Allure of the Stars

near-future Sci-Fi roguelike and tactical squad game · By Man of Letters

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Help. My game doesn't open.

A topic by Sandpiper Videoworkshop created Nov 25, 2023 Views: 145 Replies: 5

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Sandpiper Videoworkshop1 year ago

It has opened once. I accidentaly closed it and now it won't open again. Error message says "Error when parsing configuration file. Please fix config.ui.ini or remove it altogether". What should I do?

Man of LettersDeveloper1 year ago

Hi! Apparently the configuration file somehow got corrupted. Just delete this file. It should be in C:\Documents And Settings\user\Application Data\Allure\config.ui.ini or C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Allure\config.ui.ini.

Let me know if the problem persists or repeats. Have fun!

Sandpiper Videoworkshop1 year ago (1 edit)

OMFG, it worked. It was in AppData, but still, it breaks every time i close the game. BIG thank you, The-Man-of-Letters Johnson.

Since we're at it. Why last update 2 years ago? Preparing something big? Or burnout?

Man of LettersDeveloper1 year ago

If you have a spare moment, could you send me the file the way it is after you close the game? Does it matter if you close it from menu or if you kill the window? Which version of Windows is this?

I got a tired by the repeated breakage of SDL (the portable graphics library I use) and related libraries on Windows. Once SDL stabilizes and especially if I could get a co-maintainer focused on Window, I hope to resume the development in the future. I've made a very small update a month ago, but I can't easily build Windows binaries, so it's a source release only (on github).

BTW, why Johnson? :)

Sandpiper Videoworkshop1 year ago (2 edits)

I don't know how to send files via Itch.io and I don't have Twitter, so i'll just send picture of a file, opened through notepad. I don't know how your game is working, but it seems like it has closed before it finished writing down all the data. It happens no matter which way i close it. I'm using Windows 10
If you need the file itself please tell me which way to send you, The Man, The Myth, The Legend of Letters.

P. S. I dunno why Johnson, i just sometimes add it to other person's nickname

Man of LettersDeveloper1 year ago

The screenshot is fine and you are right, it appears the file gets truncated when it's written. I've created a ticket for this bug: https://github.com/LambdaHack/LambdaHack/issues/302. It also contains a possible workaround. Please let me know if the workaround works for you and any feedback about the actual game (assuming it works fine this time, let's hope).

BTW, did you use a windows installer or the zipped binary to install the game? Unlikely, but potentially one of them may be failing in this way and another may be fine.

Reading the rest of you post, man, you are poet! :)

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Help. My game doesn't open.