Tonight, I have made a monumental decision.
(Fought through the night without sleep, on my 57th birthday)
I am releasing a newly forged build, rebuilt completely from scratch and refined to 100% purity, as the "Default" for everyone to play. This is not a mere bug fix; it is the "Rebirth" of the game's foundation itself (and a regeneration on my own birthday). I confess honestly. In my PC environment, the blue flame housed in this new vessel runs perfectly and beautifully. However, the "abyss" of the PC gaming world is terrifyingly deep. Depending on your environment, unknown bugs may lurk, or the game might fail to launch. Also, as a solitary solo developer, I have not been able to properly establish diverse testing environments and testing devices. I am truly sorry for failing to notice the "disconnect" between your environments and mine.
This is an update where a clumsy indie developer has carved away her very soul. Please, do not be afraid, and touch this new abyss. If you find yourself stranded in the darkness, please tell me. I will absolutely come to light the fire once again.
【The Fixes I Challenged + Escaping the Abyss of Failure to Launch】
Extraction by burning away past ashes: Discarded all intertwined old noise and reconstructed the raw code in the latest development environment (Vite). I extracted only the true data crystal (dist) with absolutely zero impurities.
Escape from fragile earth: Broke free from the trap of external drives that caused invisible data loss, and moved my camp deep into the solid local drive to perform a complete alchemy.
A pure vessel to protect the player: Discarded developer conveniences completely, and adopted the best, beautiful, and lightweight engine as a new body purely to protect your immersion into the story.
Proof of an unwavering heartbeat: Uncovered the bug of the hidden extension trap, and wrote the heart of the program (package.json) with my own hands without a single character out of place, perfectly fusing the soul and the vessel.
The Night I Entrust the Flame
Here by the seaside of Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture in Kyushu, the night is deep and enveloped in silence. However, within this newly assembled build, a blue flame burns with a certain heat, stronger than ever before.
I entrust this flame to your hands. If, within the abyss of your screen, this flame wavers, refuses to launch, or seems about to be swallowed by the darkness of bugs...
Please do not hesitate to raise your voice on the Steam message boards.
I will not run away. I will dive into the abyss of the code as many times as it takes, and I will head there to light the fire again.
Thank you for finding "KAGARIBI",
for walking this clumsy, maddening tale with me... And for giving a single indie creator a joy greater than anything else.
Thank you, truly.
May the guidance of the watchfire be with you.
MASAKO / Vibe Coder, NewForever STUDIO