Dark Dimensions: A Spiritual Successor

Changelog History Doc v0.06.7-7-25 Performance Boost This build mainly focuses on improving performance, a lot of crashes were due to the higher system requirements. The Jazz crash specifically was due to hardware limitations. Engine Changed to Compatibility Renderer from Forward+, thus the game uses OpenGL (an older renderer) instead of Vulkan. VRAM requirements down to 2GB from 4GB. The 3D space has been re-arranged, the camera has been brought in with a lower draw distance on 2.5D parts of the game. Reducing the area it renders down to under 25% of the original. Lighting has been redone due to changing the renderer. Many animations have been redone to account for the smaller space. Character movement may still be a bit strange because it was configured for the smaller space, it will be refined over time. Improvements Characters should have a stronger and smoother outline. Music state is now saved, and should be restored correctly on load. Reloading in the middle of a cg sequence / animation sequence should correctly restart the scene so that it will be viewed correctly. MISC Grammar Fixes. Game file size has been reduced to 1.9GB from 7.4 GB when extracted. v0.06.6-30-25 Public Launch Update Changed from Redot 4.3 to Godot 4.4.1, navigate to %APPDATA%\Redot\app_userdata (Win+R, paste, run) on Windows and move the 'Dark Dimensions- Spiritual Successor' to %APPDATA%\Godot\app_userdata to transfer your saves and settings to the updated engine. Content Updates: Added additional sound effects. Added additional music. Script refined in some areas. Some animations changed, or refined. Improvements: Consumption of VRAM has been reduced significantly. Costly graphics option has been turned off in scenes where it would provide no effect, currently only active on the map. Save names are filled with a default 'date/time' to simplify the process of saving. Bug Fixes: UI: You can no longer dismiss the save screen while the input screen is visible, preventing a soft lock of the game. Textbox name and quick button now should correctly hide anytime the textbox forcefully needs to hide. NAVIGATION: Gymnasium exit no longer points to the main hallway and instead to the right hallway. QUEST: An event trigger in the livingroom that could be activated improperly has been changed so that activation will only occur at the proper time. Players who have saved outside the gymnasium after the event triggers before completing the investigation of the next location, and would be stuck from finishing the investigation, their location will be set to the Gymnasium upon loading. BACKEND: Reset data to defaults when returning to the title screen, fixes data persisting through starting a new game. SAVE / LOADING: Loading specific CG / event sequences, would not have their animation state set correctly on reload. This should now be corrected. Upon loading, the textbox is dismissed instantly to prevent displaying the wrong text. v0.06.6-15-25 Launch Update Built using Godot (Redot fork), will move back to Godot within a version or two, and a heavily modified / extended version of Dialogic. Content -Explorable Locations: Fenton Works Casper High -CG / Cutscenes: A very bombastic intro with many pieces of art for you to enjoy. Two ‘lewd’ scenes, although the background are still works in progress. Game Engine / Dialogic Features: History Features non-animated portraits of characters, some currently missing, but allows you to review the dialogue of ‘scenarios’ you’ve experienced. Keybinds H: Hide textbox F1: Show FPS / Performance Statistics X: Advance dialogue Rollback Was not natively implemented into Dialogic, so a custom solution had to be coded. It is not as advanced as Ren’py’s version, but during a ‘scenario’ (when a dialogue box is present) it will allow you to hop back in conversation up to 60 lines. Currently to prevent bugs, when an ‘event’ (internal record of various story points) threshold is crossed that ‘event’ will restart and clear the current rollback saves. It is also disabled during more ‘cinematic / cg’ scenarios, because of animation glitches currently. Save / Load Saving / Loading is available at all times, but in the middle of an ‘event’ on load you will restart that event. Saves are nameable, and contain other information about the current status of the game that is displayed on the UI. Saves are also ‘prefixed’ with the current date, then time, and then version under which they were originally created. This allows them to be organized, at the bottom of the save / load page you will see the ‘prefix’ currently selected, clicking on that will bring up a drop down menu showing you all saves sharing that ‘prefix’. To preserve compatibility between versions and to fix bugged saves, the loaded data is processed beforehand to examine and fix logic bugs. Settings There are a wide range of UI customizations available. Including changing the background color / text color / outline color, the font used for dialogue, the font used for some UI pieces, and then a third font option used in other parts of the game. Display settings are limited but will be expanded. Gameplay options available are only for the battle preview mode, accessed on the title screen. Also are sliders to control the overall volume, sound effect volume, ambient volume, music volume, and a special type of ‘music’ referred to as songs. Songs are used to provide more fine control of the music to us as creators. Animated Characters Spine, a mesh based animation tool, rigged character portraits are currently in the game, although currently their feature set is extremely limited. 2.5D world Godot allows us to have the characters position themselves along the z axis (depth) along with the traditional y (up/down) and x (left/right). This gives us a lot of creative freedom. Prototype 3D map A prototype version of the intended city map has been made in 3D, and will continue to be updated with customized assets in the future. This semi-isometric map currently only covers a small part of the city, but more will be added in the future. Prototype Battle System From the title screen, a preview of the current direction for the Battle System is available to be tested. It is not completely representative of the desired balance, community feedback will help drive its advancement so it will help fulfill your fantasy of fighting as Danny. There will not be direct leveling, but as the main scenario progresses further there will be a natural strengthening of Danny’s abilities. Consumable Item Crafting will be part of the game and a way to even the odds in challenging battles. Prototype Phone Unlocked in the game, but currently not very useful, the phone will be your hub to interact with the game world and also have bonus content. Custom Event System Flexible event system that should lead to easy debugging of any logic errors, and keeps code related to it isolated from the dialogue of the game. For player’s it will be completely invisible, but will open the doors to having a smooth experience while exploring the Dark Dimensions world. Custom Navigation System Our navigation system allows the smooth integration of characters / pickable items into the various locations of the game. They will only show up when the conditions in the game are correct, usually by time / quest / main scenario progress.