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Hey all, quick update. So some things and stuff have happened in my personal life that, short term, have made writing difficult and, long term, is going to reduce the amount of time I have to write. I have no intention of dropping this story, but progress may (or may not, hopefully) be slower. Thank you all for your understanding

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I love Imri, but writing their dialogue can be such a headache

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Good(?) news, you can now die in Doolally! There will be an anti-frustration option to try again from a checkpoint (because some deaths may include randomised elements) any stat gains/losses/info learnt up until death will be kept, although ‘trying again’ will increase madness (and no, the MC won’t remember. Mostly.)

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Update! I’ve failed in making things less complicated for myself. I do, however have a full (loose) plot, including the middle! This should mean no more drastic rewrites, and hopefully a slightly faster writing pace (though I am still quite a slow writer. Sorry! I get too nitpicky. Thank you for patience).

I have also, after some thought, decided to give the option for Em and Lea to be m/f. My initial reason for not doing so was lack of confidence with CS, but since I’ve been playing with it for a while now, I see no reason not to offer the option. So Em will be Emmett/Emilia and Lea will be Leander/Leanna.

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Progress update! Progress is happening, I’m currently about halfway through the chapter 1 rewrite. It will be shorter than the original chapter 1, and I’m trying (and slowly failing) to make it a bit less branchy, because I was tired of it taking a week to write a conversation. That being said, the branches are more meaningful now, some characters will or won’t be present depending on branch, (this isn’t going to matter romance wise, I intend for romance to work the same as before, though there might be extra scenes) and you might learn different things. Thank you to everyone following, I’ll try to update sooner than two months next time

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Look, look, look! This is so amazing, I can’t stop staring, haha! Imri be looking mighty fine 😍

Ehhh didnt expect it to turn out this way, this ones a fan art from a wip in cog his name is Imri and dis is how I portray him thou in the desc. it said he hav some tuft tail*the nipples are meh*

GAME:Doolally

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Happy Easter to everyone who celebrates! Happy Sunday to those who don’t. I’m planning on restarting Doolally soon, I’ve got plenty of Ideas and something resembling a plot (the middle is still a bit iffy, but that’s just how I roll) and I’m feeling excited to get started again! I will be rewriting (yes, again, yes, it’s going to look quite different), so it might be a little while before I post anything readable, but I thought I’d just drop a post to let you all know that progress is happening!

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Just a quick update to say that I’m putting Doolally on temporary hiatus, I’ve been struggling to write recently and it’s felt more like a chore than fun. Thank you to everyone who’s read and commented on Doolally so far, and hopefully it won’t take too long for me to get back into writing!

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Progress update! Things are progressing, slowly. I’m through the rewrites for the start of chapter 2, so I’ve finally been able to write new stuff, yay! The variables are piling up, I’m just waiting to trip over them, and yet I can’t stop myself from adding more. A regret for future me, no doubt. I’ll be writing the market route soon, after that I think I’ll be a third of the way through chapter 2. I’m hoping the market route won’t take too long, since I’ll update demo once it’s done. And that’s it for this update 😁

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Chapter 1 is up! There’s not a lot of changes to what happens, but I’ve reworked/ rewritten most of the chapter. The new romance system is in place, so there are now no requirements for romance, instead there is an ‘issues’ system, which I go into more detail about on the forum. I’m hoping this will allow for more freedom when interacting with the characters. I’ve also added more friendly option into interactions. Do let me know if there are any issues (it took me about an hour to run through the code for errors) and hope you all enjoy!

You can find chapter 1 at: https://dashingdon.com/go/7844

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Progress update! Things are still going slow, unfortunately, but I’m off work for the next two weeks so hopefully I can make up for that. I’ve finished slowing the demo down (though I’ll wait to upload the rest of chapter 1 first). I’ve cleaned up most of the conversations with Emilia and Jesse, rewrote most of the ending and am currently poking at the dancing stuff. I’m thinking about reworking the romance system a bit, because currently those scenes generally have: friendly choice, unfriendly choice, flirty, shy and tsundere choices, which is a bit repetitive, boring and unnecessary (to me, at least), so I’m experimenting with mixing it up a bit. If it works, I’ll update, if not... eh, we’ll forget I ever poked at it 😁

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Sorry if this has already been asked before but do you have to do the poly to romance Leander or Gabe? ( I'm not comfortable doing a poly so I'd prefer to just romance one of them) if not that's okay it's your game and I respect that🙂

Nope, you don’t have to do the poly. There are separate romantic responses for Leander and Gabe, or you can just be friendly with them, as the requirements to lock a relationship at the end of the game are going to be really low (e.g. 50% relationship for Gabe). There also won’t be anything but friendship between Leander and Gabe if you’re only romancing one 🙂

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I just spent about twenty minutes trying to remember the word ‘subconscious’

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Progress update! I’ve been a little distracted recently (discovered the anime ‘that time I got reincarnated as a slime’ and have been ever so slightly obsessed), but I have been working on the pacing of the demo. Currently added extra questions for Leander, Emilia and Gabe during the tea break, and on Imri’s route you can now play rock, paper, scissors with Leander. Next is to figure out how to slow down Leander’s route, after that I’ll probably work on the club/pub/home routes.

I’ll try to do more of these updates in the future, but my timekeeping is terrible, so it’s probably going to be random/when I remember 😁

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Just played the demo, and oh my, is it delicious~

Also Imri makes me go 😩😍😖 I mean, what do you do if some fae/djinn/demon starts choking you half a minute into the introductions? You start SIMPING ✊

Here's hoping they won't become nice and normal out of nowhere, there's not enough genuinely sadistic ROs out here 💙

All in all, thanks for a great experience, hope you have a nice day, like, every day~

I mean, that’s the only reasonable response to that sort of situation, right? 😁 Imri’s kinda unpredictable, so I’m not entirely sure how they’ll develop at the mo, but nice and normal won’t be happening. Imri’s not human after all, plus I like writing nasty characters (Imri, Jesse, Gabe at times, though Gabe’s a softie at heart). Imri might soften a little (if you befriend them), but it won’t be anything drastic. Anyways, glad you enjoyed the demo, and hope you have a nice everyday too 😊

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For some "Madness" refers to their awakening to a world full of forbidden knowledge and possibly eldritch horrors but for my MC it refers to the dawning realization that his falling in love with a demon/djinn/ghost entity that tried to choke him in a decidedly non kinky way when they first met XD Love the demo <3

Hah! 😂 I love this! It does amuse me how popular that scene seems to be. At this point Imri would just be really confused, and would probably be wondering if your MC was broken/defective/would prod to test. Good luck to your MC! And glad to hear you enjoyed the demo 😊

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Is flirting with Imri bad? Since you get set to 10 relationship points.

It’s not bad, Imri just doesn’t like it. They’re trying to scare you, so you enjoying it is kinda the opposite of what Imri wants. There will be other ways to raise relationship points though, and Imri won’t hate the flirting forever