#demo systems

[sophieinwonderland]

Regarding your recent reblog - what is a demo system? I've never heard that phrase before.

The idea is that someone would be a system on a temporary trial basis to see if they like it. You know, demoing being a system. Sort of like making a tulpa, but with a plan to get rid of them if it doesn't work out.

Obviously, incredibly controversial...

And probably not a real thing. At least initially. The earliest use appears to have been anti-endos who were probably trying to write "endo" systems and got autocorrected.

But sysmeds are still mad at this boogeyman today. 🤷‍♀️

I've since seen a few people using it for questioning systems who aren't sure if they're a system and are trying out living as a system before committing. But the origin appears to be something anti-endos made up.

[tempesttz]

every time an anti endo says "demo systems dni," talks about demo systems like they are some overblown endogenic conspiracy of "trying out headmates" that's going on everywhere, or generally spreads misinformation about the widespread existence of demo systems, another rock gets flung into a river its me. im flinging the rocks. holy shit are anti endos allergic to a basic google search. i know you guys know how to use pluralpedia, you use it to mock us decently often from what i can tell. utilize that skill. come on now theyre not a thing. someone mispelled "endo" on tiktok and it autocorrected to "demo." here's where it got looked into and broken down, so you can't tell me i didn't show proof. man i wish i lacked critical thinking skills like sysmeds do. must be nice

[voided-code-sys]

Sorry to bother you - I'm wondering what endo/anti endo means? I can't find anything with the term and "endogenic" means "relating to the surface of the earth" so I'm like "what". I'm asking in good faith, I genuinely want to understand (I'm a singlet I just have a few friends who are systems fhdgsj)

nono youre alg dwdw!!

***BEFORE THIS POST IS INTERACTED WITH, I WANT ANYONE TO KNOW THAT TRAUMA-ENDO, DEMO, WILLOGENIC AND TULPAGENIC "SYSTEMS" ARE TO FULLY DNI WITH US AND THIS POST. THOSE TAGS WERE USED AS A WAY TO NOT CLUTTER THIS POST WITH MY YAPPING***

basically, endogenic means "a system without trauma" - it is not a valid term, and is actually downright ableist. a system cannot exist without repeated childhood trauma that caused dissociation and amnesiac barrier, which are commonly called alters.

all in all, endogenic "systems" are ableist. there is only one time we will support these "systems" and that is ONLY when they later find out they do have trauma, that was either repressed or held away by a gatekeeper alter - which is an alter who, gatekeeps trauma

and as for anti-endo, this is used to describe someone (singlet or plural) who are against endogenic individuals

TL;DR: endogenic is an ableist term

also very sorry if my tone came off as rude, i promise im not being rude at all!!! and ty for actually asking and taking the time to learn too, it makes me happy knowing people out there want to learn more abt stuff :3

yapping in the tabs :p

[redthemarten]

Would a certain Snezhnayan orange cockblock you on your fishing date with the love of your life just to provoke a fight?

Yes. Yes, he would

[plusie]

💚 - black n' neon green!

[vacueye]

demo sketching

[cointard]

DEMO SYSTEM FLAG!

Demo system is a term sysmeds made up, but I think it’d be neat if people started using it unironically :3

So here it is! The green represents beginnings and the symbol is basically just a start button to go with the “demo” theme (like a demo videogame)

A demo system is somebody who is “trying out” being/living as/presenting as a system!

[systemrestart]

TOUHOU 20, 東方錦上京 〜 Fossilized Wonders, HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED

Link to announcement

The main characters this time will be Reimu and Marisa. The demo is set to release on May 5th 2025, and the full game will be released in August

[entroart]

hi! do you have any sort of a voice acting portfolio / reel?

Indeed we have :D

[fir-fireweed]

TELLUS NO MY BABYYYY 😭😭 I was already so attached to him and you had to take him from me. I lost a child today.

But more seriously this look so good already I can't wait !! <3

I’m sorry! It was honestly so hard to write Tellus and Fulmen and your mother because I KNEW what I had to do. They had to be lovable, you had to want to know them more, because that would make the loss really meaningful. But omg, every time I write a scene with Tellus I was screaming at myself “What is wrong with you?!” 😅😭

Chapter 2 will be full of fur babies and RO meetings and lots of pleasent and humorous moments, I promise!

[starsetven]

How has actual game progress been if I may ask? Just curious! No rush <33

I’m in no rush to produce the demo, dw!

- I’ve rough drafted about 45% of the planned demo

- the demo has been created in renpy

Though the game is currently on hold for a couple of reasons:

I’m currently working

My unreliable pc

I aim for there to be three lengthy in game days for the demo, as for the amount of days overall in the game, that is still undecided.

Before I can pick up development of the game again, I’ve got to upgrade my computer. That’s the biggest reason I’ve put the game on pause, my pc sometimes shuts off mid session- it just straight up black screens and will not turn on again for a while. So once i’m able to save up and upgrade, that will no longer be a concern for developing the actual game.

For now I’m just writing what i can in my phone to keep on track with what I have in mind for days 1~3 :)

Here’s a new preview (subject to change) of the revisioned dialogue so far!

[playstationpark]

Join The PlayStation Underground!

[arcadebroke]

Frontier Force

[demoisverysexy]

People gotta get into weirder fantasy stuff than traditional fantasy with merlin ass wizards im serious. Your magic had better involve some weird ass mechanic or medium or twist that will make me go "huh thats gonna change the way I approach magic from hereon out" and then you gotta explore every last ramification for how that magic would affect the world. It doesnt even hafta be a hard magic system it just has gotta be more weird than dnd wizards.

[lordgeneralsix]

is it just me or is bioware spoiling way too much about the game . talking about gameplay improvements is one thing but revealing story and companion arcs seems very insecure to me bc now the mystery is gone when people play for the first time . seems like they're trying too hard to prove that their game isn't garbage after that first trailer but this is not how you do that

[jovial-thunder]

question about lancer tactics: with some modification, could it theoretically be used as a more automated version of a VTT? i've had the idea of making something similar to a tactics game, except multiplayer, the npc's are controlled by the dm instead of ai, and it'd have to be more of a framework you could easily add in any abilities/weapons you'd need, but part of me wonders if it's worth building the whole thing from scratch (as someone who would have to learn coding as well)

Not by us. Adding remote multiplayer is a huge swing (and has been the death of many projects), and we already are at capacity with the scope of "do a 100% port of Lancer to a CRPG".

For reference, Stardew Valley had an experienced dev from Chucklefish dedicated to adding multiplayer for more than a year (this was posted one year before the 1.3 multiplayer update released). We don't have anywhere near that level of resources.

That said, there's a neat project called IsoCON that is doing something like what you describe for Icon. The rules automation from what I've seen is very light (closer to having in-game reference ability text than AI-controlled units), but I think is a great model for what an game-specific indie VTT can realistically look like.