I Was a Teenage Exocolonist News

[p]🍄🚀 I Was a Teenage Exocolonist 🍄🚀 has been everyone's favorite solarpunk time loop stats-raising coming of age narrative/sim game for three years! As is tradition, we're celebrating our Exoversary with a half price sale, a free demo, a dev stream, and our biggest ever (physically big that is) plushie campaign![/p][p][/p][h3]🎨🎙️ Developer draw & talk[/h3][p]Join us on Thursday, August 28 at 9am PT / 12pm ET on the Finji Twitch Stream for chatting and doodles with devs Sarah, Mei, Lindsay, and our host Aster from Finji. There will be giveaways!![/p][p][/p][h3]🛒🕹️Sale and demo[/h3][p]⁠The Exocolonist demo features the full first year of the game, and if you want to keep playing you can continue smoothly into the rest of the game with a 50% discount this week![/p][p] [/p][h3]👾🧸Faceless and friends[/h3][p]We're doing another limited time plushie campaign with Makeship! This time for a jumbo-sized faceless plushie that comes with two mini accessory sized dolls of Dys and Sym![/p][p] [/p][p][/p][p]Yes I lied before when I said we wouldn't make any more! Who could resist taking that big squiggly wiggly stompy baddie and turning her into the cutest eldritch puppy dog? Just look at that face! (what face?)[/p][p][/p][p] [/p][p][/p][h3]Limited time only campaign[/h3][p]This time we have three weeks to get a minimum of 200 orders. On September 16 the campaign ends, and if we've met our goal then every plushie will be made-to-order for our backers and delivered in December. After that, no more will be made! There's a special bonus for the first 200 orders which will be delivered at the end of September.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p](Sol doll for scale)[/p][p][/p][h3]She's big![/h3][p]This faceless plush is jumbo sized, quite a bit bigger than our previous Makeship dolls. And Dys and Sym are keychain sized little fellers that tuck snuggly into those squiggly wigglers (you can tell at least Sym enjoys it). It would be pretty easy to actually turn them into purse charms if you're crafty.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Happy Exoversary! Come join us on Discord to celebrate with the devs!

- Sarah ːexosmileː[/p]

[p]Savez-vous que les devs who made I Was a Teenage Exocolonist sons Canadienne? C'est vrai bud, and so are more Steam games than you might realize. During this year's summer sale, we're celebrating our hoser status with 300 other Canuck developers and their ben bons jeux. They're aboot hockey, beavers, and maple syrup, just like Exocolonist, eh?

🍁Get out there and give'r, ferda!🍁

(sorry!)[/p][p]-Sarah [/p]

Not only has the I Was a Teenage Exocolonist fandom kept the story going with fic (336 works and counting on AO3), they’ve been busy modding the game and making rad fan merch. Northway Games has always granted permission for anyone to sell fan merch of our games using their own original art. It feels so amazing to have a piece of Exocolonist fandom hanging from my bag or dangling from my ears, out here in the real world.

So here’s a showcase! (this is a repost from the Northway Games blog which is so popular it got 4500 spam comments last month when I accidentally broke the recaptcha)



Mei’s wooden charms

Exocolonist artist Mei (@bkomei) just announced preorders for the cuuuuuuuutest wooden character charms, with unique shapes and different pictures on the two sides. They’re so slick! I love that they’re in a different chibi style than Mei used in the game, but they still give 100% Exocolonist vibes.

Preorder them here: https://bkomei.bigcartel.com



Mei’s also selling several prints of their in-game illustrations, and making these cool interactive CD jewel case charms that are just beautiful and all kinds of nostalgic. These will be a limited run so get one while you can!




Glow Season by Lindsay Ishihiro (on my wall o stuff)

Exocolonist writer/artist Lindsay also has semi-official prints available on Inprnt. I love this one of the gang telling stories around a campfire, the colors are sooooo purdy. There are also prints available of Lindsay’s creature art from in the game.

All here: https://www.inprnt.com/frames/neomeruru



Poayo’s shop recently added keychains from guest artist Begonia

With everything from stickers to acrylic standees to body pillows, Poayo’s Etsy shop covers a lot of ground featuring their own fanart style. They regularly post new goodies on r/Exocolonist (Reddit profile) and the Seraphic Discord, so keep an eye there to snag the new-and-hots before they sell out.

Yes even body pillows I wasn’t kidding

I’ve come across a few other online stores with Exo merch out there, but let’s move on to one of my favorite fan creations:





Available on NexusMods.

This overhaul of the first year of the game introduces a bunch of new characters, even animated and on the map. New storylines, locations, backgrounds, cutscenes, activities, items. It’s really a LOT more than you imagine.



They’re calling it a beta and I hope we get to see more, but in its current state ExtraColonist is absolutely worth playing once you reach the end of the official content and want more. It’s easy to install and jump into with a fresh game (you can keep your groundhogs/past memories). Team Seraphic (Patreon / tip jar here) has done an amazing job. What an absolute labor of love.

New scenes with characters old and new

I love this kid

Download it from Nexus Mods: https://www.nexusmods.com/iwasateenageexocolonist/mods/5/
Team Seraphic socials: https://seraphic.ju.mp
Poayo is part of the team and sells ExtraColonist merch too: https://poayosuniverse.etsy.com



The Finji Store still has pinnies, stickers, tees and hawaiian shirts available. We’re selling a physical card game at cost via Gamecrafters. And you’ve seen my posts for print-on-demand xmas sweaters and other clothes.

We’ve done five plushies through Makeship and although these are one-off productions, I have a few squirreled away under the bed (literally) for some future giveaway. Makeship has also been bugging me to do another doll so you never know… join the Official Discord or follow Exocolonist on Steam to hear more!

- Sarah ːnyaaː

Do you need a break? To lose yourself in a fantasy sci-fi world? One that, while perhaps reflecting our own in some ways, does so in warm layers of distance and abstraction and comforting nonconformity? Then come with us, and forget about our shared real life problems for a minute. Let's hang out with some fictional teenagers out in space somewhere instead. I'm sure everything will work out just fine for them.

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist will be 50% off during the Visual Novel Fest from March 3 - 10, then again for the Steam Spring Sale on March 13-20.

Don't miss all the other narrative games on sale this spring!

From February 17-24, I Was a Teenage Exocolonist will be featured alongside the best recent and upcoming interactive fiction and narrative games on Steam. If you like stories that move you, choices that matter, and word counts in the hundreds of thousands, this festival is for you:

[h2]📖The Storyteller's Festival📖[/h2]

2025 edition! Last year's festival included my personal recommends Scarlet Hollow and Slay the Princess. What will this year bring???

To celebrate the Exocolonist demo will be live for a limited time. It includes the first year of the game (about 2 hours of gameplay) and can be played multiple times.

Happy reading!

- Sarah ːnyaaː