Oh boy, the launch of our public beta is so close! Horrifyingly close, in fact. Say you’re a well-stacked “babe” in a slasher movie, and you bend over to pick up the handbag that inexplicably fumbled out of your grasp, and when you stand up again HOLY CRAP HE’S RIGHT BEHIND YOU! And there are scars all over his face, and he’s smelling your hair and crying.

That’s how close.

But... it’s too late now, there’s nowhere to run, and your preposterous bosoms would have slowed you down anyway. Give in and accept, for the Beta is here right now and you are already in its thrall.

The Escapist Magazine is running an http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/interviews/ids/5664-Indie-Developers-Showcase">Indie Developer Showcase which you should keep an eye on, because in approximately 24 hours they will be running a feature on none other than Beatnik Games! It’s pretty much going to be the essential Beatnik Companion of 2009 and by way of honouring their grand gesture, we have made Plain Sight open to all!

Anyone that’s not made it to the closed beta so far, now’s your chance! Anyone that’s never even bothered so far, now’s your chance! Don’t delay, download right now! Who knows when we could have a sudden change of heart and whisk the whole thing away and tear up the website and just quit.

Let me tell you: any day now.

SECOND IMPORTANT EDIT: With such a heavy load our master server is a tad unstable. We're doing what we can to fix this however (over the next 8 hours) if you get a 'master server not found' error don't worry, this is just a temporary glitch. Everything will be back up and running asap.

IMPORTANT EDIT January 21st (6:00pm GMT / 10:00am PST)
We have made some improvements to the build since yesterday. This includes a dramatic chop in the file size to a third of what it used to be, which should make you happy!

If you downloaded the game before this edit, you will need to do so again, uninstall the previous version and reinstall this new one.

Sorry! we'll have proper patching working for the next update so this isn't necessary again.