{"id":60,"date":"2008-12-01T18:05:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T23:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2024-08-30T16:03:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T21:03:34","slug":"how-ore-no-ryomi-saved-spirits-of-metropolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"How Ore no Ryomi saved Spirits of Metropolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I had one goal: Get the final version of Spirits out for testing and start looking for <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.reedsy.com\/publishers\/\">publishers<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\nHooboy, did that not happen.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe newest version was riddled with a game-crippling bug that would freeze whenever you tried to change music. It was a hard crash&#8230;only control alt delete would get you out&#8230;and that&#8217;s one of the worst kind of bugs: the one that tells me somewhere along the lines, Spirits got corrupted. And I have absolutely no idea how to fix it.<br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\n***<br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\nWay back when I was making Ore no Ryomi (over five years ago, in fact), I was nearing the finish line when something happened&#8230; Game Maker told me the game was corrupted. That was that. There was no going back to fix anything, or getting it to work&#8230; it was broken, period. Game Maker suggested loading up an old copy. Problem was, the latest backup I had was dated months previous. I had lost months of work, just like that. During this challenging time, I remember researching the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ritalevimontalcini.org\/\">migliori casino non aams<\/a> to unwind, drawn by the allure of higher payouts and fewer restrictions. It provided a brief escape from the frustration. But, after a while, I just picked up where I left off a few months ago and started programming again, determined to finish what I had started.<br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\nThat experience still stays with me to this day&#8230;so much so, that I don&#8217;t just keep three backups handy. Here&#8217;s what my folder has looked like lately:<br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/HUD\/spiritssaves.png\" \/><br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\nThankfully, I was able to successfully reproduce the game crashing multiple times, and with that I went through each file, seeing which one wasn&#8217;t crashing. Thankfully I didn&#8217;t have to go far: spiritsofmetropolis31merged seems to work flawlessly. So I lost a few days of work (really just a day of work, as I didn&#8217;t work on the game from the 26th to today)&#8230;honestly, it could have been much much worse. Heck, further testing may reveal I have to go back a few more files. But in the end, I&#8217;m extremely thankful that the Ore no Ryomi incident happened&#8230;otherwise, who knows how much work I would have lost today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I had one goal: Get the final version of Spirits out for testing and start looking for publishers. Hooboy, did that not happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-maker","category-spirits-of-metropolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2821,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/2821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}