...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...
2022-08-07 17:07:40 +0000 UTC View Post
...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 rende...
2022-07-31 13:27:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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 sw...
2022-07-24 14:16:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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 environme...
2022-07-17 15:52:46 +0000 UTC View Post
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 r...
2022-07-10 15:29:22 +0000 UTC View Post
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 real...
2022-07-03 15:29:30 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ma...
2022-06-26 16:56:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2022-06-19 15:40:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2022-06-12 16:24:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt 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)...
2022-06-05 14:53:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The Shadow over Blackmore is now available for all patreon supporters, so please enjoy!
Alright, here you go:
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:
Here is version 0.1.1
t does not only fix a lot of typos, but also the infinite insight glitch, th...
2022-05-18 16:18:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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 an...
2022-05-15 14:49:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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 k...
2022-05-08 15:53:51 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2022-05-01 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2022-04-24 12:01:26 +0000 UTC
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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...
2022-04-17 07:41:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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 e...
2022-04-10 15:33:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2022-04-03 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostI 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 kn...
2022-03-27 15:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2022-03-20 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2022-03-13 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2022-02-27 18:12:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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 t...
2022-02-20 18:08:53 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2022-02-13 18:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Not going to lie, i felt like shit the whole week. If I learned something it is that I am not made for boosters :D.
Anyway, since I was lying in bed half of the week, I made good progress. I have made 10 animations by now. And I think that's all there will be in the beginning of the game. I wanted to do even less if you remember, but I don't think you will complain about more :D.
Th...
2022-02-06 12:34:19 +0000 UTC View Post
I will make this quick, I have made very good progress this week. Got a lot of stuff done, so a february release might actually be possible.
But I got my corvid booster on friday. And I am still feeling it. Yesterday I had fever and chills, today I am feeling ok-ish, my whole body just hurts and I am tired.
According to the internet about 10-20% have the same issues when...
2022-01-30 14:21:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Maybe you know this problem and you have had it yourself: When you create something rather complex (like a game), it is a difficult decision how much time you spend on the details.
The map of Femdom City is a good example. In the beginning I tried to make a map of the city myself. I bought some 3d assets of city blocks and some nature assets so that i could mash them together and make my ...
2022-01-23 17:34:36 +0000 UTC View Post
i need 3 more scenes to render before i start working on Renpy and implementing the scenes. The problem is that these 3 scenes are all very big (all scenes in the game are...multiple animations and so on, you will see what I mean :), especially one where I currently don't have all assets for. Buying expensive Daz3D assets all the time is quite pricey, but so far the results have been worth it.<...
2022-01-16 17:05:48 +0000 UTC View Post