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Satisfying. Playing with someone who has read The Call of Cthulhu made parts of the setting even more interesting. We both enjoyed the art.

Hi, getting ready, reading the jam page.

The guidelines say,

All games should at minimum run on Windows.

I don’t have access to an up-to-date Microsoft operating system or know for sure who could help with testing. I might find a volunteer in August, but in case that doesn’t work out, I’d like to know what to use from the start of the jam if I decide to submit.

Does anyone around here know which are VN-capable programs that run on Linux systems can reliably export to .exe for Microsoft 10 and 11?

Most .exe games seem to have originated on Windows. I’m not sure there won’t be problems if it’s not.

Any tips for protecting projects from the scraping and misuse that Microsoft is known for (at least in the US) are welcome, too.

Hello! This is very useful, doing exactly what I’ve been trying and failing to do with other programs!

A note for AppImage users: when the location picker tool can’t find the executable, add the full path and executable file name manually. Works fine.

A question for DDMLatte or anyone who knows: What does the “being monitored” warning mean?

On Linux, getting the Ren’Py Launcher to run then opening a game from there works fine. XD Only took me a few months to figure out how.

All six endings have been found! <3 <3

Android and Linux, with a slow internet connection, and it turns out the problem wqs with me! I must have been interrupting the loading somewhere. The game plays as well as other smallish Ren’Py games when I keep the web version on the constrained view of the player, not in full view, and don’t move away from the tab or window during the initial five-minute load.

With the downloaded version,the problem is that I last tried last year, I didn’t know how to run a Ren’Py game on my computer. It works fine in a functioning Launcher! I’m just new to visual novels.

I’m glad I tried again to play “A Cup of Eternity”. The music and images work really well in the story. I enjoyed how it loops so the death I ended up with the first playthrough is simply tied into the next attempt. The success of my second playthrough surprised me! I’m going to savor it for a while. XD

I wish I could play this game. Whether on the wwbpage or in the download, the game crashes or returns a “possible” infinite loop error.

Something changed on computers in the past year, maybe?

Funny in an entirely different way than expected. XD

Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it.

More character art sprites:

https://itch.io/c/7001940/vn-characters

Your style doesn’t match the retro period I’m considering, but it is gorgeous.

I hope we see your art in a game for this jam.

Wow, I don’t know how I didn’t see that coming. Clever story loops.

Good lessons. Very cute.

The cat’s life was saved. XD

Well, my post was deleted, but I can shorten it up.

Try ct.js. There’s an internal tutorial and included assets that can be used to make the sample games. That’s easier, in my opinion, then figuring out what Godot tutorials are saying or why their instructions don’t work.

Anyhow, games in common languages can be imported into Godot easier than games can be exported out of Godot in working condition.

https://ctjs.rocks/

Scraping cannot bypass things like password protected pages. So that means anything that was scraped was truly, literally open to the public in some way.

Untrue. This statement is years out date.

It’s hard to believe you haven’t seen by now any of the reports of private information being scraped during data breaches and unethical policy changes to be used in “machine learning” paid for the big AI companies. The mass scraping of everything, including sensitive documents on personal devices or in “secure” storage, is one of the major sources of anger and frustration about this subject.

It’s important to remember, too, why “everything online is public” is a defeatist response to hugely controversial actions (repeatedly judged illegal in courts) by Google, Facebook, and oppressive government agencies.

I’m old enough to remember when web crawlers were only supposed to visit without permission. But then Google took over web searching and made people afraid not to allow its indexing. Then the copy argued it had to be allowed to copy and store web page contents, including any and all images, to return search results. Then, oops, they were using copyrighted images the whole time for massively secretive machine learning projects with almost no ethical oversight, all while heavily lobbying politicians for control over relevant laws and enclosing millions to billions of people into spying tech.

There was almost no honest consent of use in these processes.

Also, with or without that scraped art, AI would still be able to produce that exact art.

Nowhere close to true. Much of the generative models out there are elaborate plagiarism machines.

Look at the official complaints for why stopping scraping would destroy the AI/ML/chatbot industry.

Or what happened when scraped images are “poisoned” with invisible noise. The anti-AI tools wouldn’t be nearly as effective as they are if the generative models could reproduce the images on their own.

Hey. This question has been getting on my nerves for a while, because it feels like copies need to be made at different directory levels to get custom images to work out. That doesn’t make sense.

The Ren’Py Documentation that comes with the Launcher repeatedly directs custom images such as a presplash screen or a specific icon to go into “the game’s base directory” or “the game directory”.

Are those different ways of describing the same directory? Which one?

If they’re different directories, then what are examples of what goes where?

To help alleviate confusion, let’s reference default organization.

Pre-build:

renpy 🗂️

• tutorial 📁

• game 📁
• script.rpy

Post-build:

Tutorial-1.0-dists 📁

• Tutorial-1.0-web 📁

• index.html
• icons 📁
• game.zip 📦 *– renpy *– game

Sorry to hear that.

I hope the rest of the finalizing goes smoother.

Hello. This looks like a beautiful game.

Did you find the help you wanted?

“Rainbow Lollipop” was excluded from the preview video, or do I keep somehow skipping over it?

Hi. Any chance we can get these in downloads broken apart by category? 1Gb is too much for my poor internet to handle all at once. 😅

File size: less than 1Mb.

For some unknown reason, Itch.io isn’t displaying the number.

You’re asking about more than fifty years of history involving at least hundreds of decisions.

To summarize: there are many queer pride flags and several rainbow flags for LGBT(QI+) pride. The number of colors in the rainbow flags vary from six to twelve.

Gilbert Baker’s original pride flag had eight color stripes. The number of stripes were reduced for cost savings, because in fabric, some colors were more expensive than others.

Anyhow, I hope you find a game jam you enjoy then look for the Queer Game Jam bundle this summer.

Maybe someone will out together an educational game about queerness or game development. (I don’t think that’s me. I’m leaning toward fantasy quest. But maybe.)

It was something I did! You might also be able to prevent the problem in the page’s HTML/CSS, but that could be difficult.

Itch.io is a site primarily for adults.

“Not Safe for Work” is an extremely vague phrase that shouldn’t have ever become common sites, because it’s heavily dependent on experiences that often conflict. Some workplaces display nudity or depict sexual acts. Some places work with blood and mangled bodies. There’s lots of crossover, like at hospitals and art museums.

It’s too confusing. Maybe Itch.io will move away from the “NSFW” terminology in all the change it’s going through.

Using new AI to scan and sort would be the worst option, by far. Have you seen what’s going on? That would only cause trouble.

One of the better options would be to adjust index rankings (existing process with what is likely familiar algorithms). Older works with few or no tags that haven’t been updated in the past two years (as in, less likely to have been reported for rules violations) would sink to the bottom of results, where it would be obvious to anyone looking that more personal discretion is needed.

We’ll always need to do some of the sorting and screening ourselves here. Expecting a site known for subversive projects to have professional curation that exceeds even what we get in national collections would be totally unreasonable.

Besides, the bug that was a major part of this discussion has already been fixed, the Itch.io team has spent the past year going through and assessing games suspected to be violent or contain erotic content, and in my experience, popular projects are pretty well tagged for how varied this site is.

I wish more tags could be used at a time. But that’s a separate request.

No, actually, this is embarrassing. There was another layer of dark mode I missed.

This screenshot is one of the clearest views. The text was nearly invisible in some tests.

Strange. Below is what the page looks like on my side. I flipped my browser’s dark/light mode, mobile/desktop mode, and my device color temperature to check for significant differences. This was the color scheme each time.

Leafo says a change to the settings is in development. Let’s hope that’ll be released soon.

I’m the opposite as you as wanting to block the violent gore but not any typical sexual acts.

Either way, being able to refine the filtering would be nice.

I don’t know for sure this is a factor, but I have a guess based on what I’ve read of the Ich.io team’s past decisions that your jam page isn’t passing a quality check.

Specifically, the jam page has accessibility problems. The white text is almost impossible to read on the bright cyan background. That would be an easy thing to fix to improve visibility either way.

Theme?

Clever idea. This game looks beautiful.

I actually want to point out something about your profile page, Alter, because I don’t see another way to contact you. Did you know your webpage link is going to something like a crypto porn site in Chinese? That’s unexpected.

For an active jam, go to the jam’s page and select the “Leave jam” link near the top.

For a past jam you did submit to, follow the link on your project page to the jam page created for that project. Select the “Remove this submission” link that’s near the top left.

For a past jam with no submission… I don’t know of any way to clean up our jams list.

Good job figuring it out. I’m glad it’s working!

That sucks. I had read thar Steam had backtracked on the policy change, but I guess it didn’t go far enough back.

Steam, but that site hides the games, too.