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So far, there is no special reference to gender. Released while hetero sex.
Everything is in the plans.
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You can get rid of sidebars and do it like awerage "HTML" game.
There is just little point in this, because sidebars (and lower box) are here to make particular kinds of games, text adventures, easier, something that is annoying to do in other engines as well as going around some of specific issues of "interactive fiction" games.
Also, don't forget that QSP is like 8 years older than first version of Twine. So there was no "just use Twine" option back then.
QSP also surprisingly still holds good, the only issue being if you put way too much images inside the game (*cough* Jack-of-Nine-Tails *cough*).
fix the animation paths for the female character in the dungeon.
add an emergency gang to return to the tavern at 1 xp
add an emergency gang to return to the tavern at 1 xp
As a suggestion, while there are a number of bugs, and the English needs work, my biggest issue is the file size.
The 45 gif files account for 800mb of the game, which only totals roughly 829mb.
Explore converting those gif files into a more efficiently compressed format, such as mp4 or webm, both of which are significantly better with regards to file size. You should be able to decrease the total file size significantly, and it'll be easier to decide on a format now, at the early stage of development, rather than later, after the game has ballooned up to many GBs in size.
A quick test compression of "makina_suck.gif" to webm decreased the file size from 20.5mb down to 2mb, with a small amount of quality loss. How much quality is lost is your choice and can be controlled but losing a small amount of video quality for a significant decrease in file size will benefit you later down the road.
There are other more complex tools with more features that you can use to convert videos, but HandBrake is always a solid choice for converting video formats and is what used for my test.
I would guess, based on the test, you should be able to get the file size down from 800mb for the media down to the 100-150mb range with a minimal loss of video quality, maybe even less.
Edit: I converted the entire 'nun' folder (38 files) from 666mb down to 74.2mb. So yes, getting the entire game down to the 100-150mb range, with its current content, is easily doable.
So go get HandBrake, or another video converter of your choice, and play around with file formats and encoder/compression settings until you find a quality and file size you like and use that going forward. Gif is the worst for file size.
The 45 gif files account for 800mb of the game, which only totals roughly 829mb.
Explore converting those gif files into a more efficiently compressed format, such as mp4 or webm, both of which are significantly better with regards to file size. You should be able to decrease the total file size significantly, and it'll be easier to decide on a format now, at the early stage of development, rather than later, after the game has ballooned up to many GBs in size.
A quick test compression of "makina_suck.gif" to webm decreased the file size from 20.5mb down to 2mb, with a small amount of quality loss. How much quality is lost is your choice and can be controlled but losing a small amount of video quality for a significant decrease in file size will benefit you later down the road.
There are other more complex tools with more features that you can use to convert videos, but HandBrake is always a solid choice for converting video formats and is what used for my test.
I would guess, based on the test, you should be able to get the file size down from 800mb for the media down to the 100-150mb range with a minimal loss of video quality, maybe even less.
Edit: I converted the entire 'nun' folder (38 files) from 666mb down to 74.2mb. So yes, getting the entire game down to the 100-150mb range, with its current content, is easily doable.
So go get HandBrake, or another video converter of your choice, and play around with file formats and encoder/compression settings until you find a quality and file size you like and use that going forward. Gif is the worst for file size.
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An addendum to my previous post (posted separately for visibility):
QSP I can guarantee supports mp4 file format. I cannot guarantee it supports webm. Might be something to test and/or look into.
MP4 will still give similar relative decreases in file size as webm.
QSP I can guarantee supports mp4 file format. I cannot guarantee it supports webm. Might be something to test and/or look into.
MP4 will still give similar relative decreases in file size as webm.
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Do you have an idea of how much time costed him to get the 'Nun' folder to exactly 666 Mb?
No worries, I haven't actually played this yet - but as I said I did test the engine a bit. So maybe the only thing to keep in mind is that you should mindful of user experience - when you have sidebar buttons, when to use clickable links.
Yeah, that was my point. The engine is actually surprisingly performant and has a lot of good features. It's fascinating to work with. But the documentation for the script is lacking and the error reporting is fairly bad.
I like the sidebars myself, although I think that many game developers get sucked into this halfway house where they aren't consistent so the games don't flow quite right. But then, I haven't released any games so I can't be particularly critical. And I enjoy most of the QSP games too.
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Regular QSP does not support video, but there are versions that do. Awesomium, sonnix's QQSP and Infinate's QSP all do and there are a couple of others I can't recall off the top of my head right now. The first of those also has some extra UI tweaks and changes and is what Jack o' Nine uses.
It will save a lot of space when compared to gifs
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There's some more info on the GL repo:
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(Some is GL specific but most is general)
Also on our repo is the QSP analyser in teh tools folder, that needs to run on .txt exports (you can do them with QGen) and will find a number of bugs and even dead variables (if you learn how to use the more advanced functions).
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Нууу.... Если учесть, что плеер на скринах на русском, то можно было бы и русскую версию сделать....
I hope we can choose to be female protagonist. Would love to corrupt her and have her fuck all around.
Also, can you share the link of the video used in 3rd pic in OP pls.