#ddwcaph

[ddwcaph-game]

The Narrativium Update Has Arrived!

Retcon the narrative to your heart's content in the latest update to...

Dear Diary, We Created a Plot Hole! is written as a love letter to all the kids-at-heart out there, who’d like to revisit their childhood and reimagine it as one big fantasy adventure.

If you like episodic shows and stories with a deeper overarching narrative, then this story is just for you!

🌌 【Play it here!】 🌌

~ 608,000 total wordcount (including code) ~ 99,000 additional words (including code) ~ New average playthrough of 129,000 words! (up from 115k)

14 New Secrets/Variations to Discover, 25 New Trinkets to collect, 9 New Sidequests, 4 New Achievements!

6 New Character Traits, 12 New Ancestry Passives, 2 New Phobias, 4 New Status Effects!

Revamped Heritage Passives!

Retcon the narrative and your choices with the new Narrativium Points mechanic!

Revamped Health & Intimidation Stats, Traits and EXP System!

Revamped Chapter 1 Twin Fight Scene!

Added new Sleepover Branch!

Updated bestfriend scenes!

Crush sidequests can now be declined!

You can now change what your MC calls certain characters via the diary!

Added more backstory details about MC's dad, and you can now choose his home country if MC is Half-Filipino!

Increased save slots to 20!

New and improved gender and pronoun options!

Updated diary entries!

Updated content warnings to include themes that will appear in future chapters!

Fixed missing background music!

Tons of new choices, edits, adjustments, and additional flavor text/variations/characterization details!

Roselyna is now approximately 20% more huggable!

The Trinkets & Secrets Guide has also been updated!

If you encounter any errors, or have any questions or feedback, feel free to send me an ask. The complete change log for the update is almost 400 lines long, so I hope it was worth the wait! 😊

[h-doodles]

every Helene is celebrating the bday today :3 congrats to us <3

the ocs, btw. all girlkissers (except little eli. bc ace rights!):

[the far back left] twinsies for Dear Diary, We Created A Plot Hole! (by the wonderful @ddwcaph-game ), Eli (OC) & Lee Salazar (the SI!OC)

[far back middle] SI!OC for Wednesday aka MY Marilyn/Larissa lover, Helene Addams

[front left] SI!OC for Baldur's Gate 3, Storm Sorceror, Absolute Babygirl, Resident Mintharamancer & Bhaal's Favorite Daughter, Helene Haelfryn Xorrlarin

[middle with the party hat] My SI!MC for Resident Lover (by the genius and absolute big brain @team-avia ): Helene Salazar

[front right] SI!OC for HPHM, the first babygirl I actively developed all thanks to my obsession for a morally ambiguous bankrupt badass redhead archaeologist professor (Patricia Rakepick— I STILL LOVE YOUUUUUU), Helene Marie Adler

[front far right] SI!MC for Relics of the Lost Age series by the GREAT @jamesshawgames , which came after HPHM and got me actively obsessed with another morally ambiguous bankrupt badass redhead archaeologist (which would have net me 2 nickels. I love me my amoral, kickass redhead wifeys), Helene Spillane

[to-where-all-paths-lie]

To celebrate Rosie's (of @ddwcaph-game) birthday, I drew her and my MC, Agnes Madrigal in a fairytale-ish setting.

Happy Birthday, Rosie!

[in-auctorem-credimus-if]

Since the IAC characters are aware that they're in a story, will the DDWCaPH! characters also eventually become aware that they're in a story as well?

Yup! But not at first. At the beginning, F6E will think that they just got transported into their own short stories, but I don't think it's much of a spoiler to say that they'll become aware after they get captured by Squad 626.

Of course, some of the characters already know, like Julie and Robert. F6E discovering the fourth wall is definitely NOT the biggest reveal when we get to that point though. 😉

[greentv-creative-area]

Hey so i realized that you can't actually see my art since i kept spanning stuff on my usual main blog ":D

So i made a new blog to just showcase my drawing!

@ddwcaph-game

Go to this blog if you wanna see the fancomic! ^^

[cheerstotheelites-if]

A bit late, but do you remember the old crossover writing DDWCAPH (dear diary we created a plot hole) author did once? I think it was a little prompt writing of theirs but they put your emery in it as a little crossover. Well guess what. I finally finished their latest story update and- THE AUTHOR ACTUALLY PUT EMERY IN THE STORY!!! AND HE SHOWS UP QUITE A FEW TIMES!!! IT'S SO ADORABLE (If you're wondering i think it's in chapter 4 and 5)

Yeah, I'm totally aware, don't worry! Ate Franz (the author) did a great job characterizing Emery and at the same time putting her own little spin on him. My heart melted when I found out (from what I can remember) that Emery has a little owl backpack. I consented to let Ate Franz use Emery however she wishes in her story, if you're wondering. So no one better go to her and argue about "Emery being my character and about how I didn't consent to her using him in her story", or I will bite your ankles off your damn feet and throw you off a cliff.

I just feel really honored and also grateful that Ate Franz did the effort to make Emery show up a few times in TWO (two is alot) chapters without making it feel forced or jarring. Deep respect and admiration to Ate Franz y'all. Go read her IF and her other works, it's awesome, they're great, and absolutely fun to read, I promise you.

[r-bea]

@ddwcaph-game my twins 💙🧡

These little fellows have been haunting my brain so I decided I had to finally draw them. So here they are! They are absolute menaces to each other, but hey, are you really siblings if you don’t get under each other’s skin sometimes? <-(At least, that’s how they see it)

[zorlok-if]

Hi hi hello hiii! Happy (early?) birthday as well! Here's some hugs from Rosie if you want them. 😊

Awwww, of course, Rosie!!! And thank you too ❤️🥰

[ddwcaph-game]

Chapter 4 & 5 is finally out!

The wait is finally over. Grab your plot armor, Chapter 4 and 5 of Dear Diary, We Created a Plot Hole! is finally here!

🚌 Play it here! 🚌

To celebrate the release, a +50% ✨EXP Bonus Event will be running for the next couple of weeks!

The full change log is over 500 lines long, so here's an overview of all the new stuff:

🌈 UPDATE HIGHLIGHTS

~ 509,000 total wordcount (including code) ~ 278,000 additional words (including code) ~ New average playthrough of 115,000 words!

New Stuff to Discover!

52 New Secrets to discover, 8 New Trinkets to collect, 12 New Achievements

30 New Character Traits, 15 New Heritage Passives, 3 New Phobias, 16 New Status Effects

3 New Main Quests, 12 New Sidequests

and 1 New Song to sing along to!

New Scenes!

Introductions to Wayne, Lily, and JM's parents!

New exclusive bestfriend scenes!

Get a sneak peek into the story worlds you'll visit in future, in the Story Exchange!

Revamped crush confession scene with your twin!

Steal a kiss on the cheek from your crush!

Catch a preview of Chapter 6!

New Choices and Customization!

Choose the name of MC's dad!

Choose a second bestfriend, other than your twin (and give them a custom nickname)!

You can now choose to have two different pronoun sets!

Choose a mild swear word for your MC

Added B as a crush option

Tons of Diary and Stat Improvements!

New, updated, and expanded character diary entries!

New unlockable codex entries!

Write custom post-scripts in your diary!

Added new toggle settings for simple/detailed view of traits/passives, and background transitions

New trait option that reduces the frequency and gives additional context to Filipino expressions

Improved diary and stat notification layout

So Much More!

Added lots of new character art!

Added gameplay tips!

Lots of references to In Auctorem Credimus!

Roselyna is now approximately 20% more huggable!

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I've also updated the Trinkets & Secrets Guide, as well as the Twin Character Templates!

If you encounter any errors, or have any questions or feedback, feel free to send me an ask! I'll go through my ask backlog after I have recovered from the update.

I hope it was worth the wait! 😊

[ddwcaph-game]

I took my intros for both DDWCaPH! and IAC, and I got Cory Doctorow both times. I've never heard of him before in my life. 😅

Writer friends, I discovered a fun website today. It’s called “I Write Like” and here’s the description: Check which famous writer you write like with this statistical analysis tool, which analyzes your word choice and writing style and compares them with those of the famous writers.  Let me know which autor you got! 

[in-auctorem-credimus-if]

I ❤️ phyrnne

Hey there! Yes, I love Phyrnne too, and I've also been thinking about her recently.

I like the idea of giving her a small garden of magical/medicinal plants in the ship (courtesy of Rnst) for her to water with her tears (and later her newfound water powers).

I wish I had more IAC news to share, but I'm thinking of drawing Phyrnne (and the rest of Squad 626) after I finish drawing all the other characters in DDWCaPH!

[ddwcaph-game]

New NP Choices 👀

As promised, here are two of the new NP choices in Chapter 4 where you can let your twin or friends finally talk back against Tita Steph. I had a lot of fun writing them 😄

Take note that picking these options will increase Wayne's Silliness and Roselyna's Emotional stats respectively (plus a bunch of other things), so you might not want to pick them if you don't want them to act like that later.

I've also expanded the scene where MC talks back to Tita Steph, so there will now be a new Intimidation stat check (which will grant you a new achievement if you succeed) if you pick that option.

I might share Heart/Star Twin, Lily, and JM's scenes later, but that's all for now!

[to-where-all-paths-lie]

Happy Birthday, Princess Rosie!

To Roselyna of Dear Diary, We Created a Plot Hole @ddwcaph-game​​ ​

From Remy & Ryan Valdez, Agnes & Richard Madrigal

Original Pencil Sketch below:

Agnes’ version of the drawing:

[in-auctorem-credimus-if]

DDWCaPH! Chapter 7 Spoilers

Do you remember what happened after your In Auctorem Credimus MC woke up after packing up for their expedition?

Yup. Originally, Dear Diary MC just wakes up to some tropical snow and aurora borealis in the sky, before the bedtime story villains invade the school through a plot hole. But what if they wake up as a 9-year-old on the date of the cursed fieldtrip?

It's one-half flashback, one-half time travel, and a whole load of anachronisms. Everyone in F6E still remembers everything that happened after that, and everyone still has what they had before that: all the trinkets you've collected and stuff you've written in your diary, and all the gifts Rosie received on her 12th birthday.

I love this idea for a bunch of reasons:

You get to experience a little bit of MC's backstory without going through a flashback, and it opens up a lot of interesting character interactions and choices that wouldn't be possible otherwise, such as MC being short enough to ride the Paddy Express again, or pretending to have never seen your bestfriend before.

MC and Twin's big fight is also interesting to look at: if it hasn't happened yet in this timeline, did they actually fight before, or are they fighting about something that they only think will happen? What if you pretend to have no memory of it? And with all the knowledge that you have, can you prevent it from happening again? (Which is doubly interesting for me, as resetting the day through the diary is one of the concepts I wanted to explore before I did the rewrite)

And of course, I get to write MC and F6E as 9 year olds again. Well, not really since everyone in F6E still retains their memory, but after aging them up from 9 in the first draft, I never thought I'd get to do that again unless it's a flashback. Plus, fighting the villains is going to be more intimidating when you're suddenly back to your younger self.

Also, I needed an excuse to draw chubby Wayne with a missing tooth. Hehe.

Not to mention, doing this actually reduces the amount of branches I need to write (finally a decision that lessens the amount of work I need to do for once).

And don't worry: MC and everyone in F6E reverts back to their original ages at the start of Volume 2.

What do you all think? Are you excited for Chapter 7?

[ariondevereux]

AND YES i love slice of life so much so i’m totally with you on the lack of it in ifs!! they’re so comforting to read so please send me the ones you’ve played 🤲🏼😔

Sure! This is quite a long list, but here are the the ones I've played. All of them either have demos out or have been completed. 🥰

Slice of Life IFs

Trouble comes Twice by @foxglovegames

A World Without You by @jaunefleurwrites

Silent night by Leoreth (itch.io)

The Love Interest Gets their Own Game by WitPop (itch.io)

You Live and Fern by @beetlebethwrites

It's a Promise by Foxpancakes (itch.io)

Blooming Panic by @robobarbie

The Odessa Dating Games by @theodessadatinggames

Of Love and Starlight by @of-love-and-starlight-if

Elsinore: After Hamlet by @lapinlunaire-games

Pageant by Autumn Chen (itch.io)

Our Life: Beginning and Always by @gb-patch

Kaleidoscope by bimxbim (itch.io)

Our Life: Now and Forever by @gb-patch

Butterfly Soup by brianna-lei (itch.io)

The Space In Between by SpaceBtwnGame (itch.io)

A Nice Date by mxedk (itch.io)

Mark my Words by sarahjeancorner (itch.io)

Merry Crisis by @allieebobo

Raiders of the Caravan by @leftski-if

College Tennis: Origin Story by @allieebobo

Dear Diary, We Created a Plot Hole! by @ddwcaph-game

A Comedy of Manors by @sviyaginthegreat

idk when you sent this but i’m assuming this was weeks ago and i’m not sure why this never showed up in the app. i would’ve never seen it if i didn’t log in using my laptop :\\

anyway THANK YOUUUU and omg your taste!!! college tennis and merry crisis are lich rally my shit right now ksdjkljsf thank you sm again for these recs <33

[interact-if]

Hi, do you know of any IFs that include family drama? There was one IF that I can’t remember the name but you visit your family after your mother was murdered. Thank you

Hi Anon, here's a list of interactive fictions that include family drama. If anyone has any further suggestions, feel free to reply and we'll add them to the list, thank you!

Completed:

Blood Money by @hpowellsmith

Blood Moon by @barbwritesstuff

Dragon Racer by @13leaguestories

Fernweh Saga: Book One by @lacunafiction

Never Date Werewolves by Rebecca Zahabi

New Year's Eve, 2019 by @cyberpunklesbian

Pageant by @cyberpunklesbian

Portrait of a Texas Family (VN) by Lookout Drive Games

Rent-a-Vice by Natalie Theodoridou

The Parenting Simulator by Matt Simpson

Twofold (VN) by @vnstudioelan

Demos:

Blood Legacies by @bloodlegacies

Checkmate in 3 Moves by @checkmatein3moves

College Tennis: Origin Story by @collegetennisoriginstory

Crown of Exile by @ramonag-if

Dear Diary, We Created a Plothole! by @ddwcaph-game

Exiled From Court by @beeanca-writing

Fallen Lights by @fallenlightsif

Golden by @milaswriting

Hollowed Minds by @shai-manahan

Larkin by @larkin-if 

Merry Crisis by @merrycrisis-if

Runaway by @ericclem

Speaker by @speakergame

The Bastard of Camelot by @llamagirl28

The Deal: Act One Inferno by @thedeal-if

The Exile by @exilethegame

The Hunger Within by @thehungerwithin-if

The Sky Left Us (VN) by Rat Worm Games

Undead Heir by @undeadheir-if 

Vendetta by @vendetta-if

When The Moon Bleeds by @whenthemoonbleeds-if

No Demos:

In Her Shadow by @in-her-shadow-if