A Juno Steel Dating Simulator

A fan project for The Penumbra Podcast, out now!  You play as detective Juno Steel, a lady whose love life takes a turn when he meets a mysterious Agent, a dashing Thief, and a charming fellow Detective.

[thiefofheartstpp]

Thief of Hearts - A Juno Steel Dating Sim is out now!

You play as detective Juno Steel, a lady whose love life seems about as barren as the deserts of Mars. Over the course of a few days, this is completely turned around when he meets the mysterious Rex Glass, dashing Duke Rose, and fellow detective Perseus Shah. Who will Juno choose to date? Will Rita be quiet long enough for Juno to get a word in? Why do all these men look so familiar? It’s up to you to find out!

Gameplay

The player chooses which character to date (Rex Glass, Duke Rose, Perseus Shah, or...) each night. In the mornings, follow Juno on wacky shenanigans with his secretary Rita, go on wild dates that often don’t go as planned, and make decisions along the way! Be careful though, Juno’s love life rests in your hands, and if you are careless, he could end up alone!

About Us

We are a team of fans of the Penumbra Podcast, making this game for fun and no profit. All characters and locations within the game are the property of Kevin Vibert and Sophie Kaner.

This game is free, but if you wish to contribute to our incredible team feel free to donate to the links below.

Pippin Truman - Marbles Hansen - MxCosmic - Acadieum - WildfireWhim - Kieran Leamon

Full details of credits and team members can be found here but be warned it may contain spoilers for parts of the game you haven’t encountered yet!

Tag your posts with #tohtpp or @thiefofheartstpp with your reactions, thoughts- rest assured the team are as excited to see you playing the game as you are to play it <3

[seratlantisite]

happy year and a day anniversary to Thief of Hearts

working on @thiefofheartstpp was probably the same amount of work as my bachelors thesis but infinitely more fun and i loved it sm. so i thought what better time to finally post the happy ending graphic

[image id: Peter Nureyev and Juno Steel from the fan made game. the pair are stretched out on juno’s beat up, duct-tape-patched couch. Juno has his head on peter’s shoulder, hand clutched in peter’s white and pink sweater. peter holds that arm, while running his other hand through juno’s hair. they’re bathed in soft, warm sunlight pouring in from the left. they’re both talking, but juno’s eyes have drifted shut but peter looks at him adoringly. end id.]

[thiefofheartstpp]

I’m not sure if you reply to these but when I try to download the game it says there’s ‘no permissions’. Do you know what that means?

Without seeing your computer in person all I can do is toss this great installation guide someone was kind enough to make for us, so you can make sure you unzip/extract the folder you downloaded so you can play it

[thiefofheartstpp]

I am VERY inexperienced when it comes to video games, so this is probably a dumb question, but whatever. I downloaded the game, but now I have no idea what the next step is. What should I be doing to get to the actual game?

have no fear, xxtrixster made a download guide here!

[thiefofheartstpp]

hey!! What’s a sensitivity reader??

A sensitivity reader is someone who proofreads work with certain topics discussed in them (often cultures the author is not a part of or experiences the author has not endured) and makes sure that culture/experience is portrayed correctly and in a way that is not harmful. So, for example, we have multiple Muslim characters planned for Friend of the World, one of which wears a hijab, and we would like someone who is Muslim and/or hijabi to make sure we are accurately reflecting their culture in our artwork and dialogue. Hope this helps!

[thiefofheartstpp]

I was playing Thief of Hearts and I love it so much!! I was wondering if y'all are okay with me making a playlist based on the game and it's routes. I'll call it Who's that Guy?

That sounds amazing, go right ahead!!

[thiefofheartstpp]

Hello!! This game is super great and i'm having a lot of fun playing it. I seem to have run into an error during the second part of Chris' route, after all the dates. It's still playable, but occasionally a gray screen with the words "an exception has occurred" keeps popping up when Pereyra shows up. Im unsure if i can submit the image through this ask, as I do not have a tumblr account, but my twitter is @mangocltrus if you want me to send the error message thru DMs there!!

Hey we’re really glad you’re enjoying the game, sorry to hear about this error but in our beta tests we’ve been unable to replicate it. We’ll discuss a patch and try to figure out how to fix this though, thanks for bringing it to our attention!

In the meantime when the error screen pops up, you can select the ‘ignore’ option to continue to the next line of dialogue and resume as normal. (The error may pop up multiple times but keep pressing ignore.)

If the game crashes or otherwise doesn’t resume as normal, please send the screenshots to us via our twitter with information regarding the route, date, and dialogue present before the error, and we’ll do our best to resolve the issue.

[thiefofheartstpp]

do you know if the stream will be available afterwards for those of us who can’t tune in or anyone who wants to see it again ??

Yes! All streams will be uploaded to YouTube!

[thiefofheartstpp]

The Penumbra Podcast on Twitter

“Did you think we forgot? We didn’t! The Penumbra crew will be returning to play more of fan-made dating sim Thief of Hearts (@tohtpp) this

Part 2 of the TPP crew's Thief of Hearts playthrough is May 15th at 8:15pm EST!! We'll all be watching, and we'd love it if you joined us!

[badass-sunshine]

the thief of hearts experience

[id: three cropped headshots of Rex Glass, Duke Rose, and Perseus Shah from the Thief of Hearts game above an image of the “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!” logo, with “butter” edited to read “Peter” instead. end id]

(bonus under the cut with spoilers)

Keep reading

[kaijudick]

a graphical summary of Thief of Hearts, the only subterfuge-based dating sim

[thiefofheartstpp]

ok so i played the game a while ago back when it first came out and apparently missed this but im currently watching the recording of the TPP livestream where they played Thief of Hearts and... at 1:07:33 in the recording ("pottery barn and dry white wine"),, is that supposed to be a Beetlejuice musical reference cus if it isnt imma pretend that it is

That is in fact a Beetlejuice reference! Good catch!

[thiefofheartstpp]

I cannot stress enough that I thought that reference would fly under the radar and we've gotten like 5 messages about it ever since.

[thiefofheartstpp]

ok so i played the game a while ago back when it first came out and apparently missed this but im currently watching the recording of the TPP livestream where they played Thief of Hearts and... at 1:07:33 in the recording ("pottery barn and dry white wine"),, is that supposed to be a Beetlejuice musical reference cus if it isnt imma pretend that it is

That is in fact a Beetlejuice reference! Good catch!

[thiefofheartstpp]

Hey, sorry, but of a dumb question, but should people send asks about friend of the world to here or to the friendoftheworld blog?

Send them to @friendoftheworld ! We will gladly answer your questions here, but it helps to keep all the information about each game in their specific place.

[biffisdrawing]

[ID: a drawing of Juno and Rita as they appear in Thief of Hearts. Juno is black with short natural hair. There are two small scars nicking across his nose, one through his eyebrow, and one on his scruffy jaw. He wears a light brown coat with a white shirt and purple pinstriped sweater underneath. Rita is wearing a pink striped cropped cardigan and a yellow pencil skirt with her hair in space buns and pan pride flag eye makeup, with extreme cat eye glasses. She hangs off Juno’s arm, smiling up at him. Hands stuffed in his pockets, he shifts off balance. He is laughing. End ID]

Just a little drawing to celebrate the stream tonight, which was very fun and exciting!! It was a dream come true for some good friends and I. Thanks so much everyone!

(Also, sorry for not drawing Nureyev. I love him, but there are too many of him in this context.)

[thiefofheartstpp]

The other admins gave me permission to abuse my privileges and reblog it here for hype hoohooheehee --Biff

[offishial-business]

i haven't been really invested in a fandom since middle school but the penumbra podcast is just incredible and the creators/actors + the fans are so fucking talented and it's such a wholesome community.

all the peeps who worked on @thiefofheartstpp are absolutely incredible and you should download the game and share it with your friends because it's wonderful. ALSO juno steel wears a satin sleep cap confirmed. ♥️

[thiefofheartstpp]

This is gorgeous!! I'm so glad you enjoyed the livestream. I hope you can continue to engage with this community and the amazing podcast we all love.

[sirenthestone]

My acnh Peter Nureyev look is now complete! Based on @awalkingparadox11’s design for the Thief of Hearts game. I called the sweater design “Soft Boi Nureyev”