Rhastor

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I'm just being greedy though. HH consumes more of my hours than any game on this site, and I'm sure new animations aren't going to change that.
 

Bloodmoon22

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This is the compressed version. Without the current compression, the game would probably be around 90GB. Fitting in over 28k HD images will do that. But I can understand wanting to wait for an even further compressed version. It will have noticeably worse quality though.
It is crazy that you said this game could be around 90 GB. I have Assassins Creed Vahala and it is only 87.2 GB. I am not sure still how your game, which I do like A LOT can be so big when it does not have even half of what Assassins Creed has. This is just an example and I am not talking bad about your game. The size is insane though but I am still looking forward to the rest of your games story.
 

Runey

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The kitchen blowjob animation where her head isn't vertical and she's looking into the camera.
I believe that animation is still in the game? I don't recall taking it out.

It is crazy that you said this game could be around 90 GB. I have Assassins Creed Vahala and it is only 87.2 GB. I am not sure still how your game, which I do like A LOT can be so big when it does not have even half of what Assassins Creed has. This is just an example and I am not talking bad about your game. The size is insane though but I am still looking forward to the rest of your games story.
It was explained a few pages ago. The gist of it is, you only need to download an asset once on AC Valhalla, and it can be reused multiple times without effecting the filesize. But on games that use images instead of 3D assets, each time I want you to see something, it's a completely separate image that needs to be downloaded.

One example is the Garden. Each time I make a new event in it, you need to download those images, even though you've already seen the garden before.
 

anon1012

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May 25, 2018
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It is crazy that you said this game could be around 90 GB. I have Assassins Creed Vahala and it is only 87.2 GB. I am not sure still how your game, which I do like A LOT can be so big when it does not have even half of what Assassins Creed has. This is just an example and I am not talking bad about your game. The size is insane though but I am still looking forward to the rest of your games story.
The problem with size really comes down to one simple fact. How the game are rendered.
In HH every scene is one or more static images (animations/videos are also just a series of images, just a lot of them).
So let's say you want to do something Assassins Creed typical like climbing a tower. Since that was your example game.

In HH the game needs a HD image for every possible position you could be at on the tower climb if you can freely climb it.
These images are pre-rendered by Runey so playing HH requires low system specs to get HD image quality.

AC does it different. Instead of having everything be a full image it makes it's display output up from a lot of small images.
So instead of needing an image for every position you just need an image for the Wall texture. Since the entire tower is probably made of the same material you can just use that same texture over and over to display the whole thing.
You also need a texture for the character and a sky box and some other small textures. How that all appears on the screen is then calculated by your GPU. To get a high quality HD experience you'll need a lot stronger system than for Renpy games.

This is super oversimplified but I hope it answers the question of "Why is a VN so much larger in file size than *random AAA game*?"
HH = Everything is made up of pre-processed high quality image
AC Valhala = Everything is made up of very small images that the GPU stitches together live
 

Bloodmoon22

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I believe that animation is still in the game? I don't recall taking it out.



It was explained a few pages ago. The gist of it is, you only need to download an asset once on AC Valhalla, and it can be reused multiple times without effecting the filesize. But on games that use images instead of 3D assets, each time I want you to see something, it's a completely separate image that needs to be downloaded.

One example is the Garden. Each time I make a new event in it, you need to download those images, even though you've already seen the garden before.
Thank you for explaining it to me. Is there some way to just download the update without having to re-download the whole game?
 

c3p0

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It is crazy that you said this game could be around 90 GB. I have Assassins Creed Vahala and it is only 87.2 GB. I am not sure still how your game, which I do like A LOT can be so big when it does not have even half of what Assassins Creed has. This is just an example and I am not talking bad about your game. The size is insane though but I am still looking forward to the rest of your games story.
As one before also had written. The difference is between the games using Ren'py (or any other similar one) and other using a "real" (real in the meaning that they are cpable of rendering a scene) game engine.

Here the dev render a image, save it in an image file (PNG, JPG, WEBP, ...), you load the the image(s) if you view a scene, same with the animations.

In a game with a "real" engine, the dev made the models, world, etc., etc. You have then this saved on the dics, the hotel, Lin, everyone else, the MC, so on and so forth. For a scene the dev only arrange them and your PC render the scene. So only the information for the hotel, Lin and everyone else need to be on your dics. The scene is then rendered with this information and the description of the scene.

It exist a technique to do that with image too, simple overlay them eg. you have the garden scene with MC, Lin and Jin. You would only need the garden, MC, Lin and Jin as an image. For the scene itself you overlay the garden (background) with the 3 persons (foreground). It can save a lot of disc space, but to do it right is not easy and for every difference (eg. the lighting is different between garden scene 1 and garden scene 2) the dev would need to save the difference or it wouldn't be available and then the scene would lack some quality.
 
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Carbontum

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Jul 1, 2017
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Dude, game is amazing! Can you slow down your dev speed? I even didn't finished previous update:LOL:(don't take it close to heart, i'm kidding). Do you have a plan to place it to steam?
 
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Pitrik

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Oct 11, 2018
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Played finally the update

The new outfits are very cool , especially goth ones.

Android with a rifle is fucking badass and her with Ally is fucking cute ... Hand holding how lewd! You said wasnt a porn game :Kappa:

Harem Hotel never disappoints
 

Alaric1066

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Feb 17, 2018
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I'm stuck with Kali at friendship level 7. Everytime I try to interact with her it says shes at the hot springs, but when I check there she's nowhere to be found. Is there something else I'm supposed to be doing?
 

ButterB22

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Harem Hotel [v0.15 Public] [Runey] crunched

Original / Compressed Size PC*: 9,81 GB / 2,89 GB - Harem_Hotel-v0.15-pc-crunched.zip
Original / Compressed Size Mac: 9,78 GB / 2,85 GB - Harem_Hotel-v0.15-mac-crunched.zip
Original / Compressed Size Upd.: 2,26 GB / 588 MB - Harem_Hotel-v015-Patch-crunched.7z


Download (PC*/Mac): Pixeldrain - - (14 days)

Update Only v0.14/v0.14.1 to v0.15 crunched
Extract and follow the instructions of the "READ_ME.txt".

Download (Update): Workupload - Pixeldrain -


(y)L O A D 'n' L I K E - If you L O A D it then L I K E it!(y) If not, like it anyway!(y) Thanks!;)

This compression is unofficial and untested, use at your own risk.
Compressing process reduces quality and can break the game.

*PC = Win+Linux

Tools:
UnRen v.0.11-old(v2) (VepsrP/Sam@f95zone) - YAC v3.3 (hngg@f95zone) - -
you sir are a saviour of my mac storage
 
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ButterB22

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Walkthrough / Cheat Mods (0.14.1v2 Public)

Since Lain is still MIA, I decided to give this game my Walkthrough / Cheat Mod treatment based off of her original mod.
I have revamped some of her mod work and updated other parts of her mod.

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is this the same as the 0.14.1 fix on the mod page?
 
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Any planned update for the cheat or WT mod?
WT/Cheat Mod for the new version?
Before I get bombarded with when are you / are you going to / .....
YES, I am working on it right now. Give me some time to get it done.
Do even the slightest amount of research before you ask, honestly how hard is it to look at the mod authors posts. Its actually four clicks to find your answer from the home page of the game. This is like the 20th time someone has posted this, the update just came out give the man some time to make it. Though I really shouldnt expect much from some users here.
 
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Strinx

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Dec 31, 2018
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Waiting for some valid torrent since the one I was downloading have errors when downloading and stopped...
 
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