Phoenix Rising | (updated - 09/15/23) (WIP) | Imperial Chinese Harem Political Intrigue

I AM considering adding a route where you can murder/depose the current emperor and become Empress/Emperor/Ruler Regent. But for now, that is along ways off. XD

That said, I am EVENTUALLY going to add special bonuses for using the names of famous concubines! So if all of you want to gather names of concubines/empresses/princesses from Chinese Dogblood Dramas, PLEASE put them here!

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Just FYI, Dashingdon uses an outdated version of ChoiceScript, so if you use newer commands than what it supports, it won’t work in there.

Also I believe they are asking about using the save system Dashingdon provides, not the new checkpoint system (which, again, won’t work on Dashingdon).

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Thank you for that clarification!

To answer this specific version of the question, probably not then. Dashingdon’s ‘save’ system was something I tried implementing before I put up the first version of it, and it failed so bad that Not Only could I not figure out how to fix it/get it to work, it BROKE the GAME entirely. So I have accepted I don’t have the coding skills yet to be able to do that.

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Daji bonus? :point_right: :point_left:

Would you like some help?

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So, Dashingdon’s save system is extremely easy but you can’t put it up until you’re ready to upload to dash, because it’ll break stuff in CSIDE/CoGdemos. All you need is the sminit line, nothing more than that, you just need to make sure you’re including it only in the version you upload to Dash. You can take it out of the version you’re using to write.

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Would you touch up on religion in the story, like have us choose what we believe in, because I heard that religion was an important factor in Chinese and tang court life

Hey there o7

I just wanted to come by and tell you that I really loved your game and the options you included in it. Regarding the appearance, I think it’s great (for me) that you added the option for the MC to potentially have some type of disability in the future. I hope to see more of your work soon because I loved the theme of your game about being involved in a harem, especially with those extra little details (I mean that specific thing that is talked about a lot and we can’t do, or we’ll be severely punished if caught with someone else) included in the game. I certainly haven’t seen any game at this moment that combines those two aspects.

and OH MY GOD, I loved that you show your process for creating your games. Honestly, I want to make a lot of games, but they’re just unfinished ideas that I can’t seem to move forward with. I know there’s a code available here for creating your games, but I feel too shy to ask people about it, and I also have no hope that my PC can handle coding applications, plus those warnings about “use at your own risk” make me hesitate. But thank you so much for sharing; not many people do that, at least not that I’ve seen.

Thanks for taking the time to read this, even if it was a bit long. I hope you take care and don’t get sick; if you do, I hope you recover soon. Bye! ;o

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I’m so sorry, my reading comprehension failed me here. What are you referring to exactly?

Thank you for this! I noticed that hardly anyone outside of this forum shows their work either, and I thought it was a bit of a shame, honestly. Like, some people are visual learners! How are they supposed to get started without examples to look at?

But please, know that you can absolutely make a game, even with a shitty computer. Choicescript is not heavy on a processor at all, and honestly, you could write one of these in a Notepad++ program, if you wanted. (Don’t, it’s a nightmare, use CSIDE or Visual Code Studio, please, it’ll save you frustration)

That said, I look forward to the day when your games hit the WIP section too, so I can root for you!

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I literally wrote my latest jam game (the language one) on my phone’s notes app.

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Yep! Daji, Wu Zetian, etc. xD

O^O yes pls

But it’ll have to wait until the weekend, as I work during the week and arranging a meeting time might be an issue. Please DM me?

This… Actually helps me understand why it screwed up. Thank you so much!

This is a great question! Unfortunately, as I have only a cursory knowledge of Taoism, Confucianism, and Bhuddism, I fear going into it in too much detail, as I don’t want to offend the practitioners of those religions. I don’t think I’ll touch on it more than your average harem novel or CDrama would, for this reason.

Exactly what I meant when I said it’s possible to do so! (That said omg, you are a stronger coder than I am. Id have lost my mind xD)

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I wouldn’t have trusted my phone apps to even take notes, too many bad surprises. (only makes manuscripts while colleagues look at writer in askance)

So, holy shit.

I’ll send you a little guide.

Right??? It’s impressive the same way cliff-jumping is.

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Ehh, Notepadd++ with choicescript definition can be pretty solid:

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:v

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It’s not like you can’t, but why would you when there’s a dedicated IDE?

I don’t want to fiddle with Notepad++ personally. Plus I’d miss the tools that come with the IDE.

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Genuinely excited for this one! Can’t wait :sob:

I’m so glad to hear it! Thanks for letting me know, because that excitement makes me want to work on it all the more!

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We need an update for this bad :sob::sob: save us pls

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Yeah, not me waiting for the game to be updated so that the bugs I encountered will be fixed so that I can get past the sequence with the woman crying (because I’m stuck there and can’t go forward) :sweat_smile:. But I’ll wait patiently for the update (as I already did).

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Yep, that’s exactly me. I feel a little afraid to go into that coding part while creating a game and just the thought of the branching part of the interactive part of the game makes me more afraid to start anything :sweat:. Although I already downloaded the choicescript app/coding to make a game but I downloaded it in mid April but still didn’t use it. But I’m sure that at some point in the future I will get my courage to create a game.

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I apologize for the late response. I was referring to how you would add more physical characteristics of the protagonist’s body and how you would implement them in the scenes. In the game, you described that people (except for the king of that place) would face punishment for being caught in an intimate situation with another person, which is more or less what I meant.

Haha, yeah, me too. I literally just tried it a few seconds ago and ended up messing up all the code.

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