On a different note, I really loved the new animations and the latest update.
Also, I had no idea that it was the guy from The Vamp. That definitely adds a whole new layer to the game.
What do we have now being posted in July 2024, a full year later? The 'new' image just looks like more generative AI slop, and it includes all of the same problems the old one did. The background is a fuzzy mess, the characters are in the exact same hand-hiding poses, and the blonde one in front who is supposed to be the Elizabeth still lacks her distinctive twin-tails (or Ashley's pigtails). If anything it got worse, cause now this new Frankenbeth has this weird bit of flesh colored something or other popping out from under her hair. Problem is, it doesn't look like part of the side of her head.
So is this just more sloppy AI, just another re-roll of the text-prompt dice, or did someone digitally trace over the original bad AI (or use it as a source image for another AI dice roll) and somehow create an even worse version with the freakish skeletal remains that came before? Out of curiosity I checked, and the version used in the announcement image is used in-game and has replaced the older AI image. So yes, even if this was done by a human artist with creative intention, they fucked up Elizabeth's hair yet again.
Funnily enough this image was also accompanied by a voice-over section that subtly didn't match the on-screen dialogue in various ways. Saying "going" when the text is "gonna", saying "it's" when the text is "it is", and inserting an unwritten "the" into "You have to give the others a chance"; making 3/10 lines of dialogue in that section alone inaccurate and in need of revision. These mistakes aren't just limited to this one section either, I caught multiple mistakes whenever I did stop to listen in other parts as well. Basically whenever the spoken dialogue is a bit awkward or stilted, the voice performers deliver a more natural sounding version rather than sticking to the text strictly as written.
I didn't check much further past this image, since this game still refuses to have a 'skip unseen text' option, and I'm just not clicking though any more mountains of text. Suffice to say, none of this is particularly great...
EDIT:
Just double checking some stuff, and it turns out the above isn't the only slapdash AI image replacement that looks suspiciously like just more AI. The sprite for the teacher has as well, but again, it's just as bad as the prior version; plus it is bad in new and exciting ways as well.
Whoever did the original character sprites for the girls at least had some understanding of how clothes on people work. They shared a consist style and uniform, making it visually believable that these characters all coexisted within the same fiction. This updated teacher sprite opts for soft airbrush shading, very frequently indicative of generative AI, but regardless is still a complete departure from the other girl's sharp and hard edged animation style shading. The skirt is a weird and mostly nonsensical amalgamation of colors and patterns, with the edges of the pleats clearly disappearing in some spots. The collar and necktie are a mess of competing shapes that don't know how to properly join or overlap naturally. The front seam of the red cardigan has zero interest in following the contours of this character's massive breasts, instead represented as a nearly straight line down the middle despite her being posed in three-quarters view. The entire pose is a complete plastering over of the same one used by the original image, including the hiding of both hands behind the back.
Also keep in mind that this is supposed to be a depiction of the same character as the one in the 'v0.92' update banner, the one talking to twin-tailless Frankenbeth. Again, this is either just another generative AI re-roll using the original image as a source, or a person so slavishly tracing over the AI original that they've recreated most of its problems while introducing some of their own.
This isn't even the end of it either, as two other generative AI images (headshot of Ashley as a store clerk, and a below the waist upward shot of her behind standing at a reception desk in her school uniform) that have also been replaced with poor tracing or source recycled AI.
Not sure I understand... who wants to have access to all the scenes in the game instead of having them paywalled?...
The dev realized that the way he was locking the premium content was braindead simple to get around (literally was just a single line telling the game to skip back to the choice if you clicked the premium choice, but all the scene content was still there so if you removed that line it played like normal). In this version he removed the scene from the script as well as removing the relevant images from the game directory. Drop this patch into the game's root directory (overwrite when prompted) and it should restore all of it plus unlock the scenes.
This isn't even the end of it either, as two other generative AI images (headshot of Ashley as a store clerk, and a below the waist upward shot of her behind standing at a reception desk in her school uniform) that have also been replaced with poor tracing or source recycled AI.
Man... her hair redone feels so wrong. Even funnier when the AI depicts twintails correctly and the remake made her twintails looks like a combination of a ponytail and half-twin tail.[/spoiler]
Ported the old patch to the latest version, it's still missing the "Take a shower with her" scene because that one didn't exist in the version I got the patch data from, so the script lines and images aren't there for me to get them. Went ahead and just packed up a patched version of the full game, because the dev archived everything in the latest build so I had to extract it all to get to the script, so this was easier.
I see many new members who have joined us this month, and I want to thank you for the support, it truly feels like a gift from all of you. It has warmed my heart during these cold winter days.
Setting aside the moral/crusade reasons
please god stick to actual paid-for/regular art instead of AI
I've just seen how it looks and jesus christ it's just genuinely not good looking. Setting aside how bad generative AI is at making good scenes in general, even the characters just straight up don't look good. Details are skewed, asymmetrical, weird.
You already have a good looking artstyle to work with.
Swapping to AI just makes your unique-looking game into 'Yet another game with AI slop artwork'
Ported the old patch to the latest version, it's still missing the "Take a shower with her" scene because that one didn't exist in the version I got the patch data from, so the script lines and images aren't there for me to get them. Went ahead and just packed up a patched version of the full game, because the dev archived everything in the latest build so I had to extract it all to get to the script, so this was easier.
Re-uploaded, not going to bother porting this to the newer version since there's not really any point, no difference in content that can be unlocked and to be honest the game's just not good enough to be worth the effort at this point anyway.
Re-uploaded, not going to bother porting this to the newer version since there's not really any point, no difference in content that can be unlocked and to be honest the game's just not good enough to be worth the effort at this point anyway.
I don't mean to be a bother, but the file posted here is saying something about being in cold storage, and it can't be downloaded. Could you please tell me what's wrong with it?
I don't mean to be a bother, but the file posted here is saying something about being in cold storage, and it can't be downloaded. Could you please tell me what's wrong with it?
Nothing wrong with it, it's just been on there for a while and I don't have a paid account and they don't store things permanently for free.
If you really want it, here. But fair warning it's not really worth it and this is most likely the last time I'll reupload it so if you want it grab it.
I'm going to skip over a lot of the details you mentioned. For Elizabeth's hair, I wanted it to be loose to make her look sad (because she is at that moment).
Other than that, I'm just going to respond to your comments that disgust me.
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You’re saying the AI understands how clothes work on people better, but that doesn’t make any sense. The truth is, AI steals the artistic style from THE BEST artists out there, and there’s nothing we can do about it.
Some details are really beautiful. Artists who charge a reasonable price can't even compete when it comes to these highly technical details.
Now, what did I do?
We can’t afford to hire voice actors, plus animators, plus artists who would charge us $1,000 for every single illustration that was done by AI?
Also, we only had a month to redraw several illustrations.
I did my best, and I did it with passion.
I could have very well left everything as it was if I didn’t care about my game.
I honestly don’t care that you're complaining about this. I know very well that people like you would complain whether AI was involved or not. (Exactly what you're doing, by the way.)
Games like “My Femboy Roommate” are popular and make more money and get more players in just one release because they look great, but that game is entirely made by AI.
And yet, you come here to complain about OUR efforts?
People like you depress me.
You play the game for free, you know I’m going to read your feedback, but instead of encouraging someone, you just choose to be mean.
I had written something much longer and point-by-point, but fuck it, you don't seem worth the effort. So instead we'll go with this.
You don't get to be indignant and play the 'poor starving artist' card when you chose to use the magic plagiarism black box and got caught. The instant you made the choice to do that, you gave up any and all claims to any artistic integrity. You stepped out of the realm of 'content creator', and into the realms of 'self-serving grifter'. Anyone who cries 'but muh passion!' while offloading the creation of said passion onto the aforementioned magic plagiarism black box, is simply full of shit. Full stop. It sounds like you got jealous of the success that other Gen-AI grifters were having, so you gave it a try yourself. That stunt not only didn't magically juice your revenue like you'd hoped, but it seems like you also got a bunch of well deserved blowback that you're now trying to course correct for. Nobody forced you to use Gen-AI. Nobody forces the devs here to add voiced dialogue or animations, plenty of projects are successful without them. Again, all of this was a problem you created. You control scope creep. You control weather or not you use the magic plagiarism black box.
What you cannot control is how other people react to your choices. Tough shit.
