Ren'Py Abandoned Power Vacuum [Ch. 12 Official] [What? Why? Games]

[dartred]

A big negative is the ever increasing dev time, and a rather unfortunate side effect in terms of production visuals is the What If speeds had(?) increased and is on pace to outnumber Main updates in the future. I even was a patreon supporter for a while, but it does get on people's nerves when it takes six months to get the main game while the What Ifs are released much more often.

The increase in time is because the chapters are getting bigger. We are getting more content per update.

What if speed has NOT increased. It has always been 1 per month ever since it released. It WILL outnumber main updates, because that's how it works when 1 updates every month and the other, roughly every 5 months.

We need people like you to stop spreading misinformation and adding fuel to the fire. that's why this thread got locked up and cleaned in the first place.

Again, for clarity. He works on main game a certain amount each day. Then, when he is done and has free time, he works on what ifs. The what ifs are not causing main game to take any longer then before. The increase in development has started before what ifs were a thing, because the dev is making each chapter longer.

 

[Heitcaho]

What if speed has NOT increased.

You're right, my memory was a bit off and I even donated a dollar just to go check dates and outside of a repost I believe it has been every month my bad.

Assuming work started directly after update 9, the pace is set about 13.5 to 17% give or take every month according to the numbers on Patreon. I don't know the number of renders 10 will have and I can't find how many Chapter 9 included so you may have those numbers which I don't. The game has set a pace of around 6 months if 10 comes out in May which I saw some people say.

Two updates a year, unless the render count increases dramatically is what caused me to pull out. That is my point and a lot of people will either not listen or disregard render increase and probably got real hyped to see an update just to be disappointed.

And it got shut down because of insults involving those 3 letters from what I could discern, not me or anyone stating the update time is slow.

 

[dartred]

I don't know the number of renders 10 will have and I can't find how many Chapter 9 included so you may have those numbers which I don't.

You can just open the game folders and see how many renders each individual update has, starting from CH 5 on. Posting this so people can see how much bigger each chapter got from the next

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[Heitcaho]

You can just open the game folders and see how many renders each individual update has, starting from CH 5 on. Posting this so people can see how much bigger each chapter got from the next

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Totally missed the obviously marked folders V5 and so on thanks for pointing that out.

 

[shymi]

I loved (almost of all) it, the best spin off of the game until now, seconded by What If One. Great narrative, great images. so great, great job. Nevertheless, I cannot fail to mention that I would like to play this version with incest path (optional or not). Hunter is no more Ophelias father, neither Brenna grandpop, just a warden? Seriously? I cannot accepted that. I need to complain (hahaha). Continue to that hilarious great work. Tks a lot. (P.S.: I'm anxiously waiting for Chapter 10, to see what will happens with the family after Drew's arrival at house, as a very beautiful female transgender. Oh my God...)

The uncensor patch also works for the What Ifs.

 

[dartred]

He is doing it as a thank you for those who choose to pledge $20. that's why it doesn't unlock over time or to other tiers. That's also why $10 tier has wallpapers. That's their form of thank you. Yes, there was an increase to pledges after he implemented it. that's due to more people wanting to get in on the what ifs.

 

[BaeScout83]

Any chance for the what ifs to be integrated into the main game?
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Check out the link in my sig. I'm still working on implementing the latest one. Trying to figure out a good way to weave it into the story.

 

[Hermit76]

Wow - WhatIf6 was HOT! But I found it quite cruel to let it stop just a fee moments too early - before the threesome could take place and later both could show their big, pregnant bellies.

 

[BaeScout83]

To speak to the size of all "What If...?" combined, I've been working a lot with the files when creating my "non-canon fan-repacked DLC" versions of them that inject into the main game. My release with vol 1-5 is 321,91 MiB and I expect vol 1-6 will be just shy of 0,5 GiB, because it has many new animations that are about 180 MiB.
This is not due to compression, as I use the original images and videos. It's purely because I peel off all the files the stand-alone mini-games have in common with the main vanilla game.

 

[bigguy_foryou]

The updates are always massive with actually really good content in them, as long as that doesn't change I can handle waiting a few extra months.

 

[BaeScout83]

Regarding the time it takes to release each chapter and how long it will take to release the next chapter, I've done some calculations on the previous release dates and also done some estimations for the future. I have a link to the post in my sig.

 

[john984]

Can someone share the latest wallpaper please? Thanks!

 

[DD69-1]

You can just open the game folders and see how many renders each individual update has, starting from CH 5 on. Posting this so people can see how much bigger each chapter got from the next

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chapter 8 has only 580 images as main renders, rest 198 are images of eyes blinking, just saying

 

[RoadWulf]

understandable. People didn't understand that he was doing these in his free time and it took no dev time away from main development. He could use a break and all were losing is just bonus scenes.

To be fair, I can't completely understand this. "Free time". Unless he is a full time developer with no other job, all of his Dev time is his free time. So how is he using free time outside of dev time? Just seems like an oxymoron.

The other thing I will never understand is how a game, that treated it's NTR sequences so comedically and made a big joke out of all of it by how easy they were to avoid and how hilarious the avoidance scenes are.... managed to attract a majority Pro-NTR patron base.

 

[Kingkoopa97]

chapter 8 has only 580 images as main renders, rest 198 are images of eyes blinking, just saying

Chapter 9 also had 119 animations while every other chapter combined had 220 so chapter 9 had 35% of the entire games animations.

 

[Stil996]

To be fair, I can't completely understand this. "Free time". Unless he is a full time developer with no other job, all of his Dev time is his free time. So how is he using free time outside of dev time? Just seems like an oxymoron.

The other thing I will never understand is how a game, that treated it's NTR sequences so comedically and made a big joke out of all of it by how easy they were to avoid and how hilarious the avoidance scenes are.... managed to attract a majority Pro-NTR patron base.

If he has a "day" job on top of his Dev work, then that counts as 2 jobs in my book, He is his own boss as far as the DEVing goes. and he can't count that as free time if he is serious about giving his patrons their moneys worth.

Setting firm boundaries is important when you are your own boss, particularly if you are working from home, you need to know when to clock out and get some rest, which can be really hard to do when deadlines are looming and the trolls are out in force.
It works the other way too, having a firm commitment to how many hours per week you owe the project, helps stop you from slacking off.

That how I envisage it anyway

 

[Warboss]

Last what if was very hot, funny plot twist ending as well. Would love more hunter and catherine though.

 

[aacbhfcabcacabhb]

Does the I-Patch work on the What Ifs?

 

[Morgan42]

Has anyone posted the wallpapers?

 

[zaimokuza]

Check out the link in my sig. I'm still working on implementing the latest one. Trying to figure out a good way to weave it into the story.

Might as well wait for the sixth part then