Are you downloading the Windows zip file, extracting the contained folder, and then trying to run the exe? If so, where are you extracting it to? You won't need to download java.
Huh, this is the first I'm seeing this post, don't know why it would have gotten deleted. If it's freezing like that for a long time that would suggest an infinite loop, what exactly are you doing when it freezes like this? Is it always this Knot Eater check?
We want to add more masculine characters, though it's (somewhat sadly) not very high priority. There are a bunch of (currently, femme) characters in ToA that are trans, though trans identity doesn't exist as such in the game's cultures (as in, you won't see the words "trans" or "transgender" used), and that seems to have thrown some people off. The gender identity of a bunch of the characters is also fairly flexible and can change throughout the adventure.
The pattern you're noticing there is that version number goes up by 1 a month, so 12 a year (not sure what the methodology is that you're getting 11, actually). The first non-zero number is just what we're using for development states, so 0.1 was pre-alpha, 0.2 was alpha, and 0.3 is beta. If we were doing Steam early access that'd be 0.4, but it's not clear if we'll get on Steam and either way we're not planning on early access, so the next major version will be 1.0.xx.x, not 0.4.xx.x.
Is this with Smart AI on or off? We're looking into it - these sort of softlocks shouldn't happen anymore, but there may be something missing in this case?
Weird, I thought I replied to this post - there might be, and we'd like for there to be more masculine characters in general, but a quirk of ToA's development made that difficult.
Yeah, the reason is that they always had really low vote totals, and some of them had already been implemented but had to be cleaned up from the survey, like the opacity control. Some of the remaining ones might get implemented anyway.
Heya, it's a bit tricky to get right now, but it's if you have Trudy, you have Alma as a companion, and you get the feminization ending (think you have to choose the first option in her Training path)
Oh, sorry about the email - we've been out of town for a bit, so we have a bit of a backlog. We used that tag for most of our androgynous characters, I think.
There's a cheat mode that comes with the patron build that lets you select battle outcomes, removes the food clock, and lets you continue after game overs!
