Taptus

Weekly summary №8

Added 2025-02-22 10:00:08 +0000 UTC

Hello everyone! I'm already at the finish line and the add-on, as planned, will be released on February 25th. Most of this month I learned new aspects of gamedev and gained knowledge on how to translate a game, generate videos using AI and a bunch of other things.

Unfortunately, not everything I invested time in gave a result or was even worth it. So several times, subscribers criticized me for wasting time on translations ignoring the voting results. I would like to apologize to those who were offended, but I was really interested in how the automatic translation of games to Renpy happens and whether I will be able to make a translation like that on the fly. It will not work.

As for generating videos in the style of the game, so far the Hunyuan stable defusal technology does not yet have the technology to convert images into videos, only text. What's worst is that it requires significantly more video card memory than when generating images. Therefore, for now the best solution is to wait for the release of a model for generating videos from images. I will say right away that public sites with video generation from pictures will not allow generating 18+ video, and this is exactly what is needed for our game.

There is also ANIMATE-DIFF technology, I have not yet reached it. but perhaps it will give me the desired result, I will study this after the release of the 0.6 add-on.

The add-on itself essentially consists of two mini add-ons, where the choices you made in the 0.5 add-on are implemented. Therefore, the add-on may seem shorter than the previous ones, but this is the cost of having such significant choices in the game, because I need to describe how events will develop in both options equally.

I am making a game for the first time and do not know how to do it correctly, so I am experimenting with the presentation and with plot choices, so I am always happy and very grateful for your feedback and constructive criticism. I hope that the 0.6 add-on will not disappoint you