#dashingdon preservation effort

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Update on the Archive:

We r currently doing the last few uploads to the drive, afterwards we will continue with the catalog.

Any private games will not be published with the archive. And we have taken note of many games where the Author has said they'd prefer their games not to be archived.

If we did somehow miss your game; or you afterwards would rather yours not to be included, there will be a submission form to reach out to us so we can resolve the problem quickly. (That is a maintenance thing that I'll be doing alone, so please be kind when it takes time to respond.)

I'm aware that this is sort of a pretty controversial topic whether or not it is okay to archive every game. I'm not trying to persuade anyone's opinion on the matter, but I'd like to explain why our Team decided to do it. All of us care a lot a lot about all the games and don't want to see any of them go.

Personally, I care a lot about art, regardless of if I've read or seen it, art is a right imo, art is humanity. I've not read most of the games in the archive, and most of them are dead games, but allowing them to die and be forgotten, is allowing a part of humanity to die and be forgotten. Even if there is only one person who cares about a game, that is enough to try to save it, even if that person may never see the archive or forgot about that game. Someone sat down and wrote and cared enough to create something, and that is worth preserving, regardless if it's "good" or "bad" or "abandoned". It was important enough to create, so it's important enough to preserve.

We are trying our best to listen to everyone's reasons and opinions on this matter, to find solutions and compromises for this archive so everyone can be satisfied with it in the end. But we're also a very small team and if we end up overlooking something or mess up somehow in the end, please inform us and have patience while we correct the archive.

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Besides the already mentioned options like itchio and the cogdemos website, there is also a massive archive being created of all wips from dashingdon. (We're ATM at about 1.3k / 2.1k games uploaded.)

Not only will it archive all txt files, but comes with the needed files and instructions to compile (, test, and edit) any game that ran on dashingdon ever.

[we r also working on a catalog for all the games as well.]

Hi everyone, and Happy Thursday!

Thank you all for the messages letting me know that Dashingdon is shutting down at the end of the month!

Question for folks - what are my options in terms of sites to repost the demo (which is written with Choicescript)? Feel free to answer in the comments of this post, in my ask box, or in my DMs!

Cheers!

-Bouncy

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Also, I'm getting some messages about this so I suppose I might as well say, but for anyone considering or who is already rescuing/scraping WIP files from Dashingdon for archival purposes--including, seemingly, those that were kept private or hidden from public access--please consider this my notice that I have all of my files and do not need them to be rescued, and especially not posted elsewhere on my behalf! I appreciate the efforts for preservation, but here's my statement that I personally do not need that and do not want any of my game files posted or shared anywhere, inactive or not--especially with all of the AI/security/privacy/ownership concerns in our atmosphere right now. Thank you!

[guardian-of-time-if]

It has come to my attention that there has been an effort to preserve all the games on Dashindon, and I wanted to say that my game has already moved and I do not want anyone else having my game files, so if my game has made it onto one of these lists, before I deleted the dashingdon link, I kindly ask that it be removed. Thank you.

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Also, DW about dashingdon going down, we have organized a mass download of all the public demos. We are downloading it as we speak and afterwards we'll have to do some sorting and stuff, but we are working on it, as well as a spreadsheet of all games for easier access.

No games are lost if I can fucking help it

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no pressure to respond to this if you’re busy, but I was just wondering where this archive you’re talking about for the WIPs are, and who’s helping out? I really appreciate all the effort going into saving these games! I was really worried about games like vendetta or mind blind that are really good and (gosh vendetta has SO MUCH content and also extras!) would have been a shame to lose. so. yeah, many thanks!

We are currently still working on making the archive itself. It's a gdrive so we're not releasing until after we're all finished working on it.

It's taking some time, BCS we are trying to catalogue the games for easier access, ensuring that authors who don't want to have their game archived, don't end up in it; that no private games or patreon releases end up in the finished archive.

We're a team of 4

(you have noooo idea how much content there issss, it's absolutely insane when I was handling some uploads, some games took forever to upload and had so many files. I'm mentally making a list which games I wanna try playing.)