v0.3 PC/Linux:
ImperialBureaucracyHero-v0.3-pc.zip ~ pixeldrain
v0.3 Mac:
ImperialBureaucracyHero-v0.3-mac.zip ~ pixeldrain
It's finally here. A big, version-advancing update with the new city of Dylershaven by the sea - a smaller scale than Crescyt, where the individual can shine brighter, and hearts are less broken. A fir...
2025-11-16 02:30:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Imperial Bureaucracy Hero v0.3alpha2 is available.
ALPHA WARNINGS/DEVLOG:
A mountain of bug fixes, spelling fixes, grammar corrections, phrasing/writing edits, adding in missing lines
Special thanks to Shovern for crucial help in this respect. A Hero of the Holy Administration!
This is pretty much the final version. Open beta for the discord in a few days, then waiting on the Steam page approval and full pub...
2025-11-08 07:40:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Imperial Bureaucracy Hero v0.3alpha1 is (finally) available.
ALPHA WARNINGS/DEVLOG:
It's here! Sweet Emperor, it's here.
98% done. All the coding goodness SHOULD be there, but it's still not recommended to make this your 'real' save.
Submitting the Steam page for review tomorrow, fingers crossed!
Certain h-scenes are not repeatable during this release. The next update should add them as repeat...
2025-11-01 09:53:13 +0000 UTC View Post
A slice of a cozy place you'll visit, once a haven from the storms; now it seems that Dylershaven is caught in calm weather. But you can see the clouds on the horizon...
Would you believe me if I said the manically productive part of production is still going? Dumping endless 1000s of words and images and now sounds into the bottomless pit will, eventually, fill it up. Almost there, but by the Emperor, it has been a torturous process. Dev builds are rolling out, final pieces falling in ...
2025-09-30 04:16:57 +0000 UTC View Post
It's finally done. Over a month after that rough sketch posted previously and half a year past the napkin I scribbled the first version into during lunch...
I'll cut down the usual paragraphs of dev rambling and let the image speak for itself; needless to say it took many hours to make, and it and its derivatives will be used in marketing on Itch and (soon) Steam and anywhere else from here on out.
The smaller and far more important Steam 'capsules' - basically the art that shows ...
2025-08-21 03:14:25 +0000 UTC View Post
I assure you, making Sister Syrene the most prominent character on all the new Steam page assets is absolutely necessary. I've done the research, all the cool games are doing it!
Spent most of the working weekend making the Steam page graphics. I had only the faintest idea of how deep the rabbit hole goes on 'Steam capsule theory' - this is just a fraction of the assets I'm sitting on, cut up and rearranged to maximize appeal while still looking true-to-game monochrome.
Had to di...
2025-08-18 04:28:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Where's our auditor? What's he reading? I can answer that last one. It might be Dylershaven's Eyes Abroad, a serious foreign-affairs gazette for serious men. Or it could be The Crescyt Chronicler, one of only 39 newspapers with that exact name in that huge High City! Or some other third thing.
Putting down my chisel and hammer to update you all on the update, since people start to get reasonable fears when the radio silence goes on too long. I am firmly in that maniac...
2025-08-11 04:20:41 +0000 UTC View Post
For once, you're not the one getting shot at.
FORTRESS UNBARRED: Greatcoat billowing behind, chemrifle ready to end a concrete wall or a life - blink, and you can see it. A hundred, a thousand just like her, rushing across the mud, firing, falling, finding their targets or their graves.
2025-07-28 04:57:45 +0000 UTC View Post
This one's a little shabbier but many swear by her, especially the kids - and her forgiveness forms are just as good, right?
By the way, they're not 'toys', they're worship aids!
2025-07-22 04:27:31 +0000 UTC View Post
This one's got poise and hose and altogether too-greedy a stare than a Daughter of the Emperor ought...
Those scraps of paper don't come cheap, but who can put a price on your immortal soul?
2025-07-21 05:29:25 +0000 UTC View Post
A pair of rats on the grill-mesh and the first crack in her mask. Accumulation tactics, bitter memories, but she still chases their taste and just can't move on...
2025-07-13 06:18:48 +0000 UTC View Post
A lively wharf along Grey Street with seller's stalls and oddly entrepreneurial orphans & nuns. A place for side stories to flourish and main quests to meander through. Breath in the salt air and listen to songs from distant shores; the clink of silver; the shouts, the laughter, and life in the City by the Sea.
A much more appealing counterpart to the Noirmarket in the depths of Crescyt. My 'fantasy' for IBH, the ideal game I get to make, has always had this as its soul - walking ar...
2025-07-10 03:57:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Imperial Bureaucracy Hero v0.2.91alpha1 is available.
ALPHA WARNINGS/DEVLOG:
Replay Gallery is fully implemented! Will update it with new scenes from here on out
Access from the Main Menu
Please let me know if the unlocks work. I think 1-3 of them might be bugged out and require re-playing
Due to bad coding by past-me, some h-scene replays may be unlocked even if you skipped past them
A soldier. A sinner. All lijkorpsers are both, but few live to this age. To be a woman of few words who still holds a debt, yet the creditor is long gone, yet the shadow remains...
FORTRESS UNBARRED: Chemfire crackles like fat dripping into grill flames. Guerrakoak gas and corpse-stench settles at the bottom of a crater. Too-young same faces press themselves into mud and pray.
70311-87K: She does not reply for a long while. A second turns to ten and then-7031...
2025-06-26 04:03:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Spent part of the weekend banging this Replay Gallery into shape - all the UI crud is done and now I'm converting scenes to be replay-ready en masse. Music tags, end replay tags, some fiddly stuff... might do custom thumbnails too, definitely in a later update.
Thankfully Renpy already has a built-in replay function - it's been keeping track the whole time, you just have to add the flesh to the bones. So this will be 100% backwards compatible with your saves, no need to go back and play...
2025-06-23 04:43:16 +0000 UTC View Post
This is an updated build of v0.2.9 with a ton of bugfixes, edits, spelling corrections, etc. All of this is bundled into the upcoming v0.2.91, but I'm releasing the fixed build right now. Notably, the Panoply-specific scene on the train is kind of broken without this.
IBH v0.2.9 PC
https://pixeldrain.com/u/w6V1Q1Qm
IBH v0.2.9 MAC
No fun alliteration titles this time. Just a bit of news and a crumb of early work.
I'm all ahead full on v0.3 and Dylershaven right now! Writing, art, all the good things. In the meantime a small taste of new content and, more importantly, a bunch of critical bug fixes for v0.2.9 will be released as v0.2.91 in about a week.
Above is an early concept sketch for the Steam page key art! Hoping to publish that page within a month or two, fingers crossed.
2025-06-11 04:35:00 +0000 UTC View Post
v0.2.9 PC:
ImperialBureaucracyHero-v0.2.9-pc.zip ~ pixeldrain
v0.2.9 Mac:
ImperialBureaucracyHero-v0.2.9-mac.zip ~ pixeldrain
A long-overdue update that fully finishes the vision for the M4SRN; stories in the station and events while riding the rails. A slice of comedy, a taste of tragedy, and mundanity mixed with lore - th...
2025-06-03 19:11:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Imperial Bureaucracy Hero v0.2.9alpha1 is available.
ALPHA WARNINGS:
I clicked through it to make sure there's no crashes, but plenty of grammar errors probably remain. I'll be full playing it this weekend to weed out all those errors and then pushing alpha2.
Some stories are missing some Minor Facet dialogue.
the 5th and final Train Event with the lyn Lennis overseer is not complete! Everything else is.
2025-05-30 06:33:56 +0000 UTC View Post
v0.2.8 PC:
https://pixeldrain.com/u/CTVf3DHF
v0.2.8 Mac:
https://pixeldrain.com/u/QHpEoCub
A small interim update while I work on v0.3 - a return to the Noirmarket starring a fan favorite and foreshadowing future bloodshed deep under Crescyt.
New Story Arc: ”SUNK SKULL SWAN SONG”
In the Noirm...
2025-04-17 15:44:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Imperial Bureaucracy Hero v0.2.81alpha1 is available.
ALPHA WARNINGS/DEVLOG:
- A short followup for Maira in the Undercity.
- One 100% complete scene
- That's it
- Will likely make it repeatable and maybe a bit more before posting to public this week. Development on v0.3 continues in the background
https://pixeldrain.com/u/koCP5wyP
Download siz...
2025-04-14 04:29:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Pictured: the Docks of Dylershaven
I often post rambling devblogs, previews, or bizarre future lore rants on the IBH Discord - but there's a lot of members here that aren't there, so I'll start porting 'em over to Patreon.
I've been quiet for a bit too long. Here's the plan, as it stands.
The next couple updates will be small and frequent - v0.2.81, 82, etc. Tying up loose ends all across Crescyt, adding repeatable scenes, expanding rail features, etc. Small bits o...
2025-04-14 04:20:05 +0000 UTC View Post
v0.2.8 PC:
https://pixeldrain.com/u/qdqXyuWD
v0.2.8 Mac:
https://pixeldrain.com/u/G9FpZHxx
A new stop along the rail to flesh out the road to Dylershaven and v0.3; the game dev relearns how to write good after a monthslong vacation in Audio Update land. Your journey can end with a bullet; a brush with the real powers-that-b...
2025-03-30 18:21:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Imperial Bureaucracy Hero v0.2.8alpha2 is available.
ALPHA WARNINGS/DEVLOG:
A new destination along the rail
A new collection of stories along the Tisrec River, overlooking the city Sānto Vaillant
Some soldiers watching the City
Figures by the riverbank
Rubble and ruin and a watchful eye within...
Sounds and music are fully co...
2025-03-27 03:55:05 +0000 UTC View Post
v0.2.7 PC:
https://pixeldrain.com/u/wxnfn3ko
v0.2.7 Mac:
https://pixeldrain.com/u/WDfK2RnP
The intro is no longer a black background exposition dump. Hard drives worldwide weep at 200+ mb of new audio files. Times are changing in Imperial Bureaucracy Hero, with music and sound and modern ...
2025-02-26 17:46:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Imperial Bureaucracy Hero v0.2.7alpha1 is available.
ALPHA WARNINGS/DEVLOG:
- Sound effects and music have been added to most of the game!
- Story arcs with full audio in this Alpha:
- The entire Soupline story, everything
- The entire Mecanique/Cosleen story
- The Pleading Pit story
- The Woman in the Walls (Chainway stalker)
- Frenqui Spire s...
2025-02-22 17:29:44 +0000 UTC View Post
v0.2.6 PC:
ImperiumBureaucracyHero-v0.2.6-pc.zip
v0.2.6 Mac:
ImperiumBureaucracyHero-v0.2.6-mac.zip
The very start of your journey beyond the confines of Crescyt; the rail line unlocks and you can find a toehold in the forest of the Risznest. There are friendly faces by the railside, and you can rest before the trials to co...
2025-01-14 16:59:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Imperium Bureaucracy Hero v0.2.6alpha1 is available.
ALPHA WARNINGS/DEVLOG:
- Some minor content is missing, I think there's a few visual bugs with rail travel I'm ironing out
- This isn't the railway's final form, not even close! I had to cut seatmate conversations to post v0.2.6 on time, but that's getting added next update and expanded more and more with each update after
- Other rail features are not present, this is just the ...
2025-01-13 06:34:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Cásla, one of the denizens of Javůreck, a town by the rail and the Risznest. Victim of a war that ended twenty years before she was born, but no less vibrant for it.
Those are proper wood prosthetics - they don't have fancy motile augmentics for girls that stepped on UXO in a backwater forest town. Swap out the hook for a hammer, hobble around. It's a good life, all told.
2025-01-09 05:07:23 +0000 UTC View Post
SIPRIAN-01-01-hCre Supraterminal Suprême, the primary rail station of the M4SRN in High Crescyt. Capable of loading/offloading trains on the Imperial Intercontinental Standard Gauge of 3 meters, with platforms to service the double-decked passenger cars typical of such journeys.
For the auditor, it's the gateway to the rest of the world. Emblazoned above every gate:
Where the rail leads, the eagle follows.
The motto of the Marqui IV Supracité Rail...
2025-01-05 06:28:21 +0000 UTC View Post