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I know! That was great. I want to see more pirate action now. There is a lack of pirate VNs.
It seems like it must have taken forever to make that entire pirate scene, with the motion, the spinning propellers, cute costumes, props, and custom logos.
Naughty: Just curious as an aspiring dev (someday), how long does it take, roughly, labor time to make a short complex scene like the pirate ship sequence?
Great models! Unique and realistic, not barbie girls! Very interesting.. 
Also, the story! I'm yet to start playing, but I have high hopes for it.
Also, the story! I'm yet to start playing, but I have high hopes for it.
Right, not counting time sunk in creating the models or some of the sprite poses which only needed minor tweaks, but with selecting and test driving outfits, tweaking textures and colors, posing the scenes, camera angles, lighting, dforce runs, baking the HDRIs for the bits with sprites, rendering out multiple passes for the engine movements, fixing those passes as that scene is pushing the vram limit and just spilling over in some cases making it drop to CPU for the last handful of iterations leaving it grainy in some cases, rendering out the sprites, selecting and editing the backgrounds, writing the dialogues, selecting a musical score, editing the images, applying transforms for the animations, adding the images into the text, applying transforms for the zooms and pans, reworking to fix nip-clips and other wonkiness, deciding to throw in a big vignette with the camera panning up and do posing, rendering, editing the image, transforms, etc. for that, going over the whole scene a dozen more times for each choice to get the flow of text and the transforms right and fix typos. I'd say about a weeks' work.
Having said that, no-one says you have to start out doing something as involved as that scene, or even go with sprites instead of full scene renders (which tend to feel a lot more cohesive). Get a first, small project in, so you can actually experience what the process of creating an entire game is. Find out what you feel fits with your style and your workflow, and build on that.
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I stumbled about a (likely) Macy-lookalike for interested persons.
- Mar 23, 2019
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Thanks a lot for the detailed answer. This was one of the most complex scenes I've seen in all the VNs I've played, so I was just wondering how much time something this involved would take. Even though it was short, there was a lot going on.
Thanks for the advice. I will definitely think small to start with.
Yeah, most asian women as well as most non european women are like that. this is why i said the models are probably Latina, because they didn't look asian or afro centric, could even be from the middle eastern arab /semitic world, but they could also be from any ethnicity that's in the mind of the developer. i happen to say Latina because of the dialogue as well,but i've never seen European women un tanned with dark areolas or nips, which was my point, but I know there are exceptions to every known norm.
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i was sad that 0.5.2 only had a tiny thing of new in it.. was praying it did ch5 haha
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Really great game. Can't wait to see what the future holds for updates. Love the models
you use instead of the cookie cutter ones I've seen from a dozen other games I've played.
you use instead of the cookie cutter ones I've seen from a dozen other games I've played.
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Yep, indeed. Also not sure if a professional model or private pics. Because of the lack of credits probably leaked private pictures.
For my first play through I gave them Middle Eastern names (and I was Bob Vegana), but because of the chunky chica ice cream scene, my second playthrough I gave them Latina names.
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Playing this game again after having to reinstall...
"Oh.... Its that day, Isn't it?"
Still breaks my heart...
"Oh.... Its that day, Isn't it?"
Still breaks my heart...
Hi great game cool and crisp graphics differing from the norm...was wondering when chapter 5 or further would be getting a release i would like to know/see how things turn out?
In one year we have 4 releases. If Naugthyroad keeps the same pace, we can gess late August, early September, maybe?
There was a patreon post yesterday saying that he figured out exactly what he wanted in Chapter 5 and has just started working on it.