Oh Hold means the Dev has reached out and asked that it be specifically on hold. Abandoned occurs after 6 months of no contact from the Dev on their Patreon or on this site. Any abandoned game can get an on hold tag if the Dev asks for it.
I bet the dev has at least had a message about the state of the game whereas others will say that they're still working on the game but not really drop out anything. So I'm assuming it's that as games like succubus covenant will waste a whole year saying that x is coming out but with next to nothing to show for it. Hell the dev is still active just not working on the game.
Personally I could see these grim reaper characters working well in a simulation style game like Teaching Feeling and Imouto Monochrome. Those typically aren't 'only play once' kind of games, especially if you make it worth the grind. I mean look at Monochrome Fantasy. Still getting fan content 'and' it's about to drop DLC.Reading through some patreon posts. "I know I can't be too much of a perfectionist, but for me if I'm not happy with what I'm releasing, I feel like I'm just doing it for the sake of giving you guys content for money." This game was last updated almost 2 years ago? Nice.
Also mentioned the "only play once" thing and other stuff about more involved gameplay. Don't know what he's expecting to churn out. He probably should make an auto-clicker game then. Has player interaction (albeit a script) and lewds
Kamuo has said on her Patreon that he's basically working on 5 projects at once. AGRSS, CRIMR(his Vel pixel game), an ankha animation, and 2 projects that he is calling "Bea" and "Maiden". Bea is a short game, and Maiden is apparently the opposite of AGRSS where its simpler and quicker to do (his words).
CRIMR is also on hold, which is too bad cause it easily has the most potential, even without any gameplay elements. (Please revive it Kamuo). The ankha animation seems to be in progress for almost a year now. Hopefully things pick up soon.
It seems like he still wants to do CRIMR, hes just not sure what direction to take it. he's kind of trying to get feedback from his community on what their opinions of it are. I think he said the original idea of the game was supposed to be "what it's like living with a grim reaper". So in his mind he wants to add more elements and things to do in the game other than lewd stuff. But who knows honestly, like I said in my earlier post, it just seems like he's burning himself out constantly. I think it was much better when he was just doing small animations every now and again, but ever since he started working on AGRSS he's slowed down tremendously.
Think it's just a tough situation for the dev in general, stacking more work on top of game development simply doesn't help
This isn't a problem I see with BNBIGUS and that creator does alot more juggling from what i've see. It just Kamuo is purposely doing too much to justify the existence of that second Patreon page. When it obvious what she doing is out of her comfort zone and she may end up burning out from making games if she continue on with this.
I see what you mean, but Kamuo is doing more than BIGUS. Bigus is really only doing 3 things. Kit Knight (his game), his new "Max" animations, and his comics. He also does commissions if you want to count that. Kamuo is doing 5 things at once. and 3 of them are games (big games at that), and the other 2 are big animations supposedly.
Just because it not her main stuff doesn't mean BNBIGUS isn't doings the same amount to Kamuo. BNBIGUS is just smart enough to know what she capable of doing at a reasonable time, and multiple large game projects simultaneously isn't one of them.
Yeah and that's my thing, BIGUS knows how to prioritize and not overload themselves. Kamuo just tends to put so much on his plate at once that he becomes overwhelmed, slowing his progress on things. I follow both his Patreons pretty closely, and it seems like he jumps from project to project A LOT, divvying his work up instead of working on 1 thing and finishing that 1 thing before moving on. And because of this, it takes forever for him to release something.
