the interlude was a totally waste of time
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- Mar 13, 2021
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He lost 1.000 patrons since december 2021. November 2021 doesn't count because it was ep. 8 release: since then, he's constantly and slowly losing patrons.
- Jun 14, 2020
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Yeah, artistic freedom of authors sucks a lot. How could DPC dare to tell a story like he wants to? He should ask you next time. Where will we end up if devs produce the storys in the way they have in their mind?
- Mar 13, 2021
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Bro, the plan is 4 seasons, 16 episodes. Draw your conclusions. Mine are that we will never know what was Lynette's family name / who posted Cathy's picture / who blackmailed Chad / what happened to Bella's marriage (you can bet your ass that we still won't know after the end of episode 9).
- Apr 8, 2019
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i dont know, if i payed 15 USD per update than yeah i would agree, but you and me are getting them from free here.
- Sep 20, 2018
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Huh. From the context it's entirely unclear if the 4524 renders he sites is posed or completed. The former suggests he rendered about 410 statics in a single week (a very high number), whereas the latter tells us nothing about how many were completed. I'm going to assume the latter since that's more conservative, he's switched to reporting posed totals recently, and it also lines up with the rate at which he's been adding statics to the queue. Unfortunately, that means there's really nothing new to add to the charts. Here's last week's charts again, though, for old time's sake:You must be registered to see the links
This week I worked on and completed a big and tricky scene and some smaller scenes.
I have started working on the remaining lewd scenes of the episode now, posing both static renders and animations for them.
Art for 8 scenes remains, and three of those scenes need writing. I might need a couple more scenes after playtesting the episode if I feel something is missing.
I playtested Isabella's branch this week. It took me over 3 hours to complete it, without mini-games and without being able to test everything, as the final free roam event is still a bit of a mess regarding the code.
I felt that some parts of this branch needed a bit more content, while other parts of it were perfect and unique.
And this is an example of how I will work after finishing the art for the remaining scenes. I will playtest and then polish and add any additional content I feel is needed.
I have to do this for five branches and all possible combinations of choices and consequences therein. Each branch is of similar length, meaning a single playtest of all branches will require at least 15 hours of playtime. I always do this many times, over and over.
While there is plenty of joint content, there is also plenty of unique scenes for each branch; this makes quality control a big task.
But I'm very much looking forward to playing the episode. There are many scenes I haven't even seen in-game yet, even though the art has been finished for months - it's crazy, even more so than usual.
I'm up to 4524 renders, and now that I started animating again, I will know how many more animations I need within a few more weeks.
I don't have an accurate estimation of the release date; everything will depend on the remaining animation render times and how smooth the last stretch of development goes.
Have a nice weekend
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- Aug 3, 2018
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Well, we've already seen a preview for what sure looks like a Lily lewd scene, and if Riona in that cat suit doesn't end up back in the MC's room, I'll be shocked!
- Aug 3, 2018
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Not a writer, are you? You can plan all you want, but you never really know how things are gonna go until you've written it. The story only really starts to take shape when you start rewriting it. Before that, it's just a collection of....stuff. But for things to really be connected, you need more than just....stuff. Hell, most of the time you don't really even know it's done until after it is done. You usually have to start making it worse before you realize, "oh, nope, that was already done."Art for 8 scenes remains, and three of those scenes need writing. I might need a couple more scenes after playtesting the episode if I feel something is missing.
I felt that some parts of this branch needed a bit more content, while other parts of it were perfect and unique.
And this is an example of how I will work after finishing the art for the remaining scenes. I will playtest and then polish and add any additional content I feel is needed.
I have to do this for five branches and all possible combinations of choices and consequences therein.
I started animating again, I will know how many more animations I need within a few more weeks.
- Yeah, absolutely no reason for Panic, or more properly for disappointment. after all, after all this time, He still dont even know how many thing he need to add, to finish it.
- Aug 3, 2018
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I would say instead, a completely normal part of any professional writer's process.
All the Kerouac nonsense about stream of consciousnesses writing is just bull shit. It's a good start to a project, and sure, On the Road worked pretty well, but most people who try to write that way, without rewriting, write trash. The whole point of rewriting is to make sure your audience is getting the experience you intend, and that is almost always enhanced by not being tied down by an early draft. You'll never know if you have said what you want to say until you have said it, and preferably heard back from others about their reactions.
- Dec 3, 2021
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That's a very good point. We've seen it here with several devs redoing chapters in their VN's after a time. It also helps to have an ending to your story in mind. We've seen many VN's that just seem to meander while forgetting to advance the story. (That is, for the VN's that actually HAVE a story.) I would wager those are the devs who do not have an ending in mind.
- Sep 22, 2019
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What about the ones who never update - ICSTOR etc, if we cant say updates take too long then we can't say that what ICSTOR is doing is wrong, when it blatantly is. I don't think DPC is anywhere near that level, but even if you aren't paying you can say he should be delivering more for what he earns, regardless of whether we get the product for free or not. It's about moral expectations as opposed to what I practically want, and it sets a very bad president for patreon funded projects as a whole.
And we are all reminded, once again, that the Interlude was not worth the opportunity cost. Not even close.
3 months spent on that hurts to think about now. It did nothing for the plot that couldn't have been done in more efficient ways and it was not very interesting as a standalone either.
3 months spent on that hurts to think about now. It did nothing for the plot that couldn't have been done in more efficient ways and it was not very interesting as a standalone either.
- Aug 3, 2018
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Tolkien never understood the rewriting process, and as a result we have far fewer finished stories that we could have by the father of fantasy. Every time he got stuck, he had to start over from scratch. The initial writing, that's the joy, but the rewriting, that's the work, and that's where it becomes great.
- Aug 19, 2019
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Considering he needed to get the underlying tech tested (for imports and all), and he was still going to have Zoey backstory, the only thing a lack of the Interlude would have resulted in would have been no update for anything whatsoever at all this entire time, because that same "boring" story content would have been worked into the rest of the stuff anyway.
Don't be angry about the interlude, this lengthy delay was always going to happen. Be angry that DPC obviously lied about pushing for smaller, faster episodes than what he'd done prior to the bloat of episode 8.
- Apr 8, 2019
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Well i think ICSTOR is ripping people off, i think DPC is taking his time, and making quality content. Could he be faster? probably, would i LOVE if he was? yeah man give me an update every 4 months and i would be very happy. And tbh, if he was smart he would lower the devolopment time somehow, maybe hire someone, or buy another pc to do some rendering i dont know ,or he should consider making smaller updates. But as alot of people have said, he made his business this way, and it made him rich, why would he change that?
- May 9, 2020
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That's common and not any different, in real terms, from the ebbs and flows of Patreon supporters that always accompany new content releases.
I feel like maybe sales from Steam and the other platforms for ep 9 and on would be a better indicator. It just makes sense that they'd be more fairweather than patreon supporters. Actual consumers buying a product vs people essentially donating to a creator on a monthly basis.
- Jul 9, 2017
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And he'll gain twice or thrice that amount when he drops the next episode so I don't think he cares.
I assure you it's not much more than 10%.. And you have to understand that 10% is gone and another 10% has come..
- Jan 8, 2022
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After the branching in Ep8 i had my doubt zhat Ep9 was getting smaller, now be has 5 different strands to tell, this will take time (every strand has to be that long that the players aren't disappointed).