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PHEW! For the most part, the RL stuff that has been piling up around me has started to taper off. I think I may have left the "Land of Infinite Hassle" and at least got some of my own life back.

Yes, this "Dink's First Adventure" is a dmod I will be working on in the upcoming weeks and months. Yes, it takes place before my dmod know as "Before...". In "Before..." I told the tale of a young lad on his first adventure, out to find out what happened to his father.

Yet, the adventure of "Dink's First Adventure" really does involve a Dink younger than the one in "Before..." . I guess you will have to play the game to find out what all of that means. Hint: The game will be based on the work on Bluedy's (Unfinished) "Northern Lands", but will include Dink, (sort of). Anyway, I hope it is fun to play.

Thanks for your help getting me started on this plan to finish two adventures at once Bluedy. I've still got a lot of work to do on it as I have not touched this project for months and it involves some somewhat complicated gaming logic.

The adventure (that I am working on) continues!

Glad to hear!

@drone1400:
Me too. I really missed working on dmods for a few months there!

SlipDink i just wanna let u know ur awesome, it's refreshing to see ur passion 4 dis game after all these years

@spinnerweb:

Hey thanks! It's great to hear from a SlipDink fan.

BTW, I thought of an interesting update I want to make to "Periculo Island", so I'm putting "Dink's First Adventure" on the back burner for a while. Although my enhancements to "Periculo Island" are many weeks and/or months away from being testable, I'd sure like to have your help with beta testing when the time comes.

This is just to let all the SlipDink fans [both of them? ] know that I am still working on Dink's First Adventure (albeit rather slowly), and that there is a lot more work to do on it.

My plan to put two adventures into one dmod continues.

Progress on "Dink's First Adventure" (a dmod with two adventures in it) continues. But, I have a lot more to do in the coming year. I'm having a lot of fun working on it!

northland
15M graphics
1.5M sound
9.2M tiles
88 scripts in story

dinks1st
204M graphics
3.2M sound
9.4M tiles
205 scripts in story

Progress continues (rather slowly).

I've had my head down working on this next dmod for a long time now. Well, really RL keeps interfering in my progress again and again. But, I took the time to enjoy the delightful "Adventurer's Adventure" romp though. Playing that dmod was a nice break from creating my dmod.

278M graphics
7.5M sound
9.4M tiles
283 scripts in story

Woah! I can't believe it has been almost two years! Time sure flies...

>really RL keeps interfering in my progress again and again
Ah, I am all too familiar with that... I too am struggling with (Dink related) projects that seem to never end

@drone1400:

Woah! I can't believe it has been almost two years! Time sure flies...

Indeed the longer I live it seems the faster the time goes. :-}

But, I have to admit that this particular dmod is somewhat technically challenging as it requires two (sort of simultaneous) dmods blended into one. It is fun to write code for though!

Progress continues (slowly).

286M graphics
8.6M sound
9.4M tiles
307 scripts in story

Glad to hear that it is continuing!

I'm soon going to be ready for beta testers to give me a hand cleaning things up and making certain that my dmod works on all Dink platforms.

So, let me know if (in the coming weeks), you'd like to help out and I'll set up a conversation for us both in the PM section of the forum.

290M graphics
42M sound
9.4M tiles
335 scripts in story

I'm going to upload this pretty soon. I just need to make one more run through of the dmod on my own to check a few things.

Here is where it stands as of version dinks1st_0_90_beta.dmod:

293M graphics
42M sound
9.4M tiles
351 scripts in story

Any more testing needed?

@ drone1400:
Any more testing needed?


THANKS for asking!

I've been testing on my own and was about to upload it to the DN in beta.

I've cleaned up alot and will now continue testing for other versions of the Dink Engine aside from freedink on Linux.

But, I'd certainly appreciate your help before I upload to the DN. A bit later this morning (well morning for the part of the world I'm in now) I'll open a conversation for us in the private message area, making a current dmod file available to you on my google drive.

BTW, we have had several power outages this winter in our part of the USA due to tough weather, so I may not be as responsive to your help as I'd like to be. But, I'll do my best.

Saw the message and replied there.

What can you expect in the upcoming "Dink's First Adventure" quest size dmod?

300M graphics
65M sound
9.2M tiles
370 scripts in story

Also, this dmod contains:
o new kinds of magic
o surprising animations
o a somewhat unique dink story
o two adventures in one

At this time I think beta testing will be over soon. So, it could come out any day now.