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October Update: #SaveSuni will release on time, despite technical bullshit
🕑 Added 2017-09-30 06:00:00 +0000 UTC Ok hello backers how are you today(SHOUTOUT TO MY BOUND BROTHERS WHAT WHAT )
Did you notice that big pretty lake splash page up top? Who couldn't ride futa dick with that kind of ambiance?
Let's get to it.
1. #SaveSuni Drops In October
You heard it here first, folks. #SaveSuni is coded, implemented, illustrated, and ready for release in every way except...
2. What's the deal with the animations?
The animations are running pretty slowly, and cause the game to devour RAM like a hungry hog. Why is that?
Yeah. Why IS that?
The bug reports we'd gotten (special shoutout to @Max Musterman) about this issue pointed out that our game was actually more resource intensive than Maxed Out Skyrim. This was very surprising to us, because our game is mostly splash pages and text, with occasional gifs of dickgirls railing you right up the ass. Nothing that would require more than 16GB of RAM.
(16 gigs. For fuck's sake.)
So we investigated the issue, and the news was actually quite bad.
Like most of our headaches, it has to do with the limitations of the GameMaker Studio engine.
3. Every Frame A Painting
We added new animations for #SaveSuni--some delicious chocolatey pixels that y'all will assuredly enjoy--but now we can't compile the game anymore.
Here's the unholy combination explaining why:
a. Every graphical asset has to be a picture (sprite), or a succession of pictures (animated sprite). GMS doesn't have native support for videos (or even gifs); it renders animation as pics behind displayed quickly one after another.
b. Pics can only be PNG files.
(The PNG-woke people in the house probably just flinched.)
And not our PNG files: GMS automatically converts pics into pachyderm PNG files.
So! Instead of dealing with light, 100-200 kb.jpg files, Game Maker is trying to render an animation out of pics that are ~4MB each. And when your animations are even a little bit long...
The Shauna/Player scene has about 250 still images in it. It's trying to load (250 x 4 MB = 1 GB) worth of animation and render it every second. It has to do that for EVERY animation, and the amount of animation in our game is already at the hard limit we can compile.
This is quite a problem!
4. What Can We Do? Is #SaveSuni Safe?
Yeah, probably.
We're still investigating solutions—but we're all feeling very excited about some GMS plugins we found literally a day ago, which might allow us to display animations as light .webm files.
So we're trying to overhaul the whole animation system in the next week so we can launch v0.2b on time. But v0.2b is launching in October, goddammit. If we can't fix the animations in time, we'll take them out, and release #SaveSuni as-is. We can always put the animations back in by the public release.
5. In Conclusion:
The situation isn't great, but it isn't dire either—if this doesn't work out, we'll open up the floor to brainstorming, and offering cash bounties to y'all console cowboys who can fix this. Until then, we're gonna take our own college try.
(And, in case you missed it in my Sacha-standard-wall-of-text, #SaveSuni will release on time.)
As ever, thank you for your support.
Sacha Witt
And everyone on the FutaDomWorld Team
Comments
Marek Kowalewski
So is there not going to be a non patreon release
Nyxie
I don't know enough about the issue to fix it but i know enough to know how much of a fuckin chore it will be to fix it, Godspeed soldiers.
Miketyson
i hope they gonna release this week
Chudoku
10 DAYS IN.... not a word on release?
TheOnlyone
Guess not.
Can someone tell me the exact date, please?
Miketyson
day 31 xD
Lenia Rhen
Since it's already October, what day will the 0.2b release come out?
FutaDomWorld
Seems likely, but it's not set in stone. We might want to do a small bugfix release first, or something like that.
Miketyson
next week
Endorius Magmar
Out of curiosity is on time release a fixed date in October or any day within October, also riding Futa dick with that ambience seems like a wonderful time.
Zisso
Ooooof, Can't wait to see some more Futa on male action from you guys :3
Darktoz
Interesting. I always thought Gamemaker is far better at handling different picture formats. Turns out it's a bit like RPG Maker, which can't handle jpg files as well. You might already know this, but tinypng.com shrinks png pictures down (up to %70 percent less) without loosing quality.
Ah guess i never really noticed it. I mean it only slowed down for me when it first loads in and then after that it was fine. So after suni are you guys/gals going to start on my main girl rye?
A
Yeah! So excited! XD Good luck with your animation adventures.
Ryuken
Well, you don't have to release on the 1st of oct or whatever. A couple of extra days wouldn't hurt.
