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Saench1 year ago(+1)

This is really fun, it took me awhile to get used to the controls. I enjoyed figuring out the perfect jumps timing and the obstacles shifting puzzle. Though my game crashed when I reached the enemy wizards, which was after I just got the fire staff, there's a script error about main and checkpoints or something.. (Maybe because I was moving through levels incorrectly? I was trying to backtrack, but somehow ended up in the fire staff level..) Also using the fire staff on the knights/wizards caused the game to crash as well.. I had around 250+ deaths, the calming music really helps keeping my marbles intact.

Two1191 year ago

Thank you!I am sorry about the bug, i will look into it. It is likely because I just put in the last level without testing due to lack of time (that has caused a bunch of little issues besides this bug). I'll expand the game further after the jam and fix the issue, and shiftania save system was designed to continue to work even through multiple installs so you can play it then.

Two1191 year ago

about the backtracking through zones and ending up in fire staff level, please tell me more, that seems to be a seperate issue from the wizards crashing

Saench1 year ago

I pretty much press tab on the level 2?'s or level 3?'s entrance door (don't quite remember which level it was), and I spawned in the fire staff room.. does that help? XD

Two1191 year ago

oh, was the door open or closed? If it was open then you probably made it through zone 3 and got to zone 4 properly

Saench1 year ago (2 edits)

Oh I see now.. it was open, my zone 3's checkpoint is at the exit's door for some reason, so I'm pretty much started at zone 3's exit when I entered zone 2's exit, on my first run. @@ I was playing on the download version, the web version seems to skip to the exit as well when I reload the game on zone 3.

Two1191 year ago(+1)

I'm sorry about these issues, as i said before I'll work on the game after the jam and fix them, thanks for reporting the bug!

Saench1 year ago

No problem!.. ><

Two1191 year ago (1 edit) (+1)

and I'm really happy somebody tried to play the game till the end, i was afraid everyone would just go through the first couple of zones without seeing the last zones, thank you very much once again!

Two1191 year ago

i have been able to find the bug with the fire staff, however i am not able to recreate the bug with main and checkpoints (this game is made without an engine so the code is huge and the code relating to checkpoints is spread everywhere) pls send some more info if possible

Saench1 year ago

I think you've found it, the main and checkpoints is related to the fire staff bug.

I pretty much just shoot fireball at the wizards, and it says 'failed to execute script 'main' due to unhandled exception: 'checkpoint' object has no attribute 'mask'.

Two1191 year ago

Ohk

Two1191 year ago

I've fixed most of the bugs now and also added a couple of things in the new version, further development of the game is in full swing. If you would like to try the fixed and updated version, please do, Playtesting is always helpful.

Saench1 year ago

The launcher says it contains vwirus!~ :0

Two1191 year ago(+1)

🙀What lol

I made this using only pure Python with no engine, and people tend to write viruses and stuff in the same way. Also, I bundled all the DLLs into one exe, which makes antiviruses even more suspicious. And I can't afford to pay for one of those security certificates. Sorry about this lol, don't worry it's just the same game you played before with some bug fixes.