Hello builders!
Being a beginner also means learning how things work by making mistakes and correcting them.
This specific update is no big deal, but it impacts whoever has already played the demo.
Let's go into details.
Demo saving method has changed
When releasing HTBYI demo, I stated that progresses from the demo could be carried on to the full game.
During the last week I realised, through some tests, that this wasn't actually the case, because I hadn't fully comprehended how cloud saving and folder organising worked within Steam and Unity.
Good news: issue fixed!
A very small modification to the overall settings of the game was enough to fix this issue and now the full game should be able to find and maintain the demo progresses. And this is good news.
Bad news: you may have lost your demo progresses
Now to the (slightly) bad news: because of this change, if you played the demo before last weekend (so before the end of September), you may find out that you've lost your saved data for the demo and that you have to restart the game from the beginning.
The demo is short and easy, so I feel it wouldn't be a big deal, but still I feel the need to apologize for this inconvenient... of course, I'll try NOT to cause similar inconveniences once the full game is out! That wouldn't be good for reputation, I guess.
Good news again (maybe): your progresses could not be completely lost
There may be, however, an easy way to recover your lost progresses from the depth of your PC.
If you already played through the demo and you don't want to start over, contact me at [email protected] and I'll give you instructions on how to recover the missing savefile.
That's it for the day! Rookie mistakes are called rookie mistakes for a reason... right?
See you in a week for the Steam Next Fest, builders!
Rava