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Poll: Animation

  • Yes, I want animations added to the game 954
  • No, no animations are needed in the game 141
  • Animation of Sarah being covered in "food"... WHERE'S MY MONEY??? 235
  • 2018-10-28
  • 1330 votes
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Content

Hello to everyone reading. Some time ago we found a very good animation artist and decided to try adding animations to the game, starting from something relatively simple, the Main menu. 

The animation came out pretty good and we think is of high quality. Together with the artist we analyzed the game and pointed out some moments where his work would be relevant. In the future, we are hoping to be able to plan out scenes with the fact that we can animate them in our minds, so that we can make them truly EPIC! Though some scenes will still only contain still images.

Now, the main question: Do you want it? 

Animating scenes and optimizing the animations is a very hard job (ahem, and expensive...) and takes a lot of time, so we'll have to restructure our development process a bit so as not to slow it down in general. 

If the majority of our players decide that animation should be included in the game, we will set a new project goal which upon reaching it will enable us to actually hire the artist (we'll decide the goal's amount after consulting with the artist himself after you decide whether you want animations in the game or not). 

Time to vote! We need to know your opinions! Thank you for participating in the poll! See you all in the next post.

P.S. There are no animations in the game as of right now, we're still working on optimizing them.

P.S. For some reasons Patreon is compressing gifs in posts, here's the original file: Mainanimtion-with-dust

Yours,Shadow Portal team.

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Comments

SpectralTime

I am voting "no" not because I dislike the artist's work, but because I am leery of adding to an already ambitious project in this way.

Fredinator

I only want it when it doesn't delay releases which it probably will

yAKZmv

Animation is very abitous. To what extend to you intent to animate a scene? Like 3 picture loop or completly smooth animation like in the Mainanimation-with-dust? Of course everybody would choose a good animation over still frames, however it is very difficult to judge whether spending 10x the amount of time on one scene is really worth it. I would like to see a "food" animation for reference first before deciding to have every scene like that.

allroundperv

Personally I would just like less Stukov and more Zerg on Kerrigan action. Animations are cool but typically very time consuming, I would think of those only after the alpha project is completed.

sheng

if i can be honest, i dont like the idea of animation, could take too much time to do, will take off all the lore and only based in visual porn.. and i like more the interactions in cuts, cuz they are so fucking funny xD if animation is incuded it could be better to do it like another panel, in the main menu add the animation for certain escenes.. and not to the game cuz that will take a long shit to do xD

Alice

I think that animation looks really good, would like to see more of it, but if you feel it takes to much, or is to costly, I don't know.. but I voted yes, in any case...

John Doe

Prioritise the animation for last. The most important is prioritising the storyline first. There's so many games out there that are doing v well because of the storyline and progression, not the animation.

John Doe

So all of this wouldn't impact on the usual delivery schedule?

Oak Oakman

is that animation going to be done soon or do we have to wait until next update to see the beautiful animation of my crush of Sarah

TheBigKebowski

Downloaded version 0.13.1 for Mac. Had previous played 0.11.2 for 28 'days'. When I start in 0.13.1, it shows 28 days and is in the same part of the game -- only problem is that Sarah's items (e.g. lingerie) are not there, so cannot do so much. How do I get that back?

Mikhail

Hi SP! Are you planning to continue feeding events? =)

Victor Ray

Здравствуйте, хотел бы узнать, на какой стадии сейчас новая версия, спасибо

Purich rip

When will it be released v0.14 ? I hope before the end of the year.

Oak Oakman

shouldnt there be a release for the v0.14 today?!? i have been waiting for this update since i completed v 0.13.1.. anyways you are so slow these days

Oak Oakman

... it has already been the 14th january.. what timezone are you in so i can check it out when the right time of the release comes?

jay

Still waiting for this :)