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?

This should void the issue

Until I know how to fix this I'll set the console on in the release version of the game....

A few blockmap issues in Excalibur and the Yaqirpa

Crash upon learning Jolt under certain circumstances

The savegame feature malfunctions when the console is not up.... I need to do a throrough investigation why this can happen, however due to lack of time now, that will have to wait. This issue will also affect the Fairy Tale and future games, so I need to give this one a view over time anyway

Like I said I am going to take a break here, I will start a real big test later, and that should lead to the last things before the checker flag can be waved.... See ya, around!

At least the extra console window closes when running from the GUI, and that's most important right now

Not exactly what I had in mind, but for now it will have to do, I fear

Console check in Apollo (affects ALL Apollo based games)

Console release in Apollo if the identify file instructs the builder to

I'll first be taking a break from this project... Some final stuff to be done will really come later....

So far for now....

Again!

Better now?

GRRR!

Uploading again!

I think

Failed

Uploading first open alpha

Quick script to build and to call Butler

The "no music" version will also not be released during the alpha... it will be during the beta and stable

The open ALPHA will NOT be released on Game Jolt... This because gjpush is pain for a game that may require daily updates

Now I can prepare the itch release

THAT WORKS!

Let's see....

The question is now: Does the release work?

Works!

Quick test

Set up a quick script for release building

As far as it looks like stuff appears to be in order now

Take XI

ARF had to be taken care of on its own

Take X

Something snuck into the code that was not right.... Killed it

Take IX

The damage

Sometimes the auto code organizer in Visual Studio can cause more harm than good

Take VIII

Dirry call needed

But not there yet

Yup that does things right

Take VII

Fixed it

Got it!

No results

Take VI

Added extra line that must give me some answers

why?

Doesn't do what it must do, though...

Take V

First set up to copy all required binaries in

For the JCR part stuff appears to be working as far as I can check, but not there yet!

Take IV

Import copy to release

Not there yet!

So far it works

Take III

Main package error

Take II

Syntax error

But a little test is possible now!

A few pre-work things taken care of, but not there yet!

This is needed for the release

Builder now has global config

First lunch, but then I'm gonna see if I can configure the Apollo builder for releases

All is okay here

Build date more accurate now

A bit of study for things in PowerShell

AT LAST!

Take XII

That voids another issue

Leftofer from old situation causing crashes now

A font fix, but that's not really relevant, right now

Take XI

Let's try this!

And no transport anymore, this is getting fucking annoying now!

Take X

I could see that ï worked, though

Perhaps this voids that?

What the.....?

Take IX

Reactivated then

Transport deactivated?

ï

But why didn't the transporter work?

Well that worked

Take IX

Let's try a different approach then, eh?

First dupe player and now no player, but we did have to crash, didn we?

Take VIII

DA FUCK?

Take VII

???

???

Take VI

Another one

Crash

Take V

In order to fix the crash I've adusted the intro map a bit

And the API on Game Jolt has been disabled forever... Older games cannot access the API anymore (and the new game doesn't support it).

I made "LOADING" appear sooner to prevent confusion

Stuff works as intended, but

Take IV

At least I know that the debug console is indeed no longer operative

There's more wrong, but first a little test if stuff does work so far

"Loading" when the game itself works

The game still asked for Game Jolt, which it shouldn't do

Take III

Ah, should have known the booleans were also still there

Take II

And indeed that happened, as the New Game routine was not yet fully set for use with the new internal system

Take I

When this works, the old Game Jolt API will be terminated PERMANENTLY even for older versions of the game!

Game Jolt is indeed deactivated

I am first gonna start my own personal open alpha test... This was planned anyway, however I won't test much of the game's content prior to release, just the start up.... Due to all my own New Game+ cycles some issues could have arisen here

(If needed I can always turn it back on, you know)

The debug mode has been turned off... That means nobody (myself included) can access the debug console anymore

Archived all my old savegames.... It's not likely I'll need those anymore, but ya never know

And with that the game can be prepared for the first alpha release... Please note, this will take some measures to be taken first.... I don't have a release mode in my builder yet, or it has at least never been fully put to the test so I need to sort that one out. A few engine adaptions are also required, so I doubt that release will take place tomorrow, but don't worry... Rome wasn't built in one day either....

Again!

Is that all?

Another one?

Well, here we go ... AGAIN!

Code typo

And again (no not take XXI, as that was only for BlitzKrieg, and that part is over).

Something is really wrong with the drones surrounding the Goddess. I hope I cheated it that way around that they cannot be harmed anymore

Take XX

Compiling

I hope I got the speed covered

All scripts for the achievement look in order, so no idea why that didn't work

The moment is also a bit slow, but that's because the game runs on a bigger screen now, and the scripts do not yet take that into account

Smoke direction ok now?