Please don't ping directly Altos. If you absolutely want to ping someone, please ping me.
Did you figure this out? ...... I have unlocked all lucy stuff - dance, spank, kiss, handjob. What else to do?
Thank you so much for this. Appreciate the fast response. I am a huge fan of this game so I am going to load it up and try this right away.
Wait another few years for a glorious update where Lucy is now a 55 year old corpulent charwoman you can grope while she's picking up your dirty underwear from the floor and complains about your poor hygiene standards. Which you can ignore of course, by turning off your hearing aids.
This is all absolutely correct. Simply counting the number of releases doesn't take into account how big they were, or the quality of the art, animations and writing. Our early updates were less than half the size of our recent ones, both in terms of words and image count. The animation quality isn't even comparable. Plus interweaving new story lines with existing content gets ever more complicated.
I can't magic storylines and renders out of nowhere, six months is about how long it takes to produce this amount of content (and that's with a long crunch period). It might be a pain in the arse to wait but it's a bigger pain to produce it all, let me tell you. If I could go quicker, I would.
Oh yes , please, please, please Z - Reborn !
Do i?
Well! I'm not gonna lie about this, I also wish the time machine is real when you mention about it
The problem with this idea of "continuing what you started" in a sandbox game is that things do not happen in any kind of linear order. And while it helps to do as much, say, Rachel stuff as possible in a row because the dev may suffer the same problems ("what did I intend with this scene when I wrote it ten months ago?"), some of the stuff needs other things to happen around campus. It may be the general development of rules, the necessary advancement of other characters (you need to get Amy ready to help teaching about punishment by being a guinea pig before you can do any more in that direction) and that of course means new threads opening up which will remain unfinished for now. This is very much unlike the more linear VNs in which both the dev writes the game and the player plays the game in the order stuff happens. So when you play a box during development, you will always have a distorted view on both ends - the dev may even write stuff in a different order than the player will play it. And a lot of the new stuff is needed to be able to continue old stuff in a meaningful way.
You earn more than 10k a month (probably a lot more but we all know people hide it when it becomes an absurd number). It's time to start thinking about how you can increase productivity. People are fair in expecting the game's progress to get faster as you start earning more than most small studios. You can choose not to care about this, and just work at your own pace - after all, it's people's choice to support you even if you're already earning far more than enough to work at your current rate. But you're also going to have to accept a lot of these comments you're unhappy with are valid.
Development has gotten faster, quality has improved and I've been expanding my team as fast as I can. Ask Gegecucu how difficult it is to master the graphics software I use if you don't believe me. I could pay someone with less talent and experience to make the art and do the writing, but is that really what people want? Would the game still be what it is? Be careful what you wish for.
There are always ways to get more people in especially on graphics pipelines. Especially given how many renders are variations of others, from experience those things take a lot of time up in the pipeline, where somebody with a less skilled hand could be used. A lot of renders in general aren't artistic masterpieces (especially framing is usually fairly straight forward as a lot is POV), and while Playhome(If I'm right) isn't easy to use, it's far from unlearnable, having someone else compose some scenes even as a rough draft I can imagine would be useful as it is in the rest of industry.
The thing is, it seems these days people are never happy. 'There should be more content per update', 'There should be an update every month', 'My favourite character doesn't have enough screen time in this update', 'The file size should be smaller', 'The animations should be longer' etc, etc, etc. It won't matter the true details of what you release people will still complain. You could put out an update the size and quality of a mainstream AAA developer every month for a year and people would still complain.
