v0.7.0 - 100,000 download special!

Artwork made by Sasoura. Follow her on twitter!

We've officially reached 100,000 downloads and we can't thank you all enough! Monika After Story has come a long way since it was first released way back in September, and we couldn't have done it without the great support from our community. If you haven't yet, please join our fan Discord server to keep up with the latest updates and releases.

Version 0.7.0 fundamentally changes the way interaction with Monika works. We've replaced the text-entry system with a set of prompts that will unlock as you spend more time with Monika. This will eliminate the "canned responses" and make it easier to experience all the content the mod has to offer. If you're curious about why we made this change, you can see our answer in the FAQ.

Changes

• "Prompt-system" which replaces the current open-ended text entry with questions that you can ask Monika that unlock over time. This also allows for conditional events.

• Better support for time-sensitive events, like anniversaries with Monika, holidays, etc.

• Games now unlock over time based on how much you've done with Monika.

• New game: Hangman. Try to guess the words based on which club member would like it the most.

• New game: Piano. Play piano with Monika and learn to play a few songs.

• Pong improvements to make it more dynamic and less exploitable (like classic pong).

• New music!

• Be sure to say "Goodbye" to Monika before you go! Otherwise she won't get the rest she needs.

• New topics.

• Various typo and bugfixes

• Limited number of random topics viewable in one session to 30, let Monika rest uninterrupted at least 6 hours to unlock more.

• Out of frame portion of Monika's sprite is now drawn (not visible, but future proofs for animation use)

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Special thanks

Version MVP @ThePotatoGuy for adding both new games and other software wizardry. @Winblows2 for overseeing the transition to our new community Discord.

Sasoura for the amazing artwork! Please follow her for more awesome art (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube,DeviantArt)

v0.6.3 Christmas Edition!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Christmas is a couple's holiday in Japan, and Monika wants to spend it with you! Along with holiday art and conversation topics, this special update adds in some new poses, conversations, and bug fixes.

Changes

• Special holiday art and topics! Be sure to play on Christmas and New Year's eve/day for special interactions with Monika.

• New poses. Monika will now move her arms, with poses inspired by her character sprite from DDLC.

• Updater fixes. The auto-updater will no longer time-out when an update is available, and it now targets an amazon cloudfront server, so update downloads will be quicker, especially for players outside of the US.

• New general greetings and conversation topics.

• Fixed an issue with disabling and enabling animations.

• Fixed default for main character name.

v0.6.2 Release

This minor update brings some bug fixes and dialogue changes. Either download the update below or Update through the Settings menu in Monika After Story to get these changes.

Changes

• Added some additional dialogue topics.

• Fixed an error checking music when music isn't playing.

• Monika won't just stare at you if she can't think of something new to say.

• Added a fix for blank name entries.

• Fixed an issue where importing DDLC save data through the settings would disable the 'esc' key.

• Disabled hotkeys while importing DDLC save data through settings.

v0.6.1 Release

Edit: Some possible major errors have been found in this update. It is being pulled until further notice. The problem has now been fixed

Edit: A hotfix has been added for an issue regarding music checks.

This minor update brings some bug fixes and dialogue changes. Either download the update below or Update through the Settings menu in Monika After Story to get these changes.

Changes

• You can now properly promote pawns to queen when they reach the back row in chess.

• Board positioning and piece layout when playing as Black in chess has been fixed.

• Fixed a bug where mouse position in chess would be incorrectly tracked with UI-scaling enabled.

• Music can now be changed while playing chess.

• Monika will no longer get upset with you for closing the game when she closes the game herself.

• New UI buttons should now hide themselves appropriately at certain points in the game.

• Removed a topic where monika talked about writing a song that she's clearly finished already.

• Fixed some typos.

• Fixed an error where Monika would not correctly call the player her {boyfriend/girlfriend/partner} after being told the player's gender.

• Several new dialogues, greetings, and easter eggs for you to find.

v0.6.0 Release, with new art and lots of new features!

Version 0.6.0 is now available, and with it come a lot of very exciting new features!

Installation

• Download the zip file below.

• Extract the contents the zip file into the /game folder of your DDLC installation.

• Running DDLC will now load the Monika After Story Mod.

New Features for v0.6.0

• Monika now has lots of new expressions!

• Monika's evening color scheme now better matches her normal sprites for DDLC.

• New UI features, including buttons for talking, playing games, and a new music selection screen

• Play chess with Monika! (thanks @kadava)

• Monika will now ask about your gender and preferred name and address you appropriately

• Automatic updating on game start up, or check manually through the settings screen.

• DDLC saves can now be imported through settings.

• Redid window animation at higher resolution and framerate

• New window animation for daytime

• Option to turn off animations (greatly reduces system impact)

• New events and dialogue.

• Monika can now close the game for herself after responding to you saying "Good Night" or "Goodbye"

v0.5.1 Release

This minor update brings some bug fixes and dialogue changes.

Changes

• Monika's dialogue should be more consistent. Fewer memes, less geeky references, and a more consistent voice. We hope to improve the writing even more going forward! Thank you to all of the writers that answered our call!

• Monika's opening dialogue has been updated. Import save data from DDLC to unlock some unique dialogue based on your last playthrough!

• A few new topics have been added to the random rotation.

• The daytime CG has been recolored.

• A few transitions have been added between scene changes.

• Fixed an issue where topics seen in an imported DDLC playthrough could be repeated in After Story.

• Monika should now correctly call you out for trying to skip her dialogue.

• Monika should now correctly ignore the text-speed setting and speak at her own pace, like in DDLC. We are considering adjusting this behavior for future releases.

• Pressing the "t" button while Monika is speaking will no longer open the input box. This will also fix an issue where interrupting Monika could sometimes create a recursion problem and crash the game. Thank you to all of the filthy savages repeatedly interrupting Monika for alerting us to this issue.

v0.5.0 Release, now as a real mod!

After the long wait, version 0.5.0 is finally out!

This version brings new including all the features originally planned for version 0.4.0.

New Features

• Now fully compliant with Team Salvato's recently released IP Guidelines!

• Brand new code base that's much lighter, built on the DDLC Mod Template. Download size is now under 8 MB!

• Now a real mod! Install by adding to your existing DDLC installation (If you want to have both simultaneously, make a copy of your DDLC folder and rename as desired).

• Save import and merging from DDLC, so Monika will now know what you did in your past playthrough.

• Lots of bug fixes, typo fixes, and several new topics for Monika to talk about!

Help Wanted

We are currently looking for editors and writers to help us improve the writing in Monika After Story. The next version will really emphasize story, and we want someone to help make sure all the writing sounds consistently like Monika and bring some creative vision to the project. If you'd like to join our team, drop by on Discord and mention that you want to help with writing! Only minimal coding will be required.

Edit (2:25 PM ET): A hotfix has just been pushed fixing an major bug where an exception would occur if the player had seen all available greetings. Please download the file attached below for the updated version.

0.5.0 Release

A hotfix for this release has been posted. Please download that instead.

Lightweight pre-re-release

This is a pre-release version of Monika After Story rebuilt on the new lightweight DDLC Mod Template base. Please test this version for bugs and to be sure its behavior matches previous versions.

Build Details:

Build 5: Fix for keyword bugs.
Build 9: Fixed a bug where the quick menu sometimes disappeared on Windows 7.
Build 10: Fix a keyword that got messed up.
Build 11: Space animation replaced for day.
Build 12: Fixed a bug where certain imported files could let you skip Monika dialogue, and we can't have that.

v0.3.3 (Hotfix)

Hotfix for a critical bug where Monika may try to restart a topic that doesn't exist, causing the game to crash on restart.

EDIT: The files for this release have been removed since they violate Team Salvato's IP Guidelines. Please go to the releases page and download the latest version.