I actually think the opposite would have been better. Instead of making every release a new part of a larger game, maybe that should have treated each week as a stand alone release. That way they could improve each week as they go, instead of worrying about fixing the problems with the older stuff in order to intergrade it with the new stuff.
Sort of a Catch-22.
Wait, I thought Latecomer was on the project from near the start? They've been answering dev questions since Day 2 came out, with seemingly "insider" knowledge on the project.
He wasn't the main coder in those early days, the original coder is unnamed and why the first three days needed redone originally, then it was Boom, before Late took over I think in week 1's merge, and has been working on improvements and the like since then.
That depends on continuity, if your personal preference matters
Isn't that what already happens tho? It does makes sense to an extent, but keep in mind that issues with older versions likely need to be fixed in the new ones anyway.
I'll put your last point into perspective, there's this company called Black Lilith making this series of VN called Taimanin
Actually it would be pretty easy because all choices were tracked with variables such as d1d1 (day 1 decision 1) and so on.
Well, let's take a look at that really quick:
Bluecat has a bunch of features he wants in the game that are not standard to Ren'py and probably shouldn't have been tried without more experience. Frankly, this is why I tell new devs that they should make a small game first before trying something more ambitious. But it's his game and once the merge is complete it all should work and saves should transfer between weeks. That is the main reason for the merge and why it's taking so long.
In this case breaking the game up was necessary. Day 1 (not week 1, Day 1) on release was over 2 Gb and had more content than most completed games at the time. Each subsequent day has been roughly as large, although thanks to better compression and coding have been much smaller in size. While there's not a lot of branching, the current 21 days are probably enough to put this in the top 3 biggest porn games. There's also some bugs with some of the features that can crash the game when trying to transfer saves, so breaking it into weeks wasn't entirely by choice.
The character info is my favorite feature of the game as well!
Two problems with that, one the update has to play nice with the merge, so it has to be done first before anything new is released. Two? You'll have to replay the whole game anyways, this whole thing will be incompatible with anything previously done of course, therefore you wouldn't have any degree of variables loaded into the updates properly until you first played through Month 1, and to do that, the Merge must finish.
That sounds like a pleasant problem to have. Much enjoyment!!!
They are there. They're just poorly named. Click "Show previous versions" and it will show you all the past patches.
Go to the Lewdpatcher page and click on 'Show previous versions'.
