Show HN: 7-day jam became a 14-month build. satirical gun dating SIM (free)

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4 months ago

It's political satire about American gun culture, toxic masculinity, and radicalisation pipelines, built by a distributed async dev team across multiple continents. The project started as a 7-day game jam entry and spiralled into 14 months of development. Whoops.

It hit #2 on Steam's Upcoming Releases page before launch with 6,400+ wishlists.

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The scope creep from 7 days to 14 months is a case study in how small projects grow Unity, yarn We literally named the team Scope Creeps after this.. crept scope. We recorded 3+ hours of original in-game podcast content as a narrative delivery system The game features an original song from The Stupendium (YouTube creator, hundreds of millions of views) It's free — no microtransactions, no catch