Sorry if this is a weird question, but what's your bibliography for sources of mythology and folklore? Kinda want to learn for myself about these things. Whether it be articles or books, I enjoy collecting and reading such things. I apologize if this isn't really something that you remember though, or if there isn't really any book sources and I'm just bothering you. (On a side note, Atlus has a garbage bibliography for SMT. They used books like The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets by Barbara G. Walker, which is barely researched New Age nonsense made to appeal to the radical feminist crowd by manipulating them with words like "patriarchy", and Angels, An Endangered Species by Malcolm Godwin, which has no research citations at all, and instead of being manipulative scammy New Age nonsense is instead insane conspiracy New Age Nonsense which makes claims like the Metatron secretly being Satan and impersonating God in the book of Exodus and such, very annoying. Unfortunately Atlus took these books and those like them as fact because they got popular in Japan, which is why there's weird stuff like Baldr being related to Baal, Shakespeare's Queen Mab being mixed with Medb, all the crazy violent tyrannical robot angels, and so on.)
The primary source I used was The Dictionary of Mythology: An A-Z of Themes, Legends, and Heroes by J. A. Coleman. Unfortunately, it also does not contain research citations, so if that is critical importance it won't be of much use to you. (While I wanted to be accurate, I was making a game, not a scholarly work, so I didn't go quite that far in checking up on what I was researching.)
As the "Dictionary" part of the title implies, it tended to only touch briefly on any given entity, so if I found something interesting, I would turn to the internet to supplement what I'd found. Online encyclopedias were my favorite sources from the internet's offerings, but cultural websites from the lands/countries of origin for the myth I was researching were also sometimes useful if available in English. Occasionally Google Books would provide good results as well. But in all three cases, it was easier to use/find these once the Dictionary had already given me the hook, so to speak.
Thank you for letting me know! Anyway, missing citations is, in my opinion, a problem for the book, since that tends to imply that its accuracy is dubious, like that one guy who was using wikipedia to write books on Norse legends and vikings, but I'll check it out anyway, since I can verify with other sources. It just drives me nuts when I see things like Arcturus Publishing collections and they don't even have a freaking author listed. I don't like the idea of accurate traditional folklore being replaced by pop culture depictions, which is why I hate D&D with a passion. (Kobolds are an example. It's literally just a German word for goblin, but now the internet only gives me anthropomorphic lizards.) Or how despite how much I like Tolkien's books it irks me how influential he was, like, he based Smaug off of the shapeshifting dwarf Fafnir from Norse legend, and now that's the standard depiction of dragons despite earlier dragons being depicted as crocodile-dog-rat hybrids that were tiny and just animals, vermin even (look up old paintings of Saint George killing the dragon if you don't know what I'm talking about). That's mostly just a me thing, though, so don't let my personal gripes affect your enjoyment of anything.
I'm sorry the problem might have been talked about already but I'm on mac os and I can't find the "demon.dat" in the MacOS folder, how could I fix that ?
Hey, sorry you're having trouble running the game.
Unfortunately, if the problem is not addressed in the readme file included with the OS version specifically, it is probably beyond my ability to fix: Mac OS has become more and more hostile to Unity games over the years, especially games made in older versions of Unity. In truth, I have not had a Mac capable of running Demon for a few years now, but up until this point the readme has been able to resolve issues, so I hope it works for you.
If you already tried it and/or it doesn't work, I'm afraid I can only offer my apologies.
Hey folks. :D I've posted a tiny update that finally fixes what was perhaps the only serious bug left, which caused characters to sometimes remove hard control effects from enemy summoners who were at very low HP. :D Thanks to Summer's Snowman for providing the save file that finally gave me a good reproduction case for the bug.
I may be a bit rusty at making releases for Demon, so I'll leave the 8/4/2023 versions up for a bit just in case. Let me know if there are any problems with the 3/9/2025, but otherwise enjoy, and good luck in the Tower!
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Sorry if this is a weird question, but what's your bibliography for sources of mythology and folklore? Kinda want to learn for myself about these things. Whether it be articles or books, I enjoy collecting and reading such things. I apologize if this isn't really something that you remember though, or if there isn't really any book sources and I'm just bothering you. (On a side note, Atlus has a garbage bibliography for SMT. They used books like The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets by Barbara G. Walker, which is barely researched New Age nonsense made to appeal to the radical feminist crowd by manipulating them with words like "patriarchy", and Angels, An Endangered Species by Malcolm Godwin, which has no research citations at all, and instead of being manipulative scammy New Age nonsense is instead insane conspiracy New Age Nonsense which makes claims like the Metatron secretly being Satan and impersonating God in the book of Exodus and such, very annoying. Unfortunately Atlus took these books and those like them as fact because they got popular in Japan, which is why there's weird stuff like Baldr being related to Baal, Shakespeare's Queen Mab being mixed with Medb, all the crazy violent tyrannical robot angels, and so on.)
The primary source I used was The Dictionary of Mythology: An A-Z of Themes, Legends, and Heroes by J. A. Coleman. Unfortunately, it also does not contain research citations, so if that is critical importance it won't be of much use to you. (While I wanted to be accurate, I was making a game, not a scholarly work, so I didn't go quite that far in checking up on what I was researching.)
As the "Dictionary" part of the title implies, it tended to only touch briefly on any given entity, so if I found something interesting, I would turn to the internet to supplement what I'd found. Online encyclopedias were my favorite sources from the internet's offerings, but cultural websites from the lands/countries of origin for the myth I was researching were also sometimes useful if available in English. Occasionally Google Books would provide good results as well. But in all three cases, it was easier to use/find these once the Dictionary had already given me the hook, so to speak.
Thank you for letting me know! Anyway, missing citations is, in my opinion, a problem for the book, since that tends to imply that its accuracy is dubious, like that one guy who was using wikipedia to write books on Norse legends and vikings, but I'll check it out anyway, since I can verify with other sources. It just drives me nuts when I see things like Arcturus Publishing collections and they don't even have a freaking author listed. I don't like the idea of accurate traditional folklore being replaced by pop culture depictions, which is why I hate D&D with a passion. (Kobolds are an example. It's literally just a German word for goblin, but now the internet only gives me anthropomorphic lizards.) Or how despite how much I like Tolkien's books it irks me how influential he was, like, he based Smaug off of the shapeshifting dwarf Fafnir from Norse legend, and now that's the standard depiction of dragons despite earlier dragons being depicted as crocodile-dog-rat hybrids that were tiny and just animals, vermin even (look up old paintings of Saint George killing the dragon if you don't know what I'm talking about). That's mostly just a me thing, though, so don't let my personal gripes affect your enjoyment of anything.
I'm sorry the problem might have been talked about already but I'm on mac os and I can't find the "demon.dat" in the MacOS folder, how could I fix that ?
Hey, sorry you're having trouble running the game.
Unfortunately, if the problem is not addressed in the readme file included with the OS version specifically, it is probably beyond my ability to fix: Mac OS has become more and more hostile to Unity games over the years, especially games made in older versions of Unity. In truth, I have not had a Mac capable of running Demon for a few years now, but up until this point the readme has been able to resolve issues, so I hope it works for you.
If you already tried it and/or it doesn't work, I'm afraid I can only offer my apologies.
Hey folks. :D I've posted a tiny update that finally fixes what was perhaps the only serious bug left, which caused characters to sometimes remove hard control effects from enemy summoners who were at very low HP. :D Thanks to Summer's Snowman for providing the save file that finally gave me a good reproduction case for the bug.
I may be a bit rusty at making releases for Demon, so I'll leave the 8/4/2023 versions up for a bit just in case. Let me know if there are any problems with the 3/9/2025, but otherwise enjoy, and good luck in the Tower!