VN Ren'Py Imperial Chronicles [v0.5] [Lazy Monkey]

[TigerWolfe]

On his post about ordering a new PC rig for rendering, majority of the Patrons agreed that he should focus on increasing the update cadence, not on increasing graphical quality. The game is already a looker, it doesn't need BaDIK levels of quality just for us to wait 4 months for updates again. So, in essence, he should put out updates of higher quality (but not enough to actually notice, just a cleaner image maybe) and faster now.

Math tells us that renders for 0.6 will be done in 15 - 20 days, and add a week for testing & spell check, we are looking at a late September release - unless the next dev update has the render speed increase even further.

Hella fast if you ask me, and lovin' every second of it. Give your love to Lazy Monkey!

The ceaseless pursuit of graphical fidelity is silly, and bad for all corners of the games industry. The 4k usage numbers on steam show that it's silly to pursue it too.

Personally I've got 4k monitors but the difference between 4k and 1080 for me, is almost never worth the increased dev time, cost, or compute power to display.

 

[weezal]

On his post about ordering a new PC rig for rendering, majority of the Patrons agreed that he should focus on increasing the update cadence, not on increasing graphical quality. The game is already a looker, it doesn't need BaDIK levels of quality just for us to wait 4 months for updates again. So, in essence, he should put out updates of higher quality (but not enough to actually notice, just a cleaner image maybe) and faster now.

Math tells us that renders for 0.6 will be done in 15 - 20 days, and add a week for testing & spell check, we are looking at a late September release - unless the next dev update has the render speed increase even further.

Hella fast if you ask me, and lovin' every second of it. Give your love to Lazy Monkey!

Yeah I would agree with this. This game is already visually good enough and sure improvements would be nice but definitely not at the cost of speed. If he maintained the current quality and increased render speed that's the best situation imo.

 

[Filipis]

The ceaseless pursuit of graphical fidelity is silly, and bad for all corners of the games industry. The 4k usage numbers on steam show that it's silly to pursue it too.

Personally I've got 4k monitors but the difference between 4k and 1080 for me, is almost never worth the increased dev time, cost, or compute power to display.

I agree in principle, but games like Dreamland are absolutely amazing to gawk at, even at lower-than-4K resolutions.
But that game will get updates every 8 months, which is a massive YIKES from me.

I prefer devs that actually finish games in a reasonable time frame over games that I will probably die before finishing.

What's the use of seeing titties in 8K when even a direct injection of Viagra won't get my wiener up by the time the game shows them to me and I'm playing it on my way to be embalmed for my funeral...

 

[Filipis]

Yeah I would agree with this. This game is already visually good enough and sure improvements would be nice but definitely not at the cost of speed. If he maintained the current quality and increased render speed that's the best situation imo.

That was the consensus on his Patreon, and LM didn't even ask our opinion. So LM fans are already dead-set on LM just focusing on getting IC updated sooner over improving fidelity.

Which is precisely the reason I am his Patron over supporting, say, Dr. Pink and his dating simulator.
Sure, the game is visually impressive and plays like a charm, but I am not waiting half a year (at best) for an update to learn that my chosen LI isn't even the focus of the update. Fuck that shit, gimme more Queen Mother and Elin, please and thank you!

 

[weezal]

That was the consensus on his Patreon, and LM didn't even ask our opinion. So LM fans are already dead-set on LM just focusing on getting IC updated sooner over improving fidelity.

Which is precisely the reason I am his Patron over supporting, say, Dr. Pink and his dating simulator.
Sure, the game is visually impressive and plays like a charm, but I am not waiting half a year (at best) for an update to learn that my chosen LI isn't even the focus of the update. Fuck that shit, gimme more Queen Mother and Elin, please and thank you!

LM is perhaps the most consistent dev I've seen alongside weirdWorld. They stick to these 2-3 month dev cycles and meet them. Shame LM isn't quite as big as others.

 

[Mikee27]

yeah I'd rather he stick with this level of render quality maybe a clearer image with less artifacts, bc every time I see a dev say "oh guys I have a new graphics card or a new PC so now updates will be much more faster" they end focusing too much on visuals increasing the render quality to the point that they start struggle to make renders and updates end up taking longer than even before