well 8.8k TQ patreon + 4.9k DQ patreon + probably more than 2.5k on subscribestar = 16.2k a month
Others Trap Quest [R14 v4.0] [Aika]
I was reading over the changelist and it seems so small. Is this literally all we get after waiting like 4 months? I wish I could just give $60, the price of a brand new AAA game, and just have access to all future TQ updates. I hate this "games as a service" thing that the dev is doing where you have to have a subscription to receive new content at any acceptable rate.
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What is sad is that the game itself isn't really that good a lot of the character art doesn't show all of the transformation and such and the maps themselves become very repetitive and the graphics are pretty bad as far as in game itself not worth the mopney value the game is asking for when there is so much to do and instead of fixing those issues and making all art apear in all aspects of the game they add more content instead.
Patreon is not for subscription, Patreon is meant for "I like this person and I want them to keep doing their thing, so I will give them money, so that they can keep doing their thing".
You are supposed to remove your pledge at any time you don't feel like you're getting your money's worth. But the main thing about all of these patreons is the direct contact with the creator - you are their patron, anyway. You can ask for specific things and give direction to development. Like was done in this game! Diaper Quest is essentially the will of the patrons manifested.
But keep in mind that this game was designed in something that isn't meant for games like this (Inform7), plus there were big mistakes early on in development that will just make the game harder and harder to maintain, develop, and even play. Inform7 is really easy when making simple games, but there are pitfalls when developing bigger games which will cause exponential lag - for instance, if the way alternative names for things was done wasn't the right way (and I imagine it wasn't, because the "right way" is very restrictive), this results in Inform7 running any code like that for every single object in the game, which would mean that any time you add a new object, you just make everything in the game lag due to the alternate name code being ran for them too, and any time you add a new alternate name, it will run for every single object in the game.
There are (limited) ways of preventing these issues, but it is far too late now. I imagine Aika isn't doing much not because of laziness or anything, but just because the game has gotten to such a massive size that merely compiling it might be taking half an hour - imagine doing that to test every feature. For a text game.
Progress should be sped up if the game is ever recoded in some other engine, which I believe was the goal at some point (were they talking about Java? idk). imo a custom-built in HTML5 can be intentionally made as close as possible to I7 such that it'd be quick to port things over with near 1:1 code, with next to zero time wasted compiling, and maintaining support to all platforms people might currently be playing at, maybe even adding a few more to the list since HTML5 runs on everything.
Anyway, if you're not happy with the artist you're providing patronage, you can just stop. You are not paying for the game, that's not the point of Patreon. You are supporting an artist you enjoy the work of, and you're supposed to stop as soon as that is no longer the case.
Shame Games sells a product. As long as access is being sold it isn't just "supporting an artist". There is a specific reward granted by each tier of their Patreon for a reason.
Yes, we could all have waited two years to use the clothing window, but we would like to use it. Shame Games sells access to it. The Clothing Window is a product and Shame Games uses it as such, and the only way to get access to it is through subscription.
This is why I mentioned a price for full access that's higher than the rate as an alternative for something a lot more consumer friendly, but very few subscription based developers offer this.
How do i use the Clothed version?
I started TQ Launcher v1.1.1.1 and imported the downloaded file as a Patreon import. What do I do next?
EDIT: Nvm just had to open the file with GIT instead
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Time for some TQ history:
Aika
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of the source to this repo:
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which is updated a while after each release (as of this post, it's still on r13 v7). I don't know much about Inform7 but a dev of it
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in 2018 when TQ ran into some engine issues, in part due to it being a bloated mess. Regarding rewriting the game in a new engine, Aika did a Q&A
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So there's that. They also talked about rewriting the engine
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- right before their contact w/ the Inform dev - where the answer was similarly negative, though a bit more optimistic (realistic?) on the time estimate. Note that the answer in the Q&A was given before Aika started posting the source. Now that the source is (mostly) available, basically anyone could take a crack at rewriting it, if they were so inclined. There's also the question of whether the contributors (including Aika) would be willing & able to learn a new engine (& possibly new language) to develop on the rewrite.is there a more up to date strateg version of the game Im a little confused how you got the version you have because it seem newer than what is on this website or what you can get with the launcher
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I have no problems with the game itself. However, the plethora of incomplete versions definitely turns me off of the game. Whether its danume, strateg, clothing, etc they all are horrendoulsy underdeveloped and seemingly abandoned. Gimmicky even. Would be so much better if they actually incorporated ALL the features the game has to offer.
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the downloads on page 1 are old versions. the strateg version is free and avaiable on the developer website Trapquest.com.
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