Ren'Py A Town Uncovered [v0.53a Alpha] [GeeSeki]

[Wolfregis]

So the only new scenes are teacher bj in the car, sis sex in her bedroom (which crashes the game if u select the "Next" option lol) and the dual bj from mom and sis in the living room (which i don't know how to trigger), that's it ? The main story continues but it's a hell of placeholders and black screens with a lot of words.

That's pretty much it sadly. This is honestly one of the worst updates (a possible contender for the worst) for any game I've seen on this forum in a while. What makes it worse is that it feels like the other members of the team are trying to put in some actual effort. Hell it's clear that he could've done the all art with the double blowjob pic. Honestly I think the guy has a problem of waiting to do the art last and tries to crunch it into the span of several days to a week, which pisses me off for multiple reasons. One because it can make the art suffer as a result as clearly seen by this update and two because crunch is really unhealthy.

 

[Stone Eyes]

Honestly I think the guy has a problem of waiting to do the art last and tries to crunch it into the span of several days to a week, which pisses me off for multiple reasons. One because it can make the art suffer as a result and two because crunch is really unhealthy.

I Think thats giving him too much credit Wolfregis, i think he just does as little work as possible

 

[Wolfregis]

I Think thats giving him too much credit Wolfregis, i think he just does as little work as possible

Possibly, but seeing as how he updated his trello board as the release of this update drew closer leads me to believe that he tried to cram as much as he could in a short span of time, but it could also be as you say. I just don't know.

 

[exirock]

I wish i could join their discord so that i could send him a direct review of his work, but paying for lazyness and to get acess to discord no ty.

 

[jowishg]

I thought the art was lacking because he put too much work into the writing, but now you're telling me he has his own writer ? How can he manage to draw so little in four months if he's not coding or writing the game ?

 

[Badjourasmix]

I usually don't complain much about updates, but holy shit this is bad. Wtf was he doing for 4 months? None of the art for the main story is done.

 

[exirock]

I thought the art was lacking because he put too much work into the writing, but now you're telling me he has his own writer ? How can he manage to draw so little in four months if he's not coding or writing the game ?

He has a writer and a coder since 3 or actually 4 months since last update, so he really did nothing this 4 months 90% of the art is sketch and non-existing and the rest is actually art, if he is doing this full time wtf was he doing masturbating 24/7 and later he thought oh i need to get some art done, next week i need to release the update. He trying to revive his game but is falling apart even more.

 

[Detective Cancer]

Wait... so all those words he was bragging about wasn't even him?
He's actually done literally nothing all this time?
I don't wanna jump to conclusions here.

 

[exirock]

Geeseki right now is only doing art but seriously the time he took, he had more then time to finish all those sketch's and non existing art and he could take a vacation during that time. I probably might do something with his art style and make a little VN and later i will post it (dont expect too soon i work 10h a day).

 

[Wolfregis]

He doesn't have deadlines because it's Patreon but with some direction, ANY direction(planning, deadlines, schedules, goals) he could easily make this project great because 4 months is a long time to draw a few frames of animation for each scene especially with how simplistic the art style is. I don't think anyone would be upset if there was no precedent for this, personally I'd be like "yeah okay just give him a chance" but it's like this every time. Every update.

I concur, if he chose to develop things in a weekly cycle then maybe that would improve the overall content. Like using one week to work on the writing, next week the art, then the coding, and repeating this cycle until he's got a solid update. It would also allow he and his team to review what needs to be done for the game and can be improved. As it stands right now neither the monthly nor the it'll be released when it's ready updates have really worked.

 

[lapdragon]

From what I gathered out of the recent patreon posts, he's spent the bulk of the last four months re-doing the older art and trying to find a second artist to help him out - and as much as I do like the game, I don't see a worthwhile difference in what he's adjusted. If he's actually been working even part-time on it (~20hrs a week), then he's either incredibly slow, incredibly picky, or both - I suspect both.

His art style would lend itself marvelously to the same type of animation rigging (with Adobe After Effects) that the Archer TV show used, but it wouldn't be worth the time for him to learn it and then convert the older stuff into the new system - we'd never see another update again. Potentially he could find an artist who knows AAE and then have them work on conversion while he works with his existing methods, but he's already having money problems because of the infrequent updates and having to pay 2 devs.

 

[ilovetoes69]

There may be too much writing in this update, LOL, but the part where the MC is talking to the mystery girl and she's threatening to come to the window or whatever was actually a little creepy!

Also has anyone figured out how to trigger the double bj scene?

 

[Badjourasmix]

There may be too much writing in this update, LOL, but the part where the MC is talking to the mystery girl and she's threatening to come to the window or whatever was actually a little creepy!

Also has anyone figured out how to trigger the double bj scene?

You have to finish both the sister and mom's stories and then just talk to the mom in the living room.

 

[Deleted member 1277698]

Sister content\story sucks big... Cant even interact any sex scenes freely

 

[heygtre]

how do you "revisit the H-scenes"

 

[Gmeng]

how do you "revisit the H-scenes"

I think that's the Photo Gallery in the PC but whenever I click it it just says it's not available; HOWEVER for some reason when I go to the sex world and trigger Nurse Hollick's handjob scene at the end it takes me to the gallery instead of finishing the scene like normal

 

[Deleted member 426398]

Is anyone really surprised by this update? Its Geeseki we're talking about, the laziest game developer of all time. In the 4 months since the last update hes barely done any work. The only things in the update that was good was the amount of writing and the coding, and thats because he hires a writer and a coder! The only thing he does is the art and the only new drawings in the game were the h-scenes. With a simplistic style like his any half decent artist could do all the new art in a day max. I feel bad for the patrons

Whether the developer is making $5 a month or $50,000, people are gonna botch about everything aren't they.

I usually don't complain much about updates, but holy shit this is bad. Wtf was he doing for 4 months? None of the art for the main story is done.

Having a life that doesn't cater to what a bunch of people want to wank off about.

 

[Stone Eyes]

Whether the developer is making $5 a month or $50,000, people are gonna botch about everything aren't they.



Having a life that doesn't cater to what a bunch of people want to wank off about.

He's making an adult visual novel! Thats the only thing he HAS to cater to! Every patron is there for the porn plus some story

 

[Detective Cancer]

Whether the developer is making $5 a month or $50,000, people are gonna botch about everything aren't they.

Having a life that doesn't cater to what a bunch of people want to wank off about.

Money doesn't matter on its own but when a person takes 4 months to do literally nothing while receiving money on just good will from his userbase and then comes out with this atrocity it's gonna make a good discussion. He's definitely not immune to criticism, not after every update takes so long and usually has very little content. You'd think someone making so much money for so long would've figured out how to schedule and direct his game, let alone draw more than 4 scenes for a total of like 16 frames of animation at most on an art style that requires no major details or in fact any real shading which is the hardest part for me. I'm not a great artist but I get a drawing done in at most a few days if it's frustrating enough and I keep making mistakes. Lol.

Whether the developer is making $5 a month or $50,000 some people are always gonna white-knight everything aren't they. Having your life settled on the hopes of others and doing nothing to show them any semblance of good will in return is something nice to wank off to, especially since he raised his Patreon minimums except the $1 one. It might surprise you to learn that he has a writer so those 100k words weren't his work for the most part, that's a hired writer, and he has an artist too. Somewhere along in production someone's being a lazy asshole and I don't know who or care to know because 4 months is the kind of deadline you put on a major update but he put... this out instead. Boohoo, stop being mean about my favoured scam artist~

 

[Wolfregis]

He's making an adult visual novel! Thats the only thing he HAS to cater to! Every patron is there for the porn plus some story

You're not wrong there. While I think that a game should have a good story when it's advertised as a smut game with a plot, I'm expecting a decent amount of smut, not twenty pages of a H.G. Wells novel.