Dawn of the Damned – (a Darling Duality universe backstory) by Melancholy Marionette, Tsuki, LazyCrocodile, bun

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Anxious to attend your job interview at Aurora Antiques, you arrive to discover a room full of melancholy mannequins. One, in particular, captures your interest, drawing you closer.“Beautiful, isn’t she? I can tell you her tale if you like.””It all started with a selfish wish…”

– 14 original CGs to unlock –(24 including variations)
– Full voice acting –
– Atmospheric audio –(designed for head/earphones)
– OST –(with 20 original BGM tracks)
– Approximately 12k words –
– 3 different endings –
– Unlockable extras section –(with bonus sketches, music box, and bloopers)

Please note that this game contains the following content warnings:

– Blood –
– Injury Detail –
– Threatening Behaviour –
– Bad Language –
**– Cannibalism – **
**– Medication & Medical Equipment – **(syringes, scalpels)

Need a walkthrough for the game to unlock all the CGs and reach all the endings? Head here!

Found a nasty bug that needs squashing? Head here to report it!
Or need help with opening the game on Mac? Head here for a list of suggestions from fellow players who have managed to get my games to open on Mac in the past.
The game is designed to be played in 16:9 1920×1080. When playing in any other resolution, the UI may appear somewhat out of place + parts of the image will be cut off. If you are playing in anything other than 16:9 or 16:10, during one particular scene, you will not be able to click on 3 objects to examine them (as the resolution will mean they are cut off of the edge of the screen). 1 of those objects unlocks a CG.
Please note that the game was designed to be played with head/earphones on and all audio turned on. Some of the SFX are timed with the voice acting, so if you change the text reveal speed or skip through text, SFX may play slightly out of time.

– Controls – #

**Advance Text – Left mouse click, mouse scroll wheel down, spacebar **
**Rewind Text – Mouse scroll wheel up, left arrow key **(text cannot be rewound after making a choice, so please save the game if you want to pick a different choice faster)
Skip Mode (fast) – Up arrow key
**Skip Mode (toggle) – Right arrow key **
Auto Mode – Down arrow key
** Open Backlog – B key **
Toggle/Hide UI – H key
If you need help with anything, enjoyed the game and want to talk about it, or just want to tell me something in general, please either use the comments section (and don’t forget to rate and review the game too if you had fun because it helps a lot :3) or feel free to message me here:melancholicmarionette@gmail.com

Dawn of the Damned was made in under 1 month for Spooktober VN Jam 2022

– Written & Created by – #

** Melancholy Marionette ****(using Naninovel x Unity) **@Marionette_Mask

– CAST – #

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Morgenröte #

JJWalker

Dämmerung #

**Jerron Bacat – **@JerronBacat

Schrat #

**Lauren Kong – **@LaurenK_VA

Aurora #

Beck

– Additional Assets Used – #

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– Sprite Art – sasAIchi (edited by Melancholy Marionette)Schrat Sprite – Yukino Nanami’s Atelier (edited by Melancholy Marionette)– Mansion Backgrounds – Background material shop (edited by Melancholy Marionette)- Additional Background Art -Minikle (some of which edited by Melancholy Marionette)- UI Art Elements – UI design by Melancholy Marionette, created with the following assets:Yukino Nanami’s Atelier (edited by Melancholy Marionette)otohimenohanagasa (edited by Melancholy Marionette)Mori no oku no kakurezato (edited by Melancholy Marionette)Eclair Apple Tea (for blood spatter on 1 sprite + on the camera)- SFX -Mainly from freesfx.co.uk (edited by Melancholy Marionette)- Additional SFX -Sidearm Studios (edited by Melancholy Marionette)
pigmyon studio (edited by Melancholy Marionette)- UI SFX -GameDev Market Sellers Epicstockmedia & TomWinandySFX

– Voice FX – Created by Melancholy Marionette using a mixture of Audacity and FLstudio
**Loops from the following looperman users were used to compose parts of the OST: **Sushilbawa, LMGStudio, VIVEK, maciek09, xen0s, Makalo, diamondwavcom, issa-knife, JuLeeBeats, TheLostPoet28, bladersbeats, mctinna, BeatsByXero, UndercoverProdigy, honeybeats1, w1ndbeatz, MrRivus,treasbeats, ISLA1, ChrisNeal, d3w
Other loops and samples used to compose parts of the OST came from Laniakea and Prime Loops (Producer Loops) – purchased from Humble Bundle Music Producer Asset Bundles
Dawn of the Damned is a spinoff/standalone backstory that will eventually be related to one of my main projects, Darling Duality. At some point in the future, I hope to add both Morgenröte and Dämmerung to DD as love interests. However, you won’t need to play Dawn of the Damned to understand the characters when they’re actually added to DD. This will simply serve as a standalone story that will hopefully just add to the enjoyment of both projects if you do decide to play them both :3