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…
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. Wha…
New · Ban 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 bac…
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…
Shop items now do what they say All 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…
Added · WinBlows 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.…
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…
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…
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.io What it is, in case you forgot A 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.…
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