Well, I didn’t want to write this to find a solution to a huge problem I encountered, but out of no choice, and you asked “what happened?”.
I think this is the best time to announce this.
Those who are in my group’s discord noticed that I wrote that…
I lost all the information related to the game.
You heard me right.
All the information about each character, what is happening and what they are holding, was deleted due to a glitch in fixing the previous problem, of the infinite turns on one page that I encountered before.
First of all, a little precedent for those who are not on track -
- The old computer where I wrote our rounds, the “Doomputer” crashed two and a half months ago more or less.
- Much of the information was destroyed when they all turned to pulp, in correct words
- My attempt to restore the backup files was successful for a short time
- Parallel saving of the Excel of all our information about the game.
- Onedrive crashed due to lack of space
- It caused all my files to be deleted.
The only ones I was able to successfully extract is the sketch for the comic, some drawings and the star map and the oldest version of the rounds, 8 rounds ago.
Completing my recovery according to everyone’s previous rounds took me over 3 weeks, and they proved ineffective in recovering all the lost data.
This happened when I got a new laptop. I will get a real PC at the end of the summer.
I got a new software to try to restore and while it was worthwhile, I worked on the novella that I want to finish, but the studies took away all the energy I needed to work on the rounds.
And that’s basically the summary of all things.
I think following this, it is the right time to ask, with a heavy heart - start the game over? Try to manage with what is there and try to create an alternative reality or stop and try to continue with what is there, but it is possible that a lot of important information will be lost, information of almost a year turns out.
Or alternatively, create a new one, with all the knowledge I’ve gained in recent years, with a new stage, and compensate for what was lost in a nicer way.
My heart is broken and that is why I have been inactive for some time.
And I think it’s right to share with you all here, because it hurts me just like you. Imagine a year’s work gone to waste just because of something you can’t do anything about.
I would appreciate your honest opinion.