Well folks, Halloween has come and gone… However, HorrorVale continues. It’s ALWAYS spooky season in HorrorVale. Not that the people of HorrorVale actually celebrate Halloween. I mean, why would they? Everyday is what we would consider Halloween there!

Anyways, it’s now time to address some things. One of the major questions we’ve been asked since the release of the demo, above else is “When is the game coming out?” to answer this, let’s first take a look at where me and Matt are in development.

We want to be as transparent with you as possible, so we won’t attempt to pretend that there’s more to the game done than what’s available in the demo. While there are certainly a couple of assets beyond what’s in the demo, for the most part, the demo is it. We finished that area, and then announced the game.

HorrorVale is, or will be comprised of Four Major Areas. The demo consists of half of Area 1. As you can see, that means the game is still very early in development. We wanted to polish the demo area as much as we possibly could for the public, so no development time was spent elsewhere.

So, where do we go from here? As previously mentioned in past articles, at some point in the future we’re planning on announcing a crowdfunding campaign. Ideally this will be announced before the end of this year. There’s still a lot of planning involved in that, because we want to make it worthwhile for anyone who considers contributing. We’ll have more on that at a later date.

If we were to use industry terms, you could then say the game is in an “Alpha” state, the demo area itself may change dramatically in the future. As such, it’d be impossible, and not to mention a bit irresponsible to announce any definitive date yet. That being said, I would love for the game to be finished and out before the end of 2020. Whether that happens sooner than that, or later really depends on how the funding campaign goes. It should be stated that me and my co-developer Matt are working paycheck to paycheck, just working on this game in our free time out of love. Depending on how successful the funding is, I would like to work on HorrorVale full time. That would speed up the development time immensely. Like I said, we’ll have more details on that later, but I felt it was necessary to kind of explain where we’re at right now in development. Rest assured, this is a passion project between us. No matter what, the game will get made. Whether it gets finished in 2020 or 2030. We’re committed to finishing it.

If you want to support the game NOW before the funding announcement, the best way you can is to just share the game around. Every little bit of attention helps. The world we’ve created means a lot to us, and we want it to succeed and for many people to experience it.

Thanks for all the downloads!

-Lead Designer of HorrorVale, Dustin