The Night Hunters: First Blood [Updated 10/1/21]

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Hello.

I mostly spend on time lurking on the forums here that Choice of Games because I’m not really interested in engaging in forum discussions (this is the first time I actually engaged in a forum) but I couldn’t help but notice this unfortunate turn of events you’ve experienced.

I really just have one question: When you say that all of your work on Night Hunters is gone, do you mean ALL of it, including the demo code, or were you only referring to the work you’ve done since you’ve last updated your demo for Night Hunters? Given the way you’ve phrased it and how everyone is acting, am I right in assuming that it is the former?

The reason why I’m going out of my way to make a post here is because you actually can still get the code for your demo from your demo link in your top post.

If you want something to reference, this URL is pretty applicable to your situation, it works on completed games and demoes:

Please note that for whatever reason, what’s on the page I reference doesn’t quite work for your demo, but luckily, after a little troubleshooting I figured out how to make it work. I tried this out an hour ago and I was able to not only view your demo code, but I was able to copy and paste it onto a text document.

Here’s how to do it:
The URL for your demo is this:
https://dashingdon.com/play/varyn/night-hunters-first-blood/mygame/

To view the code that has all of of your scenes names and variables: simply add scenes/startup.txt to the end of it.

To view the code that is in each individual scene: replace “startup” with the name of the scene as it appears in the startup.txt

Best case scenario, you can rebuild your game from the ~7 month outdated foundation that is your demo instead of having to remake the game from scratch; which I’m sure we can all agree that is major step up.

I should warn everyone who reads my post to take this with a grain of salt. I am writing this post under the assumption that when Varyn_Ashyver said “All my Night Hunters work is gone, wiped from existence” that means that the demo code was also lost and that Varyn_Ashyver was unaware that the above method existed. I hope that my post doesn’t get people to don’t get their hopes up unnecessarily if this turn out to be a dead end or that the assumptions I made turn out to be wrong.

I hope Varyn_Ashyver luck in their all their future endeavors.

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Seems Theoden King doesn’t ride alone

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Hello! I don’t tend to post in this forum much but last night I played your game and liked it a lot so I came back to see if there was any post by you about an update and ran into this.

First of all I am so sorry to learn about this happening, it really is a writer’s worst nightmare! That being said, as Master_Ouroboros said, you can get all the files of the current demo! By entering to this link: DashingDon: Free ChoiceScript Game Hosting you get to “the index” sort to say of your game and by clicking each file you will get the code for that chapter.

I know this doesn’t bring back chapters 8 to 10 but I think it might be easier to write those again than start from zero with this or another project.

Hopefully this will be helpful! And anyway, amazing work with this one already :slight_smile:

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I know there’s been a few people suggesting how to get the code back. Anyone get a response from the author?

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This is so cool. Love it! :star_struck:

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I have bad news for you buddy…

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That is that it’s a lost project now. Cancelled cause of the lost files.

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Nooo please :sob: my heart- gosh the story was so cool .·´¯(>▂<)´¯·. Anyways thanks for telling me •́ ‿ ,•̀

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Aww dang, for reals? Man, I was looking forward to flirting with the captain. My condolences to the author for losing so much of their hard work.

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I think Varyn said that he’ll work on and perfect the starting version of the same story but it’s completely different.

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@Empress_Nightmare has the right of it if memory serves lol but yeah it’s never a good thing but look at it this way we have something to look forward to :smiley:

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548

I hope history doesn’t repeat itself. It would be a shame if something similar happen again.

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I don’t know about anyone else, but with as many RO options as there are I could have used descriptions when forced to choose who the romance option for that playthrough.

Like the mechanic, the pilot, etc.

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I haven’t played the game in a while, so I can’t comment about RO descriptions within the game but like most WIP’s these days, there are detailed descriptions about all 7 RO’s in the opening post.

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it’s a damn shame what happened, but, the book so far is so good that a i still play sometimes

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I hope the author have a change of heart about their decision. After all I’m looking forward for this game for such a long time, it’s full of potential. :cry::cry::cry:

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Sadly i dont think that will be happening, but there is the possibility that the author might be working on their other project though we havent heard anything yet

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this happens far to often on good books
iv come to expect it

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Yeah this was a brilliant story. It’s a shame what happened to the author. I would have loved to follow them and their future endeavors but it seems like this account is now closed :pensive: Hope they are doing well though

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true i played it the first time at 5.8 this year and today i played it again i love this game, sadly it will never end we only know thats someone breaks in our room

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