Off the top of my head...
Interesting... this changes all the crap I said about Tyranobuilder....
You built your own engine? You're not using someone else's?
Because the last people that said this (Chloe18) didn't build their own engine. They were using another product.
Can you be clear about what engine you're actually using?
(Speaking of Chloe18, as I said, they claimed to "use their own engine", but actually use
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, which seems similar to what you are using, as it has the same kind of nasty export formats, web support, the "data.win" file format, etc... so if it's not that, it seems like it's something very similar and not something actually build from scratch by the devs? Hence my curiosity about what tools you're actually using.
It doesn't change that I think forcing the users to hop back and forth between these crappy incompatible web based versions and the standalone desktop version is driven by greed and the desire to try to force users to pay to be patrons to see the content, despite it causing more problems for the users and making a lot of them unhappy... rather than just making a high quality product like other devs do, who put the low bar of a patron only post up, but allow them to be shared here anyway because they still get plenty of patron support for making good products and treating their users with respect.
Ideally this game would be released up front as a single build that includes successive chapters in the same download, with a single set of saves, and would support Windows, Mac, and Linux by default as the Ren'Py builds do. Not to mention better saves, rollback, and the flexibility that comes with Ren'Py.
But hey... I'm just a filthy user peasant, right? What do I know.
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