A new release where this is taken in order will be uploaded momentarily

Level nerf in Groenhart forest. All things considered things there were berely insane, especially since you cannot leave that please until it's been completed at least once

Now this picture was drawn for Luna's father. My next planned project, yet since she already makes a cameo in Star Story, she's been included in that game as well and will appear in the next release on itch.io

The fixed version is incoming here!

An important fix! SDL2.dll wasn't included in release builds by the Apollo builder. This has been fixed.... This will require an immediate update of both The Fairy Tale REVAMPED and Star Story.

Which is happening as we speak!

Wrong devlog

Drown works, though

Target error in Mega Quake and in Catastrophe

This MAY happen later.... As you know my GameJolt account is in a kind of "closing" mode....

Updated

It's completely beyond me how it got there in the first place

A crash on Nizozemska.

Added tag IMPORTANT

I am actually clueless what causes that to happen, actually....

The exe file is acting up again and I do not know why

Not fully sure, but as far as I can see now it appears to be working... Later tests will have to confirm this, though....

Take V

Possible crash when having to create the proper directory

Security messing stuff up?

No game tag in medals

Take IV

C++ code was not yet properly set to fire things up

Indeed!

Take III

There they are again?

???

Savegames disappeared?

Take II

C++ is just pretty primiteive and I should never forget that after using more sophisticated languages

C++ code init issue

Take I

I hope I do not have to turn on the development mode to check this all out, but we'll see

That would link it all together

Achievement sub adapted

Glue code

Completed underlying APIs

Medal synchronizer

Small issue in Y Anhysbys

Well, and that's it for now. I'm gonna take a break, and then focus on my other projects... See ya!

Announcement posted

Announcement posted (and scheduled)

Uploaded, but will be visible in a week!

And with that the project has ended.... Only some fine tuning will come next!

Beta on-line

Quick release builder

And after that Game Jolt will have to be prepared.

Update the script to upload to itch with Butler

Make sure a No-Music version can be easily created

With this being done, I can finally get onto the last leg of the project before the project itself is officially closed and ready for beta. Please note, the project being officially closed doesn't mean no updates can be done. There are still some things in the issue tracker that need addressing, however, the main stuff is then done, and when this step is over the checker flag will be waved.

Well, that covers the final Alpha Test

Once that's done, it's not time to release the beta YET, but then we certainly are closer to that point

All that remains now in the final boss fight

Done

Final part of Excalibur (not counting the final boss section)

Okay, it was still bad luck, eh?

Let's see now

For this some extra debug is going to be required

I really wonder why Foxy keeps refusing to teach Wendicka "Pickpocket" ... The random factors can not be THAT unlucky

Success there.....

I hope I can cover the mines of Airom properly now

Oh, I changed the names of the junk colleciton areas to names more fitting for the current political situation

Let's go for the Eugorvnia caves

Another day, let's get things done.

Time to call it though

The decimal error in Eugorvnia Caves. I already had my suspicions

Apparently this fixes the issue. Not sure how this could happen, though.

Talked enough let's resume the action

Now I also tested the sideway in the Volcania plains dungeon

It goes without saying also that this means the Flower Jungle has been succesfully tested

Oh yeah, I guess it was obvious I was testing Excalibur now

Did I fix it?

No "LeaveTrans"? My source code says otherwise

With that the end of the final alpha is coming near, at least!

Eugorvnia science facility II

Time now to set Marlon's Garden in order

Testing of the graveyard concluded

Let's go... again!

For the casual mode no changes

Higher level boss graveyard in hard mode

Lower level in easy mode, boss Graveyard

And let's resume the test!

Boss in Dark Graveyard really had the wrong level calculation. That has been fixed

Let's resume the action!

Syntax error

Don't be too fast, Jeroen

Belioss

Testing will go along the way, but for now this will do

Not that it mattesr for Star Story anymore, though, but for "The Fairy Tale REVAMPED","63 fires of lung" and "Star Story II" (the latter two in particular) this will still matter

And this will make my work in Kthura much easier

Some updates for June19

Void confirmed

In which I am now testing Frendor bushes of the "Phantasar" sidequest

Updating the alpha

And I lost a lot of fucking data with that crash too.

And I hope that covers them all now!

Well, let's void that for Blizzard.

Crash in multi target spellani (that famous impossible cockroach that keeps popping up)

#167 Must be easy to fix, however, this is not yet important to make the game go into beta. It's only cosmetic after all.

Black Castle (side quest tested)

Alpha done up to the point where the first stuff on Nizozemska is done

Complete up to Volcania completed

Oh, I see #165 was already fixed... Closed it!

Let's roll it!

vUpdate

Updating

For now I'll close #166, however I *is* possible things are not in order yet!

But I'll continue that later today

The Alpha is by the way up to the point where I gotta start on Volcania

Only on the next wipe I'll know if this works, as this is hard to test at the present time, but for now this will do.

I'll force my way though then

It's that fucking scheduling conflict again... I'm gonna go to very drastic measures now!

Completed up to the point where Crystal has to fight her solo-boss

This particular bug however will need to be looked at when I got my debugger fully turned back on, as this is a rather complex one, I'm afraid

#166

I've tested the game up to the point where you get onto the Hawk.... So far so good.

Let's continue in the Dark Caves

Ah, a miscalculation in Neil's bug for decimals without leading zero

For some odd reason the boss' level in the Dark Caves in incredibly high in the easy mode

Yaqirpa completed

A few important things came in between, however I got myself a start up savegame now in the Yaqirpa

Starting an easy-mode game in order to make the final alpha test myself. I do hope my alpha tester can also do a bit more before XMas as I really hope I can release the game as beta before 2022

Fixed at last!

Take III

Will THIS do the trick then?

Nope, that didn't do anything

Take II

I do not not what causes the crash when you cancel loading a new savegame... All I can hope it's fixed now

Meet Gavida Klahré

She's planned to be the main protagonist for Star Story II

And that will be all for now....

My main alpha tested could play the game in alpha up to the savespot halfway the dungeon.... This is great progress, already.... I hope I can start up my own big alpha test soon

A quick devlog update could be in order there....

Uploading the new version

Complete rebuild

License data

As far as I can judge for now, this fixes the issue, but like I said before, this is one of those issues of which you never know it's fixed... you can only know it isn't if this happens again!

Take V

Oh well!

C++ can really get under my skin sometimes

Take IV

No clue if this will work, but here goes nothing!

Clearly this only makes matters worse... But why?

Well that didn't work out too well, either!

Take III

Let's force it then!

VisualStudio won't compile as this didn't require C++ code to get modified (crap)

Take II

Internal script syntax error (had nothing to do with this, but got in the way)

Take I

This is however one of those bugs you can never be sure of, if they are fixed or not. You can only be sure it's not if the error pops up again... That makes this issue in particular very frustrating.

Not sure but I've done some study to Lua's core features, as it appear s the mysterious stack overflow errors are caused there.
That SHOULD therefore be fixed now, but I cannot be sure

I may not yet be able to do something about that, but I hope I can plan a full Star Story day the upcoming week

I just need to post this again

CUCKOO!!!!

I didn't put this into a library in order to make sure some game specific adaptions could still be needed, that's all

BoxText routine transferred from Star Story to The Fairy Tale

I'll never figure this out, I suppose

And it works?

WTF is going on here?

But the game still says "no"?

OpenURL.exe not copied any more

Build all crap

Console off again

Copy of OpenURL.exe in the game's Apollo Project File

Compilation succesful

Compile

I now handled this a different way now... This should make the entire call to OpenURL.exe unneeded

Natural break first...

And that is the reason for all this suffering, for sure

Aha!!!! Directory creation goes through OpenURL.exe as well....

Let's investigate the results, shall we?

Antonius is now going through Apollo

In the scripts I can find nothing more that is causing this issue, so I guess I most turn Apollo upside down

Bug tracker should now be called directly, without OpenURL.exe

A full scan of all files to a passible call request

Let's see if I can get rid of all references to OpenURL.exe

I made an issue on this in #163

For now this will do

A new version will be uploaded momentarily

For now I'll leave the console on to prevent trouble, and I hope I can get some time this week to fix this issue and to be able to remove that program from the game entirely, but for now, this will have to do...

Now I know that OpenURL.exe may be called and be to blame for this... I don't know why it's called there... I'll need to turn the savegame routine upsaide down for this.

Saving works, but still it tries to get to the Windows main screen....

And let's see what happens after a build now!

Console off again

Let's see now!

I hope

System is messing on me

A little mistake along the way

I had to adept the Apollo Builder for this

for now I'll include OpenURL with the release, but that should be done on a better way

During saving the game seems to call OpenURL for some reason.... I don't know why so I'm looking for any script that may do that....

"OpenURL" called? Why?