it had a good run I guess
I have a question Tron
since you and your team can not complete these projects as you thought you could… have you ever thought of passing it on to a succesor team of sorts? Inheritors if you will
it is not my place but it would be a tragedy to see a good story like this be forgotten
read the previous messages. People are already taking up the mantel.
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This maybe be the end of this game but I can not wait to see what other people can do with this idea.
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Hi Tron, it’s really devastating news that you’re retiring. It’s totally understandable, you have more than enough on your plate with real life. 
Forks for me was just such a key project and inspiration as it really showed where the bar can be set for quality in an indie-fetish game. Thank you so much for what you’ve already contributed to the community - seriously, your Forks VN was already a game and a half’s worth!!! 
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Sad you had to cancel the game but it was extremely kind of you to share your assisted. Wishing you the best!
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? I have trouble following this train of logic. If you are simply opposed to the idea of another person taking up the mantel of Forks… then don’t play the game.
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Not to be sidetracked, but if your going to continue writing this game. You should make a seprate thread. It will be easier for you.
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Well, it is bound to happen, whether it be copies or ransacking whatever one can from what remains to make something any game with Forks assets won’t be exactly Forks.
But that doesn’t mean it’ll never surpass it, it just needs love and care to continue molding and building it until it reaches completion. All I have to hope for it any project started is able to reach that finish line.
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Hey Forks Team,
Just wanted to say a parting thank you for all of the hard work you have done. While the retirement is sad, its understandable and many, if not all of us, are happy y’all are living the lives you want to. We thank you for not only creating one of the best weight gain stories available with some of the best art and writing, but we also thank you for creating a new generation of these types of games. Weight gain games with actually good stories and tons of time poured into them. Thank you all so much and I wish you all luck on your next adventure.
Sincerely,
The Forks Community
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Hey Tron, I can’t express how much I loved this project and how sad I am to see it go like this but I’m still glad I followed it and hope the whole team is doing good. THAT SAID…if you’re still around I would really love if you could give us a tiny summary of each route that was planned for the game and how the characters would develop until the end, I REALLY doubt you something like a “Forks Bible” written out there but if you ever have time to post a few details here and there I think several of us would appreciate it. Because while I love seeing the assets in all its glory it does feel a bit hollow not knowing how they would materialize in the game as that was the biggest part of the fun for me seeing the rather grounded and realistic approach the narrative had.
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Does the asset dump include the writing? I’m very interested in reading how things were going to play out in the game between characters.
its evertking thay tron and toro has done for the game
Performing a difference check on script.rpy from the final demo and the dev branch dump the files have 6 minor differences all typo fixes.
Any outline/notes/scratchpad style writing for the game appear to be not included most likely because any such files never existed in the first place.
So the answer is both yes and no. There is no pure writing included in the dump (so not included). There’s also no reason to be confident any such writing ever existed. Perhaps tron wrote his script directly into the code, rather than writing the story like a book and converting it into code later (would count as included).
The typos appear to have been fixed within 2 days of the release of the final demo, so the dev dump includes nothing from august and beyond, presumably because there is nothing from that period.
TLDR: We’ve already looked.
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thank you for telling me, it did not seem clear at the time
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Those of you who have decided to make their own version of Forks by using material Tron released, if you could post a link to your project here just so that it would be easier to follow the legacy of this project?
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I’ll second this. I hardly have any free time anymore, but I still really like Forks and I think there’s a lot more to be done with its gameplay and story.
I designed the code so that it would be pretty easy for Tron to add new chapters on his own, without me having to hop in and add all the game state changes / outfit changes / weight changes / etc. What can I do to help the community keep Forks alive?
Would it help if I wrote some documentation about how to do use the code? i.e. how to change a character’s weight, how to make new text messages appear in the phone, etc.
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Hell, I could make a github repo that holds all of Forks’ code, and I could accept pull requests from people who want to contribute.
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Some documentation like that would be extremely helpful! Looking at the code I can figure a lot out by looking at existing scenes, but mostly it’s just guesswork.
Not saying I personally am making anything with it, but some guidelines for how to do simple common tasks would greatly benifit anyone who is making new stuff.
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I’d be up to help if interested
This would be extremely helpful. I’m not a coder, and while the story and writing is going along very quickly and well I’m pretty lost when it comes to the coding. Some documentation on how to make this happen would make it fully workable.
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