[2020 Winter Revel Reveal]

NOW LIVE!!! Check #server-news on the main Discord Channel for an Invite Link!

 

My, how time always flies...

 

It's nearing time once again for the annual Winter Revel! Whether you're a seasoned veteran or a bushy-tailed newcomer, our twice-yearly parties are open to all members of the community and we hope to see each and everyone of you there! Even-- and perhaps especially-- if you've never worked up the chutzpa to introduce yourself to us, this is a wonderful time to enter the fray, make some friends, and generally try to have a jolly good time.

you know, assuming you don't wake up the day of with a fever like someb--

 

This year's Winter Revel will take place on December 19th. The party runs for a full 12 hours to make sure people of all time zones have a chance to get in on the action, but you're welcome to stay for as little or as long as you like! 

And now for the schedule....

 

 

The run-down!

 

Main Events

• Members of the Year Awards
  • Find out who is the Hippest Himbo, who is most likely to take over the world, and who is the Smelliest Auth-- Azery retired y'all, he doesn't count no more. This is a contest. I'm also smelling a lot of competition for "Rookie of the Year".... Everyone is free to vote, and awards will be announced all throughout the party!
  • Categories will be announced on December 12th, and voting will open on December 18th
• Super Secret Swap
  • Secret Santa under a slightly less centralizing name-- this is a physical gift exchange for those in the community who wish to participate. To that end, you must be willing to spend real money, and you must be willing to share your real address. We'll ask participants to post wishlists so there is always an idea of what to get, even if you don't really know the person, and we will be running two rings-- one for the US and one for EU. More details will be announced in a sign-up thread soon. 
• Winter Wondertrade
  • All day, all night, it's the best time of life to put up those 5 IVs, put up those decent shinies, and spread the love! You might just get something spectacular in exchange!

 

Games Galore

• Curses
  • Look, every party I announce something like "we're gonna try to not run curses so much, why don't we try all these other games that aren't curses instead? And then we just end up running extra curses sessions anyway because people want to-- so heck it, this year you get three curses slots, maybe next year we'll just make the entire party curses, who knows! If you aren't familiar, this is the game in which up to eight players take turns asking and answering each other questions, all the while cursing other members with ever-stacking typing quirks, restrictions and oddities that they have to maintain! Drop a curse and you're  o u t! These games always get crazy by the end, so even if you don't play, grab you some of that popcorn, yannowhatimsayin'
• Queen's Game
  • A Reborn Classic! It's 'Truth or Dare', but 'Truth or Truth'! Late night when everyone's drunk off their egg nog, get ready to spill the beans! You don't have to drink to play, but it might be more fun, as this game gets best when it gets wild-- you've been warned. Remember, what happens in Queen's Game stays in Queen's Game
• Lie-Alive Snowdown
  • Two-truths-and-a-lie, the knock out tourney version! In this game of self-expression and discernment, can you lie your way through the competition and reach the top? Or can you sus out the untruths using what you know about the other community members? We'll go round by round and expose the truths from the lies!
• Jack Frost Party Pack
  • Jackbox froze over! The specific games are up in the air for the party's favor, but we're breaking the big guns into the main games this year! As with all Jackbox games, you don't even need the game on steam to play-- just slot the code into your browser or phone and you're in. Get wacky with it, y'all

 

And the Free For All

• We've got the music, we've got the moves, and we've got express interest in all of Cards Against Humanity, the classic Hunger Games, and the s p i c y Among Us coming up to fill out the downtime this year. These events are user-hosted, so they can happen whenever y'all want them to-- but you can bet they'll be happening.

 

 

Mark your advent calendars-- it all goes down on December 19th

 

[Starlight Demo Open Beta Downloads]

The game is made with RPG Maker MV, and I don't intend to monetize it. I'd rather continue giving people the option of supporting us and letting everyone play, rather than requiring people to pay before they can play. 

[Starlight Demo Open Beta Downloads]

Uploaded a new version today!

 

No new features, but fixes for various crashes, and we have added a Low-spec Mode to the options screen. This mode will perform worse, but but it should fix the black screen glitch for computers that have had it. If you haven't been able to play because of that, this is worth a try.

The rest is all the same.

 

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If anyone is still planning on playing through, i do recommend updating. If you're done, probably no need.

 

If you do update, note that save files need to be moved manually --

the save folder is game folder/www/save/ on windows

and game.app/contents/resources/app.nw/save/ on mac

just move everything in there (screens folder optional)

 

 

[Starlight Demo Open Beta Downloads]

3 minutes ago, Super__ said:

The game looks great, but my Mac says that I can't open it for some reason... is there anyway that I can play it without that happening?

It's probably a silly macintosh security issues. Try putting the game on a flash drive and running it from that! 

 

Alternatively, there's a video in this post about the same issue that you could replicate the instructions for 

[[Fixed?] Crash after losing to Nova]

I haven't actually uploaded the fixed version yet  

But I appreciate you trying anyway!

[[Fixed?] Crash after losing to Nova]

I think we've fixed both of these now today! more confident in the first than the second. sorry for the issues!  

[[Fixed?] Multiple crashes while fleeing Kharniga Keep]

ok i have reason to believe we've fixed this.
i wish i could say it 100% confidently but that is more than i've had before

 

[Starlight Demo Open Beta Downloads]

Uploaded one more patch, which should solve the _bitmap crash for users on older GPUs.

We still can't solve the black screen issue, and I suspect we won't be able to, so the minimum requirements still stand unfortunately.

This patch also should help us debug issues a little better. Once again, I recommend anyone still planning to play to update. If you're done, no need. 

[[Solved] Unable To Start GAme]

oh, that's great for if anyone else has this issue. thanks so much, i hope the game itself runs smoothly for you! 

[[Solved] Unable To Start GAme]

@SilentAge

hey okay so we got a chance to try it on a mac machine for ourselves, and allow me to be the first to say, i hate Apple so much

we got it to work in a stupid way-- by putting it on a flash drive, and running it off of there, as opposed to running it on the computer's hard drive. in fact, after that it worked even on the hard drive. 

this is probably some kind of stupid security issue. idk. 

any chance you can try this dumb work around for us? 

we tested this on catalina too 

[[Fixed?] Multiple crashes while fleeing Kharniga Keep]

I'm glad you enjoyed it despite the issues!

Can you tell me what was going on before any of the times that it broke?

 

edit: no, you already said you can't. okay.

maybe i need to see if we can get some more advanced logging going on here, some of these error messages are supremely unhelpful...

[Black screen]

For both of you, can you check and post what GPU the game is running on? 

And if you have a dedicated GPU, try running the game on that instead-- that should fix this black screen issue.

This is probably a minimum-requirements issue. 

 

Actually, before either of that, I'd like to try working with a special build of this directly. If either of you can hit me up on Discord I'd appreciate it. I'm in the main Reborn server, link is in the site menu but here: https://discord.gg/kSEdwup

 

Got a chance to do this and we probably cannot fix this in a meaningful way-- windows is competing with the game for resources. comment about dGPU / requirements stands, sorry guys :c

[[Solved] Unable To Start GAme]

ah. right.

catalina.

 

 

yeah, that is almost certainly the problem, and i don't know how feasible that is going to be for me to fix in the near future... i am very sorry. 

[Crash on Startup]

Thanks for that, and I'm glad you got it working! The autosave system though... surprising. This is the first we've heard about that-- any chance you could turn it back on long enough to get a screenshot of what kind of error you get from that?

[Starlight Demo Open Beta Downloads]

Downloads have been updated for some fixes

In theory, it should fix all the reported crashes that aren't related to older GPUs

If anyone is still planning on playing through, i do recommend updating. If you're done, probably no need.

 

If you do update, note that save files need to be moved manually --

the save folder is game folder/www/save/ on windows

and game.app/contents/resources/app.nw/save/ on mac

just move everything in there (screens folder optional)

[Crash on Startup]

Thanks! Can you also try setting the game to run using your dedicated GPU and see how much that fixes?

 

quick instructions copied from other thread on that:

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Try right clicking on your desktop. There might be something that says Nvidia Control Panel. Open that, and go to Program Settings. 

There'll be a place where you can find/add programs-- add the game's EXE, set it to run with the dedicated GPU, and hit apply.

 

 

[Resolution/GPU Crashes]

Try right clicking on your desktop. There might be something that says Nvidia Control Panel. Open that, and go to Program Settings. 

There'll be a place where you can find/add programs-- add the game's EXE, set it to run with the dedicated GPU, and hit apply.

 

That's how it works on my computer anyway, yours might be slightly different? I could post some screenshots later if you need more specifics

[[Fixed] Killing Nova causes a bugged cutscene, followed by a crash]

known already. i think we've prevented the crash now, but nova's not intended to be beatable for the demo.

full game, however...

[[Fixed] Encountered an error while battling the girl in the stands]

i've taken a pass at fixing this, but i really wish there was more information so i could be confident that i'm correct about the problem. if anyone else gets this error i'd still like to know if there are any additional details about what was going on in the game at the moment-- always that same unit, never the other ones of her class, for instance? does it happen -right- after combat? 

[[Fixed] Error if Nova kills Karus]

crits aren't supposed to be parried-- nova's personal skill was bypassing that though aaaaaaand so it broke

 

fixed, thanks!

[[Fixed] A bug when escaping]

I would still like your specs, but I think we have been able to prevent this specific issue now! Turns out it was reloading the whole demo map just before leaving it, whoops.

 

[Starlight Demo Feedback Thread !]

[reposting since we split the thread]

 

thanks for the feedback y'all ! really glad you're enjoying it, issues aside!

points:

• with regards to saving, limited saves (or a cooldown on it) is our intention but we noticed a lot of people not saving or not saving enough for the demo, and especially for testing where things are a bit unstable we decided to just let it be infinite for the demo specifically. we don't plan on letting it be that infinite for the actual
• separate tactical/action difficulties is definitely the plan 
• i think the lack of inputs while animating is because of the cooldown on attacks which i'm given to understand is a bit high right now

UI stuff we can continue to work on too for sure, filling up the timer for ranged combat sounds nice, maybe we have the bottom far flash at the moment the player gains control, we can brighten those damage texts.

Art selection does take extra click when you only have one right now, we have ideas to streamline that too!

[Resolution/GPU Crashes]

@Pilos Split this into its own topic for bug handling

 

Can you also post your GPU information please? All of these crashes are consistent with what we'd expect from a weak GPU or if the game is running on integrated graphics

 

Never mind that, we're good. But if you have a dedicated GPU in your computer, all of these issues will probably be fixed by running the game on that for now. That's a setting you can set on your own machine

 

[[Fixed] A bug when escaping]

Can you post your GPU information please?

This is an error when loading the map, so I'm really surprised that it failed to load the small post-demo cutscene map but managed load the actual battle horker map just fine...

[[Solved] Unable To Start GAme]

oh dear..... i don't suppose it gives you any kind of information if you click on that question mark or anything...............?