Update: Working Version of the Test Build Now Available

Well, that didn't exactly go smoothly, did it? Obviously I knew there'd be some bugs and glitches but I wasn't quite prepared for just how many - and the one that really broke my heart was that the damn characters and foreground images were missing!

You'll be glad to know that I've ironed out that particular issue - in case you're interested: turns out what runs fine within the game editor is way more picky when the game is exported and I had the foreground images folder name capitalized in some places but not in others, so the game was struggling and failing to pull the images from what it thought was a non-existant folder. ANYWAY, that annoying issue is fixed now. 

See the bottom of this post for all the other small fixes and tweaks. 

But more importantly I can now share with you a new and hopefully working version! 

Game Tested all the way through on:

- Web Version (works fine for me on Firefox, Safari and Opera, runs kinda sluggish during transitions and fadeouts and whatnot in Chrome. Untested for performance on Microsoft Edge)

- Mac Version

Still Untested:

PC Version

Linux Version

Please do let me know if these are also working fine now - they should be because the issue above was affecting all versions, but it would be great to hear back that the game is now running and showing all images on PC too. 

Oh and speaking of images! Did you run up against this screen already?

I guess I should have explained, but I've built in a few little point-and-click moments in the game. So maybe it's worth hovering your mouse at certain moments just in case something might happen ... It should be kinda obvious which ones they are! 

Also it's in the Help section of the main menu but did you know you can use your keyboard to play? The arrow keys move you between locations, Q through T select choices (if they are available) and Enter advances dialogue and descriptions during the in game event sequences. That said, I would suggest just sticking to either the enter or next arrow per sequence. If you switch between the two during a special event sequence I've noticed that the dialogue advances too fast (an issue i'm also working on fixing). 

So with all that said, here's the links to the new working version!! 

Web Version (<-- password is now: ggtestbuild2)

PC Download 

Mac Download 

Linux Download 

Thank you all so much for your feedback and bug reporting so far, too. Please use this post (or DM me) for all bugs or whatever you find relating to this version moving forward. But hopefully it should finally be playing okay now -- finally!!

I'm sorry the release wasn't as smooth as I would have hoped - but it's taught me a LOT about exporting and playtesting the game and hopefully future releases won't go quite so badly! 

Dana x

p.s. Here's the full list of issues i've hopefully fixed with this new version: 

Characters/foreground images now showing on special events

Story advance arrow no longer goes missing randomly (at least hopefully! I've tested it as much as i can, but do let me know if you run into any instances of this)

Menu Button temporarily reinstated during special events - in case game of game getting locked with a button or choice missing missing (see above), so at at least you can now exit out to the main menu and reload from your last save point.

The 'Dance Practice' video now stops and disappears as soon as you stop practicing dancing (before it would still be playing on top of other images)

Blocked the ability to leave Heather's bedroom during the 'choose clothes' moment unless you're fully dressed - before you could enter her party in nothing but bra, panties and a wig!

p.p.s. If any Mac users run up against a warning screen when trying to open the downloaded game, just head over to Settings>Security & Privacy and click the Open Anyway Button (as shown below)