Distance to launch: a few days. Time to write the first dev log.
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The bug that cost me 11 days.
Steam review rejected my build three times. The error: "game won't launch." But on my own machine, everything worked perfectly.
After a lot of digging, I found the culprit — one line of code: ticketObj.cancel()
Steam needs a ticket to verify your identity. The AI wrote this line out of habit — "free resources after use." But canceling a Steam ticket doesn't free memory. It tells Steam's servers: this ticket is void. The server then tried to verify a cancelled ticket. Of course it failed.
I had been testing successfully because a cached login token from 30 days ago was still valid. I had never actually gone through the verification step.
One line. 11 days. 4 review submissions.
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Evidence panel overhaul.
The panel that shows collected evidence got a full redesign — Art Deco style to match the 1936 ocean liner setting.
The most important change: each evidence card now shows the exact words the NPC used when they revealed it. Before, the panel might say one thing while the NPC said something slightly different. Now they always match.
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This is Dev Log #1. More to come before launch.