Bugs & Stuff


Please use this page to report any bugs or general issues that you come across :3 I'll try to fix them as soon as possible if I can! For help with opening the game on Mac, please take a look at this post here :3

There are a few things I'm already aware of:

  • In the non-potato versions, trying to use the skip function OR skipping through text fast manually often causes the video sprites to freeze, disappear, or freezes the text advance >.< I have no idea why this happens :( 

BUT, you can fix it yourself in-game by rewinding the text by 1 line.

So if it freezes and you can't continue, just press the left arrow key, or your mouse scroll wheel up to rewind 1 line of text, and it should let you keep going!

To prevent it from happening in the first place, either play the game on auto mode, or be patient and allow the text to finish revealing on its own before clicking to continue :3 - or just save yourself the hassle and download a potato version because skipping text should be fine in all potato versions!

  • The initial startup of the game can be quite slow for potato PC's. On our family potato laptop, regardless of the version downloaded, it can take between 30 seconds and 1 minute + 30 seconds to actually launch the game after clicking the exe >.<" The same thing applies for entering & exiting the extras section in the director's cut version where another long loading time can be encountered on potatoes.

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Stellar work as always, but I'm not sure if it's bugged or I'm just stuck; after "the potential we have together" there was no more dialogue or options, and when I tried going to the save screen, it froze there and nothing worked and wouldn't let me go back. 

Thank you so much ^-^ If you were playing one of the video versions, then it’s pretty common, sadly >.< I don’t know exactly what was causing it to happen, but there was a conflict with the video sprites and the voice acting that caused the game to lock up if the text was advanced before it had finished printing or if the text was advanced before a voice line had fully finished playing :( You could temporarily fix it by rewinding 1 line of text in most cases, but it would still keep happening throughout the course of the game >.< In the end, I just decided to scrap the video versions, haha. They might’ve looked pretty, but they were more trouble than they were worth, sadly.

If you experienced the freeze in one of the potato versions though that only has pngs for images, I don’t know what on earth could have caused that T_T

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Hello! I hope you're doing well and I am in love with this game, but I noticed that you posted a guide for the game, when I played it there was no choice given to me but the voice/character choice and after the line "Need proof?" appeared I would go back to the main screen, is that a bug or is the guide for a future update?

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Glad you like the game so far :3 Thanks so much for playing it ^-^ I guess I should probably update the guide to include this, but I'm not at my PC atm >.< For now, I'll put my answer here under spoilers... 


SPOILERS BELOW





It's not a real title screen x3 It's a fake one. If you click the start, load, options, or quit button, you will just get SFX play (heartbeat in O2A2 version or voices in Director's Cut version) - you can continue the game by clicking on the credits button (or the extras button as well if you're playing the Director's Cut version) :3

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Thank you so much!!! I will try playing it again now, I love all of your work >.<

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No worries at all :3 Hopefully, you'll be able to reach all the endings in the guide, but feel free to poke me if you need help with anything :D

That's very kind of you to say as well! Thank you for being so sweet + for playing my stuff ^-^