RIP, no more next generation engine and model for the game who based on hs and koikatsu, hope the mods can still keep the engine alive or the developers may start to change to use other engines.
Yeah, I came on here to find out what the impact of this will be to these games being developed with the HNey Select assets?
I’ve never purchased any of Illusion’s games but my understanding is that the models for games like Pale Carnation and others with these models are derived from Illusion’s Koikatsu and Honey Select.
The copyrights are the most worrisome part of this news for us fans. If Fakku is able to use this situation to cheaply expand their copyright holdings beyond HS Unlimited, it might not be long before Jacob starts trying to acquire new revenue streams. If your assessment of the market potential is realistic, they'd likely do that. Even if it's economically viable or advantageous to enter a licensing agreement with Fakku, I'm worried about the editorial control they'd be able to exert.
I wonder if it's better in this situation if you're wrong about the market, so Fakku decides it's not worth the effort to try to destroy the things we love.
Illusion dying shouldn't really have an impact on the project. At least not in a technical sense. It's not like they have been patching and maintaining HS1 for a long time.
The only questionable thing is who the rights will end up going to and if they will try to exert control over projects made with the studio, like Fakku attempted to do a few years ago.
Illusion dying shouldn't really have an impact on the project. At least not in a technical sense. It's not like they have been patching and maintaining HS1 for a long time.
The only questionable thing is who the rights will end up going to and if they will try to exert control over projects made with the studio, like Fakku attempted to do a few years ago.
I was thinking the same thing. I wonder what would be a competitive offer if Runey, Caribdis, Gil, TD, Jikei, Zanith, Jestur, Altos, Herdone, and ILS all pooled resources? Distributing the risk across all those most likely to be able to recoup the cost seems like a reasonable business move depending on the price.
Then they can become the corporate overlords meddling in the newcomers' work.
I was thinking the same thing. I wonder what would be a competitive offer if Runey, Caribdis, Gil, TD, Jikei, Zanith, Jestur, Altos, Herdone, and ILS all pooled resources? Distributing the risk across all those most likely to be able to recoup the cost seems like a reasonable business move depending on the price.
Then they can become the corporate overlords meddling in the newcomers' work.
If I was in a position where I could divert some of a revenue stream into exploratory investment budgets in the tens of millions, I would totally do this. It couldn't be more than a million or so, could it? Porn IPs in Japan are like salt in American grocery stores, right? Like there's so many that margins are super low... that would be hilarious if our favorite deviant devs suddenly went all Green Bay Packers and owned the means of production XD
If I was in a position where I could divert some of a revenue stream into exploratory investment budgets in the tens of millions, I would totally do this. It couldn't be more than a million or so, could it? Porn IPs in Japan are like salt in American grocery stores, right? Like there's so many that margins are super low... that would be hilarious if our favorite deviant devs suddenly went all Green Bay Packers and owned the means of production XD
If I was in a position where I could divert some of a revenue stream into exploratory investment budgets in the tens of millions, I would totally do this. It couldn't be more than a million or so, could it? Porn IPs in Japan are like salt in American grocery stores, right? Like there's so many that margins are super low... that would be hilarious if our favorite deviant devs suddenly went all Green Bay Packers and owned the means of production XD
It would be awesome, and not an impossible dream to attain. I mean, when a company's closing up shop, they'll sell at whatever price they can get. $100 million or $1: anything greater than zero is a win. Since they're shutting down, it demonstrates to everyone that their core products aren't financially viable, so whoever picks them up should only do it at pennies on the dollar, unless there's a lot of competitive bidding from interested parties.
My suggestion was more like an owners group for a sports franchise, but if we're thinking about using the Packers as our model, they're "community owned". So maybe we should set up a gofundme with a goal of JP¥ 3billion? I'm spit-balling numbers here. Think we can acquire rights to all HS and Koikatsu properties for that?
It would be awesome, and not an impossible dream to attain. I mean, when a company's closing up shop, they'll sell at whatever price they can get. $100 million or $1: anything greater than zero is a win. Since they're shutting down, it demonstrates to everyone that their core products aren't financially viable, so whoever picks them up should only do it at pennies on the dollar, unless there's a lot of competitive bidding from interested parties.
My suggestion was more like an owners group for a sports franchise, but if we're thinking about using the Packers as our model, they're "community owned". So maybe we should set up a gofundme with a goal of JP¥ 3billion? I'm spit-balling numbers here. Think we can acquire rights to all HS and Koikatsu properties for that?
Seems like Veronica and the MC are going into a bar and one of the other patrons there is interested into the MC. So she sends her friend over to sound things out. Could of course also be that the woman in the screen shots wants to flirt with Veronica and just creates a pretense to get rid of the MC.
Seems like Veronica and the MC are going into a bar and one of the other patrons there is interested into the MC. So she sends her friend over to sound things out. Could of course also be that the woman in the screen shots wants to flirt with Veronica and just creates a pretense to get rid of the MC.
I don't know...that depends who says that sentence to whom. Original I thought the woman in the shot was saying it to Veronica about the MC, but you're right: It kinda makes more sense if someone says that towards the MC about Veronica.
As TD said, he and GIL have added 239 statics, 13 animations and 4539 words in the last two weeks. That's an average of roughly 1120 statics, 6.5 animations and 2270 words per week over that period; the overall average is roughly 120 statics, 2.8 animations and 3270 words per week since work on Chapter 4 Update 3 began, Here are the charts for Week 13(ish):
As you can see, progress on statics and words remains fairly steady, while animation rate has jumped up significantly. That makes sense since we're presumably in the thick of Veronica's event so they're probably a top priority. Oddly we're still well below the animation count for Ch1 Updates 1&2, so I'm guessing Tuesday's activities are going to be less animated than the previous days.
If so, it sounds like we're probably looking at a mid-to-late August release if they decide to release the update before tackling Wednesday's activities. I've been assuming that will be the plan (since I'd expect Wednesday to match the current size of the update), but perhaps that won't be the case since TD is still mulling over the cutoff point.
I'm definitely eager to see Veronica's content so I certainly wouldn't complain about a less massive update in this case. Then again I'm also curious to see the likely events on Wednesday, too (particularly what our interactions with Felicia will be like if we aren't on her path), so it's not like I'm unwilling to wait for a bigger chunk of content. But for now we'll just have to keep waiting patiently and watch the numbers tick up until we know what the next move will be.
Oddly we're still well below the animation count for Ch1 Updates 1&2, so I'm guessing Tuesday's activities are going to be less animated that the previous days.
To be perfectly clear, we're not too deep into stage 3 of Veronica's content.
There's still a lot of animations coming, including some that are already made, but we aren't counting in the totals yet. I don't think (with Tuesday alone) that we'll reach Ch4Up1/Up2 numbers, but it might come respectably close. As an aside, some of the animations might surprise people. GIL has dipped his toe into adding some animated flourishes outside of sex scenes, to awesome results.
