Amethyst

Yeah, so we actually tried to work on Linux during the beta, however it seems like Linux handles javascript a little bit differently somehow??? Everything is just. broken to pieces on Linux so we had to set that aside for now. In theory it's definitely something we can do, but I didn't want to break windows/mac versions mid-testing, and I'm probably going to have to wait until I get a linux machine to set up to test things on myself (which we have plans to do in the near future). So like. Eventually, for sure.

Only if you still intend to play! There's no new content, just bug fixes.

We're finally started! If you haven't already played it, download links and information for the game can be found on this page: http://www.starlightdivide.com/ I want to take some time and appreciate everyone's support, and everyone's patience. This has been a long time coming, but it's taken a long time even just since last year, so thank you to everyone who played the alpha or beta, and an extra thanks to everyone who's supported me and the project so far-- and then once more for everyone who's been waiting for E19, for bearing with us long enough to get to this point! And this is just the starting point of a new adventure. We've got a lot of work to do all around, but I hope it'll be worth it in the end. And now, back to Reborn...

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A little late, but thanks y'all for the feedback! It's clear we have a lot of work to do, and while I'm definitely taking notes, we're holding off on a lot of it because we don't want to postpone Reborn forever for the sake of polishing a demo. But we'll be coming back to all of this when we make the full game. I'm seeing a lot of ideas for things we already have planned, particularly with polishing the UX, adding flanking, generally making things clearer to the player faster-- and some other good ones we'll definitely take note on. I'm sorry to hear that the story didn't really quite do it for a couple of you, and I'll take what lessons I can from that when we get to the full game. As I said before, this isn't the start of the game so it's likely some things will be redone when we get back to this chapter. I also appreciate the comments about this being distinctly unsatisfying to rhythm game players, and I hear you. One thing I am set on is that this is always going to be a tRPG first and foremost, but I've known since the beginning that finding a way to make the battle system non-trivial to rhythm game veterans (or just players as they gain experience in game) is going to be our greatest challenge. I have some ideas for that, but as far as the demo is concerned, I think that it's difficult to stress how much we're holding back right now. Early mid-development testing showed it was pretty tough for newcomers to rhythm sequences, which is why most of the enemies do so little damage relative to the players high health pools + there's abundance of healing items + we held off on some enemy skills to not make things too much harder... but there is a lot of room that I'm waiting to take advantage of until there's more game for people to be used to. However, that's just on the tactical side of things. Obviously, I'll need to get a lot more creative about the rhythm part if I don't want it to be boring to vets in the long run, and while I have some plans, I'm going to continue exploring more options for that. I realized after some of the above posts that I've never actually played a rhythm game for any substantial amount of time (osu for like half an hour, guitar hero for like, a few hours, that's it) so I've started to work on changing that. I moved away from the idea of calling this a rhythm hybrid a while ago since I felt it was misleading for the game's actual focus (non-RNG tRPG) but it's clearly still important to learn from that side of things. We're going to be moving forward with the public demo release today, but I want to offer an additional thank you to everyone who took the time to play the beta, and everyone who took the time to offer feedback. It can only go up from here.

Haven't heard about the winter party yet??? Check it here! Each year we host a Super Secret Swap where everyone who signs up is randomly assigned another participant to secretly buy a present for! Everyone gives, everyone receives! There are some rules! In order to enter, you must: You must be from NA or Europe. Sorry to folks from other places :c You must be willing to spend real money on this. The suggested budget is around $25 or £/€20 You must be willing to share your address with us. Rest assured, it will only be given to the person who is sending you your gift. We will cap out at 10 people per region. As mentioned in the main thread, we'll run one circuit in NA and one in EU so shipping costs aren't too crazy. Sign ups will be open until 12/2! In order to sign up, please send me a message here on the forum with the following things: Your region A name that people can ship to A postal address to ship to A wish list of some things or options around the given price range that you would enjoy getting! After that, I'll assign everyone their gift-ees, and then there'll be a bit of a hustle, because we'd like it if people can receive their gifts by the party... so if they can be sent out by 12/7 or so that would be great, but this thread has gone up a little later, and the party is earlier than usual this year, so uh, you know let's all just do our best and stuff. As usual, I'll ask that everyone sends me a copy of their receipts / orders when shipping things off. If you've provided confirmation that you did send a gift and you somehow do not get a gift, we will personally get you one ourselves instead so that no one is forgotten! Feel free to message me if you have any questions, or otherwise to sign up!

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

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.

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.

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

I haven't actually uploaded the fixed version yet But I appreciate you trying anyway!

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

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

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.

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

@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

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...

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

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.

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?

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)

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:

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