[gamedev] Can I get as many people as possible to do me a quick favor for bugtesting? It'll take like five minutes.

I've had a couple of people encounter an error where going into the options menu causes a crash and also the game won't let them make saves, but I can't reproduce this on my machine, so I need MORE DATA.

So if y'all could download the game here and then just let me know if you can get into the options and save alright, what's the full filepath of where the game is, and what system you're on, I'd appreciate it.

You don't have to play the full thing or anything; the options menu can be accessed straight from the opening menu, and you can save right after the opening cutscene that's only like a minute long (and you can skip through all the text super-fast if you hold down the PgDn button to make it last about 10 seconds).

Anybody?

here's a screenshot of the error I just got

that wasn't even from playing, that was just going into Options from the main menu

I'm on Windows 10

same error happens whenever I access the Options menu in-game, then try to exit it

Yeah, that's the same sort of error. Hmmm. I miiiiiight have a theory, I'm gonna check something.

let me know when it's fixed, I meant to play the whole thing and forgot to finish it

I assume you can't save, too.

yeah, it's not giving me an error, but when I try to save to a slot I just get an error buzz

Yeah, that matches up.

OK, I'm pretty sure I've fixed the Windows version. There's a new downloadable on that site for it now.

Waiting for confirmation that the same fix works on Mac before I update that one.

the temple fight killed me

I was doing pretty good before the soldiers started busting out Frostbite, do they only do that at a certain HP threshold or something?

otherwise, great work, that was a super fun demo

the swamp was a solid dungeon, the different terrain types were a nice touch

I super like the way you've got enemies classed where like, they all have an Element and then a Type

one thing, and this might be just my preference, but have you thought about switching from random encounters to wandering enemies at all? I tend to prefer the latter since it gives players a little more control over encounter rate

Frostbite is an HP threshold thing, yes. I might have to tweak that fight some, it might be too hard, boss or no. :|a

I also generally prefer wandering enemies, tbh, but. It's so much more effort to code....

I am thinking I should lower the encounter rate, though. And tweak the basic enemies to make them more interesting.

yeah I got through the swamp basically by spamming Attack, but that's acceptable for a demo

anyway nice work, and thanks for sharing!

Thanks for playing!