I helped to co-host Bara Jam 2021 this year and we had a nice turnout with 23 submissions, the largest number yet! Check out the other Bara Jam 2021 games on Itch!
My submission this year was Human Cargo: Whodunit?!
Based on the Human Cargo visual novel, Human Cargo: Whodunit?! is a mystery puzzle game in the style of Clue/Cluedo.
Choose a character, gather clues, and solve the murder!
You can play Human Cargo: Whodunit?! on the Web here, or download an offline version for your platform from Itch.io for free.
It is now available on Amazon for purchase once again. It is also available as a Kindle Unlimited selection, allowing you to read it “free” with your subscription.
(NOTE: If you own the original edition, there aren’t any changes in this edition.)
Jamie Anderson knows you need to look before you leap, but he forgets it often enough to land in trouble. When his brother and only remaining family member disappears, he doesn’t think twice about quitting his job as a dental hygienist to travel to the Czech Republic to search for him.
Rescued by the sexy, mysterious Tomas in a small city near the German border, Jamie enlists his help in locating Rudy. Soon Jamie realizes the man knows more than he’s sharing. When Jamie demands Tomas tell him the truth, Tomas reveals he’s a vampire. Horrified the man he’s fantasized about is a monster, Jamie struggles with the fact he still needs Tomas’s help to find Rudy.
Jamie never expects their search will land him in the middle of a vampire turf war.
This update adds a new CG during the Kol route. And with this version, all of the soundtrack music is complete!
What’s New
Kol Initiates a Ritual - final CG artwork
Soundtrack - final music for Border Station Theme
Soundtrack - final music for Phestur’s Theme
Gallery - Fix Interior Diagram CG not unlocking
Misc bug fixes
If you’re interested in testing an iOS release for iPad/iPhone, it’s available to Patreon subscribers. (Note that the iOS release has the Censored option permanently enabled, so the CGs and sprites with nudity are not present in the game and censored images appear in their place.)
The rights for my Dreamspinner novellas “The Ranch Foreman” and “An American Lamb in Europe” have been returned to me. They will be unavailable for a bit while I decide what to do with them….
My Bara Jam 2019 submission Rogue is now available to download!
It’s a short and sweet point-and-click adventure game in the classic LucasArts style.
Help Rollie solve the mystery of the rogue… and maybe catch himself a man in the meantime!
Doc’s story is now complete, and now available to download on Itch.io!
In addition to being able to romance Doc, this update features two new CG events: a second CG for Zed and Yoshi, and a new Nasir and Yoshi CG. (The Nasir/Yoshi CG has two different versions depending on if you choose the “kink” route or not.)
There are two new alternate endings, where Yoshi could meet an untimely demise.
Also available is a new Heat Rating preference. You can set it to Explicit or Censored. Currently, the Censored option will display alternate graphics for CGs that don’t display nudity. Sprites will no longer be naked or erect and will display with their underwear on instead. The next update will also censor some of the more explicit text.
Finally, starting with 0.90, the Mac version is now distributed in a notarized dmg compatible with Mac OS Catalina (10.15).
What’s New
Doc’s route complete!
Zed and Yoshi #2 - final CG artwork
Nasir and Yoshi #1 - final CG artwork plus variant
Pirate Raider Corridor - final background art
Added two alternate endings
Added Heat Rating (Explicit/Censored) to Preferences
Added censored artwork variations for CGs and Sprites
This past week Human Cargo hit a big milestone. The game has been downloaded over 30,000 times now. I’m amazed and humbled by the success, and I thank all of you for giving the visual novel a try.
Human Cargo is set in the same universe as the Galactic Conspiracies books, so the visual novel and the books compliment each other very well. I think fans of one will enjoy the other as well.
To celebrate the occasion, let’s do a raffle!
The grand prize is the trilogy of paperback books for the Galactic Conspiracies series (The Degan Incident, The Cassini Mission, The Degan Paradox), plus a Human Cargo swag pack, which includes a sticker sheet, two coasters, and a pin.
The second place prize will be the ebook version of the Galactic Conspiracies books plus the swag pack. I’ll be giving away two of these.
Also, I have five swag packs I’ll be giving away.
The raffle is through RaffleCopter. It starts on Sept 23 2019 and will run for a week. See the Raffle widget for ways of entering. Good luck and thank you all so much!
This update features a lot of new background artwork and a couple of new cut scenes. We also have a new CG artwork for Zed and Yoshi’s final scene, in addition to a second CG artwork for Razix and Yoshi’s love scene.
I’ve also expanded Kol’s storyline, mostly chapter 6, but also chapter 5 and 10.
What’s New
Expanded Kol’s storyline, particularly in Chapters 5, 6, 10
Mark “Briar” Thorne (@BriarsThorne) created a sticker pack based on Human Cargo’s Barakai freighter crew. He did an awesome job of capturing their personalities in the small images. And they’re super cute to boot!
The latest version of Human Cargo is available to download on
Itch.io.
If you’re interested in helping fund development, consider becoming a patron at Patreon. All contributions will go into developing the visual novel: paying for graphics, music, and other things I am unable to create myself.
