VN Ren'Py A Couple's Duet of Love & Lust [v0.13.8] [King B]

[LUISIL]

Let's do the maths...
July 5th was update 13.0
32 days later, August 6th update 13.4 ,
46 days later, September 22nd update 13.8
then on November 3rd Crash happens when the Dev was in the final touches,so I'm roughly guessin that update would have ocurred around mid-november 50/60 days later than the last.
The thinh is that the Dev said:" I'm sorry to inform you that I'll have to skip this update." and added:" This messes up my plans for the New year update "
SKIP is the key word to me.
If I'm not wrong, New year gonna be the time/date.
Keep your panties on fellas, nobody's dead yet.

 

[AssRider]

Let's do the maths...
July 5th was update 13.0
32 days later, August 6th update 13.4 ,
46 days later, September 22nd update 13.8
then on November 3rd Crash happens when the Dev was in the final touches,so I'm roughly guessin that update would have ocurred around mid-november 50/60 days later than the last.
The thinh is that the Dev said:" I'm sorry to inform you that I'll have to skip this update." and added:" This messes up my plans for the New year update "
SKIP is the key word to me.
If I'm not wrong, New year gonna be the time/date.
Keep your panties on fellas, nobody's dead yet.

Not a great sign when people outside the creation process have to analyze old posts word by word, like they've been written by Shakespeare.

Wouldn't it have been better for the dev to post something at all instead of ignoring the people that pay him in order to create? Why should people have to take a guess in the first place?

If payments are monthly, posting monthly is a must. Patreon should automatically block payments if nothing's been written in more than a month.

Unless being totally incapacitated (death, paralysis, recruited in a war etc.), I've never in my life seen a good escuse for not posting anything at all in the span of a month or not having the time to pause Patreon payments.

Patreon is not a philantropy association. Nowhere in the real - nonvirtual world would this kind of behaviour be accepted, let alone encouraged, like I've seen so many times on this site. Who are the employers that pay you monthly and wait half a year for you to send them an email?

The community (both players and devs) has nothing to gain in the long run. What progress would one expect in a society that runs mostly on social care?

While I've seen plenty of worse offenders, I won't be giving this one a free pass. It's easy to lose trust and very hard to reestablish it.

 

[Fusionzone]

Not a great sign when people outside the creation process have to analyze old posts word by word, like they've been written by Shakespeare.

Wouldn't it have been better for the dev to post something at all instead of ignoring the people that pay him in order to create? Why should people have to take a guess in the first place?

If payments are monthly, posting monthly is a must. Patreon should automatically block payments if nothing's been written in more than a month.

Unless being totally incapacitated (death, paralysis, recruited in a war etc.), I've never in my life seen a good escuse for not posting anything at all in the span of a month or not having the time to pause Patreon payments.

Patreon is not a philantropy association. Nowhere in the real - nonvirtual world would this kind of behaviour be accepted, let alone encouraged, like I've seen so many times on this site. Who are the employers that pay you monthly and wait half a year for you to send them an email?

The community (both players and devs) has nothing to gain in the long run. What progress would one expect in a society that runs mostly on social care?

While I've seen plenty of worse offenders, I won't be giving this one a free pass. It's easy to lose trust and very hard to reestablish it.

Story has very low key been stagnating since they shot the porno with Darryl. It's been all more of the same and the couples actual dynamic is kind of gone Nats largely a porn star with sprinkles. The moment she started fucking around with Darell without it being primarily for Ethan it falls off very quickly. Nts peaks pretty much before she gets fucked the first time and around immediately after and then there's nowhere to go but down. It's telling cuz Ethan is having his sissy maid route pretty much around the corner.

 

[Chemish]

I'm not blaming anyone who is worried, and I'd be happy to see King B back on his usual track. I suppose I'm just so desensitized by the countless adult games that update maybe every six months that King B's missing a month and some change just barely registers with me.

 

[vermazusa]

Story has very low key been stagnating since they shot the porno with Darryl. It's been all more of the same and the couples actual dynamic is kind of gone Nats largely a porn star with sprinkles. The moment she started fucking around with Darell without it being primarily for Ethan it falls off very quickly. Nts peaks pretty much before she gets fucked the first time and around immediately after and then there's nowhere to go but down. It's telling cuz Ethan is having his sissy maid route pretty much around the corner.

There are other paths to play, but the primary focus was on the Darrell BBC path. But nothing really exciting after he beds her, and beds her......ad infinitum. It would have been better if Nat spread herself around with others. There was a storyline where she could have been a cam model with Jenna; the Peter path is funny and could be developed more; and varied swinger scenarios could be integrated with updates.

 

[Big Rooster]

I'm not blaming anyone who is worried, and I'd be happy to see King B back on his usual track. I suppose I'm just so desensitized by the countless adult games that update maybe every six months that King B's missing a month and some change just barely registers with me.

I'm not worried if he takes some time off for a while, either to deal with hardware/software issues or some personnel time.

 

[Satiro]

no news about the game or dev?

 

[Tyger1234Rose]

I'm not worried if he takes some time off for a while, either to deal with hardware/software issues or some personnel time.

I am not against some rest, even if it will be more than 3-5 months, but need to at least inform your patrons about this(((. I hope dev is in good health.

 

[packard1928]

I'm not worried if he takes some time off for a while, either to deal with hardware/software issues or some personnel time.

me either... but it would be nice to tell us..

 

[Big Rooster]

He said his system crashed. I did it a couple of time with DAZ and RenPy, DAZ is easier to fix but still time-consuming, but a complete RenPy crash could be a Game Over crisis. We will see.

 

[packard1928]

understood. And if that happened I think he could let us know if he is just going to stART A NEW GAME... I am sure he has an idea on that. This one would have to end sooner or later... Kingb has a pretty good folowing ( deservingly so ). I do not see him just packing it in.

 

[whizwart]

Of course its an impregnation themed update that gets toasted. BLAH!

 

[Palos69]

He said his system crashed. I did it a couple of time with DAZ and RenPy, DAZ is easier to fix but still time-consuming, but a complete RenPy crash could be a Game Over crisis. We will see.

Personally, I would think RenPy would be easier to fix. I don't have any knowledge about setting up DAZ to compare, though.

For the RenPy, the blanket solution would be reinstalling your SDK and moving your project files over to it. If he lost the files, than he can just download his latest distribution release and decompile it. Still a setback, but not a catastrophic one.

 

[Fusionzone]

Of course its an impregnation themed update that gets toasted. BLAH!

Was it? I assumed it was a Carl update

 

[Big Rooster]

Personally, I would think RenPy would be easier to fix. I don't have any knowledge about setting up DAZ to compare, though.

For the RenPy, the blanket solution would be reinstalling your SDK and moving your project files over to it. If he lost the files, than he can just download his latest distribution release and decompile it. Still a setback, but not a catastrophic one.

The game mainly uses common stock assets modified to his needs. Once you "buy" the license to use the asset, it is easy enough to download another copy. So the base assets are still available from multiple outlets. But any custom modifications could be lost, and recreating them is an arduous task, though not impossible.

 

[BeastMaster59]

Last news was about the crash on November 3rd, what I don`t know is how come he didn't do a backup on a Nas-Server or cloud?, nowadays anybody can afford a Raid system so there is really no excuse from having to recover from a Crash.
Just my Opinion.

 

[pedrogz]

Last news was about the crash on November 3rd, what I don`t know is how come he didn't do a backup on a Nas-Server or cloud?, nowadays anybody can afford a Raid system so there is really no excuse from having to recover from a Crash.
Just my Opinion.
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i think he is just taking some time, because at this point maybe he is thinking the game is on a loop

 

[Tyger1234Rose]

i think he is just taking some time, because at this point maybe he is thinking the game is on a loop

Why do many people think that the game has reached a dead end?
Dev make renders of 2 updates in advance, so there was definitely something to tell in his story.
And if you analyze the paths in the game, can say that the paths that are only at the beginning:
Carl, Peter, Riya, Matt, Jenna.
Vance's path has not started at all.
Only Darrell's path has advanced a little.
And I think that the developer has ideas for all paths, which he has already said many times here.
Therefore, I think that the problems are only technical and not a lack of ideas.
By the way, he adds some ideas from this forum or from patrons, he listens to advice.

 

[jags25655]

does anyone mind sharing full saves

 

[King Wan]

Just checking the thread after a while. Losing the assets and the base files is a major catastrophe because every character, every background has to be reconstructed from scratch. And King B writes a long script with numerous variables rather than splitting the game script into different labelled scripts re-doing the RenPy will also be a major headache. Add to that he has been incommunicado since 3rd of November, it's a major crisis.