Heyo!
Sorry if the picture of the stock market meltdown is hitting a little too close to home. We thought it would be a good example of one of the new features in Walk of Life: global events!
“New” might not be the right word. Both No Time to Relax and our recent demo featured a single global event: the Crime Wave, where players had a chance to get mugged and had to secure their apartment to avoid having their belongings stolen.
We’ve always liked the Crime Wave as a wrench to throw into the gears of our players’ plans, and we wanted to build on that with more events of a similar nature. We’re currently working on several global events that we hope will make your games even more interesting.
The Crime Wave is staying, with some revisions—including a new security rating for your apartment that can be boosted with items like a bear trap or a weaponized robot vacuum. And since we’re doing one wave, we might as well try another: the Heat Wave!
As the name suggests, the Heat Wave pits players against the elements with sweltering temperatures, causing every single action in the game to come with an increased hygiene cost. Terrible body odour isn’t the only danger that follows the Heat Wave—players will also need to stock up on fire safety items, or risk their antique grandfather clock bursting into flames!
Not every global event will be bad news, though. Alongside the economic meltdown, players might encounter an economic boom, or take their hard-earned democratic rights to the voting booth to elect a new mayor—whose policies could drastically shape the course of the game.
While some of these new global events will happen randomly throughout the game, there are rumors of a strange figure in the park, clad in a trench coat, who might lubricate the wheels of global happenings… for a price!
We'll have more juicy details for you soon, but for now you can rest assured that we're aiming to have to introduce a lot more pandemonium to Walk of Life in the coming weeks.
Toodles!