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A Shot in the Dark: Alexis Special Render Suggestions

Alexis was the winner of our latest special "fan request" render set for 2024! The results of that poll have been added to the original post: A Shot in the Dark: Special Render Character PollNow we want to hear your suggestions for what that render will be. Let us know your suggestions for t...

A Shot in the Dark: July 20, 2024 Dev Log

Same as last dev log, we've been plugging along on both the Murder Mystery Gameand Chapter 5content. And once again, our progress percentages are still rough estimates, since it's hard to say exactly how much work is left, especially in regards to the MMG. But it's all coming together ev...

A Shot in the Dark: June 28, 2024 Dev Log

A lot of work has been happening on Chapter 5since the last dev log, but unfortunately a lot of it is not really well-captured by the progress percentages. Whereas we have "regular" development cycles basically down to a science now, we are doing many "new" things this update and tha...

A Shot in the Dark: Mai Special Render Suggestions

Mai was the winner of our latest special "fan request" render set for 2024! The results of that poll have been added to the original post: A Shot in the Dark: Special Render Character PollNow we want to hear your suggestions for what that render will be. Let us know your suggestions for them...

A Shot in the Dark: June 7, 2024 Dev Log

Since our last dev log we've been making progress on both the Murder Mystery Gameand the regular Chapter 5content. We sat down and did the more extensive planning of the lewd scenes that we need in order to start on animations. Lewd scenes for both Ashleyand Sarahave been fully written and are n...

A Shot in the Dark: Sophie Special Render Suggestions

Sophie was the winner of our latest special "fan request" render set for 2024! The results of that poll have been added to the original post: A Shot in the Dark: Special Render Character PollNow we want to hear your suggestions for what that render will be. Let us know your suggestions for t...

A Shot in the Dark: May 17, 2024 Dev Log

Quick update on Prince of SuburbiaWe don't currently have enough news about Prince of Suburbiato dedicate a whole dev log to it, but we are still working on finding a new artist and animator for the Pregnancy DLC! We are currently auditioning an artist we really like with a few animators to see ...

A Shot in the Dark: May 3, 2024 Dev Log

Chapter 4 Official ReleaseChapter 4has now officially been released on all platforms, including Steam and Itch! The official release went smoothly and we are now working on getting Chapter 4translated on Crowdin so that we can finally release some translated builds of the game!If you are interested ...

Seedy AF Podcast [Ep23]: What's the future of adult gaming?

In this episode, we both share our answers to some questions about what we predict for the future of adult gaming, both for the industry and for ourselves personally. Questions like: Will adult games ever become mainstream? What is the "next frontier" in adult games? What other types of adul...

Prince of Suburbia: Pregnancy DLC Update

It's been a hot minute since we talked about our future plans for Prince of Suburbia with all of you, hasn't it? We appreciate your patience in waiting to hear about what's next.Let's start off with the unfortunate news first. For those that don't already know, we parted ways wit...

A Shot in the Dark: Chapter 4 Official Release

We're excited to announce that the Chapter 4update of A Shot in the Darkis 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-darkIf you played the Chapter 4 BETAon Patreon or SubscribeStar a...

A Shot in the Dark: Elly Special Render Suggestions

Elly was the winner of our latest special "fan request" render set for 2024! The results of that poll have been added to the original post: A Shot in the Dark: Special Render Character PollNow we want to hear your suggestions for what that render will be. Let us know your suggestions for the...

Seedy AF Podcast [Ep22]: WE ASK OTHERS: How did you get into the adult game industry?

In this episode, we asked others from the adult game industry how they got started! We hear from voice actress HaruLunaand fellow AVN developers DiPeppo (Cyberheart)and Doc62 (City Park Play Date)and respond to their answers.What else do you want us to ask others in the adult game industry about? Ar...

A Shot in the Dark: Dev Log 11-Apr-2024

Chapter 4 Early ReleaseSo 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 tha...

A Shot in the Dark: Chapter 4 BETA Release Info

Chapter 4 BETA ReleaseEarly / 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 & SubscribersFri, Mar 29 - $20 Patrons & SubscribersSun, Mar 31 - $10 Patrons & SubscribersWed, Apr 3 - $5 Patron...

A Shot in the Dark: Dev Log 22-Mar-2024

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/Ea...

A Shot in the Dark: Sara Special Render Suggestions

Sara was the winner of our latest special "fan request" render set for 2024! The results of that poll have been added to the original post: A Shot in the Dark: Special Render Character PollNow we want to hear your suggestions for what that render will be. Let us know your suggestions for the...

A Shot in the Dark: Dev Log 24-Feb-2024

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...

Seedy AF Podcast [Ep21]: How do you make adult game dev your full-time job?

This episode is all about business! We answer the question: "How do you market your games in order to make a living from them?" We've learned a lot about the monetization aspect of this industry after over two years of successfully making adult game development our full-time job. From al...

Prince of Suburbia: Special Community Items

Happy Valentine's Day from ViM Studios!We have some new special treats for our Prince of Suburbia fans!Last year we commissioned artwork for Steam community items (badges, etc) for Prince of Suburbia only to learn that Steam does not approve community items for Free-to-Play games without in-game...

A Shot in the Dark: Special Render Suggestions

Natalie was the winner of our second special "fan request" render set for 2024! The results of that poll have been added to the original post: A Shot in the Dark: Special Render Character PollNow we want to hear your suggestions for what that render will be. Let us know your suggestions for ...

A Shot in the Dark: Dev Log 11-Feb-2024

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 work...

A Shot in the Dark: Special Render Suggestions

Ashley was the winner of our first special "fan request" render for 2024! The results of that poll have been added to the original post: A Shot in the Dark: Special Render Character PollNow we want to hear your suggestions for what that render will be. This year we will continue to take sugg...

A Shot in the Dark: Dev Log 12-Jan-2024

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 al...

ViM Studios: 2023 Year in Review!

A MILLION DOWNLOADSWe are ending 2023 with a bang, surpassing a staggering 1 MILLION DOWNLOADS on Itch and Steam combined between our two games! We couldn't be more excited to ring in the New Year by celebrating with all of the players and fans who helped us reach this incredible milestone.We&#3...

Seedy AF Podcast [Ep20]: How do you make 3d renders and animations?

In this episode we talk about the process of using Daz 3D Studio to make renders and animations for our adult visual novel, A Shot in the Dark. We talk about our hardware, the workflow from beginning to end, and discuss many of the lessons learned after over 2 years now using Daz. We also compare Da...

A Shot in the Dark and Walkthrough & Guide DLC now available on Steam!

We are excited to announce that A Shot in the Dark - Chapter 3 and the Walkthrough & Guide DLC are now available for purchase on Steam!https://store.steampowered.com/app/1853830/A_Shot_in_the_Dark/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2707830/A_Shot_in_the_Dark__Walkthrough__Guide/Steam KeysPatrons & S...

Price changes coming for A Shot in the Dark

A Shot in the Dark - Chapter 3 will be releasing on Steam on December 14! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1853830/A_Shot_in_the_Dark/The USD base price of the game will be $9.99 and the Walkthrough + Guide DLC will be $3.99. (Regional pricing will make these prices different in other countries/cu...

A Shot in the Dark: Dev Log 1-Dec-2023

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...

Seedy AF Podcast [Ep19]: What's your writing process?

Note to our supporters: We will be taking the rest of the week off for American Thanksgiving, so no dev log this Friday but we'll be back with updates next week!It's NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)!To celebrate, we are answering all of your questions about writing: What tools do we ...