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My text is long but I wanted to summarize everything that happens, yes, the first versions of Glamour were Unity and the game was different, then it started to change. You had to connect to their servers if I'm not mistaken and log into a Patreon account, the game was completely online after update 0.9 it started to change. Logically, it is notable that BB was so successful because of the incest, in that year, there were few games that had good graphics to be played. The BB was from the year 2017, so we can separate the games from that year with games from 2016, 2015... today we find fantastic games with more advanced graphics, this is because GPUs are constantly updated and have more graphic power, furthermore, at that time everyone used Genesis 3 models and today everyone uses Genesis 8 and some risk using Genesis 9 (few).It started on Unity, just like Big Brother and the original Glamour. It's what where the most experience in making something was, not Ren'Py.
It started in Unity, just like Big Brother and Glamour (original) before it.
Seeing as in the beginning all saves were stored on his server instead of player computers and required a patreon account, that's a silly thing to say. It could only have become an issue from 0.9 onward when the first "offline version" was released. Which boosted his patron numbers and money, and only after almost a year since they'd stopped work on BB.
Also, the two-month disparity between the online and offline versions ceased to be an issue after the change from Unity... Which was literally one update after the version that was dedicated to bugfixing and nothing else. Funnily enough, the bugs that were fixed in that version, were no longer fixed after the engine change a month later!
It wasn't done in Ren'Py because they'd never used it for their games before. Simple.
There's no real demand for it, and this Glamour isn't as well known/regarded as BB was. Ironic, given the inclusion of a BB remake into it before finishing the "original remake" with Kate.
To be fair, that's got nothing to do with remaking/porting anything, and everything to do with whining bitches will be whining bitches.
Same thing happens across pretty much all the game threads, and probably the art/comics/animation threads too.
I have experience with the Genesis 9 and I can tell you this, I don't see many games with G9 models anyway, After BB, other games began to appear and BB began to be forgotten, games that had better graphics and also animations, you see Milfy City for example, one of the first games that used animations, the developer was more present at the beginning and the success was so great that soon after he began to disappear from time to time, I need to tell you that reading comments from the public is tiring, it depends on the comment, most of the time it's non-constructive criticism like "Is the girl going to fuck a black guy? Put this in" there will always be comments like that, without any sense.
Leaving this subject aside, today you see developers who have a large team, look at the case of FreshWoman, they have a team of 27 people and they work in a rented office with 27 computers, it's no wonder they make great motion animation, so most people don't understand, they see that game and think any developer can do it, GPUs are expensive, not all of them can do animations, it takes time if you use an average GPU, if you use a weak GPU you will do "Bad Bobby Saga" style animations that even if they are bad take a long time to do, each animation takes around 52 to 222 frames, depending on the animation and each frame is X minutes or hours.
Anyway, to wrap it up, I remember that when Glamour came out, some people already labeled the game as "outdated" because the game didn't have animations, other people complained that the game didn't have music or any sound, people also don't know that games need to be careful with copyright, that if for example you sell your game on itch.io you will have to remove melodies that contain copyright, of course DS and his team could create their own melodies, there are many music software and even in the latest updates he made a poll saying he would put them in but everyone already knows the result, he gave up on the project and abandoned it.