Fire of Life: New Day
Darken Visuals Developer
Darken Visuals Publisher
2022-12-14 Release
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Follow-Up
I routinely check the GitHub page for Renpy to see where they are. They have two crucial milestones: 8.1/7.6 Prerelease and 8.1/7.6 Release. Currently, the only thing in the "Release" milestone relates to Live2D. Now, I am familiar with Live2D and like some of the games that use them. However, not something I use. So unless there is something stops the game from functioning, I will likely start work with the pre-release. Good chance that it will be pre-released before I finish the bug testing for Eric Day 1. So included in that release will be updated images/movies.
I did get a comment about file size (as long as it doesn't exceed 500MB). I have a few thoughts of game size:
Fire of Life: New Day could get big if I am not careful. I remember back when played my first RenPy game, and going "Wow, that is a large file". Furthermore, I remember how disinterested I got because I had to update it with yet another big download. Thankfully, Steam only sends the changed/missing files, and Renpy has ways of organizing files. Part of why I put all the scripts in defines.rpa is that if there is a bug..it is a 1.6MB download vs. 200MB. Given the complex story, the size of the RPAs will get larger, but I want to make sure it is within reason.
However, I am not going to randomly reduce a file size. I once went too far, and the renders looked..eh. Right now, WebP should be at 95% quality and the WebM should be at 22 Quality according to Handbrake (export as mov, and use Handbrake for final compression since Adobe doesn't have a native tool that works well in my opinion). The AV1 version split the video file size in half with the same quality. On average, I saw the AVIF achieving the look I want with a much smaller size then WebP was achieving for the same result.
It should not affect your ability to play the game at all. Renpy uses FFMPEG to play, which is always included in the renpy folder as part of the install. :) There are small things in 8.1 that will make me change a few things to ensure it plays, but...easily fixed.
One of the primary reasons I use 8.0.3 is because of Python 3. Long story short: I am an IT person. So, I recognize certain issues with using a language no longer supported by the community (python 2.7). However, the drawback is that Renpy 8.0.3 only delivers 64-bit executables, which will not play on 32-bit Operating Systems. So... If someone wants me to make a version that able to be used by Windows 32-bit (Windows 7 to Windows 10 since 11 is 64-bit only), let me know. I will create a 7.6 version of the game. :)
[ 2023-03-31 18:36:04 CET ] [ Original post ]
Renpy 8.1
I routinely check the GitHub page for Renpy to see where they are. They have two crucial milestones: 8.1/7.6 Prerelease and 8.1/7.6 Release. Currently, the only thing in the "Release" milestone relates to Live2D. Now, I am familiar with Live2D and like some of the games that use them. However, not something I use. So unless there is something stops the game from functioning, I will likely start work with the pre-release. Good chance that it will be pre-released before I finish the bug testing for Eric Day 1. So included in that release will be updated images/movies.
Size
I did get a comment about file size (as long as it doesn't exceed 500MB). I have a few thoughts of game size:
Size of Game
Fire of Life: New Day could get big if I am not careful. I remember back when played my first RenPy game, and going "Wow, that is a large file". Furthermore, I remember how disinterested I got because I had to update it with yet another big download. Thankfully, Steam only sends the changed/missing files, and Renpy has ways of organizing files. Part of why I put all the scripts in defines.rpa is that if there is a bug..it is a 1.6MB download vs. 200MB. Given the complex story, the size of the RPAs will get larger, but I want to make sure it is within reason.
Quality
However, I am not going to randomly reduce a file size. I once went too far, and the renders looked..eh. Right now, WebP should be at 95% quality and the WebM should be at 22 Quality according to Handbrake (export as mov, and use Handbrake for final compression since Adobe doesn't have a native tool that works well in my opinion). The AV1 version split the video file size in half with the same quality. On average, I saw the AVIF achieving the look I want with a much smaller size then WebP was achieving for the same result.
Ability to Play
It should not affect your ability to play the game at all. Renpy uses FFMPEG to play, which is always included in the renpy folder as part of the install. :) There are small things in 8.1 that will make me change a few things to ensure it plays, but...easily fixed.
7.6
One of the primary reasons I use 8.0.3 is because of Python 3. Long story short: I am an IT person. So, I recognize certain issues with using a language no longer supported by the community (python 2.7). However, the drawback is that Renpy 8.0.3 only delivers 64-bit executables, which will not play on 32-bit Operating Systems. So... If someone wants me to make a version that able to be used by Windows 32-bit (Windows 7 to Windows 10 since 11 is 64-bit only), let me know. I will create a 7.6 version of the game. :)
[ 2023-03-31 18:36:04 CET ] [ Original post ]
A new year starts at the Oakland Institute where college students return for business as usual. Except, life is anything but usual with strange supernatural events going on. For one young man, the appearance of a fiery redhead shakes things up. For another young lady, she adapting to life after being imprisoned in a pocket dimension for most of her life. Oh, yea...a family of vampires seem to be making power moves that causes concern. A powder keg of supernatural energies ready to explode.
Fire of Life: New Day is part one of a series of planned Adult Visual Novels that follows five different storylines (fae, vampire. mage, shifter, and demon) that interconnect at different points. There is not a single main character, but you can customize it by being able to rename characters to your liking. It uses Renpy to facilitate the story, so the normal features (Replay, Galleries, and Save Options) are included. In addition to those features, there are content filters (NSFW and Content Warning) that lead to alternate scenes for individuals. :)
Fire of Life: New Day is part one of a series of planned Adult Visual Novels that follows five different storylines (fae, vampire. mage, shifter, and demon) that interconnect at different points. There is not a single main character, but you can customize it by being able to rename characters to your liking. It uses Renpy to facilitate the story, so the normal features (Replay, Galleries, and Save Options) are included. In addition to those features, there are content filters (NSFW and Content Warning) that lead to alternate scenes for individuals. :)
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- Processor: 2.0 Ghz 64-bit Intel-compatibleMemory: 2 GB RAM
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 3.0
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