Buongiorno, signore e signori.

We are happy to finally reveal the long-awaited date. Load your guns and open the wine bottles! Don Duality, a pixelart tycoon game with card mechanics, will be finally released on 25th of August, 2023!

We are so excited that months of hard work are finally going to pay off. We've put all of our passion and love into this game, and the release, the thing that seemed so far away, will happen in less than a month. We are forever grateful for your support and patience.

Our team is immensely passionate about Don Duality, and if you are too - then please wishlist the game, spread the word, and follow our social media, where we will hold various activities throughout the next weeks.

Mark the 25th of August on your calendar and get ready to conquer the city. Rebuild your father's legacy!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2247570/Don_Duality


Don Duality is a thrilling tycoon game that challenges players to manage a dual life of crime and entrepreneurship. Build a criminal empire by sending your gangsters to collect debts, rob banks, and steal valuables. Use the money earned to launder it in your legitimate business establishment. As a restaurant owner, hire and train staff, and upgrade the facilities to attract more customers.

However, balancing both lives won't be easy, as criminal activities will attract unwanted attention from law enforcement. Make strategic decisions and weigh the risks carefully as you navigate the dangerous world of organized crime and business. Can you handle the duality of running a successful restaurant and leading a criminal syndicate? Wishlist Don Duality and find out!

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Buon pomeriggio, signore e signori, we are Königsborgs, developers for Don Duality. Here we go with the second part of our dev diaries!

We can’t say there are similar games as Don Duality. Honestly, the whole game was made on a clean slate without relying on any references. We initially thought about the experience we wanted to convey to the player - the duality of the life of a criminal, who in normal life seems to be a good citizen, but underground does dark deeds.

There were challenges mostly of a game design nature. Don Duality is not similar to most tycoons (we can hardly put it in this category), so we had to invent a lot of things from scratch. It was also important for us to make all the player's actions through the cards as much as possible, no other way, so it was not easy to invent.

Let's start with the fact that both coders in our team know this engine well enough to write virtually any 2D game. Besides, GameMaker is quite simple, reliable and can create builds for any technological platform.

The Sopranos, The Godfather, Ozark. Interestingly enough, at the time of the first game prototype development we were watching a TV series about money laundering. Perhaps it influenced the final idea of Don Duality.

That was funny! Honestly, There was no plan. We just decided that the factions should be symmetrically placed in the corners of the map, so the game would be more balanced. We placed the districts themselves so that the distance between the factions would be about the same in conventional squares. So there is no magic here. Although, based on the faction archetypes, we tried to place them in areas that fit them better. I think you can easily read the factions by their appearance and name, as well as their starting locations.

The biggest change is the mafia clan battle map. Although we originally planned something similar, in the initial plan we thought that there would be no other mafias on the map except for the Duality family, but in the end we came to the conclusion that initially the Duality family controlled the city and prevented other clans from taking the lead, but after the death of the father of the family, the Duality's position weakened a lot, as a result we have at the beginning of the game a state where all clans are about equal for the control of the city after a bloody war.

Grazie per your interest in our game, support and feedback! We look forward to your questions and thoughts!


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Don Duality is a thrilling tycoon game that challenges players to manage a dual life of crime and entrepreneurship. Build a criminal empire by sending your gangsters to collect debts, rob banks, and steal valuables. Use the money earned to launder it in your legitimate business establishment. As a restaurant owner, hire and train staff, and upgrade the facilities to attract more customers.

However, balancing both lives won't be easy, as criminal activities will attract unwanted attention from law enforcement. Make strategic decisions and weigh the risks carefully as you navigate the dangerous world of organized crime and business. Can you handle the duality of running a successful restaurant and leading a criminal syndicate? Wishlist Don Duality and find out!

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Ciao, friends!

We are happy to announce that Don Duality, a pixelart tycoon game with card mechanics, will be participating in the upcoming Steam Next Fest on June 19, 2023!

What you can do to help us during the fest:

• play the Don Duality DEMO on Steam during the Next Fest until June 26;
  
• watch live streams;
  
• add the game to your wishlist;
  
• join us on other social media!

See you at Steam Next Fest!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2247570/Don_Duality

Don Duality is a thrilling tycoon game that challenges players to manage a dual life of crime and entrepreneurship. Build a criminal empire by sending your gangsters to collect debts, rob banks, and steal valuables. Use the money earned to launder it in your legitimate business establishment. As a restaurant owner, hire and train staff, and upgrade the facilities to attract more customers.

However, balancing both lives won't be easy, as criminal activities will attract unwanted attention from law enforcement. Make strategic decisions and weigh the risks carefully as you navigate the dangerous world of organized crime and business. Can you handle the duality of running a successful restaurant and leading a criminal syndicate? Wishlist Don Duality and find out!

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Hello friends,

we are Königsborgs, Don Duality devs. We would like to tell you about our game, its development and a bit about us!

The team was formed spontaneously, during a jam, and includes the main programmer, who isn't even a gamemaker at all, the artist, the animator (he is only 15 years old!), the composer and, finally, the game designer. The game designer links the team together and, besides game design, he also deals with code and a bit of special effects. We can say that all of us in the team are self-taught.

And now, about our brainchild - Don Duality! The idea for the game came right on the first day of the jam, as it usually happens. The concept of making a tycoon with mafia money laundering through a restaurant belonged to the main programmer of the project, and the game designer just added the card interaction mechanics. In two days we made a playable prototype and posted it on the jam site, but then completely forgot about it for a month.

One of the WIPs.

After a while we remembered Don Duality and the Indie Cup festival, where in the end we decided to upload the improved version and even made the game trailer out of whatever we could. After a while our team started to receive cooperation offers, and the game was signed by the publisher Ravenage.

The idea of the game is totally innovative. How can we describe Don Duality? Originality. Addictiveness. Simple controls. As they say, easy to learn - hard to master.

The main difficulty is managing the balance. We're working on it all the time, and it's still not perfect.

The way the game looks now.

The setting was born from the game's theme of "duality." So, the title occurred literally as soon as we thought about the mafia and the restaurant. The Italian trace is more of a popular trope associated with the image of the Mafia. There is no direct inspiration for the game, although it is the mechanics with events that we took from the board game Hunted. Some of the events will have references to the real ones or from the movies. I dare say that Don Duality is a new genre that combines a card game, management, and strategy.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2247570/Don_Duality

Don Duality is a thrilling tycoon game that challenges players to manage a dual life of crime and entrepreneurship. Build a criminal empire by sending your gangsters to collect debts, rob banks, and steal valuables. Use the money earned to launder it in your legitimate business establishment. As a restaurant owner, hire and train staff, and upgrade the facilities to attract more customers.

However, balancing both lives won't be easy, as criminal activities will attract unwanted attention from law enforcement. Make strategic decisions and weigh the risks carefully as you navigate the dangerous world of organized crime and business. Can you handle the duality of running a successful restaurant and leading a criminal syndicate? Wishlist Don Duality and find out!

Join us on social media to stay updated on the latest news and events in Don Duality!

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Buongiorno, signore e signori,

we're participating in the GUERRILLA COLLECTIVE ONLINE SHOWCASE on June 7 at 10:10 am (Pacific Time), where you'll see a great trailer featuring our Don, and through June 13 you can see us at the event https://store.steampowered.com/sale/guerrillacollective2023


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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2247570/Don_Duality

Don Duality is a thrilling tycoon game that challenges players to manage a dual life of crime and entrepreneurship. Build a criminal empire by sending your gangsters to collect debts, rob banks, and steal valuables. Use the money earned to launder it in your legitimate business establishment. As a restaurant owner, hire and train staff, and upgrade the facilities to attract more customers.

However, balancing both lives won't be easy, as criminal activities will attract unwanted attention from law enforcement. Make strategic decisions and weigh the risks carefully as you navigate the dangerous world of organized crime and business. Can you handle the duality of running a successful restaurant and leading a criminal syndicate? Wishlist Don Duality and find out!

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Buongiorno, signore e signori!

We in the family, run a tight crew, everyone putting their fair share of work towards its prosperity.

Since the release of the Initiation last Friday we've getting a lot of feedback regarding the game and we've already implemented some of the changes to make it even better.

Here's the changelog for the update:

• Ability to skip the Court scene straight to the verdict
  
• New "Objection!" animation
  
• The START button in the Court now only appears after the first roll of the slot machine
  
• New bold font for the personnel of the restaurant and the family soldiers
  
• Names of the characters no longer overlap each other
  
• Fixed a critical issue of a gangster disappearing after returning from the mission

We'll continue our work on improving the Initiation for all our new-found members of the family, stay tuned.

The prologue is just a taste of what's to come in this thrilling journey of power, deception, and fine Italian cuisine!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2388170/Don_Duality_Initiation

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Buongiorno, signore e signori!
When entering our restaurant armed - leave the gun. Take the cannoli!

On behalf of the Don, we are starting the Capo di Tutti Challenge!

• For the next 7 days - till 9 AM PDT May the 1st you can share your favorite mafia-related memory, be it a movie scene or a screenshot from a game in replies to this Twitter thread
  
• No limits to submissions, but check for doubles before posting yours
  
• A winning impression (decided by the developer, as well as a popular vote) will be re-created in Don Duality at a later date

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2247570/Don_Duality

Don Duality is a thrilling tycoon game that challenges players to manage a dual life of crime and entrepreneurship. Build a criminal empire by sending your gangsters to collect debts, rob banks, and steal valuables. Use the money earned to launder it in your legitimate business establishment. As a restaurant owner, hire and train staff, and upgrade the facilities to attract more customers.

However, balancing both lives won't be easy, as criminal activities will attract unwanted attention from law enforcement. Make strategic decisions and weigh the risks carefully as you navigate the dangerous world of organized crime and business. Can you handle the duality of running a successful restaurant and leading a criminal syndicate? Wishlist Don Duality and find out!

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Buongiorno, signore e signori!

This is Mike, your faithful consigliere and I come to you with good news!

I’m excited to announce the release of the Don Duality: Initiation, free prologue of the latest addition to our family of indie games. In this pixel art tycoon game with card mechanics, you'll build your empire and dominate the criminal underworld of a 20th-century mafia parody world.

Step into the world of the Don, where running a restaurant is just the tip of the iceberg. In Don Duality, you'll manage your restaurant while navigating the dangerous waters of the criminal underworld. Laundering money, while trying to avoid police attention.

The prologue is just a taste of what's to come in this thrilling journey of power, deception, and fine Italian cuisine!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2388170/Don_Duality_Initiation

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