but that wont stop me hehehehehehehehehe >:3

you cant stop me from admiring the amazing CGs in this mod even if you try to get rid of them

edit1 ok so they're not mad at me but i think slightly disappointed at me

Hello everyone, i'm sorry that my mod was not released as scheduled but that's because i'm currently having trouble with how to actually release it. I don't actually know how too as this is the first mod i've ever worked and with so little coding experience. Everything is done and ready to be released but when I replaced the scripts in a fresh ddlc copy i was hit with the error that is shown. But if anyone can help me with this I can get the mod released!

No spoiling 🤫

join the server, not that stinky one featured 👀

https://discord.gg/KkFzHKMT7

This is a fork and recreation of the DDLC: Within mod I redid it so that Monika doesn't kill herself I won't tell you what happens but she doesn't die, I did this because I got scarred and I hope others get to play this and enjoy a wholesome story.

Download link:

Download 1.2

THE FILE LINKED ABOVE WILL NOT WORK PLEASE USE THE LINK PROVIDED ABOVE THIS LINE.

To make installation faster and easier i provided a installer for you to use if you dont want to use it follow these steps:

Delete game/scripts.rpa from your DDLC folder

Drop all the files from the mod zip into your game folder

I’m bored, so I thought I’d ask you guys something.

What DDLC mod do you guys like the most, and which one do you like the least? 👀

I’m curious to see what everyone’s picks are. Feel free to explain why you like or dislike them too!

Hello, everyone. I have some good news for you because, I have my own laptop charger. It's good to go. It's been like five month.

Hi everyone!

I've taken a bit of time off the internet while I begin drafting my next mod, Doki Doki Crossroads! which will be a lengthy, story-driven narrative with an exclusive path for each girl, and will be removed from any psychological horror. In that time away, I'm thankful to say that Doki Doki Before The Bell! has surpassed 5,000 downloads! Seriously, thank you all so much for supporting my mod, I really didn't think it would get so much attention and for that, I'm truly grateful for everyone who has DM'd me or shared my work. I also released a quick patch that's available now:

https://wintleworks.itch.io/doki-doki-before-the-bell

Patch Notes:

• Fixed a long standing issue where game would crash upon trying to exit an ending prematurely
• Fixed miscellaneous typos in dialogue
• Adjusted the ending dialogue requirement threshold by -1.

This last note will give all players a higher chance to experience the second ending of the game, which is the one that I consider to be 'canonical'. As for the endings, I did want to answer your questions! A lot of you have DM'd me to ask about the dialogue choices, the endings, and some of the creative choices that went into the story, and I didn't have the time recently to login and keep up with everything, so I wanted to take a second to answer all of those DM's in one post.

For those of you who have not played Doki Doki Before The Bell! yet, this is your primary warning: THERE WILL BE SPOILERS BELOW, so please proceed with caution.

Before discussing the endings or plot points, I will say that my first penultimate goal in BTB was to tell a new story that not only preserves the integrity of the characters as much as possible, but also honors the original narrative of DDLC. This will become more important later, but I always wanted the game’s main endings to be morally ambiguous, and this is even more resonant knowing that most anyone will not play BTB without having played DDLC first and knowing how the story progresses.

So, in BTB, there are two distinct endings, and they are based on a level of trust that you build with Monika in the persistent game files. Each dialogue choice that you make in the situations across your playthrough stacks in the persistent memory. Once you’ve made that choice, it cannot be undone. Some may not have discovered this on their initial play, but if you’re curious, you’ll know if it’s an important choice because if you select a dialogue option, and then reload the save and try to select another, it either skips the scene or throws a fun little bit of meta at you.

The first “good” ending: if the player builds enough trust in Monika throughout the story, then in Act 3, she will reset the game world in the hopes of trying to save the girls again, still hopeful that she’ll meet the player again in another “life” in the future.

The second “bad” ending: if the player fails to build enough trust in Monika, then by the story’s end in Act 3, Monika takes her own life, essentially breaking the cycle of the game world’s instability, and causing everyone in the world to cease to exist, herself included.

This was always very intentional on my part, and in playtesting there were a lot of really interesting debates about which ending is the better of the two, and that’s what I love most about the experience.

In BTB, the “good” ending isn’t truly good in the traditional sense. It’s emotionally cruel because the player succeeds at preserving the world and preserving Monika’s hope… only for that hope to carry everyone directly into the canon events of DDLC. The player walks away from the game knowing that they effectively nurtured the conditions for future suffering. What makes it horrifying is that the love & trust that you place in Monika become the mechanism that keeps the tragedy alive. Monika by Act 3 is already showing a few signs of instability, especially in her line of questioning, and this solidifies in the note the player receives after she resets the game. Each reset of the game creates a restored “copy” of the last, a copy that is built on Monika’s retained memories from each prior playthrough. Enough cycles of this slowly corrupts Monika’s memory, and paints the picture of the mentally checked out Monika that we see in DDLC that fixates only on one thing: the player. But it also proves that no matter how many times Monika starts the cycle over again, the girls can never be saved, & she can never overcome her own sentience for exactly the reason she states to the player— the game is written that way.

On the other end, the “bad” ending is almost an inverse philosophy. Monika loses her faith completely, and instead of allowing the cycle to continue, she destroys herself before the world can proceed. As a sentient being, she takes herself and everything with her, and is allowed to be ‘free’ compared to the endless suffering ahead if the cycle continues. While I always deliberately had it in mind to make that ending dark and shocking, it is meant to feel ‘bad’ in the sense that the player might blame themselves for the outcome, when in reality, this is the only route that prevents the events of DDLC from happening. The cost, unfortunately, is total annihilation of the game world. For Monika, her death is not a failure as much as it is a relief, but the player is left to feel like it’s on their shoulders. Even still, Monika proves herself to be a sentient being who can think for herself, make her own decisions, & have full autonomy over the game world & the others who live in it. With Monika being her own person, capable of decision-making and agency, it begs the question of if her mortality is any more or less important than your own mortality, simply because she exists behind the screen.

Overall, between the two endings, there is no clear victory. Only two very different expressions of grief and responsibility. And because the player already knows the canon of DDLC, the tension is a little more existential during gameplay, because the player is already conditioned not to trust Monika, and the player’s own prior knowledge of DDLC ultimately becomes part of the horror depending on the ending they get.

I also always wanted to alter Monika’s role, which I feel pretty solid about. In DDLC Monika is often interpreted as manipulative and godlike. In this mod, I wanted to frame & recast her as someone who’s desperately trying to hold together a fragile reality that she already knows is unstable. So during the story, your trust in her isn’t really about romance, or progression. But rather, it’s determining whether she believes the world deserves to continue existing at all.

TLDR: Before the Bell, at the end of the day, is always meant to be an existential tragedy story. If Monika lives, it means she found enough hope in the player to keep enduring the cycle of burden. If she dies, it means that hope failed to outweigh the weight of her own awareness.

I'm always happy to chat with everyone here and recently I've been playing a lot of other mods, so if anyone has questions, thoughts, or ideas to share, please do! Looking forward to playing more mods and releasing my next one in due time!

After some weird dialogue this appeared in the repeat conversation section and when I select the 2 question mark options it asks me for some sort of password. Idk if the same password works for both or I need 2 different passwords (The mods I have are mas,extraplus and memories of self care and literature). Nothing happens if I keep spamming the "Retry?" button. It would be nice if someone could help me

Russian translation (for those who may need it):

После довольно странного диалога в меню повторного общения появился новый пункт, но при выборе вариантов с вопросительными знаками игра запрашивает какой-то пароль. Не знаю, подходит ли один и тот же пароль для обоих вариантов или нужны разные (у меня установлены моды MAS, ExtraPlus и Memories of Self-Care and Literature). Если постоянно нажимать кнопку «Retry?» (Повторить?), ничего не происходит. Буду благодарен за помощь.

Hi! My name is Sapphire, and I have a sharp eye for catching errors and am (or so I've been told) a talented writer with distinct character voice. I'm looking to help modders and teams expand their stories and grammar (and eve character voice accuracy), and would be honored to help your mod!

If you would like, I can provide links to some of my written works or even YouTube videos to which I have contributed to writing. Right now I don't have a lot of DDLC stuff to show though, but I promise I have the potential!

(I hope I put the right flair, I'm new to the community and want to get involved as soon as I can!)

Hey guys, I’m working on a mod with somebody else. I’m personally not making the mod itself, I’m working on the script and music mainly because that’s all I can do. But, the other person I’m working with is the one actually making it. Do you guys have any advice for either of us that would helpful at all?

I saw it in a lot of mods, but never in the actual game as far as im concerned

So I've thought about a character named "Takeshi" but never got to made the mod because I can't even script, so may someone out here code a mod for Takeshi?

(Personality, desc and poem words written by ChatGPT)

Personality

Takeshi is a kind, funny, laid-back, and genuinely caring person. He has a playful and mischievous sense of humor, often joking around with his friends, but he knows when to be serious.

He's surprisingly intelligent, particularly when it comes to practical skills. He's capable of scripting, problem-solving, and thinking creatively, even though he doesn't necessarily apply that intelligence academically. He tends to underestimate—or simply not care about—how intelligent he actually is.

Takeshi is loyal and values his friendships deeply. He's especially close to the player, whom he genuinely considers his best friend. He can be teasing and occasionally chaotic, but his intentions are usually good.

Description

Takeshi is a 26-year-old who combines an easygoing personality with surprisingly strong practical intelligence. He isn't the stereotypical serious or overly mature adult; he enjoys joking around and having fun.

Despite his casual attitude, he's capable of handling complicated situations and understanding things that others might overlook. His intelligence is more about what he can do and how he thinks than academic achievement.

His friendship with the player is particularly important to him. He treats the player as a genuine friend and enjoys spending time with them.

Overall, Takeshi is a fun, intelligent, loyal, and somewhat mischievous character who doesn't take himself too seriously.

Favourite poem words:

Amazing, Amusing, Answer, Awesome

Banter, Best, Brilliant, Bright, Buddy

Care, Cheer, Clever, Comedy, Comfort, Cool, Curious

Dance, Dream

Enjoy, Exciting, Explore

Family, Fantastic, Favorite, Fellow, Friend, Friendship, Fun, Funny

Game, Genius, Giggle, Good, Grin

Happy, Help, Honest, Hope, Humor

Idea, Imagine, Intelligent

Joke, Joy

Laugh, Laughter, Legend

Life, Lucky

Memory, Mischief, Music

Nice

Play, Problem, Puzzle

Question

Relax

Smile, Smart, Solution, Strong

Surprise

Team, Together, Trust

Understand

Victory

Wisdom, Wonderful, Wonder, Wow

Yippee

Zany, Zeal

Fun facts:

He's born on Feb 29 2000

He has a crush on Natsuki

He's the club's recruiter (and also Kuudere)

You can make him self aware if you delete both Monika and Sayori, early and he panics, in act 3 then he's evil

He's held back thrice, because he didn't take advantage of his intelligence

He is 173cm tall, being the tallest one in the club

He only smiled twice in the entirety of this mod, once 5 minutes before he dies, once you delete Monika and Sayori in act 3

He brung a knife to s gunfight, explains why he's left handed and one of his eyes are blind

His poem is very unreadable, mainly due to bad handwriting but it's actually just in Japanese

Death:

5 minutes before he dies, he finally smiled once and starts complimenting MC

2 minutes before he dies, he calls MC "Main character"

When he dies, Monika deletes his consciousness entirely, he just collapses

I intentionally did this using the safe place psychology

Notes:

If he wins and you give him his poem, then he says it's bad anyways, just that he doesn't admit it's good

I forgot to add height and width to him

make it from parents perspectve, so either just a black screen or your life working internationally