Midnight Paradise [Lewdlab] (Полуночный Рай)

Midnight Paradise 0.12 Preview #2



So I wasn't planning on including scenes with Joyce in this update, but from what I've heard you guys want some more content with her because she's been off screen for a while.

She'll appear in a small scene with others and she'll have 2 of her own scenes in the 0.12 update.

MP Development Update #30



Hey everyone

Let's talk about 0.12

So as I showed in the last preview post, I'll be focusing on Ms Jane in this update. Connor has been playing a secret role, sending her a little toy to play with and then watching her through the window. This will be expanded upon, and Ms Jane will realize she has a secret admirer and she'll let herself indulge in these pleasure more and more.
Meanwhile Connor can push further during the tutoring sessions. The two angles will compliment each other and Ms Jane will be in Connor's web in no time.

If you chose Melissa's path you're finally getting content with her. Connor has moved in to his new place and now he feels a bit lonely... Who better to call then the crazy ex to have a fun night?
I'll also put some emphasis on the rivalry between Connor and Logan. I have little fun scenes coming and also Connor will try to find out what Logan is up to.

Now in other news.

As I'm thinking about the future, the end of MP isn't close, but I can see the "end of the tunnel." So naturally I've been thinking of what's next.

Some of you may know that I'm using Daz as the main software for creating my games. And while it's a great tool and helped me get into making adult games, it really has nothing new to offer to me anymore. It has a long list of annoying properties I learned to live with over the years but I'd much prefer to not have them at all. As I said, it's a great tool in a lot of ways, but in many ways it's limited.
So I decided to delve deeper into other 3D software as well. It's a time consuming process but learning new things in 3D is always gonna make me excited.

To get to point where I'm confident with a new software - well, that takes a LOT of time. Better start early.
I'll try to make sure it doesn't affect my work on Midnight Paradise and do it in my 'free time', but there are only so many hours in the day.

I'm also working on something behind the scenes that is going to help bridge the gap between two projects so there wouldn't be a 'hole' of no content, like it was after DoD (and The Lost Memories). It's probably too early to talk about details, but I'll let you know as soon as I can share more info.

You might have noticed the Discord server has gotten a bit of an overhaul. This is because the Discord server is becoming public. You'll still keep your roles as Patrons, but hopefully making it public will make it more easily accessible to newcomers and the infusion of new people will create meaningful discussion.

There is also going to be a new addition to the team, in the form of a second programmer who will help out with the implementation of my new ideas and take care of things we usually don't have time for but still want to do.

All in all, it's been busy over here at Lewdlab HQ. That's why I want to let you know that the planned release of the end of this month has to be pushed over to early October.
I'll keep you guys updated with in the form of dev updates and I'll keep the previews coming too.

And as always, thank you for your great support!
-Dr Sin

Midnight Paradise 0.12 Preview




We'll focus on more but smaller main story scenes in this update and we'll also direct our focus towards Ms Jane, Connor's hot teacher.
We'll move a lot further with her in the 0.12 update. Both of the 'secret admirer' and the tutoring route advance, even complementing each other.

New dev update on Monday. Enjoy the weekend guys!

MP Development Update #29




Hey everyone

September is here so I thought a little 'back to school' themed picture with one of the girls was due.
This year is rushing by so fast, it's almost over and - to me at least - it feels like we're still back in April.

Last month I made a post titled "Thoughts about the past and present" and really I didn't expect that much interaction, because it wasn't really a news post, but it was a pleasant surprise and I really appreciate all the comments.
It made me think about a lot of things. Mainly how I handle things with work and not stress so much over things. And hey, you guys are awesome. Thank you.

So these past two weeks I've been trying to come up with some new stuff, to spice up things for you guys and I have to say, a little bit for myself too. I had some nice ideas and a really good one that I like. Unfortunately I can't tell too much about it because it would be a big spoiler. I can say that it is about how Connor will reveal the story's secrets and get to the truth in the end. It will include some point and click style minigames like the ones you know from DoD. I'll make sure to keep it interesting. In fact, it's just the perfect storytelling tool for this story.

Now about 0.12

Things have started to heat up around Connor in the last release and we'll be covering a bit more of the main story. The last preparation step I need before diving deeper is Connor moving. So as you can see in the second picture in the post, he's gonna get a new place with the money he's earning from his business. It also has a second camera angle where he can access his computer and there is also a bathroom in the new location. What do you think?

In 0.11 I've made long scenes with a ton of renders. And I was also thinking about this recently - maybe this isn't the best way. Maybe more scenes with fewer images for each scene would be better. Ruby's TV watching scene last time was definitely fun to make and I think it turned out nicely, it probably didn't need as many renders as I did for it.
So the goal is to cover more ground overall by spreading the "image budget" over more scenes with less renders in individual scenes as opposing to having a few lengthy scenes with a lot of renders.

Well, that's about it for now. More info next Monday in a new Dev Update post. Until then, I'll post previews. Oh, and one more thing.
The 0.12 is gonna have sex in it. I know this is important info for some people.

PS.: Release date is TBA for now.

And as always, thank you for your awesome support!
-Dr Sin

Midnight Paradise 0.11 Preview #3



You can go and have some fun with Ruby in the club again, this time she'll let you go further.

Release is this weekend for the Elite tier and Monday for the Scientist, Researcher and Mad Scientist tiers.

Thoughts about the past and present



Hey everyone

This post is a bit different than usual. I have some thoughts in my head and I think I should share them with you.

Disclaimer: I'm rambling a lot in this post, and it's a long one so I'm sorry about that. There isn't any important info about the release so you can skip this post if you don't like walls of text.

Maybe some of you are here since the beginning, since the DoD days. Those people remember what it was like back then.
Lately I've been thinking a lot about my work then and now. I recently looked at the renders I did 3 years ago... and man I've come a long way.

So basically I was comparing my current work to my work 3 years ago. And not just the beauty of the images I create but the game, the speed I'm working at, the frequency of the updates and so on.

So back then, things seemed to go faster. Update every month, around 270 new images each update. Story is flowing nicely. All seems good.
Nowadays I'm reading things like everything is progressing slowly, there is a long time between updates (I'm trying to remedy that with bringing back the monthly updates).

Now that's true, things are going slower than in the Dreams of Desire days. Okay, so why is that, I thought.

Well, first of all, I remember working day and night back then. Talking about my game with everyone, thinking about my game all the time. For a little over 1.5 years I never stopped. I remember having so much back pain from sitting all that time in front of the PC that I put a pillow in front of the desk and I worked while kneeling instead.
Now obviously this is not something anyone can keep up for long. At least I think I can't. It was inhuman and I'm amazed that I was doing it for so long.
Nowadays I still put in the hours, but the difference is that I actually want to be away from the computer too. I don't talk about Midnight Paradise to everybody now and not every waking moment is spent by thinking about it. It doesn't mean I don't like MP, because I do. That's just how it is now.

Now there are some very big differences in the technical things as well.
Midnight Paradise is bigger in every way than Dreams of Desire.
The cast is way bigger. The main girls were all introduced at the first release (instead of slowly easing them in like in DoD). The main story doesn't have that much of a connection with the household (well, not yet) as it was with DoD so MP flows differently.

I knew I was making a lot of characters for MP, but when I thought I'd do that I had a different concept in mind about the scenes. I wanted to move a bit away from the DoD format and not have each conversation fully rendered, but instead I was going to use 'sprites' for the conversations and only full images for H scenes and important story events. Well, that didn't work out...

But anyways... The 2 main things are the improved image quality and Connor.

So looking back, the difference between my current and my old work is huge. Right now I'm making objectively much, much better images. So as you can probably guess, more quality takes more time.
The other thing is Connor as a main character. The DoD MC was a nameless, faceless character. It was intentional. But never showing his face meant I never had to work on him in the scenes - while also the majority of the images were POV shots.
This time however, there is Connor. One more character to place and pose and do facial expressions for in every scene. POV shots are now rare, so I'm spending a lot of time figuring out and playing with camera angles. Then of course, I'm adjusting the lighting for almost every different camera angle so each render looks the best it can. This increases the amount of time it takes to make the scenes tremendously.

Oh and also, I do animations now. They take up a lot of dev time.

I understand people want more content and want it faster in this day and age. But for me, the most important thing is that I release a game with imagery that's the best I'm currently capable of making. Because otherwise I wouldn't be satisfied with my work and because I think you guys deserve the best I can make.

Well, I've gone on long enough already. If you read it all the way, props to you and thank you for taking the time to read it.

You guys are awesome, and thank you for supporting me along this long journey!
-Dr Sin

Midnight Paradise 0.11 Preview #2



Now that's what I call a selfie!

A little night time fun with Isabel in 0.11 - and this is just the tip of the iceberg!

-Dr Sin

Midnight Paradise 0.11 Preview #1



Late night TV has never been so fun!

You'll enjoy Ruby's company at night in the upcoming update of Midnight Paradise.
She won't give in that easily, but I think Connor can manage to get her to do something more fun than watching TV.



Also, new character! She's going to be a side character, not much screentime, but she will have an important part in the story of Connor later on. Oh and also, she's NOT a 'love interest' of Connor's, so no need to worry about her taking away dev time from the existing girls. I just wanted to share so she doesn't come as a complete surprise in 0.11

Alright, more previews coming this week!

MP Development Update #28



Hey everyone

Oops, I said I'd post this on Monday evening, but I fell asleep early yesterday.
But we're back on track and working on the Midnight Paradise 0.11 update, which is set to release at the end of August 28th for the Elite tier, and 31th for the Scientist tier and above.

In this update the main focus will be Ruby and Isabel.
There's been a long back and forth between Connor and these two characters already, and in the 0.11 update you'll be able to elevate the relationship with these girls.

There won't be more massage content for a while as I'm picking up the pace with the story content for these characters but instead you'll get more and longer erotic content with them. (more yoga and massage content will be available after a while, but I want to progress the chracter storylines a bit faster now)

You will also start to see Isabel and Ruby's routes more clearly. I guess you can already guess where Ruby's are headed, but it's going to be new stuff for Isabel.

Also as usual, I'm doing some main story advancements, but I'll be focusing more on the 2 girls this time. I also have an idea with one of the side characters and I think I can make it pretty damn spicy, so hopefully you guys will find something you like in the upcoming release.

Alright, this is all for now, I'll be back with previews this week and a new dev update next Monday!

And as always, thank you very much for your great support!
-Dr Sin