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VN Ren'Py SWM: The Lurking Shadow [v2.0] [Mortze]

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SonsOfLiberty

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Sadly guilty of that.

I know some people put a ton of effort into their games audio and sound tracks but I tend to have my music on when i'm playing a VN.
Oh yeah, I've seen games with 100's and even 1000's audio files mixed with songs, and I'm like that is a lot of effort when 75% of your player base plays with sound off. I feel the same way when developer's start bloating their games with 4K images and video, like why?
 

DartBatiatus

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Woo I thougth this game was done for but here is Ep. II, one of the best AVN's I have read. And it's SW, not like you can make money of it without bringing rabbid mouse on your head. So thank you and kudos! I'll subscrubie to Patreon, again after a year or so just for a little while only for this. Not much into other of devs stuff even tho I enjoyed some of it.
 

J.R.

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For the few users like me still don't turn off audio in games there's a mod / Android port from Koga3 with an added music player for this game, available on his page
 
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Kellermann

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What's this? An old sci-fi paragon rises from the quark-gluon plasma to live once again? I can't remember much about this game other than it was an absolute SW banger. Will happily give it another go from the beginning.
 

michel.gellar7

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Hello, people!

So, I did something nobody asked for, but here it is...

I've modified the dialogue of the story to make Drea MC's... sister.
And it turned out rather great, if I may say so. Especially, if a bit of incest is your kink.
Anyway, I hope someone finds this useful. It can be a perfect excuse to replay your favorite SW game again :sneaky:

Attached is the script.rpy file. Put it in the "game" directory (replacing the existing file) and have fun!
Game crash with ICST Patch :/
 
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Baalzie

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Oh yeah, I've seen games with 100's and even 1000's audio files mixed with songs, and I'm like that is a lot of effort when 75% of your player base plays with sound off. I feel the same way when developer's start bloating their games with 4K images and video, like why?
Depends on the game...
In games like BaDIK, SG, LoF etc, the music is VERY important. Those that disagree doesn't get the very idea of the games, really.... Like watching a film without ANY music in them... Tends to be boring films. Even DOCUMENTAIRES put music in them, for a reason...
So if the MOOD is important, and it sets the stage for the STORY, for non-deaf people the music is muy importante. Stupid ass voiceacting and bad (they all are) sound effects and ridiculous c-rated porn moans? Not so much...
 

Doggs133

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Depends on the game...
In games like BaDIK, SG, LoF etc, the music is VERY important. Those that disagree doesn't get the very idea of the games, really.... Like watching a film without ANY music in them... Tends to be boring films. Even DOCUMENTAIRES put music in them, for a reason...
So if the MOOD is important, and it sets the stage for the STORY, for non-deaf people the music is muy importante. Stupid ass voiceacting and bad (they all are) sound effects and ridiculous c-rated porn moans? Not so much...
This!
In the project I'm working on I'm a firm believer in setting the mood of the scene/s with music. As far as sound effects go, I won't add them to sex scenes; if the player requires them, find you're own damn sound bytes.
That said, it's incredibly difficult finding the exact track to match whatever scene I'm portraying, especially as I want to keep it period specific (no synth sounds, or elec instruments for a game set in an era where they don't exist).
 
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Spyderwraith

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Wow holy I do vaguely remember this one damn its been ageeees. Given the completed tag and its been many years I thought it was actually completed though, it just cuts to the main menu mid scene as well.

Not saying what was in here was bad not at all quite the opposite it was a really nice hour and a half of content but..... 5 years lol I know other games and what not but that is still pretty crazy.

Side note just curious how does a game like this have a patreon? Small enough to slip through the cracks? This is straight up star wars, and we all know what big corps think about fan projects making money.
I suspect the Patreon is used for their own works and not specific to the Star Wars VN. plus the major Disclaimer at the start of the game might protect them somewhat from Legal issues, but I'm not a law major so I speculate
 

Tlaero

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That was 80% compression for the images (that is what 95% of all mine are), audio is 40% (the least thing people notice, most use "mute") and also compressing the WEBM's as well (or whatever video format happens to be for X game).
Yeah people refuse to believe that 80% quality isn't noticeable. I eventually wrote a little web thing that randomly showed them a series of images and had them say whether they were compressed or not. And, even when they couldn't do it, they still wouldn't believe it. So I stopped telling them. Then people started saying, "There must not be any content in this since it's not even a gigabyte."

Thank you for your efforts to bring sanity to this space.

The videos are a great catch. This game has multiple long opening crawls (in multiple languages) and video credits. I'll bet that's where your compression got the most bang for its buck. I'll also check to make sure we didn't miss any of the JPGs.

Tlaero
 

Tlaero

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Sadly guilty of that.

I know some people put a ton of effort into their games audio and sound tracks but I tend to have my music on when i'm playing a VN.
Hey Avaron!

A long time ago (like back in the Sharks Lagoon days) I did a poll asking people whether they liked audio in their erotic games, disliked it, or didn't care one way or the other. The results were split pretty evenly among the 3. I chose to interpret that as "2/3 of my user base wouldn't care if I stopped doing audio," which was convenient because I hated making audio.

I'm sure tastes have changed in the interim, but I'm happy when I hear people like you say you turn the sound off. :)

Tlaero
 
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