Good news! The reinstall did fix it. Whether it was the reinstall, the appdata folder wipe, or the combination of the two, I don't know.
Thanks for all your hard work on the game! Hoping the new demo and the eventual full release live up to the potential this original 2020 demo shows in abundance. =D
Thank you so much! I'll do my best ^^
I'm glad you were able to fix it, but it's still pretty scary to have a potential save corrupting bug in there, rare as it may be... I haven't found anything so far that might cause this, but I'll keep looking. I'll also add a save backup system, just in case.
Sorry again about all that!
No problem! I think I have a possible theory about what might have happened. Between 2020 and now I've had to replace my Hard Drive. In that time I migrated most of my files, including my old AppData folder contents, to keep save games in those locations. I think I might have installed via installer in the past, and by the time of the migration I forgot I wasn't playing on Portable. So maybe something gets installed in a location that I didn't migrate that caused the bug? In such a case the solution would simply be to reinstall the game, which is what successfully fixed my problem. Without knowing more of the causes this is the best theory I have lol