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Right! For me Notty brings a
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Hence, why we are here and not everywhere else!
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That's in the line of something I posted somewhere on these forums (too lazy to look up my own post
).BAD developers run out of ideas, look through the requests, and then go around asking "do you want me to add X/Y/Z?".
GOOD developers already have a plan for the game all the way to the final chapter, and IF someone makes a radical suggestion that the developer actually likes, but which falls outside the scope of the current plans, the good developer takes note and considers it for his/her NEXT game, but NEVER for the current.
Currently, there are some big discussions going on about NTR. And one of the complaints is with developers adding it halfway the development process "because some people asked it and it won the poll that was open to literally everyone and his dog."
About a year ago, the exact same discussions took place about futa content, and the exact same thing was happening back then.
Same thing happened with gay content, same thing happened with BDSM (in various variations, upto vore..).
It's quite tempting for a developer to give in, and maybe attract a bigger audience. But, there will always be loyal members of your current audience who feel betrayed. And even those who like or don't care about the change subconciously deem you untrustworthy. On top of that, the game as a whole becomes inconsistent, the addition just won't mesh right without redoing the entire project from scratch. So whatever it is: stick to the plan, save new stuff for the next game.
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Yep, those are hopeless. Short of having warnings bodypainted on the girls I doubt anything can be done about that.
These types were actually one of the reasons why I decided to make the walkthrough. That's possibly all their reading capacity can take, so maybe some of them can enjoy the game with just pictures and the walkthrough. At least it could lower the amount of those that come complaining (or so I thought).
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The big point there being, have a plan before you begin.
I'm working on a project that probably won't see the light of day for another year or more - but I'm actively writing it and squirreling away cash for a render machine. When I do start rendering and putting a final product together the entire story (and all paths) will be written, and the only slow-down at that point will be rendering.
If I'm remembering correctly, that's pretty much what Notty's been doing with H5. The story's already set in stone, and the rest is the rendering.
What this means for me is, I can start writing on another project while one is rendering (if the one doesn't kill me - and I already know what it will be). I believe that's what Notty may be doing re: the Scarlet Pirate game - she's plotting and writing now, while rendering H5. The bonus for all of us is: another Notty game close on the heels of the finish of H5!
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You know full well that that would draw complaints about ruining the girl's bodies with paint!
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Those of us that back at the level for the extras know full well what we are getting!
Something else may be coming soon too; Thea may have gotten herself into all sorts of erm, stuff.
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Or writing like:
Chris: "Squeeze my tit if you're into femdom, you want to be dominated, and you want me to dominate you."
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Yeah that is the point you should not just add cause of requests, but you also should not take out parts of the story, since you might offend some people. Both are in a way equally as bad, the only thing we can ask of a writer is to tell the story they want to tell. Up to us then if we wish to follow that story or not.
Besides how could you ever think that might lead to Chris wanting to dominate you, completely a surprise.
Besides how could you ever think that might lead to Chris wanting to dominate you, completely a surprise.
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The good news is, you don't really need a beast of a render machine (like some try to make you believe at the DAZ forums). Notty's been rendering on a 4 or 5 year old videocard. A few months ago, I was actually rendering on my CPU, which is REALLY slow. Don't bother with SLI, everything points to NVidia phasing it out anyway. A new RTX2080Ti is better than an RTX2070, yes. But that 2070 which costs less than half as much is sufficiently fast for most people (including professionals!) already.
It's probably more beneficial to already start rendering "fun stuff" (I render backgrounds for my mobile phone, for example). Getting nice lighting can be really hard, so do practice already! Working out how to make your own poses (much cheaper than buying them), how to make clothes fit properly (especially clothes for other model generations), there's a lot to figure out before you want to publish something.
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To them I would say: you do realize that you are playing a Visual Novel, right? Novel: as in lots of words... to read... not "spam the space bar and hope for nudes.
Yeah, I am in much the same boat, been working on things for months, and if I am luck, I might have something to show for it by the end of the year.The big point there being, have a plan before you begin.
I'm working on a project that probably won't see the light of day for another year or more - but I'm actively writing it and squirreling away cash for a render machine. When I do start rendering and putting a final product together the entire story (and all paths) will be written, and the only slow-down at that point will be rendering.
If I'm remembering correctly, that's pretty much what Notty's been doing with H5. The story's already set in stone, and the rest is the rendering.
What this means for me is, I can start writing on another project while one is rendering (if the one doesn't kill me - and I already know what it will be). I believe that's what Notty may be doing re: the Scarlet Pirate game - she's plotting and writing now, while rendering H5. The bonus for all of us is: another Notty game close on the heels of the finish of H5!
My last story took me 3 years before I published the first chapter, and then several months of editing.
Tell the story you want to tell, and the right audience will find you.Yeah that is the point you should not just add cause of requests, but you also should not take out parts of the story, since you might offend some people. Both are in a way equally as bad, the only thing we can ask of a writer is to tell the story they want to tell. Up to us then if we wish to follow that story or not.
Besides how could you ever think that might lead to Chris wanting to dominate you, completely a surprise.
Chris dominating someone?!? Parish the thought!
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That actually sounds like an awesome minigame.
Gotta make sure to disable the rollback key for that part though.
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Oh, I'm playing with it lots. I've already got the models sorted - took lots of tweaking from available models to get what I wanted. I'm working on poses and lighting as I go - although rendering strictly CPU (on a Mac) so anything more than 2 characters (no background) and I can forget it. Trying to render an entire scene (background, emissive light sources, etc) I can let it go all night long and only have a grainy mess that might pass for a "magic eye" print.
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I bet at least 50% would still got it wrong (for them). They'd stop reading after the "tit" part if not earlier.
You could try rendering the elements separately and then use an image editor (gimp, photoshop, paint.net) to merge the renders. For example: each character on a transparent layer, then the scenery. Only issue would be the lighting...
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I disagree a bit. I think having patrons participate in the development is not a bad thing. However, they shouldn't take over.
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Yeah, scenery is where it craps out for me - tried to render a room, killed it after 9 hours and still having only a grainy mess. Whatevs - I can still set scenes up, including lights and cameras, do some small spot test renders for levels and tuck them away for when I build a render box.
But enough of that - what's the latest from Thea? Is she still terrorizing Patreon or has she moved on to another target?
Wait, am I Thea Lundgren and don't know it? I have derailed the thread a bit without meaning to, or did I mean to?