We Wanted To Create A Game With A Lot Of Story

Most adult games that get made today are made on a shoestring budget, and it's almost always made by people who have specific kinks. We're no different in that regard, but we did set out wanting to make a game that was completely unique while still holding value to the kinds of folk that enjoy these games. What we like: 

• Harems
• Dominant men 
• Interesting women
• Supernatural themes
• Complex, ritual-driven magic 
• Dark, moody atmosphere
• Violence

The big thing for us was designing a setting that could contextualize the decisions made by our characters so that they followed a (to us) realistic, logical progression. What kind of gal joins a man's harem? What kind of man earns a harem? Why focus on a lot of characters instead of just one?

Vampires Need Lots Of Warm Bodies (and Blood)

We were heavily inspired by the Anne Rice school of vampires, which are sensuous, primordial creatures that use their supernatural undeath to explore the human experience with more freedom and self-reliance than a mortal being. Rather than feeling cursed by their affliction, vampires of Fang Noir revel in it, and have developed their own ways of making it work for them. 

A big part of surviving when you need lots and lots of human blood is having lots and lots of sex. 

Getting a bunch of girls to fall in love with the main character is your main goal, but fortunately, the vampires of Fang Noir are beguiling. Mortals are naturally drawn to them, and their entire way of life is dependent on sex and sexuality to keep their prey close to them. 

New Rampfort, the Second City

Another thing we really like is the relationship between people and big-ass cities. Even so, we didn't want to be beholden to a particular city and have to do a lot of research to get the feel of a place just right. We opted to make our own alter-world, kind of like how Rockstar Games re-imagines New York into Liberty City, or Los Angeles into Los Santos. We re-imagined Chicago and Lake Michigan into New Rampfort and Lake Strange, putting it on a big river feeding into the Great Lakes. "Second City" is to New Rampfort what "The Big Apple" is to New York, only more so; people use the two completely interchangeably. 

Vampire Mafia

For how vampires conduct their affairs, we were mostly inspired by the Blade franchise, particularly the first two films. The idea of a close-knit group of social predators who survive by parasitically attaching themselves to the mundane, everyday world could describe both vampires or La Cosa Nostra, so we started to incorporate themes of kinship and criminal hierarchy into New Rampfort's vampire society. Of  course, they don't refer to themselves as the "mafia", but circumstances have made it to where they behave very similarly. What is getting bit, if not getting made? 

More In-Depth Worldbuilding?

Eventually we'll put out a full account of the structures of magic that make the supernatural underworld of Fang Noir tick, but we're a little early in the game to pelt people with all that. As the story of Fang Noir develops, we will add more worldbuilding logs explaining some concepts in depth, like why blood is the main currency for the whole underworld and how magic actually works in this setting. 

When's The Next Update?

We'll never give a specific date for the next update because game dev (even for indie visual novels!) necessarily involves a lot of schedule slips, and life does happen. We can say with confidence that there will be a minor update with bug fixes and extra additions to existing content within the next few weeks (v0.1.1), and then there will be a larger update opening up into the next major storylines for several characters with a cool new system coming some weeks after that. That will be version 0.1.2. 

Sounds Cool, Love Adult Games With Heavy Worldbuilding! Can I Support This Project?

Our intention is to release Fang Noir for free, allowing people to enjoy it without hiding it behind a paywall. As we build our audience we do want to invite more community feedback for the development process and give the people who like the game a means to support it, and right now we're building around the usual Patreon reward model for patron-exclusive content and early releases. We are more focused currently on finishing out the new content, but if you think this is a promising start and want to see where it goes, we are accepting small contributions of $3 USD at our Patreon.