This is a very easy to avoid bug, so long as you know what's causing it, so I'm not asking for help, merely informing the devs of an issue.
While editing the assets file, to mess around with the Backstory, Trait, and Name xml files, the assets editor I was using attempted to import the files, but failed, and then deleted the files out of the assets folder (Not the problem, since that's a third party program). Despite knowing this, I was curious how the game would react to missing some of these files, so I started it up. Rather than the game crashing, or throwing up an error, or anything of the sort, I received a black screen which I couldn't tab out of (the OS/game was still trying to run, as I could move my mouse around the screen), no amount of ctrl+alt+del, ctrl+shift+esc, windows+tab, alt+tab, and alt+f4 made a difference.
In the end, I was forced to hard reset my computer to get out of the program. My only suggestion is to attempt to fix the aforementioned issue. I had all my open work saved already, but this could cause a lot of lost work and frustration, leading to the modder getting discouraged. It's also possible, though I'm not sure through what means, that this could happen to someone who hasn't at any point attempted to edit the asset file.
While editing the assets file, to mess around with the Backstory, Trait, and Name xml files, the assets editor I was using attempted to import the files, but failed, and then deleted the files out of the assets folder (Not the problem, since that's a third party program). Despite knowing this, I was curious how the game would react to missing some of these files, so I started it up. Rather than the game crashing, or throwing up an error, or anything of the sort, I received a black screen which I couldn't tab out of (the OS/game was still trying to run, as I could move my mouse around the screen), no amount of ctrl+alt+del, ctrl+shift+esc, windows+tab, alt+tab, and alt+f4 made a difference.
In the end, I was forced to hard reset my computer to get out of the program. My only suggestion is to attempt to fix the aforementioned issue. I had all my open work saved already, but this could cause a lot of lost work and frustration, leading to the modder getting discouraged. It's also possible, though I'm not sure through what means, that this could happen to someone who hasn't at any point attempted to edit the asset file.