As a matter of fact, a new demo probably
is the next big thing that will come out. ^^ I won't try to give an estimate for when it'll happen as this depends so much on what happens in people's RL. (I will however, guess 4 months mimimum.) But I figure that a new demo will be just what we need to finally kick the idea that the project is dead. Some pretty cool new stuff has been built for it already, and the "Greek" look has been phased out in favor of something more D'ni.
I tryed today current version and have one huge issue:
brightness
Yeah, I couldn't even solve the demo on my computer because it was so dark. That's definitely something on the fix list. What we were going to do was have an opening screen brightness adjustment thing where you make it so that a picture is just barely visible, which is what they did for Riven.
I'm impressed that you had the idea to modify the zip files directly. Guild of Writers members aren't intimidated by the thought of messing with the program files!