Hello! I'm having trouble getting the most recent release of the game to start! The older beta version works just fine but it's the most recent one that's giving me issue. It loads to the yellow sign and then loads forever until I have to manually close it. I'm on windows 11 and I've already tried to run it as an administrator and redownloaded it all together. Absolutely LOOVED the beta and I love the king in yellows model and I'm desperate for more. Hence why I'm leaving this message as I want MORE. Absolutely fabulous job you've done and any help getting my game to load would be lovely. I hope you're having a good day!!!!
oh no :\ weird because when I went to playtest the patch I just put out with another old laptop of mine the same thing happened, it would just stay on the loading screen and never play properly. Since it has run fine on my main computer and other's perhaps it is then a specs issue? What's your ram? I have 16gb ram but the computer I was testing it on had 8gb. Since I'm a new dev this game is definitely not very well optimized, so it could be the case that its just overloading the ram on startup (even though its such a small game, I have no idea.)
I'm super glad to hear that you enjoyed even the older version of the game though, thank you so much. A game patch for optimization is prioritized to be next, so I will be sure to let you know when that's out!
My ram is 16gb as well! Technology is a fickle and odd beast,,, I look forward to the next patch and I hope I can get it running!!! I'm not very tech savvy so any other info I can provide you to get this beast goin I'd be happy to provide!!
I'm sorry to bother you once more with this, but I'm still encountering my previous issue D: It is just a forever loading yellow sign of doom, any info at all I can provide to get this beast working I'd be happy to provide!! So sorry once again
It's no bother I genuinely really appreciate your help! Last thing I could recommend trying is running the latest version of the game as administrator. If that doesn't work, DM me on twitter @onetorusdev or tumblr @this-too-shall-bleed cause this thread might get long lol
this is so good so far but along with the other comment, once you reach the part where you enter arthur's house you can't look around anymore so you're basically softlocked :/
strange, so again my question is does pressing space/enter not finish the dialogue? I believe clicking (left mouse) also gets you out of the locked state in my testing. Glad you enjoy it so far sorry about this difficulty :,) I put the controls in the game description but maybe I should have put them in the dialogue box too
so I tested this myself again and I think I see what you mean--you can walk around but not move the camera even if the dialogue has not been cycled through yet (by pressing enter or space). So to get out of the locked state press enter or space, the dialogue will disappear and you can walk freely. However I will work on a quick patch right now to ensure you are fully locked and it shows the control on screen just to get rid of future confusion lol
oughhhh this has been so good and i love as much as i've gotten to play, but i believe there's a bug unfortunately :( whenever the kiy/john speaks, i cant move the screen and his text is stuck there, overlapping with other text, i 100% want to be able to play this if its on my end and i can figure it out or if it gets fixed in a future patch because i'm obsessed with malevolent and was geeking out at all of the small references i caught onto while playing just the first bit before I got johned :D
oh no I'm sorry to hear that, so the text does not progress or disappear at the end of dialogue even when pressing space or enter? those are the two keys that progress the dialogue when it happens, then you should be able to move when the dialogue is done cycling though (you have to press it after every line)
went to replay the game after listening to malevolent, I think you did a great job capturing the same atmosphere that is so unsettling about the podcast. however, I will say I enjoyed the game significantly more after experiencing the media of inspiration simply due to confusion/no cohesive story. you did wonderful and I will continue to stalk everything you make moving forward!
thanks man!!!!! and yeah no I definitely was focusing on learning the softwares and everything over creating a cohesive story for an outside viewer, and capturing atmosphere is where my brain flocks to in any situation regardless. so super valid critique. appreciate it :^)
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Hello! I'm having trouble getting the most recent release of the game to start! The older beta version works just fine but it's the most recent one that's giving me issue. It loads to the yellow sign and then loads forever until I have to manually close it. I'm on windows 11 and I've already tried to run it as an administrator and redownloaded it all together. Absolutely LOOVED the beta and I love the king in yellows model and I'm desperate for more. Hence why I'm leaving this message as I want MORE. Absolutely fabulous job you've done and any help getting my game to load would be lovely. I hope you're having a good day!!!!
oh no :\ weird because when I went to playtest the patch I just put out with another old laptop of mine the same thing happened, it would just stay on the loading screen and never play properly. Since it has run fine on my main computer and other's perhaps it is then a specs issue? What's your ram? I have 16gb ram but the computer I was testing it on had 8gb. Since I'm a new dev this game is definitely not very well optimized, so it could be the case that its just overloading the ram on startup (even though its such a small game, I have no idea.)
I'm super glad to hear that you enjoyed even the older version of the game though, thank you so much. A game patch for optimization is prioritized to be next, so I will be sure to let you know when that's out!
My ram is 16gb as well! Technology is a fickle and odd beast,,, I look forward to the next patch and I hope I can get it running!!! I'm not very tech savvy so any other info I can provide you to get this beast goin I'd be happy to provide!!
Hey! I just released a patch that should solve the issue you were having with the latest version of the game, let me know if you try it out!
I'm sorry to bother you once more with this, but I'm still encountering my previous issue D: It is just a forever loading yellow sign of doom, any info at all I can provide to get this beast working I'd be happy to provide!! So sorry once again
It's no bother I genuinely really appreciate your help! Last thing I could recommend trying is running the latest version of the game as administrator. If that doesn't work, DM me on twitter @onetorusdev or tumblr @this-too-shall-bleed cause this thread might get long lol
this is so good so far but along with the other comment, once you reach the part where you enter arthur's house you can't look around anymore so you're basically softlocked :/
strange, so again my question is does pressing space/enter not finish the dialogue? I believe clicking (left mouse) also gets you out of the locked state in my testing. Glad you enjoy it so far sorry about this difficulty :,) I put the controls in the game description but maybe I should have put them in the dialogue box too
so I tested this myself again and I think I see what you mean--you can walk around but not move the camera even if the dialogue has not been cycled through yet (by pressing enter or space). So to get out of the locked state press enter or space, the dialogue will disappear and you can walk freely. However I will work on a quick patch right now to ensure you are fully locked and it shows the control on screen just to get rid of future confusion lol
update: patch released for redownloading!
oughhhh this has been so good and i love as much as i've gotten to play, but i believe there's a bug unfortunately :( whenever the kiy/john speaks, i cant move the screen and his text is stuck there, overlapping with other text, i 100% want to be able to play this if its on my end and i can figure it out or if it gets fixed in a future patch because i'm obsessed with malevolent and was geeking out at all of the small references i caught onto while playing just the first bit before I got johned :D
oh no I'm sorry to hear that, so the text does not progress or disappear at the end of dialogue even when pressing space or enter? those are the two keys that progress the dialogue when it happens, then you should be able to move when the dialogue is done cycling though (you have to press it after every line)
and I'm really glad you enjoy it and all the references haha! trust me at that point you are like 30% in!! "got johned" lmfao
went to replay the game after listening to malevolent, I think you did a great job capturing the same atmosphere that is so unsettling about the podcast. however, I will say I enjoyed the game significantly more after experiencing the media of inspiration simply due to confusion/no cohesive story. you did wonderful and I will continue to stalk everything you make moving forward!
thanks man!!!!! and yeah no I definitely was focusing on learning the softwares and everything over creating a cohesive story for an outside viewer, and capturing atmosphere is where my brain flocks to in any situation regardless. so super valid critique. appreciate it :^)
Difficult to understand, but the gameplay itself keeps you in suspense, great job.
fair, there are quite a few niche references. Thanks!!
cool
nice thanks for playing!
this is so very incredible. ambience, sound design, pacing... so so great
thank you Odd!!!
I adore the art style of this game!!! Very very good for the first game!
thank you so much! many games to go (:
Nice this was very good game I like it you did very good job for your first game excellent work anyway well done keep it up!
thanks!!