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For the game the developer wants the engine isn't the best one.not bad, but try to reduce number of passages, you have 300 in version 0.0.5, at thousand twine becomes slow and laggy, you will not be able to develop project
HTML Lust for Life [v0.52 Public] [MartinDrake]
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This feels like a bit of a lame excuse. Mega lets you down load 3-5gb with a free account on a bad day, on a good day you can pretty much download as much as you want. Plenty of games on here are +3gb. The key is you have to have an account with mega (which requires minimal details to set up), if you try to download without an account you hardly get anything.
Sounds like your issue is video size? there are 4 main ways other users have got round this,
1)convert to webm and or use less frames
2)When possible just supply whats changed (this is what most Devs do with large image/video folders)
3)As above but make it available as a torrent.
4)I had a fourth but can't remember what is was ...
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I tried to convert videos to WebM, but the result was bad, the quality was even worse. The videos I see in most other games are, on average worse. "The Company" itself has much lower video quality. In any case, nothing is definitive. If a choice is not appreciated, I can always go back or find a better one. Besides, my videos are longer than the average of the other games, so I have to lower the quality if I don't want to exceed the size of the game excessively.
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Good to see that your open to feedback. Again as stated don't worry about file size. You can always just release updates. And with mega/nopy/google/etc. Filesize isn't that much of an issue.
My problem with the video quality is that you went better than gifs of the games you mentioned and then went back.
you must try to change video bitrate (eg.1024), unfortunately, it takes some time, don't give up, keep pushing forward, again and again
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This could be an interesting solution.
The rewards that I currently intend to reserve to the patrons are early access and the page with the Cheats. And they will be activated from the first release of April. The best video quality is not an essential requirement that I want to dedicate to them. I reduced the video quality because I read in several other threads that games that are too wight are not appreciated. So much so that many create their compressed version.
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Yes you see that with mostly renpy games. But then players still have the option. Again I hope you will change this decision. Plus it would be easier for you
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Ok, based on the advice you have given me, I try to find a better solution for the next release that does not require a reduction in video quality. If you think subsequent updates are a good idea, I could do it like this.
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If you look at SOB (Son of a bitch), that over 12gig now. Imagine you had to download that every update...
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Before the latest compression crunch wasn't it like 20???If you look at SOB (Son of a bitch), that over 12gig now. Imagine you had to download that every update...
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It was a lot bigger yeah, but it grows with like 500mb-1gb every update..
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On a side note, so that's 500mb-1gb a year now. Just frustrated about the slow development with that game.
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If he got back on track, it would been closer to twice a year. But as he now running the show solo.... not sure it would.
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You made it farther than me. First few days and nope, deleted. To grindy for me.
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It was kinda used as an example of how he could do updates to this game. Rather than scale back on quality of images, as gfx assets grow larger. Just give option to release content updates for people to download, rather than the entire game every time there is an update. (and then it went a bit off the track).
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I like this game, hope you don't drop it before it gets more content like so many other devs do. Also you handled players working around stealing the cheats perfectly and even managed to find another way to give a little extra to your pledges. However you chose to do HTML and 90% of the time, this works to cheat HTML games and this one isn't in the 10%- https://f95zone.to/threads/how-to-debug-or-cheat-twine-sugarcube-variables.6553/
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It is true, with HTML, changing the attributes of the game is very simple. For this reason, in my Cheats page, in addition to changing the character's stats, I will add the possibility to select a specific quest for each character, to immediately advance to a particular quest or go back to replay it. This from the Developer Tools is almost impossible. Also, with the next versions, I will add more features related to that page.