During the showcase, I discovered a few bugs, which I fixed afterward. However, when we uploaded the game to Itch.io, one of our team members found that the game displayed resolution issues on different computers. This caused problems like dialogue boxes shifting out of place and inventory icons going beyond the UI boundaries. I spent another full day and night trying to fix these problems. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to completely resolve them.
The main challenge was that everything looked perfectly fine on my own computer, both in the editor and in the built version. But on my friend’s computer, the issues consistently appeared. Since I couldn’t directly compare or replicate the broken version, I had no choice but to make small adjustments based on guesswork, send her updated builds, and wait for my friend’s feedback before continuing to tweak things.
Some of my test version of the game at that day
I tried many different solutions, but none of them fully resolved the issue. The resolution settings in my build were correct, and the Canvas Scaler settings were also properly configured. I went through all the possible settings I could think of, but the same problem persisted on other people’s computers.
In the end, I had to settle on a compromise. I shifted all the UI icons slightly toward the center of the screen. This way, even though the UI might not look perfectly aligned on my own computer, it wouldn’t affect gameplay. On other devices, the UI will be located in the correct positions.
To solve the problem of the long background that is shown beyond the UI canvas, I placed two black UI panels outside the camera view. Since UI images don’t move with the camera, these panels helped cover the parts of the background that were leaking outside the intended area.
This is the most complete version I could produce within my abilities, so I decided to leave it as it is.
Here is our Itch website. You can download our game from this link: https://winnief.itch.io/memories-of-a-misty-seashore
Or here is the Google Drive link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V6aYuRcQemoV1jK28txdhrXRB7DYGdnx/view?usp=sharing
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