Ren'Py Bad Memories [v0.9.5.2] [recreation]

[recreation]

@ Rec.
If you don't mind me asking, where are you moving to and from where are you moving?
I'm just curious as I have done it a few times myself. I have worked and lived in North America, Europe, Mid East and Asia.
Always with a mixture of excitement and anxiety

From Europe to Asia

 

[Bruce F. Lee]

Even more

Some like it hot. Some like it *really* hot.

 

[ClockworkGnome]

I should mention that I've decided to not switch to WS after this update, but to go right back to BM.

As much as I enjoy WS, I definitely feel like I prefer this.

 

[leg28]

abandoned or milking in progress?

 

[SonsOfLiberty]

abandoned or milking in progress?

Maybe just check a few posts up...

 

[leg28]

Maybe just check a few posts up...

so milking in progress.... thanx

 

[SonsOfLiberty]

so milking in progress.... thanx

They have 2 games.

 

[leg28]

They have 2 games.

so one is not updated 10 months, another 5 months. i stand with milking comment.
anyway, usually when someone starts another game, while original game is crawling it is bad signal (similiar when dev in the middle of project restart it). this is 5th year of this project and it looks like it will go for many more.

 

[SonsOfLiberty]

so one is not updated 10 months, another 5 months. i stand with milking comment.
anyway, usually when someone starts another game, while original game is crawling it is bad signal (similiar when dev in the middle of project restart it). this is 5th year of this project and it looks like it will go for many more.

Not milking me, so doesn't bother me one bit. An update will come out, or it won't.

 

[Night Hacker]

so one is not updated 10 months, another 5 months. i stand with milking comment.
anyway, usually when someone starts another game, while original game is crawling it is bad signal (similiar when dev in the middle of project restart it). this is 5th year of this project and it looks like it will go for many more.

If you're not paying any money out and getting it for free, how is it he is milking you?

 

[GingerbreadMan]

so one is not updated 10 months, another 5 months. i stand with milking comment.
anyway, usually when someone starts another game, while original game is crawling it is bad signal (similiar when dev in the middle of project restart it). this is 5th year of this project and it looks like it will go for many more.

Recreation is not the only dev around with two games going on simultaneously.
And he is not the only one around doing so to be able to avoid burnout or just have something different to focus on from time to time.

Also, while I would like everyone to have a monthly schedule, in the last years, due to increased rendering times because of better quality images for example, it is not that novel anymore to find a game on a 6-month schedule.

So, two alternating games on a 6-month schedule.
Combine that with "so one is not updated 10 months, another 5 months" ...

And you get? Two games, regularly updated every 6 months of development time.

I miss the times when there was an update to play basically every few weeks because of shorter and intertwined update schedules - a lot.
But I can't see any milking here.

Thanks though, because of this I realized I never got back to supporting Recreation again after having to remove my support some time back. Fixed that now.

 

[Dogorti]

The only games that are updated in 2 months are those hs model games or those renpy games with stock models, most games take time to update. People forget that the vast majority of devs do not make money at the level of icstor or other devs, so many have this as a hobby or side job and work alone in this, they cannot expect to have updates every 3 months. believing that devs are all milkers is really a very immature opinion.

 

[GingerbreadMan]

The only games that are updated in 2 months are those hs model games or those renpy games with stock models, most games take time to update. People forget that the vast majority of devs do not make money at the level of icstor or other devs, so many have this as a hobby or side job and work alone in this, they cannot expect to have updates every 3 months. believing that devs are all milkers is really a very immature opinion.

Nowadays.

But like 2-3 years back, it was not that uncommon to have one of the more decent games get updated every 2 months or even more often.
Rendering capabilities have improved a lot since then and I can understand people want to use these options now that the hardware is able to handle them.
There are multiple games where initially the idea was to decrease the rendering time with a new graphics card but most ended up using it to up the quality instead, so instead of the same schedule with more content or faster schedules where the rendering time was the limiting factor, not the coding - we now have better images, but also increased schedules.

And of course, there was some kind of high, where a lot of people had to stay at home and had time to work on a game on the side. With everything going back to normal, a lot of the more decent games seem to have gotten too much to be kept handled on the side now or got slower schedules because of this as well - so the pool of decent games has definitely been downsized.

So instead of following a good bunch of games and having alternating updates every 2-3 weeks for something out of that pool, it is now something every few months - and it feels like those schedules are more aligned now as well, so it is a long time of nothing, then 4 games being updated in a week and then months of nothing again.

 

[cxx]

well on my playlist has several games with monthly updates and some even faster, not all are masterpieces but good enuf for me.

 

[Defenestrator.for.traitor]

So no real change between female and male MCs if I understood correctly, right?

 

[Blueray]

so when is the next Update ?

 

[DB1Kurupt]

Any updates hope this isn't going to be abandoned, so many projects are version 1, this needs to be continuing,but real life factors cause delays, so appreciate what you do and waiting for update

 

[th3manwithnonam3]

Hey, is this one still ongoing? Haven't heard any words about updates. I really hope it's still going because I really enjoyed this one and I love the characters.

 

[Jarulf]

Hey, is this one still ongoing? Haven't heard any words about updates. I really hope it's still going because I really enjoyed this one and I love the characters.

If you scroll up a bit and check this message it will answer some of your questions.

 

[tyrannicpuppy]

The only games that are updated in 2 months are those hs model games or those renpy games with stock models, most games take time to update. People forget that the vast majority of devs do not make money at the level of icstor or other devs, so many have this as a hobby or side job and work alone in this, they cannot expect to have updates every 3 months. believing that devs are all milkers is really a very immature opinion.

I feel that a lot of those kinds of comments are projection too. The 'god I wish I could do nothing and milk money out of folks' attitude. But they're too lazy to put in any work to make it happen. Especially the ones who seem to think 3D software is basically like AI art, you type out an idea and the computer just renders it for you instantly. One touch of a button and out pops a fully formed image or some such nonsense. Instead of scenes taking time effort and energy to pose, light, storyboard and render.

But because they would do it, they see that as the motivation for everyone else too. Whether there is evidence to support such bitching or not. Rec is pretty damned far away from milking.