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Is it just me or is there a delay in between stuff (advancing time, sofa, engaging in anything)?
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- Dec 17, 2017
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Welcome to latency when round tripping to his (not at all dodgy) server in Russia!
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If DS wanted to couldn't he use another (international server)? or could he do away with server and still have patreon login?
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but than...Russia's tech is so old, they probably don't experience a lag/delay or to them the server there is fast
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This constant connection DRM is so stupid, DS is shooting themselves in the foot. I support certain devs on patreon only because i was able to play their full game, up to the latest version, and then wanted to support the continued creation. I, and i'm sure most other people, wont support a dev without trying the game first and restricting access just means that people won't support them. Especially as DS had a massive game and just abandoned it.
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Sure he could, but he hates pirates (ironic that he has a bunch of unlicensed, ie pirated, images in Glamour), so he's doing his best to keep his game from being pirated. Never mind that his income shot up due to the exposure the pirated version of BB got here.
Same here. And I won't pay to play it unless I know it's good. I had such a roller coaster ride with liking, disliking and then re-liking BB.
When we started developing our game we decided to apply zero effort towards anti-piracy. The fact is, people are gonna crack it. All the time we would spend trying to keep up with that arms race, we could be working on making our product. And when people make mods and stuff for our game, we consider it flattery. "Hey, someone liked our game enough to actually spend time changing it in a way they find more enjoyable." It's kinda cool really.
If people like your game, they are going to support you. Simple as that. (We actually wouldn't mind if more people pirated our product) It helps get the word out. With each new forum we discover our game on, we find new patrons coming on board. Exposure is everything. And when you hide your game behind too many ridiculous measures, you are limiting yourself.
- May 28, 2017
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This might be the most succinctly accurate description of the Big Brother experience I've ever read
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Obviously, and by t(hat I mean OBVIOUSLY, all the server-hosted nonsense is a clear attempt to curb piracy, which is extraordinarily ironic coming from a Russian game developer using pirated images throughout his game.
HOWEVER... it's kinda cool that when he updated the inventory function, for just one example, all I had to do was launch the game, wait a few extra minutes, and then it was there. No downloading new versions. Updates are delivered and bugs are fixed in real time. Am I a fan of a playing a game hosting on the dev's potato of a server?! Fuck no! But on the other hand, some things about it are kinda convenient.
So, maybe (MAYBE?!) it's not 100% about anti-piracy and maybe (MAYBE?!) it's an earnest attempt to improve the experience of following a game where all you need to do is launch the exe file and everything else takes care of itself.
(maybe)
HOWEVER... it's kinda cool that when he updated the inventory function, for just one example, all I had to do was launch the game, wait a few extra minutes, and then it was there. No downloading new versions. Updates are delivered and bugs are fixed in real time. Am I a fan of a playing a game hosting on the dev's potato of a server?! Fuck no! But on the other hand, some things about it are kinda convenient.
So, maybe (MAYBE?!) it's not 100% about anti-piracy and maybe (MAYBE?!) it's an earnest attempt to improve the experience of following a game where all you need to do is launch the exe file and everything else takes care of itself.
(maybe)
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The issue with a small development house is that effort directed toward piracy mitigation is effort directed away from the actual game. Art suffers, story suffers, mechanics suffer. Just take a look at how long it's taken DS to develop Glamour out to where it is right now and contrast that with the development of BB (granted, I haven't followed BB since it's start, so I'm going out on a limb here.)
Exactly. People who don't pay for the game can still drum up attention for it, which works even better if you're focusing your attention on the game instead of mitigating piracy. Two words: Dark Cookie.
lol, no.
RenPy supports periodically checking in with an
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and downloading game resource diffs over HTTP or HTTPS in a more efficient manner than the system that DS has come up with. This is complete before the game even loads. Since there are no legitimate game functions that would require connectivity with a server, it's clear that this architecture and potato server are only for piracy mitigation.
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But...he's got it hosted in Russia. Not using AWS. Which gives crappy performance for the rest of the world. Plus, his download server is flagged as porn, which makes filters reject connections. "Hey, let's limit our audience!"
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AWS can be shit at times too. The problem is putting a POST request right in the middle of every action in the game. Great for ensuring someone has to be connected and authenticated for every little action. Not so great for the overall game play experience.
Edit: Another issue may be that he's also running his content downloads through this server, based on the server headers, through the same node.js application, which must also be doing wonders for game action latency.
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Sure, it's a longstanding truism on network games that you do as much on the client as you can (security notwithstanding), and bundle up your communications to have fewer big packets instead of many little ones. Networks used to be so bad that a fix for bunches of small packets was added to TCP - see
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. Sadly, I see many inexperienced devs doing the exact opposite. They assume since their connection to the server right next to them is fast when they send 20k small requests that everyone's is.His server is probably running on a single mediocre machine, so when a bunch of requests come in the poor core2 duo laptop's Apache server gets overwhelmed. Not very well designed - these guys are coders, not software engineers.
Just decided to give this game a proper try for the first time even though I've been a patron since Jan or Feb(just to show my appreciation for BB), and female protagonist games aren't really my thing in general (although I have played one or 2 FP games that I've found somewhat enjoyable). The game has been pretty bad so far. Constant dialogue that doesn't really go anywhere and no real sexy scenes. This game is nothing like BB. The art is really well done and the game looks nice overall those are two good things I can say about it. Also, I wasn't really aware of the always online thing, I don't want to support that especially for a game that I don't even think is good. I'm going to drop my pledge, hope DS reconsiders the always online thing and keep a lookout for his future work because I know he can make good games.
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Midnight snack (0.7)
Patrons only
Sep 19 at 6:50am
P.S.: today is 19th, so $5 Patrons get access to 0.6.
P.P.S.: We know about server issue and working on fixing it. We might have to change hosting. We'll keep you updated.
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Today I want to tell you about some of our long term plans. Every month we plan content for several versions in the future. Sometimes we do everything on time, sometimes we don't. This is why client has some images of the future content.
But our plans aren't just about future events, dialogs, and characters. Here are some examples.
Male protagonist
We're thinking about adding male protagonist in the near future. We also decided to add some rudimentary story, he won't be there just for the sandbox elements. Some dialogs and events will have to be changed up a bit, of course. For example he won't be too shy to change in front of his classmates. Instead he's going to seduce Julia. Also, male protagonist version of Julia will have a girlfriend and main protagonist will be helping Julia on her journey of self discovery.
We planned this from the beginning, so technically it won't be as complicated and we won't have to change too much code to implement him. You may wonder how are we supposed to do all this work? Well, we have a new member on our team, who is going to work on dialogs and events. We're sure we'll be able to make even more content now.
You'll be able to see male protagonist if you start a new game in 0.7. You won't be able to pick him yet, though, we haven't actually implemented him into the game yet.
Offline version of the game
We're not promising anything, but we're seriously concerned about ping issues and possibility of our server going down. We're thinking about moving all server logic into the client without changing the current structure too much.
Maybe we'll return to our old model, client will automatically download updates from our server, but you won't need an online connection to play.
Steam
As some of you might have heard, Steam now allows adult games, which opens a lot of opportunities for players and developers. We'd like to use their services too, of course. We might have to change our economic model for it. For now we're looking into legal matters and I'll tell you more once we have some news.
That's our plans. Don't ask us "When?" and we won't tell you "Soon™"
I'll tell you more about our plans about 0.7 in one of the future post.
Better late than never, he started to see that tormenting your paying patrons is not a good idea "again", hope he'll not make the same mistakes "again" (but I doubt that).
Now, next step is reviving the BB and to continue it simulteniously with Glamour. Too much wishful thinking?