I actually horrified how badly this game done in basic terms. Rant and maybe questions inside.

[Pissinger Boonisello]

I wanted to play this game forever. Everytime I got black screen, crash, unhelpful responses like try to update video driver, like this game does not play well with radeon video cards etc.

I understand that possibly the game was written from scratch or something, developers not using Unity engine etc. Or maybe they do use Unity engine.
If it's in Unity - I can't understand what had to be done so game will be so broken. If not - I wish developers used Unity and that's all.

Anyway, just an hour ago the game started. The blessings from the heaven!

My first impression - sound is way too loud and many sounds louder than other, forcing me to minimize game and down sound level in my windows.
Then, this little tricky thing, like "guess how to save in the game".
Okay. So the first damaging encounter - moving objects, when I try to find my ID card. Before that I inspected every corner and got items etc (poop water, paper, cat food).
So I assumed that I could just run through flying objects since this is like an intro tutorial or something (before that nothing pointed that I should be reaallyy careful, dark souls level like careful) aaaaaand I'm dead.
Foolish for me thinking that game will restart at the start of this room.
No, I need to run my chores again, collect all items etc.

I enter the trap room, and then think - WOW! Maybe there is like crouch button? I go to the menu - select change controls and then some insane controls wizard appears. I think "well I don't think that's what I need maybe there is control map somewhere else" so I spam Escape through every wizard step aaaaand now NONE of my game actions mapped except Escape button which is now "go left". I can't even open the menu. I minimize and close the game.

I start it again. Windows 10 freezes. Blue screen of death. PC restarts.
PC RESTARTS, CARL
PIXEL ART GAME
2021 year

What the hell? Did developers... did they like mismatch memory allocation? Caused segmentation fault?

Not to mention FPS drop. FPS DROP

Guys, I adore and LOVE Count Lucanor. But this game, this game is like forbidden candy.
I see trailers, I love the start of the game and then BAM. Not for you buddy.

What have gone wrong? How it ended up like this? What language was used? C? C++? Lua? Pygame? Brainf**k? Unity on hacked steroids? Unreal Engine with 3D high poly pixel art imitation? What is this?

I mean even Rain World with insane physics mechanics runs smoothly, with all those hitboxes and possible problems for RNG game with AI.

[monsieur_max]

Hello there,

Looks like you stumble on some issues.
So first, sorry for that, we're never happy when one of our players have a bad experience with one of our games.

Second, as you talk about engines, the game uses a homemade engine written in java and it could run on a low spec pc without troubles. It's not perfect, for sure, I wrote it ... but we have thousands of player able to enjoy the game without any trouble.
Also, this game uses the same engine as The Count Lucanor, so it should work the same way.

However, game dev on PC is tricky, even more when you also want to bring the game to mac and Linux. You have to deal with the incredible amount of software and hardware that exists out there. And sometimes, things don't work out.

So, you have some technical problems :
- Sound issue : maybe OpenAL was not detected as expected on your machine. When it happens, the engine uses a fallback implementation that is very limited.
- Key Wizard : we will prevent the possibility to bind Esc. Thanks for pointing that out. In the meantime, you can go in the game folder/res/settings and delete the settings.properties to reset everything
- BSOD : not sure why it could happen but there's an incompatibility with Discord streaming system that leads to filling the computer ram very fast when alt-tabbing. Maybe it's what happened for you. We're working on it.
- FPS Drop : not sure why this could happen, we'd need more info on that.

You can join our discord server and directly get help there, from me, in DM.

Best regards.

[Pissinger Boonisello]

Well, now I actually fell like an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ :D

Sorry about my jabbering.

I will reset settings and try again.

Thanks for clarifying about game engine. I adore people writing engines from scratch, but too many times it's a total mess (in terms of other games, not this one)
In terms of this game I think it was just too many accidents for me and the unstoppable desire to play it :D

I think my mistake was me buying the game for PC. I use Windows 10 bootcamp on my macbook, so there can be some problems...

I completed Count Lucanor on my Nintendo Switch, so I think I better buy the game for Switch actually and not face my kinda mac-ish windows problems :)

Thanks for the help