RIBBIT - The Deltarune Mod

Warning: This mod contains potentially bleak story themes centered around depression and use of psychological horror.

Please carefully follow the installation instructions provided in the download before asking for help, and refer to the troubleshooting segment at the bottom of the instructions on how to resolve potential issues. Thank you.

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RIBBIT is a massive variety mod based on Deltarune Chapter 1, that tells an entirely new story about frogs, ghosts, and the strange powers that surround them both. Half a joke mod, half a character-driven mystery narrative, it is an experiment in seeing just how far Deltarune modding could be taken during the 2019-2021 period, retaining Deltarune's familiar locations, while inserting new custom scenes and gameplay mechanics into them.

Though the characters may look similar, their new backstories and personalities are intended to treat them like someone you've never met before. The entire mod was built as a "new" experience, reusing Deltarune assets to convey its own identity.

YOU the Frog, the last of their kind, finds themselves abandoned at a nearby orphanage... for approximately six minutes before a strange girl (the first of her kind??) with glowing pink eyes shows up and drags them both down into an alternate realm filled with YOU's long-croaked frog ancestors. There, they find out that the realm has come under a devastating invasion of a bizarre breed of ghosts called the MOTHERSPAWNs, reducing most living creatures to ashes, their reach spread over most of the land, an apocalypse in the making.

Together, along with Prince Noyno and his barely sufferable ego, they embark on a mission to kill the two people responsible for the invasion... the ghosts of YOU and Susie's mothers. By the way, Lancer is also there, and he's got, like, muscles, just thought you should know that even though everyone is dead.

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Features:

* Up to 8,000+ rewritten (and expanded on) lines of dialogue. Chapter 1's story has been completely recontextualized with an absurdist, surreal style of writing that aims to carve out its own identity.

* Heavier emphasis on exploration. Discover many new secrets, abilities, and easter eggs. Depending on your thoroughness, the mod can easily run up to 8, or even 10 hours of content.

* As the mod was a learning experience, its ambition evolves throughout. What starts off as a series of custom cutscenes and sped up bullet patterns, soon grows into entirely new bullet patterns, minigames, and boss fights.

* A higher level of challenge, with modified attacks, tougher obstacles, and limited items, inspired by survival horror resource managment. But if you're not into that, there's an easier difficulty setting too!

* Additional accessibility settings for the photosensitive, hearing impaired, an invincible mode, and two soundtracks to choose from. The ALTERNATIVE soundtrack was prepared for streamers to help avoid demonetization (although as the copyright claim system continuously changes, its helpfulness may vary...)

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Credits:

BeholdMaxine (Behold, Maxine (@beholdmaxine.bsky.social) — Bluesky): Project leader, writer, audio editor, programmer, very minor sprite artist, enemy designer.

Devilredd (Devilredd (@devilcorp.bsky.social) — Bluesky): 2.0 Sprite Artist, YOU Redesign, Announcer Voice

Matty P (Matty P (Mark P) (@pagslo) / Twitter): 1.0 sprite artist (Lancer redesign, "Legend/Exposition scene" artwork, final artwork for enemy designs, and other art.)

Autumn (autumn (@waveprism.bsky.social) — Bluesky): Sprite artist (School Hallway NPC, Bake Sale NPC, EveryName Fight)

SKL (SKL (@superkirbylover.me) — Bluesky): Sprite artist (Bake Sale NPC in collaboration with Diddy)

LumpyTouch (LumpyTouch (@lumpytouch.bsky.social) — Bluesky): Sprite artist (Secret Forest NPC)

Msnshame (Msnshame (@Msnshame) / Twitter): "Hero" Character Design Feedback and Revamp

harpoon84: Additional music & art

Lil' Alien: Created the utilized "BetterVaporiserForUT" script, suggested additional jokes

OceanBagel (OceanBagel (@oceanbagel.net) — Bluesky): Implemented a special mystery item... I can't talk about it here... play the mod......

Playtesters: harpoon84, I'm an issue (_creepersbane), Msnshame, Ekkie, Spjs, Ken, Josh, Autumn, SKL, Beethovenus, colinator27

Voice samples from: Deafenstein, Nathan, Jacob, Matty P

Special Thanks: Beethovenus, colinator27, May, Grossley, Jockeholm, krzys-h, The Underminers Community, and... everyone who followed and supported this project, even if you only learned about it 5 minutes ago!

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Made with the use of Krzys-h's incredible Undertale Mod Tool.

All music belongs to their respective owners, with some minor exceptions. You can find a list of all used music within the download.

Utilized sprite rips from www.spriters-resource.com - Though a good chunk of the mod's spritework is original, a portion of it was taken from various other games.

"Big the Cat Sonic 3 Style" sprites created by Bacon of www.spriters-resource.com

"Kingdom Hearts II Custom Level Up Messages" sprites by FieryExplosion

EveryName Mettaton based on spritework by Kepabra

DELTARUNE is owned by Toby Fox. In case you thought it was owned by me, well BOY do I have a surPRISE FOR YOU

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