VN Ren'Py A Wife and Mother [v0.211] [Lust & Passion]

[Dr.SigmundFap]

Have you seen the quality of typical "rip-off" games? Because they're never anywhere close to this. The sheer level of quality shows that this is not a "rip-off" game, but a resource-intensive one and one that has a high level of ambition behind it.

It does move slower than pretty much all of us would like and is bloated with too many side stories, but the level of effort that goes in to make it look so stunning is more likely the reason why it takes so long because quality like this can't be done quickly by just one person.

Currently, there is one high-quality "rip-off" game that I can think of right now, and I don't know how this Patron maintains their member count since their last update was almost one and a half years ago and makes promises of new updates.

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So agree about the speed of AWAM and how L&P communicates his thoughts about speeding up the release of the updates and then falls short of his plan for updates, but so far, L&P has released updates compare to the spoiler.

 

[abram1]

Which goes back to my original comment, he's ripping of his patrons.

He promised a complete game within 10,000 renders. He's extended and extended renders and paths for no real reason, that adds no real context other than "filter pieces" and as such has delayed so that the game won't be completed anytime soon.

How can you not seen that, this is a business model to rip of his loyal patrons?

I may easily play the role of devil's lawyer, but I'll pass on this temptation. My dude, this dev works all by himself, which is a biggest drawback and the sole reason of inconsistency.
If you wanna know what a rip off is or feels like, welcome to this thread. That dumpster has been of fire for months now. The quality of ICSTOR's excuses is so abysmal that it's funny in its own way. I can only salute and be amazed by the stubbornes of his patrons.
Would you be so kind to show his exact words, where "he promised" to finish his game in the X amount of renders? Promises doesn't equal intentions and the latter is subject to change.

 

[Dr.SigmundFap]

I may easily play the role of devil's lawyer, but I'll pass on this temptation. My dude, this dev works all by himself, which is a biggest drawback and the sole reason of inconsistency.
If you wanna know what a rip off is or feels like, welcome to this thread. That dumpster has been of fire for months now. The quality of ICSTOR's excuses is so abysmal that it's funny in its own way. I can only salute and be amazed by the stubbornes of his patrons.
Would you be so kind to show his exact words, where "he promised" to finish his game in the X amount of renders? Promises doesn't equal intentions and the latter is subject to change.

I don't know if you can say this was a "Promised", but I guess you could say this is what he promoted when he was advertising and posting here on F95 a couple of years ago.

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[Bane71]

I don't know if you can say this was a "Promised", but I guess you could say this is what he promoted when he was advertising and posting here on F95 a couple of years ago.

https://f95zone.to/threads/a-wife-and-mother-v0-115-lust-passion.5944/page-260#post-924649

Plans and promises are different substances. He planned to do so, but the work on the project made its own adjustments and as a result we have what we have. Of course you can blame him for this. But how will reproaches help someone?

 

[Dr.SigmundFap]

Plans and promises are different substances. He planned to do so, but the work on the project made its own adjustments and as a result we have what we have. Of course you can blame him for this. But how will reproaches help someone?

This is why I put the word "Promises" in quotes, but if you read what he typed again.



Where do you see the uses of the word plan??? I see the word definitely.

 

[abram1]

I don't know if you can say this was a "Promised", but I guess you could say this is what he promoted when he was advertising and posting here on F95 a couple of years ago.

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We all can say ciao or adiós to those plans now. He himself had no idea that the game would become that popular. So he's adjusting accordingly. Can we blame him for that? He's earning his money fair and square.
Idk if the final product would be labeled as 1.00, but the upcoming 0.135 looks kinda ... spooky.
Even if the whole playable day is a decimal, god help us all till it's done.

 

[Dr.SigmundFap]

We all can say ciao or adiós to those plans now. He himself had no idea that the game would become that popular. So he's adjusting accordingly. Can we blame him for that? He's earning his money fair and square.
Idk if the final product would be labeled as 1.00, but the upcoming 0.135 looks kinda ... spooky.

I have no arguments about how he chooses to make his money. If his Patreon or future Patreon members wish to donate to his account to promote the game, then that is their choice. You asked a question, and I answered it. But the main point was his communication skills are horrible. He didn't really have a good plan to execute his visual novel until three years later when he explained his plan, which I still doubt that L&P will finish AWAM.

I don't think there will be much to this upcoming update. I'm sure the big event will be in the evening with the other guy.

 

[Julius Ash]

There is no official contract about that. Patreon support a guy, not a work.
That is where a lot of people is mistaken. I was at first until I was explained what patronage really means.

Support a guy for what? Don't be silly, if i give money to you, I'm expecting something in return, patreon is not a charitable institution. Patreon is business and when business is involved you must deliver to the lenders a product without using excuses to justify your failure in product development. About 3 years ago L&P was literally crying because of lack of support, at that time I posted my first message on this thread trying to encourage people to support him, at that time i was supporting him on patreon, when money start to flow as a river things changed. The Dev effort become very light always using excuses to explain the drop of the progression of the product. If this dev want to be loyal to his patreons, the solution is very simple, stop the pledging during the months in which no update is released. There is people that is honest and people that is greedy, i think that Dev is positioned in this second group.

 

[Julius Ash]

Agree to disagree.
Does any of the patrons signs up any paperwork before starting to support anyone on Patreon? No.
Maybe potential patrons making some kind of verbal agreement? Highly unlikely.

What does a patron do? The same some of them did during the Renaissance era. They are sort of a helping hand for the artists. Some stay no matter what. Others, having built imaginary castles deep down themselves and seeing that the content developer doesn't meet their expectations, leave. There's always a choice.

Therefore, none of the creators is obliged to anyone in any way. Don't like what you see - vote with your wallet. They may listen to the feedback, but the final decision is upon them.

L&P's initial plan was to finish this game with around 10k renders, if I'm not mistaken, which is pretty damn close to what we have at the moment. But once you've discovered a goldmine like AWAM, you may course correct the whole project from the ground up.

The very first update was basically a bait, to see, how the audience would react to it. People liked it, and he moved on to expand and improve the game in all the ways possible. I'd say 10 years or 2027 is a very optimistic scenario, considering we're barely 40% through the story and his ambitions are prevailing over him.

You are wrong, during the reinassance era, the artists has been supported by only one patreon that took care totally of patreoned expences, for sample look at Lorenzo De Medici and Benvenuto Cellini. Patreon system used for the support of this indy developers is really different, you give to the dev some money just to help him in the developement but the dev must give you something back. Almost all Dev make promise, but is easy to discover that after money earnings start to increase, the dev effort becomes inversely proportional to revenue. I suggest to make some research on the matter, will be easy for you to discover that this is true.

 

[Talcum Powder]

300 renders on the first 2 scenes?

Arnt they the old people visit and the young kids teaching?

300? HAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh the walking and talking images are off the scale this update!!!!

C'mon, be positive: imagine a tight fitting corset with 300 hooks!

 

[Bane71]

This is why I put the word "Promises" in quotes, but if you read what he typed again.

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Where do you see the uses of the word plan??? I see the word definitely.

My friend, I am not a lawyer for the L&P. I'm just talking about understandable topics. After all, you are an intelligent person and you understand very well that then L&P was only at the beginning of the road. In addition, I believe that he is quite young and inexperienced, unlike many here. Therefore, despite the controversial product that he creates, he commands my respect and I believe he deserves it much more than many of his critics. How do you think?

 

[Holy Bacchus]

For all of you that continuously talk about quality, I just want to clarify that here we are not talking about Leonardo da Vinci, most of the job is made from a PC, nothing is really created from Devs, they work only on pre-exsisting models.

The quality isn't simply in the character models, that's a very narrow way of looking at it. The quality is in the other aesthetics, like the lighting, the environment design, the micro-expressions on the faces, the subtle body language and changes in body positioning, etc. These are what truly give this game its quality because L&P does very much seem to be trying to make the world in which this is set as realistic as possible with characters that look (in terms of expressions and body language) much more like real people than they do in most other games, and environments that look like they could be real.

A lot seems to go into custom designing in this game as I've seen props in rooms that belong to several different DAZ assets and I doubt L&P has ever used a preset pose because the posing of these characters looks entirely customised by them. All of that takes time and effort, as does making the lighting look as real as possible, so there's a lot of manual tinkering that goes on to make this game look as good as it does and it's not like other games that just slap together a bunch of preset characters, environments, poses, and lighting and put little effort into it.

 

[Bane71]

For all of you that continuously talk about quality, I just want to clarify that here we are not talking about Leonardo da Vinci, most of the job is made from a PC, nothing is really created from Devs, they work only on pre-exsisting models.

Yes Yes! Nothing is created by the developer, he uses previously created ones! And the game just like that, accidentally became so popular! This is not L&P merit!
I do not know the reasons why you give such ratings to L&P, but I am at a loss! What have you lost here? L&P and we, AWAM fans, are not worthy of your attention.
You need to leave your reviews in the world's galleries, not here.

But right, what kind of snobbery? Keep it simple. Of course AWAM is not a high art, but it has the right to exist, this is confirmed by those who support it financially and not only.

 

[Dr.SigmundFap]

My friend, I am not a lawyer for the L&P. I'm just talking about understandable topics. After all, you are an intelligent person and you understand very well that then L&P was only at the beginning of the road. In addition, I believe that he is quite young and inexperienced, unlike many here. Therefore, despite the controversial product that he creates, he commands my respect and I believe he deserves it much more than many of his critics. How do you think?

I understand you were looking at this from another point of view, but I was trying to point out the flaws here and answer a question asked by abram1. He was indeed in the infant stages of AWAM when he made that statement. Still, I have seen people try to help him with Constructive Criticism to improve his visual novel and help him grow as a developer, but the problem with L&P is he didn't look at it as Constructive Criticism. L&P took it as a personal attack on him, and he started lashing out. Now, I will say some attacks on here were uncalled for, but there were people on here who tried to help him generally, and unfortunately, he alienated those people, which could be due to his young age and his OCD condition.

I'm more of a mid-level person and say that I would praise him when I think he implements some good and criticize him constructively when I feel he implemented something wrong. so I wouldn't say he commands my respect. He could earn my respect if he listened to people who try to offer advice or a different way of looking at things that might be a better process than what he is currently operating under right now. He doesn't have to take the advice, but listen to it could go a long way, and don't flip out when someone constructively criticizes him.

 

[Bane71]

I understand you were looking at this from another point of view, but I was trying to point out the flaws here and answer a question asked by abram1. He was indeed in the infant stages of AWAM when he made that statement. Still, I have seen people try to help him with Constructive Criticism to improve his visual novel and help him grow as a developer, but the problem with L&P is he didn't look at it as Constructive Criticism. L&P took it as a personal attack on him, and he started lashing out. Now, I will say some attacks on here were uncalled for, but there were people on here who tried to help him generally, and unfortunately, he alienated those people, which could be due to his young age and his OCD condition.

I'm more of a mid-level person and say that I would praise him when I think he implements some good and criticize him constructively when I feel he implemented something wrong. so I wouldn't say he commands my respect. He could earn my respect if he listened to people who try to offer advice or a different way of looking at things that might be a better process than what he is currently operating under right now. He doesn't have to take the advice, but listen to it could go a long way, and don't flip out when someone constructively criticizes him.

I also understand you and agree with you. But I'm not upset because of criticism of L&P and AWAM, but I get upset when I see rudeness and rudeness.
No matter what your age, you speak judiciously and try to be objective. Therefore, I am sure that you will agree with me and understand me.
We can call criticism constructive, but you must admit that it is always a subjective concept.
Consequently, the evaluator of any criticism is the object to which it is directed, that is, the L&P.
If he had been experienced enough, he would probably have been able to extract reasonable elements from criticism.
But how do we know that he is not learning from criticism? I suppose it does. But one thing is certain, he cannot satisfy all requests at the same time, it is not possible.

 

[nexer]

You have compared Haley-story with Awam. Is the same quality?

 

[abram1]

I have no arguments about how he chooses to make his money. If his Patreon or future Patreon members wish to donate to his account to promote the game, then that is their choice. You asked a question, and I answered it. But the main point was his communication skills are horrible. He didn't really have a good plan to execute his visual novel until three years later when he explained his plan, which I still doubt that L&P will finish AWAM.

I don't think there will be much to this upcoming update. I'm sure the big event will be in the evening with the other guy.

Who would've been that naive to suppose that the product of that scale will be ready 2-3 years from the aforementioned time period, when the game's state was at 0.06 and X/30 days? That's called marketing and yeah, that's not his best feature.

You are wrong, during the reinassance era, the artists has been supported by only one patreon that took care totally of patreoned expences, for sample look at Lorenzo De Medici and Benvenuto Cellini. Patreon system used for the support of this indy developers is really different, you give to the dev some money just to help him in the developement but the dev must give you something back. Almost all Dev make promise, but is easy to discover that after money earnings start to increase, the dev effort becomes inversely proportional to revenue. I suggest to make some research on the matter, will be easy for you to discover that this is true.

In Spanish there's a proverb "piensa mal y acertarás" which roughly can be translated as "think bad and you'll be right''. That's your case. Comparing Medici to the Patreon patrons is bollocks. I'm talking about the concept of support as a whole. There are not that many folks with deep pockets, who would single-handedly form a retirement plan for any content creator.

And why do you think the development process slows down? Because someone has so much cash that he starts to wipe his butt with it or coz he gets better hardware and puts his efforts into this route?

I've no bias on this matter. Neither a patron, nor being paid by L&P (if you'll read this, perhaps you should, huh?). Don't give a flying fuck, whether AWAM is done in 2 or 22 years from now. Wanna relieve yourself? There're so much better options than this VN, but you know that already, sure hope you do. He's not a Da Vinci, but neither you're a Mona Lisa. Be humble and have a sense of humor and irony. Am I right or am I right?

 

[brt654]

Let's see the first point: if I take a piece of silver paper and transform it into a hat, that is art. This man this L&P is creating a story and creating very good renderings ... he is making art. Second point - the speed of development: I have been following the development of a game called Titanic: honor and glory and soon it will be 10 years of its development and it is far from over but they are still working on it and it is not a gta They are making the ship so that people can see it in virtual reality and walk around it. To what I am going, it is not so easy to create a game, not because it is a visual novel, it has to be simpler and more when it is done by a single person.They told me that hoghwarts legacy was coming out this year and the end is for next year. Everyone has problems and many want their product to come out as polished as possible.
Third point: if you don't like how its development works, don't pay and that's it. For example, if this developer stopped giving signs of life for 6 months or more, I would stop supporting it and that's it, it's that simple. Whoever thinks that it is easier and faster to do it himself and earn money! As I have seen a fanart, bad renderings, without any type of substance, or any type of tension, it was come to fuck
Finally sorry for the English google translator. I don't know if the norm in this forum is to speak in English, but out of respect I don't do it in my Spanish language. Greetings to everyone, every day I get home from work, I read you, you make me have a good time haha

 

[armion82]

I don't know if you can say this was a "Promised", but I guess you could say this is what he promoted when he was advertising and posting here on F95 a couple of years ago.

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I remember how some reacted on some predictions that the game will need more than 10 years.
Now it seems many will have to apologies to those seers

 

[Holy Bacchus]

If I were you I would probably smash myself for comparing for comparing HS with AWAM. May be create some fake accounts just to facepalm your own post.

It honestly baffles me how people can look at other games that update quickly and say, "see, if this game can do it why not AWAM?", and then you look at that game and see the much lower difference in quality.

I'm a fan of Haley's Story, have played it since it was probably about 1/4 of where it is now, but it is not comparable to AWAM since HS uses a lot of presets like poses, lighting, environments, etc, and it is a very simple, linear plot with only one major branch and each update has very few renders in it. A game like that can easily update once every month, but AWAM cannot.

I'm sure we'd all like this game to update quicker, but even if L&P dropped all the side stories and only left in her family as well as Sam, Alyssa, Zac, and Julia, it still would take months to complete each update because of the quality they put in to the renders.