I think I just lost all of my progress. I thought the leftmost menu button, which is a triangle with a vertical bar on its left side, means "Play from beginning," so I clicked the second menu button which is just a triangle to hopefully load, but that started me from the beginning. What's going on here? Is there any way for me to recover my progress in the game? I can't seem to pick up where I left off, now, several levels in.
Sorry, that is obviously bad UI/UX design on my part. The button on the left is actually a Continue-button and the second button a Play-from-start-button.
There isn't a way to restore a previously overriden save (remember this is a jam game, so I didn't put all too much thought into the save system), but there is a way to skip levels by manipulation the save data, at least if you’re playing on Windows. It's stored in the registry though, so it should only be manipulated by users who are familiar with registry editing.
If you are, in the registry under HKCU\Software there should be an entry with my name ("Fabian Denter") and underneath that an entry for the game. Then there are some values editable, one of which is "Scene to load" which you can set to a specific number. When you go back to the game and press the leftmost button in the main menu, it should load the level with the index you entered in the registry.
But please ONLY change numbers in the registry when you are sure to edit the right ones!
I sincerely am sorry for this and hope you are able to go back to the point in the game you already reached!
Edit: I looked up where Mac saves the game data and it should be stored in the ~/Library/Preferences folder in a .plist file. I can't check this though, because I don't own a mac.
I'm on Windows; whew!
Are you ever gonna go back to revise the game? Having a text popup of "Continue," etc. when mousing over those menu buttons would immediately fix all of this. FYI, when it comes to actual media players, a triangle with a bar on the left means "play from beginning" (which is why I perceived the buttons as such), so you may want to swap the icons if you update the game.