How Many Dudes? Feedbag

Crash upon Startup

I was playing the game when my laptop suddenly bluescreened while I was playing. After booting the laptop back, and opening the game, it showed an error and I cant continue playing the game. I tried to uninstall and reinstall, it did not help. It keeps showing the error code when I reopen the game on steam. Error code:


############################################################################################ ERROR in action number 1 of Step Event0 for object o_init: JSON parse error : unexpected end of data############################################################################################ gml_Script_json_load (line 16) gml_Script_load_global_progress (line 43) gml_Object_o_init_Step_0 (line 7)

I hope you can help me with this. Thank you and goodluck on the game.

NewsyiffQuaketop@lpcqwf 1/11/2026, 5:15:59 AM #other #crash #platform:windows

Additional Information

Disable Steam Cloud saving.

Open windows explorer and go to your options/settings and enable hidden folder visibility.

Go to %appdata%, up one directory, and down into local.

Rename/delete the HowManyDudes folder.

That should resolve it. We're investigating solutions to prevent this issue with cloud saving.

BscotchKarl@bscotch042 1/11/2026, 2:10:49 PM

It works now, thank you! It created a new slate, no progress saved, but the game is playable now. I will miss the 121 record though, but thanks again!

NewsyiffQuaketop@lpcqwf 1/11/2026, 2:43:00 PM

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