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July 28th 2021, 01:07 PM
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Kyle
Peasant He/Him Belgium
 
It wasn't a new Dink Network or anything that was supposed to take people away from this place. Instead it was something to bring people together again. I'll leave you with an introduction to the idea that was sent to a select few in order to try and get it off the ground:

The plan is to have a d-mod that is expanded on by the whole community. There will be a base d-mod, the root of the project, which introduces the setting and the base storyline. From here, the world will be expanded by any willing soul's d-mod addon. It would be played separately though, like an episode of a TV show. At the end of the "episode", the save file will be locked in and will be reused for the next episode. This way, throughout the whole project, you will continue building your own custom Dink through stats and abilities that will be provided. Then, after a while (say, 10 or more addon releases), I build the next part of the base storyline, bringing together the experiences Dink had in the previous addons and once again opening up the story to new addons. This will continue as long as there is interest. The addons should be around 10-30 minutes in length. This is so everyone, no matter how lazy they are, can participate.

But there's more. You'll have the possibility of uploading your savefile to a community site that I'm building, which will interpret your savefile and give you your own online profile where people can see your progress and look at your custom Dink build. It will also rank you on a ladder among the other players to see who is further ahead and who has achieved the most.

Ultimately, this is an attempt at bringing the community closer together and to revive the spark of creativity and combat laziness that is prevalent at this point in time.

There will be certain rules to adhere to while building an addon of course, such as a limit on how many bonuses you can give the player, which globals to use or not to use, how the abilities work, ... I'll provide all the documentation for this of course and if necessary I can make a video or have someone else do that!


Unfortunately something like this would no longer be feasible with today's DN population and the idea came to me at a time where I actually had no clue how to read a save file and build a site from it. The irony is today I do have those skills. Missed the mark by 11 years