Here I'll compile some frequently asked questions! This will be extended over time, feel free to ask questions in the replies!
General
- When is the "Full Game" coming out?
- Our Apartment will be in development for some time, the goal is the steam release in 2024. But the steam release is not the "complete" game there after there will be story updates until the story is complete.
- Right now you can support the game for $10, this is one-time
- Whenever you purchase the game you will get future updates! So effectively supporting is getting the full game eventually!
- Itch ONLY gets stable updates, not test or rough releases. This ensures what people have access to is playable.
- The preview feels more polished than the current release, why is that?
- Our Apartment is a game in active development, meaning things are ever changing! The preview was designed to be complete for what it is and polished for what it is. When Our Apartment is complete that's the quality you can expect. Understand the preview is an ENTIRELY different game than the current development. It's full of things made to work in one way, one time. That code would have never worked for a full game.
- During development "polish" often means temporary fixes and temporary code which is wasteful work. I used to try to do this but stopped. The focus is the game being completed and giving people access to something playable in the meantime.
- When the steam release is done from then on updates released will only be polished releases. Cause by this point the games systems and functions will be finalized, it's just going to be content. Perhaps I'll have a dev branch or something for people to try. Understand by that point the price will likely increase.
- I like just having a scene viewer or only the sex sim, will Our Apartment bring that back?
- Perhaps, but my current plan is to continue the simpler format in a separate project. Please stay tuned for info on that.
- Are there plans for VR in the future?
- I may experiment with that as I've done some VR dev, have a Vive and have some experience. But VR dev is very troublesome, it's not likely that I would want to jump into it anytime soon not when there's so much to do already.
- Why should I buy on itch?
- If you buy on itch now you'll get the full game when it comes out and "stable" updates before then.
- Should I support on Patreon/SubscribeStar instead?
- If you want to support development and get development builds yes, along with some other benefits. Don't support if you simply want to buy the game.
- Why is there no PayPal option?
- I am banned from PayPal cause PayPal is evil, they won't give me a reason or resolution unless I sue them. Stop using paypal. There is nothing I can do.
- If you support on Patreon you can claim an itch key https://momoirosoft.itch.io/our-apartment/patreon-access which lets you keep the game even if you cancel.
Bugs
- Naomi suddenly is merged with male items! It's horrifying!
- Yes, sorry this is a bug discovered after release of the preview where save data between player and Naomi is mixed. You can fix this in two ways.
- Easiest is going to Outfit Presets (The category at the top) then choosing an outfit preset, this also clears any incorrect items on Naomi.
- Delete save data in "AppData" folder under "Momoirosoft/Our Apartment" on windows.
- Yes, sorry this is a bug discovered after release of the preview where save data between player and Naomi is mixed. You can fix this in two ways.
- My performance is slow!
- There is some light graphics settings in the settings, look for the cog wheel on the main menu. Turning off SSAO should do a lot, but there is also a low quality setting too. This will be more configurable in future versions.
- The game is showing me statistics and FPS info for some reason?
- Turn off "FPS Counter" in settings
Windows
- I changed the resolution or full screen mode and now the game keeps crashing?
- This is a bizarre bug seemingly related to DX12. The current solution is force DX11 or Vulkan mode.
- To do this create a shortcut of the exe, open it's properties, and then add "-force-d3d11" to the end of the target (make sure there's a space after the parenthesis.
OSX
- Naomi appears to be semi transparent?
- Disable SSAO in the settings, there's some kind of compatibility issue there for some reason.
- It says the file is corrupted?
- Thanks to this thread, the user recommended this YouTubevideo which solved their problem. I do not understand this problem at the moment and don't exactly have the means to get a mac PC to figure out how to stop it from happening (or just build on OSX).
- I've shifted to doing cloud builds for OSX but it seems like if the zip file touches a windows PC ever it causes this problem. I'm not sure what to do about this yet.
Android
- I can't install the game, it gives me a ".bin" file instead of a ".apk"?
- This is an error within itch, I need to talk to them about it. But if you acess the download page on your phone it seems it causes the downloader to download a bin file instead of an APK. Switching your phones browser to desktop mode should solve this, or downloading from a PC. Sorry for the trouble.
- The game does not make it past the logo for me!
- There's many potential issues for this like memory or the age of the device, sometimes random issues thats hard to predict.
- Commonly though devices with the top 50 mobile GPU's run the game fine. You can find the list here.
- The game won't install on android
- This is due to a 64bit requirement on some devices (mostly google devices), this required a major change which caused a lot of issues to fix. Because of this I can't roll to older versions. You'll have to wait for the next release, and a new preview release at some point.
WebGL
- I can't close the help menu!
- Yeah sorry about this, it's a red "X" at the top right, it's too close to the "Full screen" button so I think people have been missing that.