Visually well-done game with a surreal setting, but unfortunately it's prone to crashes and save corruption.
I did manage to fix my save file though, so for anyone else who may have the same problem as I did: I went to C:Drive > Users > [Your Account] > App Data > Local > animal and opened the data.sav with a text editor and changed the [2="..."] line to [2="2D0100000100000000000000000000000000F0BF"] (no brackets). Here's a screenshot as an example:
For some reason, that particular line in the .sav file got changed and the game couldn't detect it anymore. If that doesn't work, you can also try to figure it out manually. Here was my method:
Copy your corrupted .sav file somewhere else.
Delete the animal folder.
Start a new game to create a new folder and a fresh .sav file.
Compare the .sav files in a text editor and experiment by pasting lines from the corrupted .sav file to the new file one at a time and try to load the save in the game.
I dont know if the dev still reads these comments but if you do this is amazing and I wish there was more to it.
The controls feel really good, and by that I mean it controls like shit; but not in a bad way but more of a "loose Survival horror tank controls" sort of way.
I also like how enemies dont show up until their in range of your flash light and I never finished the game but theres a lot of potential for scares by putting enemies in corners where the player wouldnt typically look
Unforunately the save system doesn't seem to work for me. I got past the first boss and closed the game and on coming back there wasn't a save found.
I played this and noted a bug when using the 8bitdo controller to play under Wine. Apparently the game registers the AIM control as being depressed at all times for it. This behavior does not appear when using a standard usb adapter with a SNES controller. Is there any way for me to fix this, or would this be an issue in the source code?
Started playing this game and while it´s good, it looks that saving of the progress doesn´t work there. As when I was entering the I think "Gulag" level, game crashed due running out of memory. So I restarted it, but it told me then that it wasn´t able to find my save. And I was sleeping sometimes in my bed in the village as I thought that this is way to save the game.
Or is there some else method of saving progress?
EDIT: I went through an appdata folder and found a folder "animal" in local Appdata folder (is it the game´s one?), which indeed has some save file in it. But the game still isn´t able to find the save file on launch. So it looks that it isn´t able to load a saved game.
EDIT2: By deleting the mentioned folder above, the saving now seems to work. So it must be the corrupted save, probably by the game crashing, that it wasn´t able to find it anymore.
very good short survival horror despite having such minimal gameplay. the side characters and the overall sense of unease makes this feel like such a fever dream. its a shame i cant find you on social media or anything cause i'd love to see more from you in this vein of animal crossing anti-nostalgia
The game seems to autosave or maybe it´s saved when you sleep in your bed in the village. But sometimes the saving process seems to be broken (the game can´t find your save even when there is one) and to fix it in this case, you need to remove the "animal" folder in the Appdata/local one.
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Hey, what's going on? Why haven't you upload any pics on your account?
VERY COOL! 10/10
Really creepy cute game. Digging it for sure.
Visually well-done game with a surreal setting, but unfortunately it's prone to crashes and save corruption.
I did manage to fix my save file though, so for anyone else who may have the same problem as I did: I went to C:Drive > Users > [Your Account] > App Data > Local > animal and opened the data.sav with a text editor and changed the [2="..."] line to [2="2D0100000100000000000000000000000000F0BF"] (no brackets). Here's a screenshot as an example:
For some reason, that particular line in the .sav file got changed and the game couldn't detect it anymore. If that doesn't work, you can also try to figure it out manually. Here was my method:
I dont know if the dev still reads these comments but if you do this is amazing and I wish there was more to it.
The controls feel really good, and by that I mean it controls like shit; but not in a bad way but more of a "loose Survival horror tank controls" sort of way.
I also like how enemies dont show up until their in range of your flash light and I never finished the game but theres a lot of potential for scares by putting enemies in corners where the player wouldnt typically look
Unforunately the save system doesn't seem to work for me. I got past the first boss and closed the game and on coming back there wasn't a save found.
two bad endings 8/10
-DIFFICULTY-
🔲 My 90-year-old grandma could play it
🔲 Easy
✅ Normal
🔲 Hard
🔲 "Dark Souls"
- Accessibility -
🔲 Easy to figure out
✅ Takes some time to figure out
🔲 Hard to figure out
🔲 Very Unclear
- GRAPHICS -
🔲 "MS Paint"
🔲 Bad
🔲 Meh
🔲 Graphics don't matter in this game
🔲 Decent
✅ Good
🔲 Beautiful
🔲 Masterpiece
- MUSIC && SFX - 🔲 None
🔲 Bad
🔲 Not special
✅ Good
🔲 Beautiful
- STORY -
🔲 This game has no story it's a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ simulator/Shooter
🔲 Like playing "Temple Runners" for the story
✅ It's there for the people who want it
🔲 Well written
🔲 Epic story
- PRICE -
✅ Free
🔲 Underpriced
🔲 Perfect price
🔲 Could be cheaper
🔲 Overpriced
🔲 Complete waste of money
- REQUIREMENTS -
🔲 You can run it on a microwave
✅ Average
🔲 High end
🔲 "NASA" computer
- LENGTH -
🔲 Super Short (0-10 minutes)
✅Very short (0 - 1 hours)
(haven't played it fully)
🔲 Short (1 - 10 hours)
🔲 Average (10 - 30 hours)
🔲 Long (30 - 70 hours)
🔲 Extremely long (70 - 110 hours)
🔲 No ending
- FUN -
🔲 I'd rather watch paint dry
🔲 Hard to enjoy
🔲 Repetitive
✅ Actually pretty scary
🔲 Ride of your life
- REPLAYABILITY -
🔲 It's a one-time experience
(haven't played it fully)
🔲 Only for achievements
🔲 If you wait a few months/years
✅ Definitely (you can always go back and improve and is still enjoyable
🔲 Infinitely replayable
Special Thanks to BLUEY from Steam (Creator of the template)
- MARKETING - (How well your game page)
🔲Very Weak (No photos/videos/Description/Story/External Links + Devlogs)
🔲Weak ( No photos/videos/Story/External Links + Devlogs)
✅Good (No videos/ External Links + Devlogs)
🔲Great (has all the above)
I played this and noted a bug when using the 8bitdo controller to play under Wine. Apparently the game registers the AIM control as being depressed at all times for it. This behavior does not appear when using a standard usb adapter with a SNES controller. Is there any way for me to fix this, or would this be an issue in the source code?
Started playing this game and while it´s good, it looks that saving of the progress doesn´t work there. As when I was entering the I think "Gulag" level, game crashed due running out of memory. So I restarted it, but it told me then that it wasn´t able to find my save. And I was sleeping sometimes in my bed in the village as I thought that this is way to save the game.
Or is there some else method of saving progress?
EDIT: I went through an appdata folder and found a folder "animal" in local Appdata folder (is it the game´s one?), which indeed has some save file in it. But the game still isn´t able to find the save file on launch. So it looks that it isn´t able to load a saved game.
EDIT2: By deleting the mentioned folder above, the saving now seems to work. So it must be the corrupted save, probably by the game crashing, that it wasn´t able to find it anymore.
Will there be a Linux version?
i really enjoyed this game, i just wish it was longer with a deeper story. anyone know any games similar to this?
NOO NOT WADA
I hope there be used in other programs like mac some day
I really enjoyed this little game. Very nice atmosphere, characters and feeling. I'd like to see more of your stuff! Keep up the great work!
Keyboard controls need to be over at classic wasd, this game is painful to play with keyboard.
very good short survival horror despite having such minimal gameplay. the side characters and the overall sense of unease makes this feel like such a fever dream. its a shame i cant find you on social media or anything cause i'd love to see more from you in this vein of animal crossing anti-nostalgia
how do i save i dont understand!!!!! does it save when I die?
also is it s'posed to delete a save if you die too many times
You sleep in the bed in the village.
The game seems to autosave or maybe it´s saved when you sleep in your bed in the village. But sometimes the saving process seems to be broken (the game can´t find your save even when there is one) and to fix it in this case, you need to remove the "animal" folder in the Appdata/local one.