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17 June 2025 · 5:00 AM AEST

Payphone Go:
Update v1.50 Changelog

Hello everybody!

It has been an absolutely insane week, so I wanted to officially welcome everyone who has started playing Payphone Go, be it from the Guardian article or any of my media appearances! It is an honour and a privilege to have seen this game blow up as much as it has in such a short period of time, and it has filled my heart to watch so many of you enjoy playing this game as much as I did making it!

I've been receiving a lot of incredible suggestions as well, and as a result I've been able to implement more features in order to improve this game as much as I can! Thank you to everybody who has been sending through feedback; and if you have any suggestions to share or bug fixes to report, I am always available at kris@girlgenius.com.au.

// v1.50 Changelog

Points Rebalance

After some feedback, the way suburb badge bonuses are and have been calculated has been changed. Suburb bonuses for suburbs with only one payphone has been changed to 30 points, from 50. Bonuses for all other suburbs remain the same. Points have been updated retroactively, and the leaderboard now reflects this properly.

I will still be monitoring this over the coming weeks, and will consider increasing the bonus for larger suburbs. If you have any suggestions for how this can be tweaked (or for any other badges that could be implemented), please let me know!

Player Map

Player pages now contain personalised maps of all payphones in your local area that have been claimed for ease of access!

Misc

  • Removed player IDs being visible on player page to prevent abuse
  • Added changelog page to post changelogs (lmao)
  • Fixed some payphones not being recognised upon being called
  • Changed the maximum time for a recording from 60 seconds to 30

If you are interested in supporting Payphone Go and helping keep this game running (especially as server costs have exploded over the last week!!), donations are always gratefully appreciated over at ko-fi.com/girlgenius_. My sincere thank you to absolutely everyone who has donated so far — thanks to all of you we are coming so close to being able to break even on all of the costs so far, which is absolutely incredible!

As always, thank you so much for playing!