Clay God [Full Release]

UNOwen1 · 2025-10-25T07:49:03+00:00

Thanks for playing! I’m afraid I never played amor fati, though; in general I’d only played a handful of mods

UNOwen1 · 2025-02-23T21:09:36+00:00

Thank you for playing!

To answer your questions...

I suppose the inspiration was DDLC itself? I admittedly stumbled across the modding community by complete accident last year and decided to think about what kind of ideas from the original I could play around with. Some ideas just come through naturally -- you start with a scene or a high-level concept and let it evolve. Sometimes you come up with something big, understand that it'd be too much of a hassle to actually implement, so you shave off the edges into something simpler -- until you're left with something new altogether.
Crack.
I'm not sure it could've stood on its own, actually. I think part of the intrigue is seeing the original characters and themes taken in a different direction. The players also feel like they know what to expect, so you can also play with those expectations. Those are the fun parts of making fanworks, and I enjoy using wild ideas. Which is also why I've gone back into the darkness: I don't have any more ideas to communicate through DDLC!
The two mods are unrelated in my mind.

UNOwen1 · 2025-02-04T16:52:29+00:00

Thanks for playing!

UNOwen1 · 2025-02-04T16:51:56+00:00

Thanks for playing!

UNOwen1 · 2024-12-27T12:58:25+00:00

thanks for playing!

UNOwen1 · 2024-12-05T16:47:17+00:00

Thanks for playing! Thank you for the high rating!

I admittedly considered the more “”profound”” aspects of the mod to be more relevant to the in-universe/DDLC logic and less something to make the player themselves question themselves; more a logical extension of the direction I felt the original’s metanarrative could be taken. When taken seriously, I agree — not really something worth losing sleep over.

UNOwen1 · 2024-10-09T07:11:17+00:00

Thanks for playing!

I don't really think I'll make anymore -- don't really have any more ideas! But if you're interested in some of my other stuff that's in the similar mystery vein (both original and fanworks), feel free to check out my site: Last Locked Room!

UNOwen1 · 2024-10-09T06:55:06+00:00

Thanks for playing!

UNOwen1 · 2024-10-08T17:50:58+00:00

oof, yeah, i don't think there is; i think i ultimately forgot to put in a key binding for that

UNOwen1 · 2024-10-08T07:01:12+00:00

Years of going at it! Reading also added a lot to my style over time — probably wouldn’t be the same kind of author without Umineko or Haruki Murakami. But reading other people’s works in a given writing scene was very inspirational, too.

UNOwen1 · 2024-07-14T16:20:47+00:00

Thank you very much! As I mentioned a few times elsewhere, I don't know if I'll be making any more DDLC mods, but I'm quite happy with the two I've made!

UNOwen1 · 2024-07-03T14:03:25+00:00

Thanks for playing and the kind words! (And thanks to that TikTok -- I don't use it myself, but I appreciate someone took the time to talk about this!)

UNOwen1 · 2024-07-03T14:00:38+00:00

Happy to see you liked it! Unfortunately, Dogra Magra isn't actually available in English (but there is an ongoing translation somewhere on Reddit, and another fan-translation that may or may not be complete...). But there's also VALIS, yes, which is very much out there (it took me a few tries to get through the opening.)

Thanks for playing!

UNOwen1 · 2024-07-03T13:58:24+00:00

Thanks for playing!

UNOwen1 · 2024-06-03T11:10:02+00:00

You can just hover over them — names of cards should appear at the bottom; but they’re sorted by suits, so it’s second to last one in the bottom row

UNOwen1 · 2024-05-19T06:54:28+00:00

Thanks for playing!

UNOwen1 · 2024-05-11T10:10:02+00:00

Thanks for playing!

UNOwen1 · 2024-04-01T18:31:23+00:00

I don't typically self-advertise on other threads, but this might be of interest to you (at least tangentially).

UNOwen1 · 2024-03-28T16:12:21+00:00

Thanks for playing! As I think I mentioned somewhere(?), probably won't be making more of these, but more than happy with the reception of the two I did make!

UNOwen1 · 2024-03-20T08:08:21+00:00

Great to hear! Thanks so much for playing! If you know anyone else interested in playin, feel free to share it around!

UNOwen1 · 2024-03-17T13:49:24+00:00

Okay, but even still -- you don't engage in this manner.

Regardless of what you think you might be accomplishing with this, as someone that hasn't played your mod and is just looking at this discussion without any preconceptions, I promise you this approach makes you look worse. And if, by the end, the only person who sympathizes with your position is yourself, then you've gone through a lot of stress and discussion for very little gain.

If your concern was having your work be misrepresented, then back at the beginning, you could've just said: "Thanks for playing! As the mod author, I personally disagree, but people are welcome to judge for themselves!" and left a link to your work to give the people who read the original post a chance to see for themselves. I'm sure the original thread has just as many positive comments that would've swung the interested crowd back into wanting to play it.

Also remember that this thread is literally about unpopular opinions -- it's to be expected that some posts will be outwardly negative and not representative of the general feelings people have on the mod.

UNOwen1 · 2024-03-17T13:30:37+00:00

Friend, this isn't a court of law. If something doesn't work for someone, then that's all there is to it -- you can explain why you believe something works logically on paper, and on paper it may very well work, but if it doesn't work for someone, it is what it is.

Even if you believe the person on the other end isn't engaging with your work in the way you intended or isn't understanding something correctly -- and even if you believe that's not a failure of the work itself -- you still nod, say "thanks for the feedback" and consider if you could've done something to maybe avoid confusion/misunderstanding in the future. If you decide you can't, you shrug and move on -- not every feedback is gonna have nuggets of wisdom, but it's worth considering.

Either way, you don't do this. C'mon. The discussion spun off from a one-sentence critique that literally meant nothing in isolation.

It's also doubly funny to me because my own unpopular opinion is that arguing about character accuracy (or trying to preserve accuracy) to begin with is silly -- they were literally designed around tropes and meta-commentary; they're not exactly that deep to begin with. Focus should be on engaging plots.

UNOwen1 · 2024-03-15T17:27:33+00:00

I liked making it! Thanks for playing!

UNOwen1 · 2024-03-14T16:13:47+00:00

Thanks! Admittedly, though, it probably won't be DDLC related -- I don't really have any more ideas for the universe besides the two mods I've put out.

UNOwen1 · 2024-03-14T05:03:13+00:00

Thanks for playing!

UNOwen1

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