Blood Pressure: The Death and Rebirth of Vampire: Bloodlines
In 2004, Activision released a buggy, broken mess of an RPG. It sold very poorly. That should have been the end of it.
It wasn't.
Sources
- Gamers at Work by Morgan Ramsay — Interview with Tim Cain
- Unseen64: Video Games You Will Never Play — Interview with Brian Mitsoda
- PC Gamer (UK) issue 144 (January 2005) — Review by Kieron Gillen
- RPG Codex — Interview with Tim Cain
- The Escapist — The Rise and Fall of Troika
- IGN — Bloodlines press release
- RPG Vault — Interview with Leonard Boyarsky
- Dev Game Club — Interview with Brian Mitsoda
- Tea Leaves — Interview with David Mullich
- HomeTeam GameDev podcast — Interview with David Mullich
- Eurogamer — Reanimated: The story of Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines
- PCGamesN — Interview with Leonard Boyarsky
- Rock Paper Shotgun — Forever Young, The Tragedy of Vampire: Bloodlines
Music
- Scott Buckley: Vengeance - released under CC-BY 4.0. https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/
- Orsartag: Conspiracy
- Hitrison: Hollywood Main Theme
- Hitrison: World Spirit Map
- Orsartag: Vampire Lounge
- Darling Violetta: A Smaller God (© 2003 Opaline Records, used under license)
- Orsartag: Disco of Suspense
Thanks
Thanks to Tiffany Chu for answering my questions, to Pam for her excellent voiceovers, and to Orsartag, Hitrison and Cami Elen for music permissions.
