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Judging by your comments I can tell exactly when you gave up. While I don't like that exposition dump either, and whish I handled it better, you're not considering the fact that I'd written nothing before this game, it's growing pains.

It's a vastly premature time to not only give up, but cast judgment on the whole game. Reread your original comment and tell me it's not overly harsh and implicative of the entire project rather than your reaction to a sloppily written section within the first 5 minutes of the game.

I'd encourage you actually get back into it. You only seem to be focusing on world building and are completely dismissive of any other areas to explore. There's a reason this game has so many lovers, it's because they actually played it and got invested in other areas rather than malding at the first 2% of the first episode in a several episode-long project.

Nope. This particular point check is entirely inconsequential. I'm hoping I remember to add a feature where the game indicates whose points are being checked when ever it checks for points. I didn't think about how this specific check looks when you fail it seeing as it's a Grace check but she's nowhere to be seen.

Also, I didn't know anything about coding when I started making this game so I have some bad habits like using Magic Numbers, but I think that point check with Grace is quite harsh. I can't see at a glance specifically how hash it is due to my amateurish coding.

They'd already done a huge writeup in a standalone comment. You've even replied to it.

They then went back down here to reply to someone who was having second thoughts and wrote another huge ass comment doubling down and doing everything they can to turn them away from the game.

That's the difference, they already had their standalone comment airing their grievances. Coming down here to push someone further away for no reason just feels needlessly spiteful.

It's okay to write your thoughts in your own comment like you did but doing a long writeup specifically to discourage someone from playing my game like this is just rude and mean-spirited as fuck.

Not on the main menu, but there is one in-game. It'll tell you when it becomes available and how to access it.

I didn't add one to the main menu because there's just a tiny bit of malleability to the scenes that are pertinent to the playthrough, such as characters referencing previous choices and also plan some that'll slightly alter appearances and stuff.

I thought it'd be corny or awkward to include a main menu replay that either railroads you into one canon, or just goes with whatever you last chose when you played the game.

Sorry for the stupidly late reply, I lose track of who and what I'm supposed to reply to.

Anyway, it's not an unimportant question at all, I love the song and think it fits the cozy scene.

The song is Counting on You by Straw Dogs

Ignore them. You can turn the minigame off and reveal the answers to riddles.

This is true.

I've made billions.

Thanks.

It starts looking even better way past the 2 hour mark.

Monarch - Alamance

I don't understand what part of the game you're specifically referring to and what your issue is. Please be more clear so I can help you.

Thanks a lot!

The whole project is giving me a headache when it comes to the scope of the writing gradually expanding, the consistency and translation of themes and tone, and the overall quality of the project.

Glad you enjoyed my efforts!

Yes, hover your mouse (or finger) into the top right corner of the screen and the menu should appear.

The game does explain this but you must've missed it or forgotten.

Don't laugh, but I genuinely don't remember and can't even find out through research. The license provider's site has been down for a long time so I can't even check their records. It's also come to light that the license provider I used at the time might have actually been an illegitimate scam company.

What I can tell you by checking the source .wav's metadata is that the song is probably called The Lie Of The Land, the audio file was also encoded in November 2016.

I'm sorry but that's all the information I can find.

Wait, are you for real? Gotta know because everything seemed right to me.

I double-checked and the post is marked as:

Long-form discussion

Postmortem:

•     Share what went right, what went wrong, and anything else you learned after completing a project.

Barring the semantics of "completing a project", I feel like that's the right choice.

Also, when posting, before the body of text it reads "You've tagged your post as long-form. Remember that long-form posts are not for changelogs, updates, or announcements. Use this post to talk about your process and how it relates to the chosen topic, or change your post type."

Are you sure this post ended up in the wrong place? Just because you say there's an actual channel for my developer blogs, but I can't see how this isn't it.

You didn't cry when they missed the dap?

Not sure which part of my answer you're referencing so,

• Android:

Delete the game and reinstall; all saves will be lost.

• Desktop:

Delete the game and reinstall; all saves will remain.

I listen to Spilt Milk at least once a month.

On android, yes, unfortunately.

Android saves go completely within the app's data, which is lost upon uninstallation. There's a workaround on my part, but I haven't gotten to figuring it out yet. I'd need to thoroughly investigate Android file access to make sure I know how to code it. But it's on my to-do list.

If you're on desktop, then your saves will be fine.

Did you make a devlog and mark it as a major update / launch?

I ask that you be perfectly honest with me here.

Did you shower before playing the game?

Grace can smell the player and she's quite sensitive to odors.

:(

I am legitimately devastated to learn of P_MacArthur's departure from the Realm Invader playerbase.

It's a point check for Grace.

Months at the quickest.

A lot of months at the slowest.

You can skip the puzzle. An unavoidable menu gives you the option.

You're playing an AVN, it requires reading. I don't know how you got as far as you did without any reading skills.

Simplified minigames in the preferences menu does exactly that.

Thanks. I'll try not to let you starve like I did for this last update.

You're welcome!

Regarding the minigame:

I think it's a lose/lose situation. If I implement your suggestion, the player would still need to loop if their mistake occurred after the correct point. As it stands, I think the fast-forward button is the best solution. I may look into making the fast forward a little quicker.

Nope. You're missing a trigger for one of the girls. (Grace, in this instance.)

You don't have enough points with her to get a little bonus interaction at that moment.

I don't want to make consequences for point checks overly harsh because some choices can be a little esoteric, so you're not missing anything critical, and you're certainly not necessarily on your way to losing Grace's route.

But you've got some room to get more points with her.

Up to you.

They're the same version, the compressed one has lower-quality images and videos. The option is there for people with slower internet connections or weak pcs that lag.

Compressed has lower quality videos and images.

The filesize is smaller so it takes up less space, and it's also faster to download.

Also, if you're using some kind of stone-age computer, it can help with laggy animations.

As far as I can tell, by fixing and preventing this bug from ever ocurring again, the game kinda half sees you as having played the game, and half sees you as never having played the game.

You can keep the saves, but that won't change anything. Outside of individual saves, you should have a file called "persistent" in your save folder. That's the file that keeps your settings, what dialogue you've seen etc.

I've gotten reports that the game has forgotton what dialogue you've seen, so you'll want to enable "unseen text" in the preferences to force skipping. Also, if you're on pc/mac, you can right click the skip button and you'll jump to the next choice, which is even faster.

Yes, It's a really stupid bug that I genuinely don't take the blame for. It's some ren'py crap I had no way of seeing coming.

Start a new game, the bug manifests in weird ways, including making choices for you, changing your stats, and jumping around the script randomly.

Even if your save seems fine, it's not worth the risk. It's an incredibly serious and destructive bug and I wish I could undo the damage that has already been done to existing saves, but I can't.

I can say with ~90% certainty that it won't happen again for future updates.

Actual speedrunner

Yes, I know it can be tempting. But I need to re-iterate that using your saves from the previous version is not an option. Even if they seem to load fine, you're pretty much guaranteed to have corrupted data in the save file. Including flags and script navigation.

I'm glad to hear that but the bug I was trying to fix had NOTHING to do with your error lmao.

Are you running on Linux? Linux is a blind spot for me. If so, can you try running the game with xwayland?

I don't know, but there shouldn't be any need seeing as there's an apk.

If it does work on JoiPlay, great! But I can't help with any JoiPlay exclusive bugs.

Everything should be fixed now. Please report any bugs you find.