Walk of Life news & patch notes

Walk of Life, the world's most amazing life simulator, is on a 35% discount from now and through the weekend! Grab it while it's hot!

Are your friends cheapskates that have been on the fence about buying this game or not? Now it the perfect opportunity to poke them in the ribs and get them on the Walk of Life train! And what better time to learn the ropes than just before the release of the fancy new Artist role next week?

If you need to find people to play with, make sure to swing by our Discord and get into a match with players from our lovely community.

That's it, I guess. Buy our game!

Hej hej!

The chirping of crickets and the rustling of tumbleweeds make up for the majority of sound in the offices of Porcelain Fortress at the moment as the bulk of our team is on vacation. Undaunted, the rest of us trudge onward to bring you a brand-spanking-new content update that should make its way to you guys next Tuesday! Let's take a look a the headline act of the update and Walk of Life's newest role: The Artist!

The Artist is a bohemian rebel that refuses to conform to the norms of society. This pretentious beatnik is the first role that refuses to join the workforce and therefore can't get a job at the job office! Instead, the role relies on creating artwork in order to survive the Walk of Life (that's the title of the game!)

Whenever the Artist enters a location, a little widget will pop up similar to the work button when other roles enter their workplace. This will be the primary button to mash as the Artist in order to create your art, but there are some nuances to it!

Each location will have a certain amount of inspiration the artist will use to create their art. The higher the inspiration, the faster the progress. As the artist creates art in the location, the inspiration will drain as the artist will want to seek out fresh locations to get inspired.

Inspiration then refills slowly between rounds, at a faster rate depending on how much education the artist has. Upon completion, artwork may be pawned off at the pawn shop for cash. The more experienced the artist, the higher quality artwork will be created!

The artist role is all about exploring the map to find inspiring locations to work in. We recommend picking up some quests in Vexcorp that you can do along the way and you'll hardly ever feel bored when playing this role!

We hope that you guys will enjoy getting your hands on this new role next week. As always, we'd really appreciate a Steam review if you haven't given us one yet, as it's super helpful for smaller devs such as ourselves.

That's it! Dev blog's over! Go away!

We really should have saved the cover image from our last dev blog for this one. Oh well.

Anyways! On to a depressingly topical global event...

Heatwave is one of the older global events in the game. When active, all actions and movement cost extra hygiene, even the ones that don't usually have a hygiene cost! This is supposed to represent the stickiness and clamminess that you feel when subjected to the murderous gaze of the sweltering sun.

Unfortunately, this effect is both boring and problematic. Dedicating an entire global event to just an increase in hygiene cost isn't terribly interesting, and a hygiene cost being added to everything led to a number of bugs, including frying the circuit boards of our already dumb bots as they struggled to understand why certain actions weren't possible.

With the coming update, Heatwave will be getting a rework. Don't get too excited, it's pretty brutal!

During the new Heatwave global event, all players will have a new heat meter at the top of their screens. As they move around the map in the scorching heat, the bar will fill up. If it fills up completely, the player will pass out from a heat stroke and their round is over!

Losing your round is one of the worst things that can happen to you in Walk of Life. Thankfully, players will be able to cool down to keep the meter in check. Certain existing actions, such as having a shake at Clucker's or bathing in the pond will reduce the heat meter and keep the player from passing out. There are even some new actions available during this event like standing in front of the freezer at Moo Moo Mart!

Do your best to keep yourselves cool during heatwaves, both in real life and in Walk of Life! If you want to be extra cool, leave us a review here on Steam if you haven't already. It really helps smaller developers like us!

That's it for now. Laters!

Oh, hi there!

We hope you guys are enjoying the recently added simultaneous turns mode. There is no rest for the wicked, however, and as the most wicked little game developer around, we are hard at work at yet another update for you guys! Many of the upcoming changes aim to address longstanding issues with certain systems, so let's dive in and see what's under the lid.

Quests

Quests have been in an awkward spot lately, especially in Chailand. Many quests that work fine in Calicornia become either way too easy or obscenely hard in Chailand, which makes the entire system often seem like it's not worth the hassle. To remedy this, we will be tuning certain quests especially for Chailand, and adding new map-specific quests into the mix!

Another system plaguing the quest system are the cash rewards which are just not up to par unless you're playing as the adventurer. Grabbing a quest should be a viable way of spending your round as any role, so we'll be bumping the cash rewards up by a decent amount.

Finally, we'll be adding some brand new quests to increase variety. Huzzah!

Life Events

Choice events are a fun medium for us to inject some humor into the game by giving the players an option to make weird choices at the start of each round. While we enjoy the silliness of them, we have gotten complaints from people that find the choices too arbitrary and hard to predict, so we'll be adding two new options to game setup in the next update.

The first option will show the outcomes of each choice, allowing players to make a more strategic option of which reward or punishment to face based on their current state in the game, without having to rely on memory of what every single option means. The other option will simply turn life events off, if you're not a big fan of them and would rather keep the game rolling.

Finally, we'll be adding in over 50 new life events next update, including role specific ones for every role that was lacking role events. Keep an eye out for any weird new scenarios in the next update!

Role Tuning and QoL Stuff

While we're excited to add new roles into the game, we also want to keep polishing some of the older ones to make them feel better to play.

We have added checkmarks to the Drifter to allow players to better track which jobs they have completed.

We have also reworked the Hacker's UI widget to better explain how the heat mechanics work and why players are being caught by the feds at small amounts of heat.

At the end of your round, if the little red arrow hits any amount of heat in your bar, you'll be busted. If it doesn't, you're safe! Hopefully, this will clear up any confusion.

That's it for now. Consider leaving us a review here on Steam if you haven't already, it really helps us out!

Blog over. Get back to playing Walk of Life!

• Fixed a freeze that could happen on Bots turn, most often in the last rounds of the game.
• Bots now gracefully end their turn if they get too confused, instead of waiting for 90 seconds.
• Fixed several rare crashes during turn transitions and when leaving a game mid-round.

• Bot brain improvements. Especially in Chailand!
• Floor fries now work towards getting "Valued Customer" achievement.
• Pet Widget should not show over Report Card phase in Sim Turns anymore.
• Meters in Big Game and Kaiju battle hide/show correctly now in Sim Turns.
• Fixed gameplay beginning on player without report cards in Sim Turns.
• Fixed Location Menu over score screen when Sim Turns go out of sync.
• Added guards for Pet traits dissapearing in Rejoined or loaded games.
• Added guards to corrupted save games.

Close those curtains! Blot out the sun! We're playing video games this summer! If you've been waiting for the optimal moment to pick up Walk of Life, or convince your friends to do so, this is it! We're taking part in the Steam Summer Sale with a 30% discount, running until July 9th! Who needs a sunny day at the beach when you have a fancy new simultaneous turns gamemode anyway? And have you seen the price of sunscreen recently? Geez!

If you need to find people to play with, make sure to swing by our Discord and get into a match with players from our lovely community.

What else is there to say, really? 30% off! Buy our game, please.

• Bots act a little bit faster now!
• Bots pay rent first before changing apartments.
• Fixed some pets not loading correctly in saved games.
• Fixed "Day Off" Quests saying 0/0.

Simultaneous. Simultaneity. The Simularillion.

What a mouthful! What a complicated utterance! All to convey that something is happening at the same time as something else. Geez.

Anyway. We have another content update for you lot! Here are some of the highlights.

Simultaneous Turns

The new game mode is live! During simultaneous turns, all players act at the same time rather than one after the other. This leads to fast-paced games where speed and tempo trump the need to nosily observe everything your fellow players are up to.

We have been testing this new game mode both inhouse and on the newly introduced testing branch, and the results have been fantastic with many players clamoring that this is just what their group of friends needed to be able to play games with higher round counts.

There might be some wrinkles that need to be ironed out, so be sure to let us know if you run into any issues, but until then, have fun with the simultaneity!

Role Tweaks

This update also brings tweaks to several of the playable roles.

• The Workaholic has gained a rare new combo bonus that combines all the other bonuses into one!

• The Mystic's Taurus sign has been buffed to grant a health on top of the existing stress reduction!

• The Shopaholic has a fancy new coupon card for the gym!

• And the Senior has been granted two new complain actions, at Vexcorp and the Arcade!

We'll be tuning the other roles in the coming weeks with fun new additions, so stay tuned!

Other Stuff

Just read the changelog if you want the nitty gritty of all the changes. And be sure to leave us a Steam review if you haven't already! That's it for now, laters!

• Simultaneous turns is a new way to play online games. No longer must you wait and ponder all the terrible decisions you've made in the game so far, now you all make terrible decisions at the same time!

• The Kaiju Battle global event was not triggering for users, this was our fault and has been fixed.

• The decorative elements of Chailand have been revamped and moved around. Feng shui increased by 53%.

• Score screen polish, runs faster and has more details, you can now hover over a score to see how much you got in each category

• Swapping homes when you still owed rent on another home was causing confusion, bugs and rioting. So now you need to pay any owed rent before changing apartments.

• The Mystic Role has been tweaked. The Taurus sign has been made more powerful to increase its value in the early game.

• The Senior Role can now complain in Vexcorp and the Arcade. Those damn whippersnappers and their Computer Games will now get their talking to!

• The Shopaholic Role now gets coupon stamps in the gym too.

• The Workaholic Role can now get a rare Mega Combo

• The Hacker's Heatmeter was given some visual tweaks.

• Map and Game Mode is now visible on games in the Server Browser.

• Fixed Coupon Cards randomly hiding for Shopaholic Bots.

• Bots AI has been tweaked so they now use their time more efficiently.

• Bots are now shown correctly on the Bathroom Break and Rejoin menus.

• Bots now pause correctly when Bathroom break starts and they are playing.

• Fixed a bug that caused the Apartment view to rarely get stuck on screen.

• Fixed multiple bugs with the Senior Role's complaining actions and its Role Quests.

• Fixed "Master Fishing with Bait" showing the wrong Icon.

• Fixed a bug where Job Traits were not removed correctly if you were fired from your Job.

• Fixed the Magic Mirror furniture item not working in Online games.

• Fixed the "That's a Wash" achievement (Handwashing one) not being unlockable while playing in Chailand.

• Fixed multiple issues with the "Valued Customer" achievement (Cluckers one).

Hey there!

While our community manager is away enjoying the sun, I've been drafted to let you all know that version 1.1.3b is now live on our new Public Testing branch (That's right... we've got a public testing branch!).

What's new? Let's look at some bullet points!

• Simultaneous turns is a new way to play online games. No longer must you wait and ponder all the terrible decisions you've made in the game so far, now you all make terrible decisions at the same time!

• The Kaiju Battle global event was not triggering for users, this was not our fault and has been fixed.

• The decorative elements of Chailand have been revamped and moved around. Feng shui increased by 53%.

• Score screen polish, runs faster and has more details.

• The Mystic Role has been tweaked. The Taurus sign has been made more powerful to increase its value in the early game.

• The Senior Role can now complain in Vexcorp and the Arcade.

• The Shopaholic Role now gets coupon stamps in the gym too.

• The Workaholic Role can now get a rare Mega Combo

• The Hacker's Heatmeter was given some visual tweaks.

• Map and Game Mode is now visible on games in the Server Browser.

So how do you find this new Public Testing branch? Excellent question, have some numbered points!

Yo!

We've got a big one for you today.

While a lot of people enjoy the chill pace of Walk of Life as a cozy way to spend the afternoon, others have commented that the gameplay can feel glacial, especially when playing longer games with multiple people.

This is a valid criticism as some of the bigger games can take hours, which is not feasible for a large portion of our playerbase. We've mulled over how we could speed up the gameplay without ruining the the fun for people who like the boardgame-like gameplay and we've decided on rolling out a new game mode: Simultaneous Turns.

In this game mode, which is only available in online games, each round starts by going through the choice events and report cards on each player in order before the round starts. Then everybody acts at the same time! After a player finishes their round, they wait for the rest of the lobby to finish up their round before the next round can begin.

This leads to games that are quick and snappy - the development team has played 6-player 10 round game in under 20 minutes! There are some hectic side effects, such as players racing to the pawn store to buy a furniture stolen during a crime wave or running to the park to lock a building another player is heading towards.

To clarify, this is an optional game mode, and the original game mode isn't going anywhere.

We will be rolling Simultaneous Turns out in the next update in a somewhat experimental state to start testing the waters, but we hope the mode will be a gamechanger for those of you who like snappier games!

That's it. That's the blog. Please leave us a Steam review if you haven't already - it really helps us!

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Greetings!

Walk of Life released into Early Access with three playable roles, including the experimental Adventurer was who held together by duct tape and corn starch. Today, the game's roster features eight playable roles and even more that have yet to be announced.

While new roles are exciting, we decided that a polishing pass was in order for some of our existing roles to make them even more fun to play. Here are some tweaks and tuneups you can expect to see in your games along with the next update. These are aiming to increase the overall fun of the roles, the balance part will come later.

Workaholic

Often considered to be the most vanilla role in Walk of Life, the Workaholic has remained mostly unchanged since launch. Despite being simple to play, the role does boast some surprising depth, as demonstrated by normy's behemoth guide to the Workaholic. Even still, the role's high points can feel a little eclipsed by some of the newer roles, so we've decided to give it a fun new toy.

The Workaholic will now have a new combo bonus that is more rare than all the others, but combines all of their bonuses into one! That's right, when you hear the word: "Moolah!" you can expect to get some bonus cash, work XP, happiness, and food, all at once! Talk about workplace efficiency!

Shopaholic

On the other side of the vanilla coin is the Shopaholic who remains an accessible role for newer players to learn the ropes of the game. The role has always had some more advanced tricks available, usually to do with some sort of pawn shop or fishing shenanigans.

Players have complained about the role lacking coupon cards in the gym, so we'll be introducing one with the next update. We don't expect this to be a meta defining change, but letting it burn for free every once in a while should be nice motivator to get this consumerista into shape.

Senior

The Senior is a bit of a weird one. While the role is often considered to be easy to play (this is backed by hard data), the role falls off at high-level play where it has problems keeping up in the score department.

With the next update, the Senior will be able to complain in two new locations: Vexcorp and the Arcade! Complaining about transportation at Vexcorp will have the tech giant throw you a piece of car to shut you up, while complaining about the state of modern video games will net you some tokens to use to possibly get a high score. Will these complain actions open up any new strategies? We hope so!

Mystic

The Mystic is a role we came up with while incredibly bored at a conference. Despite the twelve constellations seeming like a balance nightmare, the role has barely been touched since launch! We certainly were expecting more trouble, but even though the Mystic is balanced it still has room for improvement.

The Taurus sign (which mproves stress reduction activities) can feel very bad to get early on, before stress has had a real chance to accumulate. We want to make this sign stronger and less timing dependent, so in addition to improved stress reduction, the affected actions will also grant a health bonus.

These are just some of the changes we have planned, but we also have new toys and tweaks to the Adventurer, Scavenger, Drifter, and Hacker on our radar. Stay tuned to learn more about those in the coming weeks, and be sure to give us a Steam review and let us know how you like the game if you haven't already - it really helps smaller devs like ourselves.

We have some big news coming up in the next blog, so see you there!

• Steam Invites & Join Games!
• Streamer Mode added to Settings (Blur invite keys)
• Added guards for Skip round bugs in Online Play.
• Balancing of secret mission selection.
• Emoji wheel selection bug fixed.
• Fixed missing job traits when fired in Economic Crash.
• Fixed Clothing store job perk giving unbreakable clothes.
• Fixed Rent scoring exploit.
• Practice gamer skill actually increases gamer skill.
• Increased robustness in save games.
• Fixed crashes when a player leaves mid-game.

Howdy!

We hope you have been enjoying the Hacker role and the rest of the features included in the Savescum update. Our inbox is overflowing with suggestions from the community as to how we can improve the game even further, which may sound annoying, but having a playerbase so invested in our game feels fantastic.

There's still plenty of stuff brewing for Walk of Life, and we think it's only fair that you guys get to take a little peek at what we've got in store. Lo and behold, our new (post-launch) roadmap!

Wow, what a packed agenda! Let's break it down!

Saved Games (Done!)

This was the most frequently asked for feature we've had for Walk of Life, and we were super happy to finally introduce a proper save/load system with the Savescum update.

Mod Support (for real this time)

We really wanted to introduce mod support before we hit 1.0, but after running into complications we unfortunately had to shelve the idea temporarily. Mod support will make it into the game eventually, and we are both excited and terrified to see what our community will do to our little game when it does!

New Game Modes

Walk of Life has attracted a lot of different people who want different things from the game, and we are exploring modes to cater to folks who prefer different strokes.

While some of our players relish competition, crushing their friends, and getting obscenely high scores, others have asked for a more chill way to play the game and even work with their friends. We have also gotten a ton of requests for a faster game mode, especially from those who like playing in larger lobbies.

We will be releasing new game modes for Walk of Life, including ones that support faster games and co-op play.

New Roles

The Hacker won out against the Artist in a recent community vote, but the latter will be making it into the game soon. In addition to the Hacker and the Artist, we have at least two more roles we want to add to the roster. You can expect another community vote to decide which one gets released first.

New Pets

The reworked pet system has added a ton of new strategies to our game, and we want to add a few more. Some will have already-existing traits, while others will have brand-new ones. Here's a teaser for you!

New Choice Events and Settings

We are going to introduce a ton more choice events into the game, but we are also aware that some players do not like the randomness they introduce. Game setup will let players control whether choice events appear in their games, and whether outcomes are shown beforehand — for those who prefer strategy over surprises.

New Global Events

Expect more global events to introduce further chaos into your games. The Heat Wave global event will also be getting a rework as it's currently very dry (hah).

New Avatars

More customization! We have so many ideas we have for new avatars that range from mundane to ridiculous. Expect some of them to make it into the game! 

New Map

Save the date and pack your bags, we're going travelling again!

And that about wraps up our agenda!

Is there anything that you feel is missing from the roadmap? Also, keep in mind that Steam reviews help us work faster, so please drop us one if you haven't already!

It's back to work for us. Stay tuned!

• Changed the Hacker's quest objective description.
• Added trait description to the Hacker's role trait.
• Adjusted role complexity on some roles.
• Removed Quest fading on objective completion.
• Same inventory items can not be taken by two different events.
• Fixed a bug that could remove stat changes from cards when loading saved games.
• Fixed a random bug that could let the apartments view in the bottom-left corner.
• Fixed Boris mayor not dividing players cash correctly in online games.
• Fixed loading a game with a ongoing Tourist Invation Event.

Can you believe it?

My younger coworker doesn't know who Gene Hackman is! What an outrage!

Oh, I also guess it's time for Walk of Life's first content update after full release! This one is packed with features, many of which have been on Santa's wishlist for quite some time now! Let's get right into it!

Improved Save/Load System

You've been waiting for this feature for a long time, but as promised, our new and improved save/load system is finally ready! You may now save your game manually and store multiple saved games, for both local and online games!

New Role: The Hacker!

The community voted for it, and now the Hacker has arrived! This no-good cybercriminal can hack into locations to gain advantages, such as increasing their salary, boosting their chances of winning the lottery, or even downloading a car! Be careful not do overdo it, however, as the feds may catch you if your heat becomes too high!

New Global Event: Kaiju Battle!

Clucker's and the Stock Market are duking it out! Choose a side and aid one of these titans to victory by doing quests and hanging up propaganda posters. If your side is victorious, you might just be rewarded (in addition to directly influencing the economy and the Stock Market!)

New Pet: Pig!

As returning favorite from No Time to Relax, the pig is making a return to Walk of Life. This porkball will allow you to eat fast food with a minimal time cost and will improve your sleep action: perfect for anyone pursuing a slacker lifestyle!

Other Changes

Before we get to the complete changelog, please consider shooting us a Steam review if you haven't already. It really helps smaller developers like us!

Now here's the complete changelog!

Changelog v1.1

• Added a new Role, The Hacker! Hack locations for benefits and try to avoid the Feds.

• New Save Game System! Games can now be saved every round, in both online and offline games.

• A new Rejoin-Online-Games-System streamlines the way players rejoin games. Added the ability to drop players too.

• If you disconnect from a game, we now show a robot head that invites you to rejoin that game when you enter the Online Menus on the Main Menu.

• New Global Event: Kaiju Battle! Choose which giant monster to side with and help them conquer the town.

• New Pet: The Pig! Who's a cuddly wuddly piglet?

• Changed the font used for Thai and fixed glyph problems. This is still a work in progress and we will continue to polish this.

• The Player Pawn now gives off smoke particles again when moving around on the map.

• The Senior's Complain action now costs less time.

• The Arcade's Practice Gaming Skill action now costs less time.

• Changed how inventory items are sold. We now start by selling the lowest-count stack of that item in your inventory. In the previous behavior you could get stuck with multiple stacks, which was annoying.

• A few pieces of text were not being localized correctly, fixed that and polished some older translations.

• The Undecided Voter Achievement was bugged and should now be fixed for everyone.

• Fixed a bug where the Shopaholic Coupon Card wouldn't hide or show itself correctly.

'Allo 'allo!

We're putting the finishing touches on the next content update which will be dropping later this week! We've already covered the new Hacker role in the last dev blog, but now we are ready to reveal our most colossal global event yet: The Kaiju Battle!

Physical manifestations of the most powerful entities in the world, the stock market and the fast food industry, are duking it out in a battle that has completely emptied our VFX budget! The result of this feud will have drastic implications on your games, but luckily, you'll have a say in who will win and who will lose!

When the Kaiju Battle global event begins, a meter similar to the one in the Big Game global event will appear, showing the status of the fight between the two titans. Players will be able to choose a side by visiting Clucker's or the Bank and throw their lot in with either side. Do aid their giant monster, players may collect propaganda posters and hang them up around town, or do special repeatable quests.

Posters may be collected at either Clucker's or the Stock Market, and if a player has one in their inventory they may hang it up in multiple locations to bolster their side. However, only one poster may be hung up in each location, so the opposing sides must fight to keep their posters up in a feud reminiscent of a Looney Tunes' classic: Duck Season! Rabbit Season!

There are also repeatable quests for each side which we won't spoil for you just yet, but here are some teasers from the art. What the heck is going on here?

So what happens after the fight? Well, if Clucker's is victorious, the Stock Market will crash, and all players who aided Clucker's more than the Stock Market will be rewarded with gift cards at Clucker's! However, if the Stock Market is victorious, stocks will soar in value while Clucker's will become more expensive for several rounds, and Stock Market supporters will be rewarded with some treasure!

Choose your side carefully and see if you can gain an edge by manipulating the Stock Market in either direction!

Finally, once again, we'd like to implore any of you that haven't given us a review yet to do so, it really helps review-hungry, smaller developers like us!

That's it for now! Get ready for an awesome update later this week!

• Fixed Thai Language glyph rendering. Specifically how phonetic marks are rendered. We also added enhanced support for Thai line breaks so long unbroken texts should properly split into multiple lines! This is a work in progress and if you see any weird word breaks in Thai then let us know.

• Added 3 new music tracks to Chailand!

• Updated main menu flow for controllers and added controller button glyphs!

• Added voice overs to the Mystic Role!

• A wider range of actions now fall under Mystic Quests. Making them easier to finish.

• The Mystic Role Quest status now updates immediately.

• Fixed visual issues with Quest duration Icons.

• Fixed Info box in the location UI showing scrambled info when bots are playing.

• Fixed bots not understanding how to finish some quest types.

• Fixed some localization issues in the Character Sheet.

• Newspaper button should no longer show button glyphs on controller if it isn't your turn.

• Fixed alignment of the pond asset in the Park, it was a bit off.

• Fixed NPC animations in the Arcade.

• Fixed the Metro building animations in Chailand.

• Adjusted background train animation speed in Chailand.

Bonjour! We want to start this blog off with a quick shoutout to normy who created an absolute behemoth of a guide titled: The Workaholic Way: Normy’s Guide to a Perfect Run. normy has more experience than anyone in Walk of Life, so we recommend reading up on his tips if you want to take your game to the next level! Now, onto business. We want to thank all of you for showing such intense interest in choosing the next role and for participating in the elections on Discord. The dust has settled and the next role coming to Walk of Life will be the Hacker!

The Hacker is a rule-breaking scoundrel that relies on cheating the game to get ahead. Armed with a souped up laptop, they can hack into locations to grant them an extra bonus unavailable to other players. For example, hacking into the Job Office will increase the Hacker's salary, while hacking into Clucker's will decrease the prices of the menu items. They can even hack the same location multiple times, stacking the bonuses! That sounds pretty broken! However, the Hacker must be careful, as every time they hack a location, they increase their heat - the chance that they are busted by the feds at the start of the next round! Hacking too many times in quick succession will increase the chance of getting caught, and losing all accumulated hacking bonuses.

So the heat meter goes up every time the hack action is performed, but it may also go down by laying low. If the Hacker spends a whole round without hacking, their heat will decrease, and the chances of getting caught will eventually be nullified.

Playing safely might be a valid strategy, but to get the most out of the hacker players will have to live dangerously, knowing that they will eventually be caught!

If you like living dangerously, flying closely to the sun, the hacker might just be the role for you! We are still playtesting it but will hopefully get it into your hands very soon!

For those of you that voted for the other candidate in the vote, don't worry: Artist will return in Avengers: Doomsday a future update.

That's it for now! Ciao!

Hola!

We hope you are all enjoying Walk of Life. We're certainly enjoying making it, and are currently working on one of your most requested features. Saved games is a feature that the community has been very vocal about, especially those of you that prefer playing longer games.

Continuing games is currently very limited. Walk of Life has an autosave feature in local games that allows a game to be picked up from where it was left, but there is nothing available for online games, and only one game may be saved at any given time. Additionally, many players didn't even know this function existed as the button is easily missed.

In our next update, in addition to the usual autosave function, players will be able to save online and local games at any point. Booting up a game with multiple people will open up a screen similar to the Bathroom Break while players join in.

When all players have joined, the game can begin. If one or more players are not joining, the game may be force started with the missing players being removed from the game.

Isn't that Save Game button just beautiful?

We really hope that this feature will help those of you that enjoy playing longer games, but can't do so in one sitting. And for those of you that were hoping for more gameplay content, we'll have something for you to chew into very soon. And if you haven't given us a review, please consider doing so! Small studios like us really love them! Laters!

It's time to duel!

We've been incredibly happy with the community reception to Walk of Life's launch, so much so that we want to give you the biggest responsibility we've trusted with you so far: choosing Walk of Life's next role!

To preface, this vote is not deciding which role makes it into the game, but rather which role will be the next role released. Now, let's introduce our contenders: The Hacker cheats their way to victory, assuming of course that they can stay clear of the feds! The Artist finds inspiration in the unlikeliest places to transform their vision into masterpieces! To vote, head on over to our Discord and let us know whether you'd like to see the Hacker or the Artist as Walk of Life's next role!

Another day and another bugfix and polish update. We continue to plan bigger features and updates but until then at least we have this one.

Changelog for v1.0.2

• Fixed a bug where Newspapers would sometimes not show up in online games for some players.

• Fixed a bug where the Drifter would try to get Traits for Jobs that have no Traits (like the naked jobs).

• Fixed a bug connected to Quests and locations.

• Fixed a bug with where the Vote to End menu could be triggered twice.

• Fixed a bug where Peons would try to access the map before it was loaded.

• Fixed some missing or wrong localization strings in various languages.

• 'Vote To End' and 'Bathroom Break' texts on buttons were not localized in In Game Menu.

• Buy Pets can no longer be performed if the button is disabled (grayed out).

• Job Office Ambience has been tweaked to be less annoying.

• Cyclical navigation added for the Character Sheet.

• Optimized project and did some major asset cleanup and optimization.

• Controller icons were shown on the 'Vote To End' and 'Bathroom Break' buttons, even though they did nothing.

• A few rare Chinese glyphs were missing from our font and would show up as a square.

• Active opponent mouse cursor is no longer shown when bots are acting in online games.

• About screen was too long for the scroll view and would not scroll all the way down.

• DirectX and Visual C++ Redist were not being installed alongside the project. Fresh installs should now install them if they are missing.

Whassup!

Walk of Life is sitting at 95% on Steam reviews, and we, the people (of Porcelain Fortress), are downright gobsmacked.

We just wanted to take a moment to throw a massive thank you your way for the fantastic reception the game has had. The playerbase has been growing steadily since release, and seeing how many of you are enjoying the game (and hating Barry) means the world to us. We're also grateful for the constructive feedback and your patience when it comes to bugs and other issues.

We promise to keep making Walk of Life bigger, sillier, and more awesome overall!

What's next?

Reading through your reviews and feedback has given us a clear picture of where to take the game next. In the coming weeks we're focused on cleaning up bugs and other issues. Many of you have asked for an expanded save game system, and we're currently looking into how to make it bigger and better. A better rejoin function is also on our radar.

Once the most glaring issues are addressed, we'll move on to creating some crazy new content for you to sink your teeth into. More roles, life events, global event, pets! The people demand more, so more is what we'll give them! If you're looking for more people to play with, we encourage you to check out our Discord which has a lively community of welcoming people! Now, we have to dive back into the development mines. Until next time!

It's the day after launch, which we are celebrating with a small bug-fix and polish update.

We hope you are enjoying the game and we will continue to monitor it and get these bug fixes out as soon as possible. v1.0.1 Changelog

• Reduced the amount of score you receive for the Arcade

• The Broken Toaster furniture item would not show up in the apartment after you had bought it. That's fixed now.

• Fixed a bug where your cut from Racoon raids could be negative (and take money from you).

• Some pets had incorrect pictures in the menu and the frogs got mixed up. That should be fixed now.

• Fixed some image overlaps in the fancy apartment.

• Reference to the Mall icon could get lost in the Scavenger sheet, this has been fixed.

• Fixed missing title text in Global Event Newspaper.

• Spanish and Portuguese translations had been incorrectly swapped in a few places. That's fixed now.

• Added missing localizations for the Magnet and Master fishing poles.

• Added missing localizations for quest item.

• Added missing localizations for some Scavenger Treasure Maps.

• Fixed some localization formatting issues.

• Fixed a bug where if your username was less than 3 characters the Arcade menus could break.

What's that? The world's most competitive life simulator, Walk of Life, has completed its Early Access development and officially launched version 1.0 of the game? This news would probably threaten my very concept of reality, if I wasn't one of the developers!

Like a passenger plane going through intense turbulence, the ride here has been fun and bumpy! Whether you've waded through the bug-infested swamps of Early Access with us or are just joining us now, we're sure you'll have a blast with Walk of Life.

What's New in the 1.0 Update?

Our full release patch is way over the weight limit, packed with content that includes the Chailand map, the brand new Mystic role, new and updated pets, an expanded fishing system, the Arcade location and more. The patch marks the implementation of every feature promised on Walk of Life's Early Access Roadmap (apart from mod support. We know, we know! It's coming!)

Check out the full patch notes below if you want all of the changes in detail, or just blindly dive in and get pleasantly surprised by all the new content the game has to offer. Also make sure to swing by our official Discord, where you can join our community of players that range from cozy gamers to incredible tryhards!

What's Next for Walk of Life?

As the dust of full release settles, there are still things we hope to add to the game. We have not forgotten our promise of mod support, and we have ideas for content, ranging from grounded to straight up bonkers, that we are workshopping right now! Make sure to stay tuned to our Steam dev blogs in the coming days for more info!

Finally, we just want to give a mushy, tear-jerking THANK YOU to all of you for giving our silly game a chance. The reviews you've given us so far have been very moving, so if you haven't let us know how you feel about the game, make sure to let us know in the Steam reviews! That's it. That's the blog. Now go play Walk of Life. PATCH NOTES: * Game is out of Early Access!!

* Chailand, a new map is now available! It's bigger and full of new locations.

* Pets 2.0! New and distinct pets, all with different bonuses (everything from birds to rocks, and that one that ahhh... we'll allow you to discover 'that' one). We also added animations to them.

* Pet choices now rotate every turn in the pet store.

* New Role: The Mystic. The stars have spoken and they want you to buy lottery tickets.

* New Feature: Vote to End Game. Players can now vote to end a game early.

* New Feature: Bathroom Break. Do you need to go to the bathroom? Is your pasta about to go from al dente to all mushy? Hit that button for a much needed break time in online games.

* New Global Event: The Big Game is coming to town, support your team, or else.

* New Building: Arcade, come here to play video games and eat... what I think is pizza. For now only available in Chailand.

* Chailand now has specific buildings for Clothes, Electronics, Pets and Furniture. These locations all have new jobs and job traits.

* New courses at the University! For example Wilderness Survival.

* Fishing update! More poles, education and bait.

* New special furniture added. For example Magic Mirror, Fish in a Barrel and a Slush Machine.

* Even more Avatars to choose from.

* Lots of small and big balance fixes. These extend to just about everything in the game.

* Stock profits now also give you some score. What are you waiting for? Sell, sell, sell!

* Increased rewards for Vexcorp quests.

* Global event UI polished, and active global events can now be accessed by pressing the Newspaper button in the HUD.

* Game Browser and Lobby menus in the Main Menu were overhauled.

* Emoji overhaul. New fancy Emoji menu, players pop in all around to send you their regards.

* The round transition has been changed with fancy graphics and lots of bugs fixes and polish.

* Peons (the people and cars of the world) are back in the game, filling the maps with life.

* We now show a special menu when your items get Auto-Pawned.

* Swapped out the Player Info Card for a nifty Wallet. It's made from ethically sourced pixels.

* Location art and UI got a facelift, oh so pretty!

* New In-Game Menu (with the End Game Vote and Bathroom Break buttons).

* Animations and interactions have been polished, added and fixed all over the place.

* New Music and SFX added and mixed.

* Lots of game-breaking bugs have been squashed!

* Soooo many big, medium and small bugfixes, the programmers wanted them all listed but that would just fill the screen with a never-ending list.

* Fixed some broken Achievements.

* Fixed a bunch of Save Game and Rejoin bugs.

* Choice Events that depend on furniture (PC, TV) work correctly now.

Heyo!

We hope you're all super excited for the full release of Walk of Life tomorrow — we certainly are (on top of being anxious, sleep-deprived, and somewhat manic)! In a recent blog, you may have caught a glimpse of an unfamilar location in the new map Chailand. Well, let us tell you all about The Arcade!

Does this bring back memories? It sure does for us! Walk of Life is heavily inspired by the 90s, and most of the team spent untold hours of their childhood (and adulthood, for some of us) at the Arcade, trudging through sticky carpeting to sacrifice our meager savings at these digital altars.

The Arcade offers a new way for players to earn score at the end of the game. After purchasing tokens, players may play one of the three available games at the Arcade and are rewarded with a score. If a player ends up with the highest score in that game, they have the High Score, and at the end of the final round each High Score holder is rewarded with actual score.

However, other players may snatch away their position at the top of the leaderboard by getting a better score. We hope that this turns into an armsrace of who's more stubborn and refuses to let go of their rightful position at the top of the pile.

Your average score will get higher the more you play, so please follow in our footsteps and waste your life playing video games. If you want to get a bit of a lead, you can also get a job at the Arcade and benefit from the new job perk: practice gaming skills.

Oh, there's also pizza.

We hope the Arcade proves to be a fun addition to the game for all of you. Now we have to get back to it and get everything ready for tomorrow.

We really appreciate all the wonderful Steam Reviews you guys have given us - if you haven't, please consider telling us how you feel about the game!

See you all in Full Release tomorrow!

Hæ!

The wait towards full release is getting shorter, and we have a metric boatload of new content we're excited for you to try out. We have also been polishing some of the older content in the game that has been there since the Early Access launch and aged a bit poorly compared to our newer stuff.

The art style for the roles has changed a bit since launch, and the Workaholic, Senior, and Shopaholic felt a bit underdressed compared to the newer roster. That's why we've gotten them clothed. Have a gander!

Getting these nudists all draped up should make things a little more consistent. Sorry to all of you that are big fans of senior citizen nudity.

We've also made some balance changes to a number of roles that will make it into the game by launch.

We reduced the score for quests, which should hit the Adventurer a bit. We also increased the score you gain for education and work XP, which should please the Workaholics out there.

The Shopaholic got a much needed buff when we gave the role relax bonuses upon purchase of furniture, but the role accidentally received sleep bonuses upon purchase as well, making a weird buy/sell economy of beds a part of the role's optimal playstyle. We've gotten rid of that nonsense.

The Senior is meant to kick back and do things other than working for the most part, but we felt the time penalty was the wrong way to encourage that. We've replaced the work time penalty with an increased attribute penalty, meaning that seniors who wish to put in some hours will be able to do so and make better use of their complain actions.

The Drifter's cash and work XP bonuses got decreased a while back, and we may have overdone it. We've rolled back the cash nerf to see where the role stands. The new job perks in Chailand might also open up new strategies for the role, so we'll be keeping an eye on them. What on earth could these perks do?

Finally, the Scavenger has felt a little weak. This is in part because one of the role's scavengeable items didn't make it into the game. After full release, you'll be able to find a little something that will help the Scavenger make it through school a bit faster, granting the role a potential education score boost.

Finally, we made some tuneups to the Mystic's visuals. The role is performing well in testing and we're super excited for you guys to try it!

Finally, we'd like to thank all of you for the fantastic reviews the game has received - it really helps smaller developers like us! Please drop us one if you haven't already and let us know what you think about the game! We're almost there, guys! Less than two weeks, now!

Are your suitcases packed? Good.

Get in loser, we're going to Chailand.

Chailand is a whole new map for Walk of Life that seeks to go a lot bigger than Calicornia. It features new locations, new game mechanics, new music, and a whole new vibe. Let's get right into it.

As you can see in the screenshot, a couple of locations from Calicornia have been split up. The first two tiers of aparments now have their own location, as well as a new landlady, which means that the grubby old misers are actually triplets, not twins!

Having the apartments located in separate locations, far away from each other, will give players a better feeling of progressing in life as they move from the slums to the fancier parts of town.

Another location that you might notice is missing is the Mall. Each of the stores has been made into a unique building: the Electronics Store, the Furniture Store, the Clothing Store, and the Pet Store. This allows us to give players jobs within each and every one of them (with new job perks!), as well as enlargen the map to better capture the atmosphere of a city.

But isn't traveling in this map going to take too long? Well, say hello to Chailand's public transportation system: The Metro!

There are two Metro stations in Chailand that players may use to travel quickly from one end of the map to the other. These aren't free, however, and you'll have to pick up passes from various locations in order to use the Metro.

Finally, there seems to be another new location on the map, which we'll get into in the next blog. Can you spot it?

We're super thankful for the reviews we have gotten from our community and would really appreciate one if you haven't given us one already - it really helps smaller developers like us!

That's it for now, see you next week!