VN Ren'Py Beneath Her Shadow-Game Development Journey

[Sonico]

pictures of Nora ?

Guessing we'll have to wait a bit still before getting glimpses of Norman and the three big ladies in his life.
Aexier, any plans for a character like the "wild child" or something similar in concept?

 

[Aexier]

Yeah I'm sorry I do apologize as summer was insanely busy with work so I didn't have much time to work on this game. I'm trying to get back into the rhythm and catch up with sharing some sneak peaks of the characters. As for the wild child, I do have a similar character that you can meet in the story and discover her past. Please look forward to future updates soon!

 

[Sonico]

Yeah I'm sorry I do apologize as summer was insanely busy with work so I didn't have much time to work on this game. I'm trying to get back into the rhythm and catch up with sharing some sneak peaks of the characters. As for the wild child, I do have a similar character that you can meet in the story and discover her past. Please look forward to future updates soon!

Life getting in the way of things running smoothly with our passion projects? It happens, no surprises there.
Thanks for clearing up the situation and answering to our questions.

 

[oldmasterxd]

interesting hope the milf still keep the pale skin and red areola niples etc
loved the milf even did try animate some gona keep look at this

 

[mickaj001]

At Aexier
Thank you for taking up this magnificent game again. I hope that this remake will survive. I would like to ask you if you could add a character who haunts horror movies that Freddy Krueger. You also need new characters who would come by for a night or some day where they would have sex. What would be also great to do a great tribute to the movie Psycho and make an appearance with Alfred Hitchcock.
Yeah very interested in that, so I would like to play test

 

[Aexier]

Sorry for the confusion but this isn't a remake but a spiritual successor to the game that P_S_Y_C_H_O_ has made. Some well known examples of spiritual successors such as Bioshock from System Shock, Dark Souls from Demon Souls, Yooka Laylee from Banjo Kazooie and the upcoming Physint from Metal Gear Solid. As for a character that haunts, I do have a character in mind that is a killer similar to the iconic horror icons such as Leatherface, Jason Voorhees and so on but the game is pretty grounded for the most part so don't expect a reanimated corpse walking without a head. I do have some ideas in mind to pay respect to the novel/film of Psycho and even the show Bates Motel but it will be an echo as I don't plan to get a C and D letter anytime soon. For now, I appreciate the feedback and I hope to share some more upcoming updates with you all soon. Until then, Stay Tuned!

 

[tosco123]

Is there any preview for the game yet?

 

[-CookieMonster666-]

Is there any preview for the game yet?

The map and game logo isn't enough for you?

 

[stefu85]

The map and game logo isn't enough for you?

8 months and we dont'have even faces of family? that's the first thing you create in a game, and it's made in one week of work at max

 

[Sir Anal]

8 months and we dont'have even faces of family? that's the first thing you create in a game, and it's made in one week of work at max

So, why don't you create the game yourself ?

 

[stefu85]

So, why don't you create the game yourself ?

if you think that it need 8 months to create 3 faces, it need 27 years to create a single chapter, not speaking about a full game...

 

[merleved]

7 months with no progress whatsoever for the 'spiritual successor' to a game that barely logged 3 updates in the last 5 years seems oddly and dysfunctionally appropriate.

The only thing worse than the history of supremely shitty development in this 'series' are the weird as fuck fanboys who still sit around years later, making excuses and apologies for all the empty promises, broken deadlines, and incompetent horseshit that surrounds the so-called developers.

Face it, folks. 7 months with ZERO progress and a dozen excuses as to why means that this 'spiritual successor' is another case of a dreamy-eyed dev biting off way more than they could chew and crashing and burning.

But mark my words, the same weird sycophants that still haunt the last failed dev's memory will be here on hand to make excuses for the new failures as well.

 

[Sir Anal]

if you think that it need 8 months to create 3 faces, it need 27 years to create a single chapter, not speaking about a full game...

For my part, I always created the story and the dialogue before really getting into the graphics, so no graphics for six months or a year... To each their own method. Beautiful graphics without a story don't seem interesting to me.

 

[Sir Anal]

7 months with no progress whatsoever for the 'spiritual successor' to a game that barely logged 3 updates in the last 5 years seems oddly and dysfunctionally appropriate.

The only thing worse than the history of supremely shitty development in this 'series' are the weird as fuck fanboys who still sit around years later, making excuses and apologies for all the empty promises, broken deadlines, and incompetent horseshit that surrounds the so-called developers.

Face it, folks. 7 months with ZERO progress and a dozen excuses as to why means that this 'spiritual successor' is another case of a dreamy-eyed dev biting off way more than they could chew and crashing and burning.

But mark my words, the same weird sycophants that still haunt the last failed dev's memory will be here on hand to make excuses for the new failures as well.

Did you ever create a all game ?

 

[merleved]

Did you ever create a all game ?

I've co-produced more than a dozen. Which means financing, direction, and a significant amount of close work with the dev teams. I have been directly involved or indirectly adjacent to this industry for decades. I understand the challenges involved with background and character art, with UI, with storyboarding, with outlining the narrative, with mechanics, with coding, with marketing promotion. The gamut.

And I said it years ago with regard to the original developer and will say it again with this one. When you go past six months with no meaningful progress whatsoever to report and only excuses to offer, then the project is DEAD.

Eight months ago Aexier said he was 'pouring work into the project every single day.' At the time he shared an image of a map with some icons. Nothing since. No screenshots, no progress reports, no updates, nothing.

The first quarter of a project's inception is typically the strongest and carries the most momentum. If the plane stalls out before it even lifts off the ground, the journey is doomed. People hanging around here asking for updates that never come is an embarrassing reminder of the YEARS of identical behavior with the original game.

Please recall that there had been only ONE update in two years' time with GATES even before the military buildup in Ukraine.

This whole project/franchise/fiasco has been a doomed failure since the end of 2019. I wish people would stop flogging it.

 

[Aexier]

Thanks for sharing your perspective and you're right about one thing. I haven't been consistent with public updates. That's on me, and it's something I'm working to improve. Being a one-person team means progress is real slow, and unfortunately that doesn't always translate into screenshot-worthy posts every month.

But let me clarify something. I have repeatedly called for anybody interested-both those with experience and those with none-to join the development process. That door was always open. If lack of progress really has been such a strong concern for such a long time, one might wonder why such offers were not taken up, in particular by people who have industry experience and are enthusiastic about the success of the project. Help would've made a real difference.

The project isn’t dead as it’s being built at the pace that a solo developer can realistically sustain. Life happens, responsibilities happen, and sometimes that means long stretches without public-facing material. But that doesn't mean nothing is being worked on behind the scenes. I realize that for some, past experiences with other incarnations of this franchise have left them jaded, and I'm not dismissing that. But I'm not the previous developer, and this isn't the same situation. I am not here to make excuses, just giving an honest explanation of where things stand. If there are people who seriously wish this project to speed up or gain momentum, the invitation to contribute is still open, and always has been. Please feel free to either message me here or on Discord as I am more than happy to take any offers of help I can get. Thank you and stay tuned!

 

[Proxydoxy]

Thanks for sharing your perspective and you're right about one thing. I haven't been consistent with public updates. That's on me, and it's something I'm working to improve. Being a one-person team means progress is real slow, and unfortunately that doesn't always translate into screenshot-worthy posts every month.

But let me clarify something. I have repeatedly called for anybody interested-both those with experience and those with none-to join the development process. That door was always open. If lack of progress really has been such a strong concern for such a long time, one might wonder why such offers were not taken up, in particular by people who have industry experience and are enthusiastic about the success of the project. Help would've made a real difference.

The project isn’t dead as it’s being built at the pace that a solo developer can realistically sustain. Life happens, responsibilities happen, and sometimes that means long stretches without public-facing material. But that doesn't mean nothing is being worked on behind the scenes. I realize that for some, past experiences with other incarnations of this franchise have left them jaded, and I'm not dismissing that. But I'm not the previous developer, and this isn't the same situation. I am not here to make excuses, just giving an honest explanation of where things stand. If there are people who seriously wish this project to speed up or gain momentum, the invitation to contribute is still open, and always has been. Please feel free to either message me here or on Discord as I am more than happy to take any offers of help I can get. Thank you and stay tuned!

I'm going to be honest with you. This is not a project for you, it's to big, to ambitious and time consuming for whatever your life situation is in now. The original project stalled out and died because of the solo dev taking to much water over his head. And this is the situation you're in right now too.

The project have stalled and you'll lose even more interest after working on the same thing for multiple years (if you even reach that amount) Cut your losses and move on to a more healthy project

 

[Jack Beauregard]

Sorry for coming in after the war, but I genuinely don't understand why you're dogpiling on someone who simply got passionate about a game and is trying to bring it back to life.

Honestly, it sounds like he pissed in your coffee.

I mean, this isn't someone promising the moon. This isn't a Kickstarter. He's not asking for money. He's not scamming anyone. It's a solo dev, working in his free time, whose only crime seems to be not having posted "gameplay screenshots".

This obsession with "images" is ridiculous. Not all game development is visual. Writing, structure, systems, code, iteration after iteration thrown in the trash, none of that makes pretty screenshots, yet it’s the core of the work.
And yeah, it's real nice to jerk yourselves off over your supposed expertise, but if you’re not here to help, maybe sit this one out.

Sure, he could've communicated more. He owned that himself, clearly and without excuses. End of story.
But turning this into some kind of trial, predicting the project's death, and throwing around contempt for sport is just lame, especially when you look at the sheer number of actual scammers roaming this site and cashing in without delivering anything.

No one here is forced to wait.
No one is being held hostage.

If you think the project is dead, bad, or impossible, either help or move on instead of stopping by just to piss on it.

And finally: constantly comparing developers to other people’s past failures is dishonest. These aren't the same people, not the same situations, not the same contexts.

If you want to help, the door is open.
If you don't, that's perfectly fine too.

Personally, I'm one of the people who helped a little (or at least I hope I did), and if the game never comes out, that's not a tragedy, there are plenty of other games out there.

So yeah. Stop playing undertakers and two-faced shit-talkers like someone here owes you anything.

 

[Sir Anal]

I've co-produced more than a dozen. Which means financing, direction, and a significant amount of close work with the dev teams. I have been directly involved or indirectly adjacent to this industry for decades. I understand the challenges involved with background and character art, with UI, with storyboarding, with outlining the narrative, with mechanics, with coding, with marketing promotion. The gamut.

And I said it years ago with regard to the original developer and will say it again with this one. When you go past six months with no meaningful progress whatsoever to report and only excuses to offer, then the project is DEAD.

Eight months ago Aexier said he was 'pouring work into the project every single day.' At the time he shared an image of a map with some icons. Nothing since. No screenshots, no progress reports, no updates, nothing.

The first quarter of a project's inception is typically the strongest and carries the most momentum. If the plane stalls out before it even lifts off the ground, the journey is doomed. People hanging around here asking for updates that never come is an embarrassing reminder of the YEARS of identical behavior with the original game.

Please recall that there had been only ONE update in two years' time with GATES even before the military buildup in Ukraine.

This whole project/franchise/fiasco has been a doomed failure since the end of 2019. I wish people would stop flogging it.

I am telling about one person work, not teams, about no financial or commercial thing. Have YOU ever made a game? Do YOU know how to code, write, draw and so on ?
You and I are not telling about the same thing