This week, allegations of past abuse have come to light regarding Alec Holowka, who was coder, composer, and co-designer on Night In The Woods. We take such allegations seriously as a team. As a result and after some agonizing consideration, we are cutting ties with Alec.
Hello. We released Night In The Woods 2 years ago today. Wow. Geez. Thanks so much for playing our game. The response has been so much greater than we ever expected. Thank you.
Thousands of people have connected with Night In The Woods in a very personal way. We can’t tell you how to feel about any of this. Whatever you’re feeling is valid. Your experience with art is yours. What it means to you is yours, regardless of anything else.
Night In The Woods launched one year ago today, Feb 21st 2017. Thanks to everyone who supported us, who played the game, who just straight up cared about our weird little game. You are all the best <3
I should say that I’m Scott. Hello. I run this account. I was the artist, lead animator, co-designer, co-writer, and the guy who wrote almost all of that dialogue in the game. Bethany’s here too, she was co-writer and researcher.
Much of Night In The Woods is pulled pretty directly from our lives. Bethany is from a tiny valley in central PA. I’ve lived out here in Western PA for about 20 years. The characters are us, and people we’ve known. The places are ones we know.
We are cancelling a current project and postponing the Limited Run physical release. The iOS port is being handled by an outside company and supervised by Finji and will remain in development.
Alec Holowka died last week. We're devastated. It's a complex situation, too complex for a tweet thread. The NITW subreddit actually has a good roundup of what happened including a link to a long post from us written before we'd found out about Alec.
Attention: the Night In The Woods Merch Shop has been updated with NEW ITEMS, including the brand new Official Donut Wolf mug and coaster set! Ride The Chariot in the comfort of your own home or workplace!
ANNOUNCING:
The FINAL RUN of the Official Mae Shirt. On sale Thursday, October 18th, 12 Noon EST.
Custom made in Cleveland, hand-printed in Pittsburgh by
@cwpress
.
S - 4XL
$35
There are a limited number and they will sell out fast. WATCH THIS SPACE ->
ANNOUNCEMENT: Due to overwhelming demand we are doing a second run of the custom-made Mae shirts! The original run of 400 sold out in 3 hours?! Pre-orders are happening for the next 2 weeks. Shirts will be shipping out around 6 weeks after that
->
ATTENTION: NIGHT IN THE WOODS WEIRD AUTUMN EDITION will release at 1pm EST. If you already own NITW you are advised to start a brand new game or else things might get a bit WEIRD. Like weird in a bad way. Bad weird.
Presenting:
The Official Mae Shirt
~*Limited Edition*~
Custom dyed, cut, and sewn here in the USA, because the exact shirt Mae wears didn't exist.
Printed in Pittsburgh by our friends at
@cwpress
.
S - 4XL
$35
we won't be posting much for a while. we'll be back sometime in the future. we'd like to thank everyone who reached out with support in the past few days. please take care of yourselves.
GAME PALS - the cats truly out of the bag on this one - we are beyond thrilled to announce we are releasing
@InfiniteAmmoDev
's incredible OST for
@NightInTheWoods
on Vinyl! Pre-orders just went live - grab yours now! at
Did you play NITW and think "this is fine and all but I'd like it to be able to touch the game itself with my hands?". Well buddy, you are in luck! Thanks to the fantastic folks at
@LimitedRunGames
for putting this together.
Whenever any of us have tweeted about NITW's 2 year anniversary people glancing at it see NITW and 2 in the same sentence and think we've stealth released a sequel or something. As if we'd ever name a sequel "Night In The Woods 2". Come on now!
Thanks for caring about our game enough to go on such an emotional roller coaster ride while skimming a tweet. It's changed our lives in a lot of ways, and it's been amazing to see how people have connected with it. We're lucky. Thanks.
Also! We have the remaining NITW figurines in the shop along with the much-sought after Mae baseball shirt. When they're gone they're gone. And check out our other cool stuff in there.
Oh hey you can vote for us! We're up for BEST INDIE and GAMES FOR IMPACT.
Listen, awards are kinda silly but after the coming superpocalypse we'll need game award show trophies to barter for jerky and various pelts.
Good morning. Have you been wondering what the creators of Night In The Woods have been up to since the game launched? Of course you have. Here's a couple of accounts you should follow if you want to keep up with us and our next games:
Upgrades, people. Upgrades.
Overland and Night in the Woods are now available natively on PlayStation 5, running at a delicious 4K/60.
Existing PlayStation 4 owners get the PlayStation 5 version for free.
@OverlandGame
@NightInTheWoods