BBox: Kingpin

We have wiki page

One place that tells you how the city actually works

This cycle was a cleanup, not a feature. But it is the kind of cleanup that pays off every time we build anything new from here, and it changes something for you too.

For months, everything we figured out about this game lived in scraps. A note on how heat spreads. A half-written page on how laundering splits the money. An idea file for the crime rate system that was really three ideas fighting each other. Formulas sketched in one place, the reasoning behind them in another, and a dozen small research docs that only made sense to whoever wrote them. It worked while the game was small. It stopped working a while ago.

So we ran an audit across all of it. Every loose doc, every idea note, every "we should write this down someday." We went through it, threw out what was dead, reconciled what contradicted, and pulled what was true into one place.

A living wiki, not a graveyard of docs

The result is a single wiki that is an honest snapshot of the game as it stands right now. Not how we hoped it would work six months ago. How it actually works today: the economy, heat and crime rate, betrayal, the way your crew makes its own decisions, the formulas underneath.

The important word is living. This is not a manual we write once and let rot. It updates as the game changes, so what you read matches the build you are playing. When a system shifts, the page shifts with it. That was the whole point of consolidating: one source of truth is only worth having if it stays true.

It belongs to you, not just to us

Here is the part that matters for players. This wiki is public, and it is becoming the game's manual.

The design of this game is that you cannot control your crew. Information is the only real edge you get. A reference that explains how heat accumulates, what actually happens when a member defects, or how a shakedown pays out is not spoiling anything. It is handing you the edge the game is built around. The simulation stays unpredictable. Now the rules it plays by are written down where you can read them.

We are wiring links from inside the game straight to the relevant page, so the "i" you tap on a system takes you to how that system works. That part is still going in, but the wiki itself is live now.

You can read it here: https://engngamestudio.github.io/bbox-wiki/

More soon.

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Imported from BBox: Kingpin on Steam. Steam genres: Indie, Simulation, Strategy.