General Discussion

[Xela]

what this "alpha" actually means for us? can I do stuff just like before?

More people testing the game, maybe some bad tags/code will be exposed.

But yeah, I don't expect anything will be different, not before the training/tags review.

[Xela]

I'd say it's a type of advertising to draw more people to the game and get more help. Very early and unfinished, but playable enough.

Yeah... we could really do with a couple of decent writers that would be willing to really get into development...

[Xela]

I believe that naruto + few rgirls (so the game doesnt crash :-(  ) was a good idea.   

My plan:

Naruto
One Piece
KanColle
Some Bleach (Crazy packs to serve as an example).

- All random girls

What do you guys think?

[DarkTl]

Touhou should be very popular, but it's also one of my biggest packs.

[Xela]

Touhou should be very popular, but it's also one of my biggest packs.

I'll report the size of the release soon, still killing bugs with datafiles and scripts in the packs.

[Xela]

Looks like the size is going to be about 2.6 GB...

[CherryWood]

I'll report the size of the release soon, still killing bugs with datafiles and scripts in the packs.

 There was still something wrong?

[Xela]

 There was still something wrong?

Yeah, other than Darks faulty random girl, all of your packs had mismatched ids vs folder names and an error in the path to explotion for the plain animation. I remoeved that pack from the build for now, that animation could be generally improved.

Now TouHou thing is in the build. I am wrapping up last loose ends and about to build the game. After that I'll have to once again test it because developer have been reporting errors during the building process in latest Ren'Py versions. If that's not the case, I'll start uploading it to Mega.

[CherryWood]

that's strange, I was playing alot these days and didn't noticed any errors with the girls... other that they hate me because I'm broke and don't pay their wages :-)  And animation was also working fine... It must be because of the old files, or I just don't know... I was so sure that I tested it all...

[Xela]

Well, they are all broken now, I've fixed Dark's file since it's in our shared but I don't think I have the permission to edit yours.


3rd time that I have to rebuild the damn thing, I have 0 experience in creating actual builds in Ren'Py

[Xela]

Fourth time is the charm

First time failed half-way because of the size, so I removed the packs.
Second time = Icons in the wrong folder (game instead of base).
Third time = Figured out that window icons and file icons are not the same thing.
Fourth time = Everything seems to be working just file, out icon for now will be a rendered P as in the main screen with background cleaned up a little bit. Doesn't look too shitty.

Going to look into putting the whole thing into a password protected rar archive and upload it to mega now...

[CherryWood]

Yeah, other than Darks faulty random girl, all of your packs had mismatched ids vs folder names and an error in the path to explotion for the plain animation.

I found a source of this renaming bug - Dropbox doesn't synchronize changes in letter sizes  So while I have "Aino_Minako" folder in my main computer, It downloads "aino_minako" folder name in my second computer and tells me that everything if fine! 
...It seems I have to empty my dropbox and redownload everything into it again, because who can knows how many of this can be there... and there's no way to check it just from 1 computer as it seems



seriously...     makes me look like an idiot


But the Shoukaku bug was there, I forget to upload her changes   

[DarkTl]

A common problem among various software.

[Xela]

Shitty mega is failing on the file of this size, doesn't seem like it can be uploaded. I'll either have to find a different host or create a split archive...

[Xela]