Website temporarily offline : UPDATE

Unfortunately due to some persistent issues that have really come to a head with the release of Chapter 11, we have temporarily decided to take the website offline.

This is so we can figure out exactly what is happening and implement what's needed to fix it.

I am working on this today along with my developer and hope to back online in the near future.
If not today then hopefully by tomorrow (Monday)
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The problem is to do with game saves and load ins.
There have been some anomalies in the website behaviour that just don't match what should be expected from the coding.
We have taken the decision to temporarily suspend the website so that no more incomplete or anomalous saves can be added to the database.

Apologies to all of you for this, but we really want to deliver a seamless and enjoyable player experience.

It also gave me a valid excuse to create an image of Bridgette in her underwear holding a really big tool... :)
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Note that you may still be able to access a cached version of the website and play as normal.
In which case, please bear in mind that you may have issues with saving and loading games.
I would recommend waiting until we announce the website as being back online before playing again.

Many thanks once again for your support and your patience.
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UPDATE - 07/08/2023:
We have made some quite significant progress yesterday and today in determining what underlying issue has been causing problems with the website.
As the game has grown, so has the volume of cookie data stored in game saves. Some of this data is used to display the chapter achievements, and some is passed forward to trigger outcomes as the story progresses.

The game save protocols had been configured to retain some but not all of the cookies to reduce the size of game saves and retain only what is necessary.

It turns out that all browsers have a limit to how many cookies they will allow in a session.
For Firefox, this limit is 150 cookies. This critical piece of information isn't that readily available and to be honest we just didn't know about it.

On the earlier chapters, we were only retaining about 30-50 cookies to be stored and/or used duiring each playthrough, so no problem there.
However, the bigger and more complex chapters have been approaching and exceeding this 150 cookie limit, especially if carry over and functional cookies are included.
Ch11 was using just over 200 cookies.

This now explains so many of the issues we have been experiencing. Everything from incomplete achievement displays, inaccurate in game scoring and cookies not carrying over properly is down to exceeding the browser cookie limit.

For now we have been working on some additional scripts which limit the number of cookies which are retained by identifying unwanted data and removing it.
This should fix the existing issues with game save, 'null' in game name errors, and scoring problems.
All this will be going onto the main website soon.

We expect to return the website within the next 24 hours.