FADING FORTUNES - FACT SHEET
https://fadingfortunes.com/press/

Every morning at nine, Madame Verity, the pier's old fortune machine, prints two names. By midnight, the card comes true.
A murder-mystery visual novel on a dying English pier: five days, five cards, and ink that fades in twenty minutes.

Genre:          Murder-mystery visual novel with deduction and repair puzzles
Platforms:      PC (Steam). iPhone, iPad and Android to follow.
Release date:   To be announced
Price:          To be announced
Languages:      English (full voice and text)
Length:         Five chapters, one for each day of the last week of the season
Controls:       Mouse, keyboard, touch or controller
Rating:         Mature: graphic violence and gore, dark themes
Website:        https://fadingfortunes.com
Press contact:  press@fadingfortunes.com

ABOUT
Halcyon Pier is closing for good. The rides are rusting, the lights are failing, and you're the electrician hired to keep
it running for one last week. Then the fortune machine that hasn't worked in eleven months starts printing cards. Two
names, a time and a place. The paper is warm. The ink fades in twenty minutes.
Photograph the card, record the room, or trust your memory. Question everyone. Catch the lie. And before midnight, put
the night back together, minute by minute.

FEATURES
- Cards that fade. Every card vanishes in twenty minutes, and you get one action: a photo, a recording, or nothing.
- Your phone is the case file. Replay voice memos, reread your notes, see the week on one timeline, and present the line
  that proves someone is lying to their face.
- Reconstruct the night. At the end of each day, walk back through the evidence and answer for every minute.
- Hands-on repairs. Rewire a contactor, restore a tripped board by torchlight, crank a stalled generator in a gale.
- Fully voiced. Every line is spoken. Play as Eli or Mia.
- Plays your way. Save anywhere, rewind to any decision, skip text you've read, play with a controller, replay any
  scene, and choose how the most violent scenes are shown.

HOW IT'S MADE
Story and design written with AI assistance and directed by the creator. Character art, backgrounds, stills and
cutscenes are made with generative AI image and video models from original designs, then curated. All voices are
text-to-speech with preset synthetic voices; no real person's voice is imitated. Music and sound are synthesised in code.

CONTENT WARNING
Graphic violence and gore, and scenes some players may find disturbing. The game asks how you'd like the most violent
scenes shown (in full, as a still image with a short description, or as a description only) and you can change it at
any time.

STREAMING AND VIDEOS
You're welcome to stream Fading Fortunes and make videos of it, and to monetise them. The music and sound are made in
code for the game, so there's no licensed music to trigger copyright claims. Please warn your viewers about graphic
content, and please keep the story's twists out of titles and thumbnails.