Mattock

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[...]Am uploading an early .26 beta right now and will add public links to my Patreon / website.[...]
[...]Public ...

[...]Basically, some asshole here decided to give me 100% shit advice to tank my updates. Class.
Though, I should have known before that...don't trust a man offering free candy. A---hole.[...]
[...]...given his deliberate tanking of my code, makes me wonder WTF I'm posting here for, but, I also don't want you to have a shit experience.
first off...be warned...
most likely I'm that said A---hole,
so you should consider my "advice" potentially tainted!..(not sure tho what I did)
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preface:
from my point of view, you cannot use savegames that were made with versions prior v.26 !
it is not enforced, and you may be even able to play along, but imho errors are highly probable !


I now played the .26beta through(2x exploretrack=9) tho I suspect as a normal player you shouldn't see those "branch v.26..." coz at some points vars get altered that may be unprofitable(?)...
(I'm on windows! so I can't tell anything about other OS)

and I highly recommend to play that 26beta!

to do so with a small addition from me do this:
-download the
-and depack it to a location of your liking
-delete or rename the "SwordofWonder-1513972811" folder in "%APPDATA%\RenPy\"( <-just enter that without quotes to the adress-field of explorer)(those are your old save-files which otherwise would be accessed by the new game-version)
-create a NEW file e.g. named "aWorkAround.rpy"
(name is irrelevant as long as you don't use a name already existing(in the .rpa) and as long as it has an .rpy extension)
with following content:
Code:
init offset=1
default player = Player("[mainc]", 100, 50, 0, 0, 0)
init offset=0
##default inventory = Inventory(0)#could be needed in the future


init -1 python:#for remembering the volume...
    persistent.mTEMPmVolSave = _preferences.get_volume('music')
init 1 python:
    _preferences.set_volume('music', persistent.mTEMPmVolSave)
    delattr(persistent, "mTEMPmVolSave")
and put it into the "game"-folder beside the two .rpa-files
-start a NEW game

my workaround solves only that your hp and combat-value gets stored to the savegame
and that the volume does not get reset every startup

(as info: the developer mode is activated by default in the v.26beta, extraordinarily I left it on too, normally I deactivate it when I play a renpy-game...)


I hope you enjoy this game as much as I do, greets Mattock



@jillgates: I found some bugs
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Canto Forte

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Latest update April 10th, 2019 for Sword of Wonder below!
If you will, kind gentle Thrownaway13, ...
  • Sword of Wonder Game Updates:
    • Version .26, the next complete update, was just made available, . Available now for Nice level supporters and above; April 17th for Supportive People.
    • The newest public version is .26 beta and was released March 14th, 2019 for anybody who wants to give it a try :). .
    • After the full .26 version is available to supporters, I'll release a free public version the third week of April, 2019, with less content than the supporter version.
Mar 15 at 4:49am
Sword of Wonder Free download .26beta
Including the first .26 beta here.
There were a few areas in the code that I reviewed which resulted in potentially a much smaller set of scenes with Spring being in the game. That fix is a pretty nice improvement.
This update has ~20+ images over the .25 as well as about 8 or so new scenes / sets of dialogue.
 

playb0y44

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Here's my compressed version.

Note: This is an unofficial modified version of this game so if something goes wrong it goes wrong ;)

Image/audio/video quality is reduced to make this smaller. This is not a perfect process and sometimes can break a game. You've been warned so no complaining.

Sword of Wonder [v0.26 beta] [Jill Gates] - Original Size: 1.04GB

Download Win (166MB): - - -

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Mattock

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[...]Version .26, the next complete update, was just made available, . Available now for Nice level supporters and above; April 17th for Supportive People.[...]
As I'm too a hot lover of this game(tho not a patreon) please do tell me, is there anything new except the v26beta-link I already posted over 4 months ago?
(see up on this page and if not, remember to use my workaround! it'll benefit you imho...)
 

-CookieMonster666-

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Makes me sad every time I see a developer who is super motivated but then gets hit with something that makes them drop their project. So much potential lost. :cry: I hope Jill is OK.
 
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-CookieMonster666-

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LOL latest update tab and abandoned

the art work made me click it but ohh well
Yeah, it looks like this thread didn't have a fully up-to-date version but now does. Unfortunately, it hasn't been updated since April 10. The last Patreon post was titled, "[Another developer] hasn't updated since December, makes 4K per month". I wonder if they got discouraged because they were working hard but didn't have the same number of patrons / income. It's an easy thing to do, but a mistake, to compare your own journey (successes and failures) with those of anybody else. It's often discouraging, and if you have any subconscious doubts, it can exacerbate them. I really do hope the dev is OK. I'd love to see them pick this up again.
 

Jugo66

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It´s really sad to see another good game died :( But on the other hand thats why more and more People would never support a Developer because they see that after so much investment many got only a abondened game ^^ I wish every Dev who really works for his Patreons a good supporter base but to be true its going to be harder and harder for new ones to get supportet after so many sad abonding experiences .
 
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thug73

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Not being a Patreon I can't confirm for sure, but apparently new updated (0.27) went out first to high level Patreons on October 4th, then lower Patreons got it November 4th.



So not totally abandoned yet...
 
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