That is very lovely to hear, thank you so much!! <3 And thank you for your video! I wish you a great journey as a content creator yourself!
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50k DOWNLOADS REACHED!
Somehow by a miracle we are still reachin' and stayin' relevant, even if the update is taking a long time :P. There is however some news that I want to share, that might brighten things up.
As mentioned before, Burning Eye has plenty more games, that of which will continue the stories told. One of these games, "C.D.", has actually been finished! Now it is just up to bug fixing and finishing some voice acting, but, this project will be released AFTER the update arrives on both steam and itch.io for free.
Thank you for this, you amazing, wonderful people! Recently, we did get a lot of notifies about bugs, but I am just really proud and glad that you guys take the time to actually report it. The game's reviews are also 4.8 / 5 split in 94 ratings. That is actually insane!!! I hope that the team and I can bring you the quality you deserve. Our games may take time and may not always have the biggest budgets, but we believe in quality over quantity. We strive to create games that are fun, meaningful, and rich in content, games that make the player’s time feel worthwhile.
By the next update, feel free to report or ask anything, as long as I am able to answer, I will, whenever I am able to
-Reyn
That is very unique and I genuinely have no idea where would this error even begin to form :/. Sometimes, when it comes to seating dolls down, it has been previously reported that the game acts strange if you play at the 30 fps limit. I recommend trying to play on 60, and see if that helps the seating. It is nice to hear you made it to Bella, but when it comes to the fatal error, that happens when you read the document while holding item, that is seriously baffling to me, and I am sorry to say that I have 0 idea on how to work around this one.
Ok, that now sounds like a outdated graphics drivers problem. To fix this one, you need to update your graphics drivers. If you are using nvidia, they have a free app on their site, that gives you more control over your GPU. It also has some other handy tools, like shadowplay and filters.
In the app, you should see the graphics drivers tab, where you should have a "check for updates". Updating may take a little while and it sometimes makes your screen flicker, as your whole sydtem is adapting to the up to date changes to the way your GPU works.
Once you do this, it should hopefully work. I understand if you don't want to burden yourself with this, but outside of it making the game available for you to play, it has many other benefits. I am sure that other GPUs, that are not Nvidia, have their own app.
Sorry again for this problem. I hope that this solves it.
I am sorry to hear that you are experiencing these issues. If it crashes specifically in that moment, maybe try and skip the tutorial, you can read it over on the PC. Regarding the warning, can you send a screenshot of it? I am guessing it is the "Fatal Error", but since you say that it cannot be closed, I don't really think that I am aware of it.
By saying "Setting did not even load", do you mean that you can't go to the settings, or that they are not applied once you start the game? Both would be pretty weird occurences.. If you send me the screenshot, I could try to send further information on how to have the game running on your device.
You're gonna bring me to tears man :D, thank you for ypur support and ideas, it seriously means the world to me. And you got it! Bounce Beetle it is! The development for the endless mode has been exciting, though not ready yet, we are very hyped for the release :P
- Mr. Bunbun is actually neutral. He isn't really dangerous. The idea you had regarding him is fun, but I will not be adding it directly to Mr. B., rather I will add this concept as an endless mode doll event, while again, giving you credit for that, and for the following idea as well!
- That is genuinely so clever! While exceeding the allowed temperature is something that does already happen in the Endless mode, it doesn't really have any explanation. The pyro spirit and the too hot to hold is a very neat idea, that would be very welcome in the endless mode events! Thank you for the ideas, even if the Mr. Bunbun idea doesn't apply directly to him, as you originally stated.
It's been wild, I have quite some issues with self-esteem, to the point of a borderline impostor syndrome, but seeing the success the game has and you amazing people encouraging and giving feedback and suggestions, with such lovely compliments, it really makes genuinely happy to see, and also inspired to continue, as Play Things is not a one shot title at all, we hope that Burning Eye's upcoming works will do just as good, if not better and we are very excited to release them! Thank you once again, I wish you a great rest of your day! <3
Wow! Thank you so much, this is very nice to hear <3! In the endless mode, there are actually a few new ways to investigate the doll, but I will not spoil what. The doll you mentioned, Bella, is very often considered to be the spookiest, glad you liked her :D!
Regarding the upcoming plans, the endless mode of course will have pretty much the same mechanics, and it's endless, so a lot of content :D, but I must say, that with the 5 titles that are currently thought out and that will come out after Play Things, only one game is relatively similar in concept, most are completely different gameplay wise, but the story keeps connections.
Thank you once again for your lovely words!!
A wiki of a sort may be something to consider for sure! There are 19 dolls in the normal mode, it is true that it isn't mentioned and it could be, but the estimated time for one one ending is an hour. When it comes to ending, the 4th ending (if it is the one you mentioned) is the last one, yet it will leave you with a lot of questions, but that is expect. As this story is not at it's end just yet, we will see eachother again soon! More answers await in the upcoming endless mode and in new titles altogether!
Thank you so much! I'm really glad that you enjoyed our title so much, hope that we can make everything even better in the upcoming titles and updates!
There are some questions that I do not want to answer, as they are up to the players to find out, but I will say this, there are a lot of things that is impossible to figure out, because a huge chunk of the story is untold. Burning Eye stories should always work on 3 layers (regarding the story). One being tied to the game (Or franchise). In Play Things, that would be the story of Arnold and Sophie (and Ashley). The 2nd layer is an "Arc" that goes on through multiple titles, that being the Mekoro cult, that is mentioned in the ending, but you cannot really find anything about them as of now. The 3rd is the overall story that connects all titles together, cannot really talk about that one :P
- The little figures I cannot talk about, it is kinda ironic that you did the sequence thing, because that will actually be a little achievement in-game in the upcoming update! :P, but as of what they are, that will be answered in the endless mode, speaking of which
- The endless mode will not take any doll / story from the normal mode, it will all be randomly generated. The background of each doll will be given in a different manner, as randomly generating the stories would be next to impossible, but we already figured a decent workaround. This mode will also add a way to unlock "Tapes", that will reveal huge chunks of the story. The Normal & Endless mode are, of course, connected, but I cannot say how.
- Thank you for your lovely compliments, and honestly I see your vision! These death screens would be cool to see! I wrote it down, and will credit you in-game for the community ideas and suggestion! (If you have a different name to use then BounceBeetle24, you can send it here!, unless you don't want to be credited of course) It would be fun to see the different deaths occur, the doll faces actually do change when they attack you, but that is about it, it's all just a "jumpscare", that could be improved with your idea, and make it less in-your-face! Kate however does not have a way to kill, but I could make the earthquake more noticable via screenshake. Thank you for your awesome ideas! I have written them down, and I'll be sure to cook something up in the next entry!
Thank you once more for your lovely words, I seriously feel incredibly inspired to continue the works with the team when I see comments like yours and all the other amazing people in here! <3
Thank you <3! If you cannot find the folders, create them yourself, and name them EXACTLY "Saved" in main play things folder, "SaveGames" inside saved folder.
yeah, there have been more problems with different people, like low frame rates, anti-viruses freaking out about the game, language barriers. I hate seeing people not able to enjoy our titles, because of obstacles and restrictions, that others don't get. But, it's kinda impossible to make something for everybody. All I can do is promise to do better and better, and help whenever on whatever I am able to.
I see, dang, alright, here are some other ways to troubleshoot:
- Locate UEPrereqSetup_x64, it will be FOLDER_WITH_GAME\Play Things v1.2.7.1\Engine\Extras\Redist\en-us, try and run this setup, it should reinstall the files necessary to run the game.
- When in the folder of the Executable file (PlayThings.exe), click on the directory of the folder, and type "CMD". With the command prompt opened in the directory, type exactly: "PlayThings.exe -dx11". If that won't work, replace "-dx11" with "-vulkan"
- If you are running the game on a external drive (Disk D:, E:, F:, etc.), and not the one you have Windows on, try and extract the game on there, and run it.
If all of this fails, I went ahead and created a fresh save for ya! If you cannot start the game via a new game, maybe you can try loading an existing save file, that I will link below. Here is a guide on how to do that:
- Download the file
- In Windows search, type "%localappdata% or go to C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME_HERE\AppData\Local
- Locate the folder called "PlayThings" and navigate like this:
- Saved => SaveGames
- Paste the downloaded file in the SaveGames folder. (ONLY THE .SAV FILE NEEDS TO BE PRESENT, YOU CAN DELETE THE .ZIP)
- Now, when you start the game, you should be able to click "Continue", as the game will load a fresh safe
Note, that this safe does not include the tutorial, you will simply start from the first doll of the Normal Mode game.
Here is the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10gEfCNYmTPX9jDmxBLgiJe_ZNb1-uCDz/view?usp=shari...
Again, sorry for the frustration, I hope this helps. If it doesn't, than it means I did a poor job with optimizing, and hopefully the next update will allow you to enjoy the experience as intended. Wish you a great day! <3
Yeah, I thought so, this message most often happens due to outdated graphics drivers, luckily, it is pretty easy to update. If you are running a NVIDIA graphics card, you should have their software pre-installed, if not, go to their website, and you can download it for free there.
Once in the app, you should be able to traverse to the drivers section. Updating your graphics card drivers to the newest version should make a lot of positive changes in your PC, and of course, it should hopefuly let you run the game! I'd recommend doing this, but I can understand if you don't want to go through with this, just for this game, if everything else works fine, but there pretty much is no downside that I know of with having updated graphics drivers. If there is any trouble, you can reply to this comment thread, I'll answer ASAP with further instructions, if necessary.
If you are refering to the on screen notification of the action, like "E" to pickup, and "F" to trigger the held item, they are known to vanish sometimes when you have low frame rate, although, "E" and "F" are the only two buttons corresponding with interactions and item manipulation. Thank you so much for taking time in notifying me about this by the way, really sorry to hear the persistent problems. The freezing screen and the sluggish pace sounds very frustrating and I fear that it may just be my poor job at optimizing.
Dang, that's a lot. I would suggest lowering your game settings, especially graphics and lighting in general. If it responds late when you hover even in the main menu, it just may be that the game is too tough (aka. badly optimized by yours truly).
There is however another reason why this might be happening, as it happened before to one of the game's testers, and that is an antivirus, snooping around the files and using all of your PCs performance. Of course, do not disable your antivirus, but maybe keep the game running. This most regularly happens with 3rd party anti-viruses, like Avast, AVG, etc. As indie games, that are executebles and aren't from platforms like steam and epic AND don't have a "license" bought from the antivirus itself, are all targeted as dangerous automatically.
If you have a 3rd party (non-official by Microsoft) antivirus, check if you can whitelist the game within it. As the antivirus Avast, that a tester used, tanked the performence to oblivion, but only for a few minutes, until it marked the game as "Safe".
If whitelisting, graphics turned down AND waiting with the game on doesn't work, then I am sorry, but that would mean the game is just too much for your PC. I promise to do whatever I can to optimise my games better in upcoming titles and updates. Again, really sorry for this frustrating occurrence.
That's pretty frustraiting, by intro cutscene you mean the tutorial? Or the carcrash + warning display? If your game crashes around the time when you start to see the yellow-tinted room, perhaps try to reduce your graphical settings to the lowest. Then, if the game keeps it together to the point when you are able to walk, raise it up again. If all fails, including reinstalling that you mentioned, maybe post the image of the error here, if it isn't a simple "UE5 Fatal Error" with no additional info or crash log. Sorry that this is happening, it is very baffling to me.
As the lead dev of the game, I have close to no knowledge of porting the game on mobile devices. Unreal Engine does provide support for it though, I really am not planning to port it on mobile as of now, but it may change. I am sorry about this, but we are really just targeting PC and console gaming. The game will definetly not be ported to mobile with the upcoming update, but it can be something we will take a look-see at, later down the line. No promises though, sorry.
40k DOWNLOADS REACHED!
Even though it wasn't even two weeks since we reached 30k, we have got to this point already!! The game apperently blew up thanks to TikTok, which I do not own :P. It has been a seriously BIG week and a half for this game! EVEN with the game literally not being indexed (appearing on the itch.io page)!
So thank you once more!!! You have been amazing and I hope that we can keep on going forward! I hope that ya'll are excited for the upcoming games and updates that we are cookin' up for ya!
Might be two reasons, one is that an antivirus is still trying to scan it for malware. It has none, but a lot of antiviruses give 0 damns about your PC, and take 100% of power to "scan". So, if you are using one, try and open the game once more.
If it continues to appear, I am afraid that it might be that you are not meeting the lowest required specs for the game, they are listed below.
- Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
- Quad-core (e.g., Intel i5-6600K / AMD Ryzen 3 1200)
- DirectX 12-compatible (e.g., GTX 960 / RX 470 or integrated Radeon Vega 8)
- RAM: 8 GB
It may also help to update your graphics driver. Sorry for the inconvenience :(
Heya! You may have skipped over the dialogue, but every ending gives you a hint on how to do the next one! To reach ending 3, you have to do something more specific, as said by The Craftsman. "RETRY" Lily from your PC, and before you touch the chair and beat her in Hide n' Seek, turn OFF THE POWER. Touch the chair in the dark with the power off. If you succeed, he will come for you. But for now, this is it giggawigga232, let us play some more! Thank you for reaching ending 2 and for your lovely remark about the game
I see, I am sorry to hear that, it may be that the game is just not optimised well enough for your specs, in which case, it will be unplayable. The game was made in UE5.5 which has a pretty high minimal standart for an amature programmer like myself. I will do my best to make a lot of optimasation for the upcoming update, but in the mean time, I am afraid it will be unplayable.
List of the min. Req.
- Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
- Quad-core (e.g., Intel i5-6600K / AMD Ryzen 3 1200)
- DirectX 12-compatible (e.g., GTX 960 / RX 470 or integrated Radeon Vega 8)
- RAM: 8 GB
I am very sorry to hear that. Can you descibe what is actually happening? Given your listed problems, I am guessing low frame rate. If that's the case, try going to the settings and lowering the quality. Although, you did say it is hard to see, which happens when your quality is LOW (Light bouncing gets disabled). If your problem is low fps, try lowering the graphics ettings, if your problem is NOT low FPS, but rather the game being too dark, set your quality of to high (and insure you have turned on the lights, using a light switch on the wall).
Hope either of these solutions help, again, sorry to hear you are frustrated. It's pretty frustrating for me too, hearing people not being able to enjoy our games, because of a factor making it unplayable for them.
30k DOWNLOADS REACHED!
The game recently sky rocketed, don't know what or who started it, apparently something with TikTok, which I don't have :P
The game is still missing from the page. I am pretty much giving up on trying to get it back. Even if deindexing is such a simple problem, that can very likely be fixed with a change of a boolean variable. The admins don't seem to care, as they have too much on their plate. Although, I do feel a bit ignored on the discord server, given that there are about 1-3 messages per day sometimes. (Of course, the actual help service they provide is filled to the brim with problems from users. A lot of them have the same problem as I do.)
Even then, you managed to reach this milestone! Thank you people so much! Must say, the update have been held for a little bit. Given that I have focused on a another small title. (Even if Play Things & Burning Eye titles SHOULD be my priority, I do procrastinate easily D;) Still, the update will come. Even if not in 2025. 2026 however, has not just the update planned, but two new titles to be released, as well! That of course depends on my time. I am a working (semi) student, so I cannot put all my time in videogames.
Still. I love all of you players. I gathered a lot of great critisism for the game! Also, if there is a video you made about the game, and it has "Play Things" in the title, I have 100% seen it on youtube. I also follow the game on twitch, so if you stream the game, there is a chance that I will stop by :P.
One more huge thank you to all of you. I am really excited to move the game to steam, given how badly Itch is doing, but without it, I would've been nowhere! Have a great rest of your day, you amazing people!
I am certain that the Endless Mode will come out later than in 2025, but it is being work on, although, it has come to a somewhat hold recently. There will be no other gamemode, just fixes and some updates. The endless mode update will pretty much be a free whole DLC, with more content then the original game, because of the replay ability, and the fact that it is endless. After that will be finished, and some patches will be made, we will move on to our upcoming NEW title, that has been in the works even before the writing for Play Things started!