Hey all! Revolver here. It's been a while. We know you guys have been looking forward to hearing any updates on Beyond Friendship, and we've finally got some to share with you.

When Sugarless and I started making this game together, it turns out we were a bit too naive and optimistic about what it takes to get a game as ambitious as Beyond Friendship off the ground. There's a lot more to it than either of us expected, and recently, both of us have started to feel as though we could use a bit more practice making simpler games first so that our skills as developers can measure up to our big ideas.

So now we're starting the Revolver and Sugarless training arc! And we're starting that off by announcing the creation of a brand-new game...

-The Queen of Nightmares, host of the underground webshow, Dreams of Marehaven

Dreams of Marehaven: A Proper College Experience is a visual novel that takes place in a dream world in the same setting as Beyond Friendship. You play as Eventide Embers, a sheltered, freshman, unicorn girl with a shiny violet coat and a mind full of possibilities. You come from a sheltered background, so you're not used to all the boobs and bulges that your fellow students seem so keen on displaying. But you're determined to fit in around here, so what's a gal to do? You could always ask for help...

Tenebra is the star of the football team. He's a massive, hunky zebra guy with arms like cannons and abs you could grate cheese on. If you're tired of being labeled as a feeble bookworm, there's no one more qualified to help you grow strong. The only problem with him is that he's got an arrogant streak more than a mile long. With a brutal mix of power, charisma, and ruthlessness, in another life, he could have been an evil king...

Locus is the most popular girl in school. Smart, seductive, and sweet when she wants to be, she's the center of attention in whatever room she walks into. If you've always wanted to know what it's like to be the queen bee in the hive, here's your chance! The only thing is...well, there are these rumors going around. The girls she hangs out with don't seem to stick around for very long, especially the pretty ones. The official story is that they all transferred to other schools...but is that all there is to it?

DoM:APCE is currently in early development, with more news coming very soon! Dreams of Marehaven is planned to be an anthology series of stories that take place in the same world as Beyond Friendship but in an alternate universe. In other words, none of the stuff that happens here is canon because it's all a dream! And that means the possibilities are endless...

Currently, we plan to work on DoM:APCE for the next six months, and then talk to you guys so we can gauge interest and see what we ought to do next. Whether that's continue working on DoM:APCE, return to work on BF, or start an entirely new game in the DoM series, we've got a lot of exciting possibilities on the horizon, and Sugarless and I can't wait to share more about what we've been working on.

We wanted to give a big thanks to the patrons who've been supporting us for so long and never lost faith in us. You guys honestly seem a little crazy to me because I don't even think I have as much faith in this game as you guys do, which is why that means so much to us, and why I also want to give thanks to free-plan followers who are keeping up with news about the game and talking about it with their friends. We need every single one of you guys to make our games a success, and we couldn't be more grateful for your support.

Stay tuned for more info! And to make sure you don't miss a thing, double check that you're a part of our Discord server so that you can be a part of the discussion. Thanks for reading!

Heyo. I want to say thank you for your support; Revolver and I are super grateful for your support and comments in the latest update.

I'm happy to see you enjoyed our work. We launched the past version of the game as a base for the story. Most of the reason it took us ages was because we were not sure how complex the story and gameplay should be; after ages of debate and analysis about story and gameplay, we decided to just set the bases for the story in this update.

Now about the lack of development updates, it was my choice to post nothing until we had something cool to show; in the end, this was the best since it was kind of complicated to get a real date, and the sound design forced us to delay the update.

Now our next goal is to get a base for the gameplay. As you tested in the previous version, we added a minigame that works as test for minigames, but we want to have more of them, also add cool stuff like a proper working world and ui :)

So now that we finally have a vision for gameplay, we noticed it was kind of complex, and the problem with it is that sometimes, in game development, not all ideas fit the project; some ideas can sound good in your head, but once you test them, you notice they are trash or generate more problems than solutions.

You can say, "Why don't you just make a basic version of the ideas and then expand them?" The problem is that we want to avoid changing or remaking stuff that is already in the game just to adapt it to the new ideas.

You could also say, "Just add the whole idea, and then after testing, you can remove the idea in case it doesn't work." The problem here is that again we want to avoid wasting time and effort doing stuff that has a possibility to be removed.

The solution we found for this was to define the stuff that cannot be removed from our vision, define its most basic qualities considering the complete idea, and add them to the game as a base that can be expanded and tested to achieve its final vision. This way we avoid remaking basic stuff like code or design elements and test small additions that are part of an already planned idea.

So in a way that you can easily imagine, it's like making a drawing; you don't just start doing element by element. Maybe you draw a girl posing naturally, but then you say, "Let's draw her surfing." In this case, you'd have to redraw the body and pose and angle so it fits your new vision of "surfing girl" (it's a waste of time). Or in the second example, you can't start adding details like water reflections and shading when you don't even have a sketch of the general idea (also a waste of time).
Our choice was to make a sketch that has all our ideas in a basic idea, and then as we add colors, shades, and details, we can define what has to stay and how detailed.

Now your favorite part: Revolver's section:

REVOLVER: 

This last update was more about ironing out the worldbuilding and the personalities of the main characters. We want to integrate tutorials into the game's intro sequence, so once we're done designing the gameplay foundations, we are very likely going to be overhauling large stretches of the intro. When that happens, I also want to add more dialogue options while I'm at it so that there's more interaction during the long stretches between gameplay. This may not happen in the next major update, but it will definitely happen in the one after that at the latest.

.....Yeah!

In summary: The next goal is to post an update focused on gameplay, adding and improving UI, sounds, minigames, and stuff.

As a final comment, I want to mention the support and likes we've received on different forums and pages. I noticed people really liked our ideas and visions; I also noticed you loved Tr- Misty, our sexy blue girl. Maybe we can add something cool for her in the next update :3.

Thank you for reading!!

Download here:  BFvJAN.20.2025

Added:

-Tutorial + intro
-Multiple characters
-New locations
-5 new scenes
-Minigame prototype

Not Added:
-Sugar

Requirements:
RTX 5090 TI SUPER
INTEL I9 14900KS / AMD Ryzen9 9950X3D
64GB RAM
1GB FREE STORAGE

Remember we have a discord server: HERE!

SUGAR- Hello guys I'm SurgarlessPaints and you are experiencing a deja vu! I'm sorry for the previous post, Rev miss posted a simple draft, I hope you understand that's not the quality of post we aim for. :p

Today in this little update well share some details of our Dev process and progress for the next game update, basically the first version of the game! YAY!


REVOLVER- Hey guys, it's been a while! Sorry for the radio silence, Sugar and I have both been super focused on getting the next update ready for you guys. Personally, I haven't had much free time to work on the game these past couple of months since I've been working 12-hour shifts at my day job since the beginning of October, but rest assured that we are busting our asses trying to make the next update as awesome as possible!


We are still aiming for the two-month update cycle that we mentioned earlier, and so that means we're still trying to have the update ready for you guys before the end of the month. However! I want to make it clear that we aren't going to release the update if we feel that it's not ready. We will do our best to keep you guys in the loop if things change so that you aren't totally blindsided by disappointment, but right now we are prioritizing quality and doing our best to avoid burnout!


With that out of the way, let's talk more about what Sugar and I have been been cooking up for you guys! In this upcoming update, we are focusing on the game's introduction. It's not going to be a big update in terms of playtime, but it absolutely packed to the gills with new locations, characters, and game mechanics. We'd really love to show you what we've been working on, but we're still so early in development that everything we could tell you about feels like too big of a spoiler.


SUGAR- Right now we are working on the introduction yes, and i can say that we plan to add (based on the tech demo) 2 new locations with different sections to go and some extra rooms in the main building! also i can say that we already have 8 new characters for this new introduction, oh yeah! I'm really exited to show them, we really worked hard on their designs! :3 Also we are adding new menu design and some cool UI features!

A little Teaser :3

About the release date: We are working hard to deliver it this month but as you know this month is known to be the busiest time of the year, we appreciate your support and patience! I can't wait to show you the new characters, environments and ideas we have for the game, this is just the base which means we need to do it the best we can but I'm really excited to show it to you!

Finally you'll see a new DEV diary soon where well talk about HENNA! the Goth girl you saw in the previous tech Demo!

Thank you for your patience again and for reading! till next post! <3 

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!