We shared before about a variety of quality of life (QOL) features that we have been working on for many months to add with the Chapter 3 (V0.25) update of A Shot in the Dark.

Now that are wrapping up coding both for the features and the update itself, we wanted to share more about what will be included and how players will be able to access them.

How much will the Walkthrough & Guide bundle cost?

For now, the Interactive Walkthrough Features will be bundled with Hondo's Complete Player's Guide PDF and sold for $5 above the base price of the game (which is also $5).

For the Chapter 3 (V0.25) update:

On Patreon/SubscribeStar, the bundle will be available to active Patrons/Subscribers with a $10+ lifetime pledge minimum (much like we did with the last Prince of Suburbia release).

On Itch.io, the bundle will be a $5 DLC on top of the game price of $5.

Access to the Walkthrough & Guide bundle is a one-time purchase. Once you have purchased the Walkthrough & Guide bundle on a particular platform, you will not have to purchase it again on that platform in the future.

What is included in Hondo's Complete Player's Guide PDF?

Our team member, Hondo, has been working hard on a comprehensive PDF guide for A Shot in the Dark since we released Chapter 1!

Including Chapter 2 now, it has over 50 pages of information about every detail of the game, including the impact of choices and how to access extra content.

Hondo is already working on adding Chapter 3 to the guide, and we will publicly release that update to the guide as soon as it's ready.

Remember: the Walkthrough & Guide bundle is a one-time purchase. So, once you have purchased Hondo's Complete Player's Guide PDF, you will receive updates to the guide as the game progresses.

What's included in the Interactive Walkthrough Features?

CHOICE HIGHLIGHTING

Choice Highlighting highlights the best choice(s) based on stats.

Note: Choice Highlighting may not highlight the "best" choice for Story or Content choices, depending on your goals. In-game Hints and the PDF Guide will help more with that.

LOVE INTEREST PRIORITY LIST

The game will use your Love Interest Priority List to determine which character to show Choice Highlighting for when a choice benefits multiple characters.

GALLERY & IN-GAME HINTS

Mouseover locked gallery items in Memories and Photos to get Gallery Hints.

Mouseover the Hints icon to view In-Game Hints for all Content and Story choices.

CHAPTER ENTRY POINTS

Use Chapter Entry Points to jump into chapters on the best-possible paths for certain characters.

Using a Chapter Entry Point does not force you to stay on any character's path after that point.

We hope you are as excited about all this as we are! We have been using the interactive features while testing this update, and they are a huge help and fun to use.

Also, so far all our prior saves work fine, which was a concern we had with making so many changes to the foundation of the game. We cannot guarantee that the major code changes will not break your saves, but we are cautiously optimistic that players will have minimal issues.

If you have any questions about the Walkthrough & Guide bundle, let us know! Next dev log, we should have a release date for Chapter 3 (V0.25), which includes everything discussed here.

-ViM Studios