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Thanks for the report! I’ve updated the game to (hopefully) fix the issue.

I can’t test it myself without a Mac but it looks like little_michelangelo trying to save the output of the paint program to your computer as .png caused Mac OS to freak out. I believe that shouldn’t happen anymore on Mac OS.

Oh, that’s really strange. Could you try right-clicking the .app -> Show Package Contents? If there’s a traceback.txt and a log.txt, you can submit them and describe the issue in this form.

unlimited amount for whatever reason

so this is my first time learning about chris fleming but this is delightful

also here’s a bug

I have no idea if I did something special to get this

Oh, thank you! (I forget about that issue because I use Firefox, edit: nvm I have no excuse it’s also an issue on Firefox ahaha)

Wonderful tool! We used it for the page of LOVE alt delete. This was my first time using itch.io’s custom CSS so this ended up helping out a lot. If you’d like to, you can add us to the gallery.

There’s a handful of prompts that are especially useful for progression, though saying them here is a big spoiler ofc. We’ll be adding in the next update a few extra nudges towards those prompts, but for now if you want advice:

Fun game! I’ve never played Umamusume but I figure this is pretty close lol. Might want a setting to have the camera instantly lock onto its target instead of just moving towards it because if your horse is waaaaaaaaaaaaay ahead of the competition then it can take a while for the camera to catch up. Also, might be just be luck but I only ever got info on what kind of track/weather conditions the horses want once in my playthrough.

The gallery feature is a neat touch on top of an already charming game, so I’m quite glad you put that in. Would be funny if it was “DLC” you had to “pay” to get access to using the grand prize you get at the end, given our resident capitalist as the main character.

Hello, thanks for the work on the shader! Just echoing as well the issues with WebGL. If a fix isn’t planned soon, then it’d least be very nice if there were a disclaimer on the page regarding incompatibility with WebGL. I’m a month and a week into a project only to realize I’ve based all my UI on a shader that doesn’t work with WebGL. It’s not the end of the world, but I definitely would’ve preferred being able to make an informed decision on whether to use this shader or not based on its compatibility.

Thanks for the response and help, it looks like I’m still having trouble however. Now the game won’t build/run at all:

While running game code:
  File "game/11_shader_outline_v2.rpy", line 40, in script
    init python:
  File "game/11_shader_outline_v2.rpy", line 41, in <module>
    renpy.register_shader("remix.optimized_outline",
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        variables="""
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    ...<60 lines>...
        }
        ^
        """)
        ^^^^
Exception: In shader remix.optimized_outline: Unknown shader variable line 'vec2 u_offset;'. Only the form '{uniform,attribute,vertex} {type} {name} is allowed.

I removed the old outline shader script and dropped in the new one without changing anything else.

Just as a sanity check I made a new Ren’Py project and dropped the new shader script in and got the same error. Then I replaced it with the old script and it works when running on my PC and… on web, huh. I went back to my main project and tried building for web again with the old script and the same error I first reported still appeared.

I’m now very confused, ahaha. It might be an issue with my project somehow? I’m really unsure how it’s possible but it seems to work otherwise.

EDIT: I think you can safely ignore my bug report. The same issue from before is now occuring even if I remove this shader from my game. At the very least, this shader isn’t at fault but safe to say I’ve quite the headache ahead.

EDIT 2: It appears to be an issue with a gradient shader from a different developer. I have no idea why the issue disappeared when I removed this shader from my game but mystery solved.

Hello, just to start, this shader is great! The smart padding is especially nice to have.

However, I’m having an odd issue. I tried building my game for web and got the following exception when booting the game:

...
File "renpy/gl2/gl2shader.pyx", line 267, in renpy.gl2.gl2shader.Program.load_shader
renpy.gl2.gl2shader.ShaderError: ERROR: 0:31: '[]' : Index expression must be constant
...
Emscripten-3.1.67-wasm32-32bit wasm32
Ren'Py 8.5.2.26010301

The rest of the error is too long to include here though I could DM it if needed but after the first Index expression must be constant, the same error repeats several more times with the 0:31 number changing.

The game worked fine when running on my computer so I removed any files related to shaders one at a time and it seems to build for web just fine IF I remove this shader. If you have any idea of how to fix this without me having to change outline shaders, I’d be very grateful.

I might need a transparency slider for the particles but other than that

Edit: I swear on god I saw the word “PLACEHOLDER” when I died

I was so delighted to find out you can fly using weapon knockback.

Bullet hell Zuma! What’s not to love? I think the mix of similar colors (yellow and green especially for me) and complex patterns on the stones equals hell for someone colorblind like me but the highlight around stones of the same color as your current fairy was more than enough to make the game fully playable for me.

Oh boy, we should probably filter for, uh, bad words in a post-jam version. For now, I’m glad you enjoyed.

Fire tiles and scrambles are currently numero uno and dos on my hit list for fixing. Fire being evil will stay but it does need to be slower. Scrambles are technically working as intended but making those more random and less likely to just give you the word but still make spelling it possible is probably gonna require a hefty rework of how we randomize tiles.

As for the rarity of the other tiles, uh, I believe bombs were given a vwry harsh limit depending on the presence of fire on top of its low spawn rates and stone just has low spawn rates. I may bump them up later.

Thanks! And yes fire is currently a menace, we’ll balance its spread in a post-jam version.

Yeah the limit of two was because that’s the highest my computer would go before getting slowdown. I’m sure if I made the selection of valid words for the tile more efficient then we could manage 3-4 at a time but even more than that and the cost’ll go exponentially.

Plants vs Zombies! We love to see it. Getting past the last level required me to remember the strategy of sacrificing a lawn mower (or I suppose yin-yang orb) to plant more sunflowers (Yuukas). I’m very impressed you managed this much in 3 days! Would love to play a post-jam version if you have one in mind.

Now this is something special. Already predicting this is the concept winner. Presentation is off the charts and it’s just so damn charming. Wonderful job!

I don’t understand either.

I could compile a development version of the game and have you dump the logs so I can have an idea of what’s going on. You’re on the jam Discord server?

No, it’s almost certainly not your fault though this is very baffling.

What web browser do you use?

(EDIT: After going back and forth, it appears the issue was the French. If you have this same issue, change your computer’s settings from French to another language/locale and it should hopefully work.)

(EDIT 2: Since v1.0.1 of the game, this problem has been patched.)

only been using it for today so far but it’s been working out well! love the simplicity

demo ending still! sorry, misphrased (called the expanded edition the updated demo)

there’s a new roserot game otw though, as of a few hours ago lmao

I’m playing the updated demo and OMG THIS IS SO FUCKING COOOOL!!!! HOW DID YOU MAKE REN’PY DO THIS???

and also, extremely realistic conversations it really does feel like being in a discord server with serial killers

this showed up because I followed you for chinese family dinner moment

gotta say this is a unique sequel but i agree toxic yuri would’ve fixed it by killing everyone

The god dies of thirst, the ant cries in joy. :)

I believe you need Woytinsky as an advisor to go into deficit spending.

Thanks for the report, sounds like there was a bug since you shouldn’t have to deal with any exams at that point.

Lovely little bite-sized walking simulator (using this term in a positive way). It reminds me, probably because there’s not a lot of other games as a benchmark in my mind for this kind of game, of Depression Quest. That feeling of shoring yourself up from the world, preparing, pointing out how good it is inside is one I can recognize and that I’ve reckoned with. Especially when it goes a step further and your comfort zone shrinks and shrinks to the point that you don’t want to do anything at all. There’s just this little bubble around your bed, your couch, or wherever you sleep. It’s not that you don’t want to leave this bubble, that you don’t recognize the wrongness, but the mode of reasoning for someone with depression is all twisted, all at the wrong angles. The conclusions are there in the literal words but never in spirit. It’s a tossing, turning feeling of ambiguity to know what you need, what’s incorrect but not actually recognizing that you’re not grappling with it in the way you should; you’re trouncing around it, making reasonable sounding arguments to yourself why you shouldn’t. But it’s not reason that dictates why we don’t get up in the morning.

This comment got long. Great game, I think the atmosphere did really well in helping to sell the point of the writing. Oh the bliss of thee corner, your moonlit corner…

The game allows you to switch to normal text fonts with Shift-A (mentioned in the splashscreen). The text will be too large at first due to a limitation of the engine but you can scale it down with Text Scaling in the menu.

It got delayed, most of the team finished within the jam period but I had to deal with getting sick + assignments for college + sleep deprivation which meant writing took quite a while.

Beautiful art and music. Nice and bite-sized but I’m not great at bullet hells so it took quite a few tries for me to clear the game (and I was apparently under using my bombs since I had two left over lol).

Odd comparison but this really reminds me of the Asterius and Theseus fight. I found my best strategy is to evenly divide damage so that you can take out one or the other and then you’ll only need a second to beat the second attack.

I’m actually a big fan of Yumemi’s cross attack, there’s a lot of switching between focus mode and unfocused mode. It does feel like its hitbox is a little big for how quickly it comes but the tension adds to the experience.

This is actually great. I only got one secret but this was a lot of fun. The game’s combat can borderline frustrating (e.g. being next to another rock while trying to throw a rock just drops the current rock and picks up the new one) but that just seems to lend it credibility as far as being retro goes.

Fun idea though damage reduction is broken as hell. I was basically immortal after Area 1 and Saki tried so hard to kill me, bless her heart, but never did a lick of damage to Yuuma. I took until Area 12 to get the win condition.

I hate you KUTATA!!!!

dies

you make me look bad!

Indeed, I’d love to work on this if the source code were to be released. I’m really itching to see it get web support.

Nope that was Twine. I just decided to be adventurous this time around.

I’ll have to expound on this later (maybe do a devlog) but I’m using the Calico engine. It’s Inkle’s Ink programming language with bells, whistles, and a whole lot of customization for the web. I’ve done quite a lot of modifications using the patch system.

It’s been suffering because of the lacking documentation (much more so for InkJs which Calico is built on than Calico). Which means that I’ve been writing in JS to supplement the engine and give me access to things that I really should have easily like: a function to tell if a knot (equivalent to a scene in Unity) has been visited and changing list values from JS (bools, strings, and others work fine but lists are actually demented JS maps with a different name which took far, far too long to figure out).

It’s been torturous fighting JavaScript’s wonky ass dynamic type checking and has required making a lot of helper functions and hacked-together parser things to make it all work.

Other than that, I’m using this website for converting stock photos and the like and Aseprite for polishing it up. I’ve not started on audio though I have some packs on my computer I’ll probably use like the GDC Soniss audio pack. Oh and VS Code for the writing and programming.

I’ve got a basic concept story-wise, a weird art style, and perhaps a few too many mechanics already implemented but it’s going pretty well! There should still be enough time to get it all together into a cohesive game-like thing.