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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 perk update

It's another big patch, this time bringing in yet more story and 21 new perks! As well as a load of polishing work and fixes. We're almost finished...

We're releasing on May 1st which means the ending is going to be finally added to the game, along with yet more story and polishing work over the next few weeks. After release, we're gonna be working on ports to other platforms and several language translations... Oh and we're also gonna reveal the total raised for charity so far!

Everyone in this community has been so good to us, with all the feedback, bug reports and kind words we've been able to make something really special here. To everyone for all their support, from the kickstarter backers to our players, you have our heartfelt thanks.

It's been an emotional 5 years of hard work, filled with many heartwarming moments such as when hearing of people inspired to help the homeless because of CHANGE, but now this journey is finally coming to an end...

I'd say more, but I need to get back to work on the next update! We've got at least a few more to go before the big date to make this perfect.

Onto the patch notes! ^-^

Changes and new stuff

21 new perks added! A few of them can only be gained via certain events.

New night events!

Balancing

Slightly decreased rate of survival perks coming in

Interactions with police give slightly less progress towards crime perks

Cautious Worker perk is slightly less effective

Beer & Spirits restore a little less happiness

It's harder to get high study amounts in the library, but you get low amounts less often

Juice is cheaper

Soda is cheaper

Bug Fixes & Improvements

Fixed being able to use the textbook late in the today when you shouldn't be able to

Fixed floating text not showing cash earned after a choice when begging

Fixed Precise picker perk not always working

Fixed Bill being able to teach forever... that was game breaking.

Fixed police station not letting you turn yourself in if you have exactly 50 crime level

Edited Police station menu text

Fixed homeless saying they'd take to the park and not doing it

Fixed homeless always saying yes to taking you to the park, even when the day is about to end

Improved speech bubble positioning at different scales

Fixed pedestrians sometimes walking in front of certain objects when they shouldn't

Fixed Smart Shirt being titled "Shirt" in certain menus

Made some edits to the tutorial

Fixed a bug where the apply button didn't show in the job office

Fixed another bug that caused the next day to start at 9pm...

Fixed other homeless disappearing after talking to them

Fixed other homeless sometimes having strange behaviour after talking to them

Fixed being able to move around while talking to a character

Fixed BEGIN AGAIN showing as start button text for new players

Fixed the same starting random seed often being the same for new players

Fixed the homeless reputation tooltip showing if you hovered over a particular section of the screen after visiting the park areas

Fixed one of the building layouts having a disappearing window

Updated enter building icon so it doesn't show over certain texts

Adjusted click boxes for buildings so it's harder to accidentally click on them when begging or picking up scrap
Fixed many of the job events not actually ever showing

[ 2020-04-09 21:52:15 CET ] [Original Post]