xxxorro

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I found this to be the most intense moment in the game :LOL:
Seriously if Sophia reacts violently, Dylan doesn't score a goal, and there is a small change in dialogue ; if he scores a goal : maybe a consequence.
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welcome ;)
Maybe it's the Sophia/Dylan event of the upcoming release.
With a budget of ~100 renders we will see the highlights of the match. ;)
 

Poser_Voyeur

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It's rather peculiar to see the tiny change of your perception towards him. AWAM is his dream project, as I see it. The latest images from 0.130 previews proves, that he improved further the image quality.

Impatience, urge and thirst for getting an update asap may obscure the vision. It would be ideal gaining new versions every month or fortnight, with the exact outcome I can wish on a star. Can he create sketches, like a script for a big budget movies, for the entire game and only after that start working on his renders? Probably, which will result in delaying upcoming updates, as he's gonna spend time on that. But it may speed up the process in the long-term, as the framework of the VN will be completed.

I was mentioning a couple of months ago, that the only problem I have with the product is fundamentally random release dates. Working alone is a blessing and a nightmare. He's a big boy, he'll figure out what to do on his own.

I see how the things are at the moment and due to L&P's personal troublesome development issues they not gonna get better anytime soon. Who's he expected to hire and what chunk of the income he'll lose? These are not some trivial questions. How many artists are even capable to render on his level and how many corrections he's gonna do, if he sees, that the scene should've been done otherwise, not as he had imagined it in his head?

I perfectly understand what creative process is, but in different and more complex sphere. The original plan may significantly differ from the final result. That's life, you may want always to perfect something, tweak here and there. You can't make happy everyone and that's not the goal. Self-improvement is fine and if you can earn some cash while doing that, why the heck not?
Yes it was shift in my perception. Not a complete 180 degree change but a shift nonetheless. I don't want to repeat what I have said before in more detail in my initial long reaction, (and certainly more detail than ideally I would have liked), but L&P's Patreon announcement last week did provoke a stronger reaction than I anticipated.

Yes I do understand that it is not the case that L&P can simply throw money at these issues, or hire simply anybody to make needed changes. It is more nuanced than that, and again if you were to go back and re-read my initial long response, then hopefully you will see that I have tried to allow for these nuances.

Since then I have repeated several times that I was surprised in L&P's reaction to the way he looked at those two key statistics (number of render in this short update and time taken to tweak a single render) - I STILL do not understand why he thought the way he presented those two key stats would be a GOOD thing. I don't have to convince anyone and no one has to accept or agree with my opinion - but if you have not understood what I was getting at by now, thn no merit in my further repetition.

But to end on a positive point, if (and at the moment it is unfortunately a big if), L&L can learn to be more ficussed and more efficient, there are yet small changes that he could make going forward that would keep that stunning level of quality whilst ensuring that updates are slightly more renders. Its the difference between regularly hitting less than three months between updates versus barely making four months between updates. Over one update no uch difference, but will be crucial in how quickly we get the remaining 18 playable days finished off.
 

lockerxx

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Yes, I know. I was wondering why L&P made this choice story-wise, to move away one character for which he already spent some time to develop a story.
Like, idk, she needs to be in a different class because what happens in the class may interfere with other events that happen in the classroom. For example, if there is a path Sophia/Emma, the Aiden's task might interfere with the development of that path, something like that. Or maybe after the shopping event with Sophia and Ellie he didn't want to further explore the path with Sophia and he chose to take her away from the class and give her a side story with Dylan alone.
emma is another option for Dylan (luck bastard sophie/ellie/emma/amber/Marie and maybe Claire and patricia :ROFLMAO:)maybe sophie is doing somethis with her behind dylan back:unsure:
 

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Any patreon here mind asking the developer roughly which playable day will we get to get the first kiss(for the man) with Sophia, i understand each day of the game probably gonna take around 9 to 12 months to complete. We are currently at playable day 12.
I'd speculate another 6 playable days before real action begins...which is about 3 years XD XD XD
 
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bigbobby0940

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It's pretty funny when a game like the DIK, can have better writing, better renders, full animation and also release quicker than this game.

Almost as funny as the wait time between each update getting even slower when he allegedly "upgrades his PC" with the main intention of increasing update speed. Really makes you think, but hey, when he always has at leas one "super cool individual" who defends his every breath for free, why bother changing.
 
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I'll just give you your own 2 posts for starters. And I'm glad you can't stop thinking about me, I'm like a splinter in this sense.




You're so full of shit, that I'm surprised you're even able to write anything, while being in the middle of that mess.
Within 2 days (!) L&P's attitude and "work ethic" has changed so drastically, that you've decided to lend him your helping hand.
That was fast and 0.130 hasn't come out yet. Be more consistent, your right hand have no idea what the left hand is doing, by the looks of it.

Sorry, but I simply can't take things you post here seriously. Be mad at me or don't; blame L&P, magnetic storms, yeti, whatever you'd like. Accepting responsibility is the first step on the way from immaturity to adulthood.

Good luck with building your imaginary sand castle.
I always said I've supported L&P in the past.
I've also said I like that he showed up to defend himself and reply to posts without being all "I know better than you" like he did previously.
Saying he lacks a plan and has poor work ethic doesn't mean I dislike everything he does. I've always stated his renders are great.

But you guys are funny, this is your logic:

I criticize - "Look at this guy criticizing when he plays for free, you can criticize if you're a patron else shut up"
I show that I'm a patron - "Look at this guy, supporting a game he criticizes. Why do you support when you're so critical?"

Fucking hilarious, must be your smooth brain talking.
 

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L&P does like to stray outside of the box and stay away from the normal routes used in most of the incest/corruption games ie sleep sex/sleeping pills and so on and I do like this approach.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves, it's a classic "my son's bully is blackmailing me" story.
Actually the twist he had that it was all Dylan's idea could have been better but he succumbed to everyone's pressure to change it.
 
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ancienregimele

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First of all we should state that it is our, the player, fantasies that Sophia should turn to. And I hope Google translates "attentive" wrong for me.
Let's hold on that we don't agree.
For me, corruption can only work successfully in the long term if the person to be corrupted can control the situation, at least partially. Everything else for me has to do with a breach of will, that is, forced sex, equating with rape. I just can't get past it. I just can't get past it.
I feel the same about incest but I get past it because this is fantasy fiction, nothing more. It's not an endorsement of any particular perversion. Playing AWAM doesn't make us sinners, or rather doesn't make us bigger sinners than we are already. That's how I see it anyway. "Decisions of Life" character cast-list has several 'friends' who were close blood-relatives in AWAM. When Sophia has sex with them in DoL I don't expect incest fans to be thrilled, because the crucial breaking of the taboo hasn't occurred. It will be sex with friends, nothing more. That may be nice in its' way but it's also tame, insignificant & a bit pointless. It deletes the whole essence of the incest routes that run through AWAM. It erases the thrill. Imagine playing a game for 10 years with the climax of having sex with a friend....wow? I don't think so.

When & if the blackmail turns from compulsion to willing participation, or initiative taking by Sophia, it will be the equivalent of recasting family members as friends. That's how big a deal it is. It will not be blackmail & AWAM will have lost any edge that it had from this storyline. If the route continues with Sophia experiencing the odd thrill from what she's being made to do, that will be different & it will definitely be corruption. There are possibilities for knock-on effects in other parts of the story. I have some slim hope that this might be the case.

This is escapism not an example of how we would wish to live our lives.
 
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Old Dog

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Let's not get ahead of ourselves, it's a classic "my son's bully is blackmailing me" story.
Actually the twist he had that it was all Dylan's idea could have been better but he succumbed to everyone's pressure to change it.
I agree that the twist should of stayed in but hey it is what it is.
I should of phrased the last part better and said that he has stayed away from a lot of the usual routes that are used in corruption/incest games,sleep sex/sleeping pills just to name a few.
 

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But I trust L&P and perceive AWAM as his property, as a product of his personal creativity.
Personally, it never occurs to me to tell him how and what he should do! Because in the opposite situation, I would send everyone to hell! I do not allow anyone to influence my decisions.
And thank god L&P doesn't have your personality.

This is terrible advice for anyone developing anything.

No one is forcing L&P to do anything, people are suggesting stuff to solve glaring issues (which in some cases even he has found to be true) and he actually has accepted some sugestions in the past as he will accept in the future.

Just from the top of my head, he has changed update frequency, render resolution, Sophia's textures when we complained she looked boney, Dylan's/Aiden's story when people complained about the plot twist, some posing issues with Liam in the casino so yeah, he takes suggestions.

Taking suggestions to your work as a personal attack is only revealing of lack of self esteem and confidence in your own work. I'm yet to see someone completely bashing him (except those trolls from time to time).

Most people here recognize and praise the very good things the VN has but they suggest stuff because it's clear as day that in the current way this is getting developed, it will not be finished if he intends to take the plot until the end, unless you think that he'll get this to 2030+.

In the last post the guy clearly said he doesn't have personal time and you think that he'll take this game development for another decade living like that?
He will need help, its obvious to anyone, even to him, it's a matter of finding or training the right person.
 
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It's pretty funny when a game like the DIK, can have better writing, better renders, full animation and also release quicker than this game.

Almost as funny as the wait time between each update getting even slower when he allegedly "upgrades his PC" with the main intention of increasing update speed. Really makes you think, but hey, when he always has at leas one "super cool individual" who defends his every breath for free, why bother changing.
Isn't DPC a team now?
 

roro

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Also, is there any explanation for Emma dropping Sophia's class? Has it ever explained why (I mean story development-wise, beside her joining her friends) and if it is functional to the rest of the storyline? I'm curious... ;)
It's a simple explanation (L&P himself wrote it several years ago...). He did it so he wouldn't have to render 2 different scenes for "nerdy Emma" and for "cool Emma" every time there's a scene in Sophia's classroom.
 
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