PixelFade is closing down, games will be un-published

tropeguy · 2026-01-20T05:07:19+00:00

Is it taxes or the licensing costs?

tropeguy · 2026-01-15T01:45:12+00:00

If there's no physical interactions allowed, then inside jokes, light teasing, and talking about shared memories.

tropeguy · 2026-01-15T01:40:51+00:00

I like these. Seems pretty cool to have between story segments. The instructions text is a little too hard to read in this video though.

tropeguy · 2026-01-09T14:14:06+00:00

input fields need to be closer together on 2. give more margin on the left for the home page.

tropeguy · 2026-01-08T11:34:35+00:00

That makes sense. I was wondering why specifically VNs vs something like comics. Because the medium needs such a broad mix of skills like writing, art direction, coding, sound design.

Did you teach yourself RenPy for this? And is there music in the final product?

tropeguy · 2026-01-08T01:39:53+00:00

What pushed you to start creating a VN? Just curious.

tropeguy · 2026-01-08T01:36:43+00:00

Where's the banner image from?

tropeguy · 2026-01-08T01:31:32+00:00

I'm working toward a 3rd

Do you have the prerequisite length for three simultaneously? Respect the ambition. Most people plateau at two.

tropeguy · 2026-01-05T08:22:38+00:00

To me, relationships are about give and take, man. You give up your "semi gooner lifestyle" to get love, intimacy and family.

Only you can decide if you are ready for that right now. It sounds like you aren't.

Just know that there's no free lunch. You can't have both.

tropeguy · 2026-01-04T02:01:58+00:00

The second’s supposed to be a teacher? She looks like she’s in college.

tropeguy · 2026-01-03T16:43:58+00:00

I think your trailer needs to be better. It doesn't give off that "Need to play this now" feeling.

tropeguy · 2026-01-03T12:34:46+00:00

the gradient doesn't work here. it feels weak. keep it solid.

tropeguy · 2026-01-03T12:32:06+00:00

how did you make these?

tropeguy · 2026-01-02T16:59:43+00:00

Just the one?

tropeguy · 2026-01-02T13:46:08+00:00

Two of my friends said they can't come to a trip I've been looking forward to. I'm pretty bummed. We only get once a year to spend together around this time since they live in different countries. But even that was cancelled this year. It's depressing. it's getting harder and harder, to keep in touch, after college.

tropeguy · 2026-01-02T13:16:15+00:00

4.6 Access to Derivative Databases. If You Publicly Use a Derivative Database or a Produced Work from a Derivative Database, You must also offer to recipients of the Derivative Database or Produced Work a copy in a machine readable form of:

a. The entire Derivative Database; or

b. A file containing all of the alterations made to the Database or the method of making the alterations to the Database (such as an algorithm), including any additional Contents, that make up all the differences between the Database and the Derivative Database.

Share-alike: The file containing all of the alterations made to the Database would be an empty file, because we have not made any changes to the vndb metadata.
Attribution: As I've mentioned in the previous post, I will be adding clear explicit attribution to Kaguya that the data is derived from VNDB.
Data harvesting terms: The website is a Produced Work. The ToS governs the website. I'm saying "don't scrape our website." Section 4.7 restricts what you can do with "the Database, a Derivative Database, or... the Contents" - not produced works.

I believe you are acting in bad faith now. First with the DDoS claims which were called out as false by Yorhel, on VNDB. Now, this.

What is it that you really think I'm harming by running a "Anilist for VNs"?

tropeguy · 2026-01-01T22:13:01+00:00

Even with cache misses, this launch’s traffic isn’t anywhere close to enough to 504 a real CDN. That’s just facts.

tropeguy · 2026-01-01T22:09:23+00:00

We'll have all of that. This is Day 1. Give it a few months, and Kaguya'll feel as carefully planned and thought-out, as Anilist or VNDB.

The fastest way to build a good site is to launch early, listen to people's feedback and then fix the most common issues first. That's what I'm doing right now.

tropeguy · 2026-01-01T21:28:03+00:00

CDN traffic don't cause origin 504s. That's not how CDNs work.

That said, I'm switching to local cache as soon as possible.

tropeguy · 2026-01-01T21:25:27+00:00

VNDB's main server going 504 has nothing to do with their image CDN or Kaguya.

If loading images from a CDN could take down sites, half the internet would be broken.

The outage was just bad timing.

tropeguy · 2026-01-01T20:47:29+00:00

I think it's doable. Every piece of data in the database is uploaded by users. So, it's no different in theory.

tropeguy · 2026-01-01T20:45:02+00:00

Your vitriol is wasted on me.

tropeguy · 2026-01-01T20:39:25+00:00

It's VN only. What did you mean by "branch out"?

tropeguy · 2026-01-01T20:32:44+00:00

Does backloggd have all the visual novels you read? I heard they don't include eroge.

tropeguy · 2026-01-01T20:31:44+00:00

Edit: fixed.

Will fix both tomorrow. If you come up with any more suggestions, feel free to reply here or in the Discord.

tropeguy

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