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

#170

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!

#166

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?

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!