Could a save system be included in the demo? It would be more easier to play and test. But anyway i’m pretty happy to see another update, definitely looking forward for more.
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Yeah just the first two chapters! I possibly should have made it clear it’s end of demo instead of just axing the later scenes from the file aha
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I lit have no idea how to make a save system and currently my own testing involves jumping shortcuts that lead to different parts of the game that I laboriously write all the stats in… I’m really not a neat programmer lol but am currently going through the automatic tests on chapter 2 - I will try and include a system to jump to chapter 2 ASAP!
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To implement a save system for dashingdon you need to add *sm_init * name of your game | 3 to the startup.txt after the code and before story’s text.
It’s truth that, as @correia says, with a save system, we can play and test easier your game. 
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Have updated the demo with the option to switch quickly to go to chapter 2 - will try and do some additional useful testing options in a bit 
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I looooove all of the game/pop culture references in this story so far! I am a huge fan of LOST and RPGs, and was so geeked to see the game respond properly to my inputted answer to my fav game (DRAGON AGE ORIGINS)…that was a really neat addition that I dont think I have seen before. How many answers do you have ready and waiting for that, I wonder? I am assuming there must be prompts for answers like FINAL FANTASY or FALLOUT and the like…so cool. Really. 
Best of luck, this is an incredible concept and your writing is so fun and witty! If you are ever in need of beta testers, please let us know - I would love to help out in any way possible…especially since I am stuck in my house dodging germs until further notice xoxox
OH ps. In the beginning I was called “Kyah” once instead of my actual name. There is also a choice to either have A burn a bunch of candles (in the castle) or for me to “be a gentleman” and do it myself, which felt weird. As a woman, I dont think I can recall ever being referred to as a gentleman. That took me out of it for a moment. Otherwise, I really enjoyed this world!
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thank you so much for playing and enjoying!
aha the ‘gentleman’ thing is not at all genderlocked. It’s possibly because I call myself gentlemanly sometimes despite identifying as a woman lol - it is a quality for anyone to embody!
‘Kyah’! is like an expression of alarm or excitement that you might have seen at some point on tumblr in the 2010s… This is a very very 2010s tumblr game because that’s who I definitely was when I first worked on it
The favourite game thing most certainly has many major games inputted into it 
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@Baudelaire_Welch Oh man…KYAH!!! I totally didn’t read it properly in my head, I got you! I still dont get the gentleman thing, but it’s your jam - it certainly doesnt make the game any less awesome.
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@Baudelaire_Welch do we always get speared?
Just want to say my thoughts on this. I really, really disliked it due to one reason. As the main character, I feel utterly pathetic and powerless. It was infuriating to be so fucking worthless. I’m not getting into more detail as I am drawing from memory as I last played it in early February (or something like that). Everything else I was fairly fine with but that was so massive of a downside that the thought of going through it again sickens me.
I know this is not glowing happy prancing praise or weak tenative criticism that seems to be adored on here, but it affected me so greatly I want to at least say something. It’s entirely a personal issue due to some traits about me (being powerless dead weight will make me hate anything), but I do want to know if I was just a false perception.
I hope this continues to go well (great job actually picking up on one of these years later), I just have no idea if I will ever be able to read it.
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just use the top hat. works every time.
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That’s completely fair! If anything, a lot of this game is about people who have used escapist media to an extreme and unhealthy extent, to the point where they don’t think they have much else going for them… It’s called don’t wake me up because it’s about thinking you’d prefer to be in a simulation than have to face yourself really
I’m sorry it made you feel bad, and if it did I’d also advise you possibly not to play the final version. Most of the endings draw quite heavily on feelings of worthlessness or lack of place and it’s a q miserable comment on the process of fiction overrunning your life. But thank you for playing and giving it a try
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I really like this game, and the reference to other videogame are great, I’m just worried that the ending will all be sad/depressing. I don’t know, I expect something like our LIs are part of the simulation, or things like that. I know you can’t spoil it, but there is at least one happy ending right? Right?
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Not quite there with the guesses 
but I promise there are at least a couple good endings… I’m planning to have 6 ending sequence chapters, 4 bad endings and 2 good ones or more good ones depending on how depraved you are, maybe you’d consider some of the others good 
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You are scaring me… I’m already seeing everyone dying in my playthrough
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Also side note that this game has sprites… I’m unsure if it’s been mentioned before. I can’t upload them onto the dashingdon demo, because it doesn’t really allow uploads of images beyond the main icon, but the feature is established that as characters join and leave your party, the sprites for the corresponding characters appear on the stats screen underneath the character relationships information
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Oh I love this…i love the references in this ,the characters and i said my favorite game was mass effect…and the response was perfect. Keep this up author this is perfect .on my buy list, it’s witty and beautiful all at once
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OMG. This was one of my favorite demos and I’m so excited to see it getting an update after all this time.
And I immediately got an error that said “out of memory.”
Thank uu for being excited!
I have no idea what that error is and have a feeling it possibly isn’t something to do with what I’ve uploaded (can anyone else confirm?) maybe try in another browser?