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FILE CL‑01
SUBJECT: THE STREETS AROUND YOU
Pre-alpha development in progress
A location-based crime RPG played on real streets. Explore, collect materials, craft a signature special onto your weapon, and extract your haul before a rival takes a cut. Kalispell, Montana is city one — 578 venues, surveyed block by block. The map decides which city goes live next.
EXHIBIT 00 CURRENT BUILD CAPTURED ON DEVICE
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Active development build · still pre-alpha, still moving
01 / CITY ONE
Crimelink is played on real streets, so every venue has to be a real place. Kalispell, Montana is the first city surveyed to that standard — the bar on the corner, the courthouse, the pawn shop, the diner. This is what a city looks like when it goes live.
Index of places — read off the capture
Crimelink is fictional and never requires crimes, trespassing, purchases, or interaction with a business. Play only from lawful, publicly accessible areas, and never while driving.
Virtual venue control does not represent real ownership, access, sponsorship or affiliation. Location use is foreground-only, with no background tracking and no retained location history.
02 / THE LOOP
Four moves. The whole game is the tension between the third one and the other three.
Search lawful, publicly accessible places around the city and gather the materials your operation runs on.
Take the parts back to the bench and fit a signature special onto your weapon, across six specialized classes.
Your haul stays unsecured until you bank it. Lose a fight first and the rival who beat you claims a cut.
Hold venues, take the KINGPIN spot, run a crew — and put a price on the head of anyone who takes it back.
03 / EXHIBITS
Every exhibit below is a real screen from the current development build, captured on the device. Nothing here is a mockup. Select an exhibit from the index.
Exhibit index
Exhibit 01
A live map of the city with every venue on it.
Use the arrow keys inside the index to move between exhibits.
04 / THE HIDEOUT
One panoramic room the camera glides across — vault door, workbench, gun locker, safe, and the mannequin where you dress your operative.
13A
Haul parts back and craft the signature special onto the weapon you trust.
13B
Stash what matters and keep your reserves off the street.
13C
Where your operative stands. Reward and attack alerts light up over the room.
13D
Your armory. Swap loadouts before you head back out.
13E
Dress your operative in gear you have actually earned.
05 / THE ARSENAL
Every weapon platform ships twice: a realistic version bought with in-game cash, and an exotic cosmetic bought with Clink. The gameplay stats are the same. You can buy the look. You cannot buy the fight.
The exotic finish of the Forged Katana below. Same reach, same speed, same damage — a different object entirely to look at.
Plate CL-A02 · Clink finish
Weapon art from the current build. Catalog numbers are presentational. Stats, prices and unlock levels are not shown here because they are still being balanced.
Supporter and cosmetic purchases are status-based only — no Clink advantage, no stat boost, no faster progression, no venue influence.
06 / THE FIGHT
Every fight is a real-time 1v1 duel graded on when you move, not on whose numbers are bigger. Weapons telegraph differently, so the window you get depends on what is swinging at you.
EXHIBIT 14 LIVE DUEL · CAPTURED ON DEVICE
08 / THE NETWORK
Confirm your launch-list email and the Census place you pick lights up on the board. Kalispell is city one, surveyed and live. Every other signal is a city asking to be surveyed next — and the brightest ones go first.
Explore how the future launch board will turn privacy-banded city demand into a raised signal grid. This reveal uses simulated data—not player signups.
Connecting to signal grid
CL / SIGNAL-GRIDConfirmed signals Preview signals
Preview state
U.S. signal grid
Census place points · no device location
Board status
City one is surveyed and live. Be the first confirmed signal in your state and put it in the queue.
The board
0 states
No confirmed states yet. The board fills from the first confirmed signup.
Selected
No state selected
Pick a state from the board or the map
Selecting a state returns to and pre-fills the launch-list form above.
Inspect the simulated city bands. Registration is not active in this release.
Awaiting signal feed
A city appears only after its first confirmed signup, and brightens through five privacy-preserving bands as more people choose it. The point plotted is the public U.S. Census representative point for that place — not a person's location. We never publish email, identity, street address, device location, or raw local counts, and the coldest band explicitly means one confirmed signup.
Visualization preview: every raised city spike and demand band shown here is simulated. No email, identity, city selection, GPS coordinate, street address, or device location is being collected or represented by this reveal dataset.
Screen-reader and keyboard users: the map is a picture; The board is the control. Arrow keys move between states, Enter selects.
07 / ENLIST
Three steps. Nothing to buy. We send a confirmation link before your signal counts, and you can unsubscribe from every message we send.
The reveal is public. Registration is deliberately offline until the email, privacy and abuse-protection path passes its final checks.
First transmission / secured
This reveal build does not collect your email, city, location, or application data. We are showing the game first and activating the launch list only after its privacy, delivery, and abuse-protection checks are complete.
No signup form is active in this release.
09 / THE WIRE
Discord is the central place for conversation about the game and its development — player discussion, build updates, feedback and community events.
Where it stands.
Crimelink is in active pre-alpha development. A public alpha is planned. iOS is planned, with no announced date. The first alpha is planned for adults 18 or older in the United States. Nothing on this page is available for purchase.
