Summer Found Me
“Summer found me” is a free GxB visual novel made using Ren’py.
>> Download <<
>>Download German Version (Translated by Marcel Weyers) <<
How to play:
After downloading, unpack the archive using a program like WinZip, WinRar or 7-Zip. Open the extracted folder and double click on the ‘Summer found me.exe’ file.
Features:
3 guys to pursue
10 endings
46,381 words
Rating: 14+
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Screenshots:
Just wanted to say that I downloaded the demo and am about to play it. From what I’m seeing so far, this is going to be a wonderful game! I’ll play through the demo and comment here or on Lemma with my impressions! <3
I really hope you enjoy the demo. I haven’t worked on the game lately and I should get back to it soon. I’m glad there’s someone who still cares about this project.
I played it and left a lengthy (well, somewhat) comment on the lemma thread. In a nutshell, it’s /wonderful/! Keep up the good work! <3
i downloaded it and it wont play .__. i have windows 7 so idk if that has to do with it not working, any ideas?
I have window 7 myself so that isn’t an issue. does it give an error or anything? my only advice is to download it again to make sure you have all the files you need.
i’m hoping that this will be fun
i’m still downloading it…… eager to play it already <3
let me know what you think of it. ^^
Do I have to pay for this game? :O
Nope. Just download and play.
glass heart, this was so wonderful, I loved ALL the arcs! not surprisingly I started questing for the bad boy devlin,
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, I ALL OF THEM ARE SO LOVEABLE, especially seth. so cute xoxo rate this one 10/10 we need more VNs like this one <3
Awww, thank you! ♥ That made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. ^^
I SOOOOO LOVE THIS GAME!!!!!
awesomeness job
Thank you very much ^^
it was amazing !!!
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and i love it., though i’m still curious what was alden’s background since it still has a mystery on it but i love the ending it was so cute
i also love devlin the most since his the bad boy but one of the sweetest
and seth too even if he ignores iris when he talks about alden haha!!
and finally i finished all the happy endings but sadly i still can’t figure out how to finish ending no.9
but over all.. it was awesome and a wonderful game … !!!
keep up the good work!!!! (thumbs up for you)
thank you! I’m so happy you liked it ^^ I won’t write how to get ending 9 here, since it’s a spoiler, but a few people made walkthroughs for the game. try googling it.
Can you download it somewhere else besides mediafire? It never works for me.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/53101295/Summer%20found%20me%20-%202.5-all.zip
hahah thankz ….
for the wonderful game
i’ll try finishing it.. though :p as long as i can …
Amazing game! Finished playing it all in one day, the characters were really well made, I didn’t particularly like the heroine, but it still was a nice play.
)], sper să nu fiu eu chioară şi să nu înţelegi ce scriu. În orice caz, frumos joc, mă simt mândră că o cetăţeană a ţării mele a lucrat singură la un visual novel. Voi juca şi Trapped, dar abia aştept să-ţi văd proiectul recent. N-am nici un soi de experienţă cu visual novels sau platforma Ren’py, dar dacă pot să te ajut cu ceva, nu ezita să mă întrebi 
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Văzu’şi pe forumurile lemmasoft că eşti româncă [assuming you're a girl
Dap, sunt romanca.
Ma bucur ca ti-a placut. Eroina am vrut-o mai cu gura mare pt ca mereu cand joc visual novels si eroinele sunt carpe ma enerveaza. Probabil am dat-o in extrema cealalta, dar am vrut sa aiba personalitate chiar daca nu una 100% placuta. ^^ E super ca cineva din ro a jucat un joc de-al meu, in afara de 2 prietene pe care le-am rugat insistent hehe.
Noul proiect va mai dura probabil mult pana sa apara, avand in vedere ca la fel ca la Summer ma voi ocupa de cam tot. Momentan nu prea stiu cu ce m-ai putea ajuta. Poate daca vrei sa fi beta tester cand va avea ceva mai multa substanta jocul. ^^
Need help, I download the game but it won’t play, so I download it again but it still doesn’t. What’s should I do
Have you played other renpy games on the same computer and if you have, Is this the only game that won’t play? Do you have directx installed? Maybe an older version of the game might work: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?397q2eggq6wmqx9
Yes, i have played other renpy games and yes this is the only game that won’t play, I do have directx installed and the older version still doesn’t work.
I really don’t know what could be causing it. Maybe this thread can help (read the second to last reply) http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=12217&p=160140&hilit=game+won%27t+play#p160140
Eroina n-a fost în special pe placul meu, dar cu siguranţă a avut mai multă substanţă decât una tipică. În mare dă un pic spre clişeic jocul, dar cu otome e cam imposibil să eviţi total asta. Mi-a plăcut de Seth, Devlin a fost genial, şi după câteva jocuri mi-am dat seama ce nume epice au personajele.
Aş fi încântată să fiu beta tester, aştept cu nerăbdare Cryptohaven, având în vedere că jocurile tale sunt chiar foarte bune şi îţi urez spor la lucru! În principal mă gândeam că te-aş putea ajuta pentru ca tu să poţi termina jocul mai repede, ca să-l pot şi eu juca mai repede xD you get the logic
).
Stiu si eu ca au fost destul de multe clisee.
Ideea de baza cu confession si personajele la fel… Nu pot sa zic ce face cliseele plictisitoare in unele jocuri/anime-uri/manga si interesante in altele dar eu am incercat pe cat posibil sa fie distractiv de citit si nu prea gretos ^^
Mersi mult incurajari. Momentan am writer’s block se pare. Am citit niste fanfiction-uri recent care mi-au placut mult si acum parca personajele mele nu mai imi plac ca inainte. Parca sunt prea superficiale, plictisitoare, fara substanta. De-asta m-am deprimat un pic si nu stiu ce m-ar putea ajuta sa fac povestea mai interesanta.
when i download this, it turns into a file. how do i change it so i can play it? ;(
do you mean a zip file? you have to use a program like winzip to extract the archive. then you can play it.
Fabolous game! Keep up with your amaizing work, I am your numer one fan!!! ^^
Thank you~! Yay, I have a fan! ^^
Scuze de răspunsul cam întârziat, dar în ultima vreme trag de timp doar ca să nu-l găsesc.
Nu-i problemă, cileşeele tale sunt bine folosite, nu sunt excesive şi nici plictisitoare! Cum am mai zis, în jocurile otome clişeele sunt aproape inevitabile. În general linia narativă mi-a plăcut, a fost uşor de digerat [nimic prea complicat], drăguţă, uneori amuzantă şi în principal bine conturată. Summer found me e un joc solid, bine făcut şi trece cu mult peste calitatea medie a puţinelor jocuri otome pe care le-am jucat eu. Adică l-am terminat într-o zi, toate rutele. Am jucat un otome japonez, genial de altfel, dar mi-a luat aproape un an să-l termin fiindcă mă plictisea rău de tot uneori.
Cât despre writer’s block…take your time. Şi nu te subestima, un personaj prea complex/aproape perfect devine deja exagerat, iese din sfera posibilului. Daaacă vrei…te pot ajuta şi eu^^ Am un blog pe care scriu de ani de zile, deci pot spune că mă descurc bine cu scrierile imaginative. Şi cred că ţi-ar prinde bine punctul de vedere al altcuiva, te-ar ajuta să vezi lucrurile dintr-o altă perspectivă. So, again, nu te subestima! Dacă ai scos frumuseţea asta de Summer found me, sunt sigură că poţi să faci ceva la fel de bun, dacă nu şi mai bun.
Mersi mult ca ma lauzi, ma simt si eu bine desi stiu ca jocul meu nu se compara cu cele comerciale. Oricum e bine sa fii critic cu tine insuti, pt ca doar asa poti sa avansezi.
Apropo ce joc ai jucat? Eu am jucat mai multe (dintre care si japoneze). Daca a durat atat sa-l termini a fost cumva Tokimemo? Ala e epic ca lungime. Si un singur playthrough dureaza ore intregi.
Apropo am vazut ca la prezentarea ta scrie ca ai 13. Pari mult prea matura sa ai doar atat.
Deocamdata am doar vreo 2000 de cuvintele, deci cand o sa mai strang o sa-ti trimit sa citesti daca vrei. Oricum in mare parte e dialog, ca doar e VN si se citeste repede.
E putin mai greu sa ma exprim in engleza si imi ia mai mult sa scriu decat mi-ar lua in romana, dar pe de alta parte daca as face jocurile in romana nu le-ar juca mai nimeni. ^^
Te laud pentru că jocul tău e chiar bun şi pentru că ştiu că ai nevoie [e mult mai bine să simţi prezenţa persoanelor care te susţin decât să crezi că ele există undeva acolo, în umbră - am învăţat asta uitându-mă la statisticile blogului meu
)]. Cât despre critica de sine…eu o numesc auto-educare. Când observ ceva ce nu-mi place la mine, la felul în care trăiesc sau la rezultatele pe care le am, încerc să-mi dau seama care-i cauza şi să mă corectez sigură, încet dar sigur.
N-am jucat Tokimemo, abia dacă am auzit de el. În principal numai otome străine [adică nu japoneze] şi ce am mai prins de pe forumurile lemmasoft. Am jucat un singur joc otome japonez, The Second Reproduction. A fost bun, diferit de astea americane [se simte influenţa], dar nu atât de bun încât să nu mă plictisească.
Prezentarea mea?…nici nu-mi amintesc să fi scris chestia aia
). Treişpe ani aveam când activam pe wordpress, defapt eu fac în decembrie 16.
Cât despre linia narativă, ţi-am zis, nu te grăbi. N-ai de ce, mai bine aştepţi şi faci ceva cu adevărat bun. Cât despre exprimarea în engleză ştiiiu cum e, n-ai ce-i face că nu e limba noastră maternă. Dar să ştii că engleza din jocurile tale mi s-a părut ok, adică s-a simţit din primele fraze că nu ţi-e limbă maternă, dar în rest sună destul de bine.
Am si eu the second reproduction pe undeva, dar nu l-am terminat. In rest am mai jucat Starry sky de care am fost destul de dezamagita. Practic alegeai din 3 variante varianta cu baiatul pe care il vroiai de 1000 de ori pana la sfarsit. Dar in general VN-urile japoneze sunt standardul dupa care se iau restul, deci am incercat sa studiez problema.
Ti-ai dat seama asa repede ca engleza nu e nativa? Stiai dinainte? altcineva mi-a spus ca nu si-a dat seama pana nu a vazut la profilul meu. Oricum macar se intelege ce vreau sa zic. ^^
16 ani aproape… Multi inainte! Eheee cand eram eu de varsta ta
) Deja ma simt batrana la 23.
Starry Sky îl am pe lista de aşteptare, în principal pentru seiyuu. Dar din ce am văzut despre el, mi se pare mai clişeic decât altele. Şi acum depinde şi de eroină, dar prin simplul fapt că e japonez face experienţa diferită.
Cum mi-am dat seama? Ai o greşeală…un dezacord sau ceva de genul prin primele fraze. Doar atât
)
Să ştii că şi eu am momente în care simt că am îmbătrânit. Îmi dau o facepalm în imaginaţie şi-mi amintesc că aşa ceva e imposibil. În orice caz, eram sigură că eşti mai mare decât mine; adică ce puştoaică e în stare să codeze, scrie şi să deseneze un joc singură ? Keep up the good work şi mândreşte-te, că doar eşti tânără!
Starry sky e celebru pt eroina fara fata, si asta se reflecta si in faptul ca nu prea are nici personalitate. Am jucat doar in spring deci poate restul sunt mai bune… ? Oricum, sa-mi spui si mie ce parere ai cand il vei juca.
Am avut 3 beta testeri si proofreaderi la joc deci e vina lor daca e vreo greseala, eu mi-am dat silinta
)
Am vazut oameni mai tineri si mai talentati ca mine, deci nu e neaparat varsta o garantie a calitatii. Am aproape 24 (in feb implinesc) si deja viata incepe sa fie nasoala, deci sa vedem cat voi mai putea sa ma “prostesc” facand vn-uri ^^
><; Previous comment I made was incomplete. I got the good endings for the games but I couldn't get the 5th, 8th and 9th ending. Please make a walkthrough~ Onegaishimasu~
hi!! i am also a ren’py user, so i like looking for home-made games XD I stumbled upon this one, and I’m glad I did!!! it was really great! i love the humor in it a lot!! the story flowed and it was very fun to play! I was very impressed!! ^-^ thanks for making such an awesome game! (devlin’s my favorite, but i’m a little partial to seth, hehee!) I give you props for finishing it…there is so much that keeps me away from my own I worry that I’ll ever get it done!! haha i do have a question, however!
in the ren’py script, how do you notify the game that you want the player’s name to be in the little window, (the name ‘Iris’ over the text box)? I mean, i know how to put character names in the window above the text box, but i’ve been trying to do the same thing for name inputs. Like, ‘Iris’ is the default name of the protagonist, so that’s all set. But how do I tell ren’py to indentify the main character as whatever name the player inputs? I know how to pull up a name input, but when i test it, the protagonist–or the person I’m playing as–is not indentified as the name i inputted. (is that a word?) Does that make sense? Sorry if it’s confusing, but i’ve been looking for the answer for so long!
All in all, it was a great story! it was entertaining and bright and the drawings were very good!! XD looking forward to playing more~ best of luck!
Hey! as renpy user you probably know about lemma soft forums, right? 99% of things I learned about renpy I learned from there and the renpy documentation.
I hope I understood correctly what you mean. Here’s how to do it:
you need to define the character as a dynamic character so you can change the name.
-in an init block you put something like:
$ mc = DynamicCharacter(‘name’, color = “#cf1717″, other_customizations_go_here) #name is the variable where we will put the name.
-then when you ask the name:
$ ui.input(‘Iris’, length = 10, xalign=0.5, yalign=0.5) #replace ‘Iris’ with the default name or leave empty. length is the max length you allow.
$ name = ui.interact() #here we assign the variable ‘name’ the name that was just inputted by the player.
I hope this helps.
I’m glad you enjoyed playing Summer. Good luck with your own project and I hope you finish it. ^^
whoa…sorry for the smiley face at the end of the first paragraph O-o it looks so creepy like that haha!
thank you soooo much!! XD yes, i know of soft forums. I will definitely utilize them! thanks for the luck…i will need it haha! good luck on your own projects…again, looking forward to playing them!! (the fantasy-like, victorian one looks incredibly good!!)
I just gotta say I absolutely loved your story ,I seriously stood up all night till morning trying out all my options .
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You gave us some good choices .I don’t know how you came up with such brilliance but keep it up
The moment I played this I became your fan even just reading your descriptions.
I can’t wait for the other one . Just keep doing your best .
I know how tough it can be sometimes . I’m a writer myself . I can only wish to get something published very soon .
Goodluck .I’ll be waiting patiently .
P.s Never doubt yourself , your doing amazing work!
Thank you so much! It means even more coming from a writer. I don’t think it was that brilliant though… *blushes*
What are you writing about?
Whatever it is, I wish you luck and I hope you get publishd! ^^
Hey! I just wanted to let you know, though you’ve probably already heard this, but this was an amazing game! I’ve been playing a lot of otome/girl pursues boy lately, and this is definitely one of the best (and I’m just judging this from playing Ending 6). Since I’ve only played for Devlin, I can only speak about him, but he was wonderful – he was very realistic! There are only a few otome that I think are good, and this is definitely the best. I’ve never wanted to replay/reread the same storyline right after I finished for any other game than this!
I excited to see how your next one turns out – please keep it up! Cryptohaven looks especially promising ^^
Thanks! I’m glad you’ve enjoyed playing Summer so far and I hope you like the other routes as well. I enjoy reading every message I get.
I’ll try my best to finish my current game and return to working on CryptoHaven. It’s a pretty complex game so it’ll probably be quite a long time until it’s ready. I won’t give up though. ^_^
Hi GlassHeart! I played Summer Found Me and I really really love it!<3 Do you think you will make more like it?I really fell in love in Delvin <3 ahh…he is just so cute.You rock and just keep doing what you're doing.
Thanks! Depends on what you mean like it. I will definately make more GxB games. I’m making one right now.!
mine downloads but only gives me a whole bunch of folders…help, i wanna play too ;cccc
Isn’t there a file called “summer found me.exe” in the archive? Just double click that and the game should start.
Hi! Commenting just to say that I enjoyed your game. It’s quicker than most, but it’s all good. My favorite path is Devlin’s.
Thanks for commenting! Sorry if you thought it was too short. That must mean you liked it so I will take it as a compliment. Haha ^^
This game is amazing! I love Seth and everything he represents as the geeky best friend.
Haha thanks. Seth was born out of my own wish for a geeky bff. Glad you liked him ^^
This is a BEAUTIFUL game. I can’t stop fantasizing about Devlin. Personally, I wish it was longer, so I can enjoy it for longer, but hey, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, right?
Haha, thanks. I’ve actually had dreams about Devlin before, on days when I wrote a lot of scenes. Weird, I know. lol. Sorry it wasn’t longer, I’m just glad I managed to finish it. ^_^;
Is this game a free download??
Yep ^^
Love it!
Thanks!
I need help,,After i download it i dont know what to do after to play the game,,
HELP!! ;0
You have to use a program like winrar or winzip to extract the archive. Then just open the folder and start the .exe file.
I just finished playing your game, and it was wonderfully made. I enjoyed it very much, even though my first ending was not such a good ending…(the ending where you end up losing two guys in you life…won’t say more). I love the characters you created, very well made both in dialogue and personalities. I especially liked Seth, as I was reading the dialogue between Seth and the main character I couldn’t help but laugh out loud at some of Seth’s remarks, you gotta love his humor. The artwork is very well done. I really did like this game, I wished there was a continuation, like part two or something…but I’m pretty sure that’s a lot to ask for. I’m sure it took a long time to even finished creating this game, but the fact that you created this and finished is beyond awesome!
sorry for long paragraph but wanted to let you know how talented you are and how great this game was… now I will continue to play Summer Found Me and see the other endings…
Thank you for taking the time to write me a comment, I really appreciate it. ^^ Someday I hope to make a part 2 showing what became of the characters (I have a few ideas already), but who knows if I will get around to it. Making the game kind of open-ended seemed like a good idea for now. That way people could imagine their own perfect endings.
Good luck getting the other endings and remember you can use the walkthrough if you have any troubles.
I love it. Looove it. I’ve never played Visual Novel like that one. I’m glad that I found it. And Iris is quite like me :3
When I’ve finally recived my counter… I think I had finished like 7 endings in one day. Such a great gift. Hehe. And I must tell you that Seth is now on my phone wallpaper. Can’t get enough of him.
Weeell, um. I just want to say… great job. And keep going! *hugs* ^__^
Glad you enjoyed playing the game! ^-^
Seth’s your wallpaper? Way to go Seth! He managed to geek his way into your heart. lol
Woaw, I tried this visual novel yesterday and I find it amazing, I really like it
I don’t understood everything (I’m french so it’s pretty hard sometimes when I don’t know the vocabulary) but I still love this Visual Novel <3
Great Job!
I’m happy to hear you enjoyed it. I learned English by playing games, along with watching movies and reading, so I encourage you to keep doing it ^_^
Thank you for playing and commenting!
All your games don’t work on my computer for some reason and I really want to play them
I’m sorry to hear that. Do you have this problem with other ren’py games or just my games?
I just finished Summer found me. Played for the Alden route but ended up liking Devlin’s route more! haha. Hope you make more games like this!
Oh yea, and in the end who was that mysterious guy who smsed the MC? The guy who asked her if she liked mysteries. I never did find out…
Sorry for spamming but I already found out who,haha. Stay awesome!
I’m glad you found out. Good job! XD
I’ve had this problem with only a few Ren’py games not all of them whenever I try to play the game it only shows a black screen with music in the background
Do you have ren’py installed? If you haven’t updated it, try doing that. Maybe it has something to do with the version you have.
I just wanted to comment on this for once.
I found this VN a month ago and I fell in love wiht it ♥ I’m still trying to figure out how to get all 18 points for Devlin without cheating >.w:(
Amazing work, to say it in two words *^*
[since it's nearly midnight in Germany right now :3]
Oyasumi ~
Thank you!!
You’re very dedicated. I usually give up pretty easily when there’s a walkthrough available, so congrats for staying strong! There really isn’t any special reward for getting max points, I’m sorry to say (easide from personal satisfaction) ^_^
ah, i REALLY love this game c: i played it before and it was working find, but i seem to stumble upon it again and I wanted to play once again, but when I try to extract it from winrar it gives me the message saying ‘the archive is either unknown format or damaged’ any suggestions? D;
I’m sorry to hear that. maybe try downloading it again? I haven’t changed the archive files for a long time so it shouldn’t be different.
Hi! This game is really very cute, thank you for making it! I loved Devlin, and the music that played in the background whenever he was around. Could you please tell me where I could get the music used in the game?
I don’t remember what Devlin’s specific song was called, but the music I used was from incompetech.com and pacdv.com
Hope that helps ^_^
I just wanted to say that I fell in love with your game
I had a great time playing it, the characters were realistic, humourful and adorable, I could feel sorry for the characters or laugh at their jokes,… that is something that I couldn`t experience with every visual novel
I will gladly follow your next projects ^^
Keep up with the good work, you are amazing
Thank you ^^ It makes me very happy to hear that.
I’ll have my new game, Signed X, ready in a couple of days. If you’re not alergic to pink and hearts that is
I’m so frustrated right now! I can’t play Summer Found Me at all, for no reason. I ended up downloading ren’py and directx because some people said it helped, but it didn’t. It opens for like a second, then it closes and an error box thing comes up and says the textures aren’t rendering. I’ve been trying to fix it for hours but nothing is working and I just really want to play it!
I don’t know if you’ve tried it, but make a .txt file in the same folder as the game and add in it: RENPY_RENDERER=”gl”
Hope it works.
I tried doing something like that, but then I realized I had no idea what I was doing and it didn’t work
Hello, I just finished playing summer found me and I have to say that I absolutely loved it!. It was a really good game and I loved the characters, specially Devlin.
I also found this site today and I really admire your efforts and how you try to improve your games every time and successes! that really amazes me ^-^. Anyway I look forward to your future games and I will stay tuned for that.
If I’m allowed to give a little advice-request I would say that I would really love it if you your games would have a bit more “action” like you know more kisses and “hot moments” and so on (maybe it’s just me being a bit of a pervert). Well anyway summer found me was suuper suuuuper good!!
Thank you very much for your comment. I try to make each game better and hopefully future ones will not disappoint. ^_^
I don’t know if I’m able to write anything more… “hot”, I’d be scared what people might think when reading such scenes. Maybe if they fit the theme of the game, but so far my stories have been on the innocent side. Not to mention Summer took place in the span of one week, so I think any more action would have been too much. But I’ll think about it.
Hi, I was playing summer found me for the 10th time (at least) and I was thinkin’ how great it is and I didn’t even leave you a comment about it (shame on me!). So here goes : I really, totally, adore your game! It’s very well written (i’m such a fan of your dialogue lines) and it has a lot of humour (I laught so hard sometimes people around me looked at me with weird expressions) and of course the romance was cute. I loved it!!
So I’d like to thank you for making such a great game. It really is inspiring seeing amasing work like this done by one person. I feel so fired up for my own projects (right now but I know how lazy I am…)
I’m looking forward to see what you’ll do next, and in the meantime I’m gonna try signed X, which looks interesting (it’s got humour right? So I’m already loving it).
I wish you the best for your futur work, take care.
Thank you so much for commenting. Reading comments like yours is what keeps me going.
I wish you good luck with your own projects. I feel the same way when I enjoy other people’s games, I feel more driven to make something better myself.
On the other hand, I know aaaaall about lazyness and how hard it is to beat it, but I can tell you it’s well worth it in the end.
Let me know what you think of Signed X. It’s much shorter than Summer, and doesn’t have as much drama, but I hope you’ll like it as well. ^_^
I found it hard to finish the game because the protagonist is such a doormat. And the guys are real jerks.
Actually if there’s one thing I hate, it’s a doormat protagonist, so I really tried to stay away from that stereotype.
I’m not sure why you thought ALL the boys are jerks. Sure, Devlin’s one, but when is Alden a jerk? I tried to make a character for every taste.
Sorry you didn’t like the game, but thanks for your opinion.
whenever i try and open it after extracting it it just opens the traceback notepad. like when i click the game it looks like its about to open but then it switches. help!!!!
what does it say the error is? I didn’t make the actual game engine, so I can’t really tell you why it’s not working. I could post it to the forums for you, and maybe someone can tell me what’s wrong.