VN Ren'Py Completed Galactic Limit [Final] [Hold]

[ChaosDMNS]

This topic has 27K views at the time of writing the comment. How many of them do you think signed up for patreon? Zero. Yes, indeed, a great help from piracy.

None of those 27k would ever have even heard of you if not for it posted here.
So you haven't lost any sales. You've gained free publicity.

Do what all the other developers here do. Give your patreons something extra. and let them get new content early.
And use this place as a way to advertise.

It works. Some of them earn a shit load every month this way.

Trying to stop piracy isn't possible. ppl have tried since the 80s. With little success.

 

[jakhmonument]

Meh. CGs are nice, models are actually edited instead of base slider garbage you see 9 times out of 10 but there's like 20 lines of writing total and 0 interaction to worth calling a game.

 

[phupdup]

Don't bother playing with the text speed in preferences since the script.rpy overrides ALL of the dialog with hardcoded cps values. Also to be really annoying, there's about 10 different values in use throughout the script, so a global search and replace isn't going to work. Change everywhere you see cps=xx to cps=0 to lose the stupid teletype effect.

 

[Habawa]

its not really a game, but it looks fucking amazing.

 

[apple8000]

I think if the artist arrives in the actual thread saying their work has been shared without their consent it really should be removed?

Most games on here are made serially, meaning the devs make money via subscriptions, e.g. Patreon. This one's a one-shot, and the devs say there's no significant benefit to publicity. They know their own sales &/ business model better than we do.

I'm going to pay for a copy on the website. We all love these games, but the devs can't make them if they have to work at CostCo five days a week.

 

[Hold]

Don't bother playing with the text speed in preferences since the script.rpy overrides ALL of the dialog with hardcoded cps values. Also to be really annoying, there's about 10 different values in use throughout the script, so a global search and replace isn't going to work. Change everywhere you see cps=xx to cps=0 to lose the stupid teletype effect.

Why does this annoy everyone?
First, this effect is skipped by clicking the mouse, and second, it is not so slow, it sets the pace of the dialogue.

Maybe everyone doesn't like the {w} waiting tag, because you can't just skip it with a click. In future versions, it will be used much less.

I remember playing a game where there were hundreds of boring dialogues that I intentionally skipped and you couldn't miss "cps", but this is not the case here.
What's the matter?

I'm really interested.
Also, the game is adjusted for Auto-Forward (press F), I passed it several times in this mode and I did not have any irritation.

 

[Habawa]

Yeah this game is more to the point, which I like. Some games can really overdo it with the dialogue. Its very rare that porn makers are also good writers lol.. Lots of dialogue may be good in games where there are meaningful decisions and preferably only in the beginning of games where they are still setting the scene/building up to the "fantasy".

Disagree that the maker doesnt get anything out of offering the game here on these forums. Piracy is everwhere. It will happen with everything, one way or another. At least this place provides credit to the maker, links to his patreon, and gives him the opportunity to participate in discussions. This game is also posted at other places but with little to no credit. In the sea of garbage that are these kinds of games, I know now that this guy is quality, and if I see something he makes I know its gonna be good and if he keeps up with good content I might support him. Thats what publicity is for right?

 

[Beggarman]

There are many studies that show piracy does not hurt creators. This was often the complaint back in the Napster era, by the movie industry, etc...I hear those are still kicking.

I've seen quite a few of those studies and do broadly agree with them, but I don't think they apply to the porn market as much as they do the mainstream one. A lot of piracy happens because people 1) Can't pay (can't afford, no usable distribution method, legality (if living somewhere repressive)) or 2) Won't pay (dislike of someone involved, political opinion, etc) but porn has a lot more people who 3) Do not want to pay. There seems to be a lot more of 3) for two reasons, at least as far as I can tell.

The first is that porn is pretty devalued - like, if you're into writing, pictures, or videos, there's a ton of content out there for free - and this creates a situation where people don't really expect to pay for it. People rarely think twice about not paying because they don't usually have to, and they probably won't think about it unless they think kinda deep on it.

The second is that porn's something people want/need to hide, and that extends to having evidence that you paid for it. If you have to look this stuff up on incognito mode and hide your downloads in a hidden folder or passworded zip file, I'm betting you don't want it showing up on a credit card receipt either, especially if you're in a relationship where finances are shared.

(I would also add that more convenience helps things too, even if people don't realise it, but that's kinda on a middle ground atm. Anecdotal evidence on my own half says that putting it on easy-to-use hub platforms like Steam made my purchases dramatically increase, but not enough games have moved to those and for long enough to see if there's a measurable effect?)

Why does this annoy everyone?
First, this effect is skipped by clicking the mouse, and second, it is not so slow, it sets the pace of the dialogue.

Maybe everyone doesn't like the {w} waiting tag, because you can't just skip it with a click. In future versions, it will be used much less.

I remember playing a game where there were hundreds of boring dialogues that I intentionally skipped and you couldn't miss "cps", but this is not the case here.
What's the matter?

I'm really interested.
Also, the game is adjusted for Auto-Forward (press F), I passed it several times in this mode and I did not have any irritation.

Personally - I read fast and process the scene in my mind based on the visual and the presented text. Pacing is handled automatically by the character I'm imagining and any indicators in the text. But I'm not imagining things in perfect time, like playing a video. Sometimes I'll be thinking of a scene almost in fast forward. Other times I might mentally replay it to get a certain emotion right or savour a feeling. If the text comes up slow, it takes me out of that presentation of the scene while I wait for the text to appear. It's like an actor having to pause after each line to check the script. It runs more like a novel where I don't have to fill in the visuals than a video where I'm filling in the blanks.

That said, I'm way more interested in story and, while your renders are good, the game's not really "for" me. I'm willing to bet that at I liked at least a few of the games you said had "hundreds of boring dialogues" for those dialogues, so... I dunno, feedback from more visual-focused people may be more useful for you.

(also I did find that clicking to "skip" didn't always work but my computer's been troublesome lately so I couldn't tell if that was a hardware or software problem)

 

[Deleted member 225296]

Is this dude (developer) serious?

Downloaded just the image pack to confirm my suspicions from his "muh piracy" rants. It only has 2 scenes, with static images and both being pretty much the same position (only one position each scene and they are super short).
Asking for 10$ and still bitching about "piracy". Again, another case of a bad overpriced product blaming "piracy" for shitty sales.
You've far better and longer ANIMATED 3D videos for FREE available on places such as Pornhub; I don't want to "play" this "game" even for free, much less throw $10 for something that someone can put together within an hour or so.

Here is an actual porn GAME that is worth the 10$ it asks for:

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[phupdup]

The problem with "intentionally skipping" the teletype effect as you put it is that you double the the number of mouse clicks or keyboard enters that are necessary to go through the content. Also the reader then gets conditioned to hit as soon as the text starts to display and that can often cause them to skip dialog accidentally and then forces them to rollback. It ruins the flow.

Why does this annoy everyone?
First, this effect is skipped by clicking the mouse, and second, it is not so slow, it sets the pace of the dialogue.

Maybe everyone doesn't like the {w} waiting tag, because you can't just skip it with a click. In future versions, it will be used much less.

I remember playing a game where there were hundreds of boring dialogues that I intentionally skipped and you couldn't miss "cps", but this is not the case here.
What's the matter?

I'm really interested.
Also, the game is adjusted for Auto-Forward (press F), I passed it several times in this mode and I did not have any irritation.

 

[CortoMaltese]

The women and the graphics are perfect, but unfortunately the story is too short. With a longer plot, her looks and her way of enjoying big things, Valeriya would be the superstar of all games for me.

 

[Hold]

The problem with "intentionally skipping" the teletype effect as you put it is that you double the the number of mouse clicks or keyboard enters that are necessary to go through the content. Also the reader then gets conditioned to hit as soon as the text starts to display and that can often cause them to skip dialog accidentally and then forces them to rollback. It ruins the flow.

But the speed of the effect is 0.2-0.3 seconds. When the user reads the first word, all the others will already appear.

The user will only click if they intentionally want to skip the entire text. But if the user doesn't want to read, can they just look at the image set?

I understand what you are talking about, but it works if the text is loaded for a second or more, but there is no such thing.

Can someone give me a piece of the script that is most annoying?
Because I don't have a problem with it, so I don't understand.
At the same time, I played about ~50 games from this site and I understand that text delays are not good.

But specifically here, it is fast, 0.3 sec text will appear even before the user clicks the button to skip this text animation.

I think you're complaining about {w}, it can't be skipped, it was a mistake to use it so often. But what about {cps} I don't agree.

 

[phupdup]

I suspect it depends on how the reader reads and maybe how young they are. Those who were brought up to read dense words on dead trees and learned how to quickly skim tend to want to process a whole paragraph at once. Anything that forces them to scan one word forming at a time ruins that and they consider it annoying. That's one of my pet peeves with authors of VN who only put one sentence of dialog out at a time when their text box was dimensioned to default to something that could hold 3 or 4 lines from the same actor with ease. Younger people seem to not like this and trot out the "walls of text" complaint whenever they see more than a single sentence at a time.

But the speed of the effect is 0.2-0.3 seconds. When the user reads the first word, all the others will already appear.

The user will only click if they intentionally want to skip the entire text. But if the user doesn't want to read, can they just look at the image set?

I understand what you are talking about, but it works if the text is loaded for a second or more, but there is no such thing.

Can someone give me a piece of the script that is most annoying?
Because I don't have a problem with it, so I don't understand.
At the same time, I played about ~50 games from this site and I understand that text delays are not good.

But specifically here, it is fast, 0.3 sec text will appear even before the user clicks the button to skip this text animation.

 

[Hold]

You've far better and longer ANIMATED 3D videos for FREE available on places such as Pornhub; I don't want to "play" this "game" even for free, much less throw $10 for something that someone can put together within an hour or so.

This is the stupidest criticism I've ever heard in my life.

If you can create 140 images with good graphics in a couple of hours (not the pixel soap you showed as an example), then do something as similar as possible to this game/Image Set.
I'll pay you $ 1000. Seems pretty good for a couple of hours of work, right?
Dare.

 

[Deleted member 225296]

This is the stupidest criticism I've ever heard in my life.

If you can create 140 images with good graphics in a couple of hours (not the pixel soap you showed as an example), then do something as similar as possible to this game/Image Set.
I'll pay you $ 1000. Seems pretty good for a couple of hours of work, right?
Dare.

Pixel soap? Whatever that means... The game that I'd showed as an example is an Unity 3D game using cel shading and real-time 3D rendering... Again, are you serious, dude?
But if you want a Ren'Py game with pre-rendered renders and photorealistic models from Daz3d, here:

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$14 bucks and one sex scene has more content than your whole "game".

But hey, keep flooding the adult gaming market with overpriced crapware and then bitch about muh piracy.

P.S. I am a programmer, not a graphics designer, which you would know had you looked at some of my post history. In any case, your images are pretty much the same shit, which means MANUAL labour could be done within a few hours, regardless of how much time the renderer needs to generate those images.

 

[Hold]

I am a programmer, not a graphics designer

Unfortunately, writing AHK scripts is not programming, no matter how you think.

Any fool can open Daz and render images, there is no need for any specialized knowledge, let's just a couple of hours.

About "Being_a_DICK", the author has a powerful patreon and the f95z platform itself is advertising for him, steam is an additional source of monetization, the main stream is patreon.

I will not study in detail what the game is, because some noname wrote nasty things. But I assume that the author releases episodes of 100-200 images in 1-2 months for a subscription of the patron. Moreover, most of the images are SFW content.

My "game" is completely NSFW content. It's actually just a comic with a renpy cover.

Well, I don't know why I waste my time on this answer, because I can see from your comments that you like games with graphics from 2000 with a huge pile of meaningless grind. You don't understand anything.

 

[Abadd0n]

it looks amazing but there is no gameplay at all. It was also way too short (10 mins at max) and wasted potential.

 

[Deleted member 225296]

Unfortunately, writing AHK scripts is not programming, no matter how you think.

LOL, I've uploaded a total of 1 AHK script in here, and you know, I am on other adult oriented forums aswell. I rarely interact with this one.
My LL account for instance:

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I've probably put more work into those Skyrims mods, which involve Papyrus scripting, C++ and x86 assembly than you ever did for this "game" of yours, didn't paywall them and released their source code.
Also, all my adult forum accounts have random names attached to them as to keep my privacy intact, as such, you don't really know who you are talking to and my programming experience.

Any fool can open Daz and render images, there is no need for any specialized knowledge, let's just a couple of hours.

Any idiot can write Ren'Py "games". This isn't anything like the days of modding the Quake2/3 engine, where we had to write our whole mod in C89 and dynamically link with the engine at runtime.

About "Being_a_DICK", the author has a powerful patreon and the f95z platform itself is advertising for him, steam is an additional source of monetization, the main stream is patreon.

You also have a Patreon, your point?
DPC released his entire season 1, which contains 4 episodes, for 14$; no Patreon needed for you to purchase that.
And the advertising is the same one you are getting and complaining about, but since his game is of a much greater quality (and it's actually a game), his work has garnered a lot more attention than your slideshow.

I will not study in detail what the game is, because some noname wrote nasty things. But I assume that the author releases episodes of 100-200 images in 1-2 months for a subscription of the patron. Moreover, most of the images are SFW content.

LOL, just read the changelog for his LATEST EPISODE ALONE.

v0.5.0
Added Episode 5 that includes
2456 renders
157 animations

My "game" is completely NSFW content. It's actually just a comic with a renpy cover.

But the games that I've mentioned have more NSFW content in one scene than your whole "game". Your point?

Well, I don't know why I waste my time on this answer, because I can see from your comments that you like games with graphics from 2000 with a huge pile of meaningless grind. You don't understand anything.

I guess my Skyrim with over 200 mods also looks like a 2000 game by your logic. Also, what grinding? BaDIK doesn't have any and Last Evil only has grinding for unlocking scenes in the gallery and practically just for defeat scenes, since you can get the others in one or two playthroughs; level-wise, I've reached max level a while ago, while I still need to complete my gallery.

But yeah, I don't understand anything.

 

[GrimCreeper3]

Any one know the monster asset?

 

[Hold]

Any idiot can write Ren'Py "games". This isn't anything like the days of modding the Quake2/3 engine, where we had to write our whole mod in C89 and dynamically link with the engine at runtime.

As if I'd denied it?
In any case, I'm still waiting for a hundred high-quality images with just one slightly modified scene each time, which can be done in a couple of hours plus rendering time.