I would say the adage doesn't hold this time. There are some pretty hefty file sizes here. Never mind the fact people keep using uncompressed HD realporn for their text based game made in Twine.
Well, precisely because it's arcane magic.
Yet there's people who don't understand this. There's even one that needed four answers before he achieved to do it right... or decided to quit, I'm not even sure what of the two apply.
Well, a chance that it's something that never ever happen here, since uploader have the obligation to provide at least three different hosts for each version.
This is just the continuation of the same argument of the past 50 years of consumer use of PCs, BBSs, and the internet.
Let's not get hasty and say no one does, not a huge amount of devs but I wouldn't put it past the sleazier ones to do that.
Include it in the patch? Same as in the full version. It's not that hard (in Ren'Py at least).
The only reason why a developer could want to intentionally inflate their game size is to make it appear as if there is more content than there actually is. However, after the first several downloaders comment about no content, that pretty much cancels out the possible attempt at subterfuge. Otherwise, there's no reason why a developer would intentionally inflate their game size. They get no reward for doing so. They don't get paid by the megabyte. If they pay for hosting (such as the larger developers) - it costs them more for footprint and bandwidth with their hosting company if they have larger than necessary file sizes.
I honestly agree, I don't think I've seen unused images in any game except that which can attributed to "left because scene no longer exists but something cold get fucked if removed" because I wouldn't be surprised if that happened. I just also hold the opinion that we can't say no one did it because I don't have enough faith in human intellect to not see all the cons.
Yeah, but at 95% webp compression the differences are almost always extremely difficult to spot. I don't go lower than 95% though, for that reason.
You can compress images by somehwere around 90% with minimal loss in image quality. So compression makes a huge difference for images. I find that it's less effective for video than it is for images but it still helps. The bigger issue for video is that the starting file sizes can be so large that even with compression it's just not manageable. The real porn game I'm working on right now is sitting at a file size of almost a terrabyte without compression. There's no way you could expect to actually distribute something like that (and I have no plan to try).
I misspoke, sorry. I meant compressing the image by reducing the resolution.
Yes and no.
Which resolution to render at is an interesting question. Personally I think 1920x1080 is the sweet spot since most people run 1080p monitors and there's enough detail there for it to still look fine for people who have higher resolution monitors. Rendering at 4k takes longer and most of your fans probably won't see any benefit from it compared to 1080p so to me it's not worth it unless you have an absolutely top of the line render box that is fast enough that you don't really care about the difference in render times.
Rendering in 3840x2160 vs. 1920x1080 is quite a big difference in quality and detail, especially if you use post-denoiser. I agree that it takes more time, but if the developer cares about the visuals, he is able to sacrifice that time, and in the end, it is definitely worth it.
I'm not disputing the quality difference between 1080p and 4k. My point was that since most people are going to end up downscaling to 1080p since that's the resolution their monitor is using (regardless what resolution you set the game at), the extra quality of rendering at 4k is mostly lost on them.
