Has it? Jeez .. I'm seriously tempted to write my own game with this fetish
Without a joke, this build with those features is weekend job for competent coder at max! and now with AI ..
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Without a joke, this build with those features is weekend job for competent coder at max! and now with AI ..
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Well, I'll be honest, the demo is a good example of what to not do. Especially saying it's just enanched AI, because trust me, if someone told me " this is something an hack took all the images from the first game, tossed it into an AI learning folder, spit it out and added 2 days of coding " I would 100% believe it.Has it? Jeez .. I'm seriously tempted to write my own game with this fetish
Without a joke, this build with those features is weekend job for competent coder at max! and now with AI ..
The demo cost 22$ probably because if you actually played it, you wouldn't spend one cent more. The mechanics are not explained at all, there is no sense of daily progression but it's more a click on events, and spoilers, the best way to play is to NOT click on all events and take your time, so basically DO NOTHING (fun!), infecting yourself is actually a malus and you are basically babysitting two bars for images an AI can spew in a minute and 300% more dicks now.
The fact you can actively permanently remove some character from the game out of a bad dialogue choice (and one good choice is AN HIDDEN BUTTON) is frankly hilarious, and best part? Saves are not bugged. The game doesn't check the flags of your save on load, but ON DAY PASSING, so just skip to the end of the day and you get your save
.And before you defend this with "new engine, not expert", guy is asking 20 DOLLARS for this. If you needed to learn, don't do it by scamming me.
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I'm noticing a pattern when a dev working on their passion project game does a complete revamp/engine upgrade before the original game is finished. It's really funny to me that seemingly every game im interested in is at the point were the dev is bored(?) with their game and decides to toss it into the dumpster and start again.
Theres a few, one that I like is Slugs N Bugs
https://f95zone.to/threads/slugs-and-bugs-conversion-v0-8-7-public-anaximanes.25679/
The same author has a few other games similar to parasite as well. Give them a try!
The original game had a bit where you could get mind controlled at the very start, and without your input you just zombie complete the first chapter. That was unexpectedly kinda fun.
Then it was removed.
Then progression got weird in a loss of focus way.
This release is a appears to be a cumulation of that uncomfortable loss of focus. Almost an underlying of a vision manifested only in their consciousness, unable to transfer it to share properly with others. It gets caught up in weird messaging... weird even for this kind of thing, and instead kinda pops into a mess of half-rants, and half-finished code, and obvious shortcuts.
It appeared they can make the thing, but the cost of entry to learning other systems is too high, their goals perhaps too high, set expectations too high, and there's an underlying hubris even in the game itself that communicates that if things were as the author could envision it, all things, everything would be perfect. It gets preachy: instead of showing what is happening, instead of telling what is happening, it tells you why something is happening. All the time.
Definitely came across hard in the post on pricing, claiming that anything less is incredibly undervalued in a way I can almost envision them beating their chest as they said it.
I do think that if they can separate the completed saga as it lives in their mind from the process of actually creating it, and have some self reflection, there could be something there. A shame it's likely not meant to be.
Then it was removed.
Then progression got weird in a loss of focus way.
This release is a appears to be a cumulation of that uncomfortable loss of focus. Almost an underlying of a vision manifested only in their consciousness, unable to transfer it to share properly with others. It gets caught up in weird messaging... weird even for this kind of thing, and instead kinda pops into a mess of half-rants, and half-finished code, and obvious shortcuts.
It appeared they can make the thing, but the cost of entry to learning other systems is too high, their goals perhaps too high, set expectations too high, and there's an underlying hubris even in the game itself that communicates that if things were as the author could envision it, all things, everything would be perfect. It gets preachy: instead of showing what is happening, instead of telling what is happening, it tells you why something is happening. All the time.
Definitely came across hard in the post on pricing, claiming that anything less is incredibly undervalued in a way I can almost envision them beating their chest as they said it.
I do think that if they can separate the completed saga as it lives in their mind from the process of actually creating it, and have some self reflection, there could be something there. A shame it's likely not meant to be.
Bro is apparently deleting posts from people expressing disappointment in the A.I. usage on the itch end. Boy, that's sad.
I still can't get over the 22 dollar price tag, I mean, there's online ai services out there that give you unlimited image and text gens for that kind of cash for gods sake, if you didn't want the gameplay you could make your own stuff in an hour.
so there is a clarification from the dev that the 22 dollar is a one time purchase and will be getting future update as well ( no need to pay again).
in my perspective of someone who always pay for new version out of "principle" or whatever reason, it is much cheaper that way.
but it is a "trust me bro" situation because there are no way of knowing what their update cycle is or if they will ever finish the game which 90% of porn game never reach the ending before the dev gone for whatever reason or if it will suffer a remake again.
in my perspective of someone who always pay for new version out of "principle" or whatever reason, it is much cheaper that way.
but it is a "trust me bro" situation because there are no way of knowing what their update cycle is or if they will ever finish the game which 90% of porn game never reach the ending before the dev gone for whatever reason or if it will suffer a remake again.
I liked the concept of the original game and especially liked the port to RPG Maker, where you can move around the world and do your dirty deeds) But looking at the release of the second part made me sad, I remember the developers showed the first demo where you controlled a worm and could enslave others by getting inside, and here's a counter question, where is it all? I haven't played the second part yet, but I've seen a lot of screenshots of the game where it stayed on the level of the first. As I understand this time there are a lot of pictures made with the help of AI and now the narration should be deeper and more detailed, if we tried to visualize it in our heads. I don't condemn the pictures made with AI, but the price of 22 dollars scares me off and negative/neutral reviews of players who bought this game contribute to that. I guess I had inflated expectations for the game's release.
This AI from my understanding is a little different, from how they phased it when they announced the shift to AI is they were using the original art to train since the artist they were using left then out to dry and they couldn't find someone willing to replicate the art style within a similar price range hence the shift to AI which they apparently fend to an ai to mimic as best they could the original art.
Granted this is just me going off the post I saw by the dev and can't back up any claims. If you want to fact check me without Patreon then look em up on kemono
The devs said they updated the game to v1.01, would you be able to update your link?
With the massive gap in updates, if I was a backer I'd expect a lot more from a sequel. The dev's strength is probably writing scenes and he's spent a lot of energy working on this lora. The weakest part of the game was the mechanics and grindy progression which he was experimenting constantly. He should have focused on his strengths and switched to something like Ren'Py for a straight VN. It would be easier to justify the retail price.
Ren'Py could have worked but he could have still kept some the mechanics but it would have been easier to work with to implement, at least the original HTML version of the game because most of it would have worked the same but Ren' Py would have done most of the coding for them
Ohhh, maybe its more like an old ARPG where the elements of the game play out in reality?
