Wow. I just played this for the first time a couple of days ago. I am amazed. It reminds me so much of the characters of Acting Lessons which I love, despite the huge controversy, merged with the school setting and themes of what Being A Dik should be, without all the BS that drags it down. Could Dr. Pink Cake or a few of his team members be branching off on his/their own with a new name, TLGGames?
I mean, the similarity is uncanny, right? I am not crazy, am I? The only difference, is that AOA Academy has some clipping issues with the clothing I notice every once in awhile, which Dr. Pink Cake would never allow in his games. But otherwise, wow.
I mean the renders are right up there in the top 1%. I haven't seen many devs that can do that. Dr. Pink Cake, of course, and Philly Games. though Philly has a totally different look with lighting and texturing. This one looks very, very, similar to Dr. Pink Cake's work all the way.
I have only played with Daz a little, so I don't know the secret. I mean the texture, the superfine wrinkles on the corner of the eyes on some of the characters, the tiny pores on the skin of their faces. I don't see this on 99% of what I play here, even from otherwise very fine devs.
I mean, it is great for us fans, but I don't buy that TLG Games is just a single developer just starting out, like it says on his Patreon. The render quality is light-years above even many long time-devs of the top 10 games here, which I won't name. And the dialog and story are very good also.
My guess is it is a few people from a long time development team, that we have all seen around here, branched out to make their own game. That is the only thing that makes sense. That a single first time developer could knock out AOA Academy in even 4 or 5 months or so. Umm, no.