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If you became homeless... what would you do?
CHANGE is an emotional homeless survival experience set in a randomly generated city with rogue-like elements. Explore, survive, earn perks, find items and more to develop your character and escape to a new life.
20% of Delve Interactive's profits from this game will be donated to charities focused on the issue of homelessness.

An endless city to explore filled with randomly generated items, events and environments, unique to every playthrough
Develop perks by experimenting with different methods of survival
Beg, busk or work your way to finding a new home
Randomly generated "night events" lets you develop your own abstract story
Find companions, find shelter, find kindness
A complete weather system will force you to adjust your survival strategy in rain and snow
Build your own inventory with food, items for survival and more.
Unlock new items for your next playthrough as you progress
Buy items or steal from shops, spend a night in police stations, parks or shelters, spend time at bars, visit the clinic, study in the library, recycle scrap and more as you discover new areas and buildings
Experience a beautifully composed emotional soundtrack

Manage your hunger, hygiene, happiness, crime levels, street reputation, study levels and other stats as you try to survive and escape the homeless life. But you can only do so much in one day... what will you do?
Will you spend the day begging, depending on the kindness of others?
Will you find shelter in the night?
Perhaps you're moved out of the area by the police for loitering. Unable to find shelter, you end up on the streets at night, and you meet a dog. Is it a stray? Could it be a friend? All your actions affect your happiness in some way, and it's up to you to manage your stats accordingly. You could turn to drink, but risk addiction. You could hope for a fortunate event, or make some progress towards your survival.
But you will have to choose. It could all be over if a bad event occurs in the dangerous night streets. Especially during winter.
Every run is different, and with each run comes more ways to explore CHANGE.

PLANS

Our goal with this project is to raise awareness on the issue of homelessness, as well as raise money for it. We have done a ton of research for this project and while our wish is to portray the reality of homelessness, various aspects of sleeping rough have been abstracted for the sake of gameplay. We hope you'll support us during our early access journey as we quickly approach the full release currently planned in January.
Join us in the community section to discuss the game with the team!

The Final Content Update

Well here we are. It's been several months since our last patch and we've been working really hard on this update. It's easily our biggest content patch ever.

First off, let's get this out of the way, this update does not have the new languages yet. Our translators still need more time to finish all the text in the game. So our new plan is to release the major content update now and then release the languages over the next month or so. The first set of languages will include Chinese, German, Russian and Turkish. The second language update will include Polish, French, Spanish and Japanese!

The reason for the delays is partly because the game has a wordcount of about 40,000, but also there are additional complications for various languages ;such as the text needing to be different depending on the gender of both the speaker and listener in any dialogue, which is difficult in a game with random elements in the story. With this much work needed for the text alone, we need to spread the cost out to stop our bank account hitting 0.

Anyway, here we are, the final major content update. Half a decade has gone by since we started this thing and you've all been so supportive to us over early access. It's been humbling and harrowing, but this project is just about done.

We hope you all enjoy the new content, we'll still be keeping a close eye on things and doing hotfixes where needed. And if you were ever waiting for a time to tell your friends about this game, it'd be amazing if now was that time! ^-^

Without further ado, here are the patch notes!

Changes & new stuff

Several New Items

24 New Perks

New night events

New prison events

Various night events, especially those involving other interactable characters, have been reconfigured to show in an order more suiting to your playstyle, interactions and choices.

Standing police officers added. They are rarer and randomly spawn in the map, standing in place and watching for crime in that spot for the whole day.

Various other minor characters added to the streets

Some updated sfx, music and ambience

Some other nice additions (also hindrances) and little bits you'll have to discover for yourself!

Balancing

Hunger and happiness decays a tiny bit slower

Time moves forward a tiny bit slower

Early game tick rates have been adjusted for better pacing on the difficulty (It's easier in certain ways)

Mid game perks take longer to earn

Pedestrians give slightly more change on average when they do

Slightly reduced price of dog food

Slightly increased begging perk earn rate

Various actions and markers of progress award more happiness

Day labour wages have been nerfed

Slightly reduced chances of sanitaries appearing in slot 2 of the shop when you're not currently on your period

Slightly increased chances of certain bad events happening depending on your actions

It takes 1 day less spending time away from your shelter before you lose residency

Increased number of bus stops

Previous night events take more days on average before showing again

Soda drains less hunger

Increased chance of parked cars spawning

Default time it takes to recover from a bliss addiction increased greatly

Default time it takes to recover from cigarettes increased by 1 day

Time it takes to recover from all addictions is increased if you let it reach more severe levels

Cigarette withdrawal happiness base loss slightly decreased

Bliss withdrawal happiness loss now starts off slightly lower, but increases for each day you go without bliss

Bliss is cheaper

Trash cans are less likely to contain beer

Dog hunger decays slower

When you have a mix of work buffs and warnings during job work, your buffs are more weighted in deciding if you'll get fired after a poor performance (Basically you're less likely to get fired when you get buffs)

Reduced happiness loss from prison time a bit

Bliss now restores less happiness after the first time

Slightly reduced scavenging perk progress gained from searching trash

Rent price reduced to 150, for better end game pacing

Earner perk now only requires that you earn 7 from begging in order to activate it and the happiness boost has been increased

MUSICIAN perk is now less likely to trigger

Trash can food restores slightly less hunger

It's slightly easier to build end game level relationships with other homeless

Base busking cash earn rate decreased

Busking cash earn rate bonus significantly increased during rush hour

Busking perk earn rate very slightly increased

Fresh Underwear no longer affects deodorant and so it doesn't last an extra day

Bug fixes and improvements

Fixed a bug that could cause you to have negative xp values

Fixed some city events being changed or reset when loading back into the game sometimes

Improved scrap pickup, less annoying missclicks because of tiny click boxes!

Maggie, Joe and Bill now only show in certain night events after you've actually walked past them or interacted at least once

Improved building menu transitions, so there isn't a tiny delay before they're interactable

Fixed LOOKOUT perk not triggering while breaking into cars or starting trash fires

Drastically shortened phone ringing time

Changed Pluviorro perk to Rain wanderer

Fixed sanitiser not always working with high hygiene decreases

Fixed a bug that could cause vending machines to not spawn unless certain items were unlocked sometimes

Fixed not being able to study the next day after spending time in jail when you studied the previous day

Pedestrians now correctly move away from you after noticing you committing a crime

Fixed some occasions where speech bubbles behaved incorrectly

Fixed a bug that caused some scrap to be unclickable

Fixed some issues with not being warmed in the morning depending on where you spent the night

Fixed not being able to warm from trash fires if you searched the trash can before starting the fire

Fixed a few cases where a softlock could occur when exploring the park

Fixed Bill always being available in the park even when he's roaming the streets

Fixed a bug that caused you to not be taken to the park after selecting the option when talking to a character if you called them that day

Updated some texts including various descriptions

Fixed happiness icon showing when nothing happens in a park event

Fixed deodorant not always working when combined with certain items/perks

Fixed some layering graphical issues with other characters

Fixed prison event transition during winter

Fixed the open all day library event not working under certain conditions

Fixed duplicate icons in night event rewards

Fixed softlocks and other bugs after being arrested

Fixed happiness increasing incorrectly when highly addicted to cigarettes

Made the gender button in the character selection menu a little more visible

[ 2021-03-01 20:25:00 CET ] [Original Post]