The Vampire Diaries

The Vampire Diaries was the second game to be released by HeR Interactive. With the astounding success of McKenzie & Co., HeR Interactive was on their way to proving that girls do enjoy playing video games. The Vampire Diaries was the perfect series to turn into a video game because of the mystery, suspense, and romance. After undergoing 2000 interviews and surveys with girls aged 9-15 for McKenzie & Co., they took what they learned and applied it to this new IP.

Published and Distributed by: American Laser Games
Available on: Windows 95
ESRB: T for Teen
PC Release Date: October 1996
Release MSRP: $59.95 USD
Current MSRP: N/A
Discontinued: N/A
Number of Discs: 3
Game Acronym: VD

Game Description: As Elena, you find yourself in a triangle of friendship, intrigue and suspense! In this suspenseful, interactive adventure, an ancient and sinister evil has turned your once safe and familiar hometown...into an eerie and forbidding place. With the help of your friends, explore the town, unravel puzzles, decipher crucial clues, and collect important articles to solve the shocking mystery and save the quiet community of Fells Church. But be careful who you listen to...Everyone is suspect, even your best friend!
PC System Requirements: Windows 95. Pentium P60 MHz or compatible processor required, P90 or better recommended. 12MB RAM minimum, 16MB RAM or better recommended. 20MB hard disk, 62MB recommended. Mouse 100% Microsoft compatible. Double speed CD-ROM, quad speed or better recommended. Sound Blaster Pro or 100% compatible stereo sound card. PCI video card with 1MB memory, 2MB memory recommended.

Fun Facts:

While this game was being developed, HeR Interactive’s parent company, American Laser Games, was going through bankruptcy which caused 2/3 of the company's staff to be laid off, including half of the development team for The Vampire Diaries. When the game finally released, the 100-person team had decreased to 12 people.
Only 5000 copies of the game were made due to low production funds. Because of this, it makes this game an incredibly rare and valuable game not only among the HeR Interactive community, but the Vampire Diaries community as well. Copies have been listed online for sale from $50.00 to over $7000.00.
All the characters were real actors filmed in front of a green screen, then synced up later with separately recorded audio.
This was the first point-and-click adventure game to be released by HeR Interactive.
The Vampire Diaries required 3 game discs to play.
This game was never based on any of the original published stories. Instead, Sheri Graner Ray decided to write her own story using some of the characters in The Vampire Diaries canon.
Before this game released, HeR attended E3 1996 to preview McKenzie & Co. and The Vampire Diaries. They teamed up with The Red Cross for a blood bank. If you donated blood, you were given a free copy of a book from The Vampire Diaries series.
This game's cover art and promotional posters appear in a few of HeR Interactive's Nancy Drew games. It can be seen in Secrets Can Kill, Stay Tuned for Danger, Warnings at Waverly Academy, and Secrets Can Kill REMASTERED.

Walkthrough

Full walkthrough coming soon!

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Characters

Elena

The heroine of the story, and the player. Elena is between her junior and senior year in high school. Her parents were tragically killed in an auto accident so now she and her sister live in Fells Church with their Aunt Judith.

Stefan

A young man who has just recently arrived in Fells Church. He is spending his summer working as a physician's assistant at the local hospital. He is darkly handsome, quiet and polite.

Bonnie McCullough

Elena's best friend. She is very interested in the supernatural and likes to talk about her grandmother who was a druid. She has taken a summer job with Mr. Gary Richards.

Caroline Forbes

A beautiful, tall red-head with smoky green eyes. She and Elena have been friends since kindergarten, but things seem to have changed while Elena was gone. She is spending her summer working at the new art gallery in town.

Mikhail Romanoff

A recent immigrant from Russia, he arrived a short while ago in Fell's Church and opened an exquisite art gallery. His clear blue eyes and blond hair add to his mystique.

Gary Richards

Mr. Richards is a very wealthy, rather eccentric man who lives outside of town in a very large, very strange house. Some people say it is full of secret passages! He is a self-proclaimed collector of "magic" items.

Mrs. Flowers

Mrs. Flower runs a boarding house on the edge of the cemetery where she is the unofficial caretaker of the cemetery. She is also an herbalist.

Damon Smith

A new student biology teacher, he has just arrived in Fell's Church. He is about 20 and hauntingly handsome.

Mrs. Grimsby

The school librarian. She knows all the information, even some that isn't in the reference books!

Margaret

Elena's little sister. A cute towheaded 4 year old, she is always getting into some kind of mischief.

Aunt Judith

Elena's mother's sister. Elena and Margaret came to live with her after their parents were killed in the car crash.