- Thread starter Rmaximus
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- Jul 4, 2017
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I just started playing this one yesterday, downloaded it from the torrent, and there are a few images missing. Well, not so much missing as they are labeled incorrectly.
Example during the intro:
file:///C:...blah blah blah...pics/people/sarinavalentina/1.jpg
I travel to that sub-sub folder in the game file and there isn't an image labelled "1.jpg" which leads me to believe that at some point the dev changed the names of the pictures in the folders but not in the game code. I could be wrong and it's possible the torrent version of the game has missing images. Can someone clear this up?
And if anyone has a suggestion, I'm open to that as well. Thanks
Example during the intro:
file:///C:...blah blah blah...pics/people/sarinavalentina/1.jpg
I travel to that sub-sub folder in the game file and there isn't an image labelled "1.jpg" which leads me to believe that at some point the dev changed the names of the pictures in the folders but not in the game code. I could be wrong and it's possible the torrent version of the game has missing images. Can someone clear this up?
And if anyone has a suggestion, I'm open to that as well. Thanks
- Aug 13, 2018
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Rmaximus
I think I know how to make the game smaller in download size, and it shouldn't result in any loss in quality. I talked about it in my review I posted, but since this can improve the game for everyone trying to play it, I thought I'd elaborate here.
Of the 13.3GB of storage the game takes up, 13GB is exclusively for the 178 characters. I remember you tried shortening the videos in the past, so we'll look at the images. Recently, in order to reduce the size of the assets in my own game, I resized every image used to match the display resolution that would be used in the game. I didn't see the point in having 4k images when they would be shown on screen with a max width of 1000 pixels. The result, the game is half the size is was before (for context, it's only on its third update and has a cast of around 7).
So, what if we applied the same process to your game. As explained in the review, the "banner.jpg" image shown on the start screen displays at around 800 pixels in width (it varies depending on the device, my monitor is 1920x1080). The source image is over 2000 pixels in width. Any quality in the source image is compressed when displaying it, so why not set a specific display resolution, and resize the image to match. By resizing the banner image to match the display resolution, the file size goes from 580kb to 112kb, nearly a quarter of its existing size. If this was applied to every image in the game, optimising them for a specific display resolution, Gigabytes of data would be saved, making the game more accessible, and easier to download. Image quality wouldn't be affected, as the image quality is already being downscaled to match the display, and only those on 4k monitors would really notice the higher resolution of the images.
This is only an example, and by no means am I saying you should do this, only that this is one option that would solve one of the biggest issues with the game at present.
I think I know how to make the game smaller in download size, and it shouldn't result in any loss in quality. I talked about it in my review I posted, but since this can improve the game for everyone trying to play it, I thought I'd elaborate here.
Of the 13.3GB of storage the game takes up, 13GB is exclusively for the 178 characters. I remember you tried shortening the videos in the past, so we'll look at the images. Recently, in order to reduce the size of the assets in my own game, I resized every image used to match the display resolution that would be used in the game. I didn't see the point in having 4k images when they would be shown on screen with a max width of 1000 pixels. The result, the game is half the size is was before (for context, it's only on its third update and has a cast of around 7).
So, what if we applied the same process to your game. As explained in the review, the "banner.jpg" image shown on the start screen displays at around 800 pixels in width (it varies depending on the device, my monitor is 1920x1080). The source image is over 2000 pixels in width. Any quality in the source image is compressed when displaying it, so why not set a specific display resolution, and resize the image to match. By resizing the banner image to match the display resolution, the file size goes from 580kb to 112kb, nearly a quarter of its existing size. If this was applied to every image in the game, optimising them for a specific display resolution, Gigabytes of data would be saved, making the game more accessible, and easier to download. Image quality wouldn't be affected, as the image quality is already being downscaled to match the display, and only those on 4k monitors would really notice the higher resolution of the images.
This is only an example, and by no means am I saying you should do this, only that this is one option that would solve one of the biggest issues with the game at present.
- Dec 19, 2017
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Problem is gonna be resizing the 12.5GB worth of GIF/MP4/WEBM files. Around 2900 files.
1950 of which are videos that would need re-encoding...
Cutting just the images down in size by half would only net you 0.5Gb out of 1Gb.
- Aug 13, 2018
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Yeah you're right, I wasn't able to accurately look into every folder when I made the review and comment so didn't realise the scope of the video/gif content. Unfortunately, with 178 characters in the game, and the current ending of the game suggesting that even more characters are going to show up, the file size issue will likely not go away, and may only get worse in time.
Even if my suggestions would only save 500MB of storage space, it was still a worthwhile suggestion to be made.
- Dec 19, 2017
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Every bit helps. By just resizing the location images to 1080p I cleared up around 130mb.
I just started the long process of resizing everything to see how it turns out. Gonna be a while
Encoding the gifs to webm is a big one. A 134mb GIF = 1.5mb webm, albeit a smaller res (720p-360p).
Having to go through the code, changing the .gif files to .webm is gonna be tedious though.
As I have repeatedly told people with overflowing email inboxes, saying it's too much and refusing to start doing something about it now just makes it an even larger problem later when they declare your inbox is too full and give you an ultimatum to clean up or be canceled. If it has to be done, it has to be done, and waiting until there is even more that has to be done will not make it easier.
There are tons of fans, maybe farm out the resizing work? If each person is only reencoding a single video and sending it back that will scale far better.
- Jun 4, 2017
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Sorry but it's been a while since I don't follow the game anymore but I remember that Chapter 2 exists ... now I would like to understand if the file that can be downloaded includes both chapters ..
I'm not able to play the torrent file, can someone explain to me how to do it, or send a link of another way to download the game or play it online?
- May 27, 2017
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Technically there are a ton of MtF transformed characters in the game but it happens as part of the story and mostly isn't mentioned.
However there is a scene where the MC is unavoidably transformed into a female and fucked by his MtFtM best friend (whacky magic) and it's one of the bones of contention I have with this game. Overall it's not a lot of content but know that there are a number of situations where the MC is transformed (one of his powers) into a woman without any choice in the matter.
Edit: On another note the game still goes to a black screen after sleeping with Lea despite my having downloaded all of the fixes. Guessing at this point I'm gonna have to start over.
- Jan 25, 2020
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For the torrent you have to download
You must be registered to see the links
and open the torrent file with it and it will download automaticallyGuys, he has the right to not want to put the save and Hd. But let me tell you, games without it I don’t play anymore, restarting the game every day is very boring. If I could restart from where I left off, then I would play.
Please, someone, I cant actually play the game at all, because of this messup/glitch.