totally agree here. this would help the game so much. maybe it could grow to a smiliar size as free cities (as alex mentioned). with the actual engine you can redo a lot of faulty animations if you know what you are doing. and that will cost much less time than doing 3d pc renderings for games such as HTML based ones.
Indeed, those still renders take A LOT of time to produce, I've done it and it is seriously time consuming. I would definitely continue trying to work with what we already have given the opportunity.
Early alpha has barely any of the features that are planned, this has all of them.
It has some content, but everything is either completely broken or unimplemented. So maybe about 30% done. This is not how you develop your games: first you plan properly (things such as proper ui and good controls included), then you code, after everything is ready and work properly as intended you finalize content and then you're done with alpha. I'm not sure if 1 person can do it all, but that 1 person should be able to do at least something properly (you're either a programmer, an animation artist, or whatever). Perhaps it would be better if there was an option to disable h-animations as well as mini games completely and errors were fixed first -- to call it a release is a tad bit of an exaggeration. And basically anyone should be able to see poor UI and obnoxious controls.
That's the way an early Alpha is, little content, many bugs. No, finalizing content is NEVER done in Alpha, it is done in late Beta at the earliest. This has all planned content with a few persistent bugs that just decided they won't die without a fight. Yes, one person could do it, but they need the proper tools and assets, which this dev did not have. It sounds like he used the base version of Unity, meaning no extras added, since he specifically said that the animations issue was because he was trying to use custom animations Unity isn't fully capable of doing out of the box, those last four words being the hint to me that this used the base engine with no add-ons. The UI takes a little getting used to, but it really isn't that bad now that the issue from 0.29, some of the stats running out of view when other stats got too big, is gone. Not sure what you mean by mini games, but the H animations are an integral part that differentiates this as a 3D Game from a 3DCG game, which is NOT what he was going for, so it would not work out in his plan to not have the animations. No, anything put out to players is a release even if it isn't complete or is buggy, perfection is nearly impossible, especially when literally every change in code can break something or even everything. Example, the game Lilith's Throne is going through a delay yet again because its dev broke literally everything while reworking one aspect.
The BETA stage is when everything is ready and fully playable, but some aspects are unpolished/unfinished and bugs (destructive too) are expected. Not when everything is completely broken and nonexistent. As of now it only has "simple to implement" content, so, it is alpha IMO.
No, the Beta stage is when a lot of the content is playable and the player can start to get an idea of what the final game will be like, not all of it has to be finished to be Beta. There is nothing that is 'nonexistent' in this game except that which was not intended to exist in the first place. As I said, bugs can happen any time code is altered, so even the final version is not safe from getting them. None of the content was simple to implement, not when he was literally fighting against the engine for half of it, and simple to make content only does NOT mean that a game is in Alpha. A game can be made with ONLY simple to make content and not be considered Alpha when it is in its final release. The animations are broken because he tried to use custom animations the base engine was not fully able to render and the models are DAZ, so there's not much that can be done about them being bad, that's just DAZ for you. Still have no idea what mini games you mean because there really aren't any, just events that you read through and then make a decision that alters a stat and sometimes begins a sex scene. No, static models would NOT make it better because this is a real time 3D Game, not a 3DCG game. It would be no better than Free Cities, the game it definitely takes inspiration from, with static 3DCG.
The animations issue is because he was doing something the engine wasn't fully capable of without add-ons, he admitted to this months ago, so adding the LL animations would still cause the same issue. Remember that both Skyrim and Fallout run on different engines that are much more capable than Unity in their base form, so their engines are able to handle the custom animations LL added. To fix the issue, it may take actually purchasing the add-ons from the Unity store that allow the engine to better render these animations, either that or someone a bit more skilled that knows how to coax the engine into cooperating in its base form, no offense StationmasterDev.
Sorry dont mean to be disrespectfull, but this is not the case.
