VN Ren'Py Abandoned Above the Clouds [v0.75] [Mundo Games]

[OmegaAlpga]

Is this game truly dead?

If you’ve got the cash and the connections, just track down the dev, slap a slave collar on him, and throw him into a "game development dungeon." Feed him only energy drinks and instant noodles until the game is completed. Desperate times call for desperate measures!

 

[MrDL]

"What is dead may never die, but rises again harder and stronger"

Praise the Drowned God.

Huh. I myself got Greyjoy vibes from it.

 

[DarkLoki]

If you’ve got the cash and the connections, just track down the dev, slap a slave collar on him, and throw him into a "game development dungeon." Feed him only energy drinks and instant noodles until the game is completed. Desperate times call for desperate measures!

Every developer knows the main food groups are Mountain Dew, Captain Crunch, Hot pockets, and nicotine

 

[Bossk]

absolute shame this got abandoned. Hannah was truly one of a kind and one of my favorite characters on this whole site.

 

[Sharingan33]

I just found out the folder with my old saves and i remembered this game, shame this got abandoned. Now i can delete the saves forever with a peace of mind and i can write the message that i wrote many times before: Another one bites the dust!

 

[DanThaMan]

The game is not abandoned, took some time off.

 

[-CookieMonster666-]

Now i can delete the saves forever with a peace of mind

I mean, in the off chance that this does come back from the dead... wouldn't it be wiser to keep the saves folder around? It's not like the folder takes up much space at all. Realistically, if you're hurting that much for space, you would do much better to consider getting a new hard drive or something with a lot more storage capacity. But you do you.

 

[Sharingan33]

I mean, in the off chance that this does come back from the dead... wouldn't it be wiser to keep the saves folder around? It's not like the folder takes up much space at all. Realistically, if you're hurting that much for space, you would do much better to consider getting a new hard drive or something with a lot more storage capacity. But you do you. View attachment 4736484

It's not about space, it's about the fact that i have more than 500 Renpy save folders and i don't remember which game they're from: i have a folder named "test4-1587319361", another one "Test-1490227962" and another one "Test-1612319185". How the fuck should i remember the game they represent? With over 500 folders it's necessary to do some decluttering especially on abandoned games like this who will never be updated again.

 

[-CookieMonster666-]

It's not about space, it's about the fact that i have more than 500 Renpy save folders and i don't remember which game they're from: i have a folder named "test4-1587319361", another one "Test-1490227962" and another one "Test-1612319185". How the fuck should i remember the game they represent? With over 500 folders it's necessary to do some decluttering especially on abandoned games like this who will never be updated again.

Well, once again, there's still a chance this could be updated. The dev did reply in March of this year on his Discord. I'm not saying to expect an update; I have no idea what's going on and can only assume it's likely this game is dead. And if you don't have faith this will ever get updated again, that's your choice; and ofc it's understandable. Still, I really don't think deleting a single folder from %appdata%/RenPy is going to help you all that much. If you already have, let's say, 501 folders there I strongly doubt lowering that to 500 folders really is going to matter, either. I really don't know why you need to declutter anything from that folder, but it's your preference, it seems.

FFR, you can actually easily find out what the folder's called by using UnRen on any game, looking at the options.rpy file (sometimes placed in a secondary folder within the game folder), and seeing what the save folder is called (just do a find within that file to see). I have a huge number of save folders as well. It's pretty easy to go find the folder usually, and if it's unclear I do exactly what I described above to find the folder name. (FYI, the folder for this game is called AboveTheClouds-1617038687, so it wouldn't seem deleting it would help with the similar-folder-name confusion.)

Anyway, I don't really care what you do on your own computer, though I would recommend at least keeping a backup of the saves folder somewhere, like maybe on an external hard drive or a thumb drive or something. Should this game ever make some kind of comeback, you'll for sure have to restart unless you have a backup.

Suggestion Only: If the confusion bothers you so much (even outside of this specific game), why not keep a text file for the games you have and pair each game you list there with the name of its save folder?​

 

[Nulldev]

Much easier to create a new save in the game, then go to the renpy saves folder and sort by date as the new file forces the directory modification date to update to the current time. So the lastest dir is what you need.

 

[leathermax]

It's not about space, it's about the fact that i have more than 500 Renpy save folders and i don't remember which game they're from: i have a folder named "test4-1587319361", another one "Test-1490227962" and another one "Test-1612319185". How the fuck should i remember the game they represent? With over 500 folders it's necessary to do some decluttering especially on abandoned games like this who will never be updated again.

Not that I'm here to bring a solution to all your problems, but why don't you rename your save folders with alphabetical order?

 

[colobancuz]

Not that I'm here to bring a solution to all your problems, but why don't you rename your save folders with alphabetical order?

If you rename the folder with saves, the game just will not find them, almost the same as delete, but without deleting. The name of the save folder for Renpy games is chosen not by the user but by the developer, or even more likely by the Renpy SDK (developers just don't think to change anything).

 

[lipe2410]

People really got heat because of a dude said will delete his save of an abandoned game that will never get updated again. lol

 

[Sharingan33]

People really got heat because of a dude said will delete his save of an abandoned game that will never get updated again. lol

I'm just guessing but maybe a lot of people still have faith in dev "probably" updating the game somewhere in the future; honestly i've seen too many games get abandoned and too many devs losing the will to continue to share the same blind faith.
I've also deleted the saves because i barely remember anything about this game so i would have to start again from the beginning no matter what.

Not that I'm here to bring a solution to all your problems, but why don't you rename your save folders with alphabetical order?

As they told you, you can't rename the save folder or the game won't recognise the saves anymore, the only solution i could came up with is to create a text file inside the save folder so that i could remeber which game for example "Test-1490227962" is from (it's Mythic Manor by the way).