discussion VN Ren'Py DAZ Radiant [v0.7.1] [RK Studios]

[Paul Newmon]

is it worth it?

I thought so. I think I am missing out on some sex content...

 

[EvilH]

Is "rpa" the game for Android?

assets.rpa is the games "contents" file for Android, game won't run without this.

true.rpa is the patch. The game will still run without this, but it will be censored.

If this was a one time thing, I think people would still be disappointed but wouldn't mind that much, but unfortunately this is not the first update to take close to year, or even over a year to be released. If I am not mistaken, the only year that this game got more that one release was the year it came out. It got the first release and then an update 7 or 8 months later.
It's not just the update feeling small for the wait time, is that now when people finish an update they are conditioned to believe that they won't get another one for year and they just get frustrated.

Iirc it was only Ch4, Ch5, and Ch7 that took that long.

People tend to exaggerate a little. Dev only started 6 years ago, yet between Radiant Chapters 1-7 and Polarity Chapters 1-4, he's created 11 major content updates while learning code and game design

 

[DexterXSR]

assets.rpa is the games "contents" file for Android, game won't run without this.

true.rpa is the patch. The game will still run without this, but it will be censored.


Iirc it was only Ch4, Ch5, and Ch7 that took that long.

People tend to exaggerate a little. Dev only started 6 years ago, yet between Radiant Chapters 1-7 and Polarity Chapters 1-4, he's created 11 major content updates while learning code and game design

Yeah, It's impressive on the scale of learning the entire engine from scratch and still delivering, I tend to not complain when it comes to stuff like that.

This game has potential and will likely be considered one of the best if it stays at the current level when it's all completed.

 

[BadJM]

assets.rpa is the games "contents" file for Android, game won't run without this.

true.rpa is the patch. The game will still run without this, but it will be censored.


Iirc it was only Ch4, Ch5, and Ch7 that took that long.

People tend to exaggerate a little. Dev only started 6 years ago, yet between Radiant Chapters 1-7 and Polarity Chapters 1-4, he's created 11 major content updates while learning code and game design

I mean those 3 chapters alone make for over 3 years of development and radiant is like what 5 years old now? I am not trying to be a dick or anything like that, but it's just hard to believe that the game will ever be finished at this rate. If I am not mistaken the dev said that the game is supposed to be around 20 chapters, 5 years of development and we aren't even half way there.
I hope things get better in the future, because even if it feels that we aren't getting enough content for the wait time, the content itself is great in my opinion.

 

[Odasto]

So happy this game finally got an update. Hoping future updates will progress faster.

 

[Darktoon]

Update speed so low I forgot about this title, it started so strong but dev takes to long to update so ppl literally forget about the game.

 

[Sukrit22]

a decade and a couple of years later, age about right.

 

[Wankdorf]

Only 5 years to go for more Norah content.

 

[CourierSix]

So I finished the update and it is very short comparatively to the time it took for them to get this out. No way this took a year

 

[Johngawn61]

So bittersweet seeing an update for this game, it's so good but the update pacing is so slow.

 

[funnymonke]

dark scenes with kate are chefs kiss

 

[EvilH]

Yeah, It's impressive on the scale of learning the entire engine from scratch and still delivering, I tend to not complain when it comes to stuff like that.

This game has potential and will likely be considered one of the best if it stays at the current level when it's all completed.

Hopefully things get faster, im sure they will when they're more accustomed to the branching and sort out a good system for it.

So I finished the update and it is very short comparatively to the time it took for them to get this out. No way this took a year

Ch7 is the 2nd largest in the game, it took a year because they canned then rewrote about half the script

 

[Darktoon]

Hopefully things get faster, im sure they will when they're more accustomed to the branching and sort out a good system for it.


Ch7 is the 2nd largest in the game, it took a year because they canned then rewrote about half the script

You know why they did that? I mean rewrote half the script?

 

[ChonkyHeft]

I really like tis game, I played it a long time ago and was like this is gonna be great if they actually keep updating it. Then I completely forgot about it. Just replayed it and I'm surprised that there isn't much new content. Again. Great game but it should be hours more content since I last played it. I hope they can leep it going cuz the story is good the animations are good and darkness is the way to go!!!

 

[sharkz]

Hopefully things get faster, im sure they will when they're more accustomed to the branching and sort out a good system for it.


Ch7 is the 2nd largest in the game, it took a year because they canned then rewrote about half the script

I may be stubborn but i ain't believing that, this is the Changelog for Ch 7:


And this is the Changelog for 0.6.1 which came out in just a couple Months:


See the similarities ? SirD is just impossible as a Dev.

 

[Eternity67]

great game, slow updates

 

[EvilH]

I may be stubborn but i ain't believing that, this is the Changelog for Ch 7:
View attachment 552797

And this is the Changelog for 0.6.1 which came out in just a couple Months:
View attachment 552802

See the similarities ? SirD is just impossible as a Dev.

I don't know what you're suggesting, but it sounds like "they rewrote more than half the chapter" is going in one ear and out the other. In other words... they wrote the entire chapter, then scrapped and rewrote half of it, which is what's cited as causing the delay. Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 are roughly the same size but Chapter 6 didn't get a rewrite after it was nearly finished being developed, which is the difference I was referencing.

The changelogs you showed does not disprove or change any of that.

Here's the official comms about what caused Ch7's delay:

This chapter was difficult, because it's the first time I deviated significantly from the typical formula... that formula being: 50% triplets, 10-30% Brooke, 10-20% everyone else. This chapter was about 65% Brooke, and for that reason I needed it to be on par with previous chapters story-wise. This is hard to do, because a lot of the magic of Radiant comes from the triplets... and without their "support", it can be quite hard to make things hit as hard.

When I was all but finished with Chapter 7, I started testing it... and it didn't hit as hard. I was at an impasse: release it, or do a rewrite. 70 pages of rewritten story, code, more renders/animations and a few months later... and here we are with Ch7 in your hands.

 

[cptgrinner]

abandoned?

 

[EvilH]

abandoned?

nope, it just got an update a few days ago.

 

[cptgrinner]

nope, it just got an update a few days ago.

awesome ty