I’m playing The Tempest of Baraqiel. There’s supposed to be an automatic save feature but it doesn’t always do its job. It’s happened twice now that re-opening the game to pick up where I stopped the last session drops me on a page many clicks before where I was. Which means that I have to retrace my choices until I get where I left off last time.
I tried the manual save-button, but that doesn’t reliably bring me back to the last page I played either.
Anyone else notice this?
Yeah, I had autosave on and when I tried to come back after a first session it just restarted me from the beginning and I had to zip through the part I’d already played. I don’t know if it’s supposed to autosave at certain checkpoints and not every scene? It’s not really explained.
I tried manual save, but since there’s no “saved successfully!” message it was hard to tell if it was working at all, so I just made sure to complete the rest of the game in one sitting.
In my experience the manual save feature wasn’t doing anything. 
Oh! I’m so sorry, I’ve had a bunch of life stuff come up and haven’t been as active on here as I would’ve liked so I totally missed this thread. What browser / system are you on? It’s supposed to save on every scene, but it’s entirely possible that there’s either browser specific bugs or just a major one I didn’t catch. I did most of my development and testing on Firefox if that’s helpful.
I use Opera.
ah! ok. I actually don’t think I have done any testing on Opera, so it would make total sense that there’d be an issue there. (solo dev doing my best in my spare time). I’m really sorry! I’m going to do some updates post-comp and I’ll try to see if I can figure out what’s going on there.
Edge here.
huh. I did do a bunch of testing on Edge. Do you know if you have JavaScript Local Storage disabled? Otherwise there’s a deeper bug at work here that I’ll have to track down.
I ran into similar issues in Chrome (on Windows), with local storage enabled. Which is too bad, I liked the game so making it easier to explore other branches would be neat! I know the Comp is just about over, but I definitely think this would be worth fixing for a post-Comp release, if you can track it down.
I have no idea. I usually just press play and play. Weird thing is, it did work, kinda.
Now my automatic save is stuck on this page:
IKARI: “Yeoman Kessler will pass out your working group assignments.”
A young man wearing the standard khakis emerges…
I’ve played on for 3, 7, or more pages on different occasions, testing this save behaviour, and I always wind up on this page. So it does save a certain page, but it doesn’t keep up with my progress after that.
now that is very very strange. This must be an issue with my code then! My hunch is that it’s actually in how settings are preserved since I tested that the least. But I will dig into this after the comp. I’m really behind on playing other peoples pieces and I want to make it through my list as best I can.