Games by JimD Newsletter – Project Updates, VtM - Out for Blood Coming Soon

Welcome to my 46th newsletter! This has been an extremely hectic month. Complications from my surgery landed me back in the hospital for a weekend, and I’m still dealing with some issues at home. However, I’m feeling a lot better and getting my energy back. I’ve been pushing myself beyond belief due to deadlines, and that’s okay. Sometimes it feels good to be pushed, even though I am still finding times to take breaks. I don’t know about the rest of you when you are doing schoolwork or your job, but I often listen to music or put on a television series just to have something in the background. I’d still effective but do find myself distracted from time to time. For this last month I have worked without any distractions and just tried to focus. In this way I can work harder and then take longer breaks. I’m not used to this way of writing, but it’s worked for me this month.

As you may know, I’m releasing a game this month! After nearly 2 years of development, Vampire: The Masquerade - Out for Blood will be released at the end of this month. Like all of my games, it will be sold through Steam, Google Play, and the Apple App Store as well as through the Choice of Games website. I will talk more about this game below and also all of the effort leading up to it as well as some of the marketing for those of you are interested in the process leading up to a game’s release.

Let’s get started.

Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven, Part 3

Part 3 is currently at 536,101 words! That’s over 13,000 words written since my last newsletter. Between my health issues and final preparations for Out for Blood, I have not had as much time to work on Part 3. Since I like to at least 20,000 words per month, I’m planning on devoting my entire weekend to Part 3.

We are getting much closer to the end of chapter 12 and therefore all of Part 3. My plan is still to finish in August which will mostly be adding more romantic scenes with your love interests, some events that occur if you have multiple romantic partners (yes, there may be some fights over the love triangles), adding conversations with all of the major characters in your group, and transitions between chapters which will allow you to upgrade your skills, train other characters, and improve the Junkyard.

My current revised plan is to have everything done by the end of August. I still need to do a lot of testing and get considerable feedback from everyone who wants to test. If I can get all of the files to Hosted Games by the end of September, that gives a good chance for a release this Fall.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Out for Blood

Vampire: The Masquerade - Out for Blood is releasing on July 29. If you are interested in this game, you can play the demo right now over on the Choice of Games website.

https://www.choiceofgames.com/vampire-the-masquerade/out-for-blood/

I was also invited on the World of Darkness Twitch stream for an interview with Outstar, the Brand Community Developer. I answered many questions about developing Out for Blood and also touched on Zombie Exodus. I’m told it’s a great interview although I can’t bring myself to watch it. If you would like to check it out, please watch the YouTube video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6uw4TzMNqQ&ab_channel=WorldofDarkness

Shortly after the game releases, I will begin working on a major content update. This will be a free update and not DLC. It will add a number of major additions:

• Expanding True Faith.
• Adding new missions to hunt vampires.
• Exploring areas outside of Jericho Heights.
• More details on subplots that occur throughout the game.

These are all things that my editor and I thought to add while the game was still under development, but we ran out of time. We are on a tight deadline due to the contract we have with World of Darkness, the company who owns the rights to Vampire: the Masquerade. However, these are additions that will greatly expand the experience of all readers. Realize the game is already 450,000 words, so there’s already a ton of things to explore. It’s just hard not to add to this game when there’s so much I want to show you.

That’s all for this month. Until next time, stay safe and thank you for all of your support!