Bug Fixes, Tiny Update

Hi everybody, I hope you've been enjoying the Twine build so far! My anxious mind was grappling with dread all weekend that the whole thing would be riddled with bugs and thus unplayable and deflating, but I was extremely grateful to come back after the weekend to find only the kindest of messages and encouragement from you all--I can't tell you how much I appreciate your enthusiasm over the new build! Porting over 1 million words into a new code syntax was bound to create weird little hard-to-find errors everywhere, so I thank you all for your patience and understanding as we continue to smooth the wrinkles out during this sudden transition!

That being said, many of you left incredibly helpful bug reports over the weekend, so I was able to upload fixes to much of what you caught! I did this quickly last night because one bug in particular--during All Heroes Eve in Chapter 4--pretty much broke everybody's game (it was a missing 0. That's all it took...), but now I'm going to be taking a while to focus on other things so I can wrangle my life back under control! XD I'll return to bug-hunting before uploading the update at the end of the month, as per usual!

I kept track of all of the bugs I squashed last night here, and also made a quick troubleshooting guide for anyone dealing with browser issues here. To my dismay, I found out that my dev logs aren't automatically visible to anyone because the game is protected by a password--which... doesn't make a ton of sense to me--but I've reached out to itch.io support to see if anything can be done. If not, I'll copy-paste it all into a single Google doc for you guys or something so you can keep track of things alongside me!

So, my to-do list this month:

• Chase's room should be the goody for this month, so long as the artist stays on schedule

• No Q&A this month, but possibly next month if there's time

• I'll be updating the new build with new companion interludes this month

• I'll try and convert more of Chapter 8 if I have the time

• Bug-squashing will take place just before the new update is uploaded

• Hoping I have time to squeak out an update to the short story

In between all of that I'll be catching up on wedding planning, trying to squeeze in some time with my novel manuscript, catching up on my Tumblr queue and messages, looking into optimizing online performance of the game further, and of course, daily life stuff as it arises. At least I managed to do one load of laundry yesterday!

(By the way, my birthday weekend was lovely: thanks to everyone who sent well wishes! We kayaked six miles down our local river: it felt like a dream and a course in Pokemon Snap. My fiance lost his hat to the river at one point, and in the frantic paddle to try and corner it before it was swept downstream, I stopped paying attention to where I was going once he reached it and drifted into a tree that was slumped over the riverbank. Not a big deal--and he got his hat back!--except for the fact that a nest of 6+ spiders silently dropped into my kayak as a result. 😭 Being trapped on a kayak in the middle of a river with half a dozen extremely frantic, huge spiders (all of different species! just my luck!) was a shriek-worthy way to spend my birthday, but it was all great fun. I think it's funny that we wanted a day to decompress from all of the stress and adrenaline I'd put my body through during Crunch Time, only for an apocalypse of spiders to drop directly on top of me. 🥲 🤣 Then we watched like 5 horror movies (lol), he surprised me with a trip to the zoo the next day, and sushi!)

Anyway, thank you to all of you for your patience and understanding, as always! This is our tentative schedule for now, and I'll keep you updated if anything changes! Have a great rest of your week!