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Chapter 4 Official Release 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 some translated builds of the game! If you are interes

We're excited to announce that the Chapter 4 update of A Shot in the Dark is now officially available on all platforms! Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/1853830/A_Shot_in_the_Dark/ Itch https://vimstudios.itch.io/a-shot-in-the-dark If you played the Chapter 4 BETA on Patreon or SubscribeStar

Chapter 4 Early Release 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 are always excited to see that pay o

Chapter 4 BETA Release 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 & Subscribers Fri, Mar 29 - $20 Patrons & Subscribers Sun, Mar 31 - $10 Patrons & Subscribers Wed, Apr 3 - $5 P

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 post our BETA/Early Release

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 had been to work on transl

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 GUI. Josselyn is wor

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: ViM Studios: 2023 Year in Review! That post also

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 Natalie to be featured in this year's holiday renders. Monica came in a close fourth place, so we did a bonus render for her as well! Since the th

We are now doing weekly dev logs, but alternating between our two games. This week, it's all about A Shot in the Dark, and next week we'll give an update on Prince of Suburbia. Josselyn is still cranking away at renders, with the current count now at 1,289. Since last dev log she has completed all t

We are now doing weekly dev logs, but alternating between our two games. This week, it's all about A Shot in the Dark, and next week we'll give an update on Prince of Suburbia. Game Development The last two weeks have still been focused on making renders. The big scene that was in progress last dev

We are now doing weekly dev logs, but alternating between our two games. This week, it's all about A Shot in the Dark, and next week we'll give an update on Prince of Suburbia. Chapter 4 Development The past two weeks Josselyn has been mainly focused on renders, for a particularly large scene. Right

We are now doing weekly dev logs, but alternating between our two games. This week, it's all about A Shot in the Dark, and next week we'll give an update on Prince of Suburbia. Our YouTube strike is over, and it looks like we may have finally found a CPA to help us with our taxes! We're glad to have

We are now doing weekly dev logs, but alternating between our two games. This week, it's all about A Shot in the Dark, and next week we'll give an update on Prince of Suburbia. Admittedly, this was not our most productive two weeks of work when it comes to A Shot in the Dark. We've had quite a few b

Starting with last week's dev log we have switched to weekly dev logs, alternating between our two games. This week, it's all about A Shot in the Dark, and next week we'll give another update on Prince of Suburbia. STEAM VISUAL NOVEL FEST We are excited to announce that A Shot in the Dark will be fe

A Shot in the Dark - Chapter 4 (V0.3) Chapter 4 is coming along nicely! Josselyn has been working on new environments (sets) needed for this chapter, and we'll share some previews for those below. Josselyn has also written a scene for Alexis, and Mute Hazelnut is working on scenes for Sophie and Del

First, we want to take a moment to celebrate a significant milestone: our studio has reached a remarkable 600,000 downloads across all platforms! Additionally, we want to celebrate Prince of Suburbia specifically for surpassing 500,000 downloads on Steam and Itch combined! A large portion of the dow

Welcome to our biweekly dev log, where we share the latest updates, progress, and insights from our studio. We're excited to provide you with updates on the development of our two games: A Shot in the Dark and Prince of Suburbia. We're thrilled to announce that Chapter 3 (V0.25) of A Shot in the Dar

With Chapter 3 (V0.25) of A Shot in the Dark wrapping up, we're looking ahead to plans for Chapter 4 (V0.3). We'd like to give our players and fans the opportunity to provide suggestions for lewd scenes to be featured in the Chapter 4 update of A Shot in the Dark. Below are the characters that are w