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What you say makes sense. And I know about Komisari's plan to make 3 huge chapters including the prologue. It's a good plan and in my opinion much better than releasing very short epsidodes in too short intervals. But I seem to remember one and a half year ago he said something similiar about chapter 1 being finished until end of year. And two years ago he said something about great progress and updating soon. This is why I am a bit careful to not expect too much when I hear announcements like 'end of year' or 'every 6 months'.

He don't gives any ETA. The last main content update was 2020 if I am not mistaken so don't expect to much. After that there was a helloween/winter bonus event and a quality update in May, 2023.

The first time you have to go straight forward.

If you are unsure, safe after every step in general. But don't save if you come to the floor that leads to the mirror room - its a dead end and you'll start over automatically. This way you can reload and don't have to remember the chains of turns.

Thank you for the information. But a status report here on Itch would be highly appreciated anyway so that we can see whether there is steady progress or not. This shouldn't be an accusation against Komisari, its only a bit tiresome to open this webpage every week seeing no story update for several years now. It would be better trying to nail a date (even if mesaured in years) than to having dev who put us off continuously without any ETA.

Maybe you should write this fix in very big font in a banner at the top of this page. Seems like everyone stumples on this bug sooner or later.

It's okay if you need more time to develop. But you absolutely should post a status update here on itch.io and/or keep the Trello roadmap up to date. You promised to do so a few months ago, but so far neither of them is present. It would cost you not much time, but everyone would see there is a progress so that this chat has not to be overcrowded by the eversame question that much.

I only found out about the update 0.2.7 today. Since the new version isn't backward compatible with my savegames I have to restart all over again.
Is there a cheat code available for getting money so I don't have to do the "oddjobs" about 250 times again?

And another one:

[code]

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:

SyntaxError: invalid syntax (game/gameloss.rpy, line 49)

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:

  File "gameloss.rpyc", line 49, in script

  File "C:\Temp\EchoesCardsOfDestiny-0.2.6-pc\EchoesCardsOfDestiny-0.2.6-pc\renpy\ast.py", line 1842, in execute

    if renpy.python.py_eval(condition):

  File "C:\Temp\EchoesCardsOfDestiny-0.2.6-pc\EchoesCardsOfDestiny-0.2.6-pc\renpy\python.py", line 1207, in py_eval

    code = py_compile(code, 'eval')

  File "C:\Temp\EchoesCardsOfDestiny-0.2.6-pc\EchoesCardsOfDestiny-0.2.6-pc\renpy\python.py", line 1144, in py_compile

    raise e

  File "C:\Temp\EchoesCardsOfDestiny-0.2.6-pc\EchoesCardsOfDestiny-0.2.6-pc\renpy\python.py", line 1081, in py_compile

    raise orig_e

  File "C:\Temp\EchoesCardsOfDestiny-0.2.6-pc\EchoesCardsOfDestiny-0.2.6-pc\renpy\python.py", line 1073, in py_compile

    tree = compile(source, filename, py_mode, ast.PyCF_ONLY_AST | flags, 1)

SyntaxError: invalid syntax (game/gameloss.rpy, line 49)

Windows-10-10.0.22631 AMD64

Ren'Py 8.2.1.24030407

Echoes 0.2.6

Mon Aug  5 23:48:47 2024

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Here is another bug I found:

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:

ScriptError: could not find label 'gamelosselena'.

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:

  File "engine.rpyc", line 171, in script

  File "C:\Temp\EchoesCardsOfDestiny-0.2.6-pc\EchoesCardsOfDestiny-0.2.6-pc\renpy\ast.py", line 1698, in execute

    rv = renpy.game.script.lookup(target)

  File "C:\Temp\EchoesCardsOfDestiny-0.2.6-pc\EchoesCardsOfDestiny-0.2.6-pc\renpy\script.py", line 1103, in lookup

    raise ScriptError("could not find label '%s'." % str(original))

ScriptError: could not find label 'gamelosselena'.

Windows-10-10.0.22631 AMD64

Ren'Py 8.2.1.24030407

Echoes 0.2.6

Mon Aug  5 00:31:04 2024

It's mine too :D, I remember me rewinding lots of times.

I'd like to ask again when you'll post a new status report here on itch.io: Your last one is from May 07, 2023 - more than a year old now. As not everyone here visits Discord frequently and Trello is not up to date, I think it would be very helpful for many of us to not think the project might have become paused.

I mean, your work is highly appreciated and your quality update last year was amazing, but without a doubt I can tell lots of us would be glad about new content now...

I bought the complete bundle about a year ago - do I have to rebuy to get the latest episode?

Me too :D

Wow, I always though of me as the only person asking for a sequel. But here I read the chat history and there are so many people craving for it! Should be worth a reconsideration, I think.

I only want to mention, I would be highly interested in a sequel too. In thee case you would change your mind for whatever reason... Catgirls are mesmerizing and relationship really interesting.

Komisari, maybe you could give us a progress report here on itch.io. You said yourself the Trello Roadmap is not up to date and some of us are not on Discord everday. Since your last report here is over one year old (May 07, 2023), maybe you could post some news here or at least copy the most important status from Discord to this platform.

Could you be so nice and do this?

Is there any ETA for the game yet?

This game was so incredible good - exactly the right mix of (animated cartoon) horror and point-and-click for me! It bet it had to be a nightmare itself for the developer to set the design and interactive mode, especially the animation of the elevator buttons, a great milestone for RenPy based games. Plus, the easter eggs - I loved them all :D
I am very interested in the ETAW horror rumor in general and your work is a perfect done job when it comes to set the scene. Again, an amazing combo of a given horror story, the catgirls and bullying with it's consequences for the victim. Actually the game seems to represent reality much better than at the first glance, because it's always up to the victim to deal with the bad feelings and pay the price for trusting someone to much despite one had to know better. But of course I really appreciate the comparatively positive outcome.

Here I am now, asking for a possible sequel to "The Elevator Game with Catgirls". Sure, their plot is closed and original ETAW consists of one run of the game only, but it was such a great game! I'd like to know whether we can hope for a comeback of Asahi and their friends in another apartment building disaster...

Is this game still in active development? Please don't feel offended but updates and information log became a bit unfrequently.

@Komisari:
Knowing high quality projects take their time always (everything else would lead to poor output, insecurity or compatibility problems) I highly honor your work, dude!!!

But please do not try to overdo it. Your Trello roadmap shows there would be still much work left. From my experience (writing various little apps, installers and patches or continue work from others) I can tell, loosing focus can happen really fast and time flys by so quick at some point.  Sometimes it took me weeks or even months for a little app/patch to finish in my spare time. But there were others I had never finished because of that. What I trying to say is: When working so long on this, there is a not so little risk for you to waking up someday being completely disillusioned and unwilling to continue HHG - and that would be the worst case, probably far more for yourself than for the most of us it could be. Don't try to mess with the biggest software industries with hundreds of full-time payed developers.

We'd be probably all fine by some of HHG graphics/animations or story  parts lacks of the upper-most fine details for the sake of you not becoming tired of your most important project. Better skip some minor parts for real and focus on the m later if you feel like it.

All have a nice day!

Shame on m, I didn't read the description all. You know about that and mentioned it already. My apologise.

Besides: Very good work - the game is great, and thanks to your casting and the cast themself with fantastic voice acting. Thanks for german mentions, I come from Germany myself, so I appreciated it in a special way. Some words lacks of correct pronunciation a bit, but very well done yet. Very creepy plot I have to say, but exactly what the game promised.

Thanks!

I am just at the beginning of the game and using Windows 11 PC. The bug is a scaling issue: Clickable objects aren't scaled to the custom backgound resolution but stay at 1920x1080.

That means, if you have a bright monitor and use a wide resolution like 2560x1080 or 3440x1440 (maybe it applies for the smaller ones too, I dont' know), interactive objects wouldn't 'fit' in the background.

Maybe, you can find a solution for that...

And thank you for answering that fast. Then I'll wait for August with excitement. :)

May I ask - is there any chance we'll see a chapter 3 in the future (maybe with some cool changing that will turn the story to a better ending)?

Thanks for reading it - maybe you'll find some ideas useful for your next versions :)

Hell, this game was incredible! Just finished Eternum v.0.6 and of course I regret not playing more slowly. Annie is my favorite!

Characters, music, sounds, eternums story and its servers, high-quality images and animations - 9/10 stars.

Why only 9/10? There are a few points that would make the game even more exciting in my opinion:

- At the beginning we learn a lot background stuff and normal events. Later after Eternum kicked in, those normal scenes are very rare to missing. Eternum looses a bit its fasciniating atmosphere if there aren't any more daily routines. For example, lets visit on a couple more school lessons, how is Chang going and how he's doing with Michaela, is there any deeper meaning into Chop-Chop and will he appear again (as unnerving he is, he probably should), the family's cat seems really nice - she has to become even more attention, Raul + Noah's background... ... you see, exciting/boring side storys are the ones that lacks your story of a bit. Take more time between sex scenes and/or Eternum adventures.

- Texts are easy to understand... but maybe sometimes a little bit repeating. If our MC forms more different sentences, he'll look more intelligent.

- MC shouldn't only be in a good physical state, but come up with an own intelligent idea - I mean, the girls should love him not only for his big appendage

- At the beginning the characters had their own habits, that was just super super awesome!!! E.g. Nova used qualified IT network security knowledge. By the way - no one can imagine something like this without reference - did you research that all on your own... or have you hacker skills yourself? I work in IT and just had CompTIA Security+ curse last month - and I've to say, her vocabular fits absolutly.
Unfortunately, later their are no other IT stuff scene with her. Just the same with Luna, Annie's combat improvements and the scary girls from MCs dreams, the progress of investigating case of Axel's best friend in detail and Ulysses corruption (like you told on the prologue). Other characters habits, like the one from Alex, Calypso and Dalia seem nearly perfect to me already.

- You might consider re-using some music or locations from time to time. They are fantastic. Warthogs, the music from Mr. Hernandez's contest, Andromeda server

- There has to be definitely a special, where MC fucks a Praetorian. Sorry folks, but I had to mention it. The one from the icy server (where they find Calypso) that appeared first were very hot for example... The manipulating cube maybe could taking a role into that part...

- The two Asians from that crazy server MC stumbled escaping with Calypso could provide another sex scene

Final thoughts:

Please don't feel offended by those improvements suggestions, I just said what I had in my mind - the game is very very good already. Plus, I like the parallels to real life things, all that real-existing trades and people and history (hell, even mention of Corona time had its small appearance there). The best is: We all know about some special similarities to "Ready Player One", but it does not destroy it - you found an amazing balance of adapting suggestions from that movie and having your very own story. Congratulations, that had to be the most difficult task ever. And, all the allusions let me laugh almost as hard as the story and its characters itself! And I laughed pretty much playing Eternum.

I enjoyed this little demo very much, thanks. Unfortunately it's very short. I can only hope the dev plans continuation - as I have the feeling it could become very cool.

Did you wait about 30sec? The engine is RenPy and that means though you extracted the ZIP file their inner PY files are compressed too. The game needs them to wait for finishing self-extraction every launch before display the game window itself.

But probably themain  cause might be that your antivirus think it could be ransomware and pauses the execution at runtime without any notify. Because RenPy is able to alter lots of files in a short amount of time - and that makes the engine suspicious, not HHG in special but alle those VNs. Whitelist the game and you should be fine next launch. I have to do this for Acronis and AppCheck always.

And if it is not that, maybe another process consumes way too much CPU ressources (or has too high priority). Look into your Task-Manager and verify your system has enough capacities left.

The downloaded files are healthy for sure. TCP/IP overwatches download stream and correct issues automatically without ever telling you (except if you use UDP). Even if bits would get lost, the binary (EXE/DLL) shows an error message in 99,9% because of code is corrupt or cannot be interpreted. No error message means the app is downloaded fine as well as it fits your architecture (other apps must be the problem then).

I already played the game twice - its absolutely fantastic! The story, the little background details, the girls look of course, Jimmys character, and the animations. 

But the greatest surprise for me is that RenPy is mostly made for (animated and choice-based) stories but not for exploring or any realtime mini-games. That seems really rare if not unique too me - it's amazing :) Must be as hard as creating Star Wars movie out of a batch file (but far better graphic :D).

I only saw one other game which level of exploring mode can be compared with HHG and thats "Elevator game with Catgirls".

- make sure no antivirus stops it. Renpy games are stopped automatically by programs like AppCheck and  Acronis cause they suspect ransomware (false positive) - then, you'll have to whitelist the game once
- make sure, it is not already running in task manager (if yes and there is no window, its a microsoft bug), kill all instances of that process and try again
- re-download the game as you accidently might corrupt it through moved/copied/deleted file in that directory
- take care of you have enough free disk + memory space left

A dummy crash, aka glitch is expected, but not a frozen screen :) This is indeed a bug.

In the game click SHIFT + G and then select "ANGLE" as renderer. You have to restart the game after this to apply the change. Now, the scene pass like intended.

difficult to tell since we do not know anything about your PC or network config

try following:

- use ethernet cable instead of WiFi
- use Windows 10 with latest updates (maybe its about bug in Windows 10/11)
- try Firefox
- try to find external download source (if I am correct, Komisari once uploaded to MEGA and such too, links were available on Discord to that time)

You are right on several points, except of the part "[...] all but vanished". The game is the greatest single-man project I ever heard of and has still lots of fans - they cavort on Discord, not here. You should take a look on Discord server before pass judgement. I agree, Komisari seems to be very slow in development and comes with lots of delays, but on the other hand his update v0.1.2.2 from May 2023 brought very much great improvements (graphic and features).
Komisari probably tries to make the 100% perfect H game. Like everything else in life its not reachable, but he is very close to it! Though its too time consuming, that cannot be denied...

It was a great story, wonderful! I can only hope you will change your mind about a sequel someday...

Hey, Windows 7 rocks. Honestly, I still run it. But at least with all updates on my PC (IE 9 on screenshot shows there is nearly no update installed). Could be a reason for crashes BTW.

Not yet. Unlikely, dev will add it since the game without takes very much time already...

But you are right - it would be sooooooooooo cool if there would be voice acting!!! Maybe it sounds crazy, but I have wondered several times, what would be best voice for Lucy :)

It seems the top-most FAQ here (right behind "When we get more scenes?"). I like to help and I had the same problem on my PC back then.

Here is the solution for PC version (don't know about Android/Mac):

Press SHIFT + G on your keyboard inside the game, then select "ANGLE" as renderer, restart the game (to take change effect its unavoidable) and now it won't crash anymore on Bicycle Park when the glitch is appearing.
(Komisari has not fixed this issue until now, so thats the only workaround.)

Have fun playing :)

How can someone arouse interest in a VN with such success and then decide to throw it away? It's a shame about the unfinished story.

Btw, does anybody heard anything from the author after covid (nearly) ended in the last year?

As for the freeze: Its an old bug, unfortunately still not fixed, but there exists a workaround for Windows version:

 Inside the game press SHIFT+G, select ANGLE as renderer and restart the game (important). Now it should pass those scenes with "special effects" without problems.

As for the freeze: Its an old bug, unfortunately still not fixed, but there exists a workaround for Windows version:

Inside the game press SHIFT+G, select ANGLE as renderer and restart the game (important). Now it should pass those scenes with "special effects" without problems.