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It'd be the ideal I reckon. Or even just use one as a render slave for the animations whilst I did everything else on the other.
But we're a way off having to worry about that right now. Let's see what the future brings and then decide.
I was going to say, I thought with the new options, we were expanding, not contracting!So far
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Oddly enough this is something I've been giving a lot of thought to - and something the testing phase has crystallized.
C3 is huge. The section before the free-roam has taken somewhere between two to four hours alone to play (path depending) and ofc then we have freeroam and then the evening choices - and each of those are substantial by themselves. The poor testers have been at it for days and there is still (as of last night) content they hadn't found/played.
So whereas at the moment it seems as though I take an age to release anything and we've had a four month gap since the last release - in actually C3 is easily the equivalent of six months, if not more, monthly updates of other games and, given the stage I'm at in terms of support etc, I need and want more exposure in order to get the kit I need. If I'm going to make the 4,000 frame ani's I want, I need more power.
So I'm going to be going to a modular process instead. Releasing the chapter in parts as and when distinct modules are completed. I suspect there'll be a small gap between the release of Three and the first part of Four but after that I'll be kicking stuff out every month.
I'll work out the details post C3 release.
She mainly asks us: "did you see x scene?" "have you fought the dragon?" "did anyone go back to talk to x after y happened?"
On our side, what we do is play the beta as much as we can and raise flags when there's a missing image, a script error, some switch that didn't trigger, etc.
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Don't worry, I just tried to use an example without relation with the game not to spoil anyoneWait ! What ?!
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Nope. For two reasons.
Mainly as I want them to experience it as players would. If I give them a list I don't really get a feel for things like whether the tutorial explains things properly; or the new mechanics being easy to understand; or understanding what players will try to do. H5 isn't just a VN and I treat the gameplay aspects very seriously to the extent where I will keep re-working mechanics to get them as good as I can for the player.
Dropping them in at the deep end gives me a pretty good understanding over whether the game works as a game.
Secondly, it's bad enough they have to spend hours playing this without it being polished. If I gave them a list then they'd have no surprises, discoveries etc. It would be like seeing the Terminator 2 trailer, before seeing the film.
But as Huitieme says I nudge them afterwards to check things they've missed/not experienced.
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that exact line left me curious..
oh and Huitieme please don't slay dragons; we've almost ran out of them by now!
stupid mammals always go for them dragons first.
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If those medieval cartographers didn't put "here there be dragons" everywhere maybe they wouldn't be so easy to slay.that exact line left me curious..
oh and Huitieme please don't slay dragons; we've almost ran out of them by now!
stupid mammals always go for them dragons first.
Remake is good but there's going to be a whole chunk of content coming in chapter 3 which releases in the next few days so maybe wait for that and get in on it.
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After some tweaks from playetesting etc, it looks like 1,745 stills and 52 animations - which isn't too shabby. Largest single animation is 1,750 frames.
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It may be time soon to dust of my big silver mirror for Notty's evil glares again.What you don't see is behind that smile is a cackle