Does anyone have the status report posted on the 29th June for this please?
Ecchi Sensei - Month 1 - Status Report No. 22
Hi Guys!
It's time again to bring you up to date, and therefore, there is again a status update on the current events.
First of all, I don't intend to give anyone false hopes - I still cannot, in good conscience, announce a date for the release of Month 1 - BUT... We are closing in to the finish line, and the entire Ecchi Sensei team is optimistic that it could be ready soon.
At the moment, we are working on the subtleties of a number of features, such as the impeccable functionality of the character information page and its translations in all the languages we offer for the game.
The same applies, of course, to the calendar, which has also been optimized a bit on top.
Bottom line, every existing feature has also been significantly reduced in terms of "weight." That means instead of 20 MB for the calendar, we now only need 5 MB, even though further functions and languages have been added.
Of course, the image quality doesn't suffer in any way because of it - we have simply replaced most of the unnecessary graphics with code.
For those of you who have no idea what am I talking about:
Instead of creating the same graphic four times in four different languages, only one graphic is used, and the different languages are added by coding.
These thinning measures affect all existing features and also core elements of Ren'Py itself - such as the main menu. As a result, we have so far been able to save over 1 GB of "unnecessary" graphics, which will simply be omitted in the future and thus not only reduce Month 1 in overall size, but of course, this procedure will also apply to all subsequent updates of Ecchi Sensei.
I know that some people have already lost patience, and I will once again officially apologize for the extremely long waiting time when Month 1 is released - although it is probably me who suffers most from the delay.
I finally want to produce new content again and let you all be part of what the future holds in Ecchi Sensei.
There is a lot you can look forward to. The previous experiences in the game were only a small foretaste of what's to come.
But I'll tell you more about that another time.
With this in mind, I would like to thank everyone who continues to believe in Ecchi Sensei. Your encouraging words that have reached us in the last few weeks gave us strength, and we will do our best to deliver a good final product in the form of Month 1 as soon as possible.
So long,
Blue
Well if it's any consolation, I did decide to just step back again until the tester versions are being given out to testers pretty much. So no more postins tryin to fight back the tidal wave of negatives, though once I get a good prompt, I'll be back with questions.Well, I come back every few weeks or so to see what is happening with Ecchi Sensei, and sure enough the once every 2.5 month status update is out.
Skummy, honestly, I would just stop defending Bluecat for now. I know you mean well, but it doesn't help you, it doesn't help him, and really, I don't think it is convincing anyone, sorry to say.
Those that have faith, for their own reasons, will always believe the best of Bluecat and what he is doing, and assume he is hard at work all this time, and that he is just bad at communication.
The rest of us, just want a date, whether this month, next month, 3 months, something. We have all been asking for a specific month target for the last 8 months. Still nothing. So far all we have gotten is vague non-targets.
I agree that this status update was more detailed than most, but the details are more troubling than the vague statements. Can it really take months of hard work to translate character cards? I mean, what is it, one paragraph per character? I think at this point, we would all be happy with Google translate, and just move on. And reusing the images in the menu for the different translations? That is what Bluecat wants to lay out there as his team's big accomplishment? It is better to just say, "honestly, we haven't done much, and you all have no reason to trust us after all that has happened, but we are committed to work hard on ES from now on, and you can all expect the merge to be released in August (or whenever)". That would be more honest, and actually useful information for all his paid supporters. Or, Bluecat could just show his Patreons some of the new content he has been working on all this time, according to you. That would mostly satisfy most of us. Compare that to Braindrop, who has a similar delay for his game, but has consistently explained what is going on and regularly releases teaser renders to keep the fans happy during the long delay.
A clear statement about what work is left to do, a rough estimate of the time needed for the major tasks, and a target month for the merge release (which still has no new content), would be much welcome. Any other dev will do this for his fans, especially after such a long delay. But we have all been asking for this for the entire time.
Well, I come back every few weeks or so to see what is happening with Ecchi Sensei, and sure enough the once every 2.5 month status update is out.
Skummy, honestly, I would just stop defending Bluecat for now. I know you mean well, but it doesn't help you, it doesn't help him, and really, I don't think it is convincing anyone, sorry to say.
Those that have faith, for their own reasons, will always believe the best of Bluecat and what he is doing, and assume he is hard at work all this time, and that he is just bad at communication.
The rest of us, just want a date, whether this month, next month, 3 months, something. We have all been asking for a specific month target for the last 8 months. Still nothing. So far all we have gotten is vague non-targets.
I agree that this status update was more detailed than most, but the details are more troubling than the vague statements. Can it really take months of hard work to translate character cards? I mean, what is it, one paragraph per character? I think at this point, we would all be happy with Google translate, and just move on. And reusing the images in the menu for the different translations? That is what Bluecat wants to lay out there as his team's big accomplishment? It is better to just say, "honestly, we haven't done much, and you all have no reason to trust us after all that has happened, but we are committed to work hard on ES from now on, and you can all expect the merge to be released in August (or whenever)". That would be more honest, and actually useful information for all his paid supporters. Or, Bluecat could just show his Patreons some of the new content he has been working on all this time, according to you. That would mostly satisfy most of us. Compare that to Braindrop, who has a similar delay for his game, but has consistently explained what is going on and regularly releases teaser renders to keep the fans happy during the long delay.
A clear statement about what work is left to do, a rough estimate of the time needed for the major tasks, and a target month for the merge release (which still has no new content), would be much welcome. Any other dev will do this for his fans, especially after such a long delay. But we have all been asking for this for the entire time.
Eh. Let him claim whatever. It's doesn't actually matter whether it is or not, as long as there a good amount of content, which there is.I know Bluecat claims this is already the biggest and longest visual novel. But I wanna just say it now Lessons in Love is updated more often than this shit and is catching up pretty fast.
Yo deadass that came to mind, LiL has been picking up good lately.I know Bluecat claims this is already the biggest and longest visual novel. But I wanna just say it now Lessons in Love is updated more often than this shit and is catching up pretty fast.
I guess that it would prolly be the ones labeled "week 1 final" , "day 8 - 14 final", and "day 20-21 Final" but thoseA question here i wanna install dark mind patch but there are a lot of version for each day and all of the files have same name I mean how can I have all dark mind patch in one for every week please help
This is correctI guess that it would prolly be the ones labeled "week 1 final" , "day 8 - 14 final", and "day 20-21 Final" but those
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Thanks brotherI guess that it would prolly be the ones labeled "week 1 final" , "day 8 - 14 final", and "day 20-21 Final" but those
are just guesses...
No release in July. Maybe an update in August that specifies a planned release in mid to late september.So, what do you guys think? Do you think we will see anything released in July? August? September?