Maid Mansion news & patch notes

Hello Maid Lovers, First and foremost, as always, I want to thank everyone in the past four years that has purchased Maid Mansion. Your loyalty and support has truly been amazing and I appreciate every single one of you.

DLC INFORMATION

In saying that, I want to apologize that the DLC has fallen by the wayside for far too long. I hope that by making this declaration and putting this on my schedule of MUST GET DONE by Spring 2025 will be the final push I need to get this done and out. The animations are done. The voice acting was completed long ago. The only matter to resolve would be the programming and/or translation update (for all the various languages) to follow sometime after. But the programming was always going to be a pretty monumental task, what with having to add in hundreds of lines of voiced dialogue, along with adding in the required animations to all the necessary CGs. To be frank, with Maid Mansion having been my first game on STEAM, I didn't even know how (and still am a bit overwhelmed) by the whole process of being able to even add DLC to the game. If you are still excited for the DLC, I'd like to share some of the animations that will replace the static CGs in the game that you currently see now. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38310058/ea0d99db13aec13d77318ff57334f2d04944ff99.gif Some of you on my Discord and former Patreon may be familiar with this older animation of Misaki doing her best for Yuu on the couch, as its still one of my favorites. And luckily for me, the animator LeoNois has expressed to me that they should be able to help me and my other programmer with getting these animations to work with the voice acting in the Ren'py engine for Maid Mansion. Given the fact that all the animations are quite sizable (along with the voice acting) you can expect the game size to increase quite a bit with downloading the DLC. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38310058/b742dafcfb5ead634225efe8d5d437e06beaeebd.gif "What's happening to poor Chisato on that toilet there?" Given the fact that people have told me in the past, though they may say otherwise in the comments, that they were willing to pay for the DLC, my original intent had been to make it free. And I said that many times. However, given the current circumstances, and additional monies to make all this happen, I was hoping to be able to put a price on this DLC of at least $4.99. Not all CGs will receive the animation treatment, but a vast majority of them will. There's also the voice acting to be added to CG scenes and small voice treatments added throughout the game, (think like "No!" or a "Hmmmm..." or a "What?!" from a character). There's also the idea of raising the price of the game and package everything together as a Maid Mansion Deluxe Edition (or something), but that would likely be something to discuss privately with our publisher. Just theorizing possibilities at this point.

KICKSTARTER UPDATE

For all my backers on Kickstarter that pledged for physical products (game disc, music disc, art book), I have recently contacted Kickstarter to get access back to the backers report to finally ship out all physical goods. Hopefully by the end of this year and in time for the holidays. This process could take several days (for Kickstarter to verify me again) OR barring some reason why I can't access it, I will see if I can send out surveys for all those people that backed at those higher levels to get the shipping information that way. If THAT doesn't work, I will post an additional update on Kickstarter with some type of form for backers to fill out with a way that I can cross reference them to the records that I DO have.

WHAT'S NEXT AFTER MAID MANSION??

As many of you may recall, the original plan was for Sinful Sisters to follow up Maid Mansion here on STEAM. However, there were some difficulties during production over the past several years, so that has been put on the backburner for a later release. Having said that, once I finalize and get everything settled for the above previous Kickstarter backers AND get Maid Mansion's DLC out, I was hoping to instead focus on a game with my demoness lady cast you see below. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38310058/54a3131a7e5a1639a790f50496103bf77af66ca3.jpg If this type of cast interests you, great! I would like to hopefully have this launched on Kickstarter around the same time as when Maid Mansion's DLC releases (so they coincide nicely together). The game will be called Demon Dive and take place in an adults-only club where male patrons are hosted by lovely demon ladies. Are they real demons? Are they fake? Who knows?? Members of my Discord already know the names of ALL these ladies and for the rest of you - they will be shared in the near future. ;) To conclude, thank you for reading this post here today on Maid Mansion's fourth anniversary. If you really enjoyed it, I can surely make a note to another community post next month with a few more animated spoilers, if you'd like. :D --Cactus