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Ran into a few bugs where any renders that included dialogue from Renee would trigger an exception error.

A simple fix, without tearing through the existing Ren’Py files, was to add a file in the "game" folder called:

zz_character_fix.rpy

The "zz_" helps make sure it loads late. The file itself is simple and only includes:

init 999 python:     
    re = Character("Renee") 

The "999" makes the patch run late enough to override the problem. This fixed the errors in the earliest scenes with Ivy and Renee.

This is just a quick patch until the dev can address it properly later. If the dev releases a fix or this causes issues later in the game, remove the patch file, close the game, and reopen it.

Example traceback.txt with the exception before the patch:

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
While running game code:
  File "game/S01E01.rpy", line 3006, in script
    re "You're putting out. That's why. Looking good is only a small part of it."
Exception: Sayer b're' is not a function or string.
-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------
Full traceback:
  File "game/S01E01.rpy", line 3006, in script
    re "You're putting out. That's why. Looking good is only a small part of it."
  File "D:\MoveTheChains-0.3-pc\renpy\ast.py", line 907, in execute
    raise Exception("Sayer %s is not a function or string." % self.who.encode("utf-8"))
Exception: Sayer b're' is not a function or string.

Hope this helps anyone else. Great game so far!

For reference. I bought and downloaded the game via the link itch.io provided (gofile). So if this was fixed in a patch, it's not included in the download links here =]

So. I was trying to find an AVN I played about two years ago, and for the life of me, I could not remember its name.

I checked everywhere. Every other AVN I had played had a folder in AppData > Roaming > RenPy, but the AVN I was searching for was nowhere to be found. I Googled, searched through old files, and tried to remember characters, scenes, anything. Eventually, I gave in and asked an LLM to help me track it down.

It struggled too, honestly. But after about an hour of narrowing things down, I finally found it.

And it was this one!

I went through the dev log to see what had changed, and I was really happy to find out that not only was there a new chapter, but cure had relaunched Chapter 1 too. So. I downloaded it and played through the first chapter, and... Man, it is so much better than I remembered.

The story, the visuals, the renders, the animations... everything feels so much more polished now.

It also hit me differently this time because I’ve been messing around with HS2 for the better part of a year, and I’ve had a few AVN story ideas floating around in my head. Playing through this made me even more excited to combine my computer science background with my creative side and hopefully share a story of my own with the world one day.

And if that ever comes to fruition, you can be sure I’ll be crediting cure as one of the creators who inspired me to finally take it seriously.

Seeing where this started compared to where it is now is genuinely inspiring.

So yeah, thank you, cure! Great game, great story, great visuals, and great animation renders. Really glad I found my way back to it