TYGODNIOWO

ULOTKA DOŁĄCZONA DO OPAKOWANIA · INFORMACJA DLA PACJENTA

four trans girls in a flat on floor 9 of a council tower. a law has passed, the pharmacies stopped dispensing the week it did, and a state unit called the RECOVERY is working through the block from the ground up, one floor every four days.

on the kitchen table: a crate of 90 blue pills, the only color on the screen, and a leaflet that came up the bin chute in a soaked coat. IVY has copied it out and translated all of it except one word in the dose line. three letters are legible. she asks you what it means.

you type it. that's the rule now.

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1. WHAT IT IS

every morning at the fridge you hand out the blue: 0, 1 or 2 each. then you've got 12 hours to go out into the building, find tins and bandages and the people who are still here, and fight the ones who aren't on your side, one limb at a time. every body has six. aim with a sweeping reticle; whatever it's on when you press Z is what you hit.

the word you typed sets a number you never see. so be careful who you're generous with.

2. HOW TO PLAY

arrows or WASD to move. Z or ENTER to use whatever you're facing. X to back out. C for the party sheet. ESC for the menu, which incl. HOW TO PLAY and CONTROLS in it.

the only typing is the word on day 1, or if you need to change it, and TALK in a fight. click the game once before it starts so your browser lets it make sound.

3. POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS

transphobic state violence, forced medical treatment, death of party members, gore, body horror, body dysphoria, drowning. the game never shows a deadname; it shows a black bar.

4. ACCESSIBILITY

settings on the title screen and in the ESC menu: separate volumes for music, sound and the noise, a switch for the screen effects (grain, flicker, shaking, wipes), Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono as a font, and separate switches for battle music, interface sounds, fight sounds, the harsh noise inside the soundtrack, and the noise wall that follows the RECOVERY up the stairs.

5. CONTENTS OF THE PACK

• Departure Mono, by Helena Zhang. SIL Open Font License 1.1
• Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono, by the Braille Institute of America, SIL Open Font License 1.1
• Modern Interiors by LimeZu
• Horror Textures 128x128 by Screaming Brain Studios. CC0
• recordings from Machines and Devices, Objects Vol II/Elements and Environment, heavily processed
• Godot Engine 4.7

the music and every sound were made for the game out of pure synthesis and harshnoise tactics, plus a handful of field recordings.

no AI used, ever

made for NOISE JAM 4. one untranslated word you supply yourself sets a hidden dosage rule. the whole screen is thrown to 1-bit black and white except the blue.