God’s Call [v1.6.1] By Chrys

v.1.6.1

Bugfixes:

• Mobile major fixes!

Addressed (hopefully) all the crashes.
Major thanks to angel T for helping me out on this, not only lead me in the right direction, hit the park.
And it also might provide a why this issue was going under the radar as “get a better phone type of issue”.

If you want the technicals in TL;DR:

Issues with the 8K map:
Ren’Py decodes the PNG/JPG → a 235 MB raw RGBA buffer in the native heap.
SDL hands it to the GPU → another 235 MB in the graphics heap (often physically the same RAM, but tracked separately).
Loaded 5-6 overlays → > 1 GB total resident memory. (MINIMUM!)
Android’s low-memory-killer saw the process exceed its budget (heap + graphics) and killed it.

Phones don’t swap this out to “virtual memory” on disk the way PCs do, once I blew past the per-process allowance the OS simply terminates the game. I assumed the phones were having issues with the image being 50MB, which was then proved wrong in future updates.
Until I found out and extreme majority of phones just have a buffer big enough for 4K RGBA Textures.
(Half the size of that map, but newer phones could offload it to ram without issues!)

• Fixed Gallery name changing on the main menu not working properly.
• Fixed a crash that affected first time users entering the gallery.
• Fixed an issue with “Rainwell’s Special Experiment…” where the quest would fail to end and cause issues with the Quests within the HUB.
• Fixed missing image.
• Fixed grammar mistakes.