Altos has been in hospital a few weeks ago (nothing serious but he had a post-op infection). He's fine but still recovering.
So the next update has been pushed back for the beginning of next year.
Most of the "movies" consists of a few frames with about 0.1-0.2s pause between them. I think there are some technology to double the frames of a video, though it doesn't work too well, and probably does not work at all for this game.
Oh renpy games mostly just play recorded videos and pictures. Most work is done on dev's gpu, not yours. You can play renpy games basically on a potato.
Mainly spanking (and other punishments), since that is the focus of the game. Vaginal sex as of now is with three different characters (IIRC, also two scenes with non main cast members, which I will not count here), two teachers and one student. Three other students offer other sex (BJ/HJ/anal). There is very probably more to come, possibly even for all of the main cast, but it isn't the focus of this game.
Oh renpy games mostly just play recorded videos and pictures. Most work is done on dev's gpu, not yours. You can play renpy games basically on a potato.
specialized in visual novels, which 3D rendered in real time. It turns out that real time rendering in visual novels is harder to do well than you might think. The ability to free the camera to look at the girls from different angles got old really fast and beyond that it had a tendency to just look worse than pre-rendered or drawn graphics. Movements sounds cool, but it ended up being just awful with unnatural shaking rather than real movements. It turns out that that while it's hard to make a visual novel based on still images, it's way harder to leave rendering to the end user. So far no visual novel has pulled off making it look attractive.
Didn't help that Teatime's custom engine was just plain bad from a technical point of view. It was full of weird issues like map loading speed being limited by fps so turning on V-Sync meant loading a new room would take 5 minutes instead of 20 seconds. What surprises me the most about them going bankrupt isn't that it happened, but that they survived for 12 years.
So yeah real time rendered visual novels sounds awesome, but if you encounter one there is a significant risk that you want to go back to pre-rendered. In fact I'm not aware of any visual novel with real time rendering, which actually works properly other than E-mote, which uses the GPU to make 2D sprite characters very animated with high degrees of freedom.
TL;DR: the headmaster should stick to pre-rendered images and none of us needs GPU power to play it. Even if animation/videos appear to be low frame rate, it's still way better than real time rendering.
specialized in visual novels, which 3D rendered in real time. It turns out that real time rendering in visual novels is harder to do well than you might think. The ability to free the camera to look at the girls from different angles got old really fast and beyond that it had a tendency to just look worse than pre-rendered or drawn graphics. Movements sounds cool, but it ended up being just awful with unnatural shaking rather than real movements. It turns out that that while it's hard to make a visual novel based on still images, it's way harder to leave rendering to the end user. So far no visual novel has pulled off making it look attractive.
Didn't help that Teatime's custom engine was just plain bad from a technical point of view. It was full of weird issues like map loading speed being limited by fps so turning on V-Sync meant loading a new room would take 5 minutes instead of 20 seconds. What surprises me the most about them going bankrupt isn't that it happened, but that they survived for 12 years.
So yeah real time rendered visual novels sounds awesome, but if you encounter one there is a significant risk that you want to go back to pre-rendered. In fact I'm not aware of any visual novel with real time rendering, which actually works properly other than E-mote, which uses the GPU to make 2D sprite characters very animated with high degrees of freedom.
TL;DR: the headmaster should stick to pre-rendered images and none of us needs GPU power to play it. Even if animation/videos appear to be low frame rate, it's still way better than real time rendering.
The real advantage of 3D render is not just free the camera, it is to allow customization. With 3D rendering is fairly easy to change the appearance and cloth of characters, to rearrange the background, etc. Say if headmaster is rendered in real time, then player could choose the uniform of students, make their own rules about uniforms, rearrange your office and maybe classroom, etc. This might be important for some players.
Say if headmaster is rendered in real time, then player could choose the uniform of students, make their own rules about uniforms, rearrange your office and maybe classroom, etc. This might be important for some players.
I agree, through it comes at the cost of quality as in runtime changing clothes makes it hard if not impossible to avoid clipping issues. Running every single animation with every single clothing combo quickly becomes impossible to do within reasonable time. This becomes even worse when say the characters are surrounded by furniture. Yes there are plenty of arguments for a real time rendered 3D visual novel and there have been multiple attempts, but there are many reasons why all real time rendered ones have failed. 2D or pre-rendered visual novels dominates for very valid reasons.
However the real issue is that Ren'Py doesn't support 3D real time rendering. As a result any discussion about it is kind of off topic.
I know it's probably been 3 months late to ask for that. But can someone post A Message from the Student President from Patreon because we might've not checked out for this post when it was out and yet the poll is already decided so it'd not really matter much
I know it's probably been 3 months late to ask for that. But can someone post A Message from the Student President from Patreon because we might've not checked out for this post when it was out and yet the poll is already decided so it'd not really matter much
Here you are. For those who weren't aware, this was a patreon poll done as an "in universe" message to the school supporters.
The post is in two parts: the original message from Maxine, and a message from Mr Mykock (which gives details of the different options). I've put a spoiler on Mr Mykock's message simply because it's rather large with lots of pictures.
I think the results of the poll has already been posted here, but it was the "sponsored outfits" option that won the patreon poll and will be included as a storyline in the next release of the game.
A Message from the Student President
“Good afternoon. My name is Maxine Fisher, student president of St Louise's Academy for Girls. The headmaster asked me to record this video message so that I could address you, the school’s owners, directly. Thank you for taking the time to listen to my message.”
“As I am sure you are aware, the global environment is in a really sorry state. Our ecosystems are collapsing and many animals are on the brink of extinction. Although the list of worthy environmental causes is endless, it is the plight of one animal in particular that I wanted to bring to your attention. The naked mole rat is one of nature's most unique and wonderful creatures. Studying their unusual biology could lead to great advances in medicine including a potential cure for cancer and even a treatment for ageing. We must act fast to save these creatures from the destruction of their natural habitat.”
“I understand that your organisation funds our school and that you have considerable resources at your disposal. Although I do not agree with our incarceration here, or some of the demeaning uniform policies that your school enforces, I am willing to put aside my pride as a feminist and ask that we work together to help save an endangered animal.”
“In order to demonstrate our commitment to this cause and to encourage donations, I would like to organise a charity fundraising event. I was planning to organise a sponsored walk. However, the headmaster suggested that, since your organisation would be donating, you might like to suggest the nature of the fundraiser. If you would please take the time to consider this request I would be most grateful. I look forward to hearing from you.”
Here you are. For those who weren't aware, this was a patreon poll done as an "in universe" message to the school supporters.
The post is in two parts: the original message from Maxine, and a message from Mr Mykock (which gives details of the different options). I've put a spoiler on Mr Mykock's message simply because it's rather large with lots of pictures.
I think the results of the poll has already been posted here, but it was the "sponsored outfits" option that won the patreon poll and will be included as a storyline in the next release of the game.
“Good afternoon. My name is Maxine Fisher, student president of St Louise's Academy for Girls. The headmaster asked me to record this video message so that I could address you, the school’s owners, directly. Thank you for taking the time to listen to my message.”
“As I am sure you are aware, the global environment is in a really sorry state. Our ecosystems are collapsing and many animals are on the brink of extinction. Although the list of worthy environmental causes is endless, it is the plight of one animal in particular that I wanted to bring to your attention. The naked mole rat is one of nature's most unique and wonderful creatures. Studying their unusual biology could lead to great advances in medicine including a potential cure for cancer and even a treatment for ageing. We must act fast to save these creatures from the destruction of their natural habitat.”
“I understand that your organisation funds our school and that you have considerable resources at your disposal. Although I do not agree with our incarceration here, or some of the demeaning uniform policies that your school enforces, I am willing to put aside my pride as a feminist and ask that we work together to help save an endangered animal.”
“In order to demonstrate our commitment to this cause and to encourage donations, I would like to organise a charity fundraising event. I was planning to organise a sponsored walk. However, the headmaster suggested that, since your organisation would be donating, you might like to suggest the nature of the fundraiser. If you would please take the time to consider this request I would be most grateful. I look forward to hearing from you.”