Villain Plays: Dating With Evil

Official Tumblr page documenting development of the dating sim fangame!

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Hello everyone!

Today we're excited to share an important development update: we are officially opening applications to join our team!

How this will work is that you will fill out an application form that will be linked within this post. We will ask for details such as your discord username (for communications), what you wish to apply for (With options to apply to do things that don't currently have a team), as well as a portfolio and a brief task to help us understand your skills.

This shall be stated here and within the form, this is a volunteer position, and we are unfortunately not able to offer payment of any sort as this is a fan project. More information and context are provided directly within the application.

Link to application form: https://forms.gle/9eK5s77cwHpaNTtGA

If you have any questions or queries, please feel free to reach out to our DMs. Further details of how to contact us is on the form.

Thank you so much for your time, and we hope to see you on the team!

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Project Update (Nov 2025 - Feb 2026)

Hello everyone! I’m really sorry about how long it’s taken for our team to give you guys another update! Progress has been very slow, but I’m here to give an update on what our team has been up to. We’ve all been very busy since December, and therefore we haven’t had a lot of individual time specifically dedicated to the project, but progress is still being made.

Artists

The Artist team has currently finished the Eclipse reference sheet, as you might have seen, and Bloodmoon is very nearly done! All of the conversations about art style have finished related to Bloodmoon, and currently the artists are in the progress of prioritising work on the reference sheet before they can move on to the next character. 

Writers

The writers finished the character conversations about Stitchwraith very recently. This includes all the character plans, background and some story concepts for what might be used in the final game. They’re planning on moving over to Eclipse very soon! 

Programmers

The programmer has been focused on work related to the conversation system. This system is overall nearly functional, with just the movement between scenes, and characters changing pose needing to be made. Hoping to get some visuals for what work has been done so far to your guys within the next couple of updates, when it is functional. It will still likely be using visual placeholders for some time. 

Final thanks

Thank you so much for reading! If you didn’t notice, we’ve had team applications open for a while now, and if you’d at all be interested in helping, please fill it out! We’d love to have more hands on the project!

The Henchmen.

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Happy New Year!🎉✨

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Merry Christmas from the Villains!

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Project Summary (Start to October 2025)

Hello everyone! This post is to summarise what we’ve done so far since starting the project, to the release date of this document. We’ll be trying to write one of these reports roughly once a month, to document progress. Progress may not necessarily be fast, due to this being a completely volunteer project, but progress is being made all the time!

Basic project brief

This game is a fangame based on the Villain Plays AU of TSBS, additionally adding dating sim / visual novel mechanics to it. The game’s going to be mostly dialogue, with some CG art for certain scenes to add impact. The scope’s remaining quite small due to this being a new experience for the team as a whole. The Game’s going to include 4 characters, Bloodmoon, Eclipse, Miku and Stitchwraith in key roles. All of them are datable aside from Stitchwraith who is the sole platonic route, due to him being comprised of two children. Other characters were considered but due to the group being small and limitations of choices, we decided to focus on the main four.

Artists

The artists have had their focus on creating the concept art for the characters within the project, since further project work cannot start until there is a better idea as to what assets will be needed from the Writer’s team. The design process of them has already been finished, and full character sheets featuring the character and the art style are currently being worked on. Eclipse’s sheet is nearly done at the moment.

Writers

The writers have been currently working on trying to concept what stories might be told, and have been set on studying the current episodes of villain plays to get an idea as to character dynamics. They’ve just started Stitchwraith. Some concepts for potential scenes have been written as well, to hopefully be slotted in when a full narrative arc has been decided.

Programmers

The programming team has been focused on development. Due to a miscommunication between developers, the actual Talking screens are not yet functional, but the title screen and options screens have a degree of functionality. Further work will continue when the conversation system is functional. The game is currently made up entirely of placeholder assets while work takes place.

Last news

Thank you very much for reading! This is just what’s been done so far, and we’re going to continue development. We’re hoping to bring on more hands for people to assist, and we’ll get forms out for that soon! :D

The Henchmen

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Announcement!

Hello and Good timezone to all TSBS fans! We're here to introduce you to our WIP game project 'Villain Plays: Dating with Evil'!

Dating with Evil is a Dating Sim Visual novel where you get to personally take the knife and stab romance into some of your favourite villains. This game will feature datable plotlines for Bloodmoon, Miku and Eclipse, and a platonic plotline for Stitchwraith. We will have plenty of things to share on our social media, including sneak peaks, fun surprises and many (many) hidden easter eggs. For all of your Villainous needs!

You can follow our development here:

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/tsbsdatingwithevil.bsky.social/

Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/tsbsdatingwithevil/

This is still a work in progress, but we're hoping to get a post documenting our current progress soon. Thank you for watching the development of Dating with Evil!

- The Henchmen