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Does anyone who prefers the friendly dynamic with Kaine (not BFF or strained) have any feedback on chapter one's flow with that choice? I was rereading parts of that path while writing today, and I'm unsure if it has a good flow or enough impact. 🥺

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Crawls out of a hole in the ground covered in blood. Along with very slowly working on chapter two, I've been refining the first chapter a bit more with edits and little additions, and one of the changes is that Kaine will nickname your MC something if on the BFF/Crush path. You can select the nickname from a list. It's really cute, I promise.

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Hello again! My last update I was waiting for doctors appointment and tests to be done, and I am now being treated for something that I am hoping is the source of my physical health issues. It's been about a week on the new medication, and I can't be sure yet, but I think I'm starting to feel a bit better, so I'm a little hopeful!

On that note, I've returned to working on TLD as regularly as I'm able. My plan for the immediate future is to finish edits to the first chapter, and get at least a rough draft of the full second chapter finished, and then I would like to share that as an early-access alpha build through Patreon.

There are two reasons for the alpha build: First, last time I pushed an update straight to the public demo, there were several bugs, typos, etc, that I had missed, and I would like to have these tested and fixed through sharing an alpha build via Patreon as a testing period, before the update is made public. Second, and I hate to say it, but as someone who cannot currently work because of mental and physical health issues, any kind of financial support I could possibly receive from this project, I sorely need. So, I would like to use Patreon as a way for readers to support my work, while gaining access to different benefits or behind-the-scenes content, such as the alpha builds.

I know I soft-launched a Patreon previously that has been quietly available, but if my health improvement holds, I would like to get much more serious about it with the next TLD update.

Sorry for the long update, but I hope it's nice to hear some good news this time? 😅

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Hey there! Don't worry, I'm still around, and work on TLD is still ongoing. Unfortunately, I will admit things have slowed down in the past months, because of some health issues I'm still trying to figure out the cause of... I have a theory, and a referral to a specialist, but I still need to wait a while until the appointment to see if said theory has merit.

What bothers me the most about my laundry list of health issues is that it's getting harder and harder for me to concentrate... on anything at all, really, way beyond what could be written off as my ADHD diagnosis. So writing has become a lot harder, even if it's all I want to do. Which to be honest, really sucks, because I want to share more of TLD's story so bad! 😭

But yeah, summary of this update is that I am waiting for doctors appointments, but in the meantime I am still trying desperately to do the tiny bits of writing I can manage. Hopefully, I can get my health issues sorted out soon, and get back to doing things that I enjoy, like writing TLD. 🥲💕

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if sounds great but does it not work for ios/iphone?

Um, I genuinely wouldn't know, I'm afraid! I think any device that can view a webpage could theoretically play the itch.io build, but I don't have any ios devices to test that specifically. As I've said previously, I'm mainly developing this game for desktop/PC, and because of that mobile support is not a big priority of mine, though I have tried to fix things enough that the game is at least somewhat playable on mobile... hopefully... 🥲

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You can do it!!! ADHD gang🤝

Thank you, anon!! 🥺💕 You guys give me so much encouragement, it keeps me going. And yes, ADHD gang! 🤝

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My desire to finish a new update of TLD for you all (unstoppable force) VS my ADHD symptoms (immovable object).

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Do you ever write a sentence and then realize “Nah, that’s too self aware for you” and backspace a bunch of times.

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hi hello! idk if youve heard but dashingdon is getting shut down soon! you might wanna get a back up of your files if you havent !

I have heard actually, but thank you for letting me know! Luckily I already moved TLD to Twine a while back, and it's now hosted on itch.io, so I'm not one of the developers that is affected by this. It's quite sad to see dashingdon go, though... 😭

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Ok that was fast! I finished the demo and I am definetelly curious what you will cook up for it!

Also Martim please DON'T DIE, I HAVE BARELLY KNOWN YOU BUT YOU'RE SUCH A GOOD FATHER YOU DESERVE TO COME BACK HOME TO YOUR KID MAN

In any case! That was a good introduction to your IF! Good work dear author! Wishing you a good day!

I'm so pleased you came away from the first chapter excited for more!! That means everything to me... 😭💕

I've really enjoyed hearing the responses to Martin's character; it's such a relief that my writing did in fact get across what a lovable man he is, and that people are becoming attached to him even after just one chapter!

Thank you so much for your appreciation, and for letting me know your thoughts. Getting kind feedback is really what keeps me motivated to keep developing the story, so I appreciate it more than I can express. 🥺

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Ok ok ok so, I just found your IF and I am giving it a chance as I type this

I have barelly started it but I HAD to come here and say, THE SOUND EFFECTS OF IT ARE SO SATISFYING TO HEAR

The page turn, the menu, the saving, really, even if after reading it it turns out to not be my type of IF (which I doubt btw, it has already grabbed my intrigue pretty hard from the get go, but we'll see!), I still have to commend you for having an incredible good taste in sound effects lol

Now I shall go back to reading it! Have a good day dear author!

This is so sweet... It makes me so happy that the sound effects I added are appreciated! 🥺💕 I chose to go with paper sounds to make the game feel even more like a book. Thank you for letting me know how much you like them, and thank you as well for giving my silly little game project a play!

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This is just kind of an FYI, but it's possible you may see more than one IF WIP from me in the future. Not only just Those Long Dead, which is tentatively planned to have two main games and an in-universe spinoff game, but entirely new games... because I have a few living in my mind, developing on the backburner. TLD is, and would still be, my main focus, but yeah!

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hehe i just played your demo and its very good :3 choosing the bff crush route w kaine and nodding my head so everyone knows i approve of emotional constipation and not communicating your feelings irl as well

Thank you so much for the compliment! Also, LOL 🤣 so real, anon. You get it.

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Stopping by to let you all know I'm still here, have just been preoccupied with stuff!

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Hey, I really want to play your game, but I'm so, so bad at coming up with names. Do you have any name suggestions for the MC? Or if that's too, much could you share some tips on how you came up with the names (particularly surnames) for your characters? Thanks a bunch. The game looks great and I love your art ヾ(•ω•`)o

Hi there! No worries, I still have the default MC names on hand that were originally in the Choicescript demo, before I switched to Twine.

First Names:

Iris

Vincent

Colette

Logan

Nettie

Carter

Sage

Rowen

Last Names:

Diremourn

Lunel

Vespertine

Crawford

Ravmere

Ilten

Nevereene

I hope those will help you pick a name, and thank you so much!! 🥺💕

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Probably one of my favorite moments to write for chapter one (which is in the current public demo), was this scene for BFF + Crush dynamic Kaine and MC. 🤭