So, as I was bug fixing and finishing up the update to hopefully have it ready by tonight or tomorrow; something honestly very devastating happened.
When I booted up the IDE, I had these triangles on a few of my files and when I clicked on one of the files, specifically Act 1 of the prologue, the file DELETED ITSELF.
I am low key tearing up right now just out of frustration, I worked on this earlier today and everything was fine, I was SO close to finishing this update and everything went to shit out of nowhere. I checked my file folders and the files for startup, choicescript_stats and prologue-1 are all gone. I have no clue as to what the fuck has happened, I thank GOD that prologue act 3 and 2 are safe because they were the most work. If anything happened to Act 3 I would have lost my shit.
I have a backup of my game from the last update in a separate folder, so Act 1 is fine and I can recover it no problem because I don't think I have made any recent changes to it.
What breaks my heart is that I have added huge code changes to stats and start up because I actually implemented the trait system. It was supposed to be a nice surprise for you all that traits were actually displayed and functional, but all that coding and work just poofed away right in front of me.
I am groaning none stop as I write this and I am extremely frustrated because with my recent slump delaying me quite a bit, it's been getting me a little down that I haven't been able to be as active as I'd like. I finally got some good amount of work done and wanted to surprise you all with a big update as my way of saying sorry and now this happens.
I'll keep complaining if I don't cut this short now, I'm going to do some investigation and see if I can find a way to restore my files. If not, I'll have to suck it up and re-code the stat and start up pages which will suck but... well it's not like there would be anything else to do but that if it comes to it.
I'm sorry for the bad news, I know I have hyped up this update to be out by this week. If I can restore the files, it still will be but if not; then it might be pushed back to next week. I feel so unaccomplished lately and I am really sorry for that. I have so much not done and that really bothers me, I promise I am trying my best.