot didn't know what to do but it's fine.

So what changed?
We removed some small scenes from MP. That really was no big deal.
But the big change is that in order to get the page back, my only real option was to nuke DoD from Patreon. So I had gone through and deleted all 293 posts of DoD. One by one.
Honestly, that hurt a bit. It was my first game, kinda deleted some nice history and all that, and even though the game was reviewed about 3 times by Patreon already and considered to be okay, now this time it wasn't.
It is what it is I guess. You can still get DoD on Steam, GOG and my SubscribeStar. I won't link any of that, don't wanna risk another ban or some shit, but they can be found with a google search.

So obviously, I was dealing with this crap in December and it really made me frustrated and depressed. You know, trying to bounce back from being so shitty with the release gaps and we had a streak going, from May to November we did 0.17-0.23. We had monthly releases again and I was working my ass of then this happens, so I felt down.
But I was doing some other things I can't really talk about just yet. And I got inspired again, which is great.

So that's enough of a downer, let me talk about some positive stuff.

So last year - in 2023 - we added more than 4000 renders to Midnight Paradise and almost 300 animations (292 to be precise) and I don't even have any idea how many words of dialogue, but it's in the hundreds of thousands.

That's some good stuff. Those are not exactly rookie numbers, at least for me, so I'm proud of that and hats off to the team as well.

However, this Thursday marks the 5th anniversary of Midnight Paradise's 0.1 release. I know we took about a year to work on DoD: Definitive since then but still, MP has been going on for so long it's crazy. It's time to end it this year.

I could expand on the many side characters a lot more like the main girls and create some of the many crazy ideas I came up with, but this project cannot go on forever. Actually, the main story is finally where I want it to be. We're in the endgame now.
I have the Master Plan finished. Now I just need to execute it. It's long been in the making, and you could guess we are nearing the end when Midnight Paradise popped up on Steam as Coming Soon.

And I know a number of people will start bashing their keyboards about not enough Joyce content until the end and so on. To them: Don't worry bro, I got you ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
(It's not like I can finish the game in 2 updates or something so don't panic)

And to all of you, many thanks for sticking with me for another year. Here's to a less fucked year than the last one!

Oh, and I posted some previews for 0.24. It's nearly done so coming pretty soon.

This is a bit smaller update than usual, as it is being released 3 weeks after the previous update.
The reason for this is to fix the update schedule.
This update expands upon the end content of the girlfriends update and moves the main story forward.

- 186 new renders
- 13 new animations

- Added a sleepover scene with Eliana with multiple options
- Added a sleepover scene with Melissa
- Added a main story scene with Thorne
- Added a main story scene with some infiltration
- Added a main story scene with Amy
- Added an Elite scene with Joyce and a guest
- Added an Extra scene with Tanya

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This update focuses on progressing the main story, adding early game sandbox events for Ruby for easier leveling her and a higher level sandbox event in the locker room.
It marks major milestone in Sofia and Natsuko's storylines.
- 300+ new renders
- 19 new animations
- Added Main Story scene with Connor
- Added Main Story scene with Natsuko
- Added Main Story scene with Sofia
- Added Another Main Story scene with Natsuko
- Added Ruby early game sandbox - level 1-5
- Added Sandbox Scene for Ruby in locker room - level 1-4

- Added Extra Scene with Joyce
- Added Elite Scene with Eliana

This is a small update (as mentioned previously) focusing on building Sofia's sandbox and developing the gym location for multiple characters to use in the future.
- 200+ new renders
- 21 new animations
- Gym location is now available
- Added Sandbox scene for Sofia in her office - level 1-3
- Added Sandbox scene for Sofia in the gym - level 1-3
- Added Sandbox scene for Sofia in the sauna - level 1-3
- Added Sandbox scene for Sofia in the club - level 1-3
- Extra Scene with Isabel
- Elite Scene with Joyce (and a surprise guest)

- Added 204 new renders
- Added 18 new animations

This update focuses on progressing the main story of the game.
- Added a new main story scene in Connor's office
- Added 3 new main story scenes in Harding Tower
- Added 2 new main story scenes in Sofia's Office
- Added 2 new main story scenes in Sofia's Home
- Added a new main story scene in Connor's apartment
- Added a new main story scene in the Study
- Added a new main story scene in the Kitchen
- Added a new Extra Scene with Joyce and Ruby
- Added a new Elite Scene with Isabel
- Added 5 new music tracks
- Added 320 new renders
- Added 17 new animations

The update focuses on Ms Jane's storyline and added sandbox events for her.
There are 313 new images and 23 new animations.

- Spa location is now available. Multiple characters will have sandbox events here, Ms Jane is the first one.
- The University's lecture hall and library locations are now in use for sandbox events

- Added a new scene where Ms Jane is getting a new gift
- Added a new scene with advanced level tutoring with Ms Jane
- Added a new scene with Ms Jane getting coffee
- Added a new scene for Stranger Connor to interact with Ms Jane again
- Added a new scene in Ms Jane's office
- Added a new scene in Ms Jane's home
- Added a new Extra Scene with Isabel (Part 1)
- Added a new Elite Scene with Joyce (Part 1)
- Added new text messages for Ms Jane

- Added the following 3 sandbox events for Ms Jane

Lecturing Level 1 to 4
Studying Level 1 to 5
Relaxing Level 1 to 6

New content:
Number of new renders: 2350+
Number of new animations: 170
Number of words of new dialogue: 160,000+