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Mistwinter Bay

Rule a town! Interact with townsfolk and foreign leaders, build, and tackle randomized events that affect the town · By Swordlake Entertainment, LevUNknown

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A topic by Swordlake Entertainment created Sep 01, 2022 Views: 201 Replies: 4
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Developer (2 edits)

This is the place to be if you want to report bugs for the game. With bugs we mean crashes and the like that make the game experience less than desirable. If you want to report a grammatical error found in the game, please report that in the designated thread, found here: https://itch.io/t/2337292/grammatical-errors

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Ver 1.0.1.0 

Game crashes before even launching and it displays the following error message: 

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ERROR in

action number 1

of Create Event

for object obj_game:

JSON parse error

at gml_Object_obj_game_Create_0

############################################################################################

gml_Object_obj_game_Create_0 (line -1)

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I'm not sure what went wrong as the game was working as fine earlier and when my computer lost power (forgot to charge), the game got forced closed and now  this message pops up. I've tried to re-download the game files,  and restarting my computer but the same message appears regardless. Not sure what to do, but I would have loved to keep playing the game since I just finished getting married to one of the candidates.  Thanks!

Developer

Sorry about the issue, that's very unfortunate! Based on the error code, it does indeed seem like something went wrong when your computer lost power, probably related to some files not being saved properly. As such, it most likely isn't something we can fix in an update. That being said, we suggest that you try the following:

1. Locate your savefiles in your computer's folders by going to: user->AppData->Local->Mistwinter Bay. You need to allow to show hidden files, or the AppData-folder and all folders in it won't show up

2. Delete the "settings.save" file. Start the game and see if it starts like it should. Deleting this file means that you have to re-apply any custom settings

3. If the above step didn't work, repeat the process but delete the "menus.save" file instead. Deleting this file means that menus, such as the Townsfolk Roster etc, opens in a default setting and not where you last left off

4. If the above steps didn't work, repeat the process but delete the "savemanager.save" file instead. It's worth noting that when this file is deleted, your savefiles will not be properly displayed when saving/loading in the game, but they are still there and can be loaded and saved to as before. Deleting this file will also delete some achievement progress statistics, achievement coins and some other things. As such, for the best experience, it might be worth it to delete the "achievements.save" file as well so that all achievements can be obtained again

5. If none of the above steps worked, deleting all remaining files should hopefully solve the issue. Unfortunately, this means losing all current saved games

We hope one of the steps helps!

Thank you for the quick reply! After trying everything the fourth step finally worked! Although I lost some achievement prog, I can at least still be married (LOL). I'm excited to keep playing, thanks for making a good game :)

Developer

Thank you! We're happy to hear that things got sorted! Best of luck with the rest of your playthrough