History

There was a time when the image of the vampire was seductive in its own right, legends were spoken of them, forests were cut down to write many books about them and more than a million miles of film reel was used to produce movies about them.  So let me ask you how did we go from...

"Sometimes after an hour of apathy, my strange and beautiful companion would take my hand and hold it with a fond pressure, renewed again and again; blushing softly, gazing in my face with languid and burning eyes, and breathing so fast that her dress rose and fell with the tumultuous respiration. It was like the ardor of a lover; it embarrassed me; it was hateful and yet overpowering, and with gloating eyes, she drew me to her, and her hot lips traveled along my cheek in kisses, and she would whisper, almost in sobs, "You are mine, you shall be mine, and you and I are one forever." (Carmilla, Chapter 4, 1872)."

To this actual review for a game in Second Life unaffiliated to Vampire's Kiss?

"When have you heard of such a thing! I have never known ANY Vampire ask to bite their victim, and it will drain your (L) money ............ DELETE!"

Vampires in the Second Life community have been mislaid by the creators of other systems to forego the mystery and the ambiance of that which comes with the telling of a truly Gothic story in the form of roleplay.

It was with this in mind that BlackRaven Direwytch (LesleyAsh) approached Audie Revnik with a proposal to create the code for a system that would encourage a better form of etiquette for those who wished to roleplay as vampires.

Vampire's Kiss was born and thus a new way of hunting began, no vampire in the Vampire's Kiss system would be able to hunt for unwilling victims, for with Vampire's Kiss, a victim needs to be wearing a HUD in order to be fed from.

3.0.2/3.0.3

 - Fixed an issue preventing the option to turn a living creature vampiric from appearing.

3.0.1

 - Fixed an issue regarding mana and energy regen rates with a brooch applied.

3.0.0

 - Added support for additional races.

 - Added support for a spell system as well as a mana meter.

 - Added an energy meter that will be used in an upcoming release.

 - Refactored the save/load system, server interface, and made other backend changes to make the system more robust and expandable.

 - HUD visual redesign, including the ability to dynamically reskin itself depending on your race.

 - Rescaled human blood level to 5.6L, while vampires are still at 6L, to essentially grant vampires greater strength.

 - Various other balance tweaks. These will be ongoing until the different races feel right.

2.3.4

 - Fixed a memory leak that could occur if the Vampire's Kiss server was down for a length of time and users frequently attempted to reload their HUD.

2.3.3

 - Fixed an issue where HUDs would respond to a scan before being initialized, resulting in strange results under rare circumstances.

2.3.2

-simplified time given for how long an activated brooch lasts

2.3.1

- Fixed a rare issue that could crash the HUD under certain circumstances.

2.3.0

- Added support for undeath-extending brooches.

- Added features where clicking the HUD anywhere besides one of the buttons will show you the exact level of blood (health) remaining, as well as the remaining amount of time granted by brooches.

- Adjusted the rates at which blood is lost or restored to slow the pace of the system. Humans now restore blood slightly faster than vampires passively lose it.

- Adjusted cask sizes to be more in line with the system's maximum blood volume, as well as adjusting for the new drain rates.

- Fixed various issues with calculating blood drain and restoration while logged out or not wearing the HUD.

2.2.0

- Added the ability to create and manage clans, including clan moderators.

- Complete HUD visual redesign.

- Remeshed and retextured blood casks, and gave them a meter to show visually the level of blood contained in them.

2.1.0

- Fixes for various issues.

2.0.0

- Transitioned system to use a server outside of Second Life to more reliably store user data.

1.0.0

- Initial release: decentralized HUD, blood casks, and revitalizing coffins.