Phantom Thief: Money's for Fools (150k+ WIP) | Updated 20th of June

It should happen right after Remy gives the speech and leaves. I think the problem is that there is a subroutine that happens right after that choice that was missing a return statement.

I already pushed a fix because this is a pretty shitty thing to overlook. Tell me if it all works out now!

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It works now! ^^ Side note I just reached the part where you can pretend to be a backup technician and there are tears in my eyes, so funny :joy: I also hope Go-Gal might be gender selectable in the future, but I have my guesses why she’s not right now aaa

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I just want to say that I think this game is great. It’s fun and I had a great time with the demo. Please keep going author

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Glad you thought that part was funny! Sometimes I do put stuff down and wonder you know? I am thinking of making Go-Gal gender selectable. But if I do do that, it will by after the game’s 90% done or something. I have a laundry list of other things I want to adjust/add when I get there too.

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Hello, I get this error message when the day before the heist passes: chapter_1_bases line 525: Non-existent variable ‘dreams_0’

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That’s weird. I think it might be a temp variable issue. I shifted things around according to ChoicesScript’s best practices regarding them, and also put in a couple more fail safes in the dream code in case of the loops fails somehow.

I’ll refrain from pushing the fix tight now, until I can test it to make sure I haven’t added more bugs, but I think it should work.

Thanks for the report. Has this only happened once and you have managed to continue past that point or is it a recurring problem?

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I just realized there’s something critical missing: HEIST MUSIC! What songs are we playing while robbing people blind? There’s a song from Sonic Unleashed (no not the Jazz band one) that’s perfect for me: Rooftop Run (Night)

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I haven’t been able to pass to the heist. Im basically stuck in the planning phase.

You need to go back to an earlier point in the game, then do everything in one go. Avoid saving and using the back button.

Either go for an earlier save, preferably before you reached the heist’s planning phase, like just before the fence shows you their wares for the first time; or you can restart the game via the quick start at the starting menu.

This should get you to the heist safely in the current version, unless I am horribly wrong about the nature of this bug. Sorry for the inconvenience but you’d kinda have to do it regardless even if I pushed the fix now due to the versioning save incompatibility.

Oh boy, if we’re talking Jazz, well the name’s not for nothing.

Here are some of the songs I listened to while writing the gala:

Songs

The Villain I Appear to Be - Connor Spiotto, Molly Pease

Might’ve seeing this one in the Diamond Jack animated short on youtube.

A Way Out - Taisei Iwasaki

In The City - Taisei Iwasaki

Catch Me If You Can - Taisei Iwasaki

All from the Blood Blockade anime, never got around to finishing it, but god the OST is just right up my alley.

Tank! - Seatbelts

Rush - Seatbelts

Need I say anything?

So Far From Home - Ivan Yunash, Nicholas Sibley & Sergey Neiss

Fallout Miami has such a banger bunch of songs that came out years ago and yet the mod still hasn’t come out. Highly recommend those songs though.

Puttin’ on the Ritz - Robbie Williams

The RR hotel is literally just the Ritz, so this is just perfect. Robbie’s version is my personal favorite.

Guilty - Claudia Brucken, The Real Tuesday Weld

I Always Kill the Things I Love - Claudia Brucken, The Real Tuesday Weld

These songs were more what I was thinking when I wrote the Sol & Lune section of the planning stage, but it still works here.

Hey Pachuco! - Royal Crown Revue

This is the most popular one for obvious reasons, but anything from Mugzy’s Move is great. Zip Gun Bop is another I quite dig.

One Note Samba - Stacey Kent

My compatriots will have to forgive me, but this is the best version of that song, and it’s by a lot. The production is too clean!

Literally anything from Persona 5.

Okay, enough that was a lot, and I could literally do this all day. If you want more atmospheric background songs, just search “Crime Jazz” on youtube and there’s a lot of really good playlists.

This was so interesting! I didn’t finish the full demo but in eager to see where this goes!

Couple things, first during the heist, I used the sleeping powder via kiss to put Go Gal to sleep and then get away, but the newspaper article then said she punted me across the city?

Second, right before the flashback the text said “I used to be a prince”, maybe this is a reference or something and I’m just dense but I played a woman. It’s not a big thing though, so don’t worry about it.

Third, just a question. Will we get the chance to reunite with, or at least have kept track of all our different siblings? Maybe it’s explained further in a bit I didn’t get to, but the motivation I picked was my siblings, so it confused me a bit when the story then said I was separated from them. Apologies if I’m addressing something talked about in the later section I didn’t play, but it seemed weird that the motivation when I picked it said I did it to provide for my siblings, then took all of them away from me. It would make more sense to me if, since I picked that motivation, I had an option to have been sending some of them money or something, at least?

But I love this so far, good stuff!

I think I have found a flow problem here that might’ve led to this, but just checking with you real quick: did you have any Time left when you reached the rooftop? Did you steal things during the first heist option around the pottery section of the museum? If yes to the first and no to the second, then you actually should’ve been arrested and not even made it to the next section and I think I know what part of the code I messed up.

Yeah, it’s a reference to the prince and the pauper. Not about being a literal prince. Gendering the term would’ve made the reference a bit too hard to spot, so I left it as is.

Yes! There are going to be sections in the Free Roam parts about that as well as sending them money, I just haven’t implemented them yet. They probably will come with the next update. In the story you are still separated, but with that motivation you have tracked them down and helped the monetarily exactly as you say.

Out of curiosity, have u played Persona 5? Cause if i cant steal a heart, It aint a real Phantom Thief xD

Yes, I mentioned it before in the thread. And well, there are six hearts to metaphorically steal here!

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“Find a dress for the Gala. (Gain a :bright_button: by buying the dress, or stealing it without messing up)”

Or suit, as I’m playing a guy.

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Psh, you’re playing a coward you mean! Jk jk, I used outfit in other places, seems that little bit escaped me when I redid how the mandatory tasks work Thank you, it’s fixed!

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Phantom Thieves!!!