Other games of the same kind

[orrino]

An other creator

https://www.patreon.com/K84

[finnigan]

Just incase anyone gets bored

www.ulmf.org/bbs/showthread.php?t=26828

[Ralcen]

A nice small game

https://www.patreon.com/PORNO/posts

[Temaru]

New game released earlier this week:

www.patreon.com/cesargames

[tonytony]

Thanks for the links everyone, they will keep me busy for a while

[Ralcen]

Hi Folks!

I would like you to look at this artist and his games as I think that the graphic is very nice.

https://www.patreon.com/flamecito/posts

And I belive that he can use every patron he can get as the hurrican Irma has hit his or her home town.

[JFR]

Those of you who are familiar with Tora Productions (Tlaero and Mortze) games know that they are very high quality Adult Interactive Fiction games with high-quality graphics and very imaginative and engrossing stories. Their current series is sometimes called "The Elsa-verse" after the main character in the first game of the interlinked series. The first 3 games developed a multi-chapter story-line through the titles "Dreaming With Elsa", "Redemption for Jessika" and "Finding Miranda." They are getting close to releasing the fourth and final chapter in the larger story arc with their new game "Saving Chloe." They are hoping to be able to release SC in January.

As a patron of Tora Productions (so is Wolfschadowe), I can heartily recommend their games for thoughtful players who enjoy engrossing, interesting stories and really hot girls rendered in great graphics. Anyone who decides to start their games should probably begin with "Dreaming With Elsa" and continue in order. The larger story might not make a lot of sense if played in any other order. All of Tora's games are completely free and can be downloaded from their Patreon page.

In addition to the main games, the team has released a series of short stories to their patrons which fill out the larger universe and background of the story characters. Several of those stories were later released to the general pubic and have been well-received. Tlaero just announced that she has made another of those background stories available to non-patrons. The short story "Dream Master" is now out for the public. It is a little different from their other, primarily graphic, stories in that this one is mostly a text story with a few very nice images dropped in here and there to spice things up. Tlaero is quite a story-teller and this one continues to answer some nagging questions about the background and origin of some of the important characters. It also leaves some additional questions to ponder over. The link for the story and three earlier games is below. Tlaero also included links to the other short stories she has released to the public:

http://the-new-lagoon.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4151

[Tao Dude]

Folks,

I know the waiting is over for now, but in addition to the general endorsement of Tora (Tlaero/Mortze) games, here are a few creators on Patreon that i also support that have not already been mentioned in this thread:

MuseX - Farmer's Dreams
https://www.patreon.com/musex

Jill Gates - Romancing the Kingdom
https://www.patreon.com/jillgates

Faerin - Man of the House
https://www.patreon.com/faerin

There are others, but I won't promote games on here that contain subject matter that is illegal in some jurisdictions.

[JFR]

... I know the waiting is over for now ...

Thanks for the reminder. I've edited the thread title a bit to better represent what it is now.

[Hannibal Barca]

https://www.patreon.com/deepsleep

The artwork is amazing.

[infiniteignorance]

https://www.patreon.com/deepsleep

The artwork is amazing.

1.55GB ...

[JFR]

1.55GB ...

Yeah. There are other games out there that are even larger.

This is perhaps my biggest complaint about many new game developers. They simply do not know, or apparently care to know, that compressing images is simple to do, results in very little image degradation and makes for download packages roughly 75-90% smaller. I even made the suggestion once to a game maker I was supporting and he still regularly posts "updates" that exceed half a GB. I think at least one of the development software tools in common use among adult game makers makes it quite difficult to import compressed jpgs.

I imagine this game is very nice but will not be downloading due to the size.

[Hannibal Barca]

1.55GB ...

Yeah. There are other games out there that are even larger.

This is perhaps my biggest complaint about many new game developers. They simply do not know, or apparently care to know, that compressing images is simple to do, results in very little image degradation and makes for download packages roughly 75-90% smaller. I even made the suggestion once to a game maker I was supporting and he still regularly posts "updates" that exceed half a GB. I think at least one of the development software tools in common use among adult game makers makes it quite difficult to import compressed jpgs.

I imagine this game is very nice but will not be downloading due to the size.

Wasn't that College Life with Mike?

[Tao Dude]

1.55GB ...

Yeah. There are other games out there that are even larger.

This is perhaps my biggest complaint about many new game developers. They simply do not know, or apparently care to know, that compressing images is simple to do, results in very little image degradation and makes for download packages roughly 75-90% smaller. I even made the suggestion once to a game maker I was supporting and he still regularly posts "updates" that exceed half a GB. I think at least one of the development software tools in common use among adult game makers makes it quite difficult to import compressed jpgs.

I imagine this game is very nice but will not be downloading due to the size.

Devs are getting lazy because disk space is relatively cheap: a 2TB SATA drive costs less than £60 in the UK, and they must be cheaper in the US. My main homebrew desktop machine has 6TB and i have another 8TB on my home NAS. I still have 1.5TB spare on my main data disk, so I'll give it a shot. 1.5GB is similar in size to some of the HD videos that I have downloaded from YouTube.

[Wolfschadowe]

Devs are getting lazy because disk space is relatively cheap

The reason I convert to compressed JPG is bandwidth. On one side are those players that might have metered bandwidth, or hidden meters where ISP's throttle back speed. On the other side is bandwidth from my side to provide the bits in the first place. 200,000 downloads at 150MB vs. 200,000 downloads at 1.5GB is a huge difference for hosting costs.

The artwork is amazing.

Yes it is.