k i guess it was my 7 letter password with no characters or capitals that was the issue, very odd to have such a restriction on something so unimportant, and even more odd to not give a better error
Hey Ben, Glad you got it working. Sorry I thought I had validation on the password box. I'll get it in.
unfortunately the otherwise helpful tool I'm using for leaderboard and character creation doesn't give me a useable feedback to pass to the user, so i'm having to guess and what's gone wrong.
thanks for your persistence, I hope you have fun with the game!