[Annoucement] Decadence Island - Levels

[WatchItDry]

Hey there WatchItDry! I have a lot of feedback to share with you.

Hey thanks for the feedback I'll respond more in depth when I can spend more time on each idea. It was a lot but a lot of great stuff.

I did just add an online beta version if you'd like to check it out. I'm hoping it runs smooth on a majority of pc's since the main issue is file size.

Thanks again for feedback glad to hear you're enjoying it!!

Is this an online beta for Level 1 or next one? :) I would love to check it out and come back with some feedback

I just added level zero online version here. But patrons can download the complete game with both levels together.

[w3wt]

Looks good but the videos dont load fast enough for the online version. It just ends up freezing and buffering for the first half of almost all videos.

[Sicarius]

Looks good but the videos dont load fast enough for the online version. It just ends up freezing and buffering for the first half of almost all videos.

Worked perfectly fine for me and I have only 20mb/s download, so maybe your download speed is just awful?

[book_guy]

Hey guys made http://DecadenceIsland.com to help explain what is a CHRPG. If you get a sec please check it out and advise any info or questions I should include.

Thanks again everyone for your feedback and support. It is what keeps this game evolving and improving every update!!

I offer the below in the hopes you'll make as many of these games and modules and videos as possible, I LOVE them as do many other dudes here at Milovana, and I want to do whatever I can to help ensure they're as excellent and available as possible.

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Oh look, I can go to a website! Instead of downloading your excellent games and playing them, I can just surf the web to look at videos about your games, and images from them. Nice! So can search-spiders. If it's in a download-able file, spiders don't find it, is my guess. But when it's just "up" at an image-host or web-host, the porn police start getting ornery. I think? Anyway, when you start posting stuff on the web that includes images which other people are likely to claim copyright to, you are crossing into a different sort of territory, I think. I have no personal objections, I want things to be as damned hot and horny as possible, just from a personal point of view, LOL. But I suspect that the act of downloading something, in other words, of going out to fetch a single file that has been announced to only a rather small community, is sort of a "firewall" between the copyright-police (or copyright-trolls) and your use of the materials that they may want to protect. Whereas, the act of PUBLICIZING it, by posting it up on the web where "everyone" can see it (as long as they find it), well, to me, that kind of ruins that "firewall" status. I dunno ... very hotness stuff, thanks for your efforts, I may be just paranoid here, I leave it up to your judgment. :)

[WatchItDry]

Looks good but the videos dont load fast enough for the online version. It just ends up freezing and buffering for the first half of almost all videos.

Worked perfectly fine for me and I have only 20mb/s download, so maybe your download speed is just awful?

Cool glad to hear its working smooth. This will most likely be the new standard distribution method for these games. This would allow for a virtually limitless amount of clips and rounds and remove a lot of roadblocks I was hitting by trying to keep filesize below 4gb.

I offer the below in the hopes you'll make as many of these games and modules and videos as possible, I LOVE them as do many other dudes here at Milovana, and I want to do whatever I can to help ensure they're as excellent and available as possible.

Thanks appreciate the support!!

[WatchItDry]

Hey there WatchItDry! I have a lot of feedback to share with you. First off, let me start by saying I love what you've been working on and am looking forward to seeing even more of it. I already became a patron for you the other night so do expect to see more support from me in the future. With that said, here comes my thoughts:

Thanks for the support it's much appreciated and I hope to continue to improve on the game with each update.

Perhaps you could include more cumshots that involve facials/tits/ass/pussy/etc. It would be awesome if you had some kind of balance using both your models and video scenes.

Glad to hear you enjoy the 3d art!! okay so the cumshot specials will have new skills added that the hero can acquire. This way he can choose. And will work on finding the balance for including both models a vid clips as well.

I love how you included an animated version of your models in the lower corner to represent the beat meter. It was especially great seeing how they were animated for the climax of the full cock hero round. Please do more of this! It's just too hot and awesome to not see more!

Glad to hear people are enjoying this!! In the future this will eventually be completely animated with voice.

The moans are a great addition! Maybe have a variety of male moans for when the player takes damage/dies? Y'know, like when a dude is about to bust his load. Just nothing too crazy, haha. :p

When I was doing the audio I started to do this. I just couldn't find the right sound without it being to over bearing but will look into this again.

I think your choice of releasing your RPG in levels rather than a giant full game file is a wise decision. Please continue to do this! It gets your content out faster and allows your audience to enjoy your latest work sooner. Which also allows us to send you feedback quicker.

Will do!!

I think I liked it better when a CH clip would play after you defeated a slut. Although I can also see how some would find it tedious, having that on top of playing other clips in the middle of battle.

I kind of did also but for cumshot skills, and orgy party skills (which is releasing next), to be effective sluts need to be able to cast spells(vids). So like you said having that extra clip play on the end wouldn't work for regular battles. Maybe will look into expanding death seen of sluts to work as a kind of transition back into world.

The random encounters kind of makes things boring,

Yea sorry about that. Now that the game is hosted I can now go back and add little side quests and hidden clips. So a lot of fun things to come.

1) More use of your 3D art models. Especially for the cumshots/death scenes. I love seeing these. Your work is great!

If the player's HP hits zero from doing battle, it would be awesome to get a more "in depth" or longer cumshot "death scene" as a result

Oh yea I had a coding issue trying to get that to work. Will look at it again and see if I can figure something out.

An "Overkill" segment for when the player gets beaten in battle.

I like this idea a lot actually. I will start to think of ways to implement in future updates.

Basically, my idea is that each enemy/slut has a pose/position as their "elemental weakness".

Another great idea will have to work on implementing.

differentiation between lower level sluts and higher level sluts

I get what you're saying and I have a boss battle i'm working on that would be similar to that. I don't think i'd be able to do with each slut tho since there might not have been enough content of that particular model created. But will keep in mind to add a little more tease for each model.

More of your unique 3D models being used for the beat meter, and more animated use of their mouths...or tits...or whatever you can think of besides just their hand stroking your dick. ;p

Oh yea this will happen... gradually. There was an edge part in the end of Natali's round with Ava's BM teasing oral

Thanks again for feedback a lot of great ideas have just been added to the to do list!!

[chalkboardcamper]

I wonder if there's a way to cache the downloads to save bandwidth/reduce buffering on already downloaded clips?

[VonWoosen]

I just tested your online version of the game. Still love the game, but I had a lot of issues with buffering and the video's not playing smoothly. I have a decent connection where I am at, but depending on where the server is that hosts your game, this could cause a lot of users to have difficulty enjoying the smooth content from downloading the entire game. I see a lot of potential on the online version, we get the file faster, we play faster, you can update content more smoothly. The only issue is to fix the latency issues with the video stream, you would have to reduce the quality of video and that unfortunately is one of the many things I love about this game is the high quality video. I hope you can find a happy medium for the users of the game that supports your creative process but allows each version to be played cleanly and at high quality.

Thanks

[WatchItDry]

I wonder if there's a way to cache the downloads to save bandwidth/reduce buffering on already downloaded clips?

I originally made a browser version but it was buggy from the start and ultimately only started playing first 5 secs of vid then moving it to the background for some reason.

I just tested your online version of the game. Still love the game, but I had a lot of issues with buffering and the video's not playing smoothly. I have a decent connection where I am at, but depending on where the server is that hosts your game, this could cause a lot of users to have difficulty enjoying the smooth content from downloading the entire game. I see a lot of potential on the online version, we get the file faster, we play faster, you can update content more smoothly. The only issue is to fix the latency issues with the video stream, you would have to reduce the quality of video and that unfortunately is one of the many things I love about this game is the high quality video. I hope you can find a happy medium for the users of the game that supports your creative process but allows each version to be played cleanly and at high quality.

Thanks

I appreciate your concern I'll still release a downloadable version but it will have a lot of stuff blocked. and just be the new quest and level. Only real difference is online version will have it all in one game and may get a few bonus quests of just random ideas I have that I'm not able to do in the single level versions.

Regarding the hosting I'm planning to wait a month or so after a few people have got a chance to play it and see what data there is to review. Then with that data talk to my hosting guy and see if setting up an alternate server in the most popular country would help or if maybe theres something else that can be done. I do believe that hosting is the way to go tho. Just gonna take some time to get it running smoothly. But should be worth it since the variety and randomness of clips gained through hosting is what will make it that much more entertaining

[book_guy]

If you guys are concerned about having to re-download files via torrent, I can suggest (maybe I don't understand the issue?) that a torrent's contents can be changed even though it's still being uploaded / downloaded. In that case, as long as any recipient keeps his received files in the same folder-structure by which they arrived via the torrent, then his torrent client will recognize those files and will not re-download them, but instead will simply add whatever files are new to the torrent. Additionally, if you don't want to change the original torrent, you can simply make a new torrent which mimics all the old files' folder-structures, with new files added; any recipient who has who kept that folder-structure will (as above) download in a manner that ADDS to his collection without having to RE-download what he already has. Is that helpful? Or did I not "get" the extra-files-downloading-bandwidth problem that I'm trying to address? Anyway, have fun y'all!

[Xudmud]

Unfortunately for me you used an audio with a beat that can't keep proper time so it pulls me out of the game. It is so off beat so quickly.

I think that was the source video, I think whoever made it didn't factor in the fluctuating bpm in whatever song they were using.

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Except for the "Complex" section, which is still just what the fuck

edit: I think part of the issue on size is it seems (at least for the offline version) that all of the videos are embedded in the same .exe as the game itself, as opposed to separate file(s). If you had a way to put those in separate files (even if they aren't just the straight video files, so long as the game can read from them) it might mitigate file size, plus make it easier to add/remove/change videos.

Another comment, just for fun I was watching my network activity... It seems the game's streaming whichever scene it's playing from scratch each time it plays, instead of streaming the first time and then pulling from a cache. Just feels really inefficient network-wise.

Last comment... I decided when I was playing the online version to head directly into the maze without stopping at the Nymph Island first... And never met Aubri once through the entire maze. Dunno if it was by design or just RNG rolling against me.

(true last comment): Will progress from Level Zero be able to carry over to Level One?

[Lanyx]

You all do realize that the source video for Level 0 was Cock Hero: Skin which I believe was created by Watch it Dry right?

[WatchItDry]

I think part of the issue on size is it seems (at least for the offline version) that all of the videos are embedded in the same .exe as the game itself, as opposed to separate file(s). If you had a way to put those in separate files (even if they aren't just the straight video files, so long as the game can read from them) it might mitigate file size, plus make it easier to add/remove/change videos.

This won't change the fact that with each new release the game grows. And would just increase the chance of error since player would have to switch clips in and out. Each level currently has about 20 clips and is about 3-4gb. When Peyton, Ari, and Summer are released they're each going to want their own clips which will increase with the more spells/skills they get. So with just one level and main cast you're looking at around 20gb. Then there's all the hidden content that isn't part of main story. Basically it's just a huge game. This is why we have decided to host it and will continue to look at ways at improving our hosting so everyone will have the same enjoyable experience.

I decided when I was playing the online version to head directly into the maze without stopping at the Nymph Island first... And never met Aubri once through the entire maze. Dunno if it was by design or just RNG rolling against me.

This is just RNG nothing is different between hosted and online versions.

Will progress from Level Zero be able to carry over to Level One?

Yes you'll be able to use game saves in all levels new and old.

[untankable]

After playing level one for the tribute chest.

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I assume I didnt miss anything by just staying on that little island running around until I get 5000 coins for the chest? Or did I miss something?

[WatchItDry]

After playing level one for the tribute chest.

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I assume I didnt miss anything by just staying on that little island running around until I get 5000 coins for the chest? Or did I miss something?

I'm working on a guide/walkthrough now should be up and running in a few days...

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Each beach slut on intro island has a hidden tribute chest. I believe after you release 3 times it unlocks.