Team, ShuffleMe news, pressure on NSFW games - Devlog 09.08.2025

Hey, it's Sifa :D

Sorry, no update this week D:
Preparing a big update, so wait 1 more week to get it (I hope I won't postpone it) :D
More info bellow
P.S. My devlogs grow in size...

Good news about NSFW games

You might heard that Steam and itch.io started removing NSFW games from recommendations bcz of MasterCard and Visa.
Oh god, I was worried so much about that. Because I had plans to keep growing my team and eventually start doing more projects on itch.io and even Steam. But the drop of views was so huge that I started feeling sad...

If you want to feel that a bit, just imagine you were paid, let's say, $1000 per month, and you considered it a good salary. But then you got cut and now you get $100 per month. Will you still consider it a good salary? xD

You see, itch.io isn't even the top platform currently for me. f95zone and tfgames are far more important.
But the thing is that it's a gate into more "professional" game development. Bcz they have these magic "recommendations". And also they let people subscribe on developers, they handle payments, they gather statistics. They do so much important stuff. And they have PEOPLE, like a LOT.
All of that makes the situation possible where if you make a good game, and you've already got some reputation and subscribers - your game might get promoted by itch.io recommendation system, what might create "snowball" effect. The more popular the game becomes - the more popular it becomes xD It's a dream of any developer. Bcz at least it might cover the expenses of the development itself, what's already a very cool achievement. It becomes easier to find cool people who want to actually work. It's easier to promote next projects, and so on.

However, a week ago, itch.io restored free-to-play games only, and they said they are looking for alternative ways to process payments for NSFW games. So the views returned on itch.io.

So sure I got some hope that probably gamers and developers can fight against these big corporations (payment processors Visa and MasterCard) and maybe even win :D And the fight is actually more important than just "Give us back our NSFW games". The thing is that today it's about NSFW games, but tomorrow people who don't even play games will decide for us what we should play, and what we shouldn't.

Though, the war isn't over yet. So if you want to help it - just google some big gaming youtubers, they should explain everything better than me :D

Team

Seems like I found one more person for our small team, Reiko Lupus :D She's a very promising game designer. Just like me, she's also drawing, she also has her own game, etc. In short, she has many cool skills that are very important during development.

And yeah, you might've seen her artworks in Shuffle Me already. So I'm looking forward to teach her even more :D And she's learning our style quite fast. Especially considering the fact that she wasn't drawing line art and anime style at all xD

About team, currently we have 5 members

• Anonymous Lead Programmer

• Onebrushman Lead artist

• Elisabeth junior artist (mostly working on items for avatar and simple artworks)

• Reiko Lupus artist (and probably game designer)

• And Sifa who knows a little of everything and can fill up any gap :D

I'm very picky about the teammates. And as some of you might know, I work with them for years already, so the approach is quite stable :D

Next Update

With all of that I finally found more time to do more Animations. Bcz even though it's not that hard, but it requires good planning.
At first Onebrushman needs to draw the scene and characters, so he needs directions. Then I need to prepare it for animation and then animate. Then our Programmer needs to implement it, so they needs a good structured project for that. And considering that I want to play animations during the fight, the whole process becomes quite complicated. Though, once we made and tested the "animation during fights" system - the next animations will be easier to add, bcz the pattern will be clear.

(however, I'm not sure new animations for next update will be played during fight. Though I'm preparing them for fights, so it will happen quite soon anyway)

The update itself will be about Arousal and Ejaculate mechanics. I've made a lot of new materials for that :D Including CHASTITY CAGE. Finally :D Chastity is a very important step, I wanted to implement that for so long :D
Though I'm not super confident about the mechanics I designed. So as usual, after we release the update and give it some testing we might change some things.

Also we are adding a new loop, with Machines only. I can't show you much here, bcz everything is pretty lewd, though there is a bit of our weird ideas xD

We will also test a new "settings" feature. In next update you'll be able to pick between 4 variants of Genitalia TF. Like disabling sex change, disabling growing penis back. If you're going to like it, we might add the similar settings for Boobs and maybe for something else.

So just wait a bit, you can enjoy it pretty soon :D

Shuffle Me : Godot

And for the final word, a quick update on remaking Shuffle Me for godot. Our anonymous programmer (who isn't that anonymous on discord...) got some progress to show :D

As I said before, moving to Godot engine will create a lot of new opportunities. However, our first goal is to remake the Battle Phase alone as it is in the HTML version of the game. We are quite sure about our Battles, they are well designed, well tested. Maybe only not very balanced yet xD So next step is to make Effects for cards just like in the HTML version.

And probably that's all I've got to say for now :D Hope I'll make a big update in time xD Wish me a good luck xD