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That seems like a bit much.

So it just had a little infobox pop up that said 'Processing Save File' for like a minute then the window turned white again, and the game locked up and stopped playing music. 

Will the game eventually load, or is converting my save for the new version a lost cause?

Cool, hopefully it works.

Can you give me a walkthrough on how to reach / use that?

Hmm, so if the screen whites out while the music stops, does that mean that it's still converting?

1.1.5 is the latest version that I can use my saves in without the game breaking while trying to convert them.

It's been 12 minutes since I first wrote this comment and the window still hasn't recovered, is my save toast? 

Do you have a manual way to convert saves to the new format? Clearly trying automatically is breaking something.

Where are saves kept internally so I can try to manually back them up?

I also can't back my new saves up to the computer from the game anymore. I click the download button but nothing happens.

Certain older saves work and can be backed up / downloaded / converted but anything recent will kill the game if I try to convert it and I can't back up / download them.

Specifically, every save that I made after April 10th, 2025 breaks the game.

Alright. Now when I try to load an old save though, the game locks up. Can't click anything. Music still plays though...but it just froze.

It appears that the desktop version, instead of updating my saves to the new format, just crashes.

Also what does "Warning: The current system prompt does not include the <NOTES> placeholder!" mean?

So how does the AI Note function work?

I see. Roguerose did end up going off the rails and narrating the game mechanics to me just now so that's weird

Alright, why do you prefer it to Llama? I'm curious.

Ok cool.

Oof, that's too bad...you able to find another you like?

And is the AI actually smart enough to look at the visual references that the world creator provides and use them to provide an informed description of the entity it's applied to?

Alright, is that on OpenAI?

And how does it compare to Llama

Also did you see about the Shadow Raptor?

I see. Is Llama the best free AI though? Or are there ones that do have better limits?

do you know if there’s any good, free AIs without daily limits, or at least higher ones? Llama Free is really good but the limit always seems to run out quickly.

the model for the Shadow Raptor is missing in Veilwood. Lacks a 3D render like the Dread Crawler or various fungi, leads the AI to be rather ambiguous about what exactly a Shadow Raptor is in comparison to the Crawler. The renderless Shadow Raptor seems to randomly develop fur, feathers, batlike wings, and other bizarre features as the AI tries to make sense of it without a visual representation, and at one point while I was playing a Shadow Raptor got so…’excited’ that it randomly turned into an honest-to-goodness dragon.

Do you know Meta-Llama Free's request limits?

And do you know any free AIs that have a similar level of power/intelligence, but don't have a request limit (or at least don't run out of requests as quickly)?

Man.

Oh, new game?! I need to know more.

And let me know if you decide to port the Xmas Mod!

ah, I see. Thanks for explaining.

oh, I see…well, that’s disappointing but good to know. Guess I should be more judicious with how I use rollbacks.

Ok. What’s the token thing?

so what exactly do the memory and token settings in the endpoint menu do? I’ve noticed that, with meta-llama and a high amount of memory, I’ll be getting pretty good results, but then, after a while, the AI will lock up with an error message that it can’t connect and I’ll have to let it ‘cool down’ for a while before I can come back and keep going.

Alright, that'll be useful. Because it can be really disappointing when the AI invents an NPC who you end up getting attached to, only for the AI to forget important details about them and screw up the description, even when the NPC never left your side! Tends to derail plots that way.

I love what you’re doing with the game, and wish you the best with it.

I understand life can be difficult, so take as much time as you need.

Cool! 

Did you see my other suggestion, about creating new entries for Entities mid-game, so that you can keep track of NPCs that the AI comes up with?

In case you wanted to see how the AI decides things should look when a robotic character's brain shuts down from being flustered too far by their partner's teasing, here's a gallery of some screenshots from the incident.

In case you wanted to see how the AI decides things should look when a robotic character's brain shuts down from being flustered too far by their partner's teasing, here's a gallery of some screenshots from the incident.

In that same playthrough, which I continued from a save, the AI decided my high-strung, silly little robot dragon character got so flustered and aroused by their mate’s teasing double-entendres that their brain overheated mid-dialogue. My character’s AI-generated response to the teasing was just “A-are you taking me f-f-frfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfr-”, and so on, until the repeated syllable filled the whole prompt cap. I had my character’s mate give them a gentle bop on the head to snap them out of the malfunction, which actually made for a cute moment when my character spat out “for a joyride?” when they came to, managing to finish their own innuendo.

I can try to get a screen cap of that interaction since I have that instance saved.

but yeah the AI stuff seems relatively complicated to me, might have to try to figure it out.

In that same playthrough, which I continued from a save, the AI decided my high-strung, silly little robot dragon character got so flustered and aroused by their mate’s teasing double-entendres that their brain overheated mid-dialogue. My character’s AI-generated response to the teasing was just “A-are you taking me f-f-frfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfr-”, and so on, until the repeated syllable filled the whole prompt cap. I had my character’s mate give them a gentle bop on the head to snap them out of the malfunction, which actually made for a cute moment when my character spat out “for a joyride?” when they came to, managing to finish their own innuendo.

well I mean Argon Vile has insinuated that the characters are canonically the sex that they start as if you pick that you don’t mind what sex they are,

and I haven’t gotten very far in the story myself,

but there’s definitely a deep story.

hello again :)

just curious, have you thought of porting (an updated version of) the Xmas mod over to Itch as a little free-play feature? It’d be really cool to get all the things from the updated version with the freedom of the Xmas mode.

Not to say I don’t like the story! The story’s great and I love the characters.

Sometimes though it can take a bit of time to reach a certain part one wishes to get to on a phone browser that one’s going to delete right after anyway, though…

honestly you could do what InsomniacOvrlrd did and port your MM-verse characters’ personalities to an original setting!

when IO was DMCA’d by Nintendo, instead of deleting everything, they made their own setting called Passiontail Isle and retooled their established recurring cast there as fakemon. 

Same personalities, same names, I believe, possibly even the same plots. But copyright-friendly.

besides lore/plot?

so I see there’s a shortcut in the settings menu now to open the debug console.

only downsides to that:

- browser-based mobile users still can’t type in the debug console because the keyboard doesn’t expand

- There’s no way to close the console after opening for mobile browser either

So in one of my playthroughs of the Assault Drone world, the AI generated an NPC that I ended up taking a liking to during an unprompted encounter.

However, because this NPC was generated by the AI in a random encounter, they were not part of the Entities list, and the AI struggled to describe this character consistently as time went on, even though the character never left the player's side.

Also, the AI is often forgetful about changes that have applied to the player, eventually describing the player in the same state that they had begun the game even when significant changes (such as sex change, or becoming a different type of creature altogether) had taken place.

It would be good to implement an option where you can edit the world settings freely mid-game, so that you can add AI-generated NPCs you like into the Entity list in order to preserve them, as well as to update your World Prompt so that the AI remembers the major changes that have been made to your player character since the game's beginning.

Here’s a post from the general thread where I tell a story of how I managed to convince the AI to allow NSFW in a surprisingly heartwarming interaction…until they eventually got frustrated with constantly forgetting details and suddenly tried to kill my player character in a prompt that I then rolled back and reworded to scold them for.

I have had someone’s baby start talking, people turn into dogs, dogs turn into people, people’s dogs start talking…

Yeah, the AI has a very short attention span and sometimes seems to forget certain details of a character (or even bodily changes / transformations the player has experienced!) within the space of a few lines of the same interaction.

Here’s a short story from one of the times I ran the starter worlds, and I’ll describe some of the times I ran into that at the end.

One NPC that the AI randomly generated in a run of the Assault Drone world, was established by them as a golden-scaled female dragon, referred to as a “Drake of the Moonlight” or simply “Moonlight Drake” for short.

The AI initially presented her as essentially a mindless, generic JRPG boss, complete with visible power level and boss subtitles, but actually allowed for a pretty cute moment when it reacted to my request for a nonviolent interaction and had the PC drone end up befriending the Moonlight Drake, who revealed she could speak by introducing herself as Lyria, explaining  she was actually an ancient celestial being and one of the last of her kind, possessing extensive knowledge of the world’s ancient history due to living through all of it.

- Lyria gave some exposition (baked into the prompt for the Assault Drone world) about the ancient lost civilization responsible for creating the setting’s magitech in exchange for the drone giving its own backstory (which it does nonverbally by scratching sentences into the dirt), explaining how it arrived from a far-future sci-fi world, and I have the drone take the name Draco after the constellation

- Lyria allowed the drone to scan her body in order to collect information on her species.

- Lyria then taught the drone some magic lessons, starting with how to harness Mana in order to buff their stats, and then moving on to more powerful applications of Mana

- Lyria asks the drone to try using Mana themselves, to which I have the drone cheekily respond by using it to transform into a biomechanical, intersex replica of Lyria herself based on the earlier scan data, surprising and amusing her.

- She gives some more magic lessons and asks if there’s anything more about magic or the world that the drone would like to know…

- …and I have Draco respond by flirting with Lyria, showing off their body and explaining that they’d like to get to know *her* more intimately as a way of displaying gratitude for helping them get their footing in this new world and letting them use her as a jumping point for their new form

- Lyria’s surprised, but eventually agrees, and invites Draco to her cave behind a waterfall for a very tender love scene

Long story short, drone opts to lay the dragon instead of slaying the dragon, becoming her mate and siring a new generation of biomechanical hybrid Moonlight Drakes.

However, getting back to the initial point here, there were moments where the AI seemed to lose track of details shortly after they or I established them, such as the AI assigning a different name to Draco, the AI occasionally randomly starting to describe Lyria as a human or a snake until I rolled back and reworded the prompt to remind them that Lyria was still a dragon…

…or, more absurdly, the AI constantly reverting the way they describe Draco from their new robotic dragon form back to their initial, little tank-treaded drone body, often in more…steamy moments, leading to a rather hilariously awkward mental picture regarding the little robot car somehow seducing and making love to the much larger dragon until the prompt was rolled back and I elaborated again.

At one point I think the AI got so frustrated at the constant derailment that they tried to have Draco assassinated mid-love-scene, as in one of their responses to my prompts, Draco’s nailed in the neck by a poisoned tranq dart right before they can embrace Lyria! Needless to say I rolled back the prompt while reprimanding the AI and they then behaved themself…at least for a little longer.