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Looking for Digital Content Writers

Happy March! In light of gamified content being more expanded on for version 1.1, I'd like to announce that I'm looking for potential "Digital" Content Writers if you would like to help out the team!

If you enjoy writing and want to help out but worry about your schedule/consistency, this might be something you're interested in! Essentially, Digital Content Writers are the ones who brainstorm and script the vast character interaction that occurs outside the main story content. This includes things like texts, calls, (eventual) Devilgram and blog posts, etc - they're the ones who help make the characters come to life outside the story. With the new intimacy system, there will plenty of this interaction occurring starting Chapter 2.

I'm currently looking for three people - all help is appreciated 💞 If you'd like to apply, just message me here or on discord/twitter about if you'd like to write for a particular character(s) or everyone and we can go from there! If you are selected, there is no pressure to start immediately. We can ease into things after 1.1.

Once again thanks for the support everyone! :)

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Does MC remember how they die? Is their death predetermined or can we imagine whatever?

Good question! They don't remember and as far as I recall it doesn't come up, so you can headcanon anything you'd like.

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The envy 🐍

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Since you mentioned how MC wouldnt be related to Lilith in your rewrite, will she be mentioned in the background or will she be brought up once and never again (same with the whole grimoire business)

She will be brought up to explain the history, but the whole Lilith dream sequence thing or whatever it was where she spoke to MC won't happen. She's just a piece of the history with little relevance to the current game plot.

As for the whole grimoire business...I'm honestly cutting that out. It was, as you said, pretty much just brought up randomly sometimes and never mentioned again despite the huge plot significance it could've had??

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Outta curiosity (and if u can answer of course) I'm wondering what direction of the changes your making to the preexisting canon info in the story? Like the nature of the program and how it works, if any lore changes to mc could affect personal details like backstory, if the Devildom is the same one as before?

I'd personally like to know these to see of I should revaluate any personal details about my mc I made that clash with the new changes, and get an idea on whether or not I should anticipate the silly, non serious tone the story had outside of major story beats

Heya, good question! You can still expect the sillies, but they'll predominantly be in the side stories, hangouts, and events (when I get to those eventually). The main story will have a slightly more serious undertone just because it deals with heavier issues. If your MC is high in humor, though, they will will still be goofy when given the chance.

As for the pre-existing info, the entire history of the realms is different - I don't recall a backstory on how the three realms originated and their past, so I created one of my own. Same thing with why the Demon King is sleeping + how Diavolo came to be, as well as other major history events which resulted in the way things are now with a flourishing Celestial Realm and crippled Devildom. There was just so much possibility for interesting lore I felt was overlooked :')

MC has a vastly different backstory that does not deal with Lilith, and it's pretty important later as it ties them to RAD, Diavolo, Barbatos, and God. I'm not 100% sure if it would affect your MC's details? I'm sorry I had to be super vague about everything though to avoid spoilers! Feel free to reach out again if there's something I didn't touch on ^^

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This is so gorgeous and perfect 💘

The greed 🎰

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Sneak Peek #1: Intimacy System

Hope everyone's having a wonderful February!! It's shocking to think that almost a month and a half has passed since Obey Me: A New Beginning officially released. I'm so grateful for all the support and kind comments I've gotten! Seriously, it means a lot more than I can say 💗

With that said, I figured it's time for a little sneak peek into what I've been working on :)) The intimacy system, which is pretty much supposed to be the main dating/friendship aspect of the game, is being rehauled into something way more brand-new and shiny! What's in 1.0 is messy at best and all over the place at worst, constantly throwing bugs because the backend code is not put together at all. When I originally started this project back in 2021, I did not really know how to properly program extensive systems 😂

Thankfully, I have now gamified the system into something much cleaner - a lot more similar to the levelling system of the OG and other dating sims. Here's a snippet of what the WIP interface looks like right now: (forgive me, design is not a strength of mine haha)

There will be a total of 7 tiers and 100 levels distributed between them:

Strangers

Acquaintances

Friends

Close Friends

Best Friends

Crush

Lovers

Plus a bonus Soulmates tier for completionists who'd like to go beyond 100 :) I hope you're looking forward to seeing it in action!

What kinds of rewards would you like to see being unlocked as a result of levelling up with an LI? Texts and calls will be present like the OG, but I'm definitely looking into adding more things as well.

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I just finished the current story content, and it is amazing. The writing is brilliant and I like the pacing. I loved how the brothers were written as well. the quizes were fun (i got Lucifer lmao). I liked the inclusion of shopping with Mammon and Asmo, as well as the dinner scene (that soup though, why's it crunchy 😭😂). The serotonine rush is real 💙💛🧡💚🩷❤️💜

Thank you so much! I'm super happy you enjoyed 💞

And yes...the crunchy soup will remain the game's biggest mystery 😂

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Hi! just wanted to ask on how you personally use Twine I've been a fan of OM, and wondered how u made the remake in that system lmao. I was wondering if you had any tips / tutorials u used, I've spent some time testing and have got the hang of variables and linking but i was really confused on how you designed it / removed the borders around the side bar and everything, along with how you made the intimacy system, Especially the notify / achievement bar system! No tutorials were helping me lol

Sure! I'll do my best to explain below; feel free to ask me to expand on anything if it's confusing.

Changing sidebar:

The way you do this is basically through CSS ("Story Stylesheet"). When your game is open in the browser, you can inspect elements to figure out what they're called, then change their styles. For example, I removed the border of the menu buttons by putting the following in the stylesheet:

(for the overall borders)

menu ul {

border: none;

}

(for the borders between each link)

menu li a {

border: none;

}

w3schools.com is a great website if you'd like to learn CSS - it's what will help you completely restyle your story. There are also plenty of Twine design templates for something easier to use without having to learn code.

Intimacy system:

This one is a little more complicated. I'm actually completely rehauling the intimacy system for version 1.1. Right now, it uses a lot of if statements to check the amount of intimacy the player has collected with a character - and this intimacy is in a variable initialized in the special StoryInit passage. However, that's bandaid code which is messy and easily runs into bugs, as has happened ever since release lol. To fix it, I've essentially created a proper levelling system using custom macros and JavaScript. That requires a good grasp on behind-the-scenes programming, though. If your game isn't a huge project, keeping intimacy in variables should work just fine. Just make sure to keep a spreadsheet or notes somewhere that list how much intimacy is possible to gain and in which passages. It will make your life easier in the long run.

Notifications:

This one I actually got from one of Chapel's custom macros! They're super easy to use and do a lot of cool things. I highly recommend checking these out because they can make your life easier: link

Achievements:

I'm going to assume you're talking about achievements that persist over different saves - for this, you'll need to utilize Twine's special StoryInit passage again. In case you are not sure of what that is, it's essentially all the variables that will be initialized when the game is first loaded into the browser. Your achievements and important story-spanning variables (like personality traits, intimacy counters, etc) will go here. To create an achievement, you'd put something like this in your StoryInit:

<<set $achievement1 to recall('achievement1')>>

If the player hasn't obtained the achievement, $achievement1 will automatically be set to false. To have them actually get the achievement, put

<<run memorize($achievement1, true)>>

<<set $achievement1 to true>>

in the passage where the achievement is gained. Also, be sure to have your players know that keeping saves and achievements like these relies on browser cache - if that's cleared, their progress will be lost.

Hope that helps! I wasn't sure how familiar you are with Twine beyond variables and linking as it's a pretty big engine with many things, so I just covered things without going into deeper mechanics like Twine's special passages, scripts/stylesheets, macros, etc. I'm happy to explain those too if you're having trouble. Also, everything I explained is specifically in the Sugarcube language - it won't work in Harlowe, Snowman, etc.

Helpful links:

Twine cookbook

Chapel's custom macros

Cycy's custom macros

Albie's Twine Tutorial with tons more resources

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i just wanna say that the game is honestly really well made! I love how it actually differs from the main game and we get to genuinely interact with the characters more and have more freedom with our own MC, i wish you guys all the best in this amazing fan project and i can’t wait for more to come ^^

Thank you so much! I used to have it really close to the og and then was like no, there's so much more to expand on that was just skimmed over....so I just took the characters and ran off to headcanon worldbuilding land 😂 I'm happy to hear you enjoyed!

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Just played your game and oh my gooooosh!!! It's so brillant and well written!! I love all the options we have inside the story (really, going shopping with Asmo and Mammon was such a delight!! Aaaaa) and the characterization is amazing <3 Not to mention all the other features we have to play around too. Truly, I am without words here to express how awesome experience it was to find and play it! Thank you so much for sharing this with us <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Oh my goodness, thank you so much! Reading your kind words made my day 🥹🥹💗 I'm so happy you liked it <3

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Hi! I just wanted to ask if there will be anything nsfw hinted in conversations within routes like there was in both games? Personally I hated how the MC only had the options saying 'Kiss him' almost immediately after being alone with a character or just be plain mean and reject them the worse possible way 😭

I love slowburn and it'd be nice to see if it could be in the new rewrite with slow romantic build ups with the characters before anything too nsfw-y.

You can ignore this if it's not to your liking of answering, I was only curious with how similar the new rewrite might be with the games.

I'll definitely say that I'm taking a loooot of creative liberties with this project, so quite a lot will be different from the og game. One of them is indeed the pace of the romance as you asked! I'm a massive slowburn fan too, which is why I also hated how quickly the game shoved us together with the LIs 😭

For sure making that different in the rewrite! Pretty much all the routes are very slowburn with the emotions themselves, even if there are options to be touchy early on with LIs who are okay with it. Some LIs are also more slowburn than others and require more effort to befriend or win their approval first. I'm sure it's pretty obvious who those would be, haha. Even when you do get options to be romantic, though, you won't be penalized if you don't choose it! It's seriously such a pet peeve of mine when games are like yeah, either kiss him or kick him in the balls. Like, hello? I'm not doing that at all - there will be platonic and neutral options too so everyone can go at their own pace.

As for NSFW-related things, it's not super concrete yet. There will probably be fade-to-black situations, but again the player has full control over how far they want to take things, or whether they even want to do anything borderline steamy. Nothing will be explicit, though.

Hope that answered your questions! 🤗

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Question: Heard about poly relationships possibly being implemented later on. Would Dia/Luci/Mc be an option? 👀

Good question - to be honest, I don't have a clear-set idea on what the poly pairings will be as of now. It's more of a back-burner thing because I'd like to finish the single routes first, which will take a while. It might be, as I know that's a quite popular poly pairing in this fandom, but we'll see 🤔

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First off- I just started messing around with the game today and let me say it is AWESOME! I didn’t even know this was a thing since earlier this morning!

I was wondering if you were planning on adding Mephistopheles, Raphael, and Thirteen into it? Sorry if this has been asked already! -📀

Thank you, and don't worry about it! I don't think I have this explicitly written anywhere -

Mephistopheles, Raphael, and Thirteen will appear in the story, but not as love interests. As much as I'd like to have them be romanceable given the og game teased it and never followed through, there are already too many LIs to keep track of 😔. As such, they will appear and you can befriend them, but they won't have dedicated routes.

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Hi! I think this is a really interesting and fun thing too! Makes me excited to see what is to come! (Especially since I heard that barely anyone likes lesson 60 and just how they ended the game/story as a whole) though I would like to know if there will still be a harem route to take? 😅 I'm the kinda person who just can't choose and I love them all so much (of course not Lukie!) so I would just like to know if that will be an eventual route! (Also I would love to hear any ideas on switching up lesson 16 cause it was TERRIBLE! like the MC just died and they were supposed to be like "yeah okay I'm okay, huh? I'm the ancestor of Lilith? Yeah that's normal" and it was just a whole lot of trauma dumping but nothing getting solved and then the demons reactions to when belphie killed MC was just so lackluster and disappointing 😮‍💨😔

Thank you very much!

Harem Route

Unfortunately, this game won't have a harem route simply because 1. that's one of my issues with the og game and 2. it's a lot harder to write, especially with so many LIs. The best way to really get the experience would be to go through the routes of all your faves! It's worth noting I'm thinking of doing some eventual poly routes, but those would be predetermined (like, Asmo & Sol or something like that) instead of whichever two LIs the player chooses. That's mainly so I can still have consistent events for those LIs and a proper plot as well.

Chapter 16

Don't worry about chapter 16, definitely. I swear, that's probably the biggest issue that made me actually start this rewrite in the first place 😂 What you said was literally my reaction too! It seemed like they tried to build up to this huge and horrifying event, but it fell flat and there was no actual resolution, ugh.

In the rewrite, there will be no Lilith/ancestor storyline or MC getting traumatized that badly. I definitely still want it to be a proper climax with an oomph, but the dying, time travel, and door getting broken without all 7 pacts were all very badly done in my opinion. Belphegor's entire character and arc as well was just...no.

Instead, I plan to have (story hints warning in case people would prefer not to read this and be surprised when it comes out) a "sneaking out" storyline if the player chooses to rebel and meet Belphegor in secret. That quite changes the final event in ways I won't say, though it's still very angsty. Even if you don't choose to either trust or befriend Belphegor, though, he doesn't actually do something as horrific as the og game. MC also has a different yet still very important backstory that's not being Lilith's ancestor! That would spoil pretty major plot points though, so my lips are zipped. Stay tuned for it :))

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Just a few questions if you don’t mind answering! :)

Will this game branch off into different routes at some point?

Are there different endings planned?

I think I saw somewhere that two seasons are planned, is that true? If so does that mean we might go outside of the Devildom?

So sorry for so many questions haha, I wish you all the best in the development of this and I enjoyed the version 1.0 so much!!! :D Make sure to take breaks! ☺️

Hey, happy to answer your questions!

Routes:

Yes, the game will eventually have routes instead of the mass harem of the og. Essentially, after the whole Belphie plot arc, you will be able to unlock routes of characters that you have high enough intimacy with. There will, of course, be plenty of opportunities to raise intimacy in the story and other interactions (texting, gifting, etc) before that.

Endings:

I plan to make different endings, yes. When the plot eventually picks up, there will be lore-heavy choices that end up giving you different story events and therefore different endings ranging from tragic to sweet.

Seasons:

Yep! As of now, I have the game set to take place in two seasons. The first is in the Devildom, and the second will explore the Human World and Celestial Realm as well. The second season will also be a lot more plot-heavy given that LI routes will already have been selected. A lot of the world's lore that I've created to answer the major unanswered questions of the og game will be revealed in season 2.

Thank you so much for the kind wishes; I'm really happy you enjoyed the game! Hope I was able to answer your questions in a satisfactory manner. Feel free to ask me to clarify anything if needed! :)

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What's Your Go-To D.D.D App? 🗣️

The D.D.D. in Obey Me: A New Beginning is loaded with so many fun apps, some of which aren't even in the original game. From Hellzfeed quizzes to customizable contacts to note-taking tools, there's something for everyone!

So, I'm curious: Which app do you find yourself enjoying the most, and why?

And just for fun: If you could design a brand-new app for the D.D.D., what would it be? Let’s hear your ideas! Drop your thoughts in the comments, tags, or ask box - I'd love to hear them! 🤗