February 1st, 2012. As Winter turns to Spring, your departure from Inaba rapidly approaches. This separation will have a monumental impact on your life and the lives of your friends – but in facing it together, you may find new paths opening in your relationships with them.
Hi! I doubt you're still here, but I'm having trouble getting this to function, as it seems like both required downloads are no longer available. Is there anything I can do about this? I miss playing it.
Hi! Apparently Tumblr is having issues with redirecting links. The links work while I'm editing the post, but break when live. Lovely :)
Here are the plain text links for the downloads. I've added them to the pinned release post as well.
Have you considered rebuilding the game using renpy or some other established VN engine?
I'm keeping my options open in case Atlus disappoints us again (baleful sidelong glance at P5) but I can't imagine anything I want to do less than redo the markup on a 120,000 word script, argh. Maybe someday if I wake up hating myself with nothing else to do.
I know that you're not going to implement proper skip dialogue function, but maybe you could do a button that would allow scroll through dialogue faster? E.g. you hold control or z and it acts are repeatedly pressing enter (but without making choices in dialogue menus). It would make replaying the game much easier.
I think that's a pretty solid workaround. I'm pretty swamped at the moment but I'll add it to the list of fixes. Thanks!
Hi! I fulfilled the requirements to trigger the White Day flag for Kanji, but I didn't get the White Day event and just got a free day in town instead....?
This happens if his status is only "friend" - so either you are not yet actually dating him (Rank 6), or you were dating him and then triggered a second dating route, which causes his dating status to revert to friend.Note that Yosuke's dating flag is invisible, so if you didn't actively choose to cheat this is a likely culprit.
So it looks like there's a "text" flag that's never used for anything..? Is that something that was planned or did I miss it?
Nice catch! I had planned on including a mechanic that allowed you to send texts to the guys, probably at night, but it got the chopping block when I needed to save time. Rather than taking out the flag from the script and save/load functions I just left it unused.
I think I might have run into a bug on one of the routes and I wasn't able to find anyone on here with a similar problem. I'm right after the part with the shadow when you're reading the text messeges from everyone and right after Yosuke's message "datingsim" stops working. I'm dating Kanji, if that makes any difference. Is there anything I can do to fix it besides replaying from the beginning?
This has come up before, but when the person sent me their save file I didn’t see anything unusual about it, and it worked for me when I played from their save. (And eventually worked for them too without either of us doing anything, I think.) It was also with Kanji in that case. I’ll look into this for 1.2.
In the meantime, please feel free to send me your save file so I can take a look at it (strangestquiet at gmail), or if you feel comfortable editing it yourself, you can change the tree and saved node parameters to skip to 3/19.
Working through my message backlog in reverse order. I’m responding to most logged-in messages privately and will post most others in this format periodically until I get through them!
1. Really sorry, if the game worked and then didn’t, I’m not sure what to tell you except try to uninstall/reinstall the prerequisites, and to make sure you don’t have too much else running. As far as I can tell the game runs well on faster computers, but when something else is eating up a lot of memory it won’t get started.
2. Thank you! I really like the Rejected Shadow too, that’s what I think my personal headcanon protag would end up with, haha. But really, he’s got so many different kinds of potential issues... I love Shadow Protag ahhhh
3. Thanks, I added this to the list of things to fix in v1.2!
4. Ohhh I never did add that into the walkthrough, whoops! I’ll fix and reupload now!
5. Haha thanks! God I hated the NPCs for the longest time until I learned how to embrace them. I’m glad I put all the effort into them that I did though, they helped bring the game together as a whole in the end, I think! Glad to know they’re appreciated :D
6. See question 1 above -- this is often an issue with computer specs, but I can’t say for sure since there’s no error message :( Sorry... I wish I had a better answer.
7. I think the slowness of the tumblr was the custom theme I used to have! I switched it out for another one and everything seems much faster now.
8. I’m sure you figured this out by now, but yeah, the first save option isn’t until 2/2. I think I’ll add one on the first day in v1.2, since people seem to be expecting it there.
9. I didn’t write him with that in mind!! But I liked those two a lot. So. Sure. Why not. :D
10. I haven’t! Embarrassingly, I’ve hardly played any dating sims at all. Like... I don’t think I’ve played even one (aside from playerprophet‘s LP of Hatoful Boyfriend). The social link style is really interesting to work with though, seeing how other people do it would be pretty cool!
Hey! Thanks for all of your hard work on the game :D We all really appreciate it! I just wanted to ask (sorry if I'm pestering) about the Mac update...I know you said mid-July a while back but I was just wondering what the new release date would be! No pressure or anything, I know you have a life haha.
Hey! Totally understandable, sorry for the delay on this! The Mac port is coming pretty slowly since I really don’t know what the heck I’m doing in that regard, I have zero Mac knowledge. But hopefully I’ll have more to report soon.
HI! I re-ran through Yosuke's dating arc for my last playthrough, and decided to cheat on him with Kanji. Now I'm not sure this is even possible, since Yosuke's dating flag is on rank 8->9? It definitely didn't work when I tried it -- it even canceled out Yosuke's white day gift to me when I went intimate with Kanji. I guess I'll try editing the file and seeing if that works (I really wanted to see how that dialogue would play out), but I thought I'd send it to you just in case. Thanks!
Hey! You need to be dating someone in order to get their White Day event, so it definitely is possible for that event to be taken away if you cheat on them.
Yosuke has an earlier dating flag in Rank 7->8, so it should be possible to “date” and then get someone else’s dating flag. IIRC the second person you date will take precedence and the first will be set to cheating status (oh god, I think? I don’t have any documentation in front of me, but if you lost your White Day privileges then that sounds right). But then later on in Rank 8->9 Kanji would catch on that you cheated with him. So it's the second person who calls you out - something I think I'd like to change in a subsequent release someday.
I’m way behind on answering asks btw - gonna see if I can lump them together into a couple of larger posts soon to spare everyone’s dashes.
Thanks for indulging me! I’d always expected Alone to be the predominant ending and even made it default if it was tied with anything else. But I realized after I saw the results starting to come in that Rejected was linked to a lot of the “good” answers you’d normally input if you were trying to do well in a game like this. (Which is, I think, very appropriate for what this ending gets at...!)
Anyway, I’m still tinkering with the tools to get the Mac version going -- more news soon.
Something to think about while I’m working on stuff - I’m pretty curious as to which endgame was the most common, to see if it lines up with how the game was planned. Please take a second to fill out if you feel like it!
I’m just about done with my other post-con business (namely: take a damn break and host some out-of-town friends), so just dropping in to note that I’ll be back with news about the Mac version and some other possible minor fixes later this week. Thanks for being patient!
In the meantime, I just spent a lot of words jabbering about various game-related things over here if you’re into that. Feels good to finally be able to talk about it!
