Not normal, it's a weird bug that affects certain Android devices since 0.7. The Android developer is trying to isolate it I believe. I'm sure Tanxui knows more.
I've taken a lot of initiative when it comes to this bug. However, Ixalon made the build, he is in the best position to find a fix. Everything I'd do would require twice the effort compared to him.
Let's compile what we know so far:
The bug has been reported mostly on Android, but also on Mac devices.
It affects some devices, but not all of them. No pattern has emerged yet when it comes to which devices are affected.
It always manifests like this: The game has zero audio, except on the 18+ screen at the beginning. All frames that are animations are completely black instead. Though dialogue still plays as normal.
Additionally, some people report occasional crashes while being affected by this bug. We have only one crash report, it complains about failure to allocate graphics resources, possibly because the game ran out of memory?
Android users reported that the game worked fine when it was single-apk, only the multi-file versions have the problem.
One Android user even said that for him this applies to all Android RenPy games: As soon as they switch from single-apk to multi-file, the game doesn't work properly anymore.
Theory 1: The game needs more memory than some devices are able to provide. Maybe we can optimize memory usage?
Theory 2: Some devices are unable to handle certain manners of compression. Maybe we can use other manners of compression instead?
Love Ripples, but the number of sentences ending in "at" and the liberal use of "anyways" disconnects my old ass too often. That's on me, not the game, as that is how characters that age speak now, but it still rankles.
Once in a Lifetime is a finished game that, while in some ways a product of the tools available at the time, is better than almost all similar games existing now, much less then.
I went a few chapters into My Bully, but the dialogue is hard. The story seems great, but the translation hurts my head.
Downloaded Dreamlink based on this post. It isn't just like this, so far, it looks like an homage to this. Nothing wrong with that. Shows potential so far, and other than Lucy having blue eyes in one scene, the only complaint I have is that I have a very large snowshoe Siamese cat, big enough to put his front paws on the kitchen counter while his rear paws are on the floor. Being that large, he has the head-down mountain lion walk instead of the meshed left-right head-up shuffle of the other cats, and has a pronounced snout, meaning he's a bit cross-eyed when focusing close in. The girls in Dreamlink seem the same, as if their eye-focus setting was placed right in front of them during illustration, not back where the MC's POV is.
You're very sensitive to improper language I see. I rarely notice things like that. About the cross-eyed thing, why don't you tell the dev directly in his comment section or on his Discord server? I'm sure he'd appreciate your feedback.
Because I don't know enough about the tools used to know whether my perception is correct, same as I never tell an artist "you should do [my fantasy]." In all of these games, the thing is to roll with the author's vision. I don't ever want to be that asshole who complains about free games not catering to my kinks (this one mostly doesn't, it's just so good, it is the LotR of AVNs, and having the Hobbit already finished is also way cool). I answered here because that was the question posed.
If you are bilingual in My Bully native and English, I'd be happy to help, but I don't think this is the thread for that.
There's a difference between friendly & constructive criticism and selfish complaining. What you wrote definitely belonged in the former category and every dev is free to disregard your opinion if you're not the target audience. If you're not sure, then just word it accordingly. I didn't notice the cross-eyed thing, but I'm not known for being very observant.
I'm a dev too (in some sense) and I would have appreciated it if you gave me that kind of feedback. That's double checking I'd gladly do.
I don't know what you wanted to say with the last paragraph.
And btw the best free AVN game out there along with OIALT, from plots to characters and dialogues, it's all so intrigued for players to dive into the adventure 😄
Hi caribdis it's me again i love all the game you develop bro and it's kinda sad bro can you fix the download of eternum for Android bro because it keeps retrying bro and I hope you develop more games in the future bro I literally cry because I couldn't see Luna again it's just depressing bro
Λατρεύω αυτό το παιχνίδι. Σας ευχαριστώ Caribdis που το κάνατε.
Δεν μπορώ να περιγράψω πόσο ευγνώμων είμαι γιατί αυτό είναι ένα παιχνίδι "Όνομα της δικής σας τιμής". Αν είχα την ευκαιρία, θα σας υποστήριζα με χρήματα σε έναν κτύπο της καρδιάς.
This is the best story game I've ever played,this is so great.
First time I am playing I lost my path with dalia and Luna I am not rewind the decision that I am make so I want to know what could possibly happen and after the third time I am playing I see this game have so much story line or different scene even if you get the wrong decision. I am must saying this need a lot of work and it's worth it to play, I really gonna share this game with all of my homie
Not just story but the music is so good to listen man I really love it
Man, I saw that cliffhanger coming from a mile away, but it hit hard all the same. Also, the scenes in chapter 8 were some of the best yet. Keep up the great work.
oh and btw. THANK YOU for implementing I'd rather stay on earth, that song is so super indy - I'd never have known it and it instantly became one of my favorite songs
In Eternum, every girl has a path and bad choices can make you irreversibly lose a girl's path. This is indicated by their portrait becoming grey in the overview screen. Either deal with it and move on or load an older save and try to make things right.
I made a walkthrough that specializes in troubleshooting paths, like in your case! You can find it here, it's the third download option.
I love the characters, the humor - god did I laugh a lot, the story, the romance. Definitely in my top 5 games of all time. I find it that good.
Just playing it for the third time, didn't even notice that a new version was out already - just starting with Episode 7 Last thing I knew from my last playthrough was Bardot at Alex' place. Boy, what a revelation, even more questions :D Seems like Bardot isn't such a thundercunt after all... well he is but there's something about his intentions which seem... hmm, I'm not sure what his game really is but I love to find out.
Once in a lifetime was awesome, but this is just... on a whole different level
Came to goon, stayed for the brilliant writing and laughs. Was not expecting to like a game like this. Gotta submit a donation here next chance I get. Very well deserved.
My man!!! You got me so locked in with this game! Im going to give you a BIG DONATION SOON!! It's not even just the scenes, which are amazing, but the storyline, music, PLOT!! EVERYTHING!! Question though, will we see Eva more? Will she be a part of the girls? I really like her, and it'd be so sad if shes just a background character. Eva has features that the other girls don't and she catches my heart so much. Eva is definitely a potential. Great work my man, can't wait for 0.8 Version! Please continue the series! :)
this game has me absorbed in the lore and story the h scenes just feel like a side bonus(theyre amazing dont get me wrong) waiting for upd feels like an eternity
Love this game, but lost my place due to needing a complete reformat of the game. Wish there were chapter codes that we could enter to resume where we were.
I wanna ask i did all of this but i dont particularly remember the last chapter i have but i have a saved which i updated its still here but whenever i load it just sent me something about couldn't find the place to rollback this is also happened before i updated the game now it wasn't like this before i started using joiplay & renpai so I'm guess the renpai did something to eternum (pls help)
"Couldn't find a place to stop rolling back" is an error message you can get when trying to load an older save on a newer version of a RenPy game. You need to restart your game when you get this error message.
Most often only some saves are affected by this. Try to load other saves of that same playthrough, most of them should still work fine.
Great story! Perhaps the only game with sex scenes, where I rather expect to see not the scenes themselves, but the development of the plot and characters. A truly unique project! But now I’m only interested in one thing: what does the content of pregnancy mean, which they talk about at the beginning? Will this be available in future updates? Throughout the entire game, I never saw what was said at the beginning.
Pregnancy content, should you choose to enable it, is indeed going to be a lategame thing. If you want to know how this could look like, you should play Caribdis' previous work: Once in a Lifetime.
Judging by their previous game, I suggest enabling it - it gives a few more extra scenes and has no real impact - and when the credits roll it's super funny so.... yea, enable it
Ok, so I had a previous problem that I solved, but now I have a new problem. Is there a chance that version 6 & 7 have a sex censor? As every time I get with a girl to start the action, the screen goes black and only text shows with the heart on top left.
playing on fire tablet. I have version 7, had no problems starting from the beginning and seeing the sex scenes, but as soon as I get to part 6 story the censor kicks in.
No there's no censor. There's a strange very device specific bug with Android editions where animations turn black though. But it only happening from 0.6 and onward is a new variant.
He's right but your case sounds like a little bit different from the rest. So you're saying that in the version you're currently playing (0.7) animations from earlier chapters work, just animations from later chapters don't? Did you try to play one of those earlier animations recently or was that months ago?
And do you have any sound issues during the rest of the game? The game should always have some kind of background audio.
He talked about a plot twist. Everyone who reads his comment before playing the game will already know what to expect; therefore the surprise will be ruined. See the Wikipedia article for spoilers.
I consider Eternum to be an amazing work of art. Contributing my skills to it is something I'm passionate about.
And if you don't mind me getting philosophical: I may die one day, but my creations & contributions will live on; so there's also a sliver of immortality that comes with it.
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if there's a hospital in next update, add mgs V reference puh-LEASE
Need help! When going in the scene the animation turn black screen but i can still see the dialog. Is it normal?
Not normal, it's a weird bug that affects certain Android devices since 0.7. The Android developer is trying to isolate it I believe. I'm sure Tanxui knows more.
If you can try playing on another system like PC.
I've taken a lot of initiative when it comes to this bug. However, Ixalon made the build, he is in the best position to find a fix. Everything I'd do would require twice the effort compared to him.
Let's compile what we know so far:
I might as well start to collect some statistics. jakoma123, please provide the following information about your device:
Maybe this can confirm or rule out some theories. The bug will be there for a while, so I suggest you play on another device in the meantime.
Are the school uniforms used in this game the school uniforms in my hero academia?
May anyone tell me, other games that are like this? they frickin nailed it to the board
Ripples by Jesturr
It's a must try!
Ripples is great, but I wouldn't say it's similar. Here are a few other games you could check out:
Yes...Dreamlink is certainly very much like this 😆🤣
Love Ripples, but the number of sentences ending in "at" and the liberal use of "anyways" disconnects my old ass too often. That's on me, not the game, as that is how characters that age speak now, but it still rankles.
Once in a Lifetime is a finished game that, while in some ways a product of the tools available at the time, is better than almost all similar games existing now, much less then.
I went a few chapters into My Bully, but the dialogue is hard. The story seems great, but the translation hurts my head.
Downloaded Dreamlink based on this post. It isn't just like this, so far, it looks like an homage to this. Nothing wrong with that. Shows potential so far, and other than Lucy having blue eyes in one scene, the only complaint I have is that I have a very large snowshoe Siamese cat, big enough to put his front paws on the kitchen counter while his rear paws are on the floor. Being that large, he has the head-down mountain lion walk instead of the meshed left-right head-up shuffle of the other cats, and has a pronounced snout, meaning he's a bit cross-eyed when focusing close in. The girls in Dreamlink seem the same, as if their eye-focus setting was placed right in front of them during illustration, not back where the MC's POV is.
You're very sensitive to improper language I see. I rarely notice things like that. About the cross-eyed thing, why don't you tell the dev directly in his comment section or on his Discord server? I'm sure he'd appreciate your feedback.
Because I don't know enough about the tools used to know whether my perception is correct, same as I never tell an artist "you should do [my fantasy]." In all of these games, the thing is to roll with the author's vision. I don't ever want to be that asshole who complains about free games not catering to my kinks (this one mostly doesn't, it's just so good, it is the LotR of AVNs, and having the Hobbit already finished is also way cool). I answered here because that was the question posed.
If you are bilingual in My Bully native and English, I'd be happy to help, but I don't think this is the thread for that.
There's a difference between friendly & constructive criticism and selfish complaining. What you wrote definitely belonged in the former category and every dev is free to disregard your opinion if you're not the target audience. If you're not sure, then just word it accordingly. I didn't notice the cross-eyed thing, but I'm not known for being very observant.
I'm a dev too (in some sense) and I would have appreciated it if you gave me that kind of feedback. That's double checking I'd gladly do.
I don't know what you wanted to say with the last paragraph.
I have quite a problem while installing OIALT, it always fails at the middle of downloading
Use a different download provider (Mediafire works best for me) or try downloading with a different browser.
Exciting for the new update to come!
And btw the best free AVN game out there along with OIALT, from plots to characters and dialogues, it's all so intrigued for players to dive into the adventure 😄
thank you for the french translate and i hope to see update soon :)
I really like the game so much I hope you make more scenes of Luna and other girls
Of course! :D
Hi caribdis it's me again i love all the game you develop bro and it's kinda sad bro can you fix the download of eternum for Android bro because it keeps retrying bro and I hope you develop more games in the future bro I literally cry because I couldn't see Luna again it's just depressing bro
Λατρεύω αυτό το παιχνίδι. Σας ευχαριστώ Caribdis που το κάνατε.
Δεν μπορώ να περιγράψω πόσο ευγνώμων είμαι γιατί αυτό είναι ένα παιχνίδι "Όνομα της δικής σας τιμής". Αν είχα την ευκαιρία, θα σας υποστήριζα με χρήματα σε έναν κτύπο της καρδιάς.
为什么没有itch.io的内部链接，使用itch.io应用程序直接更新游戏而不是重新下载，itch.io好像还会提供云存档
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Spanish?
We already published our Spanish translation up to 0.3: https://daknosolar.itch.io/eternum-spanish-translation
We hope you like it!
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Vale gracias
This world without Luna is so boring , Luna my girl take me away.
wtf. are you talking about? There's no No-Luna, unless you screwed up and lost her path which is rather hard to do
the real world. bro is talking about the real world
The game is cool, but I have doubts. Was it worth taking the artifact that the Creator offered, what does it affect?
I think you are not supposed to take it
You have to take it, yes, it'll give you access to optional scenes in the futureI thought you meant the Collector's artifact sorry, definitely don't take the Founder's one 😂
I think he meant the Founder, not the Collector.
Why?👀
If by Creator you meant the Founder and the artifact you meant is the Amulet of Blair, walkthrough states not to take it.
If Creator is typo for Collector and the artifact you meant is the Doppelmorpher, then take it.
Can you add a language option for Traditional Chinese? Thanks♪(･ω･)ﾉ
This is the best story game I've ever played,this is so great.
First time I am playing I lost my path with dalia and Luna I am not rewind the decision that I am make so I want to know what could possibly happen and after the third time I am playing I see this game have so much story line or different scene even if you get the wrong decision. I am must saying this need a lot of work and it's worth it to play, I really gonna share this game with all of my homie
Not just story but the music is so good to listen man I really love it
Thank you so much!
Man, I saw that cliffhanger coming from a mile away, but it hit hard all the same. Also, the scenes in chapter 8 were some of the best yet. Keep up the great work.
That was brutal as shit though, I mean, it makes perfect sense but still..... omfg :D - I kinda hate it hah
Can't wait for the next ep
oh and btw. THANK YOU for implementing I'd rather stay on earth, that song is so super indy - I'd never have known it and it instantly became one of my favorite songs
Oh... my... fucking.... god
I knew something's gonna happen on that Pizza ride but fuck me... that was brutal
Can't wait for 0.8... this is one mean ass cliffhanger man... you can't do this :D
one of the best games ive played in a while. after this one, im definitely downloading the other finished game.
after playin some time am unable to see some characters stats what do i do?
In Eternum, every girl has a path and bad choices can make you irreversibly lose a girl's path. This is indicated by their portrait becoming grey in the overview screen. Either deal with it and move on or load an older save and try to make things right.
I made a walkthrough that specializes in troubleshooting paths, like in your case! You can find it here, it's the third download option.
tysm for ur help!
Thank you so much for this game.
I love the characters, the humor - god did I laugh a lot, the story, the romance.
Definitely in my top 5 games of all time. I find it that good.
Just playing it for the third time, didn't even notice that a new version was out already - just starting with Episode 7
Last thing I knew from my last playthrough was Bardot at Alex' place. Boy, what a revelation, even more questions :D
Seems like Bardot isn't such a thundercunt after all... well he is but there's something about his intentions which seem... hmm, I'm not sure what his game really is but I love to find out.
Once in a lifetime was awesome, but this is just... on a whole different level
Glad you liked it! Thank you!
Came to goon, stayed for the brilliant writing and laughs. Was not expecting to like a game like this. Gotta submit a donation here next chance I get. Very well deserved.
Thank you for your support 💗💗
My man!!! You got me so locked in with this game! Im going to give you a BIG DONATION SOON!! It's not even just the scenes, which are amazing, but the storyline, music, PLOT!! EVERYTHING!! Question though, will we see Eva more? Will she be a part of the girls? I really like her, and it'd be so sad if shes just a background character. Eva has features that the other girls don't and she catches my heart so much. Eva is definitely a potential. Great work my man, can't wait for 0.8 Version! Please continue the series! :)
Thank you for supporting!!! Glad you liked it!
this game has me absorbed in the lore and story the h scenes just feel like a side bonus(theyre amazing dont get me wrong) waiting for upd feels like an eternity
Glad to hear that!
I REEEEALLY love your work, hook me up since "Once in a Lifetime" this are like at the top of the category of the games out there, Keep it up!
Ps: can you perhaps share the playlist of eternum? it rocks!
There is no 'official' playlist. But this is the recommended one for Youtube currently.
Damn Dude! you are AWESOME! Thanks a lot
如何在保留存檔的同時更新到最新版本？
Love this game, but lost my place due to needing a complete reformat of the game. Wish there were chapter codes that we could enter to resume where we were.
Install this mod, click the big N on the title menu five times, then pick a chapter you want to start from.
After that, if you want to play without guidance, you can either disable the mod in the preferences or uninstall it.
Can you like do this for android?
Yes, there's an Android version.
I wanna ask i did all of this but i dont particularly remember the last chapter i have but i have a saved which i updated its still here but whenever i load it just sent me something about couldn't find the place to rollback this is also happened before i updated the game now it wasn't like this before i started using joiplay & renpai so I'm guess the renpai did something to eternum (pls help)
"Couldn't find a place to stop rolling back" is an error message you can get when trying to load an older save on a newer version of a RenPy game. You need to restart your game when you get this error message.
Most often only some saves are affected by this. Try to load other saves of that same playthrough, most of them should still work fine.
Their is a problem in my game it's always black when it comes to fighting and sex scene
Do you have any sound? Like music and SFX? And are you playing on Android?
i check the file and I got this
Great story! Perhaps the only game with sex scenes, where I rather expect to see not the scenes themselves, but the development of the plot and characters. A truly unique project! But now I’m only interested in one thing: what does the content of pregnancy mean, which they talk about at the beginning? Will this be available in future updates? Throughout the entire game, I never saw what was said at the beginning.
Pregnancy content, should you choose to enable it, is indeed going to be a lategame thing. If you want to know how this could look like, you should play Caribdis' previous work: Once in a Lifetime.
Judging by their previous game, I suggest enabling it - it gives a few more extra scenes and has no real impact - and when the credits roll it's super funny so.... yea, enable it
Excellent, excellent game. Well done. Need to send you more money.
Thank you for your support!
Perfect GAME!!!! THE DAMN DETAILS AND EVERYTHING!!! If only I wasn't so broke damn.
I have downloaded game but it wont open on my android phone. How to fix.
Here's an installation guide
安卓的解压出来后无法使用呀
Idk but do i have to re-download the game after a new version came ?
Yeah, no content patches. Just replace your old version with the new one. Your saves will remain (hopefully)
Ok, so I had a previous problem that I solved, but now I have a new problem. Is there a chance that version 6 & 7 have a sex censor? As every time I get with a girl to start the action, the screen goes black and only text shows with the heart on top left.
playing on fire tablet. I have version 7, had no problems starting from the beginning and seeing the sex scenes, but as soon as I get to part 6 story the censor kicks in.
No there's no censor. There's a strange very device specific bug with Android editions where animations turn black though. But it only happening from 0.6 and onward is a new variant.
Ok, thanks for letting me know. Still playing for the great storyline.
He's right but your case sounds like a little bit different from the rest. So you're saying that in the version you're currently playing (0.7) animations from earlier chapters work, just animations from later chapters don't? Did you try to play one of those earlier animations recently or was that months ago?
And do you have any sound issues during the rest of the game? The game should always have some kind of background audio.
게임 모드 다운후 pc에서 적용하려면 파일을 어떻게해야하나요?
It will be a very sad day once this game is completed it will mean no more content. 😢
This is unavoidable, the story will continue in the next update. Your message is a huge spoiler, please delete it as soon as you can.
You cant die
remove the comment. It's a spoiler. this kind of discussion onlyfit the discord
What did he told though?(just curious)
He talked about a plot twist. Everyone who reads his comment before playing the game will already know what to expect; therefore the surprise will be ruined. See the Wikipedia article for spoilers.
anybody knows how long until the full game is finished
Nobody knows, not even the dev. I'd say we still have about 3 years to go.
Btw any reqson for yoj contributing to Eternum?
I consider Eternum to be an amazing work of art. Contributing my skills to it is something I'm passionate about.
And if you don't mind me getting philosophical: I may die one day, but my creations & contributions will live on; so there's also a sliver of immortality that comes with it.
He has a guesstimate, but nothing that's really set in stone as of yet.
https://itch.io/post/9573790
It's not finished yet, but one is in development.
I'm not the one working on it so I have no idea.
Translator said he hopes to have it ready around September.
Around September? Omg, we just finished 0.3, haha.
There's a loooot of work to do. Please be patient. :)
(Dakno: I know I was the one that said September, but a high quality translation requires more time than I expected)
Hi! I'm Dakno, the main Spanish translator of Eternum.
We just published our work up to 0.3 version, check it out: https://daknosolar.itch.io/eternum-spanish-translation
I hope you like it. :)