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Yes@Palmer Are you going to merge all chapters at some point?
Yes@Palmer Are you going to merge all chapters at some point?
@RustyV Because I want anyone that wants to play the game is able to. Believe me, I get enough (actually even more) feedback from paying patrons than from people after a chapter becomes free. Also, at the same time I have to fund a full development studio that spends A LOT of time on all of our games. Plus, we are currently expanding to release 3 games for $10, which means even more people in our dev studio (12). There's currently no other creator that does this on Patreon for that money. If I did this for cash I would release exclusive Patreon content for $20, or not even release the games for free at all. I have released every single game I have made for free. Hope that answers your comment.Why do all versions eventually get released for free? I do not know, maybe palmer reads this thread and knows we play his gave for free so after he makes his money he gives it out because he values the satisfaction he receives from people playing his game too. Unfortunately money pays more bills than satisfaction.
This is just speculation I may be completely incorrect in my assessment, you'd have to ask palmer.
cracked are online versions.Yes I know this may be a dumb quetion... and here I go. Are the cracked the offline game? I don't have the net hooked to my home computer, I DL to my cell then drag.
Almost all have voice over, believe only 5th chapter doesn't.Does the cracked version have the voice overs or do we need to pay to his patreon site to get that?
Yes. Can't wait to see how MC and daughter makes this work (if they can).@RustyV Because I want anyone that wants to play the game is able to. Believe me, I get enough (actually even more) feedback from paying patrons than from people after a chapter becomes free. Also, at the same time I have to fund a full development studio that spends A LOT of time on all of our games. Plus, we are currently expanding to release 3 games for $10, which means even more people in our dev studio (12). There's currently no other creator that does this on Patreon for that money. If I did this for cash I would release exclusive Patreon content for $20, or not even release the games for free at all. I have released every single game I have made for free. Hope that answers your comment.
Plenty of games manage not to break previous saves in a single game file, and it could just as easily have been fucked up with this release model. The reason it isn't is that previous saves have largely no effect on the story, not that the chapters are individual programs.
And this means you cannot replay previous chapters without quitting and starting up the previous chapters, you can't change a previous decision and skip ahead to a further point without problems (again, not a problem for this game where choices don't matter, but that would be fatal for most other games).
Literally the only argument against single-executable games is a large download size, which is a very weak argument, as a) there are almost always compressed releases available and b) even assuming you have a shitty connection... so what. You waited a month for a new version, can't wait another hour or two to download it? And if you have a fast connection, it's just another few minutes...
And not to mention that setting up incremental downloads would also be possible for single-executable games, if people cared to do it. Most developers don't, and as a consumer, neither do I.
Tl;dr, this release model is very annoying. But there will be a single game in the end, apparently, so it's only annoying for those among us who can't wait that long. And for this game in particular, I can put up with it.
A bigger issue is that it's not Ren'Py. The game controls are just awful. But that's another story...
I'm not familiar with your other 2 games. What can you tell us about them?@RustyV Because I want anyone that wants to play the game is able to. Believe me, I get enough (actually even more) feedback from paying patrons than from people after a chapter becomes free. Also, at the same time I have to fund a full development studio that spends A LOT of time on all of our games. Plus, we are currently expanding to release 3 games for $10, which means even more people in our dev studio (12). There's currently no other creator that does this on Patreon for that money. If I did this for cash I would release exclusive Patreon content for $20, or not even release the games for free at all. I have released every single game I have made for free. Hope that answers your comment.
If you are asking how to use those saved backups then there is a guide in the OP(1st page) under "How to import saves".Where do u put the saved backup
cracked = onlineso. .. aree these offline versions or online??