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Awesome! I'm so glad. It might be a bit, because this is going to be creating a new game in a way, and overwriting all of the home screen stuff. But it will be worth it!

Also adding the ability to select where the project files will be stored in the future, depending on the device. Rather than just have it be in the same  directory as the app. Though this will require some work and testing (a lot of it!) just to make sure nobody loses what they're working on when they update.

Great suggestions!!! And #1 is a bug I hadn't noticed (I develop it on a mac, so I should've seen it?), I'll definitely put a fix in for the next update.
#2- I am adding that in a future update, thanks!
#3- Hmm. That is a good idea. Def a future update, though that one will be complex, so it might be a few updates later

Thank you! That means a lot to me!!!

That's my end goal! But it's going to be tricky. The raspberry pi version of Love (the lua framework I use) is kind of funky. So it might take a bit...but I am going in that direction, and I'm hoping to get it running on a Pi before the end of this year.

Thank you so much for finding this bug! I'll get this fixed ASAP., and put it in with the next update.

Actually, thank you so much for mentioning this! It's not a Lua thing, but a save file thing. In order to keep track of which themes are for which projects a save file stores the location of each projects and files (it's in Appdata/Roaming). I have a feeling it was probably seeing the original location, saving it, and then having those issues.
I am so glad it's working for you now though. That makes me happy! If there are any other issues, please let me know. I'm going to make it so that in future updates (one coming before the end of this month) it will use relative directory names for the themes and the save file, rather than hard coded. That should keep that from happening again (finger's crossed!), in case anyone else has the same issue.
Thank you for letting me know that's what fixed it for you. I was worried! I was hoping we could find a solution, and glad one came out.

Nevermind, it's obviously not in the zip archive still, that would cause a different error.

I'm sorry, I can't seem to recreate this error on my own Windows 11 machine. I did a fresh install, wiped the other projects, and tried different ways to receate the error.

It seems like it's having issues getting the file name (that's the nul). What did you name the chapter, out of curiosity?

Trying to narrow this down somehow. I'm a writer myself, and I know how frustrating it is to lose work.

Did you download it from the itch downloader? If not, did you extract the zip file to a folder, or are you running it from inside the zip archive? Thanks in advance!

I think what's happening is that the Chapter might be unnamed, but I thought I'd fixed that by forcing a name, so it should still create the file and access it correctly. I'll take a look today and let you know what I find.

Oh shit, I am so sorry! This is the first time this error has shown up. Let me look into it. What operating system? Windows 11 or Windows 10?

Also, can you look at the projects folder it should have created in the ManaWriter folder, and let me know if their is a folder named after that project, and if there are text files in there, and if so, what do they have inside?

Thank you so much for checking these in advance. I'm going to see what I can do. I might have you email me your folder at some point, if I can't recreate the error.

As of now, I don't have a Pi to test it on and debug so I can fix. Indo know that getting Love2d games to work on the Pi  is a pain. I tried it about 6 or 7 years ago with an Pi 3 and it was a nightmare. I know there is a port of Love to Pi, but...it's not the best?

So as of right now, not yet. But I am working on it, and I'm sure there is a way, it's just might take me a bit 

I've been waiting for 18 days and also put in a ticket to support without any response. They usually don't take this long! I hope it's not as bad as when the whole credit card fiasco happened and I waited almost 3 months without getting a payout. I need this payment for a utility bill.

One of the best things to come out of the QBRPG Scene!

That's so COOL!
That is one thing I'm adding in a future update- when it's fullscreen it has a battery reference that's right there. So when you're on a laptop/etc it lets you know if you need a charge

Rclone! That's a great idea!!! Thank you for that. I'm going to look into it, for sure.

I'm doing it for myself, lol. I WANT ONE

And I have an old netbook PC that would be perfect for it! So I'm going to share the love when I do it

Thanks! And good luck with your writing, too!

TYSM and I'm glad it fixed the full screen error! I've been using as well, to write my next novel. It is SO MUCH FUN. I'm so glad I made it, and I'm so glad everyone else seems to get enjoyment out of using it.

Thank you!

I mean, it does support curly quotes when I do it like """"" 

But it doesn't support smart quotes, which is created from MS Word and the like? So not sure it should be an issue if you're not copying and pasting? Unless your keyboard is cooler than mine and supports things mine doesn't lol. The same with the EM dash, you listed above, I think.

INTERESTING. Hmm. TBH these are video game fonts I bought made by someone else (I list the credits in the credits file), so sadly I can't control that. Though that is frustrating. I wonder if I can find one someone else made that is the right look/feel/size and DOES support those

I just tested every theme, and the font "" appear just fine for me, not as rectangles? Are you copying and pasting it from a word doc or something like that? Just curious!

The volume is supposed to appear as rectangles, it's supposed to look like the volume going up and down on old tv/vcr, lol. And yeah, it does require a smaller font. Which theme did you use that had the issue? Each theme has its own font, and I thought I made sure the ones we had in there could handle curly quotes just fine.

And the cleartext update is up now, with the sound fix!

It's up now! If you have any other issues let me know.

Thank you for your kind words! And yes, the font update and volume update is coming later today. I'll have instructions on how to update in a blog post on itch to go along with it.

Okay, yes, it was the cooldown delay when the menu item is selected! So on Monday's update this should be fixed for you.

Honestly, me too, and I have a monitor that I can test it on! It might be a bit, because I will have to adjust everything to a different resolution to get that to work. So a future update at some point, for sure!

Huh! That would be cool. Maybe for a future update I can figure out how to do portrait displays!

Great! It does look much clearer, so here's hoping this fixes it for everyone :) And still keeps the retro SNES look

I will add an ability to turn down the music or off, same with sound effects, in a future update for sure. 

Thanks for letting me know the error about the mac version. I was testing it on Mac and haven't had that same issue.  Did it give you any error codes at all? I'll see if I can add that fix in the Monday update I'm sending out. I won't be able to add the music/sound additions Monday, but will hopefully have the fullscreen issue fixed.

Any examples? I just want to make sure it has that 90's dark industrial sound for this game I'm working on...

Dude, if the devs wanted their games on your site, they would've approached you. What you're doing is theft

Thanks for letting me know, I wasn't able to test with an xbox controller (don't have one), but it might be if you're using the analog stick rather than d-pad?

The controllers I know it works with for sure are-

+Playstation 3 and up controllers

+Switch Controllers

+8Bitdo Controllers

Rock on! thanks so much

I was wondering if there was a way you could do this so every other page is a back? That way, when I print them on my duplex printer and do double sided, it will print the backs on the back. Thanks!

LOL As I was making the game I was like "I should be writing, not making a video game"

which, 100% accurate

You can just make the price $15, and not have this issue?

Okay, I've been looking into it. Will let you know when I have a fix and an update you can install