Published: December 4th 2021, 8:52:55 pm
I'm having performance issues in somatra and because of that many people don't play my game or support me here.
I honestly have received many PMS from players who enjoyed the game but can't play for a long time without crashing.
This is happening because renpy is not structured to support a game like somatra. Everything is done on video and this greatly reflects on the weight of the game and its processing.
I want to solve this problem but I can't make such an important decision without consulting my patreons after all you are the ones who paid for my work and should be involved in all the important decisions that I have to make during the game.
I found some possible solutions that will take some time to do. Please if you have any ideas other than the ones I've considered here say it.
1- Change engine ( Rpg maker mv )
It's powerful enough to support somatra however it would take approximately 45~50 days to transfer the actual game content to Rpgmaker Mv and it would be costly to implement since to reflect the reality of somatra. I would have to make some investments in tiles sets/music/effects and character sprites.
2- Remove the videos from somatra.
I like to make somatra the way it's, but maybe doing it that way is dreaming too much. Even with a very good pc sooner or later you will also have performance problems.
When I say remove it's not radically it's about 90%~95% only in some important scenes like Alisa firing the gun, Alisa kissing Emily, the first blowjob, and so on.
How good this solution will be;
An absurd reduction in-game size (It's simple math the current video folder as (1.41 GB) 90% of it it's 1.26GB the game will degree his size from 1.6GB to more or less 350MB~410MB
Production speed (make videos take a lot of time)
For example, o took about 12~16 hrs to do the fire range Cg
Take a screenshot it's just pressing a button.
Processing speed, greatly reducing game laggy (my goal)
the image cache will load a lot of images not a lot of videos.
3- Make a separate version of the somatra without animations,
The benefits would be the same as the 2 options expected by production speed cause will be slower since I'll make a game with video and another game with images only. I would have my work doubled this I'll impact the number of things that's I can do in one month it's the same as keeping 2 games developing at the same time.
As much you might believe it's just replacing videos with images and compiling is much more complicated than that.
Regardless of what will be decided here Today, I hope you can continue to trust and believe in my work, I know, I made some mistakes and failed to meet one or another condition in my dev road.
But I always tried my best to deliver my work about that no one can say anything
When I begin to produce somatra I was aiming to bring something different and unique from the hentai world, my goal it's make a game memorable like those in 2009 that's you are always back to playing it again. even knowing everything about that's game with me it's the princess sacrifice ( I finish that game about 8 times )
I Still have a lot to learn, Thank You for Your support And patience.