Steam issues

[Zanot]

I have been a longtime player of ItRtG and even your other game on occasion, and when I heard you were releasing ItRtG on steam I was extremely excited, however I have been plagued with issues that frankly have turned me away from your wonderful game here on steam. I cannot get the game to connect between steam and Kongregate, I also cannot gt the game to load any manual saves as it says 'this save is not a valid save' and worse yet, I can't get the game to recognize that I'm logged in on steam, if you have any suggestions that would be awesome, I really want to be able to enjoy this game without losing my progress every time I close it.

also, I'm curious to know if you have plans of bringing your other game to steam as well

[Ryu82]

Hm the problem is that the game doesn't recognize your steam client and that pretty much causes the other issues.
Not sure why, though. It works for others and I only heard from one other player who had a similar problem. For him, it was also that no game recognized his Steam connection and I'm not sure if he found the reason or not.

Chances are, that it has something to do with your Pc-configuration or Steam-Client.
What PC are you using? Did you try to reinstall Steam?

As for my other game, probably not.It might stay Kongregate only, because it is not popular enough and has almost no graphics (so even less then itrtg and players already complain about the itrtg graphics).

[Zanot]

I'll try reinstalling steam to see if that helps, and I'm using a windows pc on windows XP since I don't have the ability to upgrade it, one of the reasons I love this game is the lack of graphics as it runs better. I'll update once I reinstall steam as this is the only game that does this

[Ryu82]

Hm okay, I remember the other player who had a similar problem also used Windows XP. I tried it on a emulator then and it runs fine for me, when I have Windows XP on the emulator.
So it might be some hardware-issue, that Windows XP with some specific hardware has problems. Not sure if I can help you with that :(

[Zanot]

I tried to reinstall steam, and sadly the connection still doesn't work, nor does the manual save, and it still doesn't recognize that I'm logged in, I appreciate the help anyways, thank you for the great games

[roboticaust]

As weird as this sounds, you don't by chance happen to have your steam setup with family share? The thing plays nice most times but every now and again it hiccups with steam under certain configurations on certain games. The game I do QA work on has the occasional family share issue with certain setups and there's really nothing the dev can do about it since it's purely steam being turds.

If you are indeed using this feature, try disabling it and running the game. I sincerely hope that is indeed the issue since it comes with a fairly easy fix of just disabling it.

[Zanot]

as a matter of fact, i do, i'll try that now

***EDIT***

sadly, it's still a no-go, thanks for trying anyways.

[roboticaust]

Ouch. Was hoping that was the culprit. I'm going to browse through some Unity known issues and see if there's something there. I know you play the kong one just fine as I've seen you poking around there every so often, so I doubt it's the game itself. I'm ruling it down to possibly the engine at this point.

[roboticaust]

Alright, I found your issue but you aren't going to like the answer. Basically this game is compiled on a version of unity that stopped supporting XP. Last known Unity build that supported XP was 5.2.4. The current version this is compiled on is 5.3.4f1. You're kinda ♥♥♥♥-outta-luck until you replace your wooden pc :/

[roboticaust]

Originally posted by Ryu82:

As for my other game, probably not.It might stay Kongregate only, because it is not popular enough and has almost no graphics (so even less then itrtg and players already complain about the itrtg graphics).

I have a graphic artist friend who just migrated her game over from Kong to steam as well. She's considering expanding her team (coincidentally programmer positions) and might even be willing to toss a few freebie assets your way for this. Might be worth the social hookup. I think you two would play well together ;p

[Ryu82]

Originally posted by roboticaust:

Originally posted by Ryu82:

As for my other game, probably not.It might stay Kongregate only, because it is not popular enough and has almost no graphics (so even less then itrtg and players already complain about the itrtg graphics).

I have a graphic artist friend who just migrated her game over from Kong to steam as well. She's considering expanding her team (coincidentally programmer positions) and might even be willing to toss a few freebie assets your way for this. Might be worth the social hookup. I think you two would play well together ;p

Hm the other problem for ICM would be currently, that I don't really have much time for it and not sure if it would be worth it to bring it over to Steam. The idle-aspect is probably not right for this game and I would need to make it into a turn based manager - game which would require quite a bit of time.
I currently worked on ICM the last weeks for the probably last update in Kong. (Unless it somehow gets much more popular which is unlikely)

But I wouldn't mind some free assets for ICM, if they fit the game and she really wants to do that, I would add them to the game, but I won't go for Steam with it, at least for the near future.

I also have already my next two games pretty much planned out and might need a whole year to finish them, so going to another company as a programmer is not really something I planned to do currently.
Although I currently work 24 hours a week as a programmer for a different company and still do my games as a part time job. So I guess it wouldn't be impossible and like you said, some social hookup might be worth it. So if you want to, you can introduce me to her.

[roboticaust]

Not a huge deal. Just tossed it out there as a possibility. I'll give her a poke today and see if she's keen on a collab with ICM. Her game btw is Crush Crush. I'm sure you know of it.

[Ryu82]

That was also what first came to my mind, when you wrote recently released to Steam. I played the game and her art is really good, although I found the gameplay a bit lacking.

When I think about it, If she wants to do art for ICM and I make it a turn based game to improve the gameplay, I guess it would even have a good chance in Steam. Still cars are totally different from anime, so not sure if she can and want to draw cars :D

Working together on some other game also could be fun, though. But I already hired an artist for my next game, so it probably would have to be something else next year or so.

[roboticaust]

We will see lol. She's been trying to branch out and collab with various artists and programmers for awhile now. I'm sure she would be totally keen on a project or even just doing a few assets for some programming tidbits. Been donating a bit of my knowledge her way every so often but you definitely got me beat in that department. Proved it massively on that div gen screenie when I brainfarted toint() using banker's rounding since I'm so used to trunicating (or +0.5 then trunicating depending on circumstance) before changing storage type lol.

[Zanot]

Originally posted by roboticaust:

Alright, I found your issue but you aren't going to like the answer. Basically this game is compiled on a version of unity that stopped supporting XP. Last known Unity build that supported XP was 5.2.4. The current version this is compiled on is 5.3.4f1. You're kinda ♥♥♥♥-outta-luck until you replace your wooden pc :/

lol, thanks for trying, and i completely understand, sadly, i wish i could upgrade as i'm going into college and don't have the time or resources to upgrade. I COULD go to windows 10 for free, but it would slow down my computer more than it already is so there's no point until i get a completely new rig. Thanks anyways, i'll try to enjoy it as much as possible in the meantime, and i'm looking forward to these new games you're planning on working on, coincidentally my planned major is computer science with a focus on game development