Monika After Story

[therationalpi]

Just wanted to share a fan mod that I've been helping with called Monika After Story[monikaafterstory.com]. It was started by some folks on ♥♥♥♥♥, but it's grown beyond that to pretty much any DDLC community.

After Story extends the "Space Room" scene with Monika, adds a bunch of new dialogue, and includes a simple chatbot system so Monika doesn't have to do all of the talking. There's more planned for the future, and the project is open to anyone that wants to contribute some new dialogue or help with the game's coding.

*Edit for updates:*

We’ve just dropped a new version of Monika After Story[github.com]. This version is our first to extensively feature new art, including a whole new set of expressions not found in the original game!

Here’s a short gallery[imgur.com].

The latest release can be found on our releases page[github.com].

New Features for v0.6.0

• Monika now has lots of new expressions!
  
  
• Monika's evening color scheme now better matches her normal sprites for DDLC.
  
  
• New UI features, including buttons for talking, playing games, and a new music selection screen
  
  
• Play chess with Monika! (thanks @kadava)
  
  
• Monika will now ask about your gender and preferred name and address you appropriately
  
  
• Automatic updating on game start up, or check manually through the settings screen.
  
  
• DDLC saves can now be imported through settings.
  
  
• Redid window animation at higher resolution and framerate
  
  
• New window animation for daytime
  
  
• Option to turn off animations (greatly reduces system impact)
  
  
• New events and dialogue.
  
  
• Monika can now close the game for herself after responding to you saying "Good Night" or "Goodbye"

Help wanted
We are really looking for some new artists to help clean up our art and add new poses and expressions to the game. If you are interested, please drop by our development discord[discord.gg] and let us know how you'd like to help out!

[Bazzy]

Is there any actual decisions in the mod or will there be in the future?
Just random dialog with her sounds pretty dull, tbh.
Didn't liked her that much..

[therationalpi]

There will be more scenarios in the future with decisions and such. Retrofitting the original chapter to handle more dialogue gracefully was just the first step. Consider the current version a demo or preview.

DDLC hasn't been out very long, after all.

[HypetheKomodo]

Seems like interesting new content!

We're probably going to have plenty of fan content in the future, and I think that's an exciting (if scary) new realm. Can't wait to see what people come up with in the future!

[Polerion]

The mod is already quite developed (consider the fact that it's version 0.3 and that it's not been out for long at all)

[Bazzy]

Originally posted by therationalpi:

There will be more scenarios in the future with decisions and such. Retrofitting the original chapter to handle more dialogue gracefully was just the first step. Consider the current version a demo or preview.

DDLC hasn't been out very long, after all.

I mean i do consider this free game a demo as well so i'm all for it. Keep us posted, if you want to!

[Happyguy22]

Question: how capable is this chatbot? Would it be possible to have a good conversation between it and the user?

Also, good work on making a interesting mod concept. I was doubting someone would of made it as it would require a fair amount of effort to produce said mod. Again, splendid work!

[Polerion]

Originally posted by A Tribal-class destroyer:

Question: how capable is this chatbot? Would it be possible to have a good conversation between it and the user?

Also, good work on making a interesting mod concept. I was doubting someone would of made it as it would require a fair amount of effort to produce said mod. Again, splendid work!

I don't exactly know, but I've seen some complains on the chatbot not being very good.

Also there's been 9 people contributing (including me), so it's not so hard; even if 5 of us made only a single contribution so far, it did help develop the mod one way or another.

[Happyguy22]

Originally posted by PolishSnake:

Originally posted by A Tribal-class destroyer:

Question: how capable is this chatbot? Would it be possible to have a good conversation between it and the user?

Also, good work on making a interesting mod concept. I was doubting someone would of made it as it would require a fair amount of effort to produce said mod. Again, splendid work!

I don't exactly know, but I've seen some complains on the chatbot not being very good.

Also there's been 9 people contributing (including me), so it's not so hard; even if 5 of us made only a single contribution so far, it did help develop the mod one way or another.

Thank you for the information, 'tis been a help.

Godspeed in the development as well, it really is a interesting idea as I (and likely many others) felt that the ending was a bit of drag with the deletion of monika and the fact that it was really poor quality, considering the ramp up to it.

[Polerion]

To be honest, the mod's developing in more than one direction; we're thinking about which paths should we take taking late act 3 and act 4 as serious as rather as just that; an act

[Happyguy22]

Intriguing, I thought it was more about the the eternal room of Monika, not the final act as well; where do you hope it to go in that case?

Do you think it could be possible to upload update logs on steam? I understand that's a bit of a annoyance but it would be good for the people that wish to stay up to date on it's development, as well as generating more views.

Apologies if I have caused offense.

[Polerion]

Originally posted by A Tribal-class destroyer:

Intriguing, I thought it was more about the the eternal room of Monika, not the final act as well; where do you hope it to go in that case?

Do you think it could be possible to upload update logs on steam? I understand that's a bit of a annoyance but it would be good for the people that wish to stay up to date on it's development, as well as generating more views.

Apologies if I have caused offense.

Well, with that you should address Backdash (who was away for the week and should be more available soon) or Pi.

Also, so far the mod is in version 0.4, there's a lot of time before we'll get to 1.0 and likely a lot of changes.

And right now we actually have a vote on where do we want to go (https://discord.gg/MKdAp5V it's happening on this Discord server right now).

[Happyguy22]

Originally posted by PolishSnake:

Originally posted by A Tribal-class destroyer:

Intriguing, I thought it was more about the the eternal room of Monika, not the final act as well; where do you hope it to go in that case?

Do you think it could be possible to upload update logs on steam? I understand that's a bit of a annoyance but it would be good for the people that wish to stay up to date on it's development, as well as generating more views.

Apologies if I have caused offense.

Well, with that you should address Backdash (who was away for the week and should be more available soon) or Pi.

Also, so far the mod is in version 0.4, there's a lot of time before we'll get to 1.0 and likely a lot of changes.

And right now we actually have a vote on where do we want to go (https://discord.gg/MKdAp5V it's happening on this Discord server right now).

Okay, gramercy.

[Sasha_Lagusa]

This is amazing!
I'm a Hong Konger so that I hope the lines in this fan mod will have chinese version.
Also it will be fascnating if I can input the nickname in Chinese or Japanese.

[Polerion]

Originally posted by chit2553:

This is amazing!
I'm a Hong Konger so that I hope the lines in this fan mod will have chinese version.
Also it will be fascnating if I can input the nickname in Chinese or Japanese.

Right now would be the best time to start work on any localisations.
However, I don't think we have any of contributors who could localise the mod in Chinese. So for now it's doubtful it'll happen anytime soon.

[Kou]

I just tried and downloaded the file but it doesn't seem to work. When I open the file, it opens a note stating:

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred. Any ideas how to fix this? :/

Thanks in advance!

While running game code:
File "game/definitions.rpy", line 9, in <module>
IOError: [Errno 2] No usable temporary directory found in ['C:\\Users\\\x8dN\x95\xbd\\AppData\\Local\\Temp', 'C:\\Users\\\x8dN\x95\xbd\\AppData\\Local\\Temp', 'c:\\temp', 'c:\\tmp', '\\temp', '\\tmp', 'C:\\Users\\\x8dN\x95\xbd\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\Rar$EXa0.949\\Monika_After_Story-0.3.3-pc']