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Music is not a requirement. It is an extra. Does it help some - yes. Does it bother others - yes. Should it be a focus of a VN - No. It is an extra that may or may not help. It varies by person. The focus must be the story and the art first. Music cannot fix a broken story or gloss over poor art. After that, additions such as animations and music can be brought in to improve the product. As long as it adds a positive it is fine. If it detracts or wastes time it is not good. There is no absolute here, which you implied, and it must be measured by the Devs as to the value added and the audience they serve. Would you prefer that each update be extended to add music which may or may not (as you yourself indicate) add value. I think many would disagree and prefer shorter update times. The possibility of Music added as a major clean up at the end of the VN (as acewinz has indicated) is likely to be very acceptable.
Well, I agree with adding music and animation later, that's what I was planning on, but I write a lot of material by inspiration of music and I would love to add the score I had in mind for any VN I worked on. However, I'm concerned about copyright laws and even No Copyright Music have rules on how you can use it. If you know more about this, or a way around, give me a heads up, but as it stands right now, I understand why Devs avoid adding music because of that.
 

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Pick some catchy copyright free tune off the web and then have it loop, add some fake moans and sex sounds and throw in.. that is not atmosphere, that is pain. That is the reason why I turn off sound and music all together. Very few games on this site actually use sounds and music in a good way when it come to atmosphere, add flow to the game etc.
Totally agree so why would it be high on the list of things to do. Stick to the story and art then make additions when appropriate.
 

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Well, I agree with adding music and animation later, that's what I was planning on, but I write a lot of material by inspiration of music and I would love to add the score I had in mind for any VN I worked on. However, I'm concerned about copyright laws and even No Copyright Music have rules on how you can use it. If you know more about this, or a way around, give me a heads up, but as it stands right now, I understand why Devs avoid adding music because of that.
Very reasonable IMO. There are a few Devs that have used trademarked items (Example-Nike Swoosh they add to shoes/clothing with PS) or using Rock band Album covers in their art (Van Halen, Springsteen, Led Zeppelin material). I am pretty sure there is a Lawyer out there just salivating over that slam dunk.
 

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I like music in games - of course only if it's well made and implemented properly. For the ones without I also play some random tracks in the background or hope a certain modder takes care of it... Unfortunately I've seen (heard) many poor atempts from devs where you asap mute it, too. Adding good music is probably not that easy as it seems, it should fit the game and also please most.

About that damn april joke: unfortunately I've seen other sites (eg svs) posting that shit still as a "new" release, so be also still prepared for some asking "where the exe is"...
 

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Yeah wasting people internet with a 4GB fake update, when some have a cap of 250GB is really crappy thing to do even as a joke. I know a couple people that downloaded it on every download link for both pc and mac that 32GB of there data gone. When the go over the get charge 20 dollar for ever 10GB of data over. would of been better to of made a download link that rick rolled people when they clicked. That would of been more funny for an April fools joke.
The saying.... Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Come to mind here... Really? You know people that did download it on every link before they did take a couple mins to check out the thread to see what was going on? :rolleyes:
 
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Nobody's crying. Folks are just massively disappointment. This site has people from all over the world congregating to download fap material worry free, some with internet caps that I don't even want to imagine having to deal with, others dealing with super low speeds. Wasting someones time while simultaneously harming the reputation of a game developer on some "its just a prank bro" nonsense is simply bad form.

I almost wish I was highschool age, and still found fart jokes funny; then I could probably relate to your edgelord take on this situation.
Oh dear.... download material worry free from a pirate site. Harming the reputation of the developer? but you don't mind steal from the developer?
 

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why did you bothered posting at first place?
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I posted something about wanting music and sounds in the game, and you literally replied to me saying that you couldn't care less about music and sounds in a VN, so what was your intention saying that to me, you could have just said it without replying to me, and I wouldn't have said anything, but you decided to specifically say that to me, it wasn't funny, it wasn't going to change my mind or agree with you, so I'm questioning your intention.

Good music shouldn't be top priority in every game, but it should at least be high priority, a good soundtrack elevates the experience when playing a game, if done correctly, a silent game just feels empty, no emotion in it at all.
 
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im rarely giving facepalms, yet your whole "escapade" in this thread deserves much more than one...sadly there is no such "a multiple utter shit" reactions yet...so just keep trolling, you surely shall remain with this account for a long time ;)
 
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The developer obviously knows about it being on here, if they didn't want it here, they could report it and get rid of it.
If someone want to pirate something, it will be pirated, regardless what the creator behind feel about it. Also if a creator could just "report it" and it would be removed from the site, then it would defeat the whole purpose of being a pirate site right?
 
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im rarely giving facepalms, yet your whole "escapade" in this thread deserves much more than one...sadly there is no such "a multiple utter shit" reactions yet...so just keep trolling, you surely shall remain with this account for a long time ;)
I'm not trolling, I'm starting to think you're the one doing the trolling here, as you just completely disregard everything I say, and that last thing you said looks a lot like a threat, is that what you do to anyone who doesn't bow down to you, you threaten to get their accounts deleted?
 
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If someone want to pirate something, it will be pirated, regardless what the creator behind feel about it. Also if a creator could just "report it" and it would be removed from the site, then it would defeat the whole purpose of being a pirate site right?
It has happened before.
 

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They can report the links, and the host will take them down. But that doesn't mean new links wont come up. Or even better, torrents they can't do jack shit about.
That's true, but as said before, in this case the developer is active in the thread themselves, like many other devs are in the threads of their own games.
 

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Sorry you were put in the middle of this. I'd like to think the joke was made with good intentions and not out of malice. I saw the update and was excited, for whatever reason I thought I would come back and download it later instead of then, lucky for me I did that. I think people who are saying this joke damaged the site's reputation are taking F95 just a little too seriously.
We honestly wasn't that upset about it. The anger more comes from the fact they somehow got an unfinished version of the Ep22 script. If this was all done without them using that then this wouldn't haven't been that bad for us. It just shows that someone on the QC team was in on it and now we can't trust the whole team because someone wanted to pull a joke. They could have easily done the same prank without that script but they chose not too and now because of it we've had to stop using the QC team meaning testing is delayed which only delays the release. We've got a small handfull of the QC team that we still trust but still, if whoever was in on it could just man up and come forward then we can move on and get the release out quicker. But because they won't we've had to stop using like 10 testers, meaning we the devs have to do all that testing solo. And when I say we the testers, I actually mean Ace, Cheeky and Wiz because I've never tested before and would get lost with it :p
 
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