Question about a bug

B1984

I have a simple score menu, a jpg that covers the screen, and I decided to replace it with a slightly different image. I added a new image with the same name, and it asked me if I wanted to replace the old one and I said yes like I have with every other image that I've replaced. Now my game has lost all control features.

I'm sure I can fix this... but why would it do this? How can a scene totally unrelated, and something as simple as an image change, affect all the game mechanics like that?

PixelPun

Welcome to GS. Stager your saves when you are working so that when something crazy happens like that you can go back... it happens a lot.

tatiang

I'll add this from my post at http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/63452/gamesalad-project-won-t-open:

It bears repeating that if you are working with a single file you should instead be saving multiple versions of it so that you can avoid this sort of issue. Any files on a computer can become corrupt... GameSalad files seem to have a somewhat higher rate than other files but it's just a part of using computers. By the time I've put in months of work on an app, I have hundreds if not thousands of copies of the file, each with an incremented version number (1, 2, 3, ...) so that if anything goes wrong I can just go back a version and continue working. I know that doesn't help you with this project file but it may be helpful in the future.

B1984

Thanks for the tips.