Post by hfstwo in Snowman Souls comments

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Didn't seem like it saved my state. I have browser set to delete cookies on close. I entered an exception for elgrandiablo.itch.io, but only after two "runs". Firefox now says it has 7 cookies, but I still start from the beginning. (I'd forgotten where to collect all the souls - took me a while.)

Seems like I can get just the tiniest bit farther after the second gate. My avatar leaves the screen but I don't get a new map. At least once I was able to get the avatar to come back to the screen with cursor left. If I let go of the keys as soon as I leave the screen, apparently the Snowrisu kills me and I get the try-again message. Try again works OK - that is to say I can evade the snowrisu again and open the 2nd gate again. If I hold down cursor right after my avatar leaves the screen, apparently it gets to shelter(?). The snowrisu still shakes the screen but I don't get the message that I've failed and try again.

Dunno about the no input allowed messages. On the first run I thought I was getting those when I hit cursor up in a disallowed spot. The second run I didn't see any until the second gate.

I might try again from Windows on Tuesday.

elgrandiablo3 years ago

I'm trying to think about what could cause this. There's one problem for sure - the Snowrisu should be dead forever. Did you also kill the Snowrocco? (A second one should show up.) After they're both dead, a second cutscene should occur - the camera should scroll to the right, open the gate, then bring the camera back. Also after that, the character should be able to walk through the gate and the rest of the level should be within camera view now.

I just tested this on firefox on itch.io, and the snowman fight works as intended in this browser setup. I did notice a bug where the "powerup" at the end was not working as expected - it's supposed to move around as a demonstration of how it works, but the powerup is motionless. I didn't see any errors to explain that one, I'll have to keep looking.

hfstwo3 years ago

Hmm. I'm clueless as usual. Snowrisu dead. What? Snowrocco. What? I didn't kill the snowrisu - I just tried to escape through the 2nd gate. Am I suppose to lure him to a laser or something? Maybe I'll try that. (Sorry, didn't try windows - but maybe the browser isn't the issue.)

hfstwo3 years ago

OK, everything** including cutscenes seems to work great. I just needed a hint to get moving. Too bad I didn't capture the Bosses have been defeated screen. Wow there is a lot of new stuff in this level, even if one ignores the time involved in creating the level itself. The Ground Power, and the one-way slides... It is gonna take me a while to get 42 souls - I only got up to 19 so far I think.

**except for saving the state

elgrandiablo3 years ago

If it helps, the game state data is stored in "local storage" (localStorage). I'm not sure if your settings manager would have an option to add an exception for that. It might also be true that the url that hosts the cookies, local storage, and everything else is not itch.io - it's some sort of content-hosting domain (hwcdn.net for me, at least right now).

hfstwo3 years ago

Here are some notes before I forget. More research required.

read your message about site data
unchecked "delete cookies and site data on close"
launched game
Game started after gate1, but with 0 souls
got 4 (more) souls
quit and closed browser
restarted
state and (4) souls were correct.
firefox reports 7 cookies from itch.io
firefox reports storage only from the 3 sites I always have
closed and reopened browser.
told browser to selectively delete cookies from itch.io
game still started in correct location with 4 souls.
deleted itch.io exception and checked the "delete on close" box
restarted browser.
starts after gate1 with zero souls.

hfstwo3 years ago

started firefox as gamerb (different linux user). Still starts after 1st gate. Didn't expect that!

Could be red herring though. Firefox seems to have config issues when started from command line as gamerb. Same error message over and over.

(firefox:7322): dconf-CRITICAL **: 09:59:50.291: unable to create directory '/run/user/1000/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.

(itch: all these cute formatting widgets and no [code] option?)

hfstwo3 years ago

Laptop/win10/Edge 90.something. Starts (drum roll) after 1st gate with zero souls. (!!) Didn't expect that. Must be storing part of it on the server side, or in "the cloud", based on [IP address] or - dunno clueless.

I was gonna say "might want to consider a reset-game option at some point". From my pov this little experiment bumps the priority up a little bit.

Dunno how you puzzled out hwcdn. Edge does show 67 bytes stored there, while Firefox didn't show it at all. I'll try deleting that after I post this.

hfstwo3 years ago (1 edit)

Deleted all data; cookies, cache, the whole #! from Edge. Still after first gate, zero souls on launch. Tried twice with same result.

(Almost off topic: At first I left Edge nearly in the default condition, including the startup page. This results in around 100 cookies as soon as I start the browser! Once I changed the start page to point to my internal server, I was able to check after start and see zero cookies.)[Edit: changing the startup page had no effect on what I would call the home page - MS calls it the new tab page. Seems I can make only cosmetic changes to that. From some reason I'm reluctant to call it adware. Dunno why - that is how it behaves.

elgrandiablo3 years ago

This was a mistake I made when testing the "gate is unlocked in boss fight" bug. I made the boss fight the default starting level and forgot to change it back, so a fresh game would be starting there. It's been fixed back to the proper first level now.