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February 11, 2025

Bloody Brief #2

Hey y’all, it’s us at Vampire the Taskerade. Most of the team is in the USA where…things are happening, I am sure you are aware of them. Despite the chaos being inflicted upon the general population to various degrees, we are still working on our little game.

What have we been up to? Writing, drawing, programming. You know, game things. In the meantime, here’s another little peek at the main character and protagonist of Vampire the Taskerade, VESPER YOUNG

A slide with a grey gradiant background. The color scheme is grey, red, black and white. There are two blood splatters on the slide. On the right half of the slide are 24 small pixel art chibi illustrations (six across, four down), the walking sprite designs for Vesper. On the right is a text box that reads: Job Title: Project manager. Pronouns: They/them/theirs. Height: 5 foot 6 inches, 1.7 meters. Eye Color: Red. Region/Era of Origin: Caria/Byzantine. Previous Career: Stagehand, Actor. In a small text bubble below this reads Fun Fact: While non-binary, Vesper is considered the first person at the office to sport a "man bun." In the lower right, in a small font reads: Vampire the Taskerade: an office comedy/horror game
They see me project managing, they hating

The pixel art is of course done by Danielle. I think they captured Vesper’s energy in this chibi rendition perfectly. Can’t wait to show this little PM walking disapprovingly around the office.

We’ll be sharing more about the characters in the coming months, with some footage of gameplay hopefully coming soon. How do you like Vesper? What do you want to know about them and the game? Let us know by hitting “reply” to this email or email us at games@backthatelfup.com.

And as a reminder, we are also on Bluesky. We also have a Tumblr now? If you’re on Tumblr, add us. I need to figure out how to use Tumblr again.

Attention/Dinero

This newsletter’s A/D is our very own Andi Santagata’s Slasher U: Chapter 2 (Alpha)! This is dropping on Valentine’s Day, so if you love video games and horny things and monsters, you know what you gotta do. The link is to the game on itch. If you want to see the game on Steam, the link to Act 1 is here. Follow him for an update when Act 2 drops! You can also check out the website if you like. Remember, February 14th! It’s a date! Literally.

Upcoming Events

Steam Store Page: Still TBA
GDC: Tris is gonna be at GDC, March 17th-21st. Maybe they will have VtT related stuff? Hmmm…hit them up and find out. We’ll have a newsletter before GDC so we’ll know exactly what we’ll have to show off by then.

Okay, that’s the news for now. Hope you are not all losing your shit. If you are: understandable!

/|㇏^•ᵥᵥ•^ノ|\ In battiness,
Tris

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