Got a girl in hiatus complaining. What the hell are you doing at the studio while on break?

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Game froze on this screen again. Happened after a birthday event. Pretty sure it was supposed to be a graduation event.
This time I do have the log: https://file.coffee/gCWZ89D8H.txt
Right after the previously mentioned graduation event, the music stayed muffled, as if still in the event, right-click does not close the left-hand menu (manual closing still works) and the game seems to be working just fine.
Log: https://file.coffee/OquTZ9a1k.txt
(Are my massive amount of reports useful at all, or am I overdoing it?)
(Lots of screenshots in this one)
I noticed that negotiating business proposals doesn't actually adhere to the percentage that it displays. I'm not sure if this variation is intended. If it is, I think it's not explained clearly enough.
Assume the staffer is max level in deals and a sales manager:
Example 1:
A max level staffer's negotiation result of 0% yields a decrease of about 15% instead. I have seen cases of both increases and decreases.
Before:
After:
Example 2:
A max level staffer's negotiation result of +100% yields an increase of about 70% instead. I have seen cases of both higher and lower than +100%.
Before:
After:
And here's the log: https://file.coffee/Bl-E9GNu5.txt
As buzz seems to be hard-capped at 1000%, should a source of buzz be able to give more than 1000% buzz? (To clarify: My buzz did not go above 1000%)
I'm also not sure if fan satisfaction should really be 0% if it's my best-selling single so far. Either that or I just don't know what fan satisfaction stands for.
(Also, yes, I was 1 sale short. Curse you, game.)
Another 1 short. I wonder if this is an off-by-one error somewhere?
Log: https://file.coffee/bjaVA6Kqn.txt
And now for some rapid-fire smaller bugs and annoyances.
She's already graduated:
Is there supposed to be a hard cap of 7 on queue length, even though the producer is a higher level?
Right-clicking while hovering over an option in the left-hand menu (as to close it) will register it as a normal click, thus completing the action while the menu is closing:
Sometimes auto options (such as auto practice or auto stamina recovery) turn off seemingly at random:
Speaking of auto stamina recovery; since there are Psychiatrists and Physicians, their auto stamina recovery options should be split into auto physical- and auto mental stamina recovery.
Since the recent update introduced automatically disabling and re-enabling of auto practice when dragging a job to their respective rooms, such as a single, why is this not a thing for office workers?
Even though I have selected my vibe to be changed to 'cute', it is still stuck on 'cool':
I don't know if it's any use in these cases, but here's the log anyway:
https://file.coffee/qPujT_t1Y.txt
Yes, this has been a long session (which wasn't possible before, so kudos!), so the log is quite extensive.
I found a good old fashioned game freeze.
Idol graduation event happened.
Chose to get a successor.
Successor's introduction event happened.
Game soft freezes.
Log: https://file.coffee/lciK55Q5m.txt
The wrong idol portrait is sometimes being shown in a conversation:
She (the wrongfully displayed one) is the same as the successor I got that I was talking about in the previous report.
Log: https://file.coffee/0_RVtY7bw.txt
Found a new freeze. This one happened after an audition, during the first new idol's event. As shown in the image, I can still interact with the background. (I even managed to save, so I didn't lose any progress)
log: https://file.coffee/yxF6P_uWm.txt
hello! i got double the manager in the cut scene when i started a new save file (i've tested making 4 other new files and getting a manager, it's happened 1/4 times so not that common or that big of a deal). also, my cursor became the idol's portrait when i tried to drag her to a room. screenshots attached, lemme know if i should include a log.


time is freezing for me after i either use a cheat ( specifically the y - 1M yen ), or if i try to hold an audition? also when i do initiate an audition and it's successful, when i hire a girl it's a different portrait from what i originally thought. i'm not sure what's causing that, but so far i've been lucky to miss out on majority of the bugs people have experienced. though in this latest update i feel like i've gotten all of them at once haha.
I had a lot of bugs and her is the principal one :
- When i pick a character in the character list, and i put / try to put in our main character for Socialize, sometimes the image of the head of the idol taht i try to put in my MC never deseapear and i need to load a save / restart the game ( happens a lot of time in my case )
- When i hired girl, the little text that come when you first meet her doesn't appeared and the only think that i could do for a moment was to play normally ( but with the portrait of the idol in the center of my screen, he never deseapered ), and when i went for do a jobs, and i refused it, all of my screen who was not covered with the portrait of the idol, went all white and i can't literally do anything . So i decided to restart the game and when i tried to load that save, it load a previous save, . And even the auto save was not for my current save and it's was for the same that when i tried to load my game ( Happened 1 time ) It's the same bug that TeHWoof
- Idk if it's a bug but when i pick a gril who is training and i put her in the MC for socialize, it cancelled the Auto practice option of where she was ( i don't think that's a bug but it's perturbating xD )
- When i had like 2 Coregraphy / Singing Platform my idols doesn't wanted to go on the last that i bought, so i needed to pick her and put her in the last Coregraphy / Singing Platform that i had bought .
- When i load a game sometimes it happen that when i want to see my pushes, i can saw that there is no one, but when i go for put someone, i dont see the face of the idols who is in a case of pushes ( even if their is someone ), but i can see that my character is in it, because the description on the right is grey, and white for all the others idols, so it clearly said that one is in the case ( and it's the same for all the 3 emplacements of the pushes )
- In the election the girl who was the first was the badest one, and it was the game choose, like it was not me who put her in #1 ( low stats and low popularity ) . Idk if it's based on stats or it's random ( but i think that this is random because my idols with like 4-5-6 stars and who also was platinium, was beat by a gold idols with less popularity and stats )
Sorry for my bad english at some moment xD . And keep up all the good job that you have done until now !
So I had a loss of power while playing and it corrupted the autosave. I assume it was simply bad luck and the power went out just as it was saving, but what's odd is that my manual saves are gone. They're still there in the actual folder, but in the game, the 'load game' menu is just blank. I'm gonna start a new game to reset the autosave and see if this is a result from the autosave being corrupt, and if that fixes it I guess it's less an actual bug and just something to be aware of. If it doesn't, I have no idea what happened or how you'd fix that, but yeah, off to test around.
Entering the Options menu from inside a playsession causes it to display the wrong labels and values for the various settings. I'm guessing it's just a case of not properly loading the various values, since changing the sliders seems to work.
This is what I set it to when opening the Options menu from the main menu.

This is how it looks when I open the Options menu while in a play session.

It should happen every time and this is on a fresh Windows install with no previous Glitch Pitch folder in AppData.
hi! sorry if this has been mentioned already but i've been getting this bug pretty frequently when i hire a girl, where the portrait that's shown in the audition screen is a different portrait from the one that shows up when she's actually hired. it's not a huge deal but it does bother me a little when the portrait isn't the one i expected it to be lol.
i couldn't seem to recreate it on a fresh save but it worked on my most recent save, which is a new game that i started like 20 minutes ago. i was reloading the save a lot (trying to get the perfect idol without spending a bunch of money on multiple auditions lmao) so maybe that caused it? it's also happening on my other save which i've played for about 20 hours or so. anyway here's the screenshots!


I had an issue of after hiring a girl, it froze at the introduction scene. The girl showed up, but the text never arrived. For a short while, I could make out the inlay and try and save the game to keep the progress from the last bit from when I saved last, but it completely stopped me from doing anything before I could finish saving. It was during a regional audition.
Got a pretty gnarly visual glitch happening all over the screen whenever I do one of the daily tasks. (Performance in this example)
Here's a small snippet of it:
Log: https://file.coffee/6ifoemlTG.txt
If you're stuck "In Production", you can try opening your save file with a text editor, find "SpecialEvents_Manager__EventData" and replace all "Status": 1 with "Status": 0
Save files are here:
Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/manual_saves
Please send me your save file and/or log to sadambober@gmail.com or just upload it here https://file.coffee/
Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\output_log.txt
Mac: ~/Library/Logs/Unity/Player.log
Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/manual_saves
Okay, thanks, I see the issue. I fixed your save file if you don't want to wait for the update: https://file.coffee/PUCzm3-o_.json
For everyone with the same issue, you can fix your save file by finding "pushes__Data" and adding "days": [0,0,0], so it looks something like this:
"pushes__Data": {
"girls": [11, 2, -1],
"days": [0,0,0]
},First audition on the new Beta 9 version and one of my poor candidates have her eyes (and probably her hair accessory) incorrectly offset on the audition screen. After I hired her and she popped up on screen to give the trait related recruitment message, her eyes looked normal, though she was missing the accessory.
Once I got back to the game, however, the other idol I had already hired before the above screenshot got the same messed up image from this audition on her entry in the idol list instead of her own image (which was fine in the audition).

This is what the other idol (Yoshida Rin) should look like according to her profile page:

I did save, close the game and make backups of output_log.txt, as well as the save, in case you want me to send them in. The issue with the messed up portraits in the idols list persists even after restarting the game and loading the save again.
I'll update the game soon, but for now you can try this fix https://itch.io/post/904758
Please send me your save file and/or log to sadambober@gmail.com or just upload it here https://file.coffee/
Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\output_log.txt
Mac: ~/Library/Logs/Unity/Player.log
Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/manual_saves
I'll update the game soon, but for now you can try this fix https://itch.io/post/904758
I unfortunatly did not think to do a log file but in the event of the idol cosplaying and it resembling a german national uniform the game does not continue regardless of button options, and you have to force crash the game. i have noticed this on more than one occasion over 3 playthroughs. i hope this is useful despite the lack of log files.
Yeah, this one should actually be fixed in the update I did a few hours ago: https://sadambober.itch.io/idol-manager/devlog/95875/update-beta-91
I have managed to have a election and after the 1 month period for the concert ended i checked to do another and it said in production, it still says this even after the 6 month cooldown of the election. currently there is no special event in the list of things in production despite it saying otherwise. prior to a election i was having many concerts and world tours now only world tours function.
It has happened a lot of time, and the only solution that i have found is to go to the main menu and relaunch my save
Update: I still can't play cries a little. See, in pic one it starts up fine??? Then literally all I get is black and the program isn't responding. I've tried compatibility, I've tried redownloading plenty of times and I'm getting frustrated cause I don't know if it's my computer ( then I really need to figure out why!! Cause it plays another game I have on here just fine??? ) oooor it's the game or even a mix of both. Is anyone else experiencing problems like this, or is it just me ; w ;


Please upload this file to https://file.coffee/ , maybe it'll help me figure out what's going on
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\output_log.txt
And you can always request a refund if nothing helps: https://itch.io/docs/legal/terms#9-refunds
that's the weird thing!! it used to work fine, then when i tried downloading the latest patch 9 / 9.1 it stopped completely loading and i don't know why!! ): I will email you, because I don't.. really want a refund haha? Cause I want to support this game!! Plus I don't think I can wait till the official release.
Also note, the build you put up didn't work for me either ;; I'm really sorry.
When I tried to ask an idol to dig up dirt on someone else, it froze after subtracting the influence. the chat box was empty. I restarted the game and figured it didn't work, but now a few days later, that idol pops up on the screen with another empty box that i couldn't get out of without restarting the game. i assume it was related to digging up dirt
This is actually an issue with your computer! It's (probably) happening because Windows 7 only supports DX11.0 features, but the game needs to access DX11.1 features. You can fix this by installing either this platform update, or if that doesn't work, just updating your computer to the latest version of Windows 7.
I'll probably fix it in the next update in a few days, but for now you should be able to fix it like this:
Open your save file with a text editor, find "SpecialEvents_Manager__EventData" and change "Status": 1 to "Status": 0
Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/manual_saves
Hey there, sadambober!
I'm getting an empty dialogue screen upon loading old saves that was just never there, meaning that I cannot play that saved game anymore. The game was created at least 5 months ago, and the last time it was saved was roughly a month ago. All the saves from this same game are broken, though the game I created in August loads just fine. Here's a screenshot of the blank dialogue screen I get.
Also, I am getting these weird visual glitches when I load my most recent save game (the one that works). Never seen those before.
EDIT: The visual glitch seems to be easily fixable by cancelling any ongoing activities (in my case, cancelling my managers' search for proposals).
I decided to write another post because I've found another bug that is as game-breaking as the one I reported in my previous post. I tried playing with my one save game that still works, and when I tried to create a single, my game froze during the transition between the single setup screen and the formation selection screen. I could only see the out-of-focus background, and there was nothing I could do but to Alt+F4 out of the game.
Game locks up on New Single -> Formation. Cannot proceed even after killing the game and reloading. (Same bug as Bicky is reporting above.)
And that's a general problem I've encountered this morning. The game also locked up on the full screen SMS after an event (CD misprint), and also locked up on an unknown event (but about the right time for the dance costume sub story, though that did pop up a few days later).
Locking up on full screen events is an ongoing game enjoyment killing bug. It needs to be stomped HARD.
both it and the politician event every so often are acting glitchy not responding to clicks or poping up 3 or 4 times when you click a option.
sometimes it just doesnt let you do any actions sometimes it works fine
Edit: here is a example
After i force crashed the game and reloaded hitting continue it moved on like the event never happend
This, surprisingly, actually worked for me.
While I did had to change hairstyles of some idols to hairstyles that were in the 9.1 version the save did load in the 9.1 version and spawned a different, closeable, event. Then that 9.1 save loaded fine in the 10.0 game and I could continue.
But it really isn't a viable, permanent, solution.
Yep also got this bugged event. After closing the game and reopening the auto save file the game continuous like the event didn't happen but after a week it pops up again in all its game ending glory, it really is a game ender.
Kinda disappointing that this bug is still here, considering it isn't exactly a rare bug apparently.
Potentially minor bug
Currently one of the ladies is being bullied by someones clique i have discovered who is resposable. it takes 2 infuance to stop them, prior to having 2 influance i could and i just went into the negative (i saved prior to it and it worked), after gettign blackmail on them and raising it to level 3 i had a conversation and tried to use the influance it said i lacked influance and was unable to requiring 2 levels i was at 3.
Here's a follow-up of my previous posts with other minor bugs I noticed on Beta #10:
Also, here is the link to the save file that refers to my most recent game, the one that freezes on the single creation sequence, and my output_log.txt. It might help you figure out what's going on under the hood.
Last, but not least, a rather important update. Yesterday, I reported a game breaking bug that prevented me from playing on my older game, since it would trigger an empty dialogue upon load. I tried playing it again today, and I was able to load the game without facing that bug, though I still couldn't create a single, so that error doesn't seem to be permanent.
I just had to force the game to quit because I got an empty dialogue, myself. I think this is my log? For context I have 10 idols, the only rooms/staff I currently have are my office, two managers, and the break room, and I just launched an internet show a few days before the dialogue started up.
Found a smallish bug while trying to save scum for a audition. When you save just before an audition, say just before you would click that A symbol, and then reload that save, the idols that are presented in the audition screen and the ones you actually get are disconnected. The stats and ability do stayed synced correctly.
To make it more clear, here I reloaded the save because I didn't like the results and tried again. These are my choices this time:
I hire the one selected and finish as usual. But at the introduction screen I get greeted by a completely different avatar
The stats are exactly the same though, only the appearance has changed.
And that is as clear as I can make it. From here on out the game uses the new appearance correctly and no further weirdness is experienced. This only happens if I reload and use the same 'prepared' audition, if I cancel and plan a new audition the disconnect doesn't happen at all.
I'll upload the 2 save games, just in case.
Save just before the audition.
Save after the screenshotted audition
If you load the save again and click the A again, do you still get different people? And when you accept one (say the left-most one), does it generate the same avatar?
And if you try it again, do you get yet another different set of people with different set of stats, and when you select the one at the same position as the last one, does the avatar still be the same as the previous test?
These tests are used determine which things (idol names, stats, avatars) are generated, and which were already decided when the audition was completed. They can also help sadambober zero-in to the fix.
Or I suppose you could peek inside the save game. It's in JSON, so it's quite easy to change into a human-readable format.
Closing and starting the game before loading the save does clear the 'corruption', and you get the results as described in the first point .
So my guess is that the game doesn't clear/reset some variables correctly when loading a save while not closing the game.
going off the earlier bug I talked about, I switched from releasing singles monthly to bi-monthly and the problem of your songs from a year ago being counted persists: Not only that, but it seems like your rival group has their sales calculated off of that single from a year ago, as well (My rival went from selling 135k the month I released a single, to 48k the month I skipped, and then 146k the month I released again)
New bug: election/concert did not start automatically after two weeks of the single being released. I believe this may be because I released on the 18th of May, then got two events on the 1st of June(The chart and a random fight). Game froze upon loading both events at the same time, I had to close and reopen. Then the concert didn't start on the 2nd like it should have.
Besides this, I think you should allow the player to activate the election+concert themselves, rather than the game doing it automatically so this problem can't arise. Like how you can't release a single if you don't have enough money, the game should just check if 14 days have passed since the single, and THEN unlock the concert start button. I have noticed that the game starts to chug when switching into the concert/election sequences, but this is the first time it broke.
Just a note, I was having the same problem and this worked great for me, but I also had to edit the auto_save file to save my hiatus'd idol--I think because I used "save and quit" when I quit out of the game before editing the save files. So, yeah, if anyone tries this and it doesn't work, I'm guessing editing both the manual AND auto save will do the trick.
Please upload this file somewhere, or just send it to me at sadambober@gmail.com
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\Player.log
And also this folder:
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\Crashes
There's one other person having this issue, I wasn't able to figure out why yet
Just noticed this, but the chart bug goes beyond your singles never being flushed from the chart after you release them: any single released will appear in that month's chart for EVERY year past and future. (So if you released a single in March 2020, not only will it appear again in March 2021, but it also appears in March 2019, 2018, etc. if you check the chart.)
So this is a weird one. I started up my game, added some idols to the 'push', and then noticed that time was frozen in place--neither the day or the task bars (like business proposals, projects, etc) were moving at all. Saved and quit, reloaded the game, and found that it was running fine, so I added the idols back into the push...and...nope, paused again. Took them out, still paused. Saved and quit the game, went back into the game, time was moving as normal, one of my tasks completed fine, etc, so I'm pretty sure it's somehow tied into putting the idols into push? I've used pushes without issue before now, though.
Just recently updated today, and I started playing the new game. Unfortunately, the game suddenly pauses out of nowhere and the game doesn't continue. I press 1, 2, 3 gazillion times, but there is no response. The game is paused for whatever reason. Also, I noticed all my shows were wiped and there's isn't even a trace of them. Was this suppose to be a bug update because I've never encountered bugs until now XD
Hi, I'm seeing a glitch where after an event happens and I click out of the screen, it blurs out the rest of the game and I'm not able to do anything else so have to force close the game and restart. Sample screenshot attached - this happened immediately after one of my idols graduated. I'm playing on the latest version, 10.1. 
Hi, I wanted to mention a performance issue I have been seeing. I have been playing on the same save file for the past 6 months and over time I realized that the game was really slowing down. I had tremendous lag issues just scrolling through my list of 20 or so idols, and my company only occupies 5 floors of the building. I also play with the settings on Fastest. My auto_save.json file was 95k lines long. After some trial and error on my part I realized that if I deleted all the graduated idols from my file, the performance was much improved. Anything below 75k lines in the save file seemed to run well. Just wanted to flag it because more people may run into this issue at some point.
Hi, I'm seeing an issue with my younger idols where they are capped out on Sexy and Cool style values for their age, but they are being auto selected into training for these values anyway, which is just wasting time and taking up Stylist slots that my older idols could be taking advantage of. I know I can manually remove them from the training pool, but I think it would be better if idols who have hit their cap for a value are not selected by default - it would be much easier than having to keep track of their birthdays and remembering to put them back in the training pool when they age up. Thanks!
Do you have any mods enabled? If not, please upload Player.log and Player-prev.log to https://file.coffee/
from here C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager
And maybe try deleting everything in this folder
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\cache\portraits
This actually happens if you played before the update but started a new game after updating.
You can try to load an old save once (this will "reset" the game) and then continue playing your new save, or delete everything from this folder
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\cache\portraits
Another option is to open your new save file with a text editor and replace "version":"Beta #11" with "version":"Beta #10"
Unfortunately, none of these things worked :(
Something I noticed was that although only the blurry screen came up, I could still hover my mouse over where the portraits would be and click there - but doing so would crash the game immediately.
After I changed Beta #11 to Beta #10, it no longer crashed when I clicked the ghost portraits, but I couldn't get out of the screen either
Okay, that's weird. Are you playing on a laptop?
Please upload Player.log and Player-prev.log to https://file.coffee/ after it happens again
from here C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager
Hi, in the new version released today, I'm not able to load into my previously saved up file when I click Continue from the main menu. I can hear the game music and I see lines appear on the loading screen. It almost looks like the game has loaded behind the loading screen, but I'm not able to access anything.
If I try to load the same save from version 10, it's working normally.
Please upload your save file here: https://file.coffee/
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\auto_save.json
Okay, instead of deleting the entire cache folder try deleting everything inside this folder instead
C:\Users\sadambober\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\cache\portraits
(or create this folder if you don't have it)
Then try to load this save again. Maybe try waiting a bit longer (initial loading now can take longer, but the game should work faster). If it doesn't work, please let me know what folders you have in data\cache\portraits. It looks like this for me after I load your save:

Okay, I removed everything from the portraits folder and reloaded the save. I waited about 5 minutes this time since I do have a large save file. These are the folders that I have in portraits now so it looks the same as what you have. But unfortunately I'm still seeing the issue and not able to load this particular file.

Yeah, this looks good. There are 3 images inside each folder, right?
Now don't clear this folder, but try adding "version":"Beta #11", in the beginning of your save file https://file.coffee/ZNr11l3dF.json

If it fails once, try again. If that doesn't help, please upload your log files
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\Player.log
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\Player-prev.log
Hey, just starting to play an the previous update’s bug of freezing upon formation pages/sms updates seems to have returned. Additionally, while not a bug, I feel like the game’s auto save has gotten worse? Before the constant freezes were bearable because auto save was plentiful and you could easily load back in, yet now the game seems to not auto save even after important events such as finishing a concert or releasing a single.
I agree about auto save having gotten worse. Before, auto save would bring me right to the moment before the game crashed. Now I'm losing entire concert performances, upgrading song genres, song releases, etc. I was fine with the game crashing before because auto save was so good but now I lose so much!
My game just started pushing me broken events, seemingly out of nowhere. Now, every 2 in-game days or so, an event pops up, but the event does not go away when I pick an option (clicking options can yield results, such as increasing influence over an idol, and clicking on the same option multiple times will keep increasing that influence). The background does not go out of focus, and while the game time is paused while the event is active, I can still interact with the background, and sprite animations still run. Also, it's worth mentioning that this always happens at the end of the in-game days, kinda like how it was with those time freezing bugs. It basically forces me to quit to the main menu and reload my save every time it happens.
Oh, and as you can see in this screenshot, one of the broken events that popped up was in English, even though I was running my game in Portuguese.
Here you go: https://file.coffee/O3zenjrOZ.log
I got one broken shoplifting event, then two broken cosplay scandals in a row. Do let me know if you see anything wrong with the file.
I'll try replacing those files with their original versions, see if that fixes it. Just for some extra context, I managed to play Beta #11 for over 2h with the updated, translated files before this issue started happening. Maybe it was something I changed in one of the files between last night and today, but either way, I'll send you the translated files.
found some bugs relating to the awards mechanic:
Best Debut Idol is broken: my first year (2019 Awards) I had no nominees despite obviously having idols on my roster with 3 stars, lol. Second year (2020 Awards Show) it nominated one of the first hires I had from 2018. The next year (2021 Awards) it nominated that same idol again, as she still had the most stars, despite there being idols hired after the 2020 show with 3 stars. So basically the game didn’t look at the idols I hired for the first award show, and now it ONLY looks at the idols hired before the 2019 Awards for the best debut each year.
Also, the awards about individual idols seem bugged: none of my gravure/variety/fashion award trackers tick up in numbers throughout the period. Performance/Promotions do. Additionally, my Most Prolific tracker doesn’t reset to 0 after the awards like Perf/Promo do and remains at 12.
Just realized as well that the game definitely isn’t awarding those same awards that aren’t upticking (gravure, variety, fashion). They were awarded the first year but not the two after that. Also iirc the hosts/game doesn’t give out awards for anything your own group isn’t nominated for? (Ie the first year every award was assigned to a group but now only things you are eligible for are mentioned.) Is that a bug or purposeful?
Is the trendiness/obscurity system weird for anyone else? I just released a single that used the same genre/choreo/lyrics as the top two songs for the previous month, and that month's curent chart. I got a obscurity bonus in return. I also can recall getting a trendiness bonus for single types I know weren't within the Top 10 for example
Hello, sadabmbober.
Just letting you know this is what my settings menu looks like after today's update. The 'English' language checkbox can't be unticked, and the 'Brazilian Portuguese' checkbox is now invisible (although it's still there, since my pointer changes when I hove over where the checkbox was supposed to be). Clicking on the 'English' checkbox doesn't do anything, even if I apply the changes. 'Run in background' checkbox also cannot be unticked. Last, but not least, the 'Background Music' slider is broken (slider moves, but number doesn't change), aside from not having its translated text (though I honestly don't remember if it was already that way before today's update).
I know this is all most likely temporary, and caused by the addition of a new checkbox to the settings menu (might also mess with some translated stuff), and though it's not something critical, at least to me, I'm just giving you a heads-up.
Cheers!
Player.log : https://file.coffee/JualBUXGY.log
Player-prev.log : https://file.coffee/k9_iWR-4H.log
- After a concert, the spacebar no longer pauses the game.
- When an idol has announced her graduation date, her physical stamina crashes (her recovery rate seems to crash and then recover).
- When an idol has announced her graduation date, her salary stops being updated and I start getting "not happy" messages.
I'm getting a blurred screen bug after a birthday event thats locked in so I can't progress. I do have some ridiculous amount of idols/staff/buildings though. Up over.... 7,000,000,000 moneys and like 25 offices running full speed hahaha think i'll just start over.
Is there any more of the story though? I think i've made it through at least year 3 and other than Fujimoto coming in if I mentioned him in a Award, I havent seen anymore what would be considered "story content"
Also need to put it out there, absoluting loving this game! I picked it up quite late but enjoying the whole idea and concept <3 great work.
Can you please upload your save file to https://file.coffee if you still have it?
Windows:
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\auto_save.json or
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves\*\save.json
Mac:
~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/auto_save.json
~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/manual_saves
Had an single/concert/election cycle conclude at the start of July before the awards: game froze upon loading awards sequence. Loaded the autosave which was 15 minutes ago (despite setting mine to 60 seconds.). Landed after the single release but before the concert: concert never triggered after that, and therefore no election either.
I wanted to test center recognition, and it seems like if you don't have a girl at the very front of the formation but two in the 2nd row, the game selects one of the two to be sole center as marked in the singles/jobs tooltips, but it doesn't count for the "center a single" wish. Maybe the game could add WCenter mechanic? (ie if there's not a girl at the tip of the formation, the girls in the second row are centers. Or even better, a second formation option that allows 1/2/4 centers, ala a 5-6-5 formation:
x x x x x
x x x x x x
x x x x x
Whenever a clique is bullying a girl I get a bunch of influence to get them to stop but it always says I don't have enough. I have four influence over a clique member, and its telling me it costs one influence to make them stop bullying but still says I don't have enough. Has this happened for anyone else?
I tried to find something about this bug but found no answers, even though it seems incredibly common. After about a year and a half of in-game time, every event or audition I get has the blurry screen, and I can click on the background to change things/swap idols and such (with no effect since the clock is stopped and doesn't restart). I got 2 saves locked because of this bug now, and I don't want to start a new game just to see everything end like this.
Please try deleting everything in this folder, this might fix auditions for you:
Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\cache\portraits
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/cache/portraits
Also, I don't think it's your case, but this could help too: https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzI3MzUyMDEucG5n/original/SAD%2F2A.png
Okay so after playing this update for an hour I have to say...it's unplayable. I love the content you added, but it's by far the most buggy update. First the thing with the audititions, that I mentioned above. I actually was kind of forced to trigger auditions by cheating and cheat the money back that I lost, if it didn't work. Because it didn't work more often, than it worked. Then I had some lag and stutter issues which mostly resulted in my game crashing. (It crashed 3 times in the hour I was playing.) Then when I finally got to release a single I got also stuck in the blurry screen. This time I couldn't click out of it tho, so I basically had to restart my game and hope it works the next time. But so far I haven't managed to release a single. Always got stuck in the blurry screen.
So yeah this version desperately needs a fix!
Oh and another weird thing I realized: Since I started cheating anyways, I just went all the way and cheated my idols stats. But I realized it said age: 0 for all idols in the save file. It usually says the correct age tho. Also ingame they have the correct age. (Because it's probably taken from their birthday) But still...thought that's kinda weird.
Still trying to figure out how to properly get an idol company off the ground when I run into a bug.
The way I've been doing it is hire like 20 idols and just 3 staffers to look for promotional jobs. It works to start getting the ship floating as I do sideshows like online and stuff.
The problem is that the staffers' salary gets updated, so all of a sudden I find myself fighting against the staffers' release clause which was around 2M yen.
I ditched her, and the game just froze in time. I could still move and do stuff but the clock just stopped and it never progressed. Not even reloading it helped.
Is there a way I can actually send you the savefile?
EDIT: New save file, tried firing the girl before severance pay and it once again froze the clock.
election is bugged: single will always say that it can't be released because concert isn't ready. I tried all different configurations (simultaneous concert and single, finishing the single and then starting a concert, finishing a concert and then starting the single, cancelling and redoing the election, single and concert, just the concert, etc.)
Check this post, one of these should fix your issue https://itch.io/post/1064221
Game seems to have wiped my most recent save game. I had installed the latest build (and just that one, not the initial 12.1), last night I tried loading the game, only for my computer to shut off (Not sure if this was the game or my computer). I didn’t try playing again until today, but I’ve found that my previous autosave and manual save from my most recent game are gone.
Started a new group and game bugs out every time I run an audition (stops at a gray screen and won't show idols). The first time I got it to rectify the issue by exiting, loading an autosave, and running the audition again. However, tried to do another audition and the same result with the blank gray screen w/no idols being shown.
Check this post, one of these should fix your issue https://itch.io/post/1064221
A little reticent to go with the first fix listed because if you asked to find something called Glitch Pitch on my computer, I would be searching for days since it does not exist. It is the same for anything to do with LocalLow or even something called Data in regards to the Idol Manager folder. Overly cautious, I guess.
I got a weird bug where all of sudden my graduated idols started reappearing in my active idols' relationships (only their name tho, no picture which somehow makes it even weirder lol.) One of my active idols was even dating a graduated idol, after the latter left the group.
Not game breaking by any means, just a bit strange!
I bought Idol Manager almost a week ago and was only able to play it for a couple of days. I'm not sure if this is a bug or just my computer, but when I launch it doesn't load past the "unity" screen and then the program stops responding and crashes. I've tried redownloading it a few times and I keep getting the same outcome :( I'm not sure what else to do as I'm not very technical... I really really love what I've played so far and I want to keep playing!!
Please try this (or let me know if you're on a Mac):
Let me know if that helped!
More bugs...
- Full screen display bug. An idol was announcing her graduation date, idol appeared but the text overlay did not. Could click through to the background.
- Single lineup screen bug. Putting idols into the lineup, when I moused over the idols in the lineup the tooltip was all the same idol. Oddly enough, it wasn't an idol on my roster, or that had ever even been on my roster. Exiting and reloading cured it.
- Concert playlist bug. The idols who had centered the songs were all scrambled. Exiting and reloading restored thing to normal.
- Spa Day bug. The message displayed ("+ x stamina") when you click on the heart in the details panel does not always match the stamina displayed in the tooltip. I think the details panel/tooltip are not getting properly updated. This happens pretty consistently.
I sent you a fixed save file
I think the bug is caused by media shows with 10 stars fame, so I had to cancel two of your shows. I'll fix this in the next update, but for now you have to make sure you don't have any shows like these (e.g. by assigning a host with < 10 fame).
Thanks for helping catch the bug!
Rooms you build on the floor you start with are supposed to be rent-free, right? Or did that change in an update? Because as far as I know, that's not actually the case. It's not a problem to me either way, it's just that you're told that the floor is rent-free when building rooms in it, like I did with this office here, when again, that isn't actually the case.

I'm compiling a few bugs I noticed in this latest build:
- I had to deal with an event regarding my latest single and a religious cult... even though I haven't released my first single yet.
- Failed business proposals negotiations, although they display a negative percentage, sometimes actually result in a higher contract value, instead of a lower one. (Ex: I just got a contract offer for 200k yen. Tried to negotiate, got -5%, but the value went up to 247k yen.)
- Some SFX (like crowd sfx and influence/friendship/romance increase or decrease) aren't muted when the shortcut 'M' is used, and can only be muted by manually setting the 'Sound' slider to 0.
As I hire more idols, the dialogues doesn't show up, only the dialogue images would appear, e.g. when the girl wants to graduate only the picture shows up but no lines of words. I experienced this bug very often. I guess this is due to inefficient optimisation, and the game just couldn't handle so much information.
1) Seems like your pushes are cleared whenever you close the game
2) Not sure if it's purposeful but mental stamina is draining like crazy in this update, I've never had so many idols hovering around 0/becoming depressed one after another so quickly. One idol I sent to the therapist's mental stamina didn't go up at all after their visit, leaving me to believe there's some kind of bug here
I started a new group to mess around with the new update. Hired five idols, and then a month later, I hired four more. Going into the idol tab showed repeats of the idols on display (a total of three times), but only the final grouping showed all nine idols. The first group had the first five I had hired, while the second had maybe seven of the nine.

No matter how much money I earn it seems to always be stuck saying "bankruptcy in 29 days." It never updates to a different amount of days and never goes away even with over ¥3 million saved up.

Also not sure what happened here but it was kind of confusing when all of this popped up at the same time. Akari simultaneously lost 30 points, immediately gained them back, and then lost them again all at once, while Yuna did the opposite and gained 30 points, lost 30 points, and then gained 30 points back all at the same time. This chain of events seems kind of unreaistic to all occur at the exact same time.
Also when I loaded up a save, it was time for an idol (idol A) to graduate (said "graduates soon"). when I pressed play, another idol (idol B) immediately announced her graduation. After getting that message, idol A was gone from the group and had been transferred to the graduated tab. I didn't get the option to hire her as a staffer or the other choices.
This happened to me as well. It added 2 group scandal points when I reopened the game and after I tried to remove them by firing a staffer the time froze.
Edit: I went back and tested it and when I fired one of my staffers that I've had for a long time it worked fine, but when I hired a new staffer and immediately fired them the tooltip listed that it took 2 scandal points but when the window popped up I could only take off one and then after I closed the window the time froze again.
I found a bug that can cause this - it happens if you fire a staffer when your staff tab is in compact view. You'll have to switch to the full view every time you need to fire someone until the next update.
Another related bug - hovering over a staffer in the building view to show their tooltip and then firing them. Can be avoided by hovering over another staffer, before firing that first one.
started my second sister group and their “research” screen seems to mirror that of the first ones despite them having different targets (My second is targeted at Hardcore Adult Males, the first at Casual Female Teens, yet the second group’s max fans/fan growth per single seems to mirror that of it they were also targeting Casual Female Teens)
If it is my misunderstanding, I am sorry. I report 2 behaviors who looks like bugs about beta 13.1 for Windows 64 bit.
1) In my environment, "Avg. Recent Earnings" of Salaries maybe be not average but accumulation.
About a idol, "Avg. Recent Earnings" increased from 267,595 yen (in Nov 2018) to 400,677 yen (in Feb 2019), though she did some works of photographs. And it never decrease.
Even in other new game, it is same.
2) When I borrow the first office, though the massage "This floor is rent free" is displayed, it actually costs a rent expense every week.
I am sorry, I can write English little. But I enjoy this game very mach. It is cute and exciting!
Please upload somewhere or send me to sadambober@gmail.com these files:
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\Player.log
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\global_data.json
And any of your save files that don't work
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves
I don't know if the star symbol broke it or something but it was fine at first, then as he kept talking, it sort of fell apart.

Edit: I found another bug! One of my idols graduated and found a successor, but it seems that another idol of mine has confused the successor with the graduated one. Even when I hover over the profile, it shows me the stats of the graduated idol.

Any cutscene doesn't load, just leaves me in the blurred screen state the entire time
Images for the idols on the audition screen, new single fame addition screen, and any cutscene also won't load. They're fine on the portraits in the idol screen but that's it. This has been the case for me from version 13 onwards.
Have you ever installed any mods?
If not, please upload somewhere or send me to sadambober@gmail.com these files:
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\Player.log
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\global_data.json
And any of your save files that don't work
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves
1. The first floor's supposed to be rent free, it's not
2. Training stamina drain can be a bit odd, because it looks like it's deducted by day spent training and each training request, rather than by time spent training. So, if you start two idols training at the beginning of the day, but one takes the entire day to train a point, but one only takes half a day, they both lose 7 points of stamina. This can have some strange effects, like the fast training trait being far less useful than you'd imagine, because stamina is a bigger constraint on idol activity than time, and training low stats effectively using a lot more stamina than training high stats over time (eg. if you take 5 days to train 8 points in a low stat you'll lose 56 stamina, compared to 35 stamina if you take 5 days to train 5 points in a higher stat). I'm not sure if this is intentional or not, though. (Sorry if this is hard to understand, I explained it as clearly as I could)
3. I got one incident of a text bug where I asked idol A about gossip and she said that idol B was dating idol B
4. Sometimes blaming a staffer for a scandal removes the scandal points, but doesn't fire the staffer. I think this might happen if you take this action while the game is paused.
5. I got one incident where a concert didn't start production when I put it in the producer's room (time was definitely running)
6. It seems like if you hit 100% opinion with a demographic, the opinion will reset to 50% when you release a single, or load that save
7. Sometimes idols being styled will be counted as idle, so you can assign them to two rooms simultaneously
8. The stamina drain for going to France in the World Tour is only 10%, compared to 20% for every other country (again possibly, but not probably, intentional)
9. Scandal points at the bottom of the screen sometimes display incorrectly, for example I once got 4 points, but two idols graduated and this dropped to 1, but it still said 4 (the tooltip when I moused over said 1 though, and it correctly displayed 1 when I reloaded the game)
10. Theatre shows don't seem to use stamina, given how much money it makes I'm sure this can't be intentional
11. There doesn't seem to be any age logic for scandals involving adults and idols under 18* (this could happen in real life, but at least give an extra option for the player to call the police)
12. When you combine a 2-shot (-75%) with the stamina drain for all single releases (-30%), it's basically impossible to do one without a severe risk of injury, which seems very over the top even if it's intentional
13. If your floor rent multiplier is high enough, additional cafes (or even the first one) can cost more in rent than they make (this applies to theatres too, but they potentially make for more money so it's much less likely to happen). Not sure how this could be dealt with, maybe make assigned idols increase income directly instead of sales? Again, could be intentional but doesn't seem logical
14. When you improve the lyrical/dance/music styles some of the ones that have negative modifiers improve and some get worse (so some with a -10% modifier will be -8% at level 2 and some will be -12%). I'm sorry, I made a note of some of the styles this happened with, but I deleted it by mistake.
15. Lastly, this is something I'm not sure about, but I'm worried that the sales bonuses for having a handshake event for singles don't work. In games where I have enough of a money cushion to start producing physical CDs with handshake tickets I look at the units sold per fan and expect to see a noticeable rise (with a fanbase at around 65% hardcore), but I never do. It's hard to test this with any accuracy because there are lots of variables, but I'm not sure it's working properly.
1. When you load up a game, the idols you had assigned as pushes aren't saved
2. Half bug, half suggestion; there doesn't seem to be much age logic for the members who end up dating each other, members over 20 dating members under 16 happens quite often, maybe put in an age filter
3. Demographic opinion still seems to reset to 50% if it ever hits 100%, happened a couple of times in my current save
4. During the politician chain, if you choose to just issue a flat denial of his claims, and then choose neutral reactions, on the third stage of the event change his name will disappear and be replaced by [politician_name]
5. Sometimes clicking the right mouse button to open and close side menus stops working
6. If you delete a room and replace it with something else, the game seems to consider it to be adding an extra floor to your building, leading to spiralling rent costs (I had four floors and deleted a few rooms to make the layout easier to look at and my rent quadrupled)
7. The issue with using scandal points to fire staff removing the points, but leaving the staff in place, is still there
Hi, it's maybe not a bug, but I thought I might find help here, I don't understand what is "fame point for a variety show" (when I look into contract I don't see such a thing), and so I don't know how to try to rise it. I am stuck for eons a this level of fan, and I really want to level up it, but it doesn't seem to raise even when I promote my 9 stars idols and only accept contract of this type.
Some help/advice would be welcome <3
I do not understand how the recent average idol earnings are considered. Or why is the recent average earnings equal to all-time earnings divided by 4?
Example: I have an advertising contract for 56 k per week, then the average and all-time earnings will change as in the table below
| Weeks | Recent average earnings | Total earning |
| 1 week | 14 k | 56 k |
| 2 week | 28 k | 112 k |
| 3 week | 42 k | 168 k |
| 4 week | 56 k | 224 k |
| 5 week | 70 k | 280 k |

hello I've ran into the same problem a few times now when an idol try to talk to me (I believe about them deciding to graduate) the image of the idol will load and the background will get blurry but the idol's text never loads and I am still able to interact with the build and the menus on the side. It was never a big problem because of this because i could just click around a little till i got save and quit then i would reload and it would be back to normal, however i did miss out on whatever the idol was going to say. unfortunately the last time it happened i was no longer able to interact with the side menu thus i lost a good bit of progress.
If you need/want anymore info let me know. I look forward to build an idol empire in the future!
Hi,
I have some troubles with the game. Unfortunaly, the game crash very often. When the game crash my graphic pilot is shutdown. I nerver see this before.
I send you the player.log + error.log.
Not sure; if it's a bug or not but some girls can't up their cool or sexy styling as you can see on the screenshoot.
Thanks for your hard working !
Cheers.
Yep, check this update for more info https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kuiper/idol-manager/posts/2528978
Hi, I'm not sure if this is a bug or if this is done on purpose, but when I destroy a room and then later on decide to rebuild it, the rent increases. Like for example, the cafe rent was 256,000,000¥, but I deleted it because I didn't have enough money to keep it going, but when I wanted to rebuild it (without having added an extra floor or any other rooms), the rent became 326,000,000¥.
Also, still not sure if it's a bug or done on purpose, but when I set a minimum stamina for auto-practice, it works for dance and vocal practice, but doesn't work for the styling room.
Played the game for 8 hours for the first time tonight. Here are a list of bugs I ran into. I’ll post elsewhere my thoughts on the game itself.
1. Sometimes when negotiating a contract and lose the dollar amount goes up sometimes by a crazy amount.
2. Putting the stylist on auto train will train individuals even if all the idols stats are above the maximium the stylist training level.
3. When an individual is injured and then is on hiatus. It doesn’t show how many days left on hiatus.
4. Some neck chokers when selecting styling are on a layer higher than the hair
5. After styling members the idol list doesn’t update right away and requires switching to other panels and coming back a couple of times.
That’s what I can remember for now!
I'm not sure if this is a bug, but when member from a sister group graduated, their dialogue will talk about main group.
Example: Main group [Heaven] Sister group [Hell]
Sister group graduated member: I look forward to graduating from Heaven. That's 3 months from now, blah blah blah.
It's really weird for me when they graduate they will mention main group instead of their group.
Bought the game a couple of days ago and here are the most recurrent bugs I came across.
1. One of the reason for that is that the loading button rarely works on my side : either it doesn't do anything or if it reloads, the save is bugged, like erasing all of my idols.
2. Going back to the menu hardly works to reload, most of the time, it starts a new game when you want to load your save or when you click on "continue".
3. Twice, when I clicked on the audition button, the game froze, loading the white-grey background, but never loading the five cards. No other way around than quitting the game.
4. And today, I came across a new recurrent bug, the game sometimes shows on screen that a task is done, but on the "project"'s tab considers that it is still ongoing. Letting time flow doesn't really fix it and so far cancelling the "project" was the only way to go around it.
5. Not really a bug per se, but I shall add it here still, the game starts lagging on my side when you start having over 50 idols or so.
6. There's something I'm unsure whether it's a limitation of the "unfair" setting or a bug, but I can't add "talk breaks" during concerts. It's not something I encountered in the two other difficulty settings.
So, i've been playing the game for a couple of days and so far i've come across two bugs, the first one is when i load a save sometimes all the idols from my idols list disappear, reloading doesn't fix the bug but restarting the game fixes it so i'm not too bothered. the second one, im not really sure if this is a bug or not, but the time stops when i hit February 4, 2022. the animation still plays but the time,practice, business, and other bars stops moving. i tried waiting but the bars never start moving again. ill start another save in the meantime to try and see if its just a one time bug or not. anyways, Good luck on the game, its been great so far. Cheers!
it stops here btw.
I'll fix this in the next update, but here's a quick fix for you:
1. Launch the game, load your save file
2. There's a doctor on the second floor, Yamauchi Saki. Cancel her task. (For anyone else having this issue, you can try canceling tasks of all staffers).
3. You can unpause the game now and it should work
Thanks for the report! And let me know if it didn't work
Ok, so I had spoken two weeks ago of lagging issues, but now the game has started to lag so much I basically can't play anymore. Whenever I try to do something, the game freezes. More specifically, it goes to the "grayish" page and doesn't do anything. And regularly, the game doesn't even load the credits when opening the game, so I can't even reach the menu. For the record, whatever quality I choose, there's no difference.
Please upload somewhere or send me at sadambober@gmail.com these files:
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\Player.log
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\global_data.json
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves\
Hello!
So, I've been changing the character portraits because I'd like to play with a real group in the game -- using the image of the actual members -- and after changing the body.png in the IdolPortraits folder for every girl and adding individual transparent files for face and hair, whenever I open the game and do an audition, only one of the girls appear and she has a face and hair from one of the original portraits on her face, even though I deleted them and added the transparent files... What should I do?
Hi!
I'm encountering a big issue with my game. I made some custom clothing, faces and hair and I had no problem having it work in the game until tonight. I hadn't played for a long time and wanted to change the look of some of my girls, so I modified my save file (which I have done countless time without any issue.)
The problem is that I can't open my save file anymore. I also can't start a new game, because when I start an audition, nothing happens. I tried clearing the cache, it doesn't help... The only fix is deleting all my custom content (which didn't cause any trouble before but for some reason apparently does now.) It's really strange and I'm kind of at a loss right now, as I have no idea how to fix the game without losing my save and all the content I created :/
I'm playing 17.5 and I believe it was the first time I modified the save file with this version of the game.
I'm reworking the way modding works, and because of that custom sprites don't work in this version. They should work again after the next update.
For now you can download the older version of the game using the itch.io app: https://itch.io/app
("Library" -> Click on the game -> Click on the options gear icon -> "Manage" (or "Install" first if you haven't already, then "Manage") -> "Switch to another version")