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Steam News · 4d
Permaban is 25% off on Steam from October 19 to November 2. If it has been sitting on your wishlist waiting for a quiet weekend, this is the one. A forum moderator sim set in 2007: a queue of posts to judge, a rulebook to cite, a desktop full of things to click on that have nothing to do with your job, and a campaign that fits in an evening with an endless mode after it. Version 1.1.0 is in develo...
Steam News · Oct 9
Version 1.1.0 is currently in development and is scheduled for release in November. Here's what it includes. Command Prompt Start > Run..., type cmd, and the desktop gets its black window. dir, cd and tree walk the real My Documents folder, tracert names the routers after the regulars, and format c: asks Y/N before Stapley steps in. A toy, same as the calculator. Nothing in it touches the moderati...
Steam News · Sep 29
Hey mods, Two reports from a Wave 6 / Endless session, both fixed. FixedStapley quit in a loop. His Wave 6 resignation came back every 30 seconds no matter what you answered, and Endless got one every half minute for the whole shift. He now quits once per run. Answer him and it stays answered. "Fine, leave" means it. Letting him go used to close the balloon and nothing else; he was back with a tip...
Steam News · Sep 28
If you play on a Mac and the game kept asking for microphone access, this is the fix. The game never records anything. macOS was reading the way the audio engine opens headphones and USB interfaces as a mic request, and it asked again on every launch because the app was unsigned. The Mac build is now signed so the system stops asking, and the game no longer sits behind that dialog.Nothing changes ...
Steam News · Sep 14
Hey mods,Another maintenance patch. Nothing here adds content. Every item is the game doing what it already claimed to do, plus two things it should have claimed. If you hit anything that still feels off, the discussion board is the fastest way to reach me. Thanks for reading the rules before you moderate.The flame war penalty is gone. When a thread boiled over, the game took 3 rep between your ac...
Steam News · Sep 12
I did not expect this many of you. Permaban is a game about reading a forum in 2007, made mostly by one person, and I went into launch week hoping a handful of people would find it. Instead the reviews, the discussion threads and the emails kept coming, from moderators who said it felt accurate to people who had never touched a forum and stuck with it anyway. Thank you. I read every one of them, a...
Steam News · Sep 8
It's 2007 and you're the unpaid mod of a dying forum. Every ban needs a rule behind it, and the people you punish come back to argue. Inspired by Papers, Please, minus the clock.Launch price is $4.99, 55% off until September 18.A campaign runs about 40-60 minutes, longer if you poke at the desktop, which you should. Endless mode holds the rest.If something breaks, the discussion board is the place...
Steam News · Aug 21
Permaban leaves Coming Soon on Tuesday, September 8, at 10 AM Pacific / 1 PM Eastern / 17:00 UTC.$4.99, with 25% off for the first ten days.It's 2007 and you're the unpaid mod of a dying forum. Every post is a judgment call, every ban needs a rule behind it, and the people you punish come back to argue.If you wishlisted this back in spring, the game got bigger while you weren't looking. What's in ...
Steam News · Aug 13
NewBan Appeals. The people you banned come back to argue. After Wave 2 the shift does not start until you clear a queue of three cases: the post you banned, quoted with the rule you cited, and their side underneath. Two buttons, no tools. Sometimes they are right. The plea never tells you which. From Wave 3 on it is optional overtime.Overturn a ban that was sound and the account comes back next sh...
Steam News · Aug 7
Your first shift ends. You click through to the second one.The board does not load.General Error / Could not connect to the database. Debug mode is on, because of course it is. Line 118, db/mysql4.php.Then NSM Messenger blinks.It's the Head Admin. The database server fell over and he's rebooting it. He is not happy about it either. The box is from 2003 and he has asked for a new one nine times. La...
Steam News · Aug 2
Shop items now do what they sayAll four consumables (2x Points, Rep Shield, Mountain Dood, Borton AV) were being cleared the moment you left the shop, before the first post of the wave you bought them for. Spam Filter was sold as PERMANENT and its only effect was a one-time bump that decayed on its own. Both work properly now. Their prices have never been playtested against working effects, so tel...
Steam News · Jul 30
AddedWinBlows Picture & Fax Viewer. A .bmp used to open in Microshaft Pant, which is not where Winblows XD opened one. Now it opens in the viewer, and Pant is where you go to draw on it. Previous and Next walk every picture in the folder, arrow keys too, and your own saved drawings are in that rotation alongside the photos. Best Fit and Actual Size, zoom from 25% to 400%, rotate either way. The Ed...
Steam News · Jul 28
Hello, fellow moderators.The media player on the desktop was a prop with a chiptune behind it. It is a media player.Six tracks stream as real MP3s, and the filename the LCD scrolls is the actual file. When one ends it advances to the next, like a playlist should.The seek bar is draggable. Click or drag anywhere on it to scrub. The elapsed clock and the thumb follow the real playhead instead of cou...
Steam News · Jul 27
Here is what the last stretch of work went into.A real desktop version. Permaban started as a browser game. It now also runs as a proper application on Windows, Mac and Linux, with achievements, Cloud saves, and a friends list that will announce which wave you are stuck on.Interweb Exploder. There is a browser inside the game now. Ten sites you can actually visit, five adware toolbars stacked on t...
Steam News · May 7
Hey everyone, thanks for the wishlist. Quick update: the Steam build is still cooking, but the browser version went live on itch today, so you can play Permaban right now while you wait. Play Permaban free on itch.ioWhat it is, in case you forgotA forum moderator simulator set in 2007. You moderate a phpBB-style community, deciding what to do with each post: warn, ban, lock, or leave alone.The cle...