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How will previous Chapter saves be detected on New Chapters?

A topic by Casualclick created Jan 06, 2023 Views: 342 Replies: 3
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Just bought Chapter 2 because 1 was so awesome. Great job on the narrative and branch tree. 

I did mostly play this on Android, but I'm wondering how Ch.2 saves will be detected for Windows version? I'm assuming much like Ch.1, Ch.2 just overwrote the previous install and that's how it saw my saves, but I wanted to know the best approach for desktop installs. Thanks!

Developer(+1)

Thank you for the kind words and for playing our game!

The short answer is you don't have to change anything nor prepare for anything regarding your saves on the Windows version. Your saves will continue to exist because in the code it is the "same" game as far as the saves are concerned.  Your saves are also stored elsewhere as a backup on the various systems to enable this (https://savelocation.net/renpy). Some saves me become broken/unusable as an unfortunate part of the development process but we do everything in our power to avoid that.

Now, I will say for Android in order for the best chance for the builds to work properly, you must uninstall the previous installation for the best chance of success and the build starting. This is also for the benefit of anyone else reading.

Thanks very much! For Android - since uninstall is recommended, will it see the previous saves - i.e., when Chapter 3 becomes available?

Developer (1 edit)

NP! Yes, as long as you are hitting "allow" to the first prompt when you start the game up initially on Android it will save your files in a safe location outside of where you are installing it.