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Hi Thomas,

Thank you very much. I'm sorry, femboys are not in the works for this one as the roster is quite full already.

Thank you for your kind words! 

Cheers, I'm happy to hear you're enjoying it!

Welcome!

Thank you. I'm really happy you're enjoying it!

Depends on how strict you set it up, and also sometimes virus scanners just go wild. Last year it was McAffee deciding every ren'py engine based game was malware. Oh well.

You can try to go into the properties of the zipfile you downloaded, (right click on it and select "properties" from the menu), and on the first page, check the "unblock" checkbox. Then unzip again, and try it. 

Oh, and make sure you're putting it on one of your actual harddrives, and not a network drive or external drive. Sometimes virus scanners will apply stricter policies on programs running from network or external drives.

Are you on a PC that has additional restrictions and policies set up above and beyond normal? Or a device that's been enrolled as a BYOD and might therefore have stricter than normal settings, or is issued by a company or government?

If you are running on an enrolled device, make sure you have permission from the administrator to play games on the device, and to run applications that are self-signed.

So about the message itself, it's not that defender saw a problem with the application, it's just saying the application isn't signed with a fancy, expensive publisher certificate (which it's not). I won't tell you to ignore your virus scanner warnings, all I'm saying is I'm running bitdefender myself and it doesn't have any issue with it. 

Thank you, I'm really glad you're enjoying it! 

Hi, no, sadly not. 

Please go to discord (https://discord.gg/dQtjhWqUNp), go to the "bugs-and-issues" channel, and post the issue there.

Don't forget to mention the platform (pc/linux/mac/android) and what the exact error message is.
There's a copy option on the screen. Please use that to copy the error message.

It's a great system. Too bad it doesn't work for Android and I had to go a different route there.

Nope. It's not in the cards. 

Oh, there actually is one, but I think Itch has trouble with that when you have a sale on.

https://itch.io/s/143272/light-of-my-life-season-12-bundle

Cheers. Yeah, I'd preferred to just keep adding content to the original game, but it was getting so bloated all kinds of systems were just starting to fail, from horrendous memory issues on Androids to desktops requiring many GBs of RAM to even run, and all kinds of other weird timing issues inside the renpy engine. Creating the export/import mechanism was a pain, but it just wasn't feasible to keep it in one package anymore.

Thank you!

Oh yeah, that's probably true. There's not a lot to do anymore in many ways, although you can still get with some of the other love interests in the end.

It is an interesting notion.

One of the biggest problems facing me as sole developer is time, and to create some content specifically for that path (other than skipping everything involved with the wards and creating some dialog to glue the ends together) is hard to justify. 

So we will have an ending with the MC ending up with one of the office ladies, but it won't have any special scenes that aren't available too if you're also on the wards path. 

Remaster? What remaster? All that was added to episode 7 was an export function needed in chapter 8, which is why it was released before chapter 8.

Chapter 8 is what took a year to create (2.954 manhours to be exact).

It's a few months maybe.

You are awesome! Happy holidays

Won't be too long now. Glad you're enjoying it so far!

Cheers and enjoy!

Hey Punchdrunk, glad you liked it.

Light of my Life chapters are pretty big, and take a long time to complete. Join the discord (free), patreon, or subscribestar (links in the main menu in the game and the main game here) to see weekly development updates.

Thank you! Really glad you're enjoying it!

In this visual novel, you have the option to stay on a character's romantic path, or get off of it at certain points if you prefer. 

And yes, indicating you don't want to be romantically involved with a character anymore means you don't get to give her very erotic massages anymore either. Note that the game will give you a clear warning when a choice leads to leaving a character's path.

As to characters in this game occasionally kicking you out of the bathroom or otherwise doing things for their own reasons that do not include the MC, that's life. As any guy who's ever shared a household with any number of women can attest, you are not in control here, buddy.

You shouldn't have to. Once you buy the game, you should be able to download any updates that are pushed here.
Note though, that there've not been any updates lately. The current version was released a few months ago, and apart from maybe a small bugfix, I don't expect many new updates to it.

Chapter 8 will be a new, separate download when it comes, because this chapters 1-7 together have grown too big in size, and I can't really add any more to that download. But chapter 8's not ready for release yet, and I'll put up more info about it all when it gets close.

Sadly, I wasn't able to put it up on Steam, so if you're buying, here's as good a place as any, perhaps even better.
In general, while Steam is a much larger platform in terms of users, Itch is way more developer friendly and takes a substantially smaller cut than the big boys like Steam do.

With the complexity at this point in the story (where lewd interactions are unlocked for basically every character), there's about a 3 to 4 thousands hours of production time to a single chapter, which roughly translates to about a year or so of development time.

Well, that is peculiar. It does live in a different folder from the save file, and only under the app_data sub folder (saves live both under the install folder and under a different appdata subfolder. Perhaps some issue with security settings or overactive anti virus software. At any rate, not to worry, that final save file can be used as an alternative to the choices export (I'm expecting there to be some people who just back up their install folder and move machines, losing access to the choices export, and it can use that as a fallback), so if you have that stored you should be fine too.

https://naughtyroad.itch.io/light-of-my-life
Download using the browser (Chrome).
All three available downloads (pc/linux, Mac, Android) fail, file size ~8 GB for the first two, ~2GB for the last.

The failure is that the download breaks somewhere halfway through, and the message in chrome is "failure - forbidden". There are no corrupted files, it just aborts the download.

This is my own game page, but also reported by some of my customers (which is why I went on and gave it a spin).
Edit, just noticed the question list, adding: 

1. Link to the affected game page https://naughtyroad.itch.io/light-of-my-life
2. Size of the file you’re attempting to download: varies, between 2GB and 8 GB
3. Was the file recently uploaded? (If so, when?): 67 days ago.
4. Was the file uploaded using Butler? (This is only relevant for page owners): Yes
5. Your geographical location (if you’re comfortable sharing): Netherlands
6. A brief summary of the issue - does the download cut out? Slow down? etc.: The failure is that the download breaks somewhere halfway through, and the message in chrome is "failure - forbidden". There are no corrupted files, it just aborts the download.
7. Are you downloading via the app or through your browser? Browser (Chrome).

Did you play the game all the way to the end, where you get an onscreen notification "Making end-of-chapter autosave and exporting choices."? You may have stopped too soon (and may have also missed the little bonus scene that comes after the ending and the end-game summary).

Cheers, glad you liked that. I like doing those little behind the scene posts when I have a moment to spare, which is not that often sadly. 
Personally, I prefer written too, with decent screenshots, as it's easier to follow the steps without having to pause and rewind all the time.

Nope, this is the final update for chapters 1-7, chapter 8 is under development, and will be a new install. See explanation above for the technical reasons.

Thank you! Much appreciated. Yeah, Steam's weird. Oh well.

Oh, I care, and I'm really sorry that in spite of everything you tried, it's not working for you (you did try, did you? Because you wrote earlier you got an error message, and that just means you don't have enough storage to install).

But there's an awful lot of content added in this chapter (it just about doubled in size), and the bottom line is, your phone just doesn't seem to able to deal with the increased memory requirements. 

Do read the instructions in this post. But if your device really is that weak (and you admit yourself it is), then it's really out of my hands. 

Cheers, and thank you!

Currently in the process of figuring that out.

As it says above, it will be a separate release. After 4 years of development, many dozens of hours of gameplay, and a footprint that is giving a lot of hardware a serious run for its money, it's time to tie a ribbon around this one and shove it out the door, so to say.

Not sure what the issue could be. Consider going to my discord and posting your question on bugs and issues.

Stability issues should be mitigated with 0.7.1, but the huge size of the game now seems to be giving android builds trouble. It's under investigation still.

Cheers, appreciate the report.

Known issue, especially with McAffee, that seems to think apps writing in AppData are behaving like malware (in this case, ren'py writes its save games there). I'm convinced it's a false positive, but you should definitely make your own decisions in that regard.

Sonot much I can do about it until the virus scanners tone it down a bit. I've seen reports like this for several other ren'py games too, so it's not just LomL.

Seems to me your download got corrupted. The archive.rpa is a huge file, perhaps diskspace issue?

https://naughtyroad.itch.io/light-of-my-life

Light of my Life is an adult visual novel about loss and love. 

Nearly five years ago, the death of your wife left you in charge of your two young wards. You tried to be the best caregiver you could, but all three of you were scarred and hurt by the sudden loss of the light in your lives. 

Now your wards have become grown-up adults, and the grief you share has pushed you apart. Will you be able to overcome the barriers of your own making and help your wards rekindle the light in their hearts?