Saturday, February 9, 2013

Finally done!

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やっとゲームが完成しました。
もうすぐDLSiteで売る予定です。ご期待を!
(他の販売オプションは今の所予定しておりません。)
今の所バグの修正や色々とテストしています。

そして、只今大問題が発生しており修正に時間が掛かっています。。。
一番の問題は、資源が物凄くいっぱい場所を取い、
このゲームだけで2GB RAMを使い切ってしまいます。
(というわけ、2GB RAM以上のパソコンしか使うことができません。)


原因は最大グラフィック、CGなどなど使用しており、そしてすべてプリロードされています。
RAMを始める前からゲームグラフィックがロードされます。
 なんとかRAMの使用量を削減できるかどうか色々試してみたのですが、残念なが2GBRAM以下に軽減することはできませんでした。


BGMやグラフィックの切り取りややり直しはおいておいて、他の唯一の方法はゲーム自体の再プログラムコアパーツ。必要なときに外部からのデータを格納し、それをロードするとう方法。
しかし、それをやるには余りにも時間が掛かるだろう。。。
(もうすでにお金と時間を使い切っています。。。)

も うとっくの昔にこのゲームを完成したかったんだ。本音を言うともう一回やり直しが出来るほど力はありません。
それだったら最初から他の新しいゲームやグラフィックや、コードを作ったほうがいいです。

今までたためてきた経験を他のプロジェクトに使いもっといいゲームを作る予定です。
正直にいうと、我々が作る将来のゲームはKyrieruさんと同じ方向にいくと思います。
別に彼のゲームをコピーしようとは思っていません。ただ彼のゲームを遊んでいる時、とても楽しい気分になるので私たちは彼みたいな道を歩むことを判断しました。
(目障りなグラブから離れて、もっと2Dアクションとチャレンジゲームにする予定です)


 過去を見て 2012年の3月に作り上げたゲームがとうとう完成するなんて変な感じがします。
我々全員初心者として始めて作り上げたプロジェクトです。
 (ゲームアート、プログラミング、翻訳、アフレコ、音楽などなど)
 二人はフルタイムで半年間働いて、他の人はいくつかの小さな課題をやってくれました。
すべてのチームメンバーとヘルパーとすべてのファンのサポートに沿って、ありがとう!


Well, the game is finally done.
We are planning to sell it on DLSite soon, so stay tuned.
(no other sales options are planned as of now)
Right now we are testing the game, and fixing all bugs that we might encounter.

We also ran into a problem that did cost us a lot of time to fix...
The main issue is, that the game eats up a LOT of ressources.
As far as it is now, the game alone uses up roughly about 2 GB RAM.
(so you need MORE than 2 GB RAM on your computer in order for the full version to run!)


This is because of the large graphics, CGs etc. and the fact that it's all being preloaded.
Yes, the game loads all the graphics it has, right at the beginning when you start it up into your RAM.
We already tried everything to reduce the RAM usage, but we were not able to reduce it beneath 2 GB RAM.

Aside from removing/reworking some of the graphics or music, the only other way would be to reprogramm core parts of the game itself, in order to externally store the data and load it up when it's needed.
But those solutions would cost too much time to do...
(we spend way too much time and money on this already)


We wanted to finish this game a long time ago already, and to be honest, we are not willing to rework so much stuff...
it would be easier to build up a completely new game from scratch, with new graphics, new code, and external data usage.

That's what we plan to do, using all the experience we had made with this project, taking it over to the next one, and doing a way better game.

To be honest, I believe most of our future games will be oriented into the same direction that Kyrieru takes with his games.
I'm not saying that we will copy the way he does his games, but I admire the way he makes
his games playing experience feel, and I think it would be the right decision to shift the gameplay feeling into a similar direction.
(away from annoying grabs etc. more towards 2D platformer action, and challenging gameplay)


Looking back, it's a weird feeling to get a project finally done, since all of this "officially" started back in march 2012.
It's our first game project that we ever did, and all of us started out as novices.
(game art, programming, translation, voice acting, music etc.)
In total 2 people had been working about 6 months full-time on this.
While several others helped out with smaller tasks.

Thanks to all team members, helpers and of course all our fans for their support all along!









10 comments:

  1. awesome job,if you are plannig sell on dlsite the game will be censored right? Will there be uncensored patch?

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    1. Yes, there will be an uncensored patch, as well as an english patch.
      (both seperately)
      I'll post the details when I post the info about the patches.

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  2. i also have a idear.. lol. because all the updates lookes so super. and i like to play this game. and i dont have money i think it would be a good idear to put the download on the site here instead of dl site ;)
    just kidding boys or girl. i really love it but i wassent kidding about me not having money. so. good luck with the sell of the game

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  3. Oh great, this is one of the first hentai games I ever played (that wasn't absolute crap), and I have been looking forward to the full release ever since. Can't wait. <3

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  4. What are we looking at in terms of cost, though? How much do you plan on selling this awesomeness for? lol.

    Cheap, I hope...money's tight

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    1. We planned to sell it for the average price that games of similar caliber sell for on DLSite, after we took a good look on other games.

      This means that it will be reasonable for japanese standards.
      But I guess if you view it from a western standards point, it's a bit expensive...

      After DLSite and Curious Factory get their share, only about 55% of the money makes it way to our team, if I'm correct.
      (which has a major influence on the total price)

      Unfortunately we currently have no other means of selling the game differently, but as I mentioned on the new blog post, we are thinking about starting to accept donations, and maybe this opens up some different possibilities.

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  5. Congrats on finishing. I look forward to playing the final product.

    Just make sure it's well tested, because it's a bit of a hassle to update products on Dlsite. You don't have access to it directly, so instead you have to contact curious factory through email.

    I remember testing Kurovadis a lot before finishing, but after releasing it it seemed like I was rushing to fix bugs for the next few days straight.

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    1. Thanks for the advice, it helps a lot.
      I didn't know that the contact with curious factory is mainly by e-mail until I read it on your blog, and checked it afterwards on DLSite myself.

      And yup, final testing is very important, I just hope I found and fixed all the important bugs.
      (it's certainly more of a gamble to stumble upon some bugs)

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  6. Congratz! As soon as it is up, I will gladly purchase it!

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  7. Btw. Is the game name still paperheads?

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