The Creator Economy Is Broken

Being social media famous doesn’t cut it: even creators with huge audiences can’t make a living.

• Millions of creators produce incredible work that builds massive, passionate fanbases. 
• But creators don't get to make a living from their likes! 
• Less than 1% of them earn money from their fans on webcomic and fanfiction platforms or social media.
• Creators don't get to be shareholders in the platforms that they help grow. 

Dorian is changing how fandoms support creators! We help artists, writers, cosplayers, and voice actors turn their stories into games and deliver them directly to fans.

Dorian is a two-sided marketplace powered by technology: thousands of creators have used Dorian's no-code game engine to turn their art into games without having to hire a team of engineers, designers and analysts. And fans play these games on our mobile app and spend through in-app currency to shape relationships and endings in their favorite games!

Dorian has already empowered creators to build cutting edge game mechanics that would usually require a game studio! 

• A full code-free environment that simplifies the creation without limiting the content!
• Full audio controls for music, sound effects, and VO
• Full art control for characters, backgrounds, popups, and icons
• Complex relationship economies as seen in Baldur’s Gate
• Unlockable content as seen in Love & Deepspace
• Random Chance mechanics showcased in many gacha games
• Collectibles & achievements as seen in the Arcana 
• And much, much more - if we listed them all, we’d need another page!

What makes Dorian special is how much fans already support creators: 10% of our fans become patrons of the games they love, compared to ~2.5% average in other games - and we’re working to increase that, so more creators can thrive!

Creators keep 100% of their IP and earn a 50/50 revenue split. And now, for the first time, fans and creators can become shareholders in the platform itself!

Proof It Works

Creators are building profitable businesses on Dorian

For artists, writers, cosplayers, and voice actors who live and breathe fictional worlds, Dorian is the best platform to build their own IP and start a business. Meet some of the creators who are using Dorian to build games, grow audiences, and earn real income!

Julia Palatovska grew up in Ukraine devouring fiction, Greek myths and writing fanfiction. No game consoles because they were a luxury in a single mother household.

She later helped turn mobile games publishing at G5 Games into a multi-million dollar business through its Nasdaq Stockholm listing. Then Julia joined London Venture Partners (early backers of Supercell and Unity) to invest in early games startups.

After spending years of building and investing in games, Julia got obsessed with an idea that combined her childhood hobbies and her experience in games: democratize game creation to enable artists and writers passionate about storytelling just like her to turn their art into game universes. Many artists, writers and cosplayers have millions of social media views of their fanart or original characters and earn nothing more than likes! Yet the same art can have vastly different earning potential in a game format: games earn money through player agency, high replay value and multiple outcomes. What if artists and storytellers could turn their vision into games and deliver them directly to fans without hiring engineers or finding publishers? 

Julia moved to San Francisco where she teamed up with Jordan Lee, the CTO of Dorian. Jordan had a decade of experience shipping games at such companies as Digital Chocolate and Nexon. Together they started Dorian: a no-code ecosystem and distribution platform where non-technical creators can build game IP and earn a living by focusing on what they do best!

Angel Investors: Founders Who've Done This Before

Our angel investors have built, sold and invested in some of the best game & entertainment companies. 

They know the playbook.

Institutional Investors

Dorian is backed by some of the best gaming and consumer VCs who previously invested in the biggest game companies and creator platforms.

The pattern is clear that creator platforms can reach extraordinary returns for their investors. Twitch was acquired for $970M. Wattpad exited at $600M. Roblox IPO'd at $42B. Webtoon went public at $2.67B. 

Dorian is a leading platform for female-first game fandoms growing together with our creators by enabling them to build the next generation of iconic game IP. The goal of this round is to include creators and fans into our success. As Dorian grows, we want the people who made it valuable to receive a portion of this success!

We are serving a massive, fast-growing market

The $200B female-first content boom

Both women and Gen Z audiences are driving a massive shift in entertainment media spending. 

• #BookTok and romantasy drove book revenue up 41% in a single year. 
• Love and Deepspace, an anime-style dating sim, reached $1B in revenue. 
• Micro-dramas are becoming a global entertainment category. 
• This isn't a niche. It's a $200 billion market, and Dorian is the platform built for the creators who want to build their IP for these audiences.

90% of Dorian creators are women and queer, compared to just 8% in the broader games industry. We're not just closing the gap, we're building the platform where new voices will deliver direct to consumer games that do not exist anywhere else.

The Deal

SAFE: Your early-bird advantage

A SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) lets you buy future shares at today's price. You automatically get whichever is the better deal: the valuation cap or the discount.

This is the first time Dorian is offering the public the opportunity to participate in our round. You can become a shareholder in Dorian alongside institutional investors like Raine Ventures and LVP, and angel investors like Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin, ESL founder Jens Hilgers, and Kabam co-founder Holly Liu.

Regulation CF offering. See Republic offering documents for complete terms and risks.

What Could $5,000 Become?

Here's how your investment could grow at different exit scenarios as an investor. 

Important: Hypothetical illustration only, not a projection or guarantee. Based on SAFE with $60M cap or 20% discount. Actual returns depend on future events that may never occur. This is a high-risk investment. Please invest only the amount that you can afford to lose.

Here's what you get when you invest

Every tier includes Hearts, Dorian’s in-app currency. Spending Hearts is always optional but it’s how creators earn on Dorian, so they decide which parts of their games are for paying patrons only. Fans can use Hearts to unlock patron-only scenes, bonus episodes, or speed up progression. As an investor, you’ll receive Hearts in your Dorian account to access paid content and support creators!

Higher tiers also unlock custom character creation (based on your personality or design) and bespoke game that you will own developed for you by the Dorian team.

Invest together, or champion a creator you want to see on Dorian!

At the $50,000 investment threshold, something special unlocks: you don't just own a piece of Dorian, you help shape what gets built.

This tier can be reached by fans of a creator investing together, or by an individual investor who wants to create their own game or champion a specific creator. Choose a creator, and our professional team builds a game based on their vision (at least 5 episodes but can be more depending on the creative vision). You get a front-row seat to the creative process and own equity in the platform powering it all.

Investors collaborate with creators on the concept, characters, and story direction of a brand-new game that our team will develop with professional production quality.

What Your Investment Powers

Better creative tools, better games, better experiences for you

Your investment goes directly into making Dorian a better platform for the creators you follow and the games you play.

We're powering the next generation of creator-owned games

Imagine the dark romance and hand-painted art of games like Slay the Princess. The deep relationship systems that made Baldur's Gate 3 a cultural phenomenon. The dating sim appeal of Love and Deepspace. Now imagine all of that created by independent artists, writers, cosplayers, voice actors you love without having to have a massive team and budget. This is what we're enabling on Dorian and your investment will help us empower more creators and more great games!

A better experience on every device

We're building a web app so you can play creator games on desktop, not just mobile. New gameplay mechanics and tech integrations such as Ren'Py and more to enable dress-up, mini-games, collectibles, and 2D animations will make every game more immersive! 

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Own a piece of the platform where creators are building real businesses

Writers, artists, cosplayers, and voice actors you follow are already turning their stories into games on Dorian, and they're earning real money while doing so. Now, for the first time, you can invest in the platform they're building on.