[BUG] Stuck in Bedroom After Snoodlewonker (Very Minor Spoilers)

[Knuckleboom_Shnorkel]

After defeating the Snoodlewonker and getting the "upgrade" to the 3D world in which you can use the mouse, I am stuck in place. I wake up looking at the clock, I can pivot and look around the bedroom at the window, bed, and nightstand, and I can get a brief description by clicking on them, but that's it. Other buttons and keypad controls do nothing. Can't move. Can't even end the game except by using Ctrl-Alt-Del.

[Sir William Walrus II]

Hello Knuckleboom! I am so sorry to hear this is happening. I'm not quite sure what actually is happening haha. I'm curious if the game is actually bugged or maybe it may be something with your computer.

Have you tried moving around with WASD or arrow keys to see if that works? If it doesn't, would you happen to remember if you pressed anything going into the 3D scene?

Thanks,
Josh
Not a Sailor Studios

[Knuckleboom_Shnorkel]

Wow, quick reply. Thanks! My answer might not shed much light on the problem, but here goes.

Yep, I tried the WASD keys and the arrow keys. I also switched from my weird ergonomic joystick-style mouse to a regular mouse (and even a gamepad for good measure). Result: I'm still stuck in place. I can pivot around and look at the clock, the nightstand, the bed, the window, and part of the dresser. These all produce the eyeball icon when hovered over and a little message from my buddy appears when clicked on. The window and dresser, strangely enough, produce the same message as the bed, about being cozy at the end of a long day. No other buttons or input have any effect at all. The only way to end the game is by forcing it to quit using Ctrl-Alt-Del. I reloaded it several times and it's always the same.

I don't recall pressing anything odd just before I reached this level, but it's possible. I've been known to do such things. :)

Thanks again, I'm really enjoying the game and appreciate your willingness to help.

[Medium Spoon]

Hey Knuckleboom! I'm taking over from Josh here for a second since he's out with his family! This is definitely the very first time I've ever seen this. I do have a couple suggestions you could try!
The first is a hotkey that refreshes the scene. Try pressing Right Shift + Home on your keyboard and seeing if this changes anything. If this doesn't work, are you using a foreign keyboard by chance? If so, make sure you're using English settings on your keyboard!

Let me know if any of these work! Thanks for your report--I hope you're able to finish the game soon, you're so close

[Knuckleboom_Shnorkel]

Shift+Home worked! The WASD keys now move me around. Thanks so much!

[Medium Spoon]

Whew, that's such a relief! Thanks for letting us know! :)

[eCoyote]

I'm having a different problem at the same location. I can move around with WASD, click an item (clock) with a left-click of the mouse, but I cannot look around. In other words, my character is always facing the same direction, and I cannot look up, down, left or right. Moving the mouse does nothing.

By always facing straight, I can go downstairs and look at the painting, but then I'm unable to pickup any item on the floor.

I've tried Shift+Home, as well as restarting the game, with no luck.

Are there keyboard options available, to look around?

[Medium Spoon]

Hey eCoyote! Are you by any chance using a laptop trackpad? The mouse suddenly not working is incredibly bizarre and we haven't had an issue like this before!

[eCoyote]

Hey, thank you Medium-Well for your quick reply. Time for me to subscribe to this thread!

My setup may indeed be unusual, as I am playing on "Shadow PC", i.e. remotely on a cloud gaming PC. I'm accessing Shadow PC from a laptop with a USB mouse. I can try resuming the game from an actual physical machine, but it seems cloud saves are not available for this title - could you point me to the save game files location?

I should also mention that the in-game mouse cursor is both visible and working perfectly when I launch the title (the black&white terminal where you would normally have to type in the 'Run' command). There's a mouse cursor there, that I can move around just fine. Mouse support only breaks when leaving the terminal and entering the bedroom section (well, only moving the mouse break. Left clicking is still recognized properly).

[Medium Spoon]

Hey again eCoyote! Ah, okay, so this is the first report of a remote session of our game. According to Brandon, our coder, the biggest difference between the mouse in the terminal and the mouse during the 3D part of the game is the that rotating of the camera is controlled with an input axis value as opposed to an onscreen mouse position. It's possible that there are issues retrieving those values with the way we set up the 3D part of the game and we'll have to look into it sometime soon.

Now onto the potential solution. Somewhere in your Registry Editor (I'm so sorry that I can't point you to the exact location, the both of us are on vacation and away from our computers aaaahhh), there's a Not a Sailor folder filled with the game's save data. I believe if you relocate the folder into the exact same spot into another computer after installing Buddy Sim, you should be able to retrieve the data... I think... If you try this, please keep me posted.

[eCoyote]

Thanks for the help! I could now finish the game :-)

For future readers of this thread, the save game data is in the following registry entry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Not a Sailor Studios, which may be saved as a .reg file and imported on another computer (remains to be tested).

I ended up going another way, however: on a physical computer, I launched Steam, and instead of installing Buddy Simulator there, I chose the "Stream" feature to stream the game from my remote PC. That worked just fine :-)

Enjoy your time off!

[Medium Spoon]

That's fantastic to hear eCoyote! Thank you so much for keeping this thread up to date :)