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Thank you for all of your kind words! I'm happy you are enjoying the story so far and I enjoyed reading through the song and interpretations. :D

All I can say is that there is still much to see and learn about the world and story of Demons Within. I hope you'll keep enjoying all the new things we're yet to see! ;)

It varies! Right now, when a new version gets released, the previous version becomes free. It usually takes roughly two months for a new version to come out, so it's always something around that.

The latest version of the game has always been released to Patreon supporters first. Then, when a newer version comes out, that one becomes public and free.

Demons Within has worked like that since release, although there have been some times when we released the supporter version to the public a bit earlier and the free and supporter version were the same for a while. Most of the time, however, that's not the case. Rest assured that the current supporter version will come out to the public at some point, as always!

A lot of that is up to interpretation, and it's your choice to go with what you think he might want or not at any point to make different things happen. :) We mention a few times at the beginning of the game that Lust cannot create feelings out of nowhere, though, only bolster and inflate what's already there (or appears) if that makes you feel better!

The crossover is a separate side story in both games! It is updated in its own schedule on both games, but separately from either game's main story. It's supposed to be small and not too long. The updates will keep coming on both sides, and it should finish after a few of them.

Both Shelter and Demons Within have their own game story that is bigger and unrelated to the crossover.

Thank you for your detailed review! It was very nice :)

I've taken notes of your complaints about the mobile interface and the menu speeds! I'll see what can be done about it. Thank you!

This is a common question! I don't really answer lore or future questions myself so I think you'll just have to see what happens! Sorry! 

I'm waiting for an opportunity to make sure the bad ending is as good as it can be, like the last one. :) Rest assured that I will announce it when it comes!

We're still somewhat at the beginning of the story, all things considered, so things are still evolving in these regards!

Hello! Are you using an Android tablet? There used to be a bug where the codes weren't showing on tablets, but it was fixed soon after. If you're using a tablet, try downloading the latest version of Shelter/Demons Within and it should work. The code appears when you click the node of the story that is completed and, if it's not clear, to get the code to unlock the first chapter in Demons Within, you need to finish the Prologue in the Shelter game and get the code over there.

Hello! I'm sorry, I didn't quite understand your question. Did you mean to ask if you can play Demons Within's story in the newest version? You definitely can! The collab content is just extra. Or did you mean something different?

I'm really sorry to hear that! The improvements on the essence wheel in the last update did break a lot of saves, but it's completely unusual to remove progress like that because that has nothing to do with it. I haven't heard other reports of that happening but I'm sorry to hear that! 

Apologies! I don't have a Linux to test it on and there aren't that many Linux players. Updating the Ren'py version the game uses is not very easy but it was already on my list for future updates as there are some features from the newer versions I'd like to use. I'll announce it when I manage to do so in the future updates and hopefully things like that will be easier to handle!

Thank you for the report! I haven't received other reports of this error and it seems pretty big, though. Does it happen when you load a save around that part of the story? Because the new version's updated to the essence wheel have (unfortunately) broken a few saves like that. Are you playing on PC or Android? Is it only this specific essence selection or does it happen on all of them?

The number of choices that are made and registered through the story make it a little trickier, but as the game gets longer, it's in the plans to make something like that, yes!

This worked indeed! I was being foolish :)

Thank you so much for both the assistance and for this cool library!

This is super cool!

I tried using an emitter inside a screen and when I do that, the emitter works, but it seems to completely ignore the warmup_time parameter and always send particles in waves. 

Is there a way to use the emitter inside a screen?

Thank you for your amazing work!

I see! Thank you for the response :)

This looks absolutely amazing!

Is there a specific Renpy version requirement or something to use it? I decided to try it out, added the .rpys to my project, and when starting,g I get the following error right away:

I'm not entirely sure if it's something on my end or if I'm missing anything, but I thought I'd ask if that's okay!

It's visible in the error, but I'm using Renpy 8.0.3 by the way

Then that’s because he has been infused with Lust earlier in the night already!

Ludwig doesn't do that if you don't infuse him with Lust ;)

This is hard to say! I've been writing stories for years before I started Demons Within, and this visual novel is just a new, cooler way to tell a story for me. :)

If I could say I have any inspirations, it would perhaps be Shelter since following its creation and development was definitely what pushed me into telling a story in a visual novel format myself as well!

Thank you for the kind words! :)

What do you mean by the choice of not influencing? In most instances of influences, there is already the option of just continuing the text forward and not interfering, which would be the choice of not influencing. As the game continues, the choices might expand a little, but too many choices often lead to too much branching and ripples into even more branching in the future, so I do my best to give choices while also keeping the story concise. It is still mostly a linear story after all.

I hope this answers your question!

This is hard to say! Some planned features coming in the game hopefully soonish might make that clearer. Or, at least, open new possibilities. ;)

Not yet, unfortunately! I've had a bunch of request for a game guide of some sort and I'm seeing what I can do

Not quite yet! We're gonna have to get further into the game to learn more about it!

I've received more reports and found a bug around this part related to the warnings about the bad ending when playing on Android. Maybe that was the case?

At any rate, I already worked on a fix for this in case it happens. There's a point there where you have to infuse and tapping with the finger doesn't seem to work. Holding the finger down on the wheel seems to work, but that's not supposed to be that way! Maybe try that if you're still stuck!

We're very close to the public release of the new update (likely next week), so I'll ship that fix with that. Sorry for the inconvenience!

You should probably go further back in your save. There is more than one instance that can lead to a bad ending in that part and you might be stuck with a save after having already made the decision.

Hey! My aim is to eventually get Japanese translation done by people. Unfortunately, I don't know anyone in the area of translation to Japanese, but if I find someone and manage to make it work, definitely yes!

Sorry! I announced in the devlog for version 11's Patreon release that from now on, the public version of the previous version will be released at roughly the same time as the new Patreon version comes out! Therefore, version 11 will become public once version 12 comes out. It's in the works right now!

Looking forward to it! :D

I'm glad that Patreon came out with the feature of gifting subs that allowed this to happen. I think fan art is a win for everyone. It's creativity expressed from inspiration that people make out of enjoyment, it helps inspire me greatly to create more content, and all the other fans love to see it too! Super cool win-win-win!

It deserves to be highlighted and displayed so a lot of people can enjoy it and if I can reward it even further, then all the better. :D

Very likely! As I stated on X and Discord, I'm sending the rewards retroactively to everyone who did fanart in the last... roughly two weeks! Basically everyone who posted one after the release of Update 11 on Patreon and whose fanart is now queued to be featured in the credits of the upcoming Update 12 will still get the rewards retroactively!

I'm just taking the time to reach out to everyone to give it to them!

And, of course, every new piece from now on is eligible as well :D

Don't worry!

There's been some confusion about that so I added a line to the rules explicitly stating that there's NO time limit on this! This campaign will keep running past update 12, so whenever you do get something out, just post it up and it should be good to go! :D

Hey!
I'm happy to hear you like the game so far! Thanks for the kind words!

I don't have plans for an alternate setting in that regard because it'd require a bunch of changes in text as well. Who knows, though, maybe someday it'll happen!

Thank you for the report of the sprite details with the text. They'll be fixed in the next upcoming update! ;)

Can you elaborate on it a little bit? At what part of the game?

Perhaps Twitter or Bluesky private messages, if you have those?

Hey there!

Hmm, the discord link is now a permanent invite link that supposedly always works indeed! If you'd like, you could send me your Discord username in private and I can maybe check, but I have no idea why it wouldn't work!

As for the OST, unfortunately, we don't have that available anywhere yet as we're still working on improving the game's music more and more! Eventually though, I'd love to have it available! I'll make sure to announce it everywhere, Itch included, when that happens!

Thank you for your kind words! :D I hope you'll keep enjoying the next updates as well!

Well, either way, I'm happy it worked out!

Hmm, that's strange! I haven't had any other reports of this. I'd need more information to help you out! If you could please ask in our Discord server, it'd be easier to discuss. I think I'd need a screenshot of the whole error to guess what could be wrong.

Every way I tested it seemed to work still, but just in case, I've replaced it with a link to a permanent, custom invite link that should always work!