It looks like things are finally back to normal.

The website has been added to the same package I use for the main site and epoch have finished everything they need to do to give members access.

If you signed up previously, you should be able to log in now. If you are still having issues, please contact epoch via epoch.com. They will have your purchase registered in their databases and will be able to give you access.

I have also switched the pages back so new members can sign up now if they wish.

Again, my sincerest apologies for this issue, but know that it was beyond my control. I have now severed every connection I have to hosgator and they will never darken my towels again.

Jennifer has now been released.

Because this game is a little different, I’m calling what I uploaded today a beta. I’ve thoroughly checked the game, so I know there’s no dead links or similar major problems, but it is possible that a few of the sound files may be incorrect.

I will upload a slightly refined version on Monday, which will also give an option to display images instead of videos if anyone is having problems with that aspect.

A free demo is available in the games section for those of you who want to try it out.

EDIT : Hostgator have sent me an email saying that the members area is getting too many requests (because they changed the way the account works. Without asking me.) I’m looking into a temporary upgrade, but in the long term I’m guessing I’ll move the hosting over to the main site’s package.

For now, just keep refreshing as it should eventually load.

Jennifer will official be released on Friday the 13th of September.

Full trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D_tOfPD5SI

Final set of preview images :

I was planning on a full trailer this week featuring some of the animated segments of the Jennifer game, but my computer has been a bit of an ass ever since Thursday.

As a result, there’s no trailer this week, but here’s a small sample from one of the animated scenes : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpaPYISUNXY

The official release date will be announced next week, along with a full trailer and a final set of preview pics. Expect the release date to be around September the 11th and Friday the 13th (wow. Those are two bad sounding dates. The game should be good though and released then).

No trailer next week as I mainly focused on images instead. So here’s this week’s two previews.

Two more previews this week.

The end isn’t in sight just yet, but it’s not that far away either.

Next week, I may have a video trailer rather than just preview pics.

An idea I like occurred to me recently, so it seems like a good idea to make a post about it in the hopes that as many players on the site can join in as possible.

As a result of the reduced advertising revue the site is getting now, I thought it might be a good idea to encourage some publicity for the site. Specifically from forums and message boards. So here’s what I’m asking.

If you’re a member of a forum or message board (which allows adult content), and you have a few spare minutes sometime this week, I would appreciate it greatly if you could drop a link recommending the site. If you tweet, it would also be great if you could spare a tweet about this site.

Enough new players should make up for the loss in advertising revenue easily.

Just use this link to Lisette and invite others to give it a go : http://www.vdategames.com/vdlis.html

If the forum allows images, here’s a selection for you to post to get some interest :

If you can’t, don’t feel bad, but if you can, it might help the site out a lot.

It’s that time again – time to start counting down to release by posting two pictures a week!

There’s been a small delay as I’ve been trying to find a good advertising alternative, but work is still progressing (I’d say push my earlier estimate of a release date back one week).

I know I don’t mention it very often, but this site has had a bit of a long term debate with google. Specifically google’s advertising branch, adsense.

I’ve had google advertising on my sites since day one, and I’ve always been in this weird grey area for them. The problem is that google do not allow their adverts to be displayed on sites which they see as containing adult content.

However, they’ve never really been able to decide what this site falls under. I mean, there’s clearly explicit moments in the games, but at the same time it’s clearly very different from a hardcore pornography site. They’ve scrutinized this site before, but ultimately felt that it didn’t count and I was free to continue displaying their adverts.

This has now changed as adsense have made their new and final decision. The site now falls under “pornographic cartoons or anime (hentai/ecchi)”, which is is against their terms of service, and as a result I have been restricted from displaying google adverts on the site.

Though there may be blows in other ways, this mainly comes a a finacial one. Adsense revenue accounts for about 20% of this site’s income (with 75% from the members area and 5% from the paypal store).

So, yeah…this is kinda annoying.

The site won’t need to shut down or anything, but I may have to work on a few ways to gain a bit more revenue from it (though I will say straight away that I won’t be increasing the membership fees or anything like that).

So far, I’ve replaced all the adverts with ones from juicyads. I’ve already been using them around the site for a while now, and I’ve found them reliable (ie they pay me), but the adverts aren’t worth nearly as much as google ads.

If you have your own site and want to advertise through them, here’s the link for this site : http://www.juicyads.com/juicysites.php?id=26733. Right now, I only have ‘filler ads’ displaying, but I get a lot more if someone actually buys space.

If anyone wants to email me with suggestions on this, you can find my email address on the contact page.

Over the next few weeks though, I’ll be trying a few different systems to see what works (clicksor is a possibility).