I'm the developer of Lula, I've always preferred to ignore this place.
But... I finally made an account because I think I can allow myself a right to reply.
To begin with, what you call a 'game', is not one yet...
I saw that there were 'reviews' during the very first version when it was just a draft.
Kinda ridiculous to review something that's only a draft, or stuff that's still in development and far from finished, but let's move on..
The first version was several small maps, some of which I had bought on the marketplace without much modification.
From my point of view, there is nothing that can still be considered 'a game'. (This is even specified on my pages and in the project description on the website.)
Since then, in terms of work, I have never stopped. Many things have evolved and will certainly still take different forms if I can still develop them... Which is not a given...
That being said, I have created a lot of things, just in terms of characters there is a lot of work, and they are not simple Daz ports, even if I used the model as a reference, there are so many modifications that there is nothing left that is compatible with Daz, the topology is different, the skeleton and skinning are radically different except for the UV which are still close to the original but still different.
The same goes for clothes and accessories, the vast majority are made by me, and those I bought have also been heavily modified and have little in common with the original sources.
Plenty of assets are made from scratch...
All the animations are also done by me, the idles, movements and sex, no system from the marketplace is used.
There are certainly better things with such plug-and-play systems with mocap too, but we see them in many games so I prefer to do it myself.
That being said, there is not much in common between the first draft version and the work done since then...
And the version you find here is a test version that I released on itch.io.
The main goal of this version is to estimate if the user's PC is capable of running it, because optimization for the rest and performance are similar.
So comments like, "it's too big" are maybe true for this demo, especially because the entire first Lula map is loaded at the beginning of the game, and I didn't specifically empty the map for this version.
However, the version with all the maps and all the developed content will be even bigger than this.
My characters are hipolys, and since they all have differences, it's not just one character on which morphs are applied, when a character, their hair, clothes, are compressed plus the generated LODs we quickly get to 500MB or even more for each one.
Since I have more than 20 unique characters (currently), we can already count nearly 10GB... Plus the rest of the assets, textures, sounds, etc etc...
However, it is 2023, and modern games now use tens and tens of gigabytes, there is nothing abnormal about it.
Also If some people don't like certain things I do, are disgusted by them or anything else..
Well, I think there are many other projects and games that will suit you.
I won't change my plans just because something doesn't suit you.
Other comments like that the 'game' has nothing to do with before...
Well, If you tested the first draft, there was already a view of the beginning of the Owawa map...
This was planned from the beginning. Most of the work I have done has revolved around the Lula part, because it is also the most complicated, but from the beginning, the two universes have been planned.
Hence the title Holestic Adventures, a parody of Holistic.
If you don't know this word, maybe do a little research on what it means, it will enlighten you on why there are these two worlds / universes.
I also have a website for those who want to know a little more or have questions, it might be wise to visit it to get a better idea, rather than speculate or wait for answers from people who don't seem to be aware of what is being achieved.
There is a description of the project and what is planned, devblog and links to the places where I post videos of some animations of the project.
Psicomaniaco
It is clearly defined that these are previews, so if I create all of this, it is ultimately to be in a release, otherwise what would be the point?
However, on the server, you arrived and immediately started complaining about this demo, which I also had released in anticipation of a new one for supporters... But you hadn't even read what I was doing, like the majority here, you don't try to understand anything. If I whine, I remember how you raged, I had to show you my posts with this content so that you could finally admit that it was correct on my networks... You was excited about what I was cooking but rage as kid because it was not directly in the gane as 'mister' want it usable directly.
So yes, you supported me two months, but after the tax charges earned me less than $15 over 2 months... It's going to pay for long hours of work for sure... Wonderful it changed the turn of this project and allowed me to hire 2 devs... pfff
The time I have already spent working on this has mostly been out of my own pocket, I sold absolutely everything I owned to be able to dedicate time, and despite everything, continue with just a few hundred dollars a month... Plus, you were always saying yes, I have to continue, etc.
You're just revealing your true face and your deceitfulness here... You're no better than the haters here, in fact, you're right where you belong... You even told me that you had been a dev in the past and since it was a failure, you never had the courage to continue, in my case, I always continued... You see the difference between someone like you,
a coward, and someone who is breaking the head and taking all the risks to do something again...
What do you hope for? To have mountains of updates and everything done in record time? I am capable of doing the work of 10 people but not at the same time. And again, it is not and will not be thanks to someone like you that this project will be realized, just like the majority of people here...
So yes, I hate this site, I have had bad experiences in the past, there is no reason that could make me like it, not you or others like the one a little earlier who openly announces that he will cause me problems. And yes, if I had hundreds of supporters and plenty of funds, I probably wouldn't care if my stuff appeared here. But that's not the case, unlike you and others here, there are other people who have really helped to keep the project going...
Also have get many random people over time, and most of them was not even to support the game, but because they liked the videos I post elsewhere.. Ultimately I have see more random people to give something for my videos than people coming to help for the game...
But most people who support me since a while understand what I am doing, I post enough previews to show the work that I am doing... They know very well that it is with their help that I have been able to hold on for so long, and they will definitely have something, even if in the end it could be just a last memory... Some people deserve to receive this work, but certainly not here.
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