After a few years of trying to produce video games for fun and finances it turns out I am not a business minded person and building games with the end goal of profit removes all the fun out of designing and making games for me. Because of this I will be making my games free to play from now on and will be moving back to doing this for fun and enjoyment. I do apologise to all those who have purchased and supported me in developing my games over the past few years and I hope you will accept my reasoning and a few special in-game items as compensation. Your support has been greatly appreciated! I will be making the change on the 30th June and this change will be made for both my current titles Dark Dealings and Bang Bang Land. The journey is far from over and its about to become enjoyable again! A number of unique in-game items will also be made available for all those who have supported this endeavour over my next few game updates.

• Forced Text encoding for all files, hopefully fixes issues some where having with loading the game.
• Some nice performance improvements
• Few terrain tweaks/clean up

Update News In this update we see a few updates to the character system as we prepare for the introduction of our new Player and NPC models, along with some texture updates that should hopefully resolve some blurry images that keep reappearing every now and again. Apart from the story/quests we are close to having the majority of the systems we had planned for the game implemented and just waiting for the UI rework we will be moving to a 6 Month update cycle(these may come sooner who knows) to allow us to spend more time on our art assets as we work towards polishing off the existing systems and give us more time to develop the final world the players will experience. This is all subject to change and if we see an increase in funding hopefully it will allow us to pick up the pace.

Quick update to fix an error with files not updating correctly.

In this update we see a number of small changes listed below.

• Crashed vehicles can now be recovered by a local mechanic who will take you too he nearest garage for a small fee.
• Story mode has been removed(though can be played with a change to the save file) for the time being while quest components are completed.
• SuperFlowerPot & a Lander Mini game added to the players personal computer.
• ]Minor bug fixes to the UI tearing on some systems in actively updated menus.

We are happy to say that in our first 6 month of early access we have achieved a number of our targets even with the burden of Covid making some aspect very difficult. We have seen the steam workshop come to the game, Player homes, Linux Support, Computers, Crafting, Stock Markets, Mini games and many under the hood improvements with much more to come in the future. With this update we are happy to bring the following new features! Cheat Menu Added a cheat menu to the option screen while game is in early development, if you'd like to see more features leaves us a message on the forum! Pool Mini Game Players can now purchase a pool app for the computer systems in game, expect to see many more features in the future including AI and possibly multiplayer. Performance improvements Path finding time has been improved and work has begun on our new AI system hopefully coming in the next few updates. Get out there and go make a deal!

Linux Support now live. Support for Wav files added to the audio importer. Posters for the "Adult Clubs" can now be customised via the modConfig/Creator menu's with much more to come in the future. Added UI message for vehicle recovery. And Linux support!

In this update we changed the game so it now quits back to the main menu first to allow the player to start a new game without leaving. Added a recovery feature to the vehicles in case the player gets stuck. Added Billboard/Bus stop image Creator that will allow the player to swap out or add to the existing random advertisements that appear round the world. Added Character Audio Creator allowing the player to make there own audio packs for characters. Added a Steam Workshop Uploader for uploading mod packs to share. Removed some audio, tweaked some audio, added some audio. We have also hopefully fixed the camera jitter some users experienced with higher frame rates.

A small update to bring a few new characters to the game along with a few minor UI bug fixes while we work on the games multiplayer components which are nearing completion.

Small update to hopefully address some visual glitches with the new Commodities system along with a number of new settings that can be tweaked in the options screen. We also added some grahps to help keep track of stock pricing.

In this update we see a number of performance improvements, as well as an expansion of the desktop system that came to the game in update v0.54 bringing an easy solution for managing properties and also a small desktop game that will also be expanded on in future.

In this update we bring you the first release of the MicroDot OS and the addition of desktop computers to some of your purchased homes these computers will see regular updates with new applications popping up in future updates! To access the stock markets you will need to gain access to one of the terminals in the world and purchase the app for your cloud account! For now you can buy and sell a variety of commodities via the banking app with many more features planned in the future. You also have access some of the features of the local port via these terminals that are currently undergoing development and also play a role in effecting your stock portfolio! We also finally got the root cause of the annoying hang that would happen when the player first attempted to hack open a vehicle along with some UI interaction improvements and general optimisations.

• Fixed issues with the Car Hack UI rotating at a slight offset.
• Jazzed up the 3rd Person Compass pointer a little.
• Added Static store locations.
• Added basic quest info to inventory screen.
• Started work on new water solution, temporary one currently in place.

In this update we see the introduction of our property controller allowing players to buy, sell and customise a number of properties found throughout the world of Dark Dealings Now your world actions will have an effect on any properties that can be purchased. Expect a lot more features to this system after the release of our first "Banking Update" which will see a number of systems already in place in the world brought together as we get the world ready for the introduction of the Tax Man and our first story line.

• Added 16 New player homes that can be bought and sold with more coming in our next update.
• 3 New Achievements for the player to seek out.
• Added Dev signs to areas of the world that are still under heavy development.
• Players can now use all camera modes inside of properties that they have purchased.
• Player homes now have some interior customisation options and cosmetics so you can make the place a little more like home this will be getting heavily expanded on in the future.
• Property values are affected by your actions in the surrounding area currently this includes assaults, hit and runs, Police activity and of course any substances you may sell can have a positive or negative effect.
• Property Customisations added to save data.
• Fixed issue when punching cars the player would turn into a tank from L4D and send them flying.
• Fixed issue with some npc's not being able to get over some small steps.

In today's news Tegridy Ltd have released a roadmap outlining where the project is currently at and what things you may hope to see in the world in the coming months. Its not a complete picture by far but I am sure we will expand on it as time goes on.

Road Map

Minor update to address some issues with traffic grouping up around the Graveyard and not being able to get up parts of the pavement in the same area that where kindly brought forward through community feedback.

• Fixed Issues with traffic grouping up near the Graveyard
• Fixed player getting stuck on the pavement in the same area when walking off the grass
• Fixed issue with one of the npc's going invisible after saving.
• Fixed issue with textures blurring on roads and other low down objects.

In this update we see a few small changes to the world along with some minor bug fixes listed below Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with water vanishing when reflections were not enabled
• Fixed camera jitter when driving at speed
• Craft stations now show the correct name
• Fixed craft upgrades not showing up in the world until opening the UI

In this update we see a number of minor bug fixes along with some audio improvements massively reducing dsp load. We have also fixed a bug with some quest audio playing at the wrong stage.

As winter sets in it was only right to give players access to nice cosy homes to bunker down in, there are now a number of properties spread throughout the world that you can purchase with your ill gotten gaines in our first housing update with a lot more to come in the future At the moment each home comes complete with a number of storage options, a handy bathroom for all your hygiene needs, a useful crafting station that can be customised, upgraded and used to mix new substances. Since no modern home would be complete without one this update also sees the addition of television sets to the world along with a number of classic cartoons for the players to enjoy on their down time between trades. This update also has a number of bug fixes most notable being the players phone should now save and load contacts correctly and Sandy should no longer nag the player after reloading a save game. We also made a number of memory and load optimisations meaning the game now loads much faster compared to previous builds and now uses almost half the memory,.