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Hola. Gracias por el comentario, te agradecería mucho si además le dejaras una valoración al proyecto en itch.io.
No, el proyecto no está abandonado. La actualización se está retrasando porque últimamente tengo muchas cosas que hacer fuera del ordenador.

P. D.: No se puede vivir mucho tiempo con 14 $ en Patreon, así que tengo que trabajar en algo más aparte del juego

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Hi again.
Bro, how did you do that? Seriously, I don’t understand. How? I honestly have no idea why this thing isn’t working for you. I can’t fix your save because I simply don’t understand what exactly I’m supposed to fix.
I can only offer you this option: I’ll release an update soon, and ideally you should start playing from the very beginning.
But if you remind me about yourself, I’ll give you a button that provides you with a lot of resources so you won’t waste time gathering them.

I'm quite busy with other things right now. I'll give you an answer tomorrow, okay?

gbhappinessmath@gmail.com

Send me your save. Check the autosave tab and save the game right during this minigame. I need something to fix this problem.

快了

I don't know, it's not a priority yet.

Did you survive?

Agree.

On my end, CPU load drops with lower quality from 40% → 28% → 17% → 6%.

Hi, thank you. Send me your save.

Someone already wrote to me with the same problem. What helped them was downloading the game from Itch and launching the problematic save.

Did you put the entire archive into the folder, or did you extract it? You need to put the files from the archive into the folder.

Because there isn’t a separate build for Android

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Fixed. Read IMPORTANT above

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I realized something. I added a sound parameter to the buttons and accounted for it in the initial variables. But for some reason, I didn’t think that during the game I sometimes change those variables without considering this new addition. I guess the bugs are related to exactly that.

My game "The Seam" was shadowbanned.

https://goodbyehappiness.itch.io/the-seam

And damn, this isn’t just about NSFW content.
At any moment, you can just shout: “We’re protecting the children!”
And it almost doesn’t matter what the topic is.
Everyone seems to have forgotten that it’s the parents who are responsible for their kids and the content they consume.
If the parents don’t give a shit what their kid is doing online, then yeah — that same kid will end up doing all kinds of forbidden crap IRL by the time they’re twelve.

I get it — our frustration should probably be aimed at the payment processors who are making Itch.io scrub itself clean.
But at the same time, Itch.io shouldn’t just bend over and take it either without warning  us.

Bro, that’s exactly what I said — Itch.io just wiped everything out completely, because up until now, that kind of content was barely moderated.
Now fixing the situation has become way harder. It was easier for them to just hide everything from search and start mass purging.
But couldn’t Itch have at least warned all the devs that someone had stepped on their balls?
They could have.
Then hundreds of devs would’ve fixed things on their own. After that, cleaning up the leftovers would’ve been way easier.
But now we’re left waiting for who-knows-what.

You know, I've never liked activists since childhood. The kind who try to pass off their personal opinions as universal truths. Collective Shout are one of those, and I fully understand their frustration — that even drawn girls get to have sex, while they don’t. But that doesn’t give them the right to strip fictional characters of sex, nor to take away our right to look at it.

Itch.io acted poorly — that's a fact.
Let’s not forget that the NSFW content rules have been around for a long time. They’re not new, everyone knows them well enough, and they “work” here just like on any other platform. But who actually moderated any of that? Exactly — no one. What are we even talking about, if I had to wait almost two months just to get my updated game re-indexed, even though it contained nothing forbidden.

So, naturally, along came those self-proclaimed “fighters for someone’s rights” — someone who isn’t even aware they supposedly need protecting, lol. And these “activists” started pointing at all the piles of shit that had been piling up on the platform for years. What did Itch do? They wiped out everything — nuked it all. Because apparently, cleaning up dried crap from the floor with just two and a half moderators isn't that easy.

Why am I writing all this?
Unfortunately, the only real way to make change happen is money. You either give it to someone or take it away — that’s how the situation shifts. Once someone started taking money away from Itch, they changed real fast. See where the true weak spot is?
And if this situation doesn’t get reversed, it won’t just affect NSFW content. Next, the activists will go after games where the grass isn’t green enough, or the sun doesn’t shine brightly enough — and those will be censored too.
The internet is already turning into a nursery with an age rating like LEGO: “0 to 100+ years.”

If this mess isn't fixed, you might choose to stay silent, but at the very least, don’t support this with your wallet. Because the lack of money is the only language this platform seems to understand right now.

We’ll wait to see what Itch does next. After that, we can talk boycotts and more — if needed. As a developer, I’m deeply invested in this too, and I’m waiting for your decision.

P.S.
Funny how a handful of activists who could all fit into one room can screw over an entire world — a world whose much louder voice can’t seem to push back.

Hey. Shared it on my Patreon too.

I was publishing my game on this platform because I knew there were quite a few people here who no longer visit other sites to look for such games.
As for Itch.io itself — it annoyed me for just one single reason, but oh god, how much it annoyed me.
I'm talking about the Most Recent game category that works in some completely incomprehensible way.
For your game to appear there after an update, a planetary alignment practically needs to happen.
Specifically: the update has to be massive and it has to be reviewed by a moderator — a process that takes around a month (I waited two).
But now… I don’t know. If they don’t reverse this decision, Itch.io is in for hard times financially, and game developers might end up facing increased fees as Itch.io tries to cover its financial black hole.

I hope they’ll limit themselves to a set of rules for such content — which, technically, already exists, but Itch.io just didn’t give a damn about it until now.
If that’s the case, the platform will just get cleaned up.
But if they force creators to remove nudity altogether, then that’s straight-up f*cked.

Welcome to the F95zone. Let's move there. At least people can see game updates there.

My game has disappeared as well as everyone else. That is, porn lying on every corner is normal. My game, where all adults, etc. - not normal?

And also, please leave a rating for the game — it really helps the project.

Hey! Glad you liked it.
As for that training scene with Katharine — the protagonist only loses health if he runs out of stamina or fails to block the attack.
That said, there are plenty of issues with that scene, and the main one is the Ren'Py engine itself, which eats up CPU like I'm running a space simulation.
You can check it yourself :D

It works — the game just shows the number of blocks on screen, not parries. Just parry three times and that’s it.

Hi again. Yeah, I just forgot to change a variable there. In fact, the game actually counts parries, but it displays successful blocks on the screen.

check your mail

Fixed. Wait a sec

Alright, bro, send me a save file from outside that scene. Preferably the one that’s closest to your first save. I think I might’ve noticed something.

Hey again. I loaded your save and everything works fine on my end. Try it again — you need to left-click on the top of the screen, both the right and left sides. It all works. If it still doesn’t work for you, I can play through that segment for you and send the save file back.

gbhappinessmath@gmail.com

Hi. Send me your save file. You can email it to me or send it on Discord — I don’t care where exactly.

I’m not sure yet how exactly I’ll handle this in the mobile version of the game, but I’ll figure something out.

Fixed it. I sent you two files by email. The instructions are the same as before. The only thing I don’t get is — how did you even manage to keep the push-up mini-game screen from closing? That’s the one that was still running in the background and putting load on the game.

Ah, I figured out what kind of bug that is. It’s actually kind of funny, and I even vaguely remember when it shows up — though I forgot the exact moment. I’ll try to fix it.

If you’ve already played through everything that’s currently in the game, then it’s not really a critical bug, since in the next update I’ll be redoing all the early-game graphics and expanding the beginning of the story — so you’ll have to start over anyway. Sorry about that, but that’s how it is. And thanks for pointing out the bug — I’ll try to fix it.

eh? Send me your save please

For some reason, this mini-game counts not parries, but blocked hits. You have to parry, not block. 

Send me your save file — I'll get through this segment in a minute, but tomorrow