Blood Domination news & patch notes

Hello everyone! We received a report that some of the Steam Achievements weren't working as intended, specifically those for Izayoi's and Takamine's Season Two Sweet routes. As such, this update is aimed at patching this issue, as well as having the achievements unlock retroactively. Players who have already achieved the endings should get the achievement update upon the next launch of Blood Domination. We're a very small team, and so it really helps us out when our community lets us know about these issues in the discussion board or via our customer service email. Thank you, and we hope you continue supporting us!

Hello everyone! We hope you've enjoyed the content in Blood Domination so far. Our team has finally finished the development and is releasing the Season Two update for Blood Domination. We’re sorry that it took our team far longer than anticipated. This was due to a variety of factors that included our primary developer falling ill for the better part of a month (she’s much better now!), as well as wanting to ensure minimal impact of the S2 update to existing save files.

Patch 1.1.0 Summary

• Added Izayoi x Uzuki and Takamine x Chihaya Season Two Scenarios
• Added new Extracurricular Scenario themes for Season Two
• Added Steam Achievements for Season Two
• Added UI related to Season Two
• Updated existing UI to include Season Two
• Updated the FAQ to reflect Season Two-related questions
• Updated the FAQ with a clearer explanation on Hints
• Fixed some miscellaneous visual issues within scripts
• Fixed some typos
• Fixed some minor progression issues that could affect some users
• Fixed some unlocking issues that caused special scenarios to unlock unintentionally
• Fixed some subtle imagery issues that may have been noticeable to some users

Fixing minor issues, updating the FAQ, and more…

This round of fixes were mostly found by our development team. Many had the potential to negatively impact our player experience, but since we didn’t have reports from users about them, we opted to fix them with the Season Two patch. Additionally, we’ve added updates to the in-game FAQ page to include Season Two-related questions as well as further clarification on how Hints work. We’d also like to mention that some users who do not have their operating system in English have encountered issues running Blood Domination. This is particularly true for the Turkish language, which doesn’t play well with Unity. At the moment, we’re not sure how to fix this, but if you would really like to play the game, we can confirm that switching their OS language did resolve the issue for at least one player.

Adding Season Two Content…

The most exciting feature we’re adding is Season Two content! More specifically, the Season Two routes for Izayoi x Uzuki and Takamine x Chihaya. They are slightly shorter than their initial routes, but they explore the up-and-coming life choices these couples will have to make after they leave Éclair Gymnasium Academy. This update will add an additional 7 hours of content (over 110,000 English words) to Blood Domination’s Steam release, bringing it in line with the released content available in the mobile version. It will also mark the end of free content updates. We think this is fair considering our game has about 33 hours of content for just $24.99, which is quite generous for a visual novel. And if we’re going by word count, this is the equivalent of about 6 novels. That said, development support will continue for some time.

New Extracurricular Scenario Themes…

We’re also adding several Extracurricular Scenario themes, including one that’s never been released before in English! It’s extra spicy, and so it’s aptly titled “Extra Spice”. We hope you enjoy!

A request to our fans...

This was ultimately a passion project brought by a team of motivated individuals who worked hard to get this project approved, built, and released. If you’ve enjoyed playing Blood Domination, please feel free to leave a review and recommend it to other BL lovers. We hope to bring more spicy titles to you in the future, but this is a niche within a niche, and our team is very small. Any word-of-mouth promotion does far more than you realize! Thank you, and we hope you enjoy the Season Two patch!

Hello everyone! We hope you've enjoyed the content in Blood Domination so far. Our team is currently working bringing you Season Two content! We’re reluctant to give you a hard release date due to some unpredictability in the QA process, but it’s a matter of days and hours, rather than weeks and months.

Patch 1.1.0 Summary

• Adding Izayoi x Uzuki and Takamine x Chihaya Season Two Scenarios
• Adding new Extracurricular Scenario themes for Season Two
• Adding Steam Achievements for Season Two
• Adding UI related to Season Two
• Updating existing UI to include Season Two
• Updating the FAQ to reflect Season Two-related questions
• Updating the FAQ with a clearer explanation on Hints
• Fixing some typos
• Fixing some minor issues that could affect some users
• Fixing some unlocking issues that caused special scenarios to unlock unintentionally
• Fixing some subtle imagery issues that may have been noticeable to some users

Fixing minor issues, updating the FAQ, and more…

This round of fixes were mostly found by our development team. Many had the potential to negatively impact our player experience, but since we didn’t have reports from users about them, we opted to fix them with the Season Two patch. Additionally, we’ve added updates to the in-game FAQ page to include Season Two-related questions as well as further clarification on how Hints work.

Adding Season Two Content…

The most exciting feature we’re adding is Season Two content! More specifically, the Season Two routes for Izayoi x Uzuki and Takamine x Chihaya. They are slightly shorter than their initial routes, but they explore the up-and-coming life choices these couples will have to make after they leave Éclair Gymnasium Academy. This update will add an additional 7 hours of content (over 110,000 English words) to Blood Domination’s Steam release, bringing it in line with the released content available in the mobile version. It will also mark the end of free content updates. We think this is fair considering our game has about 33 hours of content for just $24.99, which is quite generous for a visual novel. Of course, we will continue offering development support for some time. And depending on how things go, perhaps we may be able to add even more content…?

New Extracurricular Scenario Themes…

We’re also adding several Extracurricular Scenario themes, including one that’s never been released before in English! It’s extra spicy, and so it’s aptly titled “Extra Spice”. We hope you enjoy!

A request to our fans...

This was ultimately a passion project brought by a team of motivated individuals who worked hard to get this project approved, built, and released. If you’ve enjoyed playing Blood Domination, please feel free to leave a review and recommend it to other BL lovers. We hope to bring more spicy titles to you in the future, but this is a niche within a niche, and our team is very small. Any word-of-mouth promotion does far more than you realize! Thank you, and we hope you look forward to the Season Two patch!

Hello everyone! We hope you've enjoyed the content in Blood Domination so far. Things fell into place faster than we anticipated, so we just wanted to announce that as of right now, Patch 1.0.1 is now live!

Patch 1.0.1 Summary

• Minor scenario text fixes
• Fixes to the affection values displayed in hints
• Steam Achievement support

Fixed a handful of typos, amended the FAQ, and more...

We're immensely grateful for the players who take the time to point out the little mistakes we've missed. While we can't promise everything will get patched, we're doing our best and we're grateful for your patience and support.

Patched a bug in hints for the extra bonus stories

A huge "thank you" to the player who pointed out a bug in the extra scenario hints. These hints were provided to players who had difficulty unlocking certain special bonus stories, such as Gone Rogue and Yandere. In the release version (1.0.0) of the game, the "affection value" provided in hints was displayed incorrectly as the number of times a player passed the unlock location. We want to reassure players that in our testing, we found that all affected scenarios were still unlockable, and that it was only the affection value displaying in hints that was incorrect. However, we also felt that this missed the point of hints being helpful, and so we've patched it.

Upcoming Support for Steam Achievements

After an embarrassing amount of testing on our end, we've managed to provide support for Steam Achievements. Currently, we have 11 achievements available, with the intent to add a couple more with the release of Season 2. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44868180/9ef4fca0496d950b1487a449a9a10cc6e550ee5b.png

A request to our fans...

If you've enjoyed Blood Domination so far, please feel free to leave a review and recommend it to other BL lovers. We hope to bring more spicy titles to you in the future, but this is a niche within a niche, and our team is very small. Any word-of-mouth promotion does far more than you realize! Thank you, and we hope you look forward to the Season 2 patch!

Hello everyone! We hope you've enjoyed the content in Blood Domination so far. Our team is currently working on patching some minor fixes, as well as support for Steam Achievements.

Patch 1.0.1 Summary

• Minor scenario text fixes
• Fixes to the affection values displayed in hints
• Steam Achievement support

Fixing a handful of typos, amending the FAQ, and more...

Our initial release was the culmination of a lot of hard work, but we're only human and we're a very small team. Inevitably, small things were missed as we focused on the big picture. We're immensely grateful for the players who take the time to point these little mistakes out. We can't promise everything will get patched, but we're doing our best.

A bug in hints for the extra bonus stories

We also want to say thank you to the player who pointed out a bug in hints. These hints were provided to players who had difficulty unlocking certain special bonus stories, such as Gone Rogue and Yandere. In the release version (1.0.0) of the game, the "affection value" provided in hints was incorrectly displaying as the number of times a player passed the unlock location. We want to reassure players that in our testing, we found that all affected scenarios were still unlockable, and that it was only the affection value displaying in hints that was incorrect. This display issue will be patched in 1.0.1.

Upcoming Support for Steam Achievements

We intend to provide support for Steam Achievements. It was low priority during initial development, since we wanted to focus on the actual content of the game. Now that the game has been released, we're working on adding them in as soon as we can. For testing purposes, the Steam Achievements are already live and visible on our Steam page, but will not be active until the patch is released.

A teaser?!

Thank you for reading to this point. As a small teaser, we'd also like to announce that we're working on the addition of Season 2 content to Blood Domination for both Izayoi x Uzuki and Takamine x Chihaya. We don't have a concrete release date yet, but we'll make another announcement before release!