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Spectacle8011 Feb 2, 2024

I somehow missed A YEAR OF SPRINGS, which is a fantastic visual novel by npckc. It’s on sale for 29%.

A YEAR OF SPRINGS

Three women, three stories, three springs. Experience the stories of Haru, Erika, an

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Spectacle8011 Feb 2, 2024

GOG New Year 2024 Sale (386 VNs on sale until 5th of February)

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GOG New Year 2024 Sale (386 VNs on sale until 5th of February) - Comfy Snugs

GOG, the DRM-free game store, is having a new year sale until February 5th. It includes discounts up to 90% off, and encompasses over 4600 games and 386 visual novels. Here are some interesting picks: * Eliza (50% off) [https://www.gog.com/en/game/eliza] * Higurashi Hou Series (50% off), Dual Language [https://www.gog.com/en/game/higurashi_when_they_cry_hou_ch1_onikakushi]; the first game is Free. * Umineko Series (40% off) Question Arcs [https://www.gog.com/en/game/umineko_when_they_cry_question_arcs] | Answer Arcs [https://www.gog.com/en/game/umineko_when_they_cry_answer_arcs] - this series is slow, but really good, and includes the original Japanese script. * Baldr Sky (40% off) [https://www.gog.com/en/game/baldr_sky] * A Tavern For Tea (16% off), Dual Language [https://www.gog.com/en/game/a_tavern_for_tea] * A HERO AND A GARDEN (10% off), Dual Language [https://www.gog.com/en/game/a_hero_and_a_garden]: This is mostly an idle game, but it has a great story. Be sure to check out other games from npckc [https://www.gog.com/games?developers=npckc] that aren’t on sale right now too! * eden * (50% off) [https://www.gog.com/en/game/eden] Yuri: * The Expression Amrilato (50% off), Dual Language [https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_expression_amrilato] * Flowers Series (40% off) [https://www.gog.com/en/game/flowers_bundle] * The House in Fata Morgana (35% off), Dual Language [https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_house_in_fata_morgana] ::: spoiler NSFW or Rated 18+: * Fullmetal Daemon Muramasa (40% off) [https://www.gog.com/en/game/full_metal_daemon_muramasa] * TroubleDays (60% off), Dual Language [https://www.gog.com/en/game/troubledays] * Yuzusoft Collection (36% off) [https://www.gog.com/en/game/yuzusoft_collection] * sweet pool (60% off, Yaoi game) [https://www.gog.com/en/game/sweet_pool] ::: — And there are plenty more on sale! [https://www.gog.com/en/promo/2024_new_year_sale?tags=visual-novel]

Spectacle8011 Jan 31, 2024

Secret Kiss is Sweet and Tender 50% off (Yuri game)

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Secret Kiss is Sweet and Tender 50% off (Yuri game) - Comfy Snugs

Secret Kiss is Sweet and Tender is 50% off on GOG. It’s a yuri game. It includes the original Japanese script, which is probably a good thing, because there are reviews on GOG and MangaGamer that have nothing positive to say about the English translation. This is the second Medibang release I’ve seen like this, and I don’t want to make assumptions, but… If you’re going to buy this game, you should read it in Japanese. This game includes 18+ scenes. Linux Compatibility: This game and installer work fine with Wine/DXVK, no tweaks required. If you don’t know how to setup Wine, try our guide [https://wiki.comfysnug.space/doku.php?id=visualnovel:vnsonlinux]. Other Stores You can also get this game (at full price!) here: * itch.io (NSFW!) [https://medibang.itch.io/secret-kiss-is-sweet-and-tender] * MangaGamer (NSFW!) [https://www.mangagamer.com/r18/detail.php?product_code=1278&af=3a123f6214695bfacaa881bd3117c693]

Spectacle8011 Jan 18, 2024

MangaGamers' New Beginnings Sale

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Spectacle8011 Jan 16, 2024

Financial support for Lutris has decreased by 40% since 2020, not sustainable

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Financial support for Lutris has decreased by 40% since 2020, not sustainable - Comfy Snugs

This is an excerpt from a post on the Lutris Patreon page a few months ago [https://www.patreon.com/posts/fresh-new-sad-91365345]: > # The slow and consistent decrease of financial support > > On a less positive note, I’d like to address the painful direction the Lutris Patreon (and financial support in general) is taking. The current earnings of the Lutris Patreon is about half of what it was in September 2020. This was a time before the Steam Deck when Lutris was far less complete than what it is today. > > … > > I fully understand that the current economic situation makes things harder for most to give to open source projects and can’t thank enough all of you who still make monthly donations! I’m slightly hopeful that the introduction of cloud saves in Lutris will change the direction the Patreon has taken. While self hosting your cloud saves with Nextcloud will be the default option, it will also be possible for $5 Patrons to host your saves on Lutris.net [http://Lutris.net]. > > In any case, working full time on Lutris will soon come to an end since it is not sustainable and I will eventually run out of savings. You can see a graph of financial support for Lutris on Patreon over time here: https://graphtreon.com/creator/lutris# [https://graphtreon.com/creator/lutris#]

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Spectacle8011 Jan 16, 2024

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Spectacle8011 Jan 16, 2024

Financial support for Lutris has decreased by 40% since 2020, not sustainable

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Financial support for Lutris has decreased by 40% since 2020, not sustainable - Comfy Snugs

This is an excerpt from a post on the Lutris Patreon page a few months ago [https://www.patreon.com/posts/fresh-new-sad-91365345]: > # The slow and consistent decrease of financial support > > On a less positive note, I’d like to address the painful direction the Lutris Patreon (and financial support in general) is taking. The current earnings of the Lutris Patreon is about half of what it was in September 2020. This was a time before the Steam Deck when Lutris was far less complete than what it is today. > > … > > I fully understand that the current economic situation makes things harder for most to give to open source projects and can’t thank enough all of you who still make monthly donations! I’m slightly hopeful that the introduction of cloud saves in Lutris will change the direction the Patreon has taken. While self hosting your cloud saves with Nextcloud will be the default option, it will also be possible for $5 Patrons to host your saves on Lutris.net [http://Lutris.net]. > > In any case, working full time on Lutris will soon come to an end since it is not sustainable and I will eventually run out of savings. You can see a graph of financial support for Lutris on Patreon over time here: https://graphtreon.com/creator/lutris# [https://graphtreon.com/creator/lutris#]

Spectacle8011 Oct 24, 2023

Bizarre Steam Releases (Subahibi/Wonderful Everyday)

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Bizarre Steam Releases (Subahibi/Wonderful Everyday) - Comfy Snugs

Subarashiki Hibi (Wonderful Everyday in English) was released by Frontwing in 2017 following a successful Kickstarter campaign. It was released on Steam and JAST. With one catch: the Steam release only includes the first chapter of seven. In my experience, it takes about 6 hours to play the first chapter, and the other 6 chapters take another 54 hours to complete. Essentially, 90% of the game is missing. The reason the game was released on Steam in this incomplete state is due to the adult content present in the other chapters. Certain adult content is not allowed on Steam. Not that chapter 1 is free of adult content anyway… So, Frontwing offers the other 90% of the game as a patch you need to manually apply to the Steam game. You need to find out about this patch’s existence from this vague Steam announcement [https://steamcommunity.com/games/658620/announcements/detail/1456207466678637108] (the store page doesn’t mention this at all). If you play through all the routes in chapter 1, there’s nothing to suggest you haven’t just played the entire game. You get a pretty end credits scene and you’re kicked back to the title screen. Because every chapter has its own ending theme. This announcement links to their Kickstarter Updates page. Because there are 58 updates on the page, you need to click “Load More” 3 times to find this page [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/frontwing/a-wonderful-welcome-for-visual-novel-wonderful-eve/posts/1976361]. It tells you that you then need to go to this special page [https://www.jastusa.com/wonderful-everyday] to download the patch from JAST. If you clicked the link, you’ll notice that it doesn’t work anymore. That’s because the link was changed a year or so ago and doesn’t redirect. The patch is now offered on this page [https://jastusa.com/page/frontwing-steam-patches]. I did not discover this from any of Frontwing’s announcements. I found this out from the comments section of a community guide on the Steam forums [https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1127955406]. The instructions on the JAST page are wrong, too. It tells you to “Extract the patch files from the archive and run “.exe” file to install the patch.” What you actually need to do is go to the game’s Steam folder and replace all the .arc files with the ones from the patch folder. I wouldn’t say this is easy to find. Some people can’t find it [https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198278476179/recommended/658620/]. It’s scary to imagine how many people don’t know this patch exists at all… If you want to play Subahibi (it’s a great game, seriously, play it), it makes sense to just buy it from JAST [https://jastusa.com/games/fwng006/wonderful-everyday-~diskontinuierliches-dasein~] instead. They give you the entire game and it just works, no patching required. Though, fair warning that these releases are only in English (no Japanese option). This is easily the worst experience I’ve ever had on Steam. Are there other strange Steam releases like this where you need to scour the web for the rest of the game? I want to know! Or, conversely, has a Steam release actually been better than a GOG/JAST/MangaGamer store release?

Spectacle8011 Oct 17, 2023

VNDB now has a DRM field

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VNDB now has a DRM field - Comfy Snugs

This feature proposal from the VNDB beta has made it into the live site! We can now start tagging VNs known to have DRM: > Alrighty, still not really polished or finished yet, but it doesn’t look like the main data model or guidelines will change much so I’ve pushed it live now. If you want to filter for DRM-free visual novel releases, you can do that now [https://vndb.org/v?q=&sb=Search!&ch=&f=N18kwDRM_dfree-&s=26w]. I consider this mission accomplished. \o/ The wording “Digital Restrictions Management” was almost snuck into the guidelines proposal [https://vndb.org/d20.41], and unfortunately I can’t claim to have had anything to do with that :) The official guidelines are available here [https://vndb.org/d3#3.3]. Interestingly, the final wording is: > Some releases have DRM (Digital Rights Management or, more accurately, Restrictions Management) Now for the fun part: documenting which releases are encumbered with DRM. If you know one of the VNs you’ve purchased has DRM or is DRM-free, please help by editing the VNDB releases entry to reflect this! Hopefully, we’ll all be able to make more informed purchasing decisions now.

Spectacle8011 Oct 2, 2023

DRM Field Support Added to VNDB Beta

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DRM Field Support Added to VNDB Beta - Comfy Snugs

Yorhel added preliminary DRM support to the VNDB beta site [https://beta.vndb.org/] on September 12th, 2023. > The goal of this beta - aside from some testing - is to pre-seed the list of DRM types. So go ahead and add and edit DRM types and figure out how to best name and document them. While I can easily transfer the list of DRM types to the main site when it goes live, I’ll probably not transfer the DRM info added to releases, so don’t go overboard with that yet. List of all known DRM types: https://beta.vndb.org/r/drm [https://beta.vndb.org/r/drm] If you’ve encountered a type of DRM that isn’t listed here, please add it! However, don’t bother with documenting which releases are encumbered with DRM just yet, as this data won’t make it over to the real site. This feature has been in Beta for three weeks and it seems pretty close to releasing. Outstanding issues: * It’s possible to search releases by DRM type, but not yet by DRM property * Guidelines & documentation (some progress [https://vndb.org/d20.40] has been made, but it’s not done yet).