Hiiii everyone,
This one is a bit different from the usual posts. A little more personal.
For context: I still work a 40-hour day job alongside this "hobby". The game has grown into a pretty ambitious project, which makes juggling the two demanding. But honestly, building this game has always been so tied up with fun and passion that it has never really felt like work. After almost every workday I sit down and keep building.
Thanks to all of your support, thanks to this Game I am now in the very lucky position to drop down to part-time starting August 1st. I will be working 4 days a week instead of 5, which gives me significantly more time for the game. <3
So I just wanted to say a real thank you to everyone who supports this project. Whether that is here on Patreon financially, with bug reports on Discord / under your in-game name / via feedback (positive or negative, both matter), all of it counts.
I would probably still be making this game if there were only 5 players (as it started as a personal Game for me), but the itch.io free page alone gets over 4,000 hits a day, and that does not even count downloaded versions, Patreon, or pirated copies. So yeah, thank you again.
And of course I am not going to leave you without any game news...
New Guide / Atlas added:https://pinkedandowned.com/atlas/
I've taken my internal design docs and turned them into a browsable wiki to make the game more transparent. The next patch will link to it from inside the game.
What's there:
- One page per character, location, and major event
- Stats / Endings / Money / Outfits / Hypno / Streaming / Patreon-vs-Free guides
- Full filterable items catalog (105 items, marked when they unlock story content)
- A comment thread at the bottom of every page
Comments are anonymous.
If you're a Patreon supporter you can post comments, but they show under a stable anonymous handle (e.g. Quiet Owl 423*), never your real Patreon name.
Heads up:
Not every detail is perfectly current. Some content has shifted between versions and I'm still ironing out the Atlas to match. I will keep it updated. Most common Discord/forum questions should already be answered in the guides.
If something's wrong or missing, drop a comment on the page or ping me here / discord.