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Hey there. First of all, I want to say this is one of my favorite stories of all time. I hadn't thought about the concert band and marching band parts of my life in any real seriousness since probably 2009. Having played through this game, I've picked my clarinet up again for the first time and am looking into what it would take to get it back into tip top shape after at least 15 years of sitting on a shelf. If I enjoy playing again long term, I'm even considering picking up flute and saxophone to complement it (woodwind life here). Thank you for helping me reconnect to my favorite part of being a teenager. All the characters are wonderful, I especially love Kaylyn, at every stage of the story. The story feels very authentic to me, having spent a good 10 years of my life in band culture. I even remember hearing about the debates my brass and percussion friends had about whether drum corps was really worth it.


I also wanted to note that I've found an annoying bug that I'm hoping to get past. I went and bought all the photos in the photo albums, but when I bought the one in the Math Folder for Alexis, the game briefly froze, went back to the main screen, and the following text appeared at the top of the screen:


"Couldn't find the file 'images/Buttons/temp/galalexisleepoverh.webp'."


This doesn't seem to impact gameplay at all, it's just ugly on the screen. Comes right back after closing and reopening the game. Any help would be appreciated.


Thank you again for this absolutely wonderful game!

Hey friend! I appreciate hearing that this project inspired you to explore a musical side of yourself that you haven't connected with in some time. Music is really interesting in the way that we can recall with perfect clarity a tune we heard a decade ago, while at the same time being hardly able to remember what we had for dinner last night. Important to remember that the musical and creative sides of ourselves are always there, even if we haven't had a chance to consciously and intentionally interact with those parts of ourselves for some time.


As for the troubleshooting question, I'm thinking this might be something that I patched at some point down the road but never made a formal announcement for. Based on the description you provide (assuming it's a copy paste) what's missing is as follows in bold and underlined:

"images/Buttons/config/temp/galalexisleepoverh.webp"

In my working file, that is located at line 12498 of the file called screens.rpy. I don't know what would happen if you updated that line of code in a live, unpackaged version of the game, but conceivably that would solve the issue. Of course that could also mess it all up irreparably. I'm not knowledgeable enough about coding to do much besides follow basic instructions on ren'py forums!

Hope that helps, and if not, at least by the time v0.9 is released the error should disappear.