how do you make a VN 7 GB
169 days ago (+7)(-2)
sounds like you just wanna be right and not submit to the facts because you're angry over a VN having better quality than most, at least caribdis puts their heart into this for us fans. stay mad.
168 days ago(-1)
ironically, I found this out after I posted this comment. Yeah, you are right. Now I'm having the same questions as you
167 days ago(+4)
This game uses video files, not gifs. Also those images number by the thousands, so compression alone would only reduce file size to a point.
168 days ago(+5)
His questions weren't offensive, go easy on your angry responses folks.
You're right, everything is already rendered in advance, nothing is rendered at runtime.
- The playtime of this AVN is already very impressive, for a slow player like me it's ~30 hours already.
- There are a lot of different renders. Every frame is a new render, there's little reuse and there are no shortcuts. That makes the bulk of the size, we're close to 10.000 of them I think.
- There are hundreds of animations, which are, on average, longer than in your typical AVN. And a lot of them have a moving camera, which drives up their size too.
- The game also goes heavy on music & SFX, we might have passed the thousand mark on them already.
So yeah, it's a lot. Media compression is already being used, though you can always push it a bit more in exchange for worse quality, like they do in the Android version.