#inevitable progress

A while after the events of Dialtown Chapter 3, Oliver Swift woke up to find himself having been transported over 60 years into the past: to the summer of 1964, just after Norm had gone through the wormhole, and almost 2 years until the Worldwide Dialup.

It's been a couple months since then, and as summer turned to fall, Oliver's found himself no closer to finding a way back to the present than he was when he first arrived. Now working at the phone store under Gabby's pa, a chance encounter with President Crown may give Oliver the opportunity to return to his own time, and to change the course of history in the process.

INEVITABLE PROGRESS is a fanmade dialtown route mod by @irradiatedsnakes, where you play as oliver on a romp through the mid-60's!

this is the demo of the game- the entirety of chapter 1 of 3. in it, you'll have the chance to explore the uptown dialtown of the past, and to meet both familiar and entirely new faces about town. (this chapter has 4 new characters to meet, alongside a few familiar faces!)

in this, i want to explore a couple aspects of oliver's character that i think are really interesting and that aren't explored extensively in the game, as well as the state of callum, milt, and marla in the time leading up to milt's disappearance & the dialup. i've got a lot planned and i'm excited to get into it more!

this is something i've been working on for the past few months (with the help of many of my friends- i'll have a full credits & thanks list to go with the demo itself, but a massive thank you to @teruthecreator for beta reading for me, @littlesliceofimmortality for being the model for callum's sprites, and @tigsbitties and @agentlove both for providing artwork and helping with character creation! and also to the rest of my pals who ive been yapping about this all to. mwah<3)

(obligatory disclaimer that this is 100% a fan project and is in no way affiliated with dialtown proper or directdogman. it's just playable fanfiction, really.)

this is a mod, not a standalone game, and thus does require a copy of dialtown to install and play. you don't need either of the DLCs to play. (i have not attempted to play the mod on the dialtown demo without the full game, but it may be possible. if someone without the full game wants to try that out and report back that'd be appreciated!)

the mod doesn't interfere with regular gameplay at all- it's a side route started the same way how you start dietown or the enc0unter scene- start a new chapter 1 game, skip the intro, and enter your name as "Oliver"! the mod will begin from there. it's on the short side- you should be able to complete it in less than an hour.

DOWNLOAD THE MOD HERE

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS HERE

and a VIDEO PLAYTHROUGH HERE if you can't or don't want to play it yourself!

thank you for reading!!! i hope you have fun!

~griffin

A while after the events of Dialtown Chapter 3, Oliver Swift woke up to find himself having been transported over 60 years into the past: to the summer of 1964, just after Norm had gone through the wormhole, and almost 2 years until the Worldwide Dialup.

It's been a couple months since then, and as summer turned to fall, Oliver's found himself no closer to finding a way back to the present than he was when he first arrived. Now working at the phone store under Gabby's pa, a chance encounter with President Crown may give Oliver the opportunity to return to his own time, and to change the course of history in the process.

INEVITABLE PROGRESS is a fanmade dialtown route mod by @irradiatedsnakes, where you play as oliver on a romp through the mid-60's!

i'll be releasing the demo very soon- sometime in the next couple weeks, as soon as it's done! it's all written, i've just got a bit more implementation & spritework to do.

the demo encompasses the entirety of chapter 1, the first of 3 total chapters which are currently in development.

in it, you'll have the chance to explore the uptown dialtown of the past, and to meet both familiar and entirely new faces about town.

in this, i want to explore a couple aspects of oliver's character that i think are really interesting and that aren't explored extensively in the game, as well as the state of callum, milt, and marla in the time leading up to milt's disappearance & the dialup. i've got a lot planned and i'm excited to get into it!

this is something i've been working on for the past few months (with the help of many of my friends- i'll have a full credits & thanks list to go with the demo itself, but a massive thank you to @teruthecreator for beta reading for me, @littlesliceofimmortality for being the model for callum's sprites, and @tigsbitties and @agentlove both for providing artwork and helping with character creation! and also to the rest of my pals who ive been yapping about this all to. mwah<3)

(obligatory disclaimer that this is 100% a fan project and is in no way affiliated with dialtown proper or directdogman. it's just playable fanfiction, really. this is a mod, not a standalone game, and thus does require a copy of dialtown to install and play.)

more info to follow, please direct an ask my way if you have any questions! i'm so excited for you all to see this!

there's no place, and there's no sorrow in a young and restless dreamer

illustration for IE that ive been sitting on for ages that i'm real proud of

yknow im working on artfight refs for these guys soon i'm fine with posting these even though you haven't met anton yet. flesh-heads of clyde (+gabby), jay, and anton- that is to say, how they looked a few years prior to the game.

LUCKILY, installing mods on rpgmaker MV games like dialtown is dead easy- it's just moving files around.

1.download the inevitable progress mod and extract the zip file. you'll be left with a folder called "www" and a readme. the readme includes credits and other important info, and the www folder has the mod contents itself.

2. open your dialtown folder. this is found in your steam folder- you can find it by right-clicking on dialtown in your steam library, hovering over manage, and clicking browse local files. it'll look something like this:

3. backup your dialtown installation! so if something goes wrong with installing the mod, or you want to uninstall it, you can without going through and manually deleting a bunch of files. the way i did this was to make a copy or compressed zip of the www folder. this'll be a full copy of your dialtown installation, including your saves, that you can replace the modded www folder with if needed. however, this uses a lot of storage space- dialtown hovers a bit over 4 gigabytes with both DLCs installed- if you want to save on space, you can instead backup only your saves and the specific files this mod replaces. that would be your /www/save folder, and these files:

* www/js/plugins.js (this is the plugin management file, which allows me to add new fonts and create character macros) * www/data/Map002.json (this is the map file for the intro to the game, which i modified to let you begin the mod) * www/data/MapInfos.json (this is a record of all the map files, including the new ones i added) * www/img/faces/faces.rpgmvp (this is an image file which allowed me to add oliver's face to the save icon when you're playing as him)

all the rest of the files in the mod are additive, so if you replace the above files with the originals you backed up, your copy of dialtown will run completely normally as it would unmodified.

steam also has a built-in backup function in properties->installed files. i havent used it myself but that would prooooobably do it.

4. once you've backed up your game how you want to, drag the www folder from the unzipped mod folder into the "Dialtown Phone Dating Sim" folder you opened earlier. to be clear, that's the folder that has dialtown's www folder in it. when prompted, allow files to be replaced.

oh, since mingus the first has a flesh-head if she appears she'd be drawn, not a photo! like how milton and peanut have illustrated sprites.

all the flesh heads here have drawn sprites for two reasons. one out of universe- because that's way easier on me as the artist, not having to somehow figure out stock photos that look just like Milton R Wallace and having control over posing and expressions.

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