Dragon59
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Smarmint
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Haha. Barely! I played some of my parents old records growing up, mostly Elton John and the Beach Boys, but by the time I had my own money, I bought all my music in cassette tapes. Eventually, I saved up enough from my after-school job to buy a compact disk player. Which I think cost about $400,. It was quite an upgrade to cassette tapes. No more rewinding!
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baloneysammich
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I'm not making a case for complexity here, but for example there are the character routes with Fuyu and Himiko, how you handle Christa's secret, whether or not to indulge Nanami's fetish, whether or not you visit Satomi in the club, etc.
In fact, given that they currently track choices with variables like d1d1 (ie. day 1 decision 1), it's easy to find that in D10_11.rpy for example there are over 20 references to previous days' decisions.* Even if the implications are minor or even trivial, they're being used regardless.
* Full disclosure, that seems to be an outlier but it happened to be the first I checked.
Meanwhile, to me the updates sound like the genuine perspective of amateurs who are "trying to solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created it." Granted I didn't start paying close attention to the updates until after reading Skummy's "incompetence defense" and learning that... well, let's just say learning something else that IMO bolstered his case. So maybe I'm guilty of confirmation bias.
Dukez
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Surely they aren't rewriting the engine core to accomodate some storage system changes, which apparently are tied to saves? Like what the... just learn to code properly and be smart with what actually needs saving and what it should do when it opens that save.
They unironically could've started from scratch and just copy/pasted pictures & dialogue text and it would be done MONTHS ago. Heck they could've even changed engines to UE4, learn how that engine works, built a full visual novel system for said game, taken advantage of the Oodle compression for smaller game size on all those pictures as a side benefit (and hopefully UE4's blueprints forcing them to write data smarter) and they'd come out ahead of where they are currently.
I bet they will have even more problems in the future, god forbid if the current coder leaves (probably should've been replaced anyway if that's their solution) and gives them a mess for someone else to try and fix.
They unironically could've started from scratch and just copy/pasted pictures & dialogue text and it would be done MONTHS ago. Heck they could've even changed engines to UE4, learn how that engine works, built a full visual novel system for said game, taken advantage of the Oodle compression for smaller game size on all those pictures as a side benefit (and hopefully UE4's blueprints forcing them to write data smarter) and they'd come out ahead of where they are currently.
I bet they will have even more problems in the future, god forbid if the current coder leaves (probably should've been replaced anyway if that's their solution) and gives them a mess for someone else to try and fix.
locomotor79
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They're trying to rewrite Renpy lmao. Just a bunch of retards.
damn dude, their patrons fell OFF
if they couldn't get an update out for 6k a month they sure as hell aint getting it for 3k
let all software devs learn from this: Learn what people like about your stuff, and then do more of that
you make a gonzo incest porn game, no one cares if you have dynamic porn camera angles (which is nearly impossible in renpy as it stands). They just care if you fuck everyone in a 100 mile radius of the town
if they couldn't get an update out for 6k a month they sure as hell aint getting it for 3k
let all software devs learn from this: Learn what people like about your stuff, and then do more of that
you make a gonzo incest porn game, no one cares if you have dynamic porn camera angles (which is nearly impossible in renpy as it stands). They just care if you fuck everyone in a 100 mile radius of the town
RandoCard3
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How do I get the DM patch for the Valentine Special? Or is the Valentine Special in one of the weeks as a flashback?
baloneysammich
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baloneysammich
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If it's related to the phone, IIRC few people were able to reproduce that and the only option is to ignore.
Still no exact date, or even a crude estimation. That's a classic BlueCat right there.
baloneysammich
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Not entirely fair IMO. Early in the merge process he 1) made it clear he was reluctant to give exact dates because of what happened during week 1 merge, and 2) made several estimations. The fact that the estimations proved to be spectacularly incorrect probably made him reluctant to do any more of that, too.
KnuckleDragger79
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Well, it was a good game wile it lasted. R.I.P. Ecchi Sensei. Off to Recycle Bin Oblivion you go.
It is not in english. can't read it (week 2)
The prompts are not. The rest is in english. So I have no idea what I am responding to.
The prompts are not. The rest is in english. So I have no idea what I am responding to.
An estimation won't hurt, you know. It would be nice even. If they couldn't fulfill it, just communicate it. Be honest, something that BlueCat has been missed all along.
Dragon59
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Given the reaction of people when estimations aren't met, yeah, it does hurt in a way. The traffic here doesn't not encourage one to take a chance with an estimate.