Concerning recent disappearances of the game + GDC


So. I woke up this morning to learn that 10:16 had become unavailable on both itch.io and on Steam. Apparently, this happened a few days ago. I must've missed the e-mail for Steam and received nothing about it here. The game is back up here, and I am still waiting to hear back from Steam. 

My first thought is maybe I fucked up. However, I would never explicitly hide the downloads. I checked, and that's what had happened. I didn't even know this was an option. The builds that were just uploaded are slightly different, with a voice line removed because of some editing. Nothing else has really changed.

My first thought is that it might be a copyright issue. The song used in the introduction is a cover, which Zack got permission to do. As long as our project was not commercial, we could use it. This is why 10:16 is a free game. The song meant a lot for Dorian's character and setting the scene of the project. If there is a copyright issue, we are more than happy to write an original song instead and already have small plans about this. However, the trailer on Steam + the Youtube trailer (which is linked on this page) both use the song, and neither have experienced a copyright issue. 

I'm currently looking into why the game suddenly disappeared. If you have any problems, please let me know. 

In addition, I'll be at GDC this week and have the Dorian keychains. I don't know if anyone will want them, but so what? If you're at GDC, let me know, so we can meet up.

Files

1016-1.1-linux.tar.bz2 110 MB
44 days ago
1016-1.1-mac.zip 123 MB
44 days ago
1016-1.1-win.zip 117 MB
44 days ago

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I'm so sorry this happened and I haven't seen a similar issue before where there were 0 Bytes of download for a game I mean. Hopefully it was just some minor bug and can be easily fixed. 

Also would love to get Dorian keychain but I'm half the planet away. 

thank you for the keychain comment! i'm glad you like them. i hope to make more and have them be more accessible.

second, i'm genuinely not sure what happened...i just reuploaded with a new build since the last had issues with screens. hope this one works

Thank you, I'll be waiting for it because I really want one. 

And the current build here works, I just checked. Steam on the other hand is very much broken. And I mean the whole hub for your game. I saw your post about game files being lost on their way to Satan and it just disappeared few minutes later, even announcement topics say "Failed to Load Event" now. The ones lost on their way to Satan is Steam support it seems, got stuck in the elevator or something. 

Yeah, so Steam basically took down the files and threatened to remove the game's page entirely if I did not provide game files. They just...completely disappeared, and so did their depot. So, I uploaded new ones, and those SHOULD work,  but I fear I'm at the mercy of Steam for whether or not the game can be downloaded again.

Steam is not very fair when it comes to their policy and management, but I do hope it'll get resolved and more people will be able to enjoy and appreciate your work.