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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!

Day 389 Patch!

We're finally back with another big patch and a lot of changes!

First off, the city events system has had a bit of a rework to try and drive players to use new strategies as the game progresses. I'm still working on many more event based things that will add even more variety to runs though!

Another big change is making the Library card free and having it instead require residency. This is more in line with how things really are and we feel that the game now has enough content to make this feel balanced. However, residency also now takes longer to achieve.

Other than that, this build is mainly a load of balancing changes, polishing and bug fixing. Oh, and Mac Catalina support!

We'd also like to announce that gender options are finally coming to CHANGE in a future update. It's something that's been requested by many of you for a long time and we finally have enough of a budget to handle it. We'll need a couple months to finish the new animations and features related to being a homeless woman, but be prepared for a darker and more punishing experience if you select the option. If we're going to cover this area, we're not going to pull any punches...

We've got another big patch with more features (including a new building!) landing next week, stay tuned and keep the feedback coming guys! You're awesome. :D

Changes and new stuff

Detailed item descriptions for all items added finally! (Replaces "click to eat" text in inventory) and a load of other UI improvements.

Pedestrians now dress up warmer for winter!

City events have been reworked! Now events are more unique and may force you to change strategy a little more directly.

The library card is now free. However, it requires residency.

Balancing

Your job application success rate is now significantly affected by your current crime level

Rent price increased to 200

It now takes longer to get residency

Base hunger gained from using shelters increased

Magazines can now be rarely found in trash cans

City events start occurring earlier in a run

Time warmed after warming reduced

Fixed text relating to daily issue displaying the wrong numbers if you have certain perks, under certain conditions

Hunger drains slightly faster when working or studying

You get better deals when trading in radios

Some jobs have earlier start times

Some shop prices have been updated

Smoking now restores slightly less happiness, but also has less severe addiction effects

Bug Fixes & Improvements

Fixed perks being incorrectly awarded upon loading into the game

Added 64 bit Catalina support for Mac *Shakes fist at Apple*

Updated/Improved various texts

Improved weather visuals

Bird sfx are a bit quieter

Fixed barman not saying anything

Fixed some issues with the inventory menu not scrolling

Fixed the dog reacting to crimes committed

Fixed a crash that could occur on startup

Fixed resolution being reset hen entering the main menu

Fixed cold breath particles not working

Fixed the game sometimes getting "Stuck" after responding to a pedestrian with a choice

Dog's walk speed improved to be closer to players when you have a lot of things affecting walk speed

Fixed dog sometimes walking in place

Fixed save/load data for certain items being bugged under certain conditions

Fixed a bug that caused street vendors to continuously give out speech bubbles

Fixed cash earned text being displayed incorrectly in subway

Fixed street vendors thanking you when you haven't bought anything

Fixed day labour truck from remaining in city after going just off screen

Fixed the slight lag/jittering when speech bubbles appear

Fixed addict character not being able to work... sorry about that!

When selecting a new perk, the perk category is now also displayed

Fixed police sometimes scolding you for the wrong action (could tell you off for starting fires after begging)

Fixed lag that could occur when opening the menu with lots of items

Fixed floating stat texts not always taking into account various modifiers such as some perks.

Improved timing/animation of floating stat texts

Saturation levels are now more directly tied to happiness

When you find items in trash, the correct icon is now displayed in the popup

Fixed begging sign being a possible trade item

Fixed Clothing vendors that sell beer from appearing

Fixed mobile map scrolling issues

Fixed pedestrians stopping but not replying sometimes when drunk and begging

Fixed an exploit where opening and closing the Camp area in the park would allow you to keep stealing items forever

Fixed city event menu not always being scrollable

Fixed other homeless floating off the ground

Street reputation bar in park areas now correctly updates after performing an action

The library now becomes more visually "closed" when it's closed

Fixed a bug that allowed you to move around in the park while inside a park area

Improved speech bubble positioning in park

Fixed mobile map or residency card from saying building was 28 or so units away when it's already on screen, now text appears telling you you're already there

Rats can now also be seen running around early in the morning

Fixed cash earned text in death screen not having

Fixed a crash that could occur if you turn the dog away or say no to drugs

Fixed clinics sometimes changing their item the first time you exit and re-enter one

Fixed foodstamp icons displaying incorrectly initially in shop

[ 2019-10-24 16:00:43 CET ] [Original Post]