lostraven

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Currently working on a bugfix now. If anyone has any saves with Miks progression not working, i.e, you cant meet her in the evening after her quest ends, please drop the saves
 

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Alderian News (Important!)

Hey guys, we have a bit of important news to discuss some potential changes coming.

As some of you are aware, recently, one of our artists has been missing. While they have managed to make contact and deliver some work, communication lines with them are very difficult. We have managed to get a hold of them, maybe once or twice a month. We've been holding back on commenting further on the issue in the hopes that it resolves itself soon, but this does seem to potentially be a long-term issue.

Unfortunately, and while I can't delve too deep into their personal issues, for context, they live in a relatively unstable area in one of the south Americas, with both limited internet issues and rampant gang violence that seems to be having a flair up recently.

We've attempted to find an artist to fill in the void while hopefully things settle, and while the art produced was very high quality, unfortunately, for PB we fear it will just create more inconsistencies in the long run.

Furthermore, we're not exactly thrilled at the prospect of kicking someone while they're down, (aka, firing them and replacing them altogether), due to circumstances completely out of their control.

As such, when we did manage to have contact with the artist, with their permission, they agreed to allow us to use AI when necessary, based on their art to create new scenes possibly given the circumstances.

I want to stress that none of the art staff are being let go, in fact, we've hired on MORE art staff recently and their regular work will continue as normal.

Furthermore, any AI art produced, we plan to have the existing artists check it over to ensure it's the highest quality we can get it.

We further hope, of course, this approach will help speed up our production, but we are still entirely committed to delivering the highest quality we can.

We haven't made this decision lightly, we had many internal debates, and we're aware of the sensitive nature of AI, but we hope given the circumstances, and how we're handling things, you and the rest of our fans will be understanding.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. If the situation changes for whatever reason, we will let you know.

Thank you.

Alysha (Above) - If she survives her encounter with the Slave Master, she might just find a new meaning in life under the wing of Captain Nyx and the city guard

As always,
thank you all for your support so far,
you guys are awesome, and we couldn't do this without you,
Love,

-The Damned Studios Team
Now this is a fine example of how AI should be used. I've actually said to various people that in the future artist will probably train their own models using their work which they will then use to produce samples or even the basic images people want after which they will fix things and add details by hand till the customer is happy. Basically offloading like 80% of the work to their custom model while they make the final product extra pretty at the end allowing them to produce more in less time.
 
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JRD220

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That error happenin' on every gallery scene unlock will be fixed in 0.164, thanks for dropping the clues!
Make a spare copy of your saves.
Try delete persistent data in options and see if that works.



Unfortunately, the artist in question decided to leave us and abandon doing art for a more normal 9/5, as he couldn't gurantee his Internet connection would be stable enough to continue. We offered a really flexi offer on top but he said no, he was burned out with everything.

We've since hired on two lovely artists.
Thank you deleting Persistent Data did work.
 

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Not sure If i'm missing something, but is there no way to backtrack and read text? In other Renpy games, I have been able to scroll up to see previous dialogue, but that does not work with this game.
 
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Looks interesting. If the game gets roll-back and gallery functions I will try it
game has a gallery in game, and the rollback mod on this site works but you may need to edit it in notepad and swap the rollback fwd and back bc for me it felt backwards but otherwise it works fine only thing it seems to do to the game that it shouldn't is change the version number on the main menu to the wong version but doesn't seem to effect anything else
 
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Not sure If i'm missing something, but is there no way to backtrack and read text? In other Renpy games, I have been able to scroll up to see previous dialogue, but that does not work with this game.
Upper right corner next to the menu button, there should be a button the shows the dialogue history. Another option is the rollback patch linked in the OP, but I haven't tested it.
 

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In light of the fact the build has leaked and playing buggy builds will only lead to more false reports on bugs already squashed and confusion, here is the bug fix version (0.164): Please report any other bugs found, thanks.


-fixed a bug with loading a save done mid-travel
- fixed a bug with old version gallery unlocks being a list and causing tons of errors on scene unlocks
- fixed all game quests to not include a debug quest: the game won't display that 1 extra quest you can't beat anymore
- fixed girls troubles' not completing on game load, if already resolved Mika's branch
- fixed Mika romance not starting if loading an old save w/girl troubles quest active
- made lovers' path / friends' path quests complete the other branch silently: this removes 1 (or two in case of friends path') other hidden quest you can't complete during your playthrough
- fixed a few typos
- tweaks and bug fixes for numerous battle skills for Kiara's banshee form, Erika's inquisitor class, MC's parasite black class and more: the vampire's song, eye for an eye, inquisition, defender of the weak, parasite attack, prayer for the dying, old gods bargain, a song of pain, a song of vengeance, a song of rage, (Zanarak's) black light, Kiara transform/un-transform
 
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