Just started with the new release. I am not so happy to play it part male MC.
Will this be better handled in the future?
Maybe I'll wait until then.
We are trying to figure out a solution for it, The major hold up is the sexual content, as MF sexual content will be completely different then FF, so its not something that can be rendered concurrently like other things, usually when its just simple things like a visible hand or body part we render those at the same time, its not to difficult, its just the sexual results in longer time, especially when it comes to animations, we are working on ways to solve this, but requires some upgrades.
personally, i feel that rendering a whole new set of scenes is just slowing down production and wasting your very good rendering skills on a such a low-demand feature. like, you're putting all this effort into something that maybe 5% of players (and thats being generous suggesting that 5% of itch-io users are female) are even going to access. i know that i for one will never play the female version, i just dont relate to it.
You may be surprised, even with our comics we have maintained a pretty large female following. I might need to run a poll to see what the ratio is right now. But yeah i understand not relating to the female route, but I will say, the female route day 1 ending has some sexy animations :) and day 2 opening with Alex is pretty sexy as well.
We are working on some upgrades to allow us to render animations faster which will solve the fear of delays due to the multiple routes.
i wouldnt be surprised about the comics, cos comics in general really have been trending in popculture for a couple of decades now, as opposed to the early days of 'only geeks read comics'. "geek is cool bro" #WordsHaveMeanings, but i digress :p
but AVNs specifically out of the VN genre? from my maybe limited observations, more girls seem to be authoring them than playing them.
and while i might admire the technical aspects of the rendering¹, girl on girl just does nothing for me, unless its incidental to a 3some.
having said that, no complaints from me. slow plot progress is better than a stagnating game :) two "days" in ~60ish days, is not bad at all.
¹ you are using some really good lighting and reflection settings in your renders, they look amazing, without having that horrible "too much detail" feel you get from higher resolutions..
i mean, 4k IRL-video can be completely change a movie, removing the 'magical feel' provided by a slight fuzziness to the image, the slightly blurred quality of old VHS standards kinda lend a 'dreamy' feel to films..
you ride that line between 'TMI', and 'looks like IRL', love your work