Some candidates saved correctly, then hung or crashed during native shutdown. A compiled player, a successful save and one clean close were insufficient evidence. Failed CD and later experimental candidates stayed out of publication.
CE’s investigation traced a Unity callback timer into a player loop whose runtime state had already been torn down. A scoped native guard acted only after committed exit. Eight normal exits were recorded, including exact-package cases, with original profiles restored.
A later normal candidate failed after a long minimized session. The CH repair guarded activation forwarding only after quit had committed. Three exact normal-candidate exits completed, including the prolonged minimized case, and all fifty-nine profile files were restored. The final record did not invent an exact human taskbar click that had not been separately confirmed.
Keep the failed bytes, test the packaged player, and distinguish shutdown-path evidence from an all-crashes guarantee. No force-close was promoted into a passing result. The exit button received more QA than anyone intended to put in a farming game.
Evidence & perspective
- CE: the game needed to know when to leave
CE records eight ordinary exits, including three exact-package checks, and preservation of 59 real profile files. A later activation fault required another repair before CH. Earlier failed candidates remain failures.
- CG: zombie progression and local fence damage
The current checkpoint supersedes earlier unpublished CG handoffs. It records five original zombie models, distinct attacks, local fence breaches/replacement, crop theft and cold-save checks. Failed shutdown experiments were retained before the accepted release.
- CH: four original buildings reach the public county
CH contains four original exteriors, reuses five scoped building routes, and passed three normal candidate exits with 59 profile files restored. The current Windows download was checked for its exact published size. These are bounded PC checks, not minimum-spec or whole-game acceptance.