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You should be able to find it here:

C:\Users\[Your user name]\AppData\LocalLow\UnsignedDouble\Fossil Quest

You are also welcome to come find us on  discord if chatting there is easier for you. 

Thank you for playing and sharing your playthrough <3 we appreciate it so much! 

I'm so glad you are enjoying it, makes us very happy to hear! 

1. Ah sorry that's all the available locations in the prototype. The full game has way more content coming and the locations are a bit more in depth.

2. Hmm oh no sorry we don't have any alternative keys set up for scanning ☹️

3. The higher quality fossils get swapped out automatically. Sorry it's not very well explained in the prototype. We didn't want people to have to manually replace them each time. In the full game we are aiming to add the option to sell/trade your lower quality bones once they have been upgraded so at least you will have a use for the old ones.

For some reason Chromebook is bugged :-( we don't have access to a Chromebook so we can't recreate the issue on our side to figure out the problem. I am so sorry ☹️

Hi! Oh no I'm so sorry that's a crappy bug :( and the first time it's ever been reported. 

Could you email your save game file to us? It might help us figure out what's happening there. You can send it to lasse@unsigneddouble.com

So much fun, loved it!

Thank you! We don't have an official date announced yet but sometime in 2027. 

That's so cool!! Ahh I'm so glad you like it. 
Thanks for offering, how nice of you. We will be considering localisation a little later down the road but we agree with you re: AI - No AI translations for Fossil Quest no ways. We are hoping we will be able to have the funding to hire people to do this work but we just have to see how things go first :-) We are a small team and for now we are just focusing on making the game as good as possible and getting a demo together.  

P.S Sorry we stole your idea!! 😝

This made me really happy because this is something we are literally busy working on!! The town in the full game is much bigger and has more shops to visit and more people to meet, and many of them have storylines that impact the town and your museum in some way. You can increase your relationship with people too which has effect on things. We've have kept it all optional though for people who don't enjoy chit chatting too much.

Noted on the zoom feature - we will see if we can add this where ever possible :-)  

Hi ☺️ sorry the prototype doesn't have tutorials! For the full release we will definitely have a proper intro and some tutorialisation. Here are the controls:

- W,A,S,D to move around 

- Mouse click to interact with things and advance dialog 

- Mouse click (or spacebar) to dig 

The other controls (like for scanning or for mini-games) will be shown to you while in game but if you get stuck again you are welcome to ask here or find us on discord. I hope you enjoy it!

Hi. It will probably be somewhere between $8 and $12 depending on how much content we get in before release and also where you are in the world as we will have regional pricing on Steam 😊

I am not sure yet whether we will have it up on itch. We have some issues getting money from itch through PayPal so we'll have to see closer to the time. 

thank you so much <3

Hey! If the Steam release goes well enough we may port to other consoles afterwards, we would love to see it on Switch! but we are a small team with limited budget so one step at a time for us  :) 

It's a pleasure! Thanks for sending us such a lovely message <3 

Thank you so much for sharing your play through <3  I'm glad you enjoyed it!!! The digging is tedious in the prototype, you are right and we agreed. For the full game we have worked hard at making the digging more varied and interesting so hopefully that will be more fun  :-) 

Hey! Thanks so much for the support. I'm glad you like the updates :-) 

Hello! Ahhhh I'm sad we can't make a Mac version of the prototype ☹️ we are a tiny tiny team (basically just my husband and me) and honestly just don't own a Mac or have the funds to buy one so we couldn't test it on one. 

For the full version of the game we are going to investigate making a Mac build and see if we can find a way to do it. So, I can't make any promises right now but we will try! (Ps. Anyone reading this wanna send us a Mac so we can make this happen?! Hahaha)

I am happy that you love Fossil Quest so much though  ❤️  thanks for playing!

Ahh sorry it seems as though there is an issue with Chromebook playing the game :-( a number of people have reported issues.. all on Chromebook too. Unfortunately we don't have a Chromebook so it's very hard for us to figure out why it's doing this :-(

Oh sorry :-( Could you let me know what you are trying to play it on?

That does actually help! So far everyone who has reported this issue is using Chromebook. Thank so much for getting back to me, not useless at all 😊😊

Thank you, that makes me really happy :) we are working hard at making the full game and are really excited to share more about it when we can.

Thanks so much for reporting it! Sorry :-( We are struggling to recreate this bug on our end. Could you let me know your PC specs? 

Thank you!!! So happy you enjoyed it. We agree and are working hard at making the full game way better and with much more to do than the prototype 💪🥳

Hi! Sorry you are having issues. Could you let me know what device you are playing on and if it's the browser version or the download? Any extra info about what happens when it gets stuck would be helpful so we can try fix it.

Hi there. Ahhh I'm so sorry about that, the prototype wasn't made to support multiple monitor resolutions ☹️ the full game will have this functionality and extra resolution settings but for the prototype we just did not include stuff like that due to time constraints.

I will have a look in the next couple days and see if I can fix this to at least make it functional for ultrawide. I'll respond here to let you know once I've done it and if there's an updated build. 

Hi, I'm really sorry you are have having issues on chromebook. That sucks :-(  We'll  chat  about it and see  if we can  figure out what's happening. We don't have chromebooks ourselves so it might be hard to recreate the issue and fix it, but I'll let you know. 

Hi sorry that sounds really frustrating. What might be happening is your browser history is getting cleared somehow which is removing the save game data. What browser are you using?

The downloaded version saves data in a different way so wouldn't have the same problem. 

Ahhhh yay I'm so happy you enjoyed it! Having it feel tactile was one of our top goals so I'm super happy that is how it feels to you :-) thank you for playing and leaving this lovely comment, it means so much to us!

Once everyone has left a pop-up should come in saying how much money you earned and then you should be able to click continue and it rolls over to the next day and you can go dig again. If that isn't happening you may have a bug. Closing the game and opening it again might fix it? Either way, sorry about that! you are welcome to email us or find us on discord if you need any help and we can try solve the problem if you don't come right.  

We have big plans for the town that sort of align with what you are saying. The town is going to be bigger than it is in this demo and with time, as your museum improves it brings more people to the town and the whole town improves. You can also help people in the town with things if you want to but those side stories are optional :-)  Thank you for playing! I've made a note of your grid suggestion so we can chat about it. 

Thank you so much, that means a lot to us! Thanks for filling out the request form, it's really helpful. 

Really glad you are enjoying it. Sorry about the bugs you've found but thanks so much for reporting them. I appreciate it!

Ah so sorry we don't have alternative controls or remapping in this demo version :-( we are planning on having some more options for this in the full game and are busy building the game with controller support too. 

Hi there, yes we will probably have more options for the characters in the full game :-) thanks for playing!

Hi!! Thanks for playing, so glad you're enjoying it! Yeah I agree it does get a bit repetitive in the current demo, we are working hard at making more interesting and varied digging and excavation mechanics so it's not so repetitive in the full game! ah that's sweet of you but we're just happy to have you play and send feedback - that's the best type of donation ❤️ 

Hi there, oh no sorry about the bugs with the visitors :-( That sounds very annoying but thank you for letting us know. Also sorry we don't have much in the way of tutorials. Adding tutorialisation can take up a lot of time and we decided to put that time towards new features for this prototype but I know it's not a great solution to just expect people to figure it all out on their own.

For our next demo release (which will also be on Steam) and definitely for the full game, we will have a proper introduction and tutorials. We will also try to include other options for controls and we are adding controller support if that suits you better.

I'm so happy you enjoyed it despite the issues you had!! If we can turn you into a gamer then that makes me very happy XD Thanks so much for the support.

Hi, Cool! I've made a note to include some in the full game. Sorry we don't have any current demo :-( 

Oh thank you for letting me know. Sorry about that!

AH yes makes to happy to hear that you enjoy organising your lucky finds into themes!! We are expanding on this idea a bit in the full game ;-) 

We totally agree with you about dig sites. It's gets boring and repetitive quite quickly so we have plans to make it more varied. We also agree 100% about the characters movement. It's very clunky at the moment when digging :-( We actually spent today working on the characters movement mechanics for the full game with the goal of making it faster and less stop/starty. Thanks for playing <3

Hello! Thanks for such a lovely message, it's so motivating to hear you enjoyed it. I am sorry about some dig sites having very few bones :-( That is frustrating. It seems to be a bug that is happening to some people sometimes but we are struggling to recreate the issue on our end so it's been hard to fix so far.