Re: New RPG Maker Hentai Game News
Art is definitely the most important thing that attracts customers. File size is a good indication of how much content you will get although if they add in voice it completely screws it over. I'd rather not have voice and have more pictures. Then probably the genre that's written on the site like what you will expect from it. Summary of the story doesn't seem to be that important because the general story seems to be all the same. I mean there was a game about a girl going to buy something and that was pretty popular around here. A big thing I forgot, female protagonist. I would rather see different situations, pictures and events about one female character than a male character having the same scene with just different partners. Also its fun to get your female protagonists into sticky situations on purpose.
Indeed art is good for at-a-glance catching of attention.
File size can be skewed with by using uncompressed files, or just making each pose/full image standalone (for example, VH uses combining poses with expressions to make an image, meaning a single body image + various expressions will suffice for that pose, instead of some visual novels where a fully cloth sprite and naked sprite are completely different file)
(but that also means game that use good compression + lots of contents = still managable total size)
And sometimes small game with limited content will still turn out to be pretty good, see
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for my personal recent example.
Story only really matters if you can understand it, but knowing a girl is raped because her father got into debt and she has to pay with her body, rather than it looks like rape but she's actually just a prostitute really give different reaction from people.
Admittedly I only look at things if it's got good enough art first - -' after that I tends to decide if I like it on the story, or unless there's scene(s) I really liked (like that church part of Arms Devicer).
+rep ^_^