Brad's Erotic Week (BEW) - S01, E07 (2017-12-04)

[Cndyrvr4lf]

Hey does anyone know of a good program to use to export the saves? My computer wont let me do it without downloading a program from the net and I'm not sure what is or isn't trustworthy. Any suggestions?

[ut1stgear1]

Hey does anyone know of a good program to use to export the saves? My computer wont let me do it without downloading a program from the net and I'm not sure what is or isn't trustworthy. Any suggestions?

I was able to use Notepad to export from game to my computer. I decided not to edit it though so I left the saves as they were in the game. I would make sure you save the exported file though just in case. Don't know the MAC equivalent to Notepad though.

[Wolfschadowe]

Hey does anyone know of a good program to use to export the saves? My computer wont let me do it without downloading a program from the net and I'm not sure what is or isn't trustworthy. Any suggestions?

It sounds like you are trying to open the export file instead of just saving it. If you get the option to export or save when using the export link in game, select the save option and it should work fine without the need to install a program.

Wolfschadowe

[ut1stgear1]

As I recall, to get the 1st Bonus Scene you had to become "Demo Master" which included completion of both the Office and Bar scenes. So 2nd bonus must include some left over achievements or "scenes" if you will from the Club scene such as Diner Date and maybe Azumi inclusion to complete Wednesday. Can't think of anything else left over from EP1 and EP2. Hmm that could mean some additional interaction with both Azumi and Natalie. Just a note on my vote. Like you wolfshadowe I voted for the Diner Date but probably not for the same reason(s) as you. Will edit this in a minute after looking at what votes become available for EP3.

Edit: Cut and Paste from page1 this thread.

EP3 does the following:

Partially Unlocks:

Voting for Thursday Office Strip Club Branch. (Office erotic afternoon)
Thursday Achievements

Unlocks:

Thursday
Voting for Thursday Office Bar Branch (Erotic / Medium)
Voting for Jasmine Inclusion
Thursday Coffee Scene (Story)
Thursday Office Scene (Story morning)

Description: Continues Emily's story-lines into the Office the next day, and we get to meet the intern. Depending on what happened at the Bar, will you be able to face Emily again at work?

So partial Office/Club, Full Office/Bar and Jasmine (probably office intern) inclusion. Should make for an interesting vote distribution again. lol

Should have learned to use the preview feature a long time ago. LOL

[Wolfschadowe]

As I recall, to get the 1st Bonus Scene you had to become "Demo Master" which included completion of both the Office and Bar scenes. So 2nd bonus must include some left over achievements or "scenes" if you will from the Club scene such as Diner Date....

The first bonus scene is a special case. It was thrown in as completion of the Demo, which is EP1. It is the only bonus scene directly associated with an episode.

There are three catagories of bonus scenes. All are linear alternate POV scenes.

Day Mastery Bonus scenes - For Mastering each of the 7 days. 7 Total.
Season Mastery Bonus scenes - For Mastering each of the 3 seasons. 3 Total
Game Mastery Bonus scenes - For mastering the entire game (2 total. 1 Demo and 1 Full game.)

Day Mastery achivements are earned by mastering all scenes in a day. In the case of Wednesday, the Diner scene still remains.

Most likely I'll wrap that scene into an overall larger episode. It's a little small to stand on it's own after this last vote.

Wolfschadowe

[massimo]

Potentially stupid question: are the episodes that follow standalone? Or do you need to play through the first episodes first (and load the savegames?) to continue?

[Wolfschadowe]

Potentially stupid question: are the episodes that follow standalone? Or do you need to play through the first episodes first (and load the savegames?) to continue?

Not a stupid question at all.
Episodes are NOT stand-alone. They will extend the game, so when Episode 3 releases, the game becomes Season 1, Episodes 1-3. You can then play from the very beginning, through EP3 content, or load an existing save game.

If you saved the game at a "To be continued..." notice, when you load that game, if that content is now available the "to be continued" notice will be gone and you will be able to progress along that branch.

Wolfschadowe

[TeineWolf]

Potentially stupid question: are the episodes that follow standalone? Or do you need to play through the first episodes first (and load the savegames?) to continue?

Not a stupid question at all.
Episodes are NOT stand-alone. They will extend the game, so when Episode 3 releases, the game becomes Season 1, Episodes 1-3. You can then play from the very beginning, through EP3 content, or load an existing save game.

If you saved the game at a "To be continued..." notice, when you load that game, if that content is now available the "to be continued" notice will be gone and you will be able to progress along that branch.

Wolfschadowe

A semi-dumb question?

If a player plays ep1/2, on say "Playforce One". And finds 1/2/3, on say "Gamcore". Would the new version, and fresh install on "Gamecore", be able to retrieve the save point. That were generated on "Playforce One"? I am not even close to expert on this bit. But if you are using client side server cookies. Is the cookie information available to more than one domain. I can't see you using server side methodology. Because there's no possible interactions.

[ut1stgear1]

Potentially stupid question: are the episodes that follow standalone? Or do you need to play through the first episodes first (and load the savegames?) to continue?

Not a stupid question at all.
Episodes are NOT stand-alone. They will extend the game, so when Episode 3 releases, the game becomes Season 1, Episodes 1-3. You can then play from the very beginning, through EP3 content, or load an existing save game.

If you saved the game at a "To be continued..." notice, when you load that game, if that content is now available the "to be continued" notice will be gone and you will be able to progress along that branch.

Wolfschadowe

A semi-dumb question?

If a player plays ep1/2, on say "Playforce One". And finds 1/2/3, on say "Gamcore". Would the new version, and fresh install on "Gamecore", be able to retrieve the save point. That were generated on "Playforce One"? I am not even close to expert on this bit. But if you are using client side server cookies. Is the cookie information available to more than one domain. I can't see you using server side methodology. Because there's no possible interactions.

If I understand the BEW system correctly then you should be able export saves from your game on "Play Force One" to your computer and then import that save file from your computer to the game on "Gamecore". The same would be true for your achievements from one site to another since the game is the one that controls that function and not the particular site you are on. I was able to Export my saves to a Notepad file on my computer but didn't go through with the export back into the game because I have found my save names were adequate to know where I was even though some were not named exactly how I wanted them. The ones that were a little off on the name were before I started being careful with the save names. Didn't take me long to pay closer attention to what I named them.

[ut1stgear1]

Also I suspect that Ionizer will not pass up the opportunity to keep BEW up-to-date since it could cause competitors to make sure it is up-to-date on their sites. Maybe each episode will keep BEW at the front of the games on Play Force One. Can always hope.

Edit: Did a Google and it would appear that Play Force One is the only site right now that is hosting BEW. Will check Gamecore direct.

[benedict]

Just a quick calc I made. 3 seasons * 15 episodes * 4 months average per episode = 180 months or a mere 15 years to see the end of the game Guess I'll have to start eating healthy if I want to see the bonus scene for mastering the whole game :P

[kexter]

@benedict:
Ideally - and keep in mind that it's totally NOT up to me as Wolfschadowe does the release scheduling - I'd have gone with fewer (and longer) episodes per season with longer gaps between releases (6-months).

I'd have gone with a release schedule somewhat like the following.

Episode 1 (March 2015) would have been the whole of Wednesday (Diner included) with the cut off point being the go-to-bed at home.
Episode 2 (September 2015) would have been the Thursday Office complete, ending with going home.
Episode 3 (March 2016) would have been the Thursday Bar complete.
Episode 4 (September 2016) would have been the Thursday Club complete.
Episode 5 (March 2017) would have been the Thursday [REDACTED] complete + Friday morning.

There would have been two "DLCs" as well:
DLC 1 Azumi
DLC 2 Jasmine
These two could've potencially filled the rest 2017 (September & December for example).

BEW would have gone on hiatus throughout 2018 - everyone needs a break.

Season 2 would have started releasing in 2019.
Episode 1 (March 2019) - Picking up from where Season 1 Episode 5 left off.
Episode 2 (September 2019) - [REDACTED]
Episode 3 (March 2020) - [REDACTED]
Episode 4 (September 2020) - [REDACTED]
Episode 5 (March 2021) - [REDACTED]
Episode 6 (September 2021) - [REDACTED]

There would also have been three "DLCs" as well:
DLC 1 [REDACTED]
DLC 2 [REDACTED]
DLC 3 [REDACTED]
These filling up 2022.

Then another hiatus for 2023.

Season 3 would have started releasing in 2024.
Episode 1 (March 2024) - Picking up from where Season 2 Episode 6 left off.
Episode 2 (September 2024) - [REDACTED]
Episode 3 (March 2025) - [REDACTED]
Episode 4 (September 2025) - [REDACTED]
Episode 5 (March 2026) - [REDACTED]

There would also have been one or two "DLCs" filling up the rest of 2026 and rounding off the project.

At that point I'd have propably annoyed Wolfschadowe into redoing some (all!) of the choppy animations, and a bunch of other assorted things for a "BEW: Game of the Decade Edition" (to be announced at the xth annual Schadowe:Con). It would have been out for the holiday season of 2027. With extras and developer commentary, of course.

After that BEW would be done. Until 2037 that is when the remastered "BEW: 10th year anniversary edition" would have come out.

What the current release schedule looks like is somewhat different.

Season 1:
Episode 1 (December 2014) - Demo
Episode 2 (March 2015) - Wednesday Club scene
Episode 3 (June 2015) - Thursday Morning + Thursday Office (until noon)
Episode A (September 2015) - Thursday Office Afternoon
Episode B (December 2015) - Wednesday Diner + Thursday Afternoon #2
Episode C (April 2016) - Thursday Bar
Episode D (August 2016) - Thursday Club
Episode E (December 2017) - Thursday [REDACTED]
Episode F (April 2017) - Thursday Evening Home + Misc
Episode G (July 2017) - Friday Morning
Episode H (September 2017) - Azumi
Episode I (December 2017) - Jasmine

Disclaimer: Episode order and release dates are for demostation purposes only and are subject to change.

I still envision a one year hiatus between seasons, so Season 2 would propably only start releasing in 2019 and Season 3 in 2024. With all three season completed by 2027 (at the earliest).

But we went with smaller and more frequent episodes instead and probably lost some time in the process. But all in all, benedict, your 15-year projection seems just slightly off. It's probably closer to 12 years at the moment for all three seasons to be done. (3 seasons, 12 episodes per season, on average 3 months between episodes, one year between seasons for breathing room.)

[Wolfschadowe]

If a player plays ep1/2, on say "Playforce One". And finds 1/2/3, on say "Gamcore". Would the new version, and fresh install on "Gamecore", be able to retrieve the save point. That were generated on "Playforce One"? I am not even close to expert on this bit. But if you are using client side server cookies. Is the cookie information available to more than one domain. I can't see you using server side methodology. Because there's no possible interactions.

Any site and/or browser will equal a new set of save files and achievements; however, export and import of saves and achievements can overcome that.

Just a quick calc I made. 3 seasons * 15 episodes * 4 months average per episode = 180 months or a mere 15 years to see the end of the game Guess I'll have to start eating healthy if I want to see the bonus scene for mastering the whole game :P

As kexter said, more like 12, if anyone stays interested that long. Actually, it's more likely that the process will get faster over time as the primary bottleneck is rendering images. If I could get an artist to sign up that could match the image style of BEW, it would cut the total time down to 6 years with current technology. Two artists, maybe 4 years. 4 artists, maybe 3 years. 12 Artists...well maybe back to 12 years at that point. Had a great candidate once to help out with the rendering, but they faded away on the animation test, unfortunately. That's a pity because they aced the other tests.

Wolfschadowe

[ares]

I had understood that the main bottleneck was rendering though. And also that, provided the Patreon goal is accomplished, that could be sped up by a factor of 20 using Amazon's Web Services (from one hour to 3 minutes?). Wouldn't that influence greatly the time bewteen episodes even if you don't find any artists?

[Wolfschadowe]

I had understood that the main bottleneck was rendering though. And also that, provided the Patreon goal is accomplished, that could be sped up by a factor of 20 using Amazon's Web Services (from one hour to 3 minutes?). Wouldn't that influence greatly the time bewteen episodes even if you don't find any artists?

It's not really a change from 1 hour to 3 minutes. 1 hour is the average total time per page, not per render.

The breakdown per page goes like this, on average:

Planning: 12 minutes
Rendering: 37 minutes
Writing: 11 minutes

Those are high-level catagories, and of course some pages take longer, and some take less time. Hence...average.

Breaking out rendering we get:

Overhead: 2 minutes (Overall scene setup and maintenance time spread across all the renders in the scene)
Posing: 10 minutes
Rendering: 20 minutes
Postwork: 5 minutes.

The recent patron goal will lower my posing average a bit on complex scenes, but most of that will be offset by more scene complexity.

The next patron goal could lower the Rendering time from 20 minutes, to 3 minutes, a reduction of 17 minutes. bringing the average from 60 minutes to 43 minutes, with significantly increased render quality. If you consider about 3 hours average a day spent creating pages, that changes from 3 pages created a day to basically 4 created per day. Because all these are rounded averages, it really comes out closer to 25 pages a week, or about 100 a month currently. With the new render system that will increase to somewhere between 125 - 150 a month. Although I suspect the overhead will increase to 3 minutes or so per page offsetting it a bit.

So...with the new render system, a 400 page scene will decrease from 4 months to 3 months...roughly.

Now...let's assume that there's a second artist doing roughly half the renders. Now the average time per page is:

Planning: 12 minutes
Rendering: 37 minutes / 2 = 19 minutes (rounded up for overhead)
Writing: 11 minutes

So..roughly the same effect as the new technology.

But...with a second artist, and the new technology, we're approaching 35 minutes per page...so add a second writer, and suddenly poof! 30 minutes per page average. That means a 400 page scene drops from 4 months to 2 months. But...when you think about it. Asking 3 hours a day from someone for an unpaid, volunteer project like BEW is a huge ask.

Wolfschadowe