No and about rpgm you need port the entire game to that format, "HBOX" did that and no idea how
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Speaking as someone that started and left game dev between 2010 and 2020. Yes. Very heavy analytics are common in any sort of title because there are now 3rd party plugins made for unity and unreal which will trivialize the implementation of such and it is childs play to link it up to a microsoft azure or cloudfront AWS backend. Since most modern windows PCs are already making call-outs to AWS or azure, the end user wont even see anything unusual about it in their network traffic.
Unity just came up with an in-house solution, even.
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You can learn a lot of things that are useful to making games better through these tools. Change your UI/UX for the inventory system? You can literally get hard data on if players are spending more or less time in your game menus instead of playing the game. Wanna see how long people are staring at the tool-tip for a core ability because you are worried that your wording isn't clear or intuitive? It can tell you that too.
As far as the fact that piracy helps spread awareness. I'm over 40. I'd agree with that sentiment in 1990. Even in the 00s and 10s. Now it is the internet age. You can watch anime girls playing all the indie games you've never seen before. You have dozens of review channels on youtube, lets-play videos, let's break the game videos, let's be the world best hardcore players on twitch, etc. There is even hentai game reviews on the porn sites.
Saying pirates pay game developers with attention, when it is never been easier to get said attention, is a bit like telling an artist that they should be happy to work for free because it'll give them lots of exposure. If you would think someone is an entitled ass for saying "I'll spread the word about you, so give it to me free." the logic is only 1 step removed from "I'll spread the word, by the way, I'm not giving you an option."
I'm cool with piracy as I said before, however, I'm not going to convince myself it's a moral gray or that it stands to benefit the original creator to a large degree. It's offering them the artist no pay exposure deal without the right to refuse that an artist has.
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That's very interesting! Thanks for sharing
About the awareness, I'm pretty much of the same opinion as you 100%. My line of thought was more about the game's "reach" i guess. It's difficult to explain, but I imagine that in terms of "potential buyers", people who found the game in 3rd party sites and downloaded for free most likely wouldn't ever buy the game if buying was the only option. And in the same way, I imagine that most people who found the game on itch.io didn't go out of their way to play the game without paying. For that reason it's quite sad the dev wasn't able to get the game greenlit on Steam, specially since the game seems very high quality actually. If it was me, I would try arranging a japanese translation of the game (easier said than done, i know) and try reaching a bigger audience selling on DLsite and hbox.
Well, I agree with that point too. A lot of big companies will complain about "missed sales."That's very interesting! Thanks for sharing
About the awareness, I'm pretty much of the same opinion as you 100%. My line of thought was more about the game's "reach" i guess. It's difficult to explain, but I imagine that in terms of "potential buyers", people who found the game in 3rd party sites and downloaded for free most likely wouldn't ever buy the game if buying was the only option. And in the same way, I imagine that most people who found the game on itch.io didn't go out of their way to play the game without paying. For that reason it's quite sad the dev wasn't able to get the game greenlit on Steam, specially since the game seems very high quality actually. If it was me, I would try arranging a japanese translation of the game (easier said than done, i know) and try reaching a bigger audience selling on DLsite and hbox.
If piracy was made impossible tomorrow, I'm not going to start buying these games. There's some level of plausible deniability that comes with downloading a game. You can say your wifi was hacked. It was a guest band on your network. A visitor must have done it. Maybe someone hacked amazon sidewalk and used your doorbell to piggyback on your network.
There's no getting around having DLsite charges on your credit card every month. No saving yourself from the bad PR if your steam credentials get exposed in a dataleak and it shows you had 20 or 30 very questionable hentai games. I'm not a missed sale. I'm not going to leave a paper trail of furry vore games behind me.
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I believe we are witnessing a change in paradigm about all this stuff, in pretty much every "non physical support" industry.
Two logics overlapping, and countering themselves as well as synergizing
Seeing how fast streaming and the tip culture have become mainstream, I think the coming years will see the fall of many unfair logics we were used to, and see some kind of "gratitude buisness model" emerge and become more and more natural.
This or transhumanist - cyborg - dystopian future. But I would opt for option 1. Mankind is not that dumb
Terms might be unprecise and i would have loved to develop further more but I lack the level in english xD sry.
It's definitely an angle to consider. You have a game like wildlife that's barely making progress on the game portion of their product and they're pulling down heaps of renewable cash. I'd bet there are some supporters who have put in 100$+ and yet some of those same supporters would flatly refuse to pay 69$ for a new game.
Games as a service is at part of the future. The gratitude part, I dunno. I think the main reason patreon exists is because it turns out it's a very useful way to outsource your payment processing for SAS. If not for it, these indies would have to sign binding contracts and negotiate with stripe, visa or mastercard themselves.
Thank you very much, with this advice I was able to go past day 33... I must say that since it didn't go past day 33 I found several ways to unlock some scenes early if I could give some advice it would be to raise the confidence to 200 as soon as possible, it can be done achieve before the 20th, because bathing with the sister greatly increases all the statistics.
Why does it say $67,720 on the pic but you can literally go to their patreon page and see that it's at $13,880? I mean, combining patreon and subscribestar revenue amounts gets you to $14,660, which is still a very enviable amount. But what's up with this misleading image?
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That's a very good question.
I just checked again to see if I'm going crazy and nope, same amount. I can only assume it's using my local currency, even though it's set to USD at bottom of the page.
Thanks for the heads up though. I'm a bit relieved actually, not that $13k is a small figure but it's much more believable than 67k. It left me contemplating my life choices for a while...
I'm convinced froggybob12 is an undercover Kagura employee in this thread and he's the one who is going to steal the translation Shade made and mello's decensor mod so they can use it in their version. This is a canon event,
I would try to tackle and eat a live fucking moose for $13k a monthThat's a very good question.
I just checked again to see if I'm going crazy and nope, same amount. I can only assume it's using my local currency, even though it's set to USD at bottom of the page.
Thanks for the heads up though. I'm a bit relieved actually, not that $13k is a small figure but it's much more believable than 67k. It left me contemplating my life choices for a while...
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For some reason, Patreon's currency button is slightly broken. It shows the actual value of whichever currency is chosen at the moment, but always shows USD at the bottom of the page. If you choose Hong Kong Dollars, it shows 108k a month, and still states USD at the bottom. Either way...I'm suddenly a lot more disappointed in that game. I played it a while back, and thought it was a good work-in-progress game for an indie maker, and the slow pace done during free time reasonable, but 13k a month? And it's still not finished after almost 3 years...? The content feels a lot more mediocre with that viewpoint suddenly added. One month alone could probably pay for all the art currently in the game, 2 for a higher end artist. And they complain that only 7% are monetarily sending money every month for an unfinished game? It's as bad as battle passes and micro-transactions from money-hungry AAA games.That's a very good question.
I just checked again to see if I'm going crazy and nope, same amount. I can only assume it's using my local currency, even though it's set to USD at bottom of the page.
Thanks for the heads up though. I'm a bit relieved actually, not that $13k is a small figure but it's much more believable than 67k. It left me contemplating my life choices for a while...
Now that the dlc is finished, do we know if they are working on a new game? And if they are which game it is
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DLC is still in progress. ETA is end of year at the moment.
Oh I didn't knew that it was still not finished. It's good to know since it means even more content
Guys, after the first tournament (where finals) i lost first match, and then, some shadow guys appear, and then black hole, i couldnt defeat that, and i achieved bad ending, how should i defeat this thing with 5k hp?
at that point you should be strong enough not to lose first match. And i think at some point you get help against black hole if you do well enough. ( although i don't remember which route i was at that time)
Just do new game + and try winning all story battles - you will get different route (although battle against black hole will be same )
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There's the DLC that Inusuku is working on. and I don't consider the translation done yet either, as I will be translating the DLC, and fixing up the last bits of the main game too.