Wow! What a week it has been. We are totally blown away by the reception that Prince of Suburbia V0.7 has received! June has already become a record-breaking month in terms of Patrons and Itch.io downloads and the month isn't even over!
Within our own team, we often call Prince of Suburbia our "little game that could." There have been many ups and downs in its development. Many fans have stuck with us through ...
2022-06-24 22:21:54 +0000 UTC
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The results of last week's poll for Prince of Suburbia are in! Sarah won by a landslide. The final results with the weighted votes factored in are attached to this post. Thank you to everyone who voted!
This week we have a poll for what additional sex animation will be added for Sarah in V0.75 of Prince of ...
2022-06-20 18:00:11 +0000 UTC
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We wanted to drop a quick note for V0.7 players. We fixed a couple more small bugs that were found in the V0.7 update.
1) The MC was being renamed to "Guy" after choosing how the boss looks and her name.
2) There was no lab background in the gallery for the boss in the last animated scene for her.
The fixes are in for both issues and the current version is V0.7.2. If you have already played the update and don't want to download again that's fine and you w...
2022-06-20 17:31:08 +0000 UTC
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V0.7 has been officially released for $5+ patrons. Please follow the link here to download the game: MEGA LINK
Please let us know of any bugs, grammar issues, and anything else that you might find. We are looking forward to the updated sprites in the future to be able to better align with what is shown in the illustrations. This update has some of the best art and animations y...
2022-06-19 16:01:03 +0000 UTC
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We wanted to drop a quick note for V0.7 players, specifically for those that are starting over from scratch. We have uploaded a new build (V0.7.1) already available at the download link in the previous BETA release posts for all operating systems (Android, PC, Mac, and Linux). This new build fixes a bug related to the MC's quality time alone in the bathroom for the early part of the game.
The bug with the old V0.7 build is that you MUST select the "Skip" choice as oppo...
2022-06-17 01:01:07 +0000 UTC
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The V0.7 BETA has been released for $10+ patrons. Please follow the link here to download the game: MEGA LINK
Please let us know of any bugs, grammar issues, and anything else that you might find. We are looking forward to the updated sprites in the future to be able to better align with what is shown in the illustrations. This update has some of the best art and animations ye...
2022-06-16 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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As we announced yesterday, testing has gone faster than anticipated and we will be ready for Early Release starting tomorrow!
Here is our official release schedule:
- June 12 - V0.7 BETA will be made available for $40+ Patrons/Subscribers
- June 14 - V0.7 BETA will be made available for $20+ Patrons/Subscribers
- June 16 - V0.7 BETA
2022-06-11 15:20:35 +0000 UTC
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It's been a busy week at ViM Studios and we have some very exciting announcements for the future of both of our games!
Playtesting of V0.7 of Prince of Suburbia has gone well without any major issues to be fixed. All that's left now is to build and test the Android version!
In the past, we have had a 3rd party do our Android port for Prince of Suburbia, but starting with this update we will...
2022-06-10 16:19:27 +0000 UTC
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The results of last week's poll for A Shot in the Dark are in! The lingerie outfits for Sara and Sophie that won was Option C. Weighted voting swung the poll results significantly. Final results with the weighted votes factored in are attached to this post. Thank you to everyone who voted!
This week we have ...
2022-06-08 17:07:38 +0000 UTC
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We are excited to announce that development of V0.7 of Prince of Suburbia is almost complete! We have playtesters ready to play it this week to find any major bugs or issues. Once those are resolved, we will release to the public!
Right now this is our planned release schedule assuming there are no major issues we haven't anticipated.
June 15 - V0.7 BETA will be made available for $40+ Patro...
2022-06-07 15:57:01 +0000 UTC
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The results of last week's polls for Prince of Suburbia are in! The alternative outfit for Catherine (M) that won was Option A, and the alternate lingerie that won was Option D. Final results with the weighted votes factored in are attached to this post. Thank you to everyone who voted!
This week we have a poll for lingerie outfits for Sophie and Sara for a scene in Chapter 2 of A S...
2022-05-31 16:14:24 +0000 UTC
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The development we are most excited about this week is that we now have Chinese and Spanish translations of Prince of Suburbia thanks to two of our generous fans! A huge thanks to DCM (Chinese translation) and mastergig30 (Spanish translation)!
This week TheOmega has been busy working on new builds with translations. You can get a build with the translations up to V0.55 on
2022-05-27 17:05:31 +0000 UTC
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This next poll is for Catherine(M)'s alternate lingerie/underwear outfit for future updates of Prince of Suburbia if you have the new sprites toggled on. The new sprites will be implemented in the future but will not be in the next update. Some of the options you see here were inspired by the suggestions that were posted in last week's post. This ...
2022-05-24 14:53:45 +0000 UTC
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First things first, for the Ashley outfit for Chapter 2 of A Shot in the Dark, Option C won with the power of weighted voting from the higher tiers. Congrats to those who voted for Option C!
This next poll is for Catherine(M)'s alternate daily outfit for future updates of Prince of Suburbia...
2022-05-24 14:46:13 +0000 UTC
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It's been a frustrating week with both of us coincidentally experiencing hardware issues with our rendering PCs. Unfortunately, troubleshooting and coordinating repairs have eaten up a lot of time this week. Josselyn seems to have resolved her issues, but it remains to be seen if TheOmega has resolved his issues or not.
Because of the hardware issues, we both have a growing backlog of renders and animations that are posed and ready to render, but no "co...
2022-05-20 15:11:34 +0000 UTC
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Auxiliaryout is still hard at work creating the illustrations and animations for the Prince of Suburbia V0.7 update!
In the meantime, we're going to be taking clothing/outfit suggestions for each sprite in the game. Auxiliaryout will be gradually replacing the old sprites with new sprites to be more cohesive with his art style. In a future update (not V0.7) we will add in the new sprites with t...
2022-05-18 17:44:04 +0000 UTC
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Please vote on which of these outfits you'd like to see Ashley wearing for a scene in Chapter 2 of A Shot in the Dark. This poll will end in one week.
REMINDER: We have updated the Patreon tiers to include "Voting Power." Patrons with more voting power than x1 will be weighted into the final results in order to...
2022-05-16 16:04:38 +0000 UTC
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Happy Saturday!
It's been yet another exciting week here at ViM Studios with Prince of Suburbia - Part 1 releasing on Steam! We are very excited with the response it's gotten so far. Thank you to everyone who ...
2022-05-14 17:50:50 +0000 UTC
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Dear Patrons and fans,
We just released Prince of Suburbia Part 1 (through V0.55) on Steam as a Free To Play game! It has achievements to spice things up a little for those that enjoy them.
This is a big step for the development of Prince of Suburbia as it will hopefully get a lot more eyeballs on this game. If we get more people checking the game out, ideally that will mean more support for the game and more content that we can...
2022-05-12 03:37:01 +0000 UTC
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As mentioned before, Josselyn has been playing around with recording the process of making 3D art for A Shot in the Dark. This video shows a timelapse of the renders created for the first scene in Chapter 2 so it's also a bit of a sneak peek at what's to come!
We've also talked to auxiliaryout about making similar behind-the-scenes content for Prince of Suburbia illustrations/animation...
2022-05-10 02:23:12 +0000 UTC
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Just a quick update on what we've been working on this week at ViM Studios!
Josselyn was sick most of this week but managed to do some much-needed "housekeeping" for A Shot in the Dark and our social media platforms. She has also been working on a behind-the-scenes video for A Shot in the Dark that we will post for Patrons only next week!
As already announced, TheOmega was able t...
2022-05-06 18:10:33 +0000 UTC
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We just wanted to update everyone and let you know that we put in some hard work and created an Android build for A Shot in the Dark - FREE DEMO (Chapter 1). You can download the Android build on Itch.io! If you have any issues while playing the build, please let us know.
2022-05-06 05:17:58 +0000 UTC
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Here's a little sneak peek at some of the art auxiliaryout has been working on in April for Prince of Suburbia!
Whose butt do you think that is? ;)
2022-04-29 17:37:11 +0000 UTC
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It's been an exciting week here at ViM Studios. Now that our demo of A Shot in the Dark is officially released, we wanted to give all of our Patrons and fans a detailed update on the progress of both A Shot in the Dark and Prince of Suburbia.
We hope to make this type of update a regular thing (every week or two), so let us know if there's anything in particular you want us to touch on in futu...
2022-04-29 17:03:16 +0000 UTC
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The wait is over! The FREE DEMO (Chapter 1) of A Shot in the Dark is now available for download on Itch.io!
Chapter 1 (V0.1) includes:
24 scenes
36,000 words
1,073 3D renders
28 3D animations
9 2D animations
107 GUI elements
11 sound effects
39 songs
Chapter 2 is in development and will relea...
2022-04-28 16:31:16 +0000 UTC
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Dear Patrons and fans,
Many months of hard work have finally culminated in a BETA demo (Chapter 1) release of our 3D game, A Shot in the Dark!
As a special THANK YOU for all of your patience and support, we are releasing the BETA version of our demo (Chapter 1) early to our Patrons. A free public release will be available later this month on Itch.io,...
2022-04-27 03:40:44 +0000 UTC
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Dear Patrons,
The poll results are in! The 69 scene dominated in the animation poll and Catherine(M) will be receiving an extra animation/scene in the V0.7 update! As mentioned before, Catherine(M) will be pulled out of contention for the next update extra animation poll when the time comes, in order to spread the love to the other characters in the game and to see who the real #2 is! She will be put back into the mix for the update immediately after.
Thank you fo...
2022-04-27 02:37:19 +0000 UTC
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We have Steam updates for both of our games!
We are working hard to polish up Prince of Suburbia - Part 1 (V0.55) for its Steam debut! Please wishlist it on Steam if you have not already since it helps the Steam algorithm.
Prince of Suburbia - P...
2022-04-21 21:25:28 +0000 UTC
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Dear Patrons,
We now have an official trailer for the demo release of A Shot in the Dark up on YouTube! We hope this will get everyone else as hyped as we've been for the upcoming release.
We currently have an ALPHA build of Chapter 1 that we are testing and tweaking. We are still on track to have a BETA build for our higher-tier patrons in about a week, and a free public BETA rel...
2022-04-19 03:43:20 +0000 UTC
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Dear Patrons,
The poll results are in! Catherine(M) dominated in the extra animation poll and will be receiving an extra animation/scene in the V0.7 update!
Catherine(M) will now be pulled out of contention for the V0.8 update extra animation poll when the time comes, in order to spread the love to the other characters in the game and to see who the real #2 is! She will be put back into the mix for the V0.9 update until she is selected again.
Please vote on ...
2022-04-15 18:01:47 +0000 UTC
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