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Hi VM81! Thanks for reaching out! Fisrt of all your game looks freaking amazing.

the exclamations on chests were introduced after this feature:
July 29, 2026 Lock chests with variables
In order to better represent when a chest is unlocked, an exclamation shows up near it, otherwise players would have no visual cue to even understand that a chest was opened by a variable (or is opened at all, since now chests can be closed).
I do not remember removing this “demonic seal” text, but I remember removing several RPG texts, will be removing this one aswell right now!
EDIT: removed!
when did the error happened? was it when loading the editor, or ingame?

Sorry for the slow reply, I was on a family vacation.
1. It's great to have a visual indication when a chest is unlocked by variable. This way you can easily see something has changed. My problem with the implementation is unlocked chests(the ones that were unlocked by default) also start with the exclamation mark. Thus every chest starts up with the exclamation mark, unless it's locked and it muddies the signal so to speak, because now you don't know whether the exclamation mark is there because you did something, or the chest was unlocked by default.
2. I can confirm it's removed.
3. When loading the game file in the editor

Diguifi Studios27 days ago

I had an idea. Instead of showing exclamation for open chests, I inverted the visual cue, and now I show a “lock” for locked chests and open chests just don’t show anything extra. Maybe that’s better for backwards compatibility, since not everyone will appreciate exclamations all over their chests.
awesome
still looking into that

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