The Department Opens to Inspection Tomorrow, and What Comes After

The Ministry of Public Information confirms: from August 6 to August 13, this department will be open to outside inspection. The event is called Tiny Teams. Attendance is not mandatory. It is, however, recorded.

Tiny Teams is a Steam festival for studios of five people or fewer. We are two, so we qualify comfortably, if not proudly.

If this is your first visit to the department

Ministry of Order is a narrative puzzle game about clerical work with unbearable stakes. A hospital archive burned. Five newborns, no records, and parents waiting on the other side of the door. You get a file, a rulebook, and a few seconds per child - match them by eye colour, hair, blood type, freckles, and whatever else the state has decided matters this week. Then you go home, read your mail, listen to the radio, and pay for the mistakes you made at work.

What you can do this week

• Wishlist it. For a studio of two that is not a polite ask - it is most of our marketing.

• Request access to the closed playtest. Wave 3 has not opened yet; requesting now holds your place in the queue.

• Tell us what is wrong with it. The wave 2 report is currently the single largest input into what we build next, and it shows.

What comes after the festival

A new playtest build, made almost entirely out of what wave 2 asked for, and after that a public demo. We are not promising dates. We have learned what a calendar does to a two-person schedule.

Glory to the paperwork.

• Ministry of Order. Staff of two.