Methods of purchase

[Delmion]

Hello, all.  I was thinking of . . . actually getting this game sometime soon, and I was looking into stuff at the "buy" page on the Bit-Blot site and also in this forum.  I saw this:

(words words words) BTW - you made the right choice in buying the game directly from the developer. That gives them the largest cut.

. . . And I'm not sure what "directly from the developer" means.  The "buy" page has a link for the Windows version that takes me to Plimus, and a link for the Macintosh version that my computer tells me it can't open.  Could someone explain the options for me?

--Delmion

[Nava]

Sales from Plimus give Bit-Blot a bigger cut than do sales from Steam. That's what is meant by "directly from the developer," i.e. not through a third-party platform

[Delmion]

Oooooh, aaaaah.  And then, judging from issues I've read on this forum, I should retain all my purchase information in case of the need to contact the creators about file issues.

--Delmion

[Nava]

It would be advisable to keep the email with your purchase info (as is the case with any purchase you make, but especially those made online) just in case anything comes up, yes.

[Delmion]

So I have now purchased Aquaria.  Wooooo!

And I ran into a problem.  I'm putting it in this thread instead of creating a new one because surely there must be one for this floating around, though I can't seem to find it.

Anyway, the issue is that settings imported from the demo are cursed.  Cursed!  It turns out that they lack such things as a "look" command, so when entering the full version for the first time I was mystified to find that my stern commands to "look" did nothing.  Horribly, this problem also meant that going to the "key config" screen crashed the game with the message "Could not find actionInput: Look" every time.

I was forced to uninstall and then reinstall without importing my settings.  My save files came across without incident, but a big incompatibility like this really should have been fixed, or at least I should have been warned somewhere that copying save files manually is safer.

--Delmion