This really made my day! ❤️ I know this is a for-fun/free product, but my thoughts are that It would be fun to maintain her corruption in some way where she starts to talk abusively (to a cruel/violent extent, changeable blacklist option?) to the user or Bit until cured with an antivirus disk (even 'damage' the 'system' cosmetically); have Bit comment on goings-on, turned on by ads, and have cute quips with Byte; Bit being interactable with actors and items (and a corruptible nuisance)... The wish list is already long. I'd love to support more interactable idle games like this. Thank you for this. =w=
Thank you for your kind words!! There are some plans already for some of these, though I can't guarantee how quickly I can get assets done for them ;w; these are all incredible suggestions though!! I super appreciate your support!!
So i'm trying to get all possible crafting results but a dildo hasnt spawned in 40+ minutes and i cant figure out the password because my lewd furry related vocabulary is emptier than my bank account
surely im just crazy unlucky with the dildo spawns and it doesnt have a low spawn rate
A lot of them should spawn from pop-up ads! Failing that, there is a new text adventure puzzle that should be a little more engaging to figure out as opposed to just the password hint!
Really nice concept here, and you already seem to have answered a lot of my questions. Sorry if it's already been suggested, but I think that there should be options for both item scale and character scale.
Really like this! don't know if its been recommended yet but maybe add a setting to limit the app to a single monitor, it breaks a little for me when they walk between monitors. Also it would be nice if the items would hover a little bit instead of resting on the bottom directly it looks a little odd.
Neat concept, curious to see where you'll end up taking this. I do think having this limited to simply playing static animations with a bit of slow crafting will get boring very quickly regardless of how many of them are added. It'd be cool to see some of these sorts of features:
- Direct interaction, whether through clicking specific spots on the pet or using tools on them when given the opportunity. This wouldn't need to be an entire physics simulation being implemented for it either, but I think it'd be a good way to make this a lot more interesting.
- Interactable objects that change their state. I was thinking something among the line of stockades or chains for changing poses, clothes being able to be dragged on/off directly.
- Mood/Affection/Lust parameters like having a "corruption/brainwash" system, as the current events already suggest a corruption theme
Either way I'm sure you'll make it something good. I simply enjoyed the concept enough that I felt like suggesting some concepts that I think would work really well with what is currently already available
Hey these are neat ideas! I actually have the systems in place for the 2nd and 3rd ones there but the issue that appears is content and resources to put towards it. At the moment we want to slowly add more fun little things to the game and if Cindesh is able to earn enough money on their substar, they will be able to work on this to add a lot more fun things that are complex like those listed features!
Loving the game so far and super excited to see more. One addition that would be a nice is maybe a black outline on Bit and Byte or some kind of option to add that. Something that makes them easier to see on a white background. Its not something game ruining but it'd be a nice QOL i think.
The game is generally good, and the design is pleasing to the eye, but the game has bugs and not the best gameplay solutions.:
The crafting is interesting, but it's made worse by the rare loss of items and the general uncertainty of how and what to get, the only thing worse than that is the fact that there are multi-stage crafting, I was shocked by the number of crafting for the green collar. I've been trying for hours to get that blue dude that everyone is writing about in the comments, I feel like a fool who didn't understand the simple truth. Tell me how to get it(((
When opening the terminal or the pause menu, black squares appear on the back of objects and characters.
The objects simply fall through the quick access curtain, so I had to zoom in on the objects in the settings so as not to suffer too much.
(I'm sorry if some of what I've written is unclear, I'm writing it through a translator)
Hello! Yes, I've already ID'ed the issue with items falling through the taskbar and will be in the next patch. As for the black squares around the back of objects and characters, that is a rare repro issue that I haven't been able to get any information on and have been trying to fix, it seems to be fairly rare and I've heard from another user that it might be a CPU issue, doing my best to look into it and solve!
As for the Blue Robot, Bit, they are apart of the Cindesh Content which you can enable in the settings menu but again, if you do not know Cindesh's normal artwork, I would not recommend turning it on. Trust you aren't missing much and you can force spawn him in with the terminal (If you are Admin) without enabling that
Thanks for the reply. At first, I didn't understand what the "Cindesh content" was, and I already wrote you a question about how to enable it, but I quickly found it in the terminal. And yes, it's good that you didn't recommend me to turn it on. I can only hope that there will really be interaction with him, and not just his "view of what is happening." Although perhaps the scariest thing is bouquets of flowers, which make it even more difficult to get other items
I can only wish you good luck in your further development
DON'T RUN IT, THERE'S A TROJAN THAT SNUCK IN WITH THE LAST UPDATE
Edit: just as a heads up, i'm not saying it was deliberate, but the devs might want to look into it.
Edit 2: or maybe one of the harmless files just tripped my antivirus
Edit 3: doing a bit more digging and it's looking more like a false positive, but so people can do more research here's the flag I got:Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha
Edit4: So far, it's looking like it was just a false positive as I've seen a bunch of posts about people getting the same trojan warning on files they knew were clean. I'm still skeptical but, it's definitely shaping up to be a false positive.
okay looking even further into it, it's definitely a false positive, but I'm going to give the devs a chance to check on it and make sure I'm not going crazy
WOOF, I am so sorry we flagged your Anti-Virus man, but we did as much as we could to prevent that through signing the program file to correctly handling her method of file reading. But sadly just due to the nature of what she is there is bound to be false flags,,, We have been aware of the possible chance and it is something we can't control,,,,
Listen, I won't remove your post but please put at the top of your message you got a false positive instead of at the end, it would mean the world to us to make people looking to download the game don't get the wrong idea!
I quite enjoyed this game, I have an older computer so it revs a bit, but Byte is a great desktop pet! The root puzzle was challenging and enjoyable. Getting called mutt and pup by the OS (i think?) was very hot and I hope that comes back more in the next update. Good luck and I'll see you in the next update!
The game is good and I like it, but i'm honestly kinda crashing tf out about the password, how obtuse the people who figured it out are being, and the fact that while fiddling with the files (which the game encourages) the createdump application locked up my computer so badly that I had to fully restart it (I only realized the cause of the problem the second time it happened).
Hey Captain, I apologize about the crashes you where having! While the game does encourage to look within the config file, I don't recommend tinkering with other files other than that one. Ill be sure to do a pass on the language we use in game and verify that for next update as to make sure people know not to go tinkering with bad files like createdump application (Which I am currently attempting to read into because I, Myself, do no know what you are referencing).
As for the password, I have laid out some big hints and helped explain the situation around that. In a future update please expect that to be less obtuse and difficult to obtain in the future.
I am aware of the blogpost, but found the hint insufficient.
As for the createdump issue, I open the program, close it, and then am unable to interact with anything besides the game. My cursor ceases to work on anything besides the game, most keyboard shortcuts cease to work, and for almost all purposes my computer is frozen, hence the need for a restart. Closing the game itself does not help.
OH! The crash dump EXE file, please do not run that. That is a .NET tool used to get crash logs generated if the Byte.exe file where to crash. Running that on it's own isn't safe and outside what our program does. Again I will verify next update removes any language referencing touching any files other than the config file.
To restate: Byte.exe is the only exe you should be running and save_Byte.cfg is the only file you should be editing. Sorry again for the confusion friend and I hope you have a good one!
any chance we could get a command that makes everything bigger i cant really see so it would be rly nice. oh and a platform command so items don't fall to low and as others have said spawn rates could use a change
Could you give a hint as to what the password is, or help me along in it? I literally can't get anything but info blips and messages to spawn and I'm losing my mind
I couldn't figure it out in the Linux version, and so tried to search for 'espair' (was unsure if the 'D' should be capitalized or not, so didn't include it), and that string of text does not appear in ANY of the files included in the Linux version you linked to in your reply to me on the download page. So I assume something borked and the password is impossible on that version?
Perhaps... I do have plans to make an official Linux build with more rigorous testing for the 0.2.0 update. There might have been a bad parse with the password string. And every starting letter in each word should be capitalized in the password
Durp, it was encoded with UTF-16, and I was using UTF-8/ASCII/ISO-8859-1. I had the first word in the template wrong in my earlier guesses due to just the second half of that word being used on Wikipedia for that poem, and that's why I was guessing wrong. Other than that, I had it right!
I did reply to that other post with some maybe-bugs that I noticed, like the 'config' command not giving the full filename, in case you didn't see.
I hope the fact that most desktops are now using Wayland by default won't cause too many problems for the Linux build; I use X11 mostly because of display calibration support being better with it.
As fun as this is, it takes ages for new stuff to appear and mess around with (it's all the same like 3 items for me, a floppy disc, token things, and mail, with a very rare new one in between which is annoying because i'd like to see everything this desktop pet can do), which, would be solved by the force spawning of items. And yet, that requires some password that quite frankly I cannot be bothered to look for myself, because from what I'm seeing it's a quote from Ozymandias that also has a word or two CHANGED in it. Which, trying to find is an unreasonably difficult task? The hint I got for it mentions changing it based on who is saying the quote but I have no clue who Fen even is (note I have since realized thats one of the developers and that I'm an idiot for not seeing that), and nobody has outright said it either. I think the riddle is a fun gimmick on its own, but i also think it should probably give a better hint here, or should have the password in the settings in like a toggleable hidden state along with said hint, that way the people who do want the riddle can still get it, while the people who just want to mess around and see what this little pet can do don't have to search on twitter for a mere hint on what the altered quote is supposed to be.
Basically, the spawn rates for items are whack and thus make it difficult to see everything this has to offer. And the solution to this (force item spawning) requires an answer to a riddle that doesn't make much sense.
Hey thanks for taking the time to give feedback on the spawn rates! We do have plans to up those given performance has been stable for the most part across the downloads from what I can see! As for the password, that is a Dev tool that I left in to let people who wanted to figure it out, could. Ill be transparent, there is no gameplay there other than some vague hints to have it solved. I have realized this is a mistake and will be updating the "puzzle" to be solved through an organic way as it seems a TON of people enjoy that as a real puzzle. Sorry for the trouble friend!
The Terminal is just a small place that holds lore and fun little easter eggs. The root access though is a Dev Password that lets you get Dev commands. I left it in for fun, but is not required for the fun of the game! Some people have solved it, so poke around the comment section and the twitter for hints
I thought this would only be a cute short desktop porn but now it's making me investigate it, trying to figure out what does what and all, I see Byte turns a shade darker so I assume there's a corruption mechanic and also what is "Untyped?" It's blacklisted by default.
Also just noticed that Bit not only sits down as Byte gets fucked, he also strokes his small dick, that's cute
UNTYPED in the blacklist by default is a safety net for my code to make sure stuff is handled properly. <3 It's a staple of most of my enums to have 0 as an untyped assigned address.
I may have gummed something up All the skins/items/characters seem to have a... black box around them? Unsure why it's happening, it wasn't last night, but now this morning it seems like the transparent parts of the skins just... aren't anymore?
Could possibly be because my computer isn't plugged in? But that's an odd reason I think
*Edit: Also, any and all (to the best of my knowledge, I can't easily play them all without the crafted items after all) don't visibly appear at all, it's just a black square. Unless I'm actively holding (right clicked) an item. Very strange all around. Might reset her
Having the same issue, would appreciate a fix. If not, how do I reset? I've tried deleting and unzipping the files again a couple times, but that doesn't do anything except reset my preferences. For me, it started when I opened the gallery.
Interesting... I haven't seen that error before nor can I repo it off the issues you two have listed above. For now attempt to fully remove all information on the game. If you are able to enter the terminal ( The ` key ) and type CONFIG. This will give you the location of the games config data. Then Delete everything there. Hopefully that will fix it temp?
Yeah, I'm unsure as to what caused it unfortunately. She was running just fine yesterday, but opening her up this morning led to the strange black boxes.
I'll edit the config file (everything still runs the same, it seems to just be a cosmetic thing) and see if that fixes it
*Edit: Didn't seem to work, but also a good chance that I'm just an idiot who found the wrong file and so I may have actually just not done anything
Oh I mean delete all the files within the Config's folder. The files present should be Logs, objectdb_snapshots, shader_cache, and vulkan. Try removing those and restarting her. Please be careful when deleting stuff of course.
Yeah having the same issue here, Black background following all the items and characters makes actually seeing anything behind them impossible, deleted the files and reinstalled completely to no avail.
gotta give the blue guy a break man, maybe he'll get his revenge on the malware with the help of an item or something in the future lol
Overall, a fun time! A little clunky, some of the items would fall under the toolbar for example, but still quite enjoyable even in the current state. Looking forward to what you have in store!
Thank you for your kind words and feedback!! I do have some ideas on improving the way you get some of the items, on top of a mountain of assets I still want to make for it ;w;
itch isnt letting me verify my reply soi'll see if this works ;w; but yeh steam deck
Had to do a bit of trial and error but I managed to open it through Atylss in the Protontricks Launcher. Does have this glitch where everything has very noticeable black boarders and can only view scenes when holding an item as a result but it DOES work
HUH??? My friend you could have asked me to work on a Linux build! Actually interested to see how you did that though, that's impressive. Is there any bugs?
I honestly have no idea if this will work so I shoved the Linux build into a MEGA upload here. Please give it a try! If I see more people wanting a dedicated Linux build, Ill update my tools and try to get an official build uploaded, but will see if it's possible or not lol.
It mostly works! Pressing '2' to swap clothes in the other direction doesn't work correctly though, as it won't actually loop back except that the collar will appear and disappear.
I once just typed a bunch of password variations in the terminal, and after one of them it randomly also gave the output text for when you enable Cindesh mode twice.
Not sure if this is a bug, but toward the end of the 'help' output, it says, "For more information on tools see the command-line reference in no where." Not sure if the 'no where' was meant to say a location.
The 'config' command does not give the full name of the config file. The config file is called 'save_Byte.cfg', but the filename indicated by that command is just 'save'.
I haven't found everything yet, I don't think.. Unless there's just not much you can do with Bit at this point. Speaking of Bit, sometimes a glitchy white box or stripes or something appears around him for a single frame before going away. Maybe that's intended, or maybe it's meant to be a dialog box or something? He also blinks out of existence for a frame just before pulling out his phone, at least most of the time.
Oh, and twice now it's randomly crashed on me when I try to do something after leaving her alone for a while. Twice out of many times, so it's not common, but does happen enough to not be a one-off.
Help! ;-; wanted to see what funny command did but can't get rid of it on computer or console. Nothing turns it off even if uninstalled and redownloaded. I'm not smart enough to fix...
Jokes aside, the method to remove it is in the console. Type HELP and then CONFIG. It will display the location of the config file, which should be like save_Byte. Edit the file and move the TAG from Whitelist to Blacklist. Or just delete the whole file, either works!
Cindesh mode enables two actors and a few additional items that are blacklisted by default! And they do. Passive Play removes the ability to pick up items and she will combine and use items herself. Audio Off turns off the lil beeps she makes when text pops up.
The Escape Key on your Keyboard should bring up the Pause Menu, and of which you can click on the Settings UI! If you still can't access it... Ill take a look to make sure something code wise isn't breaking or has a chance to break.
May have found a potential bug The Wolf Collar (Malware+Dildo+Floppy Disk) seems to not work half the time Unsure if this is a feature where the same creature (virus? The antivirus disk doesn't do anything to them but the term makes sense otherwise) can't appear in close time proximity to itself or something, but yeah
There is a limit to the amount of "Companions" Byte can have out at once! Did you two have any out? (Companions are NPCs that stay around)
In addition do you feel that we should increase the limit? For now Ill make note to add a voice line to Byte to comment on the limit in the next update!
Had Bit out for me, maybe that's what it could be, will link answer here once i get that stuff back, fresh launch just in case.
YUP! that was it!, red and green collars work, for green collar Byte dialogue plays but Fen's doesn't, not sure if that's intentional so figured I'd tell yall that.
As for the limit, I do think it would be nice but I can see how that could effect performance. Smart to have Byte comment on it though!
Ooooooohh That would make sense, yeah No worries in that case! Probably have a disclaimer of some sort though yeah Spending 15 minutes waiting for the stuff to make a collar only for it to not work is a smidge frustrating lol
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This really made my day! ❤️ I know this is a for-fun/free product, but my thoughts are that It would be fun to maintain her corruption in some way where she starts to talk abusively (to a cruel/violent extent, changeable blacklist option?) to the user or Bit until cured with an antivirus disk (even 'damage' the 'system' cosmetically); have Bit comment on goings-on, turned on by ads, and have cute quips with Byte; Bit being interactable with actors and items (and a corruptible nuisance)... The wish list is already long. I'd love to support more interactable idle games like this. Thank you for this. =w=
Thank you for your kind words!! There are some plans already for some of these, though I can't guarantee how quickly I can get assets done for them ;w; these are all incredible suggestions though!! I super appreciate your support!!
So i'm trying to get all possible crafting results but a dildo hasnt spawned in 40+ minutes and i cant figure out the password because my lewd furry related vocabulary is emptier than my bank account
surely im just crazy unlucky with the dildo spawns and it doesnt have a low spawn rate
A lot of them should spawn from pop-up ads! Failing that, there is a new text adventure puzzle that should be a little more engaging to figure out as opposed to just the password hint!
Hello once again everyone! Update 0.2.0 is here! Check out the Patch Notes and give the new build a download!
Remember if you love what we do and want to support Cindesh make more amazing art for this project, do check out their Substar!
Really nice concept here, and you already seem to have answered a lot of my questions. Sorry if it's already been suggested, but I think that there should be options for both item scale and character scale.
It's already in the game! Check the Settings menu in the Pause Menu (Esc key) and there is a scale option there ^^
Yes, I guess I wasn't too clear, I mean separate scales. I might be wrong, but I remember only seeing the one option for global scale
Ah, yes that is correct. They are all on one scale. I might look into that feature in the future!
neat game. Does the floppy disc actually do anything by itself?
Thank you!! The Floppie can be fed to her as a treat, and may be used with other items you can find! :3
Really like this! don't know if its been recommended yet but maybe add a setting to limit the app to a single monitor, it breaks a little for me when they walk between monitors. Also it would be nice if the items would hover a little bit instead of resting on the bottom directly it looks a little odd.
It's already in game~! Just hit tab on Byte when you have her in focus will lock her to a single monitor (The one of which she is one)
Oh and next update will have items not dip so low on the taskbar, that was a bug that has been fixed!
Neat concept, curious to see where you'll end up taking this. I do think having this limited to simply playing static animations with a bit of slow crafting will get boring very quickly regardless of how many of them are added. It'd be cool to see some of these sorts of features:
- Direct interaction, whether through clicking specific spots on the pet or using tools on them when given the opportunity. This wouldn't need to be an entire physics simulation being implemented for it either, but I think it'd be a good way to make this a lot more interesting.
- Interactable objects that change their state. I was thinking something among the line of stockades or chains for changing poses, clothes being able to be dragged on/off directly.
- Mood/Affection/Lust parameters like having a "corruption/brainwash" system, as the current events already suggest a corruption theme
Either way I'm sure you'll make it something good. I simply enjoyed the concept enough that I felt like suggesting some concepts that I think would work really well with what is currently already available
Hey these are neat ideas! I actually have the systems in place for the 2nd and 3rd ones there but the issue that appears is content and resources to put towards it. At the moment we want to slowly add more fun little things to the game and if Cindesh is able to earn enough money on their substar, they will be able to work on this to add a lot more fun things that are complex like those listed features!
Thank you for the support <3
Loving the game so far and super excited to see more. One addition that would be a nice is maybe a black outline on Bit and Byte or some kind of option to add that. Something that makes them easier to see on a white background. Its not something game ruining but it'd be a nice QOL i think.
Yeah, I can look into that. For sure not a next update thing but for sure Ill put it on my radar!
The game is generally good, and the design is pleasing to the eye, but the game has bugs and not the best gameplay solutions.:
The crafting is interesting, but it's made worse by the rare loss of items and the general uncertainty of how and what to get, the only thing worse than that is the fact that there are multi-stage crafting, I was shocked by the number of crafting for the green collar. I've been trying for hours to get that blue dude that everyone is writing about in the comments, I feel like a fool who didn't understand the simple truth. Tell me how to get it(((
When opening the terminal or the pause menu, black squares appear on the back of objects and characters.
The objects simply fall through the quick access curtain, so I had to zoom in on the objects in the settings so as not to suffer too much.
(I'm sorry if some of what I've written is unclear, I'm writing it through a translator)
Hello! Yes, I've already ID'ed the issue with items falling through the taskbar and will be in the next patch. As for the black squares around the back of objects and characters, that is a rare repro issue that I haven't been able to get any information on and have been trying to fix, it seems to be fairly rare and I've heard from another user that it might be a CPU issue, doing my best to look into it and solve!
As for the Blue Robot, Bit, they are apart of the Cindesh Content which you can enable in the settings menu but again, if you do not know Cindesh's normal artwork, I would not recommend turning it on. Trust you aren't missing much and you can force spawn him in with the terminal (If you are Admin) without enabling that
Thanks for the reply. At first, I didn't understand what the "Cindesh content" was, and I already wrote you a question about how to enable it, but I quickly found it in the terminal. And yes, it's good that you didn't recommend me to turn it on. I can only hope that there will really be interaction with him, and not just his "view of what is happening." Although perhaps the scariest thing is bouquets of flowers, which make it even more difficult to get other items
I can only wish you good luck in your further development
UPDATE: FALSE POSITIVE. PLS IGNORE
DON'T RUN IT, THERE'S A TROJAN THAT SNUCK IN WITH THE LAST UPDATE
Edit: just as a heads up, i'm not saying it was deliberate, but the devs might want to look into it.
Edit 2: or maybe one of the harmless files just tripped my antivirus
Edit 3: doing a bit more digging and it's looking more like a false positive, but so people can do more research here's the flag I got:Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha
Edit4: So far, it's looking like it was just a false positive as I've seen a bunch of posts about people getting the same trojan warning on files they knew were clean. I'm still skeptical but, it's definitely shaping up to be a false positive.
okay looking even further into it, it's definitely a false positive, but I'm going to give the devs a chance to check on it and make sure I'm not going crazy
Jesus Christ, you scared me.
sorry for the scare, I got that trojan popup and panicked
WOOF, I am so sorry we flagged your Anti-Virus man, but we did as much as we could to prevent that through signing the program file to correctly handling her method of file reading. But sadly just due to the nature of what she is there is bound to be false flags,,, We have been aware of the possible chance and it is something we can't control,,,,
Listen, I won't remove your post but please put at the top of your message you got a false positive instead of at the end, it would mean the world to us to make people looking to download the game don't get the wrong idea!
EDIT: Thank you for editing that <3
fixed, sorry for the scare
No I'm sorry for the scare! We did our best to mitigate that issue but it is out of our hands. We do hope you enjoy the pet <3
i really think the gallery should also show you any scenes youve encountered (and also maybe a list of them all with hints like flowers+malware)
also i may be dumb but how am i supposed to find the item ids once i ger root acses?
Next to any command that spawns objects put /ls to list all Item IDs!
And Ill talk to Cindesh to see if we can add in the scenes to the Gallery, but that might take a little bit of time due to how those are structured!
I quite enjoyed this game, I have an older computer so it revs a bit, but Byte is a great desktop pet! The root puzzle was challenging and enjoyable. Getting called mutt and pup by the OS (i think?) was very hot and I hope that comes back more in the next update. Good luck and I'll see you in the next update!
Thank you so much for the kind words!! I'm so happy you enjoyed it!!
how do you change outfit?
2 or 3 keys to cycle through! Make sure you have your mouse over her and she is in focus (Click on her at least twice).
The game is good and I like it, but i'm honestly kinda crashing tf out about the password, how obtuse the people who figured it out are being, and the fact that while fiddling with the files (which the game encourages) the createdump application locked up my computer so badly that I had to fully restart it (I only realized the cause of the problem the second time it happened).
Hey Captain, I apologize about the crashes you where having! While the game does encourage to look within the config file, I don't recommend tinkering with other files other than that one. Ill be sure to do a pass on the language we use in game and verify that for next update as to make sure people know not to go tinkering with bad files like createdump application (Which I am currently attempting to read into because I, Myself, do no know what you are referencing).
As for the password, I have laid out some big hints and helped explain the situation around that. In a future update please expect that to be less obtuse and difficult to obtain in the future.
https://cindesh.itch.io/byte-desktop-pet/devlog/1508441/020-update-goals-and-roo...
I am aware of the blogpost, but found the hint insufficient.
As for the createdump issue, I open the program, close it, and then am unable to interact with anything besides the game. My cursor ceases to work on anything besides the game, most keyboard shortcuts cease to work, and for almost all purposes my computer is frozen, hence the need for a restart. Closing the game itself does not help.
OH! The crash dump EXE file, please do not run that. That is a .NET tool used to get crash logs generated if the Byte.exe file where to crash. Running that on it's own isn't safe and outside what our program does. Again I will verify next update removes any language referencing touching any files other than the config file.
To restate: Byte.exe is the only exe you should be running and save_Byte.cfg is the only file you should be editing. Sorry again for the confusion friend and I hope you have a good one!
what are they key binds for this game??? every time i click on something it just disappears and nothing happens
Hit escape to open up the pause menu and all keybindings should be presented in the Info box at the top!
thanks!
any chance we could get a command that makes everything bigger i cant really see so it would be rly nice. oh and a platform command so items don't fall to low and as others have said spawn rates could use a change
Hello! There is a size setting in the Settings menu!
ah nice i completly missed that whole screen, size change also helps with items falling to low(btw i edited my comment)
I see, yeah I can take a look into adding a safe guard for items getting to low.
Hey all! I have made a blog post about upcoming updates and the Root Access Password. Please give it a read!
Can there be futa/trans options?
I HAD TO DATAMINE FOR THE PASSWORD, it was faster than trying to figure it out, now what if you could give Byte a strap so she pegs him?
Could you give a hint as to what the password is, or help me along in it? I literally can't get anything but info blips and messages to spawn and I'm losing my mind
I made a blog post about the Password! Please give it a ready ^^
https://cindesh.itch.io/byte-desktop-pet/devlog/1508441/020-update-goals-and-roo...
I couldn't figure it out in the Linux version, and so tried to search for 'espair' (was unsure if the 'D' should be capitalized or not, so didn't include it), and that string of text does not appear in ANY of the files included in the Linux version you linked to in your reply to me on the download page. So I assume something borked and the password is impossible on that version?
Perhaps... I do have plans to make an official Linux build with more rigorous testing for the 0.2.0 update. There might have been a bad parse with the password string. And every starting letter in each word should be capitalized in the password
Durp, it was encoded with UTF-16, and I was using UTF-8/ASCII/ISO-8859-1. I had the first word in the template wrong in my earlier guesses due to just the second half of that word being used on Wikipedia for that poem, and that's why I was guessing wrong. Other than that, I had it right!
I did reply to that other post with some maybe-bugs that I noticed, like the 'config' command not giving the full filename, in case you didn't see.
I hope the fact that most desktops are now using Wayland by default won't cause too many problems for the Linux build; I use X11 mostly because of display calibration support being better with it.
As fun as this is, it takes ages for new stuff to appear and mess around with (it's all the same like 3 items for me, a floppy disc, token things, and mail, with a very rare new one in between which is annoying because i'd like to see everything this desktop pet can do), which, would be solved by the force spawning of items. And yet, that requires some password that quite frankly I cannot be bothered to look for myself, because from what I'm seeing it's a quote from Ozymandias that also has a word or two CHANGED in it. Which, trying to find is an unreasonably difficult task? The hint I got for it mentions changing it based on who is saying the quote but I have no clue who Fen even is (note I have since realized thats one of the developers and that I'm an idiot for not seeing that), and nobody has outright said it either. I think the riddle is a fun gimmick on its own, but i also think it should probably give a better hint here, or should have the password in the settings in like a toggleable hidden state along with said hint, that way the people who do want the riddle can still get it, while the people who just want to mess around and see what this little pet can do don't have to search on twitter for a mere hint on what the altered quote is supposed to be.
Basically, the spawn rates for items are whack and thus make it difficult to see everything this has to offer. And the solution to this (force item spawning) requires an answer to a riddle that doesn't make much sense.
Hey thanks for taking the time to give feedback on the spawn rates! We do have plans to up those given performance has been stable for the most part across the downloads from what I can see!
As for the password, that is a Dev tool that I left in to let people who wanted to figure it out, could. Ill be transparent, there is no gameplay there other than some vague hints to have it solved. I have realized this is a mistake and will be updating the "puzzle" to be solved through an organic way as it seems a TON of people enjoy that as a real puzzle. Sorry for the trouble friend!
yo anyone can just tell me the password? tried a billion thing and im just tired of trying, don't wanna try no more
Any chance there's a place for hints? I'm having a hard time figuring out how to get ROOT
On the Twitter there is a thread from a user who figured out the password! It's a good line to follow
Whose Twitter? I'll try to take a look shortly
I genuienly dont know how to get the root acceess and stuff..
The Terminal is just a small place that holds lore and fun little easter eggs. The root access though is a Dev Password that lets you get Dev commands. I left it in for fun, but is not required for the fun of the game! Some people have solved it, so poke around the comment section and the twitter for hints
I thought this would only be a cute short desktop porn but now it's making me investigate it, trying to figure out what does what and all, I see Byte turns a shade darker so I assume there's a corruption mechanic and also what is "Untyped?" It's blacklisted by default.
Also just noticed that Bit not only sits down as Byte gets fucked, he also strokes his small dick, that's cute
UNTYPED in the blacklist by default is a safety net for my code to make sure stuff is handled properly. <3 It's a staple of most of my enums to have 0 as an untyped assigned address.
I see.
I like your pet and am looking forward to more!
I want to let the devs know I am enjoying this happily so. I hope to see many many more new fun options for this desktop pet,
Would love to change colors too! If that would ever be a thing in the future~?
I'm using a german keyboard so I can't find the key equivalent to get into the terminal for Byte. Can anybody help me?
Figured it out. It's the ^ key
Damn
I may have gummed something up
All the skins/items/characters seem to have a... black box around them?
Unsure why it's happening, it wasn't last night, but now this morning it seems like the transparent parts of the skins just... aren't anymore?
Could possibly be because my computer isn't plugged in? But that's an odd reason I think
*Edit: Also, any and all (to the best of my knowledge, I can't easily play them all without the crafted items after all) don't visibly appear at all, it's just a black square. Unless I'm actively holding (right clicked) an item. Very strange all around. Might reset her
Having the same issue, would appreciate a fix. If not, how do I reset? I've tried deleting and unzipping the files again a couple times, but that doesn't do anything except reset my preferences. For me, it started when I opened the gallery.
Interesting... I haven't seen that error before nor can I repo it off the issues you two have listed above. For now attempt to fully remove all information on the game. If you are able to enter the terminal ( The ` key ) and type CONFIG. This will give you the location of the games config data. Then Delete everything there. Hopefully that will fix it temp?![]()
Yeah, I'm unsure as to what caused it unfortunately. She was running just fine yesterday, but opening her up this morning led to the strange black boxes.
I'll edit the config file (everything still runs the same, it seems to just be a cosmetic thing) and see if that fixes it
*Edit: Didn't seem to work, but also a good chance that I'm just an idiot who found the wrong file and so I may have actually just not done anything
Oh I mean delete all the files within the Config's folder. The files present should be Logs, objectdb_snapshots, shader_cache, and vulkan. Try removing those and restarting her. Please be careful when deleting stuff of course.
Yeah having the same issue here, Black background following all the items and characters makes actually seeing anything behind them impossible, deleted the files and reinstalled completely to no avail.
i might be a bit stupid but i cant figure out the hidden commands given im probably just missing what im supposed to find
Its a play on ozymandias. But idk what the rest is i assume it has something to do with my name is fern the handler idk
i think i figured it out now so thanks kind soul may your day be lovely
ive been stuck trying to figure them out too, any hints?
most i figured out is what that guy told me earlier
hey im having a bit of trouble getting the settings menu open, what exactly is the key to open it?
The settings menu should be ESC! If you mean the terminal, it's ` which is the button directly below ESC!
Absolute cinema.
I'm glad you like it!!!!
i love desktop pets! and im REALLY happy that theres a linux version that works well!
I didn't even know Fen was going to make a Linux version, he's so goated!! :3
gotta give the blue guy a break man, maybe he'll get his revenge on the malware with the help of an item or something in the future lol
Overall, a fun time! A little clunky, some of the items would fall under the toolbar for example, but still quite enjoyable even in the current state. Looking forward to what you have in store!
Thank you for your kind words and feedback!! I do have some ideas on improving the way you get some of the items, on top of a mountain of assets I still want to make for it ;w;
Definitely the best desktop pet I've ever had. 5 stars.
Thank you so much for your kind words!!! ;w;
itch isnt letting me verify my reply soi'll see if this works ;w; but yeh steam deck
Had to do a bit of trial and error but I managed to open it through Atylss in the Protontricks Launcher. Does have this glitch where everything has very noticeable black boarders and can only view scenes when holding an item as a result but it DOES work
I linked a Linux build under the original comment chain! Give it a try and tell me how that goes.
it works!!!
I GOT IT TO WORK ON MY STEAM DECK it struggles but it works!!!!! i love spamming random words in the terminal
HUH??? My friend you could have asked me to work on a Linux build! Actually interested to see how you did that though, that's impressive. Is there any bugs?
I was just about to ask if there was a Linux build. I'll just wait for that, if you're willing to try making one!
I honestly have no idea if this will work so I shoved the Linux build into a MEGA upload here. Please give it a try! If I see more people wanting a dedicated Linux build, Ill update my tools and try to get an official build uploaded, but will see if it's possible or not lol.
Also for the future, remember people don't click weird mega links by random strangers LMAO. But this is just the Linux build
https://mega.nz/folder/VMVynT7T#YAKCImn6_JdP6dgaOfOySQ
It mostly works! Pressing '2' to swap clothes in the other direction doesn't work correctly though, as it won't actually loop back except that the collar will appear and disappear.
I once just typed a bunch of password variations in the terminal, and after one of them it randomly also gave the output text for when you enable Cindesh mode twice.
Not sure if this is a bug, but toward the end of the 'help' output, it says, "For more information on tools see the command-line reference in no where." Not sure if the 'no where' was meant to say a location.
The 'config' command does not give the full name of the config file. The config file is called 'save_Byte.cfg', but the filename indicated by that command is just 'save'.
I haven't found everything yet, I don't think.. Unless there's just not much you can do with Bit at this point. Speaking of Bit, sometimes a glitchy white box or stripes or something appears around him for a single frame before going away. Maybe that's intended, or maybe it's meant to be a dialog box or something? He also blinks out of existence for a frame just before pulling out his phone, at least most of the time.
Oh, and twice now it's randomly crashed on me when I try to do something after leaving her alone for a while. Twice out of many times, so it's not common, but does happen enough to not be a one-off.
Help! ;-; wanted to see what funny command did but can't get rid of it on computer or console. Nothing turns it off even if uninstalled and redownloaded. I'm not smart enough to fix...
Fufufu, fallen for the trap I see~
Jokes aside, the method to remove it is in the console. Type HELP and then CONFIG. It will display the location of the config file, which should be like save_Byte. Edit the file and move the TAG from Whitelist to Blacklist. Or just delete the whole file, either works!
<3 <3 <3
THANK YOOOOUUU!!!
does editing the last two lines of the config do anything, at all?
also, the cindesh mode doesn't seem to do anything.
Cindesh mode enables two actors and a few additional items that are blacklisted by default! And they do. Passive Play removes the ability to pick up items and she will combine and use items herself. Audio Off turns off the lil beeps she makes when text pops up.
I can't figure out how to access the settings, am I missing something?
The Escape Key on your Keyboard should bring up the Pause Menu, and of which you can click on the Settings UI! If you still can't access it... Ill take a look to make sure something code wise isn't breaking or has a chance to break.
May have found a potential bug
The Wolf Collar (Malware+Dildo+Floppy Disk) seems to not work half the time
Unsure if this is a feature where the same creature (virus? The antivirus disk doesn't do anything to them but the term makes sense otherwise) can't appear in close time proximity to itself or something, but yeah
2nd on the collar being a 50 50 if it works
There is a limit to the amount of "Companions" Byte can have out at once! Did you two have any out? (Companions are NPCs that stay around)
In addition do you feel that we should increase the limit? For now Ill make note to add a voice line to Byte to comment on the limit in the next update!
Had Bit out for me, maybe that's what it could be, will link answer here once i get that stuff back, fresh launch just in case.
YUP! that was it!, red and green collars work, for green collar Byte dialogue plays but Fen's doesn't, not sure if that's intentional so figured I'd tell yall that.
As for the limit, I do think it would be nice but I can see how that could effect performance. Smart to have Byte comment on it though!
Ooooooohh
That would make sense, yeah
No worries in that case!
Probably have a disclaimer of some sort though yeah
Spending 15 minutes waiting for the stuff to make a collar only for it to not work is a smidge frustrating lol
Totes in love with this pet!! Pls keep up the amazing work >X<
Thank you so much!! I 100% plan on adding more to it!! :3