I’m playing The Bones of Rosalinda (using the “Play Online” link on IFDB) and I’ve run into what seems to be a game-ending bug near the finale:
Spoilers
After placing the rose, the salt and Rosalinda’s skull on the altar and reading the ritual, I get the text passage describing how the ritual succeeds, but then when I’m returned to the regular game interface, I get the links for Rosalinda’s body in the top left (and Piecrust in the top right) but where the links for her skull should be I get a whole pile of Twine errors spilling down the rest of the page. The rest of the interface is blank so I can’t do anything to try to fix the problem.
Hi,
Sorry about the bug! I don’t have access to a computer right now and I won’t be able to look into fixing it for a few days. For now you could try playing an older version (from the If Archive or Spring Thing website), you can transfer your saved game using the Save to disk/Load from disk option.
I looked into this and couldn’t replicate the bug by simply starting from the ritual. From the screenshot, it looks like the game cannot read a variable which prints the location of the skull (it’s a simple bit of code with a single if-statement). I’m not sure how, but the variable for the location could have become unset - there may be an oversight where this happens if you do things in a particular order, or perhaps it had something to do with the browser - I’m not sure. I added a line of code to set the skull’s location to the Ritual Chamber when the ritual has succeeded, hopefully it will prevent this bug from happening.
I’d already finished the game by transferring my save to the original competition version, but I just note reloaded it in the version on itch.io and it looks like the bug is gone!
