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CurtimusPrime92
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Fuzzy Nuts J
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In my opinion, this is the only developer who does not provide any figures for rendering or the number of animations, and it is not clear at all how much is left until the release or at what stage of development the game is.
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As of Chapter 5
- 26,544 Story renders
- 200 Animations
- 397 Sound effects
- 200,000 words of dialogue
- 50 bonus renders hidden throughout the story with a gallery to view them
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JJ1960
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There are lots of developers who don't post that information.
pitao
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Specially not here, they have their own channels of communication I guess, plenty of times are members that bring that info from devs discord channel or patreon or any other platform and post it here, a few devs do it too but it is less common.
JJ1960
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I know of several that don't post numbers on Patreon either. Some are quite big and others are smaller devs. Others post progress numbers but don't give a scope or scale of what the final counts are expected to be so without context the numbers are not entirely helpful unless someone wants to count up prior releases and compare. That's not entirely relevant as a particular update may be significantly larger or smaller than prior ones in terms of rendered assets and lines of code/dialog.
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All I've ever found is that posting numbers are largely irrelevant. Just like you said, if using the numbers to compare against prior chapters in the same VN, it doesn't mean much because the type and structure of content in one chapter might differ from another. And if using the the numbers to compare against other VNs well... that's completely useless because every dev is different in terms of technique, style, and personal lives. It's a terrible metric for comparison.
So I've always found that render counts only serve to create false expectations and illogical comparisons, and they open the dev up to constant criticism from malcontents that find nothing better to do in their day than to bitch about development time. Frankly, I like how digi.b does it with his behind-the-scenes look at what he's working on. I wish more devs would do that, honestly. At the end of the day, the update will be ready when it's ready and we'll know when release dates get announced.
jonnyd901
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Who cares since he gives weekly updates and previews. I can think of another dev that does the render updates and it's been 2 years and still no sign of all those promised renders in the updates. You can't rush quality and you just know with DigiB when it drops its going to be good
ShatteredEnigma616
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I feel like I might know who you refer to. But I seem to have dropped my brain so I can't remember....lol Also I agree completely. digi.b has never let me down. Not once. Always top tier.
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ShatteredEnigma616
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This is not a criticism, but simply an observation that it is not clear at what stage the episode is
jonnyd901
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Well if you read the updates every week you will find out that he was trying to get it out before xmas that would be a clue to stage the episode was at
Hey guys I'm a few episodes into the game, I was wondering do we have to lock in a relationships with a girl and start dating them yet. Or can I just romance all the girls without consequences?
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So what happened to this game? Is it abandoned? It feels like the last update was ten years ago