Alexis was the winner of our latest special "fan request" render set for 2024! The results of that poll have been added to the original post: A Shot in the Dark: Special Render Character Poll
Now we want to hear your suggestions fo...
2024-08-05 19:02:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Same as last dev log, we've been plugging along on both the Murder Mystery Game and Chapter 5 content. And once again, our progress percentages are still rough estimates, since it's hard to say exactly how much work is left, especially in regards to the MMG. But it's all coming togethe...
2024-07-20 16:57:54 +0000 UTC View Post
A lot of work has been happening on Chapter 5 since the last dev log, but unfortunately a lot of it is not really well-captured by the progress percentages. Whereas we have "regular" development cycles basically down to a science now, we are doing many "new" things this update and that has made it hard to estimate how long ...
2024-06-28 21:37:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Mai was the winner of our latest special "fan request" render set for 2024! The results of that poll have been added to the original post: A Shot in the Dark: Special Render Character Poll
Now we want to hear your suggestions for w...
2024-06-25 16:44:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Since our last dev log we've been making progress on both the Murder Mystery Game and the regular Chapter 5 content. We sat down and did the more extensive planning of the lewd scenes that we need in order to start on animations. Lewd scenes for both Ashley and Sara 2024-06-07 23:44:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Sophie was the winner of our latest special "fan request" render set for 2024! The results of that poll have been added to the original post: A Shot in the Dark: Special Render Character Poll
Now we want to hear your suggestions fo...
2024-05-21 15:06:17 +0000 UTC View Post
We don't currently have enough news about Prince of Suburbia to dedicate a whole dev log to it, but we are still working on finding a new artist and animator for the Pregnancy DLC! We are currently auditioning an artist we really like with a few a...
2024-05-17 23:16:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 4 has now officially been released on all platforms, including Steam and Itch! The official release went smoothly and we are now working on getting Chapter 4 translated on Crowdin so that we can finally release some translated builds of the game!
If you ...
2024-05-03 22:24:23 +0000 UTC View Post![Seedy AF Podcast [Ep23]: What's the future of adult gaming?](https://img5.samukata.com/storage/9/vx/ma/4e9b88-019e8d6f-0fe3-7264-be8e-2db5663173bf.jpg)
In this episode, we both share our answers to some questions about what we predict for the future of adult gaming, both for the industry and for ourselves personally.
Questions like: Will adult games ever become mainstream? What is the "next frontier" in adult games? What other types of adult games are we most interested in developing nex...
2024-05-01 22:32:31 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a hot minute since we talked about our future plans for Prince of Suburbia with all of you, hasn't it? We appreciate your patience in waiting to hear about what's next.
Let's start off with the unfortunate news first. For those that don't already know, we parted ways with auxiliaryout&nb...
2024-04-26 00:55:21 +0000 UTC View Post
We're excited to announce that the Chapter 4 update of A Shot in the Dark is now officially available on all platforms!
Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/1853830/A_Shot...
2024-04-24 16:34:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Elly was the winner of our latest special "fan request" render set for 2024! The results of that poll have been added to the original post: A Shot in the Dark: Special Render Character Poll
Now we want to hear your suggestions for ...
2024-04-23 13:54:33 +0000 UTC View Post![Seedy AF Podcast [Ep22]: WE ASK OTHERS: How did you get into the adult game industry?](https://img5.samukata.com/storage/1/cu/eu/4e9b88-019e8d6f-10c1-7a47-a3b9-2ae2d3c42614.jpg)
In this episode, we asked others from the adult game industry how they got started! We hear from voice actress HaruLuna and fellow AVN developers DiPeppo (Cyberheart) and 2024-04-17 23:03:48 +0000 UTC View Post
So far it's been another successful early release for A Shot in the Dark! We've loved hearing the feedback about your favorite scenes and theories about where the story is going. A lot of time and effort went into making this update and we are always excited to see that pay off!
Early / BETA Release of Chapter 4 of A Shot in the Dark will start on Wednesday, March 27 for our supporters on Patreon and SubscribeStar:
Wed, Mar 27 - $40+ Patrons & Subscribers
Fri, Mar 29 2024-03-25 20:58:58 +0000 UTC View Post
There's not much to say this week except that we've been working hard to put the finishing touches on the Chapter 4 update! We will be getting builds to our testers today and letting them test over the weekend and early into next week.
Within the next few days, we'll also post our BETA/Early Release schedule for Patreon an...
2024-03-22 15:36:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Sara was the winner of our latest special "fan request" render set for 2024! The results of that poll have been added to the original post: A Shot in the Dark: Special Render Character Poll
Now we want to hear your suggestions for w...
2024-03-11 18:04:19 +0000 UTC View Post
All writing and renders for Chapter 4 are now complete! As we've mentioned in previous dev logs, we won't know the actual dialogue word count until we prep the chapter for translation, but our estimate is around 55K words. The final render count is 2,240.
Our original plan had been to work on translated/localized builds du...
2024-02-24 17:23:20 +0000 UTC View Post![Seedy AF Podcast [Ep21]: How do you make adult game dev your full-time job?](https://img5.samukata.com/storage/1/mc/wo/4e9b88-019e8d6f-1159-78f6-99e4-1097c874baf5.jpg)
This episode is all about business! We answer the question: "How do you market your games in order to make a living from them?"
We've learned a lot about the monetization aspect of this industry after over two years of successfully making adult game development our full-time job. From all the things to think about before even ...
2024-02-23 04:47:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Last year we commissioned artwork for Steam community items (badges, etc) for Prince of Suburbia only to learn that Steam does not approve community items for Free-to-P...
2024-02-14 19:40:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Natalie was the winner of our second special "fan request" render set for 2024! The results of that poll have been added to the original post: A Shot in the Dark: Special Render Character Poll
Now we want to hear your suggestions fo...
2024-02-12 16:31:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Things are moving pretty quickly with the Chapter 4 update now that we have a second set of hands helping with the coding! We have plowed through about half of the scenes that had been waiting for a while to be coded, and we are also mostly done with tweaking and testing the new GUI.
Josselyn is working on...
2024-02-11 17:37:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Ashley was the winner of our first special "fan request" render for 2024! The results of that poll have been added to the original post: A Shot in the Dark: Special Render Character Poll
Now we want to hear your suggestions for what...
2024-01-17 16:08:18 +0000 UTC View Post
We hope everyone had a happy and healthy holiday season! We took some days off to celebrate Christmas with friends and family, and have returned refreshed and ready to work.
If you haven't already, be sure to check out our annual year in review post: 2024-01-12 23:57:22 +0000 UTC View Post
We are ending 2023 with a bang, surpassing a staggering 1 MILLION DOWNLOADS on Itch and Steam combined between our two games! We couldn't be more excited to ring in the New Year by celebrating with all of the players and fans who helped us reach this incredible milestone.
We'd like to extend a s...
2023-12-31 18:23:36 +0000 UTC View Post![Seedy AF Podcast [Ep20]: How do you make 3d renders and animations?](https://img5.samukata.com/storage/8/cs/ew/4e9b88-019e8d6f-1463-7500-8110-03f032bb4487.jpg)
In this episode we talk about the process of using Daz 3D Studio to make renders and animations for our adult visual novel, A Shot in the Dark. We talk about our hardware, the workflow from beginning to end, and discuss many of the lessons learned after over 2 years now using Daz. We also compare Daz with what we know a...
2023-12-21 18:22:36 +0000 UTC View Post
We are excited to announce that A Shot in the Dark - Chapter 3 and the Walkthrough & Guide DLC 2023-12-14 22:46:50 +0000 UTC View Post
A Shot in the Dark - Chapter 3 will be releasing on Steam on December 14! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1853830/A_Shot_in_the_Dark/
2023-12-08 15:48:23 +0000 UTC
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Be sure to check out the holiday renders for $3+ Patrons and Subscribers released earlier today if you haven't already! Fans voted on Alexis, Ashley, and Natalie to be featured in this year's holiday ...
2023-12-02 03:42:06 +0000 UTC View Post![Seedy AF Podcast [Ep19]: What's your writing process?](https://img5.samukata.com/storage/3/dh/bn/4e9b88-019e8d6f-1505-7643-89a7-ac05335ff1ee.jpg)
Note to our supporters: We will be taking the rest of the week off for American Thanksgiving, so no dev log this Friday but we'll be back with updates next week!
It's NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)!
To celebrate, we are answering all of your questions about writing: What tools do we use? What's our process,...
2023-11-22 16:39:47 +0000 UTC View Post