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...
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...
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 upda...
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 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
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...
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...
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...
2024-05-03 22:24:23 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ad...
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...
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!
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 2024-04-23 13:54:33 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
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...
2024-04-11 10:06:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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 & Sub...
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 p...
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 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 ...
2024-02-24 17:23:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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 jo...
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 St...
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...
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 ...
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 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 i...
2023-12-31 18:23:36 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
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 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 Natal...
2023-12-02 03:42:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2023-11-22 16:39:47 +0000 UTC View Post