Games by JimD Newsletter – Game Updates, New Schedule

Welcome to my 90th newsletter! Happy holidays to everyone celebrating.

It has been a busy but productive month. I am inching closer to finishing ZE:SH, Part 4 and think we have a month or two before I hand in the files to Hosted Games. I don’t know their backlog for editing and production, so I’m hoping it will still be released this year.

In other news, I am going to work on Part 4-2 after I hand in those files. However, I’m going to turn back to working on Stronghold, since I only need a few months to finish it. So, it looks like:

• Hand in Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven, Part 4

• Finish Zombie Exodus: Stronghold

• Work on Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven, Part 4-2

• Finish Deadbury Academy, Episode 1

• Start on Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven, Part 5

That is my tentative plan.

In this newsletter, I will review my development plans, as always.

Let's get started.

Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven, Part 4

Part 4 is 824,000 words, with over 36,000 words added this month!

This month, I again worked on the scene that will bridge the gap between chapters. However, I am finishing it up with a very long and detailed report by Rachel that comes between each chapter. This will tell you exactly how the group and junkyard are progressing.

I also started back up on chapter 17. I am finishing up the movie theater scene and will write one more in which the MC and Rachel are scavenging a hardware store. After that scene, I will write the ending to Part 4. My hope is to finish by mid-May and then begin editing and adding other content that has been requested.

Part 4-2

This part will include quite a few additions to the game and will be entirely free. When I say free, it means that those who have already paid for any part will see new content. Of course, if you purchased all four parts by then, you would see the most content.

Here are the things you can expect to see:

• Implementing age from the start of character creation, which will affect who you can romance.

• Continuing the soldier mission where you are contacted by the New Army and the Vanguards.

• Continuing the hacker mission where you are contacted by Julianne.

• Continuing the teenager mission after the point where you discover that your parents are alive.

• Additional missions that can be completed between chapters.

I expect Part 4-2 to be at least 200,000 new words of content and take roughly 6 months of time to write.

Zombie Exodus: Stronghold

Stronghold is up to 150,000 words so far. If you are interested in testing each new chapter, please check out the link below:

https://cogdemos.ink/play/jimd/zombie-exodus-stronghold-public-beta/mygame/

Deadbury Academy

Deadbury Academy was updated a few months ago, and I posted a new demo at the following location.

https://cogdemos.ink/play/jimd/deadbury-academy/mygame/

As you may remember, I put the development of this game on hold until I finish writing Safe Haven, Part 4.

That's all for this month.