Weird! That means something must be throwing an exception while loading the game, but it's getting enough into the loading to start rendering the background color. I could get an idea of what went wrong if you press Win+R, paste in %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Nifflas' Games\Xenosphere - the last bunch of lines of Player.log will probably contain information about what happened, the info will probably begin with the word "Exception" but I'm not 100% certain
I've fixed it now and uploaded a new version: 1.0.4, which you can download on this page!
The explanation for the bug is, before I fixed it just now, my adaptive music software opened instruments with read/write access instead of just read access, which means the OS denies access since the "Program Files" directory is protected. Most people probably ran it from the desktop or download folder, which is why they weren't affected.
Thank you so much for giving me this log data! This has been helpful in a very big way, especially since this is a mistake in code I use in multiple projects.
Hey, I downloaded it but its stuttering too hard for me to play. Any idea what is causing that? - EDIT - was playing it on a 4k display and it didn't like that. lowered the resolution and it ran great.
Thank you! I wonder how it gets so expensive on 4K, maybe it's because I went for the highest bloom setting? I might look into that. I have no 4K monitor tho.
The timing of everything is so great and natural! Really enjoyed the experience and it never felt repetitive even when I kept failing jumps :) Love visuals & the music too.
Thank you! Yeah, the work to get that to feel natural was one of the biggest challenges with making this! Neila and Alistair were amazingly good and I'm very happy how it turned out.
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Okay that was really good.
Brilliant!
the execution is on point
Totally loved this, it somehow manages to land all the aspects without undermining itself
Really a brilliant little game!
It just shows a blank dark green screen for me:![]()
Edit: This is now fixed in version 1.0.4
Weird! That means something must be throwing an exception while loading the game, but it's getting enough into the loading to start rendering the background color. I could get an idea of what went wrong if you press Win+R, paste in %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Nifflas' Games\Xenosphere - the last bunch of lines of Player.log will probably contain information about what happened, the info will probably begin with the word "Exception" but I'm not 100% certain
One thing that might fix it is installing the latest Visual C++ Redistributable from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=ms... (the X64 version)
Here's my Player.log: xenosphere - Pastebin.com. I installed the redistributable but no joy I'm afraid
I've fixed it now and uploaded a new version: 1.0.4, which you can download on this page!
The explanation for the bug is, before I fixed it just now, my adaptive music software opened instruments with read/write access instead of just read access, which means the OS denies access since the "Program Files" directory is protected. Most people probably ran it from the desktop or download folder, which is why they weren't affected.
Thank you so much for giving me this log data! This has been helpful in a very big way, especially since this is a mistake in code I use in multiple projects.
It's working now! My already high estimation of you just went up a further notch, thank you!
This is great! best short game experience I've played for ages.
Hey, I downloaded it but its stuttering too hard for me to play. Any idea what is causing that? - EDIT - was playing it on a 4k display and it didn't like that. lowered the resolution and it ran great.
That was stunning. Thank you for this.
Thank you! I wonder how it gets so expensive on 4K, maybe it's because I went for the highest bloom setting? I might look into that. I have no 4K monitor tho.
Hey, too cool😎
The timing of everything is so great and natural! Really enjoyed the experience and it never felt repetitive even when I kept failing jumps :)
Love visuals & the music too.
Thank you! Yeah, the work to get that to feel natural was one of the biggest challenges with making this! Neila and Alistair were amazingly good and I'm very happy how it turned out.
i don’t think i’ve experienced a game quite like this before - fantastic work! and i really loved the adaptive music!
Thank you :) Yeah, I really intend to continue digging into the adaptive music thing!
so cool! can't wait to take it for a... spin! :)
Nice one :D