Thought collecting trash could never be fun? Time to find out otherwise! Get Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor at the 71% discount : Hurry! The deal ends on March 16th!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/436500/Diaries_of_a_Spaceport_Janitor/
Hurry! The deal ends on March 16th!
Way back in March, we said there would be no further support for Diaries. As it turns out, we've been able to cobble together a bit of an update. The newest patch provides general performance improvements and should fix a number of small glitches, some of which have been brought
Way back in March, we said there would be no further support for Diaries. As it turns out, we've been able to cobble together a bit of an update.
The newest patch provides general performance improvements and should fix a number of small glitches, some of which have been brought to our attention by people like you over on the game's Discussions forum. Thank you.
The update will be available in a beta branch at first so that we can be sure it doesn't create any new, grotesque issues and is generally stable. There will be an official feedback thread here where you can report any problems with the beta update. We rely on you testing to make sure the game is healthy!
If you're itching for something new and unnecessarily fast to do around the spaceport, look to TheOmnipresentOne on Youtube for inspiration. Her recent speedrun of Diaries clocks in at an impressive 0:59:14 - just under an hour!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc4jvjiBrMA&
If you watch the video at work your boss will yell at you twice, because it has both video games and swears in it, and you should be stapling things together, staple drone.
Thanks as always for your support. We're a small team and the time that all of you spend in this community means a lot to us :)
Way back in March, we said there would be no further support for Diaries. As it turns out, we've been able to cobble together a bit of an update. The newest patch provides general performance improvements and should fix a number of small glitches, some of which have been brought
Way back in March, we said there would be no further support for Diaries. As it turns out, we've been able to cobble together a bit of an update.
The newest patch provides general performance improvements and should fix a number of small glitches, some of which have been brought to our attention by people like you over on the game's Discussions forum. Thank you.
The update will be available in a beta branch at first so that we can be sure it doesn't create any new, grotesque issues and is generally stable. There will be an official feedback thread here where you can report any problems with the beta update. We rely on you testing to make sure the game is healthy!
If you're itching for something new and unnecessarily fast to do around the spaceport, look to TheOmnipresentOne on Youtube for inspiration. Her recent speedrun of Diaries clocks in at an impressive 0:59:14 - just under an hour!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc4jvjiBrMA&
If you watch the video at work your boss will yell at you twice, because it has both video games and swears in it, and you should be stapling things together, staple drone.
Thanks as always for your support. We're a small team and the time that all of you spend in this community means a lot to us :)
Helo! We just put out a small patch to the game that should fix a few of the long-standing issues. Here's a list of changes: -Camera inversion now works properly -Fixed broken achievements: explore every area, incinerate 100 items, collect all trading cards, windowshopper (it's n
Helo! We just put out a small patch to the game that should fix a few of the long-standing issues. Here's a list of changes:
-Camera inversion now works properly
-Fixed broken achievements: explore every area, incinerate 100 items, collect all trading cards, windowshopper (it's now timer-based)
-Added more possible genders
We have a lot of other cool projects and are not planning any more updates to the game at this time, though we will still keep our eyes peeled here for bug reports and issues that we can fix. Thanks for supporting us!
Helo! We just put out a small patch to the game that should fix a few of the long-standing issues. Here's a list of changes: -Camera inversion now works properly -Fixed broken achievements: explore every area, incinerate 100 items, collect all trading cards, windowshopper (it's n
Helo! We just put out a small patch to the game that should fix a few of the long-standing issues. Here's a list of changes:
-Camera inversion now works properly
-Fixed broken achievements: explore every area, incinerate 100 items, collect all trading cards, windowshopper (it's now timer-based)
-Added more possible genders
We have a lot of other cool projects and are not planning any more updates to the game at this time, though we will still keep our eyes peeled here for bug reports and issues that we can fix. Thanks for supporting us!
Hi! I wanted to put out an update to share a bit of what’s been going on with Diaries in the months since launch. But first, I want to apologize for the low amount of communication during that time. Sundae Month is a small company and there’s only one member of the Diaries team s
Hi!
I wanted to put out an update to share a bit of what’s been going on with Diaries in the months since launch. But first, I want to apologize for the low amount of communication during that time.
Sundae Month is a small company and there’s only one member of the Diaries team still working on the project (that’s me, Izzie). Our first steam release has been exciting, inspiring, and also overwhelming. I’m sorry that the state of the game or our plans for it haven’t always been clear. I’m a part-time developer working full-time at a grocery store, and I’m still getting used to striking that balance.
I also want to announce that we are doing some final updates on the game! We’ll be patching a few known issues and rolling out a special content update, so stay tuned for patch notes in further announcements.
Over the past six months since the game launched, Sundae Month has been super busy. Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor won Best 3D Art at Montreal Independent Games Festival in September. In October we won Best Story/World Design at Indiecade in Los Angeles, and last week we were honored to be nominees for Best Student Game and the Nuovo award at the Independent Games Festival at GDC, as well as an honorable mention for Best Sound Design. It’s been incredible and overwhelming to see people’s response to the game and have the opportunity to travel far from our wintery home in Vermont.
We have been hard at work on other projects, including Dad Quest (out now on early access) and another game that we’re getting ready to announce. Considering many of us are students too, it’s been a bit of a whirlwind.
Finally, I just wanted to deeply & personally thank everyone who has supported us and played the game, shared it on social media, drawn fan art, and just generally brought this ancient mazelike city to life. It hasn’t always been an easy journey for us, and you make it all worth it. Thank you!
-izzie james shasha
Hi! I wanted to put out an update to share a bit of what’s been going on with Diaries in the months since launch. But first, I want to apologize for the low amount of communication during that time. Sundae Month is a small company and there’s only one member of the Diaries team s
Hi!
I wanted to put out an update to share a bit of what’s been going on with Diaries in the months since launch. But first, I want to apologize for the low amount of communication during that time.
Sundae Month is a small company and there’s only one member of the Diaries team still working on the project (that’s me, Izzie). Our first steam release has been exciting, inspiring, and also overwhelming. I’m sorry that the state of the game or our plans for it haven’t always been clear. I’m a part-time developer working full-time at a grocery store, and I’m still getting used to striking that balance.
I also want to announce that we are doing some final updates on the game! We’ll be patching a few known issues and rolling out a special content update, so stay tuned for patch notes in further announcements.
Over the past six months since the game launched, Sundae Month has been super busy. Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor won Best 3D Art at Montreal Independent Games Festival in September. In October we won Best Story/World Design at Indiecade in Los Angeles, and last week we were honored to be nominees for Best Student Game and the Nuovo award at the Independent Games Festival at GDC, as well as an honorable mention for Best Sound Design. It’s been incredible and overwhelming to see people’s response to the game and have the opportunity to travel far from our wintery home in Vermont.
We have been hard at work on other projects, including Dad Quest (out now on early access) and another game that we’re getting ready to announce. Considering many of us are students too, it’s been a bit of a whirlwind.
Finally, I just wanted to deeply & personally thank everyone who has supported us and played the game, shared it on social media, drawn fan art, and just generally brought this ancient mazelike city to life. It hasn’t always been an easy journey for us, and you make it all worth it. Thank you!
-izzie james shasha
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor just won Indiecade's prestigious World/Story Design Award! Thanks for taking in the trash with us. Full list of winners:
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor just won Indiecade's prestigious World/Story Design Award!
Thanks for taking in the trash with us.
Full list of winners:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/283495/IndieCade_announces_list_of_2016_award_winners.php
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor just won Indiecade's prestigious World/Story Design Award! Thanks for taking in the trash with us. Full list of winners:
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor just won Indiecade's prestigious World/Story Design Award!
Thanks for taking in the trash with us.
Full list of winners:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/283495/IndieCade_announces_list_of_2016_award_winners.php
Due to popular demand we have brought the game's soundtrack to bandcamp! The download includes liner notes and the cover art. Grab it here:
Due to popular demand we have brought the game's soundtrack to bandcamp!
The download includes liner notes and the cover art.
Grab it here: https://sundaemonth.bandcamp.com/album/diaries-of-a-spaceport-janitor-original-soundtrack
Due to popular demand we have brought the game's soundtrack to bandcamp! The download includes liner notes and the cover art. Grab it here:
Due to popular demand we have brought the game's soundtrack to bandcamp!
The download includes liner notes and the cover art.
Grab it here: https://sundaemonth.bandcamp.com/album/diaries-of-a-spaceport-janitor-original-soundtrack
Over the past week we released a patch which should fix the following issues: -Necress Rhiande's quest bug -Curfew cordons malfunctioning after emerging from the sewerdungeon With this update, the resolution and quality configuration box also appears by default when starting the
Over the past week we released a patch which should fix the following issues:
-Necress Rhiande's quest bug
-Curfew cordons malfunctioning after emerging from the sewerdungeon
With this update, the resolution and quality configuration box also appears by default when starting the game.
You DO NOT need to start a new game for these fixes to take effect. HOWEVER, you WILL need to start a new game if you experience either of the following issues:
-Diary doesn't disappear at night after completing your entry
-Game loads with backpack open / items missing from inventory
If these issues persist, please let us know here or on Twitter @sundaemonth. You may also want to try deleting any lingering save files, which are located;
on Win: C:\Users\\AppData\LocalLow\Sundae Month\Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor
on Mac: Users//Library/Application Support/Sundae Month/Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor
Players who lost progress due to the saving and loading bugs introduced in the last patch can find a free premade save here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ffz39py851yzzd/DSJ%20save%20files.zip?dl=0
Use this save if you want to get a head start on the main questline - it's not cheating because we say so!
Thank you all again for bearing with us as we address these bugs with a small team and limited resources. Your patience, support, and continued interest is greatly appreciated! <3
Over the past week we released a patch which should fix the following issues: -Necress Rhiande's quest bug -Curfew cordons malfunctioning after emerging from the sewerdungeon With this update, the resolution and quality configuration box also appears by default when starting the
Over the past week we released a patch which should fix the following issues:
-Necress Rhiande's quest bug
-Curfew cordons malfunctioning after emerging from the sewerdungeon
With this update, the resolution and quality configuration box also appears by default when starting the game.
You DO NOT need to start a new game for these fixes to take effect. HOWEVER, you WILL need to start a new game if you experience either of the following issues:
-Diary doesn't disappear at night after completing your entry
-Game loads with backpack open / items missing from inventory
If these issues persist, please let us know here or on Twitter @sundaemonth. You may also want to try deleting any lingering save files, which are located;
on Win: C:\Users\\AppData\LocalLow\Sundae Month\Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor
on Mac: Users//Library/Application Support/Sundae Month/Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor
Players who lost progress due to the saving and loading bugs introduced in the last patch can find a free premade save here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ffz39py851yzzd/DSJ%20save%20files.zip?dl=0
Use this save if you want to get a head start on the main questline - it's not cheating because we say so!
Thank you all again for bearing with us as we address these bugs with a small team and limited resources. Your patience, support, and continued interest is greatly appreciated! <3
As many of you have reported, the recent patch caused complications with saving and loading. We have just released a fix that should make saving and loading work as intended if you start a new game. If you started a new game or continued an existing game while the patch was activ
As many of you have reported, the recent patch caused complications with saving and loading. We have just released a fix that should make saving and loading work as intended if you start a new game.
If you started a new game or continued an existing game while the patch was active, your save is likely unusable. We've put together a save file that you can use to recoup any lost progress.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ffz39py851yzzd/DSJ%20save%20files.zip?dl=0
Games which weren't played while the patch was active should work just fine.
This fix should also remedy issues with Necress Rhiande (which were previously preventing players from progressing in the main quest) and Steam achievements!
Thank you all for your patience and support! Please report any issues with this fix to our twitter @sundaemonth, via email to [email protected], or here on Steam in the pinned discussion post for this update!
As many of you have reported, the recent patch caused complications with saving and loading. We have just released a fix that should make saving and loading work as intended if you start a new game. If you started a new game or continued an existing game while the patch was activ
As many of you have reported, the recent patch caused complications with saving and loading. We have just released a fix that should make saving and loading work as intended if you start a new game.
If you started a new game or continued an existing game while the patch was active, your save is likely unusable. We've put together a save file that you can use to recoup any lost progress.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ffz39py851yzzd/DSJ%20save%20files.zip?dl=0
Games which weren't played while the patch was active should work just fine.
This fix should also remedy issues with Necress Rhiande (which were previously preventing players from progressing in the main quest) and Steam achievements!
Thank you all for your patience and support! Please report any issues with this fix to our twitter @sundaemonth, via email to [email protected], or here on Steam in the pinned discussion post for this update!
I'm not sure exactly what is going on in Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor , but I do know that on my first day of picking up trash in a bustling alien bazaar I wound up eating an eyeball, wandering a labyrinth, and being cursed with a hovering skull that now follows me everywhere,
I'm not sure exactly what is going on in Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor, but I do know that on my first day of picking up trash in a bustling alien bazaar I wound up eating an eyeball, wandering a labyrinth, and being cursed with a hovering skull that now follows me everywhere, periodically roaring and lunging at me. I met an alien who told me that I could remove the curse, but I haven't attempted to do so yet because having a screaming skull follow me everywhere is kind of cool. It's the closest thing I've got to a friend, and I'm not ready to shed it quite yet.
In this "anti-adventure game" from developer Sundae Month you play as a custodian, picking up garbage, trinkets, food or food-ish items, vomit (sometimes your own, depending on what sort of food-ish items you were brave enough to eat), and either incinerating these items, trying to sell them to vendors, or holding onto them in hopes they might come in handy later. The stated goal is to earn enough money to leave the spaceport, but I always seem to be short of cash since I'm not paid much for my job, vendors almost never want to buy my crap, and, on one occasion, an alien stopped me on the street and simply ate most of my money.
The spaceport itself is an enjoyable place to wander: colorful and filled with shops and sights, a 3D environment populated by 2D aliens and monsters. Some look like fried eggs on legs, some look like walking turnips, and there are lizard guys and bird people and ghosts and robots and blobs and aliens. It really does feel like an interplanetary flea market.
I've been alternating my activities, spending one day picking up and burning as much trash as I can find there's a lot and spending the following day just exploring, seeing what vendors have for sale, trying to learn my way around, and getting shrieked at by the ever-present floating skull. I don't know the purpose of most of the trinkets I find, if they indeed have one, but I've discovered that candles can be placed outside shrines as an offering, which may improve my character's luck. Luck comes in handy at lotto machines, which reward you, once a day, with a free item. My luck, thus far, has not been good, which may be due to that damned skull curse that I'm unwilling to cure.
Most NPCs are just scenery, but there are a number you can talk to and accept quests from. I'm currently bringing any empty containers I find to one of them, who has promised me a reward when I bring him a certain amount. I'm not sure what that amount is he won't tell me and I'm a little exasperated at what he considers a container. An empty coffee cup I found apparently doesn't count. He's picky like that.
You do need to eat at least once a day (I'd recommend buying food rather than eating stuff off the ground) or you won't be able to sleep, which you also need to do once a day. You also need to visit a 'gendershift' terminal every few days, and if you delay the screen begins to go a bit wonky and the text becomes garbled. The genders are alien ones: so far, I've been Hellgender, Artisnal Femme, Aggramoprh, and was once even told "Your gender is now DIRT. You feel amazing!" I did feel amazing, in fact. The skull roared, perhaps in agreement.
I found a post from a member of the development team on the Steam forums about the idea behind changing and choosing your character's gender:
"Multiple people on the team are nonbinary, trans, or otherwise gender nonconforming," the post reads.
"Gender in the game reflects the way gender in real life works (tho certain aspects are maybe emphasized). Gender is highly pathologized in our society and feeling okay about it often requires spending money on expensive treatments, or struggling through constant dysphoria something represented by the screen and text effects. And, as an alien, it doesn't really make sense to have gender that aligns with human social expectations, so we felt this was an opportunity to do something potentially interesting.
"As with everything about the game, we totally encourage people to form their own interpretations! "
Much as I like my pet skull, lately I've been considering trying to break the curse. I'm afraid I might regret it, but its roaring is getting a little tiresome. I found a ziggurat I could climb, the one place in the game the skull will not follow me, and it was very peaceful up there without all its screaming. It was waiting patiently for me at the bottom of the steps, however, when I came back down. Like a dog. A loyal, shrieking, skeletal dog.
By the way, a wonderful thing about Diaries is that you can even keep your own in-game diary. Every night before you go to sleep, you can write up the day's events. Below you can page through a few of my diary entries. I guess it's a bit of a bleak read, but the life of a cursed alien spaceport janitor isn't an easy one.
You can find Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor on Steam.
We'd like to thank everyone who has reached out with bug and issue reports on the discussion board. Your support and patience are appreciated! As a rule, fixes made in this and future patches are most likely to work without issue in new games started after the patch. CHANGES -Add
We'd like to thank everyone who has reached out with bug and issue reports on the discussion board. Your support and patience are appreciated!
As a rule, fixes made in this and future patches are most likely to work without issue in new games started after the patch.
CHANGES
-Added a free game manual to the game's local content files
-Fixed progress-blocking bug with Necress Rhiande
-Fixed saving and loading
-Tweaked wide-aspect display compatability
-Enabled unity options on startup
-Buffed containers
-Made various minor bug fixes and graphical improvements
ISSUES
-Achievements are broken maybe
-Starting and quitting a new game without saving may disrupt an existing save
NEWS
We had the incredible honor of attending the Montreal Independent Games Festival this past weekend - Diaries even brought home an award for 3D Art!
http://migf.ca/Awards.html
Check out two recent articles about Diaries that we love, on ZAM and Kotaku!
http://www.zam.com/article/1065/diaries-of-a-spaceport-janitor-review-impressions
http://kotaku.com/diaries-of-a-spaceport-janitor-makes-cleaning-up-trash-1786777168
We'd like to thank everyone who has reached out with bug and issue reports on the discussion board. Your support and patience are appreciated! As a rule, fixes made in this and future patches are most likely to work without issue in new games started after the patch. CHANGES -Add
We'd like to thank everyone who has reached out with bug and issue reports on the discussion board. Your support and patience are appreciated!
As a rule, fixes made in this and future patches are most likely to work without issue in new games started after the patch.
CHANGES
-Added a free game manual to the game's local content files
-Fixed progress-blocking bug with Necress Rhiande
-Fixed saving and loading
-Tweaked wide-aspect display compatability
-Enabled unity options on startup
-Buffed containers
-Made various minor bug fixes and graphical improvements
ISSUES
-Achievements are broken maybe
-Starting and quitting a new game without saving may disrupt an existing save
NEWS
We had the incredible honor of attending the Montreal Independent Games Festival this past weekend - Diaries even brought home an award for 3D Art!
http://migf.ca/Awards.html
Check out two recent articles about Diaries that we love, on ZAM and Kotaku!
http://www.zam.com/article/1065/diaries-of-a-spaceport-janitor-review-impressions
http://kotaku.com/diaries-of-a-spaceport-janitor-makes-cleaning-up-trash-1786777168
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor is now available on Steam and itch.io!
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor is now available on Steam and itch.io!
It's time to wander around an alien bazzaar while collecting trash and evaluating your life goals and decisions. Welcome to Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor! The game's out now on Steam! Here's the full trailer Nominated at IndieCade Diaries has been nominated at IndieCade 2016! If
It's time to wander around an alien bazzaar while collecting trash and evaluating your life goals and decisions. Welcome to Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor! The game's out now on Steam!
Here's the full trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEW8Uguif6Y
Diaries has been nominated at IndieCade 2016! If you're around, come by and say to James, the game's designer. http://www.indiecade.com/2016
If you're still wondering what Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor is about, RockPaperShotgun recently posted an extensive Impressions-fueled article on the game
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/09/15/diaries-of-a-spaceport-janitor/
It seems like they really enjoyed eating questionable substances and feeling enlightened.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/436500