Hes writing in German and then translating to English, to the best of my knowledge.
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I did not know this. That's actually pretty good bc I thought English was the primary language in this vn
Actually, that's not entirely true. I found that a lot of AVNs that rate high with users are people who enjoy the story more than they do the actually porn scenes. Of course, we're here to beat it to good content, but if the main focus is sex, the avn tends to drop of the lower end of the spectrum. So long as the story keeps you in, the amount dialogue is minor issue and to some degree the explicit content. So long as it goes somewhere forward. Now that being said, I am a slow burner type so as long as the cooking is good, I'm good
OhGodNotAgain
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They can't access real porn and this site is their only option.
your statement is already false, because I, for one, play those games primarily for the story and dialog. you can read my past comments to confirm. this game in particular, I liked it because there was more text than usual.
the best AVN are the ones that focus on the story, characters and world building. some of them have the worst lewd scenes ever, mediocre animations, repetitive sex acts...
but no need to go straight to the extremes either. "go read a book" or "go watch porn videos" don't really help. that's not what any of us want. we all appreciate good renders. it's not just about reading walls of text and ignoring the pretty pictures. we also all appreciate the girls. but some prefer their personality and stories more than their looks.
Good in the sense that the English is better than you would have excepted from a German? Sure.
Bad in the sense that it causes something like 2-3 weeks to translate I believe (not sure, need to verify from the game updates).
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to be fair, most forms of somewhat resonable education in germany require you to talk a LOT in english. so it´s very cummon in germany that most ppl can at least hold a basic conversation in english.
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The people who complain about the text in this novel are those who play with the skip button in all games and their attention span is a 20 second video on TikTok. Those are people who should not be listened to, this is one of the few AVN with good incest, good characters and good writing and some people complain. They deserve those shitty HS landladies and roommattes novels tbh.
BaiBai are German so yeah they need increase the amount of text to be writing and for you who say/think "why BaiBai didn't use AI to translate Germany to English to make it faster?" you still need to prof-reading it which way more harder if you not detail enough. Trust me I worked as localizer in Indonesia for foreign fictional book
Surely he could hire someone to proofread or recruit someone for proofreading/beta testing from his discord if he wanted, Can't imagine it'd cost that much
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Some people offered help on discord to translate, I don't think he replied
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He paid a proofreader and editor for the first five chapters of the game, but no one is sure what happened after that. Now I think random people just proofread for free?
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kevcolqaz
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Nope it just sends your mac address to the FBI, don't enable it this is a scheme to get pedo's organs harvested.
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Public development update
(While this post is mostly relevant to subscribers I still put it public so that everyone else waiting for the update can also know what to expect. If you don't want to read the wall of text I put the most important points to take away at the end.)
Alright, I was going to write just another normal development update today but while doing so I realized that I'm not being quite fair and doing pretty much the exact opposite of what I wanted to do when I started this project so decided to make a cut here.
Its kind of a tricky situation right now and I won't go into much detail because it really isn't relevant. What is relevant for you is that I currently have virtually no time to work on the game and and I can't expect that I will have much more any time soon. All of this was on a pretty short notice but I actually knew that I would be quite busy right about now for a little bit longer. My initial intention was to wrap everything up before it and then have some breathing room to take care of irl stuff. As you can see, that didn't work out, both because I've been too slow before it and because it takes away a lot more of my time than I had anticipated. It probably would have been more fair to do this sooner but it took me a while realize that I'm basically just stringing you guys along while making practically zero progress.
Accordingly I decided that from today on I'll pause posting these weekly development updates as well as all subscription billing until v0.9 has been released.
(I wasn't quite sure of the ins and outs of the “vacation mode” on SubscribeStar and since it doesn't seem like I can just pause and start billing as I see fit, I just set it from today until the 1st of October as I still have some hope left. Should all of this take longer I will extend it though. That said, always keep an eye on your active subscriptions.)
I know this feels stupid, especially since the update is as good as finished but the fact of the matter is that it has been in this state for two weeks now without it getting much closer to actually being done since. I've been debating myself whether to go about it this way or just to tell you not to expect anything and go on as always but I think I feel more comfortable doing it like this and it certainly is better then to just push out dev update after dev update talking about nothing just to string you along with my non-progress. You can view it as me hoping to save at least a little bit of good will if you like.
Let me be clear, this doesn't mean the game is abandoned and neither will it be, that much I can actually promise you. Neither does it technically mean that it is on-hold, as I will continue working on getting it finished whenever I can find the time (though you may prefer to consider it as such as not to wait in vain for an update). As for a time table it is hard for me to say. I don't think I'd need more than one good week of work to wrap everything up but I simply don't know when I'll find that time. The current estimation for the end of this situation is somewhere around the end of October but that could both be longer or shorter, I actually can't tell right now and neither do I hope that it will take this long for me to find the time to squeeze into the game.
Anyway, I'm not quite sure how to wrap this post up. I know that I'm testing your patience quite a bit here and I'm sorry for that. Everything about this sucks and I would change it if I could. For now please just be assured that Twisted Memories is far from over and until it continues please don't get too feed up with me.
Lastly, and just because I know some of you might do so, there is literally zero reason to worry about me and by extend the continuation of the game. The worst part of all of this is actually that the game's progress is stalling even more than it already has been. There are however things that take priory and these don't always have to be some kind of tragedy.
To put it short:
(While this post is mostly relevant to subscribers I still put it public so that everyone else waiting for the update can also know what to expect. If you don't want to read the wall of text I put the most important points to take away at the end.)
Alright, I was going to write just another normal development update today but while doing so I realized that I'm not being quite fair and doing pretty much the exact opposite of what I wanted to do when I started this project so decided to make a cut here.
Its kind of a tricky situation right now and I won't go into much detail because it really isn't relevant. What is relevant for you is that I currently have virtually no time to work on the game and and I can't expect that I will have much more any time soon. All of this was on a pretty short notice but I actually knew that I would be quite busy right about now for a little bit longer. My initial intention was to wrap everything up before it and then have some breathing room to take care of irl stuff. As you can see, that didn't work out, both because I've been too slow before it and because it takes away a lot more of my time than I had anticipated. It probably would have been more fair to do this sooner but it took me a while realize that I'm basically just stringing you guys along while making practically zero progress.
Accordingly I decided that from today on I'll pause posting these weekly development updates as well as all subscription billing until v0.9 has been released.
(I wasn't quite sure of the ins and outs of the “vacation mode” on SubscribeStar and since it doesn't seem like I can just pause and start billing as I see fit, I just set it from today until the 1st of October as I still have some hope left. Should all of this take longer I will extend it though. That said, always keep an eye on your active subscriptions.)
I know this feels stupid, especially since the update is as good as finished but the fact of the matter is that it has been in this state for two weeks now without it getting much closer to actually being done since. I've been debating myself whether to go about it this way or just to tell you not to expect anything and go on as always but I think I feel more comfortable doing it like this and it certainly is better then to just push out dev update after dev update talking about nothing just to string you along with my non-progress. You can view it as me hoping to save at least a little bit of good will if you like.
Let me be clear, this doesn't mean the game is abandoned and neither will it be, that much I can actually promise you. Neither does it technically mean that it is on-hold, as I will continue working on getting it finished whenever I can find the time (though you may prefer to consider it as such as not to wait in vain for an update). As for a time table it is hard for me to say. I don't think I'd need more than one good week of work to wrap everything up but I simply don't know when I'll find that time. The current estimation for the end of this situation is somewhere around the end of October but that could both be longer or shorter, I actually can't tell right now and neither do I hope that it will take this long for me to find the time to squeeze into the game.
Anyway, I'm not quite sure how to wrap this post up. I know that I'm testing your patience quite a bit here and I'm sorry for that. Everything about this sucks and I would change it if I could. For now please just be assured that Twisted Memories is far from over and until it continues please don't get too feed up with me.
Lastly, and just because I know some of you might do so, there is literally zero reason to worry about me and by extend the continuation of the game. The worst part of all of this is actually that the game's progress is stalling even more than it already has been. There are however things that take priory and these don't always have to be some kind of tragedy.
To put it short:
- v0.9 is delayed indefinitely
- Ongoing subscription billing is halted until v0.9 is released
- No more weekly development updates until v0.9 is released
- The game isn't abandoned
While that development is kinda sad for sure, kudos to baibai for being transparent on it. While also PAUSING billing unlike some other devs, looking especially at another project that starts with Twisted.
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I expected this much already, Bai² handled this matter well. Anyway it's good to know that I don't have to be disappointed every Sunday, Bai² deserves the rest he needs anyway, from this game and focus into what's truly important which is whatever other business he has irl.
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I disagree on the idea that BaiBai has handled this well. I admit that pausing billing was a very respectable move compared to the outright scams others pull. But he waited until the game was over TWO MONTHS late to do so and is now saying he is so strapped for time that proofreading is going to take two more months? All while ignoring offers for voluntary proof reading by fans and refusing to release a 0.9 beta with the errors left in.
Something doesn't add up to me. 0.8a was filled with typos and errors and he was happy to release that. But now it is an uncrossable line? I think the update is way further behind than he suggests. I think at some stage he fell way behind in the development and began overexaggerating how far he was and hoped he would catch up. The game has been essentially done since July apparently but he knows he can't keep repeating the same dev post for 6 weeks. Call me cynical, but this smells fishy to me.
Something doesn't add up to me. 0.8a was filled with typos and errors and he was happy to release that. But now it is an uncrossable line? I think the update is way further behind than he suggests. I think at some stage he fell way behind in the development and began overexaggerating how far he was and hoped he would catch up. The game has been essentially done since July apparently but he knows he can't keep repeating the same dev post for 6 weeks. Call me cynical, but this smells fishy to me.