DO NOT PLAY News

It’s me. Employee A.

The other day, while walking down the office hallway, I made eye contact with an employee I had never seen before.
I nodded politely, thinking, “Maybe they were a new hire?” But when I turned around a moment later, no one was there.
And yet, I’m certain our eyes met.
What unsettles me most is that I cannot recall their face at all, no matter how hard I try.

This time, at an indie game exhibition in Aichi called Aichi Game Castle 2, we’ll be leaving flyers and postcards for DO NOT PLAY.

If you have time, please stop by and check it out.

Event: Aichi Game Castle 2
URL: https://tokyogamedungeon.com/

Date: September 14 (Sun), 12:00–17:00
Venue: Winc Aichi (Aichi Industry & Labor Center), 7th Floor Exhibition Hall
　　　 4-4-38 Meieki, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, 450-0002
Booth: A-1,2

Employee A

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It’s me. Employee A.

Lately, I’ve been noticing strange sounds.
Sometimes while I’m typing, my hearing seems to fade…
The familiar rhythm of keystrokes starts to blur together with a dry clattering noise.
Maybe it’s because I recently rewatched the trailer for DO NOT PLAY.
It sounded eerily similar to the faint rattling when that final character’s head begins to twitch at the end.

This month, glitches kept happening on my machine.
But it seems the same thing has begun appearing for other employees as well.
Just the other day, several members of the dev team told me their PCs were experiencing the same errors.
When I checked, it turned out to be the same kind of blue screens and corrupted text that I’d seen on my own terminal.
The corrupted text wasn’t identical, but… strangely close.

Could it be that the restored data itself carries bugs?
After all, we’ve all been sharing the recovered files within the team.
What if one of them is spreading—like some kind of virus?
For now, we’re replacing our machines to protect regular work,
but we’ll still need to analyze which of the restored files has been corrupted.

Employee A

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It’s me. Employee A.

Lately, there’s been something strange happening during our online meetings.
Every now and then, the person on the other side of the camera looks… like someone else entirely.
Their voice, too—just slightly—sounds mechanical.
I kept telling myself it was nothing.
But during one meeting the other day, I knew for sure it wasn’t.

My screen was the only one acting up.
The video was distorted, and I couldn’t recognize a single face.
The emoji button I always use was warped, and the text looked like it had glitched into gibberish.
I grabbed my phone and snapped a picture in a hurry.

When I asked later, it turned out no one else had seen anything strange.
And yet… there was something even more unsettling.
Despite all the glitches, the red button that should have said “End Call” now just read “Call” —
as if it wasn’t meant to end anything, but to summon something.
It said only one word:

“call.”

It should have ended the meeting—but somehow, it felt like it was trying to summon something instead.
So I sat there, not touching it, until everyone else had left.



Employee A

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It’s me. Employee A.

I had a strange dream recently.

There was a large box with holes shaped like triangles and diamonds on its lid.
It was a simple game—drop blocks of various shapes into the corresponding holes.
A triangle block fits through the triangle hole, a diamond block through the diamond hole...

But then it got more complicated.
Some blocks were combinations of two shapes, or long pieces that had to be joined together.
At the end, I didn’t have a round block, so I brought my right hand closer to my face.
The room went completely dark after that, so I never found out if I had finished.

On a separate note, flyers and postcards for DO NOT PLAY will be available at the upcoming entertainment event ZUKUZUKU in Nagano Prefecture.

If you’re in the area, we encourage you to stop by and take a look.

Official Website: https://www.dreamworks-ent.com/
Event Hours:
・August 1st (Fri) – 12:00 to 17:00
・August 2nd (Sat) – 10:00 to 17:00
・August 3rd (Sun) – 10:00 to 17:00
Location:
1F Booth [6], Kitano Cultural Center
1603 Minami-Nagano, Nagano City, Nagano Prefecture, 380-0845, Japan


Employee A
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It’s me. Employee A.

There was a moment when I copied an entire folder—but when I checked, it was completely empty.
The folder had definitely been created, but there was nothing inside.
I tried copying it again, and this time, one of the files in the original folder had its name changed.
Its contents had been rewritten.
By who? When? How?
I can’t shake the feeling that someone is remotely accessing my machine—without permission.

Anyway, on to the main topic.
We can’t let the project stall just because the person in charge is still absent.
So, I reached out to another team to ask for someone who could take over the restoration work.
That said, people in the office are increasingly reluctant to talk about the project.
The atmosphere isn’t great.

“I heard they’re trying to gather new members for that project again.”
“One of the new members said they had a weird dream.”

Comments like that have started to pop up—around the sink, in the hallways.
Even so, we have to move forward.
Under a new structure, we’ll continue the restoration work as planned.

Employee A

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