Deleting Clips from User Session

[Sam Barlow]

Hi!

This isn't currently something you can do! But: I hear you! I'll get it into the first update.

If you want to delete your entire game and start fresh, this you can do by clicking the Delete Session Data button in the database settings.

Cheers,

--Sam

[Just 4 fun]

Thnak you, again, for hearing us and for your work.

[rated]

wow,I thought "delete _SESSION_ data" would clear clips currently stored in _SESSION_ ...

How very counter-intuitive... 2.2 hours of progress lost because of this. Sigh, it was fun while it lasted, guess I will never finish this game now.

[tomatoes.dll]

Yeah, i was just about to ask about this, because i deleted everything with the delete session data.

Frankly, I think it would be wise to be able to save sessions independently and recall them. This way, for instance, I could take all the interview clips from one date/timeframe with Hannah or Eve, then watch them back to back after having found the relevant stuff and put it into a "Session." Then, I could save another session for a different interview date/timeframe.

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[Emol Dandriel]

@rated Happened the same to me :P With the difference I replayed the game a lot.

@tomatoes.dll I second you, I totally wanted to do that too.

[js]

i deleted all my progress after probably 90% complete too lol, but it didn't really prevent me from "finishing" quickly, as far as i can tell... but maybe not lol...because i was able to search to find the rest of the story i was missing, i just had to ignore a few of the unwatched icons or open them and hit esc.

and really, rewatching some of them with more of the story is totally worth it... i think it improved my experience of the game. i had just discovered the keyword that blows it all open, but hadn't followed it completely yet and if i had just gone head on without re-evaluating some of what i heard and saw before i don't think it would've been as satisfying.

with that dimming screen, just think of it as a power failure and you forgot to save. :)

still, it would be nice to have more of a warning that this is akin to starting a new game.

meta game spoiler? i was thinking at some point i'd have to "show" my session data to someone as "proof", which is why i tried to clear it.

if there was ever another game along these lines (i hope so it was fun. i wonder if it'd be possible to tell a story the opposite way, with just questions...) i'd say that combining the user tags with "session data" seems like it'd be a good way to let us re-organize it and also keep track of clues and potential keywords. i'd often think of a bunch while watching, but after a few searches forget some.

on my second go i just tried adding all clips thinking i'd re-arrange it in order, but once i had it added i realized how much a pain dragging was....! not worth it haha. :)

[F'tangg]

Yep, I also just deleted all my progress thinking it would clear the session data.

[JawnCabrero]

Allright, using just deleted my whole data. Will have to start all over again.

[Strauss van Dor]

Yeah, and don't you even dare to try the ADMIN_DELETE command. Sad findings...

[raveryn]

I accidentally deleted all my progress too. Luckily it was only about 30 minutes into the game and after I had already figured out everything, so I ended up just going through chronologically to catch the videos I missed and see the story progress from beginning to end which definitely should be an option after you've seen the credits because it was entertaining but annoying to keep refreshing. Maybe a keyword to watch a continuous video of all the clips. That would be nice.

[john.brush]

Same here: lost my saved state about 70% in. Brilliant.

[Gregor Mendel]

Hey, Sam,

Are you still planning on adding this function? I bought the game back when it first came out, played for about 20 minutes and figured I must be doing something wrong because I couldn't delete clips, and saw this message.

I figured I'd just wait until the update came out and put it on the shelf, but if it's not coming out anytime soon, I'll just go ahead with it.

[WhyCan'tWeBeFriends?]

still not implemented. great work!

[orioncrush]

Yeah, I just tried to delete my session data to clear the clips.. Not sure on my percentage but it was far enough that I wont be going back through.. Interesting story, but not so much that I'm ready to dig through it again.

[Sam Barlow]

Originally posted by justin:

Hey, Sam,

Are you still planning on adding this function? I bought the game back when it first came out, played for about 20 minutes and figured I must be doing something wrong because I couldn't delete clips, and saw this message.

I figured I'd just wait until the update came out and put it on the shelf, but if it's not coming out anytime soon, I'll just go ahead with it.

Hi! Yes, I'm still hoping to get this in -- the downside of there only being one of me and the attention HS has gotten has been to make getting the 1.1. version done and tested much more of a lengthy process than I'd hoped -- a few small issues cropped up when updating to Unity 5 and they've been tricky to fix.

I would say go ahead anyway!

[Not A Duck]

Originally posted by tomatoes.dll:

Yeah, i was just about to ask about this, because i deleted everything with the delete session data.

Frankly, I think it would be wise to be able to save sessions independently and recall them. This way, for instance, I could take all the interview clips from one date/timeframe with Hannah or Eve, then watch them back to back after having found the relevant stuff and put it into a "Session." Then, I could save another session for a different interview date/timeframe.

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Thanks for the spoiler, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.