Grand Rapids, Michigan - August 25th, 2022: FINJI, the indie publisher behind award-winning indie titles TUNIC, Chicory: A Colorful Tale and Night in the Woods are proud to announce their new game I Was A Teenage Exocolonist is available starting today, August 25th on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch, as well as PC, Mac & Linux on Steam, Humble, Epic Games Store and itch.io for $24.99/€23.99/£21.59.
Watch the Launch Trailer here!
Developed by Northway Games, I Was A Teenage Exocolonist will ask you to spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
“It's release day! The team and I have been eagerly waiting to open the gates and invite everyone to come explore our beautiful planet Vertumna,” says Sarah Northway, Game Design and Direction at Northway Games, “I hope you find it as charming, thrilling, moving, and fun as we do, and I can't wait to hear what sort of Teenage Exocolonist you'll be. Vertumna awaits!”
I Was A Teenage Exocolonist Features are:
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Use memories of past lives to explore 800+ story events.
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Discover more than 250 battle cards as you grow up on an alien planet.
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Play your best hand in challenge encounters to ace your math test or escape from a wild snapbladder.
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Make friends, fight with your parents, go on dates, fall in love, and save the colony.
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29 wildly different endings based on the choices you make each month.
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Pick from 25 colony jobs, like goofing off as a depot clerk, or surveying the valley.
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Grow into 15 skills, including bravery, toughness, organization, and empathy.
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Get to know 10 dateable characters, including dog-boys, aliens, hot politicians and stone cold killers.
More details about I Was A Teenage Exocolonist can be found on the official website here, as well as more details on FINJI’s upcoming projects here.
Find assets for I Was A Teenage Exocolonist here.
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About FINJI
FINJI is a mom-and-pop game studio founded by Adam and Rebekah Saltsman in 2006. FINJI is currently publishing Chicory: A Colorful Tale, Tunic and I Was A Teenage Exocolonist, has in the past published Night in the Woods, and recently launched their turn-based survival game Overland. Previous projects include Canabalt, Wilmot’s Warehouse, and legacy console titles. FINJI is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, but works with collaborators from around the world. Follow FINJI on Twitter at @finjico.
About the Exocolonist Team
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Sarah Northway (she/her): Game Design and Direction- Sarah has been making games since the early days of Flash, including the Rebuild and Fantastic Contraption series. She now runs Northway Games from beautiful Vancouver, Canada.
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Meilee Chao (they/them): Character Art, Sprites, and Animation- Mei is a nonbinary illustrator and character artist from South Carolina.Their first major indie project, Exocolonist features a range of faces and impractical fashion that Mei hopes to inject into their own projects. Mei is often immersed in playing narrative and puzzle games or making baby steps on their own developments.
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Lindsay Ishihiro (any/none): Writing and Creature Sprites- Lindsay is a writer and comic artist, and the creator of comics Motherlover and How Baby. Lindsay enjoys playing building and management games and making fictional characters kiss.
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Eduardo Vargas (he/him): Background illustrations and sprites- Ed grew up in a small town in Costa Rica and studied graphic design in college. He eventually flew to LA and studied to become a concept artist. Now after many coincidences and strokes of luck, he’s a visual development artist working for animation and games and enjoying every second of it.
Additional Team Members: Diego De la Rocha, Sarah Webb, Leanne Roed, Sarah Roland and
Em Halberstadt (A Shell in The Pit).
The OST is made by an assortment of guest artists to be revealed later.