Darktoz

Where the sun doesn't shine...

...man, rendering at these temperatures is a chore. :( I try to render in the evening as much as possible, but I gotta admit I kinda wish it was cloudy and dark Blackmore weather.

I am at the point where I've finished most of the early middle game of day 2, which is revisiting the tower. The place in front of the tower is a bit more crowded this time and you will get the chance to talk to some new people.

Same with the workplace, but only one new character gets briefly introduced ...

Patreon interface...

...just changed? Am I the only one who is seeing this? Is this a new, more mobile friendly version? I can't change it back to the old one, so I guess this is one of the things where boomer darktoz says he wish they would have sticked with the old one.

So, the poll is done, you guys have spoken pretty clear so the gallery will include the chastity and the matriarch scene. I have just rendered a killer scene with my new favourite redhead of the game (or 2nd favourite, close between her an...

The Gallery / Memory Room

The next update will contain the memory room where you can access unlocked scenes and rewatch them! We have to thank supporter AnonymousDipstick for helping out and making sure that Shadow over Blackmore will be the first of my games with a feature like that. The memory room will be available through the main menu.

I've already fixed the main menu bug where at times when you switch between options the menu disappears, so everything works extremely smooth and hopefully will wh...

MMmmhhh...

Frustrating week :(.

I messed up the 2nd animation in Daz...nothing unusual. So I had to reload the scene. I tried to do that and just realized that I didn't save properly. Instead I did save the broken animation in the worst place possible, in the save file I use for the motel room.

It can happen easily. All scenes have to start somewhere and I have saved all the standard environments...for the tower, the workplace, the motel and so on.

So then you load your characters into...

Story Chars affected by the Futa-Meter?

I was wondering how many story characters should be affected by the Futa-Meter. There are characters where it makes sense, like the Matriarch. If you have selected a high futameter score, something like 68, she could have a cock. That's possible because she is clothed most of the time, and she is a "romance" option that will be available later in the game. It would still mean that i'd have to render every naked scene with her twice, but i think in her case it is worth it.

I think some c...

Characters...

Back to the most fun part of the dev process, finalizing the characters and introducing them to the game. I have to be careful not to introduce too much on day 2, since you will get action only with very few of them, and while a bit of teasing is fine, too much carrot stick action is not good either. Plus introducing too many might hurt the game.

I am currently only rendering and not really working on the mechanics, just like last time I will most likely push working on the gallery and ...

Back in the treadmill...

I am fully back focussing on the new update, meaning I've started to work on the render scenes for the new update. I am not sure how big the new update should be...most likely like the first one? A full day of work (maybe a bit longer than the first one) and story plus 2 side missions sounds about right. But ultimately that is up to you! If you all say that you want an update next week I can make that happen. At the moment that will only give you the first minutes of the new day, of course, b...

What do you want to see next?

Alright, so it turns out you guys liked the first episode of the Shadow over Blackmore, so far so good. But now we have to top the first with episode 2. The 2nd day in the story line is going to happen, as well as a few neat new side quests.

I have to tell you first what's still missing in terms of the mechanics: 

- A way to interact with the inventory

It will basically just be consumables. I also thought of having letters and that sort of stuff to pick...

The Shadow is...public :)

Guys, can you do me a favor? Please share this link everyone you think kinksters are waiting and still don't know about this game:

darktoz.itch.io/shadow-over-blackmore

The game is now public. While it says still 0.1.1, this version has all typos fixed that were found until now and some neat new features. For example a complete russian translation, available in the menu (yes, you heard it right). Also the android exit button is finally working.

The Big Poll: tSob vs Fcity!

It is time for you to make the big decision. What is going to be the next update?

Femdom City MANTIS?

I think that Femdom City MANTIS, currently sitting at version 0.7.2, would need like 3 updates to call it "complete" (not with all content but with the main story finished). The next update would focus on the main story, Beatrix de Jaager and you uncovering what's really ...

tSoB 0.1.1 for all Patreon Supporters - Windows, Linux, Mac, Android

The Shadow over Blackmore is now available for all patreon supporters, so please enjoy!

Alright, here you go:

Windows and Linux 

Windows and Linux(Mirror) 

2022-05-29 15:16:15 +0000 UTC View Post

The Shadow over Blackmore 0.1.1 for Gamer Tier + Android and Mac

Alright, here is the release for the gamer+ tier, now with a brandnew experimental android version to try!

It is getting crowded with the download links:

Windows and Linux 

Windows and Linux (alternate) 

2022-05-22 13:56:56 +0000 UTC View Post

tSoB 0.1.1 fixed version +Mac

Here is version 0.1.1

Download 

Download (Alternative) 

t does not only fix a lot of typos, but also the infinite insight glitch, the jinx bug and the tara animations bug. Also the crash where you try to open the character sheet bef...

Here...we...go !

Alright, time for a new era :)

Tester tier, do your best :). I have been playtesting this over the last week and there should be no gamebreaking bugs, but you know how things are...bugs always slip through every possible crack.

The game has a lot of variables and different switches, and pretty much the most dialog I've ever written plus we have videos now inst...

The map...

It was so close, but The Shadow over Blackmore is not coming today. 

The release date is: Sunday, 15th of May

I could also release it during the week, but I want to be there and have time for you guys and be able to upload bugfixes in case gamebreaking bugs happen, and I only do have time on the weekend next week. So yeah, I think that's best for all.

I know this is like releasing it on the last day possible, and I have a history of doing that, but the ...

The shadow is moving...

It's the 1st of may, another sunday, another update.

The game is coming out first half of this month, so get ready. It is most likely coming out next sunday already!

If not, then I might need another week. But that's really all, 2 weeks at most (there is a chance i mess up the last inventory implementation. I have most of it in place already, but there are some issues that I have to work on). I will let you know when that happens. Don't be frustrated, like I said, it is really clo...

Things are about to get...tasty

And another update.

It is the 24th of april, and next sunday will be 1st of may. That means that I've missed my goal to release the game in april :(.

I am really close. What's missing is: The 2 optional quests (with the girls you see in the pictures), the dream sequence and a part of the inventory.

The gallery/memory room won't be available right at the start of the game. I think th...

Video Improvement ( WebM compression! +Slight delay)

Guys, this is a short update, I am still hoping to deliver the Shadow over Blackmore in april, but it might very well be on the last day. The reason is a good one, an awesome one! One of the best improvements that I made.

I have the Full Adobe licence now. So far I only used photoshop and as you know I used repeating pictures instead of videos so adobe premiere wasn't a thing in my cosmos. for the few videos that I made I used sony vegas.

A friend of mine showed me how to really u...

Skills and Perks

Since the first scenes came across where the ladies you encounter use specific skills on you, I started to implement them. It is nothing too fancy, but the skill that is used on you gets shown in the lower right and the screen gets tinted as you can see above. Nothing too fancy, handled with an overlay.

There will be quite a lot of skills and perks the different mistresses that you will encounter have in their arsenal. If you have a skill for the ladies in mind that you think should be ...

Same old imagemap...

Another week of good progress. I managed to implement imagemaps into the game. You already know imagemaps from Femdom City. When you for example are in the camp, you can hover over different spots like the girls or the boxes that let you sleep or the door that leads to the house of pain and these spots get highlighted. You click on them and it leads to another event.

Pretty much the same here. It will work the same. Plus, there will be additional text like you see in the picture (You ho...

Poll: Chastity - Optional or Forced - You decide

I am making good progress and have made some decisions how the animations are displayed. It took me a while to make a gif that shows what I mean, but in general you will be able to decide how long the animation plays out via dialogue. 

(sorry for the low quality of the gif, but as you may know gifs can only display 256 colors)

For example: You click on keep licking her shoes and you ...

The other preferences...

I have implemented the remaining content questions that are going to be optional. These are: NTR/Cuckolding, Human Toilet and Bisex Humiliation. Each and everyone has his/her own limits and prefers certain fetishes while not liking other content. 

I made these 3 optional based on your feedback, because these seem to be the one some of you are really not comfortable with. If you ...

Introducing: The Futameter!

Ladies and Gentlemen, I hope you are doing well. Today I want to talk about a gameplay feature, that I am reeeaaally excited about. The Futameter (don't know if that's the right way to call it)! This is most likely a bit more interesting than the hover text from the last update.

So what is it and what does it do! It is a bar that you come across early in the game in a therapy session that determines your preferences in the game, what content you want to see and what content you don't wa...

The first 5 minutes...

Hey guys, public post, first things first:

I will not be posting next week. I will spend the whole weekend on aiding some friends and their families from the ukraine who do not have a car. I am sure you understand. I do not really want to comment on the situation, you all know how horrible it is right now and I feel like I rather provide some much needed distraction.

So, as I promised you last week, here is the first few minutes of The Shadow over Blackmore. Unfortunetly ...

Progress Update - Darktoz goes coding...

Ok, so...Ren'Py coding is easy they said. Turns out they were right. And wrong. Some things are, some things don't. 

Turns out this might take longer than expected. Well I kind of expected it but still. It's not coming out february, guys. March is realistic.

Inventory was too difficult for me so I have given up (for now) and worked on the Character Stats and Skill system. And that weirdly worked all out as planned. It is pretty cool.

2022-02-20 18:08:53 +0000 UTC View Post

The Shadow is moving...

Here is the finished cover art for now. I love it. You might say: Hey, that's quite a lot of people you got on there, maybe a bit less would have been better for the cover.

And I say: Hell no! It was already so hard to select them. Lots of people that I wanted to have on the cover as well are not on there.

(like my reincarnation of Druuna :)

All the renders? Al...