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Unexpected behavior when loading old project

A topic by VM81 created 40 days ago Views: 73 Replies: 3

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VM8140 days ago

Hey, I wanted to update one of my old projects with some new features, so I loaded it in the editor and did some edits. I noticed some unexpected things:
1. There are exclamation marks next to all my unopened chests(see attached image).
2. When the final boss is defeated you still get the "demonic seal" text. I thought that was removed in newer versions. Do I need to remove and put the boss in again, so it doesn't show?
3. I had a loading error, accompanied by a short text in what i guess is Portuguese(sorry did not capture that)
You can find the game at: https://vm81.itch.io/the-amulet

Diguifi StudiosDeveloper37 days ago (3 edits)

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?

VM8127 days ago

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 StudiosDeveloper27 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