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Orwell @ Steam Visual Novel FestAug 7, 2023 - Community AnnouncementsInvestigators, This is an obligatory announcement: The Orwell software is now available at a generously reduced (-75%) price for the event codenamed Steam Visual Novel Fest. We strongly advise you to get your hands on it immediately if you have not acquired it yet. We would also like to announce that information about a new software has been leaked to The Administration. This not yet released application, codenamed Closer the Distance, has now been cleared for security level A and flagged for immediate preliminary inspection. We urge all agents and investigators to add this software to their wishlist in order to track and closely examine all related activities as well as to uncover possible hidden messages or instructions immediately after its publication. Find the briefing and all the information that is known so far here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1991300/Closer_the_Distance/ As always, we thank you for your attention and remind you of your obligation to report any incidents and inconsistencies to The Administration. Stay alert and remain vigilant! The Orwell AdministrationOrwell is off for LudoNarraConMay 5, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsInvestigators, We once again ask for your attention: The Orwell software (both Keeping an Eye on You and Ignorance is Strength) is available at a steeply reduced price (-75% and -60%) for the event codenamed LudoNarraCon! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/25928706/66b023a7a1e7b026b0ee207796cfe973e83239ea.jpg But this is hardly all. You are hereby strongly advised to check on the highly suspicious software as well as the presentations outlined and displayed at the following page: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/ludonarracon Remain vigilant! The Orwell AdministrationFellow Traveller's Suzerain Out Now!Dec 4, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsOur publisher, Fellow Traveller is an indie games label publishing innovative story-driven games. Their newest game, Suzerain is out today! Suzerain is a text based, political strategy game, where you play as the newly elected President of Sordland, following 20 year dictatorship. It’s 1954 and it’s your job to lead the country into an uncertain future. Navigate your first term through conversations with your cabinet members, colleagues and family. It’s up to you to decide who you will trust, what you will sacrifice and where your priorities lie. Will you reform the constitution, transforming the Republic into a brutal dictatorship or true democracy? Align yourself with the capitalist of communist superpowers? Prepare for potential military threats on the horizon? Address racial minorities, women’s rights, the ongoing recession, immigration and all the other challenges and opportunities presented to a world leader. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/25928706/60448e60be55b595670b2f22fdb3c1dc0fb7adf2.gif If you love narrative games as much as we do, check out Suzerain on Steam!Fellow Traveller's Paradise Killer Launches Today!Sep 4, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsOur publisher, Fellow Traveller is an indie games label publishing innovative story-driven games. Their newest game, Paradise Killer launches today! Paradise Killer is an open world, murder mystery. Welcome to a whodunit tale where you get to decide who did the deed—you just have to PROVE it. On the eve of rebirthing a new Paradise Island, the Council of leaders is murdered and Paradise is killed. This is the crime to end all crimes. You play as Lady Love Dies, an “investigation freak” who is summoned from exile to decide who the murderer is. Search for clues and find the evidence needed to accuse whoever you find guilty. Multiple suspects means multiple possible outcomes based on the evidence you discover and the choices you make. What are the facts? What are the truths? Are they the same? Who killed Paradise? If you love narrative games as much as we do, check out Paradise Killer on Steam! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/25928706/cd1aed5082ecd1c38df7a9739dbba27adfc64cfb.jpgNew languages: Italian, Japanese and IndonesianMay 25, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsInvestigators, With the help of our loyal community of international agents we were finally able to make the Orwell system available in three more languages: From today you will be able to utilize Orwell in Italian, Japanese, as well as Indonesian. You are hereby encouraged to appreciate their effort. As always, you can find detailed update instructions below. Stay vigilant The Orwell administration Patchnotes Version 1.4.7424 Content added community localizations for Italian, Japanese and Indonesian Fixes fixed a bug where the Insider tool wasn't unlocked correctly in Episode 3 on an OS with Turkish language setting LudoNarraCon is live until April 27th! Keep an eye on our demo.Apr 24, 2020 - Community Announcements{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/25928706/6b262e5fe53f765c433892b07ff9309523ec6d64.png LudoNarraCon is here! Explore exhibitor streams, play a demo (...or 20! 😍), learn something new with 14 hours of panels, or snag one of the 50+ games that's on sale. This free digital festival celebrates indie narrative games like our's: with over 40 exhibitors, there's something for everyone. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32967820/0118f09271aa16cc9fcd67fa6f8b2bb7ccf864b5.png Start the next chapter of your next favorite game. There are over 20 demos for you to download and play during LudoNarraCon.,, all from the comfort of your own home. Begin your work to protect The Nation: play our demo today! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32557131/6621d0f1a96a465a385321f46c783ec28958bb4d.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/25928706/2d5221a4bee244ea7a1d1fcd13a28178d39cd419.jpg Keep an eye on this Surveillance Stories bundle featuring four amazing games: Unheard, Do Not Feed the Monkeys, Beholder 2, and Orwell: Keeping An Eye On You. These limited time bundles are only available during LudoNarraCon! Our exhibitors, panelists, and partners have all pitched into the LudoNarraCon sale. Snag one of the fifty games on sale throughout the weekend. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32557131/40d710d63e8ada97c51736d2b65d53c417c41337.pngThe Localizations Update is here!Sep 30, 2019 - Community AnnouncementsInvestigators, We are constantly scouting for new recruits for the Orwell Project. But, as many of you have legtimately voiced, our surveillance effort would never be able not realize its full potential as long as it didn't include more languages. This changes today! The Government of The Nation has spared no expense to present you official localizations of the Orwell software in German French Spanish Russian Chinese as well as an unofficial localization in Portuguese (Brazil), put together by some of our most loyal citizens on translate.orwell-game.com. Also, we would like to say thank you to all our citizens who have pointed out errors minor imperfections in the Public Localization Beta, which is hereby concluded. Note that more languages will be added through future updates. Additionally, the update brings tons improvements our engineers have worked on tirelessly in the recent months, such as a much demanded phone call text speed slider, a brand new hack effect intrusion warning, some reworked documents, and much shorter loading times. Please refer to the full changelog below for a detailled list of improvements and additions. As always, remain vigilant. The Orwell Project Administration Changelog Version 1.3 Content and feature changes added official localizations for German, French, Spanish, Russian, Simplified Chinese (change language from settings menu) added community localization for Portuguese (Brazil) added a slider for text speed in phone calls slightly reworked timing of events such as comments by Symes all documents now dynamically adapt to content completely reworked the layout of some websites completely reworked some pictures slightly changed writing in places Spoiler episodes 2 & 5: completely reworked the hacking/glitch effect on Thought and in the Orwell system Spoiler episodes 5: the ending sequence now features a dark overlay to make it clearer what can be clicked and what cannot Technical improvements greatly reduced loading times for savegames reduced memory footprint improved document loading, now loads contents element by element Bugfixes phone calls will now correctly maintain their vertical scroll position if the call is still running overlays no longer freeze after uploading a Datachunk fixed a sound bug when music was muted during the closing cutscene fixed tons of typos in the English original textThe Public Localization Beta has started!Aug 1, 2019 - Community AnnouncementsInvestigators, We’re stoked to invite you to the Public Beta of the localizations of Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You! These last months we put a ton of work into the project and it has proven to be much more effort than we thought initially thought: To make it happen, we had to rebuild large portions of the game from the ground up. Thank you so much for your patience sending positive feedback our way! :) Since a lot of rework comes with many things that might go wrong, we’d like to put the current game state to a public test, for which we need YOU. As you know, many vigilant eyes will spot much more than only a few! For instructions how to join please read on. Languages included This public beta includes the following languages: German (Deutsch) Spain (Español) French (Français) Russian (Русский) Simplified Chinese (简体中文) Languages from the public translation project at translate.orwell-game.com will be added in later updates (by the way, you can still help bring Orwell to your language there!). https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25928706/4b6e614e1ada3e7e7f48d28b2cdf84c6e2b646c9.gif How to join the Beta Whoa, easy now: If you never played Orwell before, you definitely should wait for the final public release of the localizations for the best experience. The final release shouldn’t be too far off now. Moving forward, you’ll have access to a fully playable IN-DEVELOPMENT BUILD, which means: YOUR EXISTING SAVEGAMES (PROFILES) MAY BECOME CORRUPTED!! Please make backup copies of those (look for them in Documents\My Games\Orwell folder). We do not kid. There are unfinished, not proofread, and missing translations. There may be bugs and technical issues preventing game progress, possibly permanently. Note that we can’t provide support for the Beta or repair broken savegames from it. You can find a list of known issues here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CdVXT1mZ8so2w8NsgmThCgRowO0BgZ5aidAf8BMNGYY/edit?usp=sharing To access the beta build, open up your Steam library and find Orwell. Right click it and select “Properties…”, then “Betas”. Enter the password ‘PublicLocaBeta’ (without ‘’) and confirm by clicking “Check Code”. There should now be a new option in the dropdown menu above named “public_localization_beta”. Select that, then wait for Steam to finish updating Orwell. Done! Fertig! Et voilà ! You now have access to the Beta! Reporting issues It’d be great if you could report issues while you’re at it! Please go to the following Google form to report them: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdZrT1ViBYmS9Ujdty78EJE4VNFSU8sCyvA-spv_N-ubgUSwg/viewform Thanks for helping to make our game better! :) Remain vigilant! Vanessa, Michael and Daniel from Osmotic StudiosThank you for Attending LudoNarraCon!May 15, 2019 - Community AnnouncementsTHANK YOU for coming the to first #LudoNarraCon! 💖😍 https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33025617/7fbe3d779df80b0ac8c24f6293d12e89770318de.png This was a great experience for our team, and we were thrilled to share it with you. We hope you enjoyed it -- we did! And if you didn't get to see any of the panels from the main stage, you can now view them all on YouTube!Panels Revealed for LudoNarraCon (THIS FRIDAY)May 8, 2019 - Community AnnouncementsLudoNarraCon panels are now live on ludonarracon.com https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33025617/80598f1f11794db4834c9e2d1341389c78a9e971.png Topics include: Games as Storytelling 🎮 Patrick Ewing (creative director of Chance Agency) 🎮 Cassandra Khaw (scriptwriter at Ubisoft Montreal) 🎮 Whitney “Strix” Beltran (narrative director at Hidden Path Entertainment) Romance in Games ❤️ Tanya X. Short (Captain of Kitfox Games) ❤️ Kate Gray (narrative designer at KO_OP) ❤️ Nina Freeman (game designer at Fullbright) Writing for Short Games ✏️ Ben Wander (founder of A Wandering Band) ✏️ Bruno Dias (writer and narrative designer) ✏️ Ryan Green (developer, co-founder of Numinous Games) ✏️ Amy Green (writer, co-founder of Numinous Games) Death in Games 💀 Lottie Bevan (co-founder & COO of Weather Factory) 💀 Alexis Kennedy (co-founder of Weather Factory) 💀 Coyan Cardenas (director of Lambic Studios) 💀 Will O'Neill (founder of WZO Games) and more! Tune in when the fun starts, at 10am PDT on Friday May 10!⭐✨ Join us for LudoNarraCon this weekend! ✨⭐May 8, 2019 - Community Announcementshttps://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25928706/a2ef5d4816ac2233baefc17dc05cd36448125a20.jpg We’ll be attending LudoNarraCon this weekend, a digital convention for narrative games hosted right here on Steam from 10 - 13 May. We will be ‘exhibiting’ at the event and streaming right here on the Orwell Steam store page. It’s being put on by indie games label, Fellow Traveller, and we’re really excited to be taking part alongside so many great games like Neo Cab, Cultist Simulator and Sunless Skies! We’d be thrilled if you can join us this weekend, and be sure to check out the rest of the event for more behind-the-scenes content, demos and really cool panels. More info here: LudoNarraCon 6 More Games Announced for LudoNarraCon!May 1, 2019 - Community AnnouncementsA whole bunch more games are exhibiting during LudoNarraCon! Overland https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33025617/1cd021e5a706711e20c92ba42c1057503cc4f3b3.jpg Night Call https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33025617/783c2319d75a09ad61657c028e2b28b9d48a1e28.jpg Not Tonight https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33025617/3c42320aba58b1c53d102b56f0e1865d07abcb66.jpg Hiveswap: Act 1 https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33025617/9ab0c0295ccb6054d6b504e0753a4824b87e8894.jpg Whispers of a Machine https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33025617/e14b6c1f8bad185b7d710080ebe6721a59a2e5db.png and Hypnospace Outlaw https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33025617/a03d47a427624575add48964342108979486ead3.jpg Check out the full, updated list of games you can see behind-the-scenes content for during LNC, on ludonarracon.com 💖16 Games Announced for LudoNarraConApr 16, 2019 - Community AnnouncementsFellow Traveller presents #LudoNarraCon, hosted right here on Steam on May 10-13. Come celebrate narrative video games from around the world with us! We’ve announced 16 of the exhibiting games to be featured: Neo Cab, Boyfriend Dungeon, Mutazione, Heaven’s Vault, The Church in the Darkness, Sunless Skies, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, Beholder, Genesis Noir, and more! Check out the full lineup on ludonarracon.com. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33025617/a2ef5d4816ac2233baefc17dc05cd36448125a20.jpg An initiative of indie label Fellow Traveller, LudoNarraCon is digital convention that aims to create a platform to showcase and celebrate interesting and innovative narrative games, replicating as many of the aspects and benefits of the physical convention experience as possible within a digital format. Learn more at ludonarracon.com!ANNOUNCING ⭐✨LudoNarraCon✨⭐Mar 12, 2019 - Community AnnouncementsWe are beyond thrilled to announce 📢 ⭐✨LudoNarraCon✨⭐ https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33025617/a2ef5d4816ac2233baefc17dc05cd36448125a20.jpg a new online-only convention coming this May, right here on Steam, celebrating 🎮narrative video games🎮 the people who make them, and the folks who love them. Join us for panels and other fun content with your favorite developers and influencers from the industry, as well as downloadable game demos that will be available ONLY during LudoNarraCon. Want to come? IT’S FREE. Visit ludonarracon.com to sign up and let us know if you’ll attend, and to get updates on who’s gonna be there & what games you can play! Orwell is coming to a language near you!Jan 8, 2019 - Community AnnouncementsHello all! We’ve got really cool news for Orwell fans! Ever since Orwell Seasons One and Two released, we’ve constantly been asked whether we’d localize the game in other languages. Osmotic has always been interested in doing this, particularly since the game has such a strong narrative focus. What better way to ensure that players around the world can enjoy the game than to translate it into their language? So what’s been stopping us? Well, Orwell is specifically designed and coded in such a way that we had to build out a unique method of implementing translations, from scratch—which added time and other challenges to this goal. But—here’s the exciting bit! We’re now working through those challenges in a bunch of ways, one of which is hiring a professional localization service. Soon we’ll be able to release Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You to multiple new languages, including German, French, Spanish, Russian, and Simplified Chinese. Wau! C'est génial! Hurra! 厉害! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25928706/4b6e614e1ada3e7e7f48d28b2cdf84c6e2b646c9.gif However, we know this doesn’t cover every language spoken by our fans. So we wanted to offer all of you the opportunity to help us bring the game to YOUR language… and to achieve that, we’ve created a Crowdin project for Orwell, at translate.orwell-game.com. If you’re a fan of the game, and you’d like to participate in translating the game into Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, or other languages, let us know! We’re really thrilled at the opportunity to bring Orwell to new players all over the globe, and we wanted to thank the community for their continued support—especially those who choose to dedicate their time to helping us localize more widely. Since there is a lot of development work to implement localization, right now we are focusing on Season One but, once complete, we will investigate localizing Orwell: Ignorance is Strength. This project is one of our top priorities right now. You can expect to hear more updates on continued development and timing, as soon as possible. Thank you!! Merci! Danke! Спасибо! Join the Crowdin project: translate.orwell-game.com/ We look forward to bringing you more news soon. Keep travelling! The Fellow Traveller team & Osmotic StudiosOrwell is going free for keepsies for another few hoursOct 4, 2018 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Almost as if they want you to install their software as a backdoor to r00t your b0x0r and spill your secrets to The Man, Osmotic Studios are giving their dystopian surveillance ’em up Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You away for free for keepsies right now (again). Nab it on Steam to register it to your account within the next few hours and it’ll be yours forever. For free, absolutely get in and start investigating dissidents, citizen. (more…) It’s time to recruit new investigators! Orwell is FREE for 24 hoursOct 3, 2018 - Community Announcements(Prospective) Investigators, If you or your friends haven’t played Orwell: Keeping and Eye on You, you can get it free on Steam for the next 24 hours! To add the game to your library, click on the Orwell steam page. For this week only, Orwell: Ignorance is Strength, season 2 of the series, is available at 40% off. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25928706/8117495c105b747c29e4c2f6bd1f66265f45dc81.jpg As always, we want to hear your feedback. Please share your thoughts or questions in the steam community forum where we, the dev team, will be there to answer your questions. Team OsmoticOrwell- Now Free on Steam for a Limited TimeOct 3, 2018 - AnnouncementAdd Orwell to your account and play for FREE starting now until October 5th at 10AM Pacific Time! Once you add the game it will remain in your account after the free period, so don't miss out on this opportunity to play this thrilling, detective simulation! Have You Played Orwell?Sep 21, 2018 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunHave You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Orwell is a cautionary tale that invokes the themes of 1984, and certainly sounds like nightmare material for the 21st century. I m pretty sure it resembles something from the mind of Charlie Brooker, creator of Black Mirror. An adventure game set entirely in the “Orwell OS”, worth playing right through to the outcome, whatever that may be. (more…) Surveillance em up Orwell is free for keepsies right nowAug 17, 2018 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Yeah man, I love the 80s. Blasting Sisters Of Mercy out my boombox as I cycle round town on my Raleigh Lizard with Kellogg’s Corn Flakes reflectors on the spokes, doing the electric boogaloo in front of the telescreen like a good citizen, getting wrecked with the lads down the Chestnut Tree Caf , then waking up with my head strapped into a cage of ravenous rats. Hell yeah 1984 forever! If you’re well retro too, you might want to check out dystopian surveillance game Orwell, as being given away free for the next day-and-a-bit. (more…)
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