Beta Build: [Emberfate] Day 8 (Final)

Hey everyone!

I'm happy to announce that the v0.7 build of Emberfate, containing all 8 days of content, is now available!

Note: Since Day 8 is the finale / endings, most of your choices in this episode are flavor and do not change the story / romance outcome as they've already been determined by your previous choices in Days 1-7. If you'd like to explore other endings, please try going back to earlier episodes!

As this is the last episode of the base game, I'll be leaving the download link available for patrons of next month as well, instead of removing it at the end of the month like before. 

Current November patrons who remain a $15 or above patron next month in December will receive a free, early copy of the behind-the-scenes booklet PDF (which will be sold in January to the public at retail price of around $5-10)! 

Download

https://wind-chimes-games.itch.io/emberfate-tempest-of-elements-patreon-beta 

Password: WowItsFinallyOver

Patreon-exclusive cheat codes to check out each of the three raid endings in v.7.0.3:

timetowipealot             -- for the Bad raid ending 

decentraidiguess         -- for the Normal raid ending 

yayraidclear                -- for the Good raid ending

Game Statistics

The game contains 8,655 dialogue blocks, containing 90,644 words and 466,952 characters, for an average of 10.5 words and 54 characters per block.

The game contains 369 menus, 53 images, and 121 screens.

Before you start playing, please read the following:

For Old Patrons

1. Save files from the last Patreon v0.6 build should be compatible. When you click Load on the main menu upon starting up the game, a prompt should pop up asking you if you want to load one of the last End of Episode autosaves. A list of save files from end of Day 7 should appear if you reached the end of the last v0.5 build. Simply choose any of the save files to continue your adventure!

To access manual save files, you can simply click no to the prompt when asked if you'd like to pick up where you left off. This will lead you back to the normal load screen with a list of all your manual save files.

As with before, for manual save files, please try to load the save file normally first and see if any errors pop up when you try to choose the first chat choice. If you run into an error, please try to load the save file once again but with Force Recovery Mode enabled.

Please note that the force recovery mode will put you back at the start of the chapter, so you'll still have to replay the last chapter, but it should at least save you the trouble of playing all the way from the start again. I'm really sorry for the inconvenience caused!

For New Patrons

2. If you're a new patron who just joined this month, you will notice that there are no saves available in the menu when you first launch the game and try to load.

You can transfer your last Day 6 save file from the public v0.5.x build over so you can load the save file and pick up from Day 6 instead of having to replay from the start.

You might have to turn on viewing for hidden files / folders, but your save files for the public v0.5.x build should be found in the following folder:

Windows: %AppData\Roaming\RenPy\EmberfateTempestofElementsPublic-1631333206

Mac: $HOME/Library/RenPy/EmberfateTempestofElementsPublic-1631333206

Linux: $HOME/.renpy/EmberfateTempestofElementsPublic-1631333206

Copy all of the .save files and the persistent file over to the Patreon build save folder, which should be in the following location:

Windows: %AppData\Roaming\RenPy\EmberfateTempestofElements-1631333206

Mac: $HOME/Library/RenPy/EmberfateTempestofElements-1631333206

Linux: $HOME/.renpy/EmberfateTempestofElements-1631333206

Then relaunch the Patreon build of the game, and you should be able to see the old save files from the public Day 6 version.

Then follow the steps mentioned in Point #1 to proceed if you run into any errors while using the old Day 6 save files!

(Note: If the folder EmberfateTempestofElementsPublic-1631333206 listed above is empty for some reason, try checking the game folder instead. There might be a subfolder called "saves", and if it has the .save files and persistent data file, then proceed as explained above with the contents of this "saves" folder.)

3. There might be bugs and typos that I've missed despite doing my hardest to catch them all. Please let me know if there's anything that's not working as intended. You can leave a comment below or PM me on Discord / in the Patreon channel in Discord server!

5. Please do not redistribute these files to anyone else! This is a Patreon-exclusive early build after all.

That's all I can think of for now. Please do let me know your comments and thoughts if possible! Live reacts in the Discord server would be amazing too!

Thank you so much for the support! I'll take a quick break for a day and get back to working on the next build for next month!~