Dhilly Game 6 (aka, Dhilly Game Finale) was pitched as the final Dhilly Game, and has been in discussion since late 2021. A development reset started during early 2022, and was worked on up until "Dhilly city", when Eve lost motivation and passed development onto StanDX who made the DhillyHub facility and passed development back to Eve for completion in 2023.
Gameplay[]
Square traverses across a new universe, travelling through:
Cast[]
- Square, Playable character
- Dhilly
- Mikuddy
- Stan
- Joe
- MzDesigns
- Sara
- Tsukasa Temna
- Papyrus
- Voti
- Ben Shapiro
- Shilly
- Joe
Development history[]
Image listing places in Alguien Town
Dhilly Game Finale - 2021[]
When the game first started development, it was called Dhilly Game Finale, as it was the final ending to the Dhilly Game story (despite Eve's wishes to make more games just for fun) White Square was planned to be included in the game at this point in time.
Notable differences from future versions include:
- Len City was instead "Alguien Town" and themed around the Wix social media, Phoenamyte.
- "MS3 Car Rental" was the method of progressing through the game, instead of time travel. Yes, this idea was reused two years later in the Ben Shapiro area.
The game slowly became a vent for all of Eve's troubles with the friend group included with the town as there were arguments that led Eve into poor mental health. Most content from this era is missing.
Len City! - 2022[]
Scrapped Shilly camp
Scrapped Level
Eve now missed that friend group a lot and started to make a game to show "I know things can't be fixed but I still love the memories." Development-wise it is very similar to the final game and this is what the "Demo" is based on. The game has a content cutoff after the MzDesigns chase, and is missing a few late additions like the Mikuddys. A couple of scrapped levels can be seen in the source code, those are Shilly camp-like area, and a level depicting a variety of scenery. White Square was no longer planned to be in the game.
Stan's turn - 2022-2023[]
StanDX offered to continue development of Dhilly Game 6 after Eve became worn out. He designed an early of version the DhillyHub facility. Not much happened doing this era of development and StanDX eventually handed development back to Eve after heavy persuading.
Let's actually make it! - 2023[]
With development back in a very motivated Eve's hands, it seemed like Dhilly Game 6 was finally going to become a thing! Changes from previous versions include the completed game include: (New content is Ben Shapiro cutscene onwards), Addition of Mikuddys, Addition of the "tool", addition of White Square, removal of YuaBeVibin, DhillyHub facility completely remade and several minor textbox/lore changes.
The Final Days Of Dhilly 6[]
A portion of the Dhilly Game 5 part of Dhilly Game 6 running on a gameboy
A high quality photo of Dhilly Game 6 on the Gameboy Color
Two years of work and the game was finally ready to be released. The Beta was released, bugs were being caught but.. As Eve went to test the beta on her homebrewed PS3, she accidentally formatted the USB that contained the source code for the game. A very stressful 24 hours later Eve finally recovered the code, if the data was corrupted, Dhilly Game 6 may have never seen a release. A few bug fixes later, and Eve and StanDX gathered around a Gameboy Color with pure excitement as they put in a cartridge containing a (nearly) final Dhilly Game 6 version. The stress was over. The effort paid off. Dhilly 6 was complete.
Feedback and the remake[]
Dhilly Game 6 was well received, but the audience loud and clear: was some of the levels were just too hard. Eve promised an update to make things right, but the .gbsproj file was just.. too messed up to work on. It got to the point where Eve began work on a remake. It exists, it is real, it will be released, and it has:
- Balanced gameplay
- Better lore
- Better graphics
- Better experience
- Support for non-color gameboys
- ZERO spaghetti code, open source so you can check
- People can make "mods" using the available source code
It also has a multiplayer mode but it's not at a state where I (Eve) can release it yet, so unlike the previous features, I'm not promising it.
Releases[]
Canonical release - Dhilly Game 6[]
Demo[]
The demo release of Dhilly Game 6 was originally made to keep the beta testers going until the full game release. Now the game has came closer to release, there has been discussion about if the Demo will ever be officially released, as the full game is going to be pretty different and players might want to see the initial plans for what Dhilly Game 6 would be should development be paused. However, since the game contains YuaBeVibin's house, and two trans people's deadnames, and no longer reflects the developer's ideas for the game Eve has decided releasing it would be a very poor move to release the game.
Content from the demo is considered "Public information" and has been documented from this wiki, however content in the full game will not be documented until the full game's release.
Beta[]
A beta was released on the first of September 2023, requiring a beta key to access. It had a few bugs and the testers who reported them are credited. It is also missing the ending cutscene. When Square kills Dhilly, the game fades to the "DhillyHub: services are no longer available" screen.
Data lost[]
After releasing the Beta, Eve decided to play the game on her PS3 so she formatted the Dhilly Game 6 development USB to PS3 format, only to realize that was a grave mistake, as that was the only place the Dhilly Game 6 source code was stored.
After 6 hours of complex data recovery, and many ChatGPT prompts, ChatGPT wrote a script to recover the main file "Dhill6.gbsproj" from binary. There were many other files but they were less important.
Special build[]
Many were stuck on a certain level, and so they could play this version where it skipped past the difficult jump. It had some fixes from the original Beta too, and also had corrupted talking sprites due to the Data loss.
1.0[]
The full release of the game. Problems changed from "Beta":
- "Dhilly pieces in Dhilly Game 2 do not disappear when collected." - reported by Shimanas
- "You can jump on an invisible platform above the elevator" - reported by Shimanas
- "You can get softlocked in the area where you replay Dhilly Games 1 - 5" - reported by kevadesu
- "Typo where game says amd instead of and" - reported by Shimanas
- "Collectables still have collisions after being collected" - reported by Shimanas
- "Logo in Post area of Len City uses wrong logo for kevadesu" reported by kevadesu
- "Death in Dhilly Game 5's first level takes you beyond where you died" reported by thejego59
- "Dhilly Game 5's first level is too hard" - reported by StanDX
- "Square can die after Dhilly dies" - noticed by Eve
It also made the following changes:
- Ending of game now has cutscene before credits
The following problems are still known were planned to be fixed in a patch:
- "Game is still way too hard" - reported by everyone, literally
- "Game has no sound"
- "Saving in Slot 2 and 3 can cause bugs, Slot 1 is the only functioning Slot" - noticed by Eve
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2.0 ("The remake")[]
The open source remake of the game. Has:
- Balanced gameplay
- Better lore
- Better graphics
- Better experience
- Support for non-color gameboys
- ZERO spaghetti code, open source so you can check
- People can make "mods" using the available source code
and is the canon Dhilly Game 6.