I see! I tried making the default Ren'Py tools work, but, sadly, the game's interface is just too messy to make them work properly. : ( If I were to design the entirety of Roadwarden anew, I'd probably be able to do better, but it's too late now.
I would like to buy this game here but i am afraid that this is not the right version? Steam has like version 1.8.0, but here i get access to 1.1.2, wich is not the newest... Or is it just listed wrong?
Hi! If I remember correctly, the last version of Roadwarden was labeled as 1.0.92, so we've jumped into a new category. : ) The current Itch.io build is up to date, though I hope to prepare the 1.1.3 patch in the next 48 hours.
hi. I really want to play this game. However, i am visually impaired and wanted to know if this game has support for blind people. Does it suppport renpi's self-voicing by pressing the v key or image descriptions?
I'm sorry, I don't know how to do it. If you're sure you downloaded the Mac version, consider looking for fixes for MacOS Monterey in regards to "Ren'Py" - this is the engine Roadwarden uses.
Is it possible that the mac version has a 32bit executable in it ? That might be the reason. Is it possible that you package another mac version with a 64bit executable in it then ?
The issue was that the executable in the .app package did not have the execution flags/permission set. So I fixed it for myself and it is running now. Strange ...
I can understand the complexities, but I also agree that an Android port would be great. This is a game that lends itself to be played on a phone or a tablet, safely tucked under blankets in bed, during long winter nights.
Also, the android market might be very profitable. It reaches *a lot* of people.
But I would suggest to either upload both versions (the demo and the full one), or allow for in-app purchase of the full version, once the demo is completed.
In any case, great work. I love the writing, the worldbuilding and the aesthetics of the game.
At the interaction with the barkeep at the Pelt of the North, when he asks you to cover for him for the deal with Foggy, what part of his explanation is a lie?
Hi! I'm sorry if it's not stated clearly, I'll write a note for myself to look into it. The intended lie is that he still considers paying her for joining forces - the truth is he's just playing for time, hoping to bail before he faces any consequences for manipulating her.
I cannot say enough fantastic things about Roadwarden. I played through three times to see and explore everything I wanted to, and there was still so much left to do! The replayability factor is insane. Shout out to my new family in the Creeks, Eudocia, and the Forest Speaker.
Hi there! I'm sorry you faced such an issue. I just downloaded the demo and it works on my end. Is there any chance that you installed Roadwarden, or its demo, in the past, maybe even on Steam? It's possible that the game has merged its new files with some more ancient relics and that it formed a hybrid between two versions. If so, cleansing all the folders related to the game, especially the save folder, should be able to fix the issue.
I was wondering if anyone on here knows what dependencies this game has? I have downloaded the game on Linux, and extracted it out, but it's telling me it still wants steam?
I have not found any place that shares what is needed to run the game, so I'm unsure what it needs.
Hi there! Thank you for the consideration, but I believe we have the same split with all the websites where Roadwarden is available, so don't worry about it. As long as it's convenient for you and you're happy with the specific platform, I'm happy too. : )
Okay this is very specific and totally personal but I need to vent right now (so minor spoiler!): There is a part in the game where a poor lady in White Marshes asks you to find her money under a stone bridge. There ends up being way less money than she originally hoped for and you have the option of being truthful about it and giving her only a single coin or lying to her. But the character I am trying to play would neither lie nor let her problem remain unresolved! +-+
I wish there could be an option to the likes of this: "I found only one coin but at a dire time when I needed it the most. So let me add nine coins of compound interest."
Because that was the truth! I went the eastern path first and was broke as hell ;( Really the first time I felt like I could not RP, my immersion was totally shattered argh \*o*/ I hate it so much!
So yeah wanted to throw that at someones head, the rest of the game is absolutely fantastic so far. One of the best games I played 2022. I spend surely 20-something hours in this world and I already know that I want to replay it atleast twice after that. I need to look at your other projects if they are anything like this!
Thank you so much! Are you happy with the way MoonFire is turning out? It sure looks like a project born out of love, I'm super interested in indie RPGs in general.
You're definitely spot on! It's been a lot of work, but even after a year and half or so, I'm really enjoying how its turning out for my first official IP ^^
Cheers on enjoying the success of Roadwarden. Or at least I hope you see it as such!
I'm afraid Roadwarden is not optimized to support players who use text-to-speech hardware. I wish it would, but as it is a solo-dev project, I simply lack necessary skills to properly design it, and as it is, it uses a plentitude of pop up menus, long paragraphs ended with multiple dialogue choices, images that have no alternate descriptions and so on. I'm sorry it ended up this way, but I hope I'll have an opportunity to work with a real programmer for my next RPG, ideally someone who could support me in making the game more accessible for various types of controllers.
Once again, my apologies and thank you for taking interest in my game.
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Hi there. I bought this game on Steam, but pressing "enter" on the first page doesn't do anything. Do you have any way to fix?
Hi! Please try using your mouse. : )
hi, that's ok. I've edited my comment to make it a bit kkkmore clearer. WHen i tried the game, self-voicing did not turn on when i pressed the v key.
I see! I tried making the default Ren'Py tools work, but, sadly, the game's interface is just too messy to make them work properly. : ( If I were to design the entirety of Roadwarden anew, I'd probably be able to do better, but it's too late now.
I would like to buy this game here but i am afraid that this is not the right version?
Steam has like version 1.8.0, but here i get access to 1.1.2, wich is not the newest... Or is it just listed wrong?
Hi! If I remember correctly, the last version of Roadwarden was labeled as 1.0.92, so we've jumped into a new category. : ) The current Itch.io build is up to date, though I hope to prepare the 1.1.3 patch in the next 48 hours.
hi. I really want to play this game. However, i am visually impaired and wanted to know if this game has support for blind people. Does it suppport renpi's self-voicing by pressing the v key or image descriptions?
I'm sorry, but I wasn't able to introduce this type of accessibility options.
Doesn't open on MacOS Ventura.
Doesn't run on MacOS Monterey.. fix pls ?
I'm sorry, I don't know how to do it. If you're sure you downloaded the Mac version, consider looking for fixes for MacOS Monterey in regards to "Ren'Py" - this is the engine Roadwarden uses.
Is it possible that the mac version has a 32bit executable in it ? That might be the reason. Is it possible that you package another mac version with a 64bit executable in it then ?
The issue was that the executable in the .app package did not have the execution flags/permission set. So I fixed it for myself and it is running now. Strange ...
How did you fix it? I'm on Ventura.
Open terminal
cd into .app package
cd Contents
cd MacOS
chmod +x Roadwarden
Run and enjoy
Android port pwease!
Maybe! A bit difficult to pull it off, considering all the reading, menus, sub menus, and sub sub menus.
I can understand the complexities, but I also agree that an Android port would be great. This is a game that lends itself to be played on a phone or a tablet, safely tucked under blankets in bed, during long winter nights.
Also, the android market might be very profitable. It reaches *a lot* of people.
But I would suggest to either upload both versions (the demo and the full one), or allow for in-app purchase of the full version, once the demo is completed.
In any case, great work. I love the writing, the worldbuilding and the aesthetics of the game.
At the interaction with the barkeep at the Pelt of the North, when he asks you to cover for him for the deal with Foggy, what part of his explanation is a lie?
Hi! I'm sorry if it's not stated clearly, I'll write a note for myself to look into it. The intended lie is that he still considers paying her for joining forces - the truth is he's just playing for time, hoping to bail before he faces any consequences for manipulating her.
I cannot say enough fantastic things about Roadwarden. I played through three times to see and explore everything I wanted to, and there was still so much left to do! The replayability factor is insane. Shout out to my new family in the Creeks, Eudocia, and the Forest Speaker.
I wish there were more games like this! 5/5.
Hey can anyone help with this, I get it everytime I try to launch the demo:
I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
While running game code:
Exception: Line with id endingtransition_76b2fe88 appeared twice, at game/areas/backinthecity.rpy:129 and game/areas/epilogue.rpy:3246.
-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------
Full traceback:
File "renpy/bootstrap.py", line 274, in bootstrap
renpy.main.main()
File "renpy/main.py", line 490, in main
renpy.game.script.load_script() # sets renpy.game.script.
File "renpy/script.py", line 297, in load_script
self.load_appropriate_file(".rpyc", ".rpy", dir, fn, initcode)
File "renpy/script.py", line 809, in load_appropriate_file
self.finish_load(stmts, initcode, filename=lastfn) # type: ignore
File "renpy/script.py", line 427, in finish_load
self.translator.take_translates(all_stmts)
File "renpy/translation/__init__.py", line 169, in take_translates
n.filename, n.linenumber))
Exception: Line with id endingtransition_76b2fe88 appeared twice, at game/areas/backinthecity.rpy:129 and game/areas/epilogue.rpy:3246.
Windows-10-10.0.19041 AMD64
Ren'Py 7.5.2.22081402u
Tue Feb 21 11:50:55 2023
Hi there! I'm sorry you faced such an issue. I just downloaded the demo and it works on my end. Is there any chance that you installed Roadwarden, or its demo, in the past, maybe even on Steam? It's possible that the game has merged its new files with some more ancient relics and that it formed a hybrid between two versions. If so, cleansing all the folders related to the game, especially the save folder, should be able to fix the issue.
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I was wondering if anyone on here knows what dependencies this game has? I have downloaded the game on Linux, and extracted it out, but it's telling me it still wants steam?
I have not found any place that shares what is needed to run the game, so I'm unsure what it needs.
Hi there! Are you saying that you downloaded Roadwarden-1.0.66-linux.tar.bz2 and it doesn't work?
BTW this version of the game is out of date, I need to poke the game's publisher to ask what's up with that.
Correct. I have extracted the tar, and run the games script, yet I run into this error. What requirements are needed for me to run this game on Linux?
Hi there! The game has recently been updated. Any chance it works for you now?
Where's the best play to purchase this game so the most money goes to the dev? Here?
Hi there! Thank you for the consideration, but I believe we have the same split with all the websites where Roadwarden is available, so don't worry about it. As long as it's convenient for you and you're happy with the specific platform, I'm happy too. : )
Is there any thought to porting it to PS5?
I'm afraid it's very unlikely. : (
Okay this is very specific and totally personal but I need to vent right now (so minor spoiler!): There is a part in the game where a poor lady in White Marshes asks you to find her money under a stone bridge. There ends up being way less money than she originally hoped for and you have the option of being truthful about it and giving her only a single coin or lying to her. But the character I am trying to play would neither lie nor let her problem remain unresolved! +-+
I wish there could be an option to the likes of this: "I found only one coin but at a dire time when I needed it the most. So let me add nine coins of compound interest."
Because that was the truth! I went the eastern path first and was broke as hell ;( Really the first time I felt like I could not RP, my immersion was totally shattered argh \*o*/ I hate it so much!
So yeah wanted to throw that at someones head, the rest of the game is absolutely fantastic so far. One of the best games I played 2022. I spend surely 20-something hours in this world and I already know that I want to replay it atleast twice after that. I need to look at your other projects if they are anything like this!
May I ask if there's a werewolf here and if I can be a werewolf?
I'm afraid you can't be a werewolf in Roadwarden, but I recently played Werewolf The Apocalypse: Heart of the Forest and it's fantastic.
Roadwarden was my favorite game of last year, ive spent more time with it than any of the other big titles i bought. fantastic work!
Thank you for your support! 2022 featured some amazing games, so that's quite a compliment. ^^
As I'm also a solo developer I must say I am impressed. You can tell a ton of work has gone into this ^^ Good job!
Thank you so much! Are you happy with the way MoonFire is turning out? It sure looks like a project born out of love, I'm super interested in indie RPGs in general.
You're definitely spot on! It's been a lot of work, but even after a year and half or so, I'm really enjoying how its turning out for my first official IP ^^
Cheers on enjoying the success of Roadwarden. Or at least I hope you see it as such!
Hello.
Is this game accessible to play for blind players?
Sounds like something I would like to play, but when I run the demo, I am stuck.
I can hear the music and self-voicing mode seems to be working, because the synthesizer reads some random sentence.
But after that I do not know what to do, or even if I am doing something.
There is no reaction to whatever I press on the keyboard.
Even trying to switch off and on self-voicing does not work.
Is there documentation about shortcuts somewhere, or any way to make the game work?
Greetings, Luel!
I'm afraid Roadwarden is not optimized to support players who use text-to-speech hardware. I wish it would, but as it is a solo-dev project, I simply lack necessary skills to properly design it, and as it is, it uses a plentitude of pop up menus, long paragraphs ended with multiple dialogue choices, images that have no alternate descriptions and so on. I'm sorry it ended up this way, but I hope I'll have an opportunity to work with a real programmer for my next RPG, ideally someone who could support me in making the game more accessible for various types of controllers.
Once again, my apologies and thank you for taking interest in my game.
Hello moral-anxiety.
Thank you for your answer.
I suspected the game may be not accessible, but did not want to assume without asking first.
Unfortunately, I do not know what, if anything, can be done about Roadwarden.
I am not a programmer, just a player.
Regarding possible amount of text to read, in my opinion, this is no reason to complain about.
Unless the writing is difficult to understand or something makes reading not enjoyable.
I like games where exploration is encouraged, with background information and lore to find.
I wish you good luck with your next game.
This looks great; the kind of thing to play late at night.