Fact Timeline

The Fact Timeline chronicles the history of Blood, both that of Monolith Productions and the fan community built up by the games.

All of the numbered years (eg: 1997 or 2008) are set in the Common Era (CE).

1990s[edit]

1993[edit]

March: Ken Silverman begins work on what becomes the Build engine, adopting sectors in June 1993 after phoning John Carmack.
November: QStudios is founded by former Edmark programmers Nick Newhard and Peter Freese as "Apogee West".
December 10: id Software releases the original Doom shareware, rapidly popularizing the first-person shooter and radically influencing the design of Blood.

1994[edit]

QStudios restarts production of its initial fantasy design to begin work on "Horror 3D"; Kevin Kilstrom is hired in June.
Ken Silverman finishes the first full release of Build for 3D Realms (Apogee); premièred in the game Witchhaven by Captsone Software.
October: Monolith Productions is founded in Kirkland, Washington, United States of America. Among the founders are Brian Goble and Jason Hall.

1995[edit]

Monolith Productions releases the "Monolith CD" for a Finnish demoscene contest.
- Interest from Microsoft's Alex St. John lands them the contract to produce the Windows 95 Game Sampler to demonstrate DirectX.
May 2: Monolith releases the Compound demo for its RAGE (Raycasting Algorithmic Graphical Engine) engine.
August: impressed by his Doom mapping, Scott Miller hires James Wilson III to map for Blood at Q Studios; replacing the previously transferred Richard Gray.

1996[edit]

Eric Kohler joins Monolith to work on what was to become Shogo: Mobile Armour Division.
Craig Hubbard, eventually to become the company's main designer, joins the company in a number of capacities.
Mike Dussault comes on board to work on the Direct Engine.
February 17: the date listed on what was later leaked by a computer repair technician as the "Blood Alpha".
May: Duke Nukem 3D, the first proper Build engine game, is released by 3D Realms, which showcases many styles later apparent in Blood.
June: weekly development updates for Blood appear on the 3D Realms website.
July: QStudios moves offices into those set up by Monolith, beginning the merger of the two companies; Matt Saettler becomes Blood project manager, and Craig Hubbard joins as level designer.
November: negotiations with GT Interactive begin for publishing Blood, with Rick Raymo as producer; relations with 3D Realms break down. Weekly updates move permanently to only the official Blood website in mid-December.

1997[edit]

January 2: the development of Blood officially entered the beta stage.
January 22: Monolith Productions announces its prior acquisition of QStudios and Blood and split with 3D Realms in favour of GT Interactive.
March 4: Cryptic Passage, an authorized third party expansion pack for Blood, is announced by Sunstorm Interactive.
March 7: the Blood shareware version is unleashed on the Blood website.
May 29: the teaser version of Cryptic Passage is released featuring the level "Lost Monastery".
May 31: the retail version of Blood is released in North America, with a European release on June 20.
June: the now completed Blood is shown at E3 1997.
June 30: Cryptic Passage is published by WizardWorks Software.
July 12: the website Ivan's Blood Page was launched; last updated July 21.
July 21: the site Steves Blood Cheats and Secrets is closed.
October 15: Monolith Productions releases its own Plasma Pak expansion and upgrade for Blood.
The "Jesters of Hell", a multiplayer BloodBath clan, was in operation.
December 28: the website The Pit of Blood is last updated.

1998[edit]

News of a sequel to Blood using the in-development LithTech engine is spread by Monolith Productions to the Blood fan community.
Priest by Min-Woo Hyung, a manwha stated to be inspired by Blood, begins serialization in South Korea.
January 22: "Evil Dwells Within", the first map attached to the Crudox Cruo: Fresh BLOOD! add-on project, is finished.
January 29: last update to DMZGAMES BLOOD ZONE.
February 1: Martin Brentnall finishes his three level Journey to Hell fan add-on.
February: the famous Legend of Ravenloft trilogy of custom maps for Blood is begun by Michael Shire.
February 2: The Blood Shack is first launched as a subsidiary of Voodoo Extreme to help promote Blood II.
- An interview with James Wilson III is also posted the same day on the newly launched Blood2.com, the predecessor to Planet Blood.
March: an alpha of a Glide API patch for Blood is released.
April: weekly updates and visions for Blood II begin being posted on the game's new official website until September 12th.
May: LithTech takes on its final name over the "Direct" engine after Monolith splits with Microsoft; "Riot" becomes Shogo; Blood II was exhibited at E3 1998.
May 11: the notoriously difficult Gods, the Epic Trilogy three level fan add-on for Blood was last modified by Joel and Kurt Blackwell.
May 26: last known update about The 13th Realm semi-professional add-on project for Blood.
Summer: range of dates for creation of the Blood Slaughter Files levels.
July 1: the website Bloodlust is launched by Tjaiden; last updated on April 19, 1999.
July 15: One Unit: Whole Blood is released.
August 18: an MD2 model file (Quake II) for Caleb is released by Dennis "His Divine Shadow" Aspö and Mike McMillen.
September 30: Shogo: Mobile Armour Division, the first LithTech engine powered game is released by Monolith.
October 21: final update to Zaphod's Blood Page.
October 31: the Blood II: The Chosen demo is released, with retail releases starting on November 20 after going gold on November 6th.
November 9: last update for the first large fan add-on for Blood, known as Banzai's Add-On or Caleb's Revenge.
November: "Loki" Blackman begins work on a sadly never completed Linux port of LithTech, as well as Shogo and Blood II.

1999[edit]

MAIM and Phalanx Software's Blood 2: Resurrection are under development from The Blood Shack.

January: beta footage for Blood II: The Chosen is released on a supplemental disc with Issue #49 of Next Generation Magazine.

January 8: work on The Nightmare Levels was first announced by The Adrenaline Vault.

January 19: last preserved version of the LithTimes website on the Wayback Machine; with a new post from the previous day suggesting it was still active.

January - April: Tom Bramwell (Mugwum) creates the largely fictional humorous fan made Bloody Interviews.

February 28: the fan add-on Killing Time for Blood is released by Marc "Elmo" Levesque.

April: James Wilson III, designer of Blood II, leaves Monolith.

April 1: The Crypt Fan Fiction Contest is hosted, inspiring Bloodites to create numerous fan fiction pieces. Blood Lands is picked as the winner with Caleb and the Beanstalk as the runner up. The contest also inspires many others to write more pieces of fan fiction up to the present day.
- A similar contest was held for Blood fan art, the winner of which was Evil Eyes Caleb by Magna-Man with 15 total points; it depicts Caleb. The runner up picture was the comic Bad Day by Björn Wehrhan which is a two page comic strip. There where twenty one total pictures submitted by twelve people. Many more wandering pieces of fan art were hosted by Planet Blood after the contest and many more pieces have been made and hosted on other sites since.

April 20: Monolith releases the game source code for Blood II, leading to a proliferation of tweak mods.
- Development begins on the DarkAct mod for Blood II by Andy "Guzz" Guillaume.
- Bernie's Silly Mod, an abstract gameplay mod for Blood II, is later released.

June 2: last known news post from the Lithology website, announcing its then relaunch.

June 20: CuRe released a map called "Burger Queen", the only available portion of a fan add-on project for Blood entitled Tiny Town.

July: producer Matt Saettler departs from Monolith, signalling the end of their publishing efforts.

July 19: first posted correspondence pertaining to the Blood Source Campaign and its mission to get the source code to Blood released.

August 1: The Nightmare Levels expansion pack for Blood II: The Chosen is released by Monolith Productions and GT Interactive.
- This was the last official new Blood release (exempting Fresh Supply in 2019) following the cancellation of Blood II: Revelations.

August 24: Monolith announces the commencement of a publishing deal with Fox Interactive, finalizing their divorce from Blood rights-holder GT Interactive.

August 29: Tren of FX Enhancer retires from Blood II modding.

September 17: the last recorded edit to the Time Episode fan add-on for Blood by Pyro.

October: As a Halloween special, Rust/MightyTwinkie creates the fan comic Tales of Blood: Everyday Life.

November 5: all that was ever released of Mandatory Suicide, a mod for Blood II, was released.

November 23: last edit to Inherit the Earth by Dustin "Bloatoid" Twilley, later creator of Death Wish.

Björn Wehrhan creates the fan comic Caleb versus Lobo.

The Plasma Pak is put on the German index of censored games, making it illegal to advertise or sell to minors. However, unlike most games put on the index, it was not confiscated, meaning it was legal to sell to an adult. However, the lack of advertising prompted its disappearance from shelves.

2000s[edit]

2000[edit]

Most of the fan art The Chosen Wallpapers by Rust are created, with one exception being created in early 2001.
Mike Dussault takes up employment at Valve Corporation.
February 16: the last news post is uploaded to The Blood Shack.
March 18: last news update released from the Gods 2 add-on project for Blood II; sequel to Gods, the Epic Trilogy.
June 22: Ken Silverman releases the source code to the Build engine.
- The ReBUILD project begins in August to better utilize the newly released Build code in Blood related projects.
July 18: Lis published the short story End to Blood.
July 25: Lis published the short story Ophelia.
August 8: the obscure fan fiction piece Blood: Ship of Fools was featured on the Planet Blood main page.
October 30: Winston Branyon publishes part one of his story Dinner with the Preacher as a Halloween treat.
December 31: only release of the Blood II mod The Festival of Blood is put out onto Planet Blood.

2001[edit]

January 2: a Doom engine skin for Caleb was released converted for use in ZDoom or Skulltag.
February 19: the second and final part of the well-regarded story Dinner with the Preacher is released by Winston Branyon.
May 6: a poem and accompanying image is released about QBlood by by Sandbag.
May 9: last accessible news post from Planet Blood available from the Wayback Machine; March 28, 2002 entry has no news section.
June: the fan add-on Hostile Takeover is completed by Dustin "Bloatoid" Twilley.
July 27: Aaron Sanchez released the last update to his story Caleb Vs. Sailor Moon.
- This was also the date of the last update to More Blood in the Arena Eternal by Kain-Xavier.
July 27-December 1: Eric J. Juneau published the bulk of his individual fan fiction pieces on Planet Blood.
September 4: Last edit to the first part of Legends of the Iconoclast by Dwayne Anderson, entitled "The Cabal War".
September 9: Andrew "Slink" Wrobel published his poem and artwork titled "Guy in a Trenchcoat".
November: the Blood Source Campaign officially ends, beginning after a Feburary change in leadership. Blood remains closed source, though Build is released by its author Ken Silverman. Duke Nukem 3D and Shadow Warrior have their code released by 3D Realms in 2003 and 2005. Source code from the Blood Alpha floats around the Internet, later being used as a reference for the BloodGDX port released in 2017.
- More immediately, the fan ran QBlood project was founded in March 2001 to recreate Blood on the more advanced, true 3D, and free software Quake engine (it is now using the DarkPlaces fork). The project was started largely by members of the Blood Source Campaign. Later trademark concerns lead to it being renamed to Transfusion.
Rust creates another fan comic Tales of Blood: The Hunt, which was set to be continued but never was.
Glidos is released to offer a more stable but legally dodgy method for running Blood using the Glide API.

2002[edit]

January 2: [GT]Sylacs released a player model based on Caleb for the game King: Life of Crime; a further pack based on a Quake II model was released in August 2004.
January 31: the DOSBox emulator is first released, allowing the Blood executable to be ran on newer systems.
February 11: a beta of the cancelled BloodLines fan add-on for Blood is released by Necrosoft.
April 12: Dead Reckoning, then the longest piece of Blood-related fan fiction, is completed by Eric J. Juneau (Komkat/The Wallflower).
June 27: last file edit for The Realm of Circe by Dwayne Anderson.
June 30: The Postmortem first comes online.
July 31: Last edit to the second part of Legends of the Iconoclast by Dwayne Anderson, entitled "The Return".
October 19: the domain for DeathMask is first registered by William "Willis" Weilep.
December 1: Aaron Sanchez publishes "Genesis", the only ever released part of his story The Lotus File.
Development ceases on DarkAct mod for Blood II by Andy "Guzz" Guillaume.
Brain Goble and fellow Monolith founders Garrett Price and Bryan Bouwman leave the company to work on smaller-key casual games under the name HipSoft.
- Daniel Bernstein, musician and creator of the Cultist Language, also leaves to make casual games for his new company Sandlot Games.
The Polish Blood Centre is founded; incidentally a separate Polish Shogo Centre was also founded that year.
TOKYOPOP begins to publish the Blood inspired manwha Priest in English.

2003[edit]

Sunstorm Interactive, designer of Cryptic Passage, goes out of business following the release of their Build-related game Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project.
January: Soon after releasing the first version of Transfusion, the project team begins Transfusion II: Caleb's Awakening with the hope of creating a single-player Blood clone on the Quake II engine. The project falters, mostly due to a lack of coders. Instead work begins on adding a single-player mode to the original Transfusion, which likewise has yet to see completion.
July 28: last file edit for Tchernobog in Time by Dwayne Anderson.
November 3: a Wolfenstein 3D modification called Halls of Stonehenge is released, featuring heavy amounts of Blood game assets.

2004[edit]

Ten years since the Build engine was first finished.
Blood 3: Reborn, a project by Arch Game Studios, is shut-down by Monolith Productions.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment acquires Monolith Productions seven months after Jason Hall became the ventures' inaugural senior vice president.
March 23: Last edit to the third part of Legends of the Iconoclast by Dwayne Anderson, entitled "The Trials of Destiny".
March 28: the forum portion of The Postmortem is first launched.
June 4: the first Q3 BloodBath pack is released by Tomasz "Predator" Mizerski.
- Two more were later created with the assistance of FluSyndrome and Joe Volante, with pack three released on November 1.
June 11: the Russian Blood Community first comes online.
August 16: the Transfusion Forums are first launched.
September 24: Frater Diatonica Dracona releases volume one of Blood Chronicles, containing thirty six previously loose Blood maps making up four episodes.
October 31: two fan fiction pieces are written by DustyStyx and RedFanatic for Halloween 2004.
November 8: an additional Halloween fan fiction piece is written by Noy jitat.
December 21: the Wikipedia article for Blood is started by Wikster E.

2005[edit]

April 15: the Blood fan site Crudux Cruo is first announced.
July 14: the Wikipedia article for Blood II: The Chosen is started by Berserker79.
July 15: KanaScot releases the fan fiction Duelling on the Edge on deviantART.
December 23: the fan add-on The Sect War for Blood is released by LifeKILLED.
December 25: the fan add-on The Outpost Mortem for Blood is released by Final22software.
The total conversion Eternal Damnation for Postal 2 is released with at least one weapon (likely the Aerosol Can) stated to be inspired by Blood.
The first files of the Blood Music Project are created by Mark McWane, with many more to come.

2006[edit]

January 24: The first version of the fan made game Blood TC for the Doom engine is released by J. S. Graham (Psyren).
January 4: the first release of The Carnage Continues is put out by Harry.
March 10: the "Caleb Quake III Model" is released by Philip Stavitsky.
March 24: The second and last version of Blood TC is released.
May 25: the Undead Poets Society convenes on The Postmortem forums.
July 24: Requiem posts his Blood Emoticons on The Postmortem forums.
July: The fan made Transfusion Wallpapers are created by Dimebog, Hellen, Slink, and Willis.
November 6: date of actual completion for the Duke versus Caleb stop motion video series.
October 30: The fan made Flash game The Flesh Game is first uploaded to Newgrounds by Tamás Tóth (Squall85).
December 24: Zik announces his mini add-on Kill Bill on the Russian Blood Community forums.
December 27: Zik first announces his add-on Sectant.
Based on Blood TC, ZBlood is released for the Doom derivative ZDoom engine.
Work begins on the sprawling Blood add-on project Alone in the Dark.
Work also begins on the attempted WinBlood source port by Justin "icecoldduke" Marshall; last updated in 2009 as Blood32.

2007[edit]

Blood, Cryptic Passage, and the Plasma Pak turn ten years old.
The latest released volume of the Blood inspired manwha Priest is published by TOKYOPOP.
January 1: an updated version of The Carnage Continues is released.
January 7: Zik announces his mini add-on Virus X.
February 5: what would become Bloody Pulp Fiction is first publicly announced under the working title of "CollaberAddon" by RedFanatic.
May 4: version 1.0.5 (Beta 2) of Transfusion is released; still the latest finished build.
October 5: all three "Stick Figure Animations" featuring Caleb are uploaded to YouTube by Callum "UKcallum" Sanderson.
October: "Till Death Do Us Part", the first and only episode of the Blood fan add-on Rage Against the Machine is released to the public.
October 14: the first comic of the Dr. Caleb series is posted.
October 31: after years of prototyping, work formally begins on Blood II: Resurrection by Kurt Fhur.
November 20: The fan modification Blood 2K5 is released by Joe Volante.

2008[edit]

The Monolith Forums briefly operated as a replacement to older individual forums for the earlier Monolith Productions games.
January 12: the Blood Wiki is founded and launched and initial writing ensues.
February 1: the final released version of ZBlood is made available by Joseph "Doorhenge" Otey.
February: the Blood Music Rearrangement for Orchestra project is completed.
March 21: the fan made Screenshot Wallpapers are released by Mikq2.
March: the Crudux Cruo fan site stops functioning.
March 22 BloodCM is announced on the 3D Realms Forums by Alexander "M210" Makarov under its original "Blood TC" title; work began on January 14th.
Spring: Tome of Blood, the largest collection of Blood fan fiction yet written is completed by Hamish Wilson, with assistance from his brothers. He also releases two pieces of fan art as story illustrations, as well as an ASCII Caleb fan art piece. More Tome of Blood stories are written later.
May 23: Matthew “Daedalus” Kallis essentially kills off Rage Against the Machine after finding a lack of time to continue mapping.
June 23: Matthew “Daedalus” Kallis announces the commencement of work on the eventually cancelled Cradle to Grave total conversion for EDuke32.
July 10: all three parts of Duke versus Caleb are uploaded to YouTube by Darkone1349.
July 24: the Blood Wiki firsts host the new series of Bloodite Interviews by Hamish Wilson, starting with Eric J. Juneau.
August: seeming point of assemblage for the Bludmaps compilation.
August 5: Tamás Tóth announces he has begun work on a new version of The Flesh Game fan game as a platform shooter.
August 13: Corbin begins work on the video game HYPERTENSION for the Doom-based EDGE engine - TDGMods becomes established.
September 16: Eric J. Juneau releases Blood 2: The Unforgiven, by far the longest Blood fan fiction piece ever written.
October 31: Blood II: The Chosen turns ten years old, as around the same time did the original LithTech engine.
November 19: the Blood Wiki begins to host fan art. The Blood Wiki staff begin to upload art from various Blood fan websites.
December: work begins on what eventually becomes French Meat.

2009[edit]

January 6: an alternate ending and deleted scenes video for Duke versus Caleb are uploaded to YouTube.
January 9: "Jarlaxle's Collection" of Blood custom maps is released.
January 12: the Blood Wiki turns one years old.
January 23: a Blood modification for GNOME Robots 2 is released by User:Gideon.
Feburary 1: Jarlaxle released his collection of custom maps for Blood.
February 21: Demogorgon releases A Bit of Fanfic on the Transfusion Forums.
February 24: the first news post is released concerning Blood Source, a mod based on the Source Engine.
April 7: Hamish Wilson reviews, with lengthy analysis, version 1.0.0 of Transfusion.
May 19: Bloody Pulp Fiction is released to the public.
August: Blood II: The Nightmare Levels turns ten years old.
October 22: AbyssCitadel releases the lyrics to a song tribute for Blood under the title of "A Farewell to Arms".
November 8: Free Gamer ran an article on Hypertension and Transfusion.
November 9: Linux Gaming News also ran an article, mentioning the previous two plus ZBlood and The Flesh Game.
November 28: the Polish Blood Centre relaunches as a blog; eventually being brought off-line in 2011.
November: The Postmortem comes down, with the forum being revived later, eventually joined by a new main page.
December 7: RedFanatic releases the first story in his The End Trilogy on the Transfusion Forums.
December 25: Hamish Wilson releases a Christmas-themed short story.

2010s[edit]

2010[edit]

January: Dustin "Bloatoid" Twilley beings work on his Death Wish modification for Blood.
January 6: The second story in RedFanatic's The End Trilogy is released.
January 12: the Blood Wiki turns two years old.
January 18: version 3.4 of Blood Reborn is released by TOT COMICS.
January 24: a video review of Blood is released by retro gaming/hardware YouTube channel Lazy Game Reviews.
May 25: a Blood II: The Chosen plus The Nightmare Levels dedicated server was launched on The Gravel Pit.
April: work was attempted again on Transfusion, the first real efforts since the project went into a slump some years before.
April 22: One Unit: Whole Blood is put up for sale, included with the Windows version of Dosbox, by Good Old Games.
April 29: Blood II: The Chosen alongside The Nightmare Levels are put up for sale as a digital download by Good Old Games.
May 14: the group Blood Thirsters is founded to collect and showcase Blood fan art on deviantART.
October 10: Juan Manuel Arroyo Alcón releases his remix song "Crudux Cruo".
October 31 The Caleb Pumpkin is carved by Malcolm Wilson for Haloween 2010, which is also incidentally the twelfth birthday of Blood II: The Chosen.
November: Joakim "Wrim" Widell announces that he has started work on a Blood based Online RPG called Lokemundux Cruo - The World of Blood after previously showing his experiments on the Transfusion Forums.
December 22: luciusdxl first announces work on BloodXL, a component to run Blood via his XL Engine.
- That same day, a Blood inspired parody of the song "Still Alive" from Portal is released by Panoptic Blur under the title of "Still Undead".

2011[edit]

January 12: the Blood Wiki turns three years old; not commemorated until the 16th.
January 30: a representative from Tropical Wikis gives a move offer to the Blood Wiki staff.
- February: negotiations on various terms and conditions between the Blood Wiki and Tropical Wikis ensues.
  - March 6: the Blood Wiki posts up a proposal and vote for the option of moving from Wiki-Site.
    - March 9: as per William Weilep's suggestion, the option of DeathMask hosting was added and polls extended from March 12.
      - March 17: due to a unanimous vote, the move to DeathMask is agreed.
        March 27: reaching an appropriate stage in the move, Weilep contacts the main staff and for a week corrections and tweaks are made.
        April 3: the move to DeathMask, and the new address "http://blood-wiki.org" is completed.
        April 26: the Piga Software Wiki (now on Miraheze) reopens on Tropical Wikis; offered up instead by the same Blood Wiki staff.
April 18: the first map of It's A War Out There is put out by Joe Anderson, creator of Blood Reborn.
April 27: Dwayne Anderson announces he intends to release a new version of Legends of the Iconoclast in order to celebrate its tenth anniversary.
May 7: having received its own FTP server, the Blood Wiki begins hosting its own files; this also brings Shogo: The Expanded Canon and Dead Reckoning back to being easily accessible.
June 7: Kung Vanargand announces his intentions to make an amateur film based on the Blood universe entitled Blood: Resurrection of Evil.
June 22: The new Blood 2 - Extra Crispy modification for Blood II is released by John "VGames" Carrizales.
July 22: a pack of the fifty best maps on Blood.Freeminded.De tested with a special mapfinder is put out by BME/ILMHB.
September 21: a short film based on Blood is put out by Death Film Productions.
October 8: John "VGames" Carrizales releases a version 2.0 patch for his Blood 2 - Extra Crispy modification.
October 16: a texture mod for Minecraft is released called BloodCraft
October 23: the Blood Hispano website is launched in the Spanish language by Sir Seizhak.
October 30: the second map of It's A War Out There is released.
October 31: Bloatoid releases his Blood modification Death Wish, with a follow up bug fix release being made available the next day.
December 18: Ted D'Arms, the voice of Gideon and Admiral Akkaraju, dies of congestive heart failure in Seattle, Washington, USA at the age of 74.
December 21: Version 3.0 of the Blood 2 - Extra Crispy modification is released.

2012[edit]

January 12: the Blood Wiki turns four years old; commemorated properly on the day this time.
January 16: The fourth instalment of Blood 2 - Extra Crispy is made available to the public.
February 5: Caleb88 begins work on his Blood: The Reckoning project.
February 20: Black sheep releases "Caleb's Awakening", the first part of their Blood: Resurrection of Evil amateur film.
May 27: the last new post concerning Blood Source is released.
February 23: JackieTheFox begins releasing the pages of his Blood Comic.
May 31: the original Blood turns fifteen years old.
April: BME and I Like My Hands Bloody launch BME/ILMHB's Bloody Place.
April 15: the first part of the remake of Legends of the Iconoclast is released by Dwayne Anderson, entitled "Scourge of Humanity".
June 29: release date for Bryan 3 Maps custom maps for Blood.
July 27: what becomes The Bloody Repo is announced, with a public beta arriving on August 8th.
August 1: the first release of Blood: Refilled, a mod for Fallout: New Vegas, is released by Andrej "Andyno" Nagy.
August 2: Monolith Productions founder Jason Hall asks for fan input on the possible idea of a Blood revival with a post on The Postmortem forums.
August 21: version 1.1 of Blood: Refilled is released.
September 28: the initial 29.09.2012 version of BloodCM (then titled Blood TC) is released.
October 12: version 1.2, the first public version, of Caleb Versus Nazis for ZDoom is released.
October 15: version 15.10.2012 of BloodCM is released.
November 17: first release of the Weapons Mod by NoOne, the most advanced game logic mod for Blood.
December: after four years of development, the add-on French Meat is released.

2013[edit]

January 3: a motion comic based on Blood is released by David "Tekedon" Wikström.
January 12: the Blood Wiki turned five years old; eventually commemorated on January 31.
February: Jason Hall announces that he was unable to generate enough interest from Atari in order to have his project go forward.
March 13: YouTube first-person shooter reviewer Gggmanlives released a review of Blood II: The Chosen.
April 8: Aurora of the Russian Blood Community first announces work on Project Bloody Murder.
- A parody of "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" is posted by Szirka under the title of "Blood Drops Keep Falling on My Head".
April 24: BME releases the initial 2013 edition of his scripted Blood map pack.
- On the same day, Gggmanlives released a review of Blood.
May 7: Dustin "Bloatoid" Twilley first announces work on version 1.4 of Death Wish.
June 5: v06.2013 of BloodCM is released; first release titled under new name.
July 4: last update to Gothic 3D Models by Mistlurker.
July 9: artist Skyge releases a song called "Unrequited", inspired by Monolith Production's Blood.
July 12: version 1.2, the latest version, of Blood: Refilled is released.
July 18: Dustin "Bloatoid" Twilley re-issues his fan add-on Hostile Takeover as a version 1.1.
July 29: "Scum of Dallas", the first episode of Caleb Will Have His Revenge on Toronto, is released.
September 3: Delvoler Digital hints at the possibility of going after the rights to Blood if the new Shadow Warrior proves to be successful.
September 22: Kurt Fhur puts his Blood II: Resurrection project on indefinite hiatus.
October 4: Samibutt releases Season of Death, the most audacious in his poorly received collection of maps.
October 31: the fifteenth anniversary of the release of Blood II: The Chosen. Commemorated by a Halloween BloodBath of Transfusion Forum posters.
Fall: Wrim Rimbaug starts releasing fan fiction as part of his Bloodworks.
December 11: Delvoler Digital publicly concludes that the Blood IP is too expensive for them to acquire.

2014[edit]

January: a series of fan artwork was released by BEAST.
January 12: the Blood Wiki turns six years old; commemorated properly on the day once again.
January 22 - 23: BEAST releases several pieces of Blood and Blood II fan artwork.
February 5: Sir Seizhak releases volume two of Blood Chronicles, with scripting by BME.
March 9: the first instalment of the fan fiction Scroll is released, with more to come on the following Sunday of every week.
May 22: work on the BuildSharp project is announced by Cosmo.
April 8: the German independent film FPS - First Person Shooter, which is partly inspired by Blood and stars the voice of Stephan Weyte, has its international premiere at the 10th anniversary of the Fright Nights Film Festival in Vienna, Austria.
June 29: the first news post is released on the new Blood Line website.
July 14: One Unit: Whole Blood, Blood II: The Chosen, and The Nightmare Levels are put up for sale on Valve Software's Steam service.
Fall: Becky "Mistress of Fear" Albright does a Caleb cosplay at Comikaze Expo.
October 30: the second Haloween BloodBath begins.
November 27: a reconstitution of map drafts from the Blood Alpha is released as The Lost Episode by Maz.
November 29: Gggmanlives reviewed Death Wish as part of his Mod Corner series.
December 28: the final instalment of the fan fiction Scroll is released, ending its forty three week long run.

2015[edit]

January: Blood is featured at the AGDQ 2015 Charity Marathon Event being speed-ran by a player called Cubeface.
January 3: BME releases the 2014 edition of his scripted Blood map pack.
January 7: the first news post is released concerning Blood Evolution, the Unreal Engine 4 successor to Blood Source.
January 10: Peter Hopkins, formerly of Tequila Software, releases what he has of the attempted Blood II: Revelations expansion pack.
January 12: the Blood Wiki turns seven years old.
January 23: an unfinished draft of a prequel to the original Blood made in ZDoom is released by Ermi.
February 13: Edmond Dantes posted A Blood Creepypasta.
May 30: a recreation of the original trailer for Blood is uploaded to YouTube by Ceekur
March 2: The fifth instalment of Blood 2 - Extra Crispy is made available to the public.
March 15: the "Horror 3D" project for ZDoom is first announced based on the early drafts of Blood.
May 18: Linux support is added to GOG.com release of One Unit: Whole Blood.
June 23: Hamish Paul Wilson publishes a review of the Big Three Build Engine Games on GOG for GamingOnLinux.
August 10: a visualizer for Blood maps written in WebGL was announced by KLIMaka.
August 28: v08.2015 of BloodCM is released.
December 31: BME releases the 2015 edition of his scripted Blood map pack.

2016[edit]

January 10: an internal student project is detailed which re-imagines Blood onto Unreal Engine 4 focusing on twin-stick dynamite usage.
January 12: the Blood Wiki turns eight years old.
February 10: v02.2016 of BloodCM is released.
March 13: last archived copy of Lokemundux Cruo - The World of Blood by the Wayback Machine.
April 29: Krypto wrote up his list of best user maps for Blood.
June: lead designer for Blood II and Blood level designer James Wilson III leaves Blizzard Entertainment and retires from the games industry to return to his initial love of writing.
June 5: Jason Hall once again asks if there is interest in reviving Blood in some form.
September 16: version 2.0 of the Weapons Mod is released by NoOne; now features 12 replacement weapons for Blood.
October: an initial test version is released for the "Horror 3D" project for ZDoom.
December 12: Dustin "Bloatoid" Twilley released an update on his work on version 1.4 of Death Wish.
December 25: the final v12_2016 release of BloodCM is published.

2017[edit]

January 1: BME releases the 2016 edition of his scripted Blood map pack.
January 6: Gggmanlives reviewed ZBlood (as well as mentioning BloodCM) as part of his Mod Corner series.
January 9: BloodCM is declared complete by its developers; work moves instead to the BloodGDX port.
January 12: the Blood Wiki turns nine years old.
March: the Blood Wiki posts a commemorative banner to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the shareware release of the original Blood on March 7th.
March 12: Caleb88 posts about a new sprite-modelling technique prototype for his personal attempt at a Blood III.
March 20: user JoJo posts word of his Blood 2 Classic total conversion project for either Blood or BloodCM.
April 23: OrdinaryFpsFan789 first posts about his attempted fan remake of the original Blood atop of Unity 3D.
May: the Blood Wiki posts a commemorative banner to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the retail release of the original Blood on May 30th.
May 7: the second part of the remake of Legends of the Iconoclast is released by Dwayne Anderson, entitled "Unfinished Business".
May 19: the first public beta release, v0.75, of BloodGDX is released. Soon followed by point releases.
May 22: OrdinaryFpsFan789 released a demo for his fan remake project.
May 31: the "Horror 3D" mod project for ZDoom is discontinued.
June 18: Dwayne Anderson announces work on the third part of his remake of Legends of the Iconoclast, entitled as "Valiant Destiny" on August 1st.
July 27: YouTuber Civvie 11 starts his Blood II series.
August 14: Cosmo puts his Build Sharp project into "hibernation".
August 25: phredreeke releases his first upscale pack for Blood.
September 6: version 3.0 of the "Weapons Mod" is released by NoOne (aka Dimon), now with 18 new weapons.
October 31: version 1.4 of Death Wish is released by Dustin "Bloatoid" Twilley.
- A Wolfenstein 3D total conversion, Beyond the Grave, is released featuring heavy amounts of Blood assets.
November 5: the new version of Death Wish receives a write up from Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
December 2: first draft release of Toms Map Pack.
December 12: phredreeke releases the final version of his first edition of the Blood upscale pack.
December 31: BME releases the 2017 edition of his scripted Blood map pack.

2018[edit]

January: Blood II: The Chosen is featured at the AGDQ 2018 Charity Marathon Event being speed-ran by a player called Cubeface, who played Blood there in 2015.
January 7: Caleb was announced as playable class in the Doom mod Quake Champions: Doom Edition, inspired by the commercial video game Quake Champions.
January 12: the Blood Wiki turns ten years old. Celebrated with a commemorative video.
January 19: Stephan Weyte is announced to be starring in the crowd-funded online motion comic series ANTI-HERO.
January 20: Matt Mann (aka DaMann), formerly of Necrosoft, announces an upcoming reissue of the classic BloodLines fan add-on on The Postmortem.
January 6: Gggmanlives released an overview of the various attempted source ports and recreations of Blood, including Blood Reborn, ZBlood, BloodCM and most notably BloodGDX.
March 26: the Doom mod Blood: Dead on Arrival is released, combining elements from Blood and Doom 64.
April 19: Austin Adams releases EVICTION: Retail Therapy, an episode fan add-on featuring two levels called "Eviction" and "Retail Therapy".
May 18: GAA1992 announces his Ultra Crispy mod for ZDoom designed to insert Caleb into Doom engine games.
July 12: v0.793 of BloodGDX is released, now featuring multiplayer support.
August 11: a one level demo of the Unity 3D project Blood - Fan Revival is released.
October 29-November 9: Halloween BloodBath 2018 is held, commemorating the game's twentieth anniversary.
October 31: Dustin "Bloatoid" Twilley releases version 1.5 of Death Wish, mostly pertaining to features for Bloodbath and co-operative play.
November 11: YouTuber Civvie 11 starts his Pro Blood series.
December 7: Atari announces that it has granted Night Dive Studios a license to release a remastered version of the original Blood derived from the erstwhile unofficial Blood EX project.
December 10: New Blood Interactive releases the complete version of the retro-styled first-person shooter DUSK, featuring Stephan Weyte as the voice of the game's final boss Nyarlathotep.
December 24: Alexey "Nuke.YKT" Khokholov first properly announces his work on the NBlood source port.
The Bloody Repo website "committed suicide because lack of attention".
The Postmortem sputters in and out of existence.

2019[edit]

January 1: BME releases the 2018 edition of his scripted Blood map pack.
January 12: the Blood Wiki marked its 11th anniversary.
February 3: Ryan "Wangho" Williams announces work on an updated version of Bloody Pulp Fiction.
February 12: the first public version of NBlood is released.
March 10: Matthew "Daedalus" Kallis founds Altar of Stone.
March 29: The Postmortem is brought back online by Jarmo "Daedolon" Kylmäaho.
April 5: Bifurcator releases a demo of his GZDoom mod, Blood: The Curse Hunter, on Patreon.
April 9: phredreeke releases the second edition of his Blood Upscale Pack for BloodGDX and NBlood.
April 24: Alexander "M210" Makarov releases the source code to every branch of BuildGDX, including BloodGDX.
May 9: Night Dive Studios releases its official remaster of Blood under the title Blood: Fresh Supply.
May 22: v0.1 of Re-Blood is released for GZDoom.
August 3: the Blood fan add-on Out for Blood is released, with an update fix released the next day.
September 22: v0.9, the initial public release, of the Blood fan add-on The Way of Ira is released.
September 25: the first open beta is released of the Extra Crispy mod for Fresh Supply.
- The NXBlood port is released.
October 17: version 1.0 is released of the Arcade Mode mod for Fresh Supply.
October 27: a three level sample is released for the Blood fan add-on project Fleshed Out.
October 31: version 1.6 of Death Wish is released; version 1.666 of Bloom is released.
November 23: the initial release of French Meat 2, sequel to the original French Meat (2012).

2020s[edit]

2020[edit]

January 12: the Blood Wiki marked its 12th anniversary.
February 4: first public alpha release for Raze, a Build engine source port mixed with GZDoom backends (forked NBlood).
February 15: a demo is released for the NBlood mod No Hope in Sight.
March 12: an updated release of Eviction is uploaded with a new singe player and Bloodbath map.
April: the DOSBox Staging fork of DOSBox is released, offering a new way to run the original executable.
April 20: initial release of the Blood fan add-on Trauma Therapy.
June 28: Dustin "Bloatoid" Twilley announced a new episode of Death Wish currently expected in 2023.
November 15: initial release of XMAPEDIT, and enhanced version of the original level editor.
The website Blood Line goes offline.

2021[edit]

January 12: the Blood Wiki marked its 13th anniversary.
February 1: release of the 500 Milliliters of /vr/ fan add-on.
April 7: the 1.0 release of the Raze source port is released.
April 21: a beta release for the new BloodLines: Out of the Grave Edition is released.
July 9: the second chapter of The Way of Ira is released with version v.1.1.1.
July 31: part four of Eviction is released featuring the map "Abaddon Station" and new NBlood specific scripting.
August 14: 3D Realms reveals Cultic, a new shooter inspired by Blood, at Realms Deep 2021.
September 19: the NBlood-Amiga port is released.

2022[edit]

January 12: the Blood Wiki marked its 14th anniversary.
January 14: the full version of the Extra Crispy mod for Fresh Supply is released.
June 14: an updated demo of Cultic is released for Steam Next Fest.
October 13: the first chapter of Cultic is released.
October 31: a revamp of Rage Against the Machine is announced under the tile of Fate of the Damned featuring a new second episode entitled "The Shadow Out of Time".
December 1: Scott Miller of Apogee Software begins releasing some never before revealed concept artwork from development of Blood.

2023[edit]

January 3: a slightly updated version of the Blood Alpha from July 22, 1996 is uploaded by "x0r_jmp".
January 12: the Blood Wiki marked its 15th anniversary.
March 22: Night Dive Studios, creator of Fresh Supply, is purchased outright by publisher Atari.
September 30: a new Blood fan add-on is released entitled MARROW by Nickolas "Damien_Azreal" Palsmeier.
- The second chapter of Cultic, entitled Interlude, was also released.
October 12: a point release update is released for MARROW.
October 31: version 1.1 of Fate of the Damned is released, a re-master of Rage Against the Machine with a new second episode "The Shadow Out of Time".

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