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Final Fantasy Origins Demo was actually pretty amazing and so is this game.

Dude that voice acting is on point. The art style is very unique.

So during the Jam I kept getting this error "Houdini Installation was not detected.Failed to locate or load libHAPIL.dll. No cooking / instantiation will take place." and decided not to upload my submission. But I was able to fix it eventually. So I'll post what I did in case it helps somebody in the future.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Houdini Indie\engine

Inside the folder of "engine" I noticed that only the Unreal folder hasn't been changed in a long time because of the date. The unity one was already up to date with a recent change. So that lead me to believe something was wrong with the unreal folder. So I deleted the "unreal" folder. Inside of steam I right clicked "Houdini Indie" in my Library and went to Properties. I then went to the "Local Files" tab and selected:

"Verify Integrity of Application Files..."

Steam detected the deleted files and made new up to date ones.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Houdini Indie\engine\unreal\4.25

I copied the folder "HoudiniEngine" from the folder 4.25 because 4.25 was the version of Unreal Engine 4 I was using at the time.

C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_4.25\Engine\Plugins\Runtime

I placed "HoudiniEngine" inside of "Runtime. I made sure to delete the old folder of "HoudiniEngine" if one was already in there.

I went into Unreal Engine 4 and went to the project settings.
I made sure "Start Automatic Server" was checked. So I unchecked it anyways and checked it again to make sure it was working. I also put "Session Type" to "TCP socket" Not sure if any of this helped in any way.

I then scrolled down and went to "Houdini Location" section. I made sure to checkmark "Use custom Houdini location (requires restart)". I then set the "Custom Houdini location" path to

C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Houdini Indie/bin

That's where Houdini was installed for me on steam.

I then went to Plugins in Unreal Engine 4 and found the "Installed section" I made sure to Uncheck mark "Houdini Engine".

I then went and restarted Unreal Engine 4. Then I went back to the "Installed section" and made sure Houdini Engine in Plugins was installed again.

Then everything worked for me and the error was gone.

Although whenever I close Houdini or stop it's process in Steam, it crashes my entire steam. So I have to reload it back up and log back in again. But this always happen to me ever since I got it. Also now when I close Unreal Engine 4 it crashes Steam as well because of Houdini.

I'm glad I could finally get it to work. I'm excited for whenever the next game jam is though!

Finally was able to get some friends to play it with. Very fun game! It'd be nice if there was a mode to play with bots/ai.