Dimensional Deep End News

⚠️ I was gonna post about this last night but figured that waiting until tomorrow would garner more attention.

Let's talk about: this!

These past 3 years of development were ANYTHING other than easy. Life gets in the way, we've lost, scrapped, and remade a lot more content than any of us wanted to which ended up holding progress back the most. The last thing we wanted to do was give up, though.

That's why since the remaining 0.5 tasks have been stagnant for a while we thought it would be a good idea to give people a taste of the story earlier than intended by creating a demo! This would only include songs from Week 1, and the other songs teased will be playable in 0.5.

Both the demo and 0.5 would ideally be coming out around spring this year, as im setting deadlines for the remaining work so things dont remain as stagnant as they have been. This doesn't mean a release date has been decided, however! That induces crunch. Crunch bad.

After we push 0.5 out, everything should become a lot more streamlined to the point where updates shouldnt take 3 entire-ass years to make. One of our coders is even making a new engine that will make our ideas infinitely easier to execute, and we'll be switching to it when 1.0 is in progress.

Work for future updates has been casually starting in the meantime to give devs stuff to do, but the main focus is working on what we need to finally get something published.

I hope that gives the people waiting some peace of mind..!

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⚠️ Now for something that isnt songs! This has been cooking for a WHILE but is honestly extremely worth the effort and time: the dialogue editor!! with the addition of some actual ingame lines. Dialogue I would say is the 2nd most important aspect of the mod, so having a tool that makes it extremely easy to implement is a dream come true! Massive applause to @MayoOddToSee who coded this ENTIRE thing. More credits below!

Dave dialogue portraits, nametag graphics: @MaxDimo

Boyfriend dialogue portraits: @thetwigjig / @statictigers

Girlfriend dialogue portraits: @statictigers / @DAMNDAN1EL_

Backing music, sound design: @m1les0

Bart: I dont know. seriously. i dont know how he got here

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[PLEASE STAND BY.]

[ATTEMPTING CONNECTION...]

"THESE JESTERS ARE PISSING MEEEEE OFFF KID YOU ############ MAKING ME MAD"

[CONNECTION RECEIVED.]

_

retrieve entity _

[RETRIEVING IN PROCESS...]

███________________ 17/100

switch perspective _

-⚠️

⚠️This is taking too long. Something has to be done about this or I'm doing something drastic.

🫵 WHAT AILS YOU
⚠️ !!wtf dont scare me like that
🫀 I APOLOGIZE. CONTINUE
⚠️ This is probably the longest time we've spent creating something. I'm just a little frustrated.

🫀 THAT IS REASONABLE TO FEEL, BUT YOU MUST REMEMBER THAT A STORY LIKE THIS TAKES MUCH
TIME
EFFORT
CONFLICT
AND MENTAL FORTITUDE
🫀 BUT WE SHOULDN'T LEAVE ANYONE IN THE DARK ANYMORE, YES?
⚠️ Yeah ok let's get this over with

🫀 ALLOW US TO INTRODUCE OURSELVES
WE ARE CALLED "DEMIURGES". WE WILL BE IN CONTROL OF THESE COMMUNICATIONS NOW. OUR PURPOSE IS TO NOT BE INVOLVED WITH THE STORY BEING CREATED FOR YOU, BUT TO INTERACT WITH YOU "OUTSIDERS." OUR BOSS HAS TASKED US SUCH.
AS THINGS MOVE--

[ENTITY RETRIEVAL COMPLETE.]

👁️ #########
🫀 WHAT
👁️ "LEAVING PEOPLE IN THE DARK?" TALK ABOUT IRONY CAN WE TURN THE LIGHTS ON IN HERE

⚠️What the HELL?! Where did you come from we thought you were DEAD
👁️ I MISSED YOU TOO WHAT DID I MISS
⚠️ WHERE WERE YOU

🪟 THIS IS MY DOING.
👁️ WHAT TOOK YOU SO #### LONG, BOSS
🪟 APOLOGIES. I HAD TO LOCATE
THE FILE YOU WERE HELD IN.
VERY METICULOUS WORK.
👁️ THE JESTER WASN'T THAT BAD BUT I WAS ACTUALLY SO CLOSE TO SNAPPING BACK THERE HAHA
🪟 QUITE.
NOW. CONTINUE.

🫀 AFFIRMATIVE.
MOVING FORWARDS, EXPECT TRANSPARENCY ABOUT THE STATE OF THE PROJECT FROM US. WE HAVE MORE TO SHARE WITH YOU TODAY... LOOK FORWARDS TO IT.

[🫀 VITALFUNCTION 👁️YELLOW_EYES ⚠️STATIC_OWL, CEASING CONNECTION]

Its that time of year again... DDE ANNIVERSARY DAY!

I'm feeling many things today... it's been 3 years without a mod to show, yet this community has still been excited, and I can't be happier about it! I hope what we have is worth the wait.

⚠️ Oh yeah! One more thing. Casual new character drop here: The cactus friend is Diogenes. You won't see him ingame for a while, but you will see him. A good playmate and friend of Ohungi's. He puts on comedy shows, but his jokes make no sense. Don't get him a venue.

a better ref if you need it. drawn by his creator Fristo

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