Dear friends,
Happy New Year – and welcome to 2026!
I wish all of you happiness, warmth, and kindness in the year ahead.
Let’s take a moment to look back at the main milestones of 2025 – a year that was… let’s say not the easiest one.
Aqwaa
The year started with me introducing Aqwaa, my assistant. Over time, he took over a substantial part of the workflow: rendering animations from image sequences, final post-processing of renders, managing Lisa’s Instagram page, and more.
Just how important his role is became painfully obvious when Aqwaa had to step away for a while and another assistant, Bey, took over. Bey didn’t cope. Not because he was dumb – the tasks themselves are genuinely difficult.
So if you ever work with people who understand tasks instantly and deliver fast, correctly, and from the first try – value them. Never take that for granted.
Circumstances forced Aqwaa to leave… but he promised to return – and he did. Since December, he’s back and actively helping with Beauty and the Thug again!
My Rendering Machine
Another big productivity boost came from assembling a small mini render farm:
my main PC with an RTX 4090 + my old PC with an RTX 3090.
I connected them via a 2.5 Gb switch, getting 200–300 MB/s transfer speeds – more than enough for comfortable Remote Desktop work. Right now, the second PC is busy rendering animation variants with pubes and armpits for scenes created just yesterday.
I also bought a tablet that lets me remotely control my PCs. It’s not perfect, still even at work I can spend time with use now.
The Better Deal
Unfortunately, I didn’t manage to fully finish The Better Deal in 2025.
That said – I’m very close.
The game received several updates and now reaches a point where Riley is safe, and everything that follows is essentially different endings based on earlier player choices.
I ran a Patreon poll, and by a narrow margin you voted to prioritize a Beauty and the Thug update first, and only then return to finishing The Better Deal.
So the final release is postponed – but it will be completed early this year.
Beauty and the Thug
This game also received multiple updates – the ones you voted for on Patreon and SubscribeStar.
Due to many complaints that Lisa had only one possible male sexual partner, I gave you a few options to choose from – and your first choice was Jose, the guy from the car wash.
As a result, I ended up with a large side-story with plenty of hot scenes.
And yes – something Amy’s route fans have been waiting for a long time finally happened:
Amy and Lisa are now officially dating.
Right now, I’m working on “routine” events and integrating Amy into everyday interactions.
Hacker Attacks
2025 also brought two hacker attacks.
First, someone hacked my Amazon account and bought a bunch of non-refundable gift cards.
Then, a week or two later, another “basement hacker” caused chaos with my website, itch.io, bought a $200 ChatGPT Pro subscription, and more.
Luckily, everything ended with nothing more than stress. All transactions were canceled, data restored, and money refunded.
Fun fact: ChatGPT support was the fastest and easiest. Even though subscriptions are officially non-refundable, they instantly recognized the hack and issued a refund within hours.
Amazon and my bank, on the other hand, spent quite some time pointing fingers at each other – until one exceptionally competent bank employee (whose IQ clearly exceeded the combined IQ of several departments) finally fixed everything.
After that, I nuked the utterly useless Norton Antivirus – which only terrorized my personal scripts and randomly killed my internet connection – and switched to Bitdefender as my main antivirus, with Malwarebytes for occasional scans.
Bitdefender, by the way, completely ignored my scripts (renaming, moving, deleting files by mask, etc.), while Norton blocked them even after adding exclusions.
Besides, I enabled two-factor authentication everywhere.
So, friends: learn from my mistakes – don’t neglect security.
AI Enhancements
I’ve been using AI tools for upscaling and denoising for a while, but in 2025 I found additional ways to significantly improve render quality.
Let me be very clear:
I do not create images with AI – and I don’t plan to.
AI is used only to enhance already existing renders created by traditional methods.
Yes, this adds extra steps, costs money, and works terribly on Aqwaa’s side – so I handle it myself. But the visual quality is absolutely worth it.
And with practice, I’ve gotten much faster – what once took forever now takes roughly ten times less time.
Attack on NSFW Creators
2025 marked another wave of the witch hunting.
First, SpicyGaming shut down.
Then Steam removed incest-related games.
Then itch.io delisted all NSFW games and removed credit card payments leaving only PayPal, which doesn’t work in many countries.
Since Beauty and the Thug was one of the most successful female-protagonist NSFW games there, my income dropped sharply.
Thanks to some strategic moves, I managed to recover about half of the previous itch.io income – which, under current conditions, is already a big win.
The situation remains uncertain, but let’s hope for the best.
My Games on New Platforms
After the itch.io situation, I had to look for alternatives.
Gumroad removed my games after the very first transaction.
However, Beauty and the Thug and The Better Deal are now available on Erobits and Redulse.
- Erobits allows credit cards and crypto, but has poor conditions
- Redulse has awesome conditions but is crypto-only and very new – so far, zero sales there
Crypto payments are still not very popular, but we’ll see where this goes.
Oppaiman once helped a lot with promotion, but since November, visibility there became paid – and expensive. As a result, only high-quality games remain visible. I am proud to stay there, among other wonderful NSFW games.
I’ve applied to GOG multiple times, unsuccessfully so far.
What would really help is your vote – you can do it here.
New Patreon Features
Since launching Patreon and SubscribeStar, I never raised prices – but production costs keep growing. Monthly expenses now include music, rendering, AI tools, and more.
So, I decided to slightly increase prices.
I announced it in advance – and instead of angry comments, I received understanding and support. Thank you so much for that.
I also made the $25 tier more meaningful:
- At least one 4K wallpaper every month
- At least one mini-scene with my main characters
These scenes are completely outside the main game – there will never be a “pay more to unlock content” button inside the game.
Unfortunately, bad news for free followers: Patreon warned me that all NSFW content must be behind a paywall. I had to remove teaser posts and won’t be able to publish them publicly anymore.
Plans for the New Year
Main goal: finish The Better Deal and publish it on Steam.
Hopefully, Steam behaves itself this time.
Then I’ll fully focus on Beauty and the Thug:
- Finish the current update focused on Amy’s relationship with Lisa
- I’m currently working on a bed play scene.
This update will also introduce a dialogue-based rules system with Amy:
- Some rules allow a vanilla relationship
- Others gradually push Amy into a submissive role, opening a lezdom path
This system will be expanded in future updates.
I also plan to add detailed statistics:
- How many times Lisa had vaginal / anal / oral sex
- Masturbation count
- Time spent wearing a buttplug
- And more, and more, and more
- Similar (simplified) stats for Amy and some other female characters
More details on that later.
Among male side characters, Noah the pizza guy took second place after Jose in the poll. His side-story is already written – it just needs implementation.
After that, I want to return to the main plot and finally create the long-delayed Hunter event, with two versions:
- Hunter + Lisa
- Hunter + Lisa + Amy
Of course, fetish systems will also be expanded, including adding new ways to unlock them, additionally to watching lewd videos. Taking into account your desires, friends, a special attention I will pay on:
- Making sure straight scenes fully isolated from a pure lesbian route
- Preserving an anal-only route where vaginal scenes are fully avoidable – and Lisa will be aware of it
Which fetishes would you like me to update first? Let me know in the comments!
What’s Next
After finishing The Better Deal, I want to experiment with new concepts before committing to a new game.
- A beautiful Ren’Py combat system with Unreal-level visuals, running on potato PCs via pre-rendered animations – but only if I can automate rendering character variations.
- Pseudo-3D scenes using parallax for interactive dungeon-crawler gameplay – again, potato-PC friendly.
If these ideas prove viable, I’ll move forward seriously. For now, I’ll just say this:
the protagonist, walking around and using different tools, devices, and NPCs, helps sisters of a powerful order discover what things arouse them the most – and due to circumstances, it becomes the matter of life and death.
Until then, the main focus remains Beauty and the Thug.
Once again – Happy New Year, friends!
Thank you for staying with me, and let’s move forward together in 2026.
Your zegamez
Hello. And Bye.