Oh, It's Christmas
New Game & Update on Oh, It's Christmas in 2024
Hey everyone! Long time no talk. Hope everyone had an excellent Christmas or a wonderful holiday season. New Year is around the corner and I'd love to catch everyone up on whats happening!
This small lil game, good intentions and all, was pushed aside during the pandemic and the events that occurred in my life since then. Work, Survival, Relationships. It forced a lot my passions to the wayside to get to this very point in my life. Hard work, sacrifices, and some very unexpected losses.
For the past year I moved across the country for a great job at a small startup game development company with my partner and a friend of ours. We have two projects currently in the works, including my personal game apart of the same Shadow Over Isolation universe, now called the Black Vault universe. (Shadow Over Isolation being indefinitely on ice until I can safely and confidently make the project the best it could be).
That said, I'll be moving ownership of this game over to my personal game development account, sbNewsom, as Naughty Shinobi is a defunct skeleton that I'm sad to say goodbye too. So if you want to keep current, definitely follow me there!
This House Is Not A Home
At the end of November 2023, I released the early alpha demo for my debut game. If you enjoyed 'Oh, It's Christmas' and want more retro style hybrid game design, check it out. It's a horror dungeon crawler-like adventure game set in 2004, blending vibe based game design with the likes of Waxworks and Dare To Dream. Also threw in some unique twists I hope will translate really well into the full game (I'll let you experience the surprises yourself).
Oh, It's Christmas in 2024
With all of this said, I still do intend do release version 1.0 in 2024, but a year away. I still want to keep with the holiday spirit and hope to have it released December 1st, 2024. With everything I've learned during the production of the above game's development, I have a lot of new plans for Oh, It's Christmas. Nothing too ambitious, but I want to keep the game updated to fit the ever growing world I'm creating, including updating visuals and dynamic elements.
Let Me Know What you think!
It'll probably take a bit before Itch.io can transfer ownership to my account, but in the meantime, I'd LOVE to hear what you think!
Take care!
-Stuart Bradley Newsom
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I love style of your games and the horror elements. I wonder, though, if you're planning to add a sexual content to them as you used to have in your very first projects. I think that would add some real spice to your games and attract more attention.
I don't plan on creating sexual content for the sake of it (let alone for attention) in my personal work. But I've been twirling the idea with other developers on starting a separate company for such endeavors. Especially since I DO one to make the old prototype a proper game. I can't promise anything of the sort soon though, but I'm glad to hear there is some interest for me to return it.
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