12.23.23
Bad Ritual technical update and rewrites are now live on itch !! These changes include:
- new themes (dark and light, themed towards the characters)
- new achievements screen
- extended accessibility options
- Tahira route rewrite
- Siruud route rewrites (not as extensive)
- texting interfaces instead of in-line texting
- totally retooled character creation options
- redone character profile page
I recommend starting a new game just to see all the changes, and also because the new chapter isn't finished yet ๐๐ That's on its way, but for now there's new content inside the old content and some new menus to explore. The new chapter is coming up next !!
Remember that you can subscribe to my Ko-fi for early access to updates, copies of certain games (right now you're guaranteed a fully copy of Manor Hill for donating and/or subscribing), and monthly drabbles at Employee of the Month tier !! There's currently three up portraying the Manor Hill LIs before attending the Harvest Festival, and next month there'll be a Hybrid themed drabble released !!
Anyway, have a happy december and new years ๐
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Bad Ritual
How badly can you mess up keeping an eye on a box for an hour?
| Status | In development |
| Author | HeartForge |
| Genre | Role Playing, Interactive Fiction |
| Tags | Amare, Character Customization, LGBT, LGBTQIA, Romance, Story Rich, Text based, urban-fantasy |
| Languages | English |
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Okay so I may be stupid and doing something wrong, but no matter how many times I try, the text bubble color change doesn't seem to stick? It always reverts to blue (Thank you for the update by the way!! I'm very excited to see what you have changed up and I'm even more excited to eventually read the next chapter you have in development!!! ^_^)
H'm I think something is sneaking around the changes because there's a couple things that haven't been sticking after they're set :/ I'll have a look at it !! Also ty I'm glad you like it fjsjfn ๐๐๐๐๐๐
GOD the trouble this one gave me to fix, but fixed it is !! Thanks for catching it !!
Thank you so much!!! ( โนฯโน ) I appreciate all your hard work a lot! Coding anything really sounds like a nightmare haha….
it's a real "we're all looking for the guy who did this" situation dfjkhsdj
Hi, just tried a new version and it looks like there are some bugs in there. First, MC name sometimes resets to default (Quinn Reid) after reload and all saved files are automatically renamed to Quinn Reid. Not sure if there is a pattern, but it probably happens after MC meets Tahira. Second, after MC comes home (screen "Home, 04:00") there is a one-time-loop if you chose an option "schnitzel". I mean, after that option the same screen comes again, and next time proceeds further. Not sure about other options, didn't check it. Also, could be a minor inconsistence in the personal card ("FROM THE DESK OF AGENT CALRIN CHOI"). My MC has curly hair, short height and standard pronouns, but is described as "diverse hair texture, vertically challenged, non-standard pronouns". "Vertically challenged" seems legit, two others traits - probably not :)
Update: the name reset stops after reaching the root part. Also "Body type" is definitely broken, there is a message "The (set:) macro's 1st value is the boolean value 'false', but should be a VariableToValue (a 'to' or 'into' expression)."
The body type is the only currently open issue, the others have been solved !! Thanks for letting me know, I needed the body type context to hunt down a bigger bug !!
As far as the vertically challenged thing, that's a lame joke, not a bug fjskxbjand. The gag is that you are considered a diverse corporate employee for not having straight hair, not having blue eyes, etc. The bar for corporate diversity being so low as to functionally exclude no one is the joke but in retrospect I'm the only one with the perspective (having coded it) to recognise it at a glance gkdncjsknd
Being vertically challenged myself I totally find this joke funny :)
By the way, I stumbled upon another possible bug, looks like the magic type resets to fire after reload.
Thank you for the great game, and - merry Christmas and happy New Year!
I'll have a look !! Jfifks it's hard for me to test saves because I don't allow cookies so all these save based bug reports are gold ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐
Actually, could I get more information about the magic type changing? I couldn't replicate the issue so if I could get:
- what magic type was set before it reverted to flame
- on what passage did you reload on?
Hi, I managed to replicate it several times.
My MC is a short blight user with blue eyes and blonde hair (curly), pronouns are She/Her, "obnoxious do-gooder". The magic reset happens somewhere between "You tentatively knock" and "Panic oh God panic". Not sure if a save time matters. In the last try I saved on the screen with the last lines "Luckily your box is silent." and reloaded on the next screen. Oh, and I use Edge browser, just for an information)
By the way, while trying to replicate the magic reset I've got somehow eyes color reset to brown, hair color to black (still curly) and pronouns to They/Them. Not 100% positive though, could be I just forgot to set it, being fixated on a magic :) I can try to replicate it later if necessary.
Also not sure thing, but it could depend on how often or at what moment I check the personality card, because the magic reset happened when I went directly to the Tahita's office without looking in the personality card, and in the case of the (possible) colors and pronouns reset I checked the card almost at every screen. But it's only a suggestion, can also try to replicate, when I have time if you still need it :)
I hope it helps)
Update: just reloaded the game at the screen where Tahira and MC are staying in front of the club (after making a choice "Distract her"). The magic type resets from Blight to Flame.
Update 2: a couple of other things. First, in the CEO building after "Like someone is trying to open the door without you hearing it." the next screen (with variants "Evade" and "Check who is it") stays for about 1 or 2 seconds and then switches to the next screen automatically. It is still possible to make a choice if you fast enough :) Not sure if it's a bug or you intended it like this. Second, the Irritability, Compassion and probably Charisma counters. When one of them goes up - it will go up every time you open the personality card, and other counters will go down.
Sorry it took me so long to get back to you !! I've been sick ๐ ๐ but I got a corroborating bug report on Tumblr so you're definitely not the only one. Thanks for the super detailed report as well !! So, addressing a few things:
- Evade/Check Who It Is is supposed to be a fast, timed decision !! It's just supposed to convey the urgency of actually making that decision in real time, but it doesn't change the course of the game or nothin
- Personality counters are supposed to go up and down depending on what you pick !! This is meant to let you kind of build a personality despite maybe having varying reactions to things, but I think I mathed the math wrong: that fix'll need to come after I'm better though, because it was written while I was at 100% and I'd hate to see what it looked like writing it at a strong 40% fjdsjfk
- Somehow, despite everything, I STILL can't recreate the bug ๐ฑ๐ฑ the other bug report has it happening on frost too, but I've tested on Edge, I've gone over the passages you listed, I've tried saving and reloading immediately, I've tried saving, closing, reopening, and reloading. I've darted around the menus, I've built saves, I've played through from the start, I've tried Tahira's route, I've tried Siruud's route...nothing !!
I'm wondering if it might be some kind of cookie setting in your browser, but I'm not sure what it would need to be set to in order to not wipe the save but mess with it? I've tried it both on my firefox install which is very strict about cookies (so strict that I can't test saves on here djkfddsf) and then I've tried on my pure out of the box Edge install with default cookie settings, and neither had any trouble remembering which magic type I'd set it to. I don't even know what to follow up on at this point ;; I'll keep trying to trip it but it's so wild that you can reliably reproduce it but I can't even accidentally do it once !!