Ren'Py Shattered Minds [v0.22 Beta Fix] [eXtasy Games]

[BOZZU]

Dear Bozzu, thank you for all the ports. Wherever I go, I see top-quality games like the old Midnight Paradise, which I beat, and now the new, next-gen, awesome sandbox Shattered Minds... You make high-quality ports. There used to be strong port titans (BE, DA, Estrada, the 66), but it seems like you'll soon become stronger at this rate, as they've started to lose ground, while your ports are coming out more often. If this continues, I'll be donating to you rather than them. BE, for example, gave up on porting version 0.22. The problem with Android is that those idiots at Google have blocked access to the android/data folder. Standard ports go to this folder, and updates to some games often conflict with older updates, forcing you to uninstall and reinstall them, which also deletes your saves, forcing you to start over. That's why I started looking for porters who saved to a different folder. My deepest gratitude for your good start. The quality of your ports is no worse than that of those who have been making them for years.

I appreciate your kind words. I try my best to thoroughly test my ports before releasing them. While small imperfections may sometimes slip through, they’re usually pretty insignificant.

Regarding the additional save location: it’s true that Google has restricted and made access to the Android/data directory more difficult. There is a workaround that I sometimes use, but you need to know exactly what to do in order to access that hidden directory. In most Android ports of Ren’Py games, the second save location is possible thanks to Wills747’s pre-patched Ren’Py SDK, which many porters (including me) use.

As for donations, I don’t have anything set up yet. Donations were, are, and never will be a priority—porting Ren’Py games is simply a hobby I recently got into. I’ve been doing it non-stop since the end of August this year, and I genuinely enjoy it. I play a lot of Ren’Py games myself, so I know how frustrating it is when you can’t play a game because no updated Android version exists.

I will, however, look into setting up donations soon, since a few people have asked about them already. I’m just not sure when, as I probably have one of the largest numbers of port requests at the moment. People have been contacting me from everywhere—my

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server, Discord DMs, F95 DMs, profile posts, the request thread, and comments under game threads. While I’ve mostly managed to handle the backlog, I still have plenty of requests to go through.

 

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Wow, this seemed like it would be pretty bad when I first checked it out two years ago, but now it's filled to the brim with content. Great work!