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thirty-one games by droqen, in a simulated cassette tape wonderland 路 By droqen

Bit of bugs on Windows!

A topic by Elastiskalinjen created Nov 30, 2021 Views: 297 Replies: 7
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Great and charming bundle, but it is a bit wonky on Windows.

- Sometimes the game gets checked before even playing them, making them non playable as well as creating art only uses the cassette. (see first pic)
- The debug mode is shipped so I see all the logs
- The game can get stuck on games, on oct.12 I can't pick another game, it just loops and I have to restart the game (see pic 2)
- Made on Oct.12 is always the text when picking new carts





Yeah, it is unfortunately quite buggy, would be good to look into it I think!

Developer

Thank you for your comments and for the really detailed error reporting.

Aside from the log (which I'm ok with, but it's not something I gave a lot of thought to), this is all intentional :) 

MINOR SPOILERS:

To spell it out, each of the three meta-screens is one of the 31 games (Oct 12, Oct 28, Oct 29), so three of the tapes send you to a weird winnable version of the corresponding meta-screen. I won't say this feature isn't buggy, because it definitely is, and feels, kinda buggy. But it was done on purpose; it's my kind of recursive structural joke.

e.g. Oct 28 is the date of the sticker placing minigame (the middle meta-screen), so when you put Oct 28 in the cassette player, it loads the Oct 28 minigame.

Hopefully this helps you understand what's going on.

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Hmm I would say the debug window gives it a bit of a "dev build", but hey each on their own!

Yeah the problem with having intentional buggy feature is that I don't think a player can separate it from a real one 馃槄 either it has to be quite clear that is is a "fake bug"(like Undertale restarting your game) or remove them completely.

I really enjoyed a lot of aspects of this game though (especially the cassette drawing touch)! 

Developer(+1)

Haha, you are very very right about the player experience being that these things are... hard to separate. I'll keep this in mind! (The problem is, I really love real bugs with interesting consequences, and don't really like fake bugs a whole lot! But anyway.) The communication on things like these tapes could definitely be clearer to have an effect closer to what I intended.

Thanks ^^