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Mendel

Chill sandbox for growing weird plants from alien genetics. · By OwenTheBell

Black Screen Load-In

A topic by ydove created Sep 04, 2020 Views: 385 Replies: 1
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hey! i'm not usually super active on itch.io, but this game has really stolen my heart, and i want to dump many more hours into it - its a perfect amount of organizational, experimental, and slow-paced, i really do adore it. however, after the first maybe six times of launching it, playing 3 or 4 hours at a time, playing fullscreen the first time and windowed the rest, it's started doing something strange - the unity splash loads in, as does the loading screen, but once the text disappears, the window stays black. if i continue to leave it open, it still shows the interval "saving, do not close the game" text at the appropriate times.

however, if i alt-tab out and grab the window, since i play it windowed, it will show a freeze-frame of whatever was on the screen "behind" the black as i drag it, but once i drop it again, it's dark. i've run it from a few different directories, and also removed and re-installed, but it doesn't seem to be changing anything.

i'll be honest, i don't usually troubleshoot video games: if it doesn't work, i leave it alone, but i do really genuinely love Mendel and would like to know if anybody else has had similar issues or if there's a known fix for this sort of thing.

thank you!!

Developer

Hey, glad you like the game so much.

If you're on PC, I could take a look at this (unfortunately I no longer have a Mac and changes to MacOS policies mean I can no longer support it). My guess is that the save file has gotten so big it's taking a very long time for it to generate all the plants that you've made. You can find the save files at  C:\Users\"account name"\AppData\LocalLow\OwenBellGames\Mendel. Send them to me and I can take a look at what's going on.