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Bad news: Posted July 13th on Discord.
Just a heads up. Currently - even if I wanted to - CANNOT continue working on the game. I just got the news today we are fucked with energy consumption basically tripling down on the prices (it's extremely high now it is). Bit sadge because it's actually wouldn't be too far off - if I got the time and was not tired all the time due to overhours - to due a release but since both night power AND abolishment of energy discount is no longer, it's no longer possible to render for the game. Would make it where each render would cost me a triple AAA game each time (Averaging at 200 renders which is not a lot), just on energy prices. I'm really, really disappointed.......
Fuck 2022 too
(Looking at the state of the world currently, I don't see it getting any better anytime soon, so it looks like more years of waiting, maybe, I don't know. For all I know all the world leaders could stand up tomorrow and announce they plan to stop being stupid and actually fix the world.)
Even more bad news: Posted July 16th.
Gonna run a poll. I had this idea a long time ago before the shit went down. The question is: would you play the story in its entirety with minimal art, that is reused every time. E.g: Everyone has a set of two of each character (some cases 3) and when they talk they appear on the screen. This would allow me to finish the story but no real art/scene setting which can be damaging to the story itself.
Basically: would you play/finish the story as a "text-based" game? It means I only need to do about 40 renders total for the rest of the game, can finish the story and later, when ready, I can finish the rest of the renders. I set a month expiration date, we have all the time. Going to check it on a bi-daily basis whether it has shifted or not and in 2 week I'd say I end the result.
(Don't get me wrong. I'm fine with text based games. Some of my favorites are Inheritance, TiTS, and CoC 1 and 2, but to turn a VN into a text based game is just not a great idea to me. Some may tell me to go fuck my mom and others may tell me they agree, its all up to the person.)
(I would post the poll but I don't want to upset TearStar if its a Patreon/Discord only thing.)
Just a heads up. Currently - even if I wanted to - CANNOT continue working on the game. I just got the news today we are fucked with energy consumption basically tripling down on the prices (it's extremely high now it is). Bit sadge because it's actually wouldn't be too far off - if I got the time and was not tired all the time due to overhours - to due a release but since both night power AND abolishment of energy discount is no longer, it's no longer possible to render for the game. Would make it where each render would cost me a triple AAA game each time (Averaging at 200 renders which is not a lot), just on energy prices. I'm really, really disappointed.......
Fuck 2022 too
(Looking at the state of the world currently, I don't see it getting any better anytime soon, so it looks like more years of waiting, maybe, I don't know. For all I know all the world leaders could stand up tomorrow and announce they plan to stop being stupid and actually fix the world.)
Even more bad news: Posted July 16th.
Gonna run a poll. I had this idea a long time ago before the shit went down. The question is: would you play the story in its entirety with minimal art, that is reused every time. E.g: Everyone has a set of two of each character (some cases 3) and when they talk they appear on the screen. This would allow me to finish the story but no real art/scene setting which can be damaging to the story itself.
Basically: would you play/finish the story as a "text-based" game? It means I only need to do about 40 renders total for the rest of the game, can finish the story and later, when ready, I can finish the rest of the renders. I set a month expiration date, we have all the time. Going to check it on a bi-daily basis whether it has shifted or not and in 2 week I'd say I end the result.
(Don't get me wrong. I'm fine with text based games. Some of my favorites are Inheritance, TiTS, and CoC 1 and 2, but to turn a VN into a text based game is just not a great idea to me. Some may tell me to go fuck my mom and others may tell me they agree, its all up to the person.)
(I would post the poll but I don't want to upset TearStar if its a Patreon/Discord only thing.)
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