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Anonymous

DashingDon is shutting down at the end of Jamuary 2025. There is a post on the Choice of Games forum and others have shared other places to move the game. (Sorry if this is duplicate news, just wanted to make sure all creators know.)

Uh oh! Luckily this doesn’t impact me because WALL hasn’t been in choicescript for quite a while (aside from being trapped in infinite hiatus right now sorry everyone 😭) but publishing this anyway just in case it’s useful news to anyone else!

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Anonymous

yo yo! is wall still being worked on?? i really loved the demo so far and i'm so excited to see where the story goes!!! i checked your main blog and saw that you're still active there, so i'm not majorly concerned about your well-being, but i'm hesitant to send an ask about wall over there lol

aw bless, you could have I wouldn’t have minded! At the moment I can only in good conscience say WALL is absolutely something I want to come back to but it’s on a bit of an indefinite hiatus while I try to get… my life in general a little more under control. But I have big plans, I’ve actually restructured the mechanics of the game a bit and I’m eager to eventually get to show that off to everyone!

Thank you so much for your kind words, people still somehow stumbling across the demo and telling me how much they enjoyed it is a BIG part of what keeps me motivated to come back to this instead of consigning it to Abandoned Project Limbo.

hello, i hope you're doing well! i reread the demo and its even better than i remembered...it makes me want 2 know everything about the world and the characters! much love <3

ahh thank you! 🙏💜 And I swear, some day….. you will. I’m probably one or two scenes away from being able to update the game with the second half of chapter 2, which unfortunately doesn’t mean much from a timeframe perspective because progress is so sporadic but it DOES mean I’m still making progress!

The main challenge right now (not that you asked but some folks might be curious lol) is that the back end of chapter 2 is exposition-heavy, which means I need to make very very sure that each potential path touches on the most important things in its own way while still feeling distinct and like there are pros and cons to each choice and at least one or two chances to change your mind. I’m hoping I’ll be able to find a bit more momentum in chapter 3 and 4 because each path is going to be a lot more self-contained which means I can just push through them without doing so much gosh dang cross-referencing.

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Anonymous

You absolute delight of a being. I love your setting, I love your characters, and I love you. I'm sending you all my extra energy and hope you have a great day. I am beyond thrilled you decided to share your talents with us, that I get to read and look at it, what a pretty gift for me to regard even for a while! Thank you for putting it in my way. If it updates at the pace of a centenarian, I'll cheer on each step. If it never completes, know that I loved it as it were and I won't forget it. <3.

gfdsgsd HELLO?? I might cry at this, what an absolutely wonderful message to receive…

I do truly, truly have every intention of continuing this story, you all have no idea how many big things I have planned and how often I think about the game and want to work on it. It’s always extremely touching and encouraging to be reminded that there are people at least as eager to see more of it as I am to share it with you. Thank you anon 💕

hi :) i noticed the dyslexia friendly font does not work in the little settings pop-up. I don't know how important that is right now or at all, but I thought I'd let u know

Hm! You’re right, it looks like font changes don’t work in the pop-ups at all >:/ I will definitely need to look into that, they’re not a huge part of the story but considering that also includes the content warnings, the new relationships page I’m working on, and potentially more stuff later on I don’t want to leave that unresolved. Thanks for the heads up!

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Anonymous

Hair anon here, seems like it's all good then, at least for the chin-length options! Though I did notice the shaved and cropped short options had the same flavour-text, but if that's intended then I don't have anything else to report on that front

Ah excellent, thanks! Yeah the two shortest options have the same text right now but it’s probably something I’ll come back to. I mostly just wanted to make sure every combo was accounted for in SOME way.

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Anonymous

I know you said you fixed the mention of hair right after the dream sequence that didn't account for its variables, but as I played today I found that it's still just mentioned as "hair" - letting you know just in case. Thanks for all the work, awesome WIP!

Hmmm, do you recall what specific hair length/texture/style combination you were using and if it seemed like the description didn’t match?

If your hair is loose, chin-length or longer, and straight or wavy you should still get “you comb your fingers through your hair,” and if it’s curly you should get “you brush your hair back away from your face,” and then the bigger variations come with the other styles and shorter lengths. So if that’s not the case it means my code needs another look 👀

I appreciate the troubleshooting help, and also thank you so much for the kind words!

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Anonymous

(pressing my face against the glass of the askbox) Smitten 👀

👁👁

You can come in if you want the door’s not locked

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hey! just hopped into the character creator and it seems like the 'coiled' and 'tightly curled' options are going into the wrong part of the description and overwriting the length option!

Uh oh! Good catch, it looks like I tied them to the wrong tag. I’m gonna upload a new build once I get through cleaning up all the links so that should be fixed by the end of the day.

Thanks!

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Anonymous

just checked out your game, i’m so impressed! everything from the worldbuilding to the characters really draws me in, i love your writing. also the art SLAPS!!! im so excited to see where this goes :)

oh my gosh thank you!! The response to this most recent update has been so incredibly positive and it’s been a huge motivation boost, I’m really excited for everyone to be along for the ride and see how weird things are gonna get 😈