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that sounds odd, thanks for the report! i’d be interested to get to the bottom of this, i’ll let you know what i think happened and tell me if it checks out.

you launched the game and entered your name. if you truly never started the game im not sure what happened as you shouldn’t have a profile, but let’s assume you actually did play the game at least once before going to your profile. once you did, you changed the name to johngaming.

meanwhile somebody else also entered the name johngaming. you are allowed to do this in arcade2000 games with “frictionless” usernames enabled, and i remember seeing johngaming on the charts with an asterisk clarifying that the name was already taken and their actual name was johngaming-baldhairier (arcade2000’s solution for name collisions). so, this might all just be confusion caused from two people choosing the same name? hopefully, your account should be usable as normal. you might have to wait 30 days before changing username again.

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I launched the game, entered my name. I did not start the game. I saw customization, immediately went "oh, neat" and picked that option, which opened the browser, and there was the profile.

I do remember the johngaming had my nick after it with an asterisk (so it was something like "johngaming(*enonigmus)"). For clarity, I never entered any nickname as "johngaming", I only entered "Enonigmus" when prompted for a name to pick.

Also, I have now tried the game on a different computer. Also entered name as "Enonigmus". When I tried to open high scores/profile customization, I got an error from the site this time though. However, after actually doing a run, it did work and I could link the created "enonigmus-baldhairer" account to the other "enonigmus" account I had by renaming the account mentioned earlier. So, I guess this time it went normally according to what you described.

I guess if all the site tracks is a best score and some other achievements, then it's probably not a big deal I accidentally hijacked someone else's scores. It's just feels a bit dirty, and over all it's a bit odd. I don't mind my account being reset if it's required for fairness sake or whatever reason.

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that is super weird that you never entered the name john gaming! my only guess is that Godot must have given you and another person the same device ID. i’ll have to look into it, maybe for whatever reason multiple people got an empty ID or something and that’s why.

if you linked the other account, and it’s someone else’s account, they can still submit scores as you, but they won’t be able to do anything else if you own the parent account.

i’ll look into it. thanks again for the bug report!