Fixed Heap Space Errors and Reduced Size to 250 MB

(edited 11 10 24)

The download size is reduced from 950 MB to 250 MB, and you don't need to download 7zip now.  More importantly, the heap space errors that sometimes cause the game to crash should be fixed.  I haven't really tested this build that much yet but hopefully my changes didn't break anything.

This game was out of Early Access, but I decided to put it back in Early Access because sometimes the AIs are stupid and do things like casting buffs on themselves multiple times redundantly. This sounds like it should be simple to fix, but it isn't for some reason. 

If you find a bug and are interested in helping, just copy the console output and tell me what happened and I should easily be able to fix it.  Email to rescuethecat@outlook.com!

The one or two features that are already in the code but not in the game yet are:

 - Food bonuses are not added into the game yet and the World Map buttons (mainly just craft alchemy and hunt) may not 100% work correctly.  Food is supposed to be a requirement for traveling over the World Map as well as a way to boost stats before battle, but this is not implemented.  Hunting should work, but you don't actually need food so it's really just a way to get some items to sell.

 - In general, I will probably continue making small cosmetic changes and I might try making the code more optimized.

I suggest looking at the "how to play.txt" file before playing the game. There is also "hints and strategies.txt" file and you can press 'Q' while playing to bring up a "How to Play" menu. 

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Rescue the Cat is fully playable even though it is still being tested for bugs.

You just need Java 20 to play it (64 bit version): Java Archive Downloads - Java SE 20 (oracle.com)

"Windows x64 msi Installer" is the download link you probably want if you're on Windows.  

To run my game then you just extract the "Rescue the Cat" folder to the desktop and click "play Rescue the Cat.bat".  If you installed Java 20 properly, it should work.  (It may or may not work with other versions of Java for now.)  There is also a "how to play" and some other readme files you may want to look at.