Unreal Engine Breeders of the Nephelym [v0.761.13 Public] [DerelictHelmsman]

[RubyZeronyka]

Yeah the fact that even on his Discord it's been from before November since he said anything, like, AT ALL, says it all. Very ironic that he kept keeping the project to himself not willing to have anyone else working on it but then end up abandon it. Always with lots of biases towards adding this or that and mocking players to not stand by his grindy as hell game.

The funny thing is that half of his reasoning for doing the XYZs he did was to avoid the drama that canceled Breeding Season which was the game that inspired him, and yet he with his insistance managed to bring this game to this state for neither wanting anyone to join but neither willing to work on it. Isn't that pretty much the same ending of sorts? His own personal struggles vs how the community kept supporting it cause they wanted something different or at least coherent and him constantly changing terms.... IDK honestly. I think that we're on a time were you have to be very mindful when you decide to buy or support a game developer or dev team cause in the end you either get messes like this or Cyberpunk and on the other hand you have games that truly care about their player base and release innovative masterpieces like Palworld.

 

[RubyZeronyka]

The dev has a history for releasing updates every 6 months or so.

The rules for the abandoned tag is no news for 3 months.

Now everybody is losing their minds lol

Yeah but not for staying dead silent even on Discord for longer than 3 months. And that's the current situation

 

[Nerro]

It's the sad risk that Patreon carries, or any Early Access title. Sometimes it turns into a rose, other times it rots in the swamp. Maybe it will inspire someone else to make an equally ambitious project one day.

Problem is, in my experience, most projects actually end up abandoned, or at least its 50/50. Time will tell how many projects on average actually end up completing since Patreon funded projects is still a fairly new phenomenon.

I think the cause of so many abandoned projects is due to an inherent flaw with subscription funded games. That being; There is literally no real incentive for creators to actually complete their games. In fact, there is more of an incentive to not complete the project. That's why so many devs just keep going until they get bored and basically can't get themselves to work on the project any longer and just abandons the whole thing in the end, often times without even telling their supporters.

It makes sense tho, you receive money every month for developing a game but what happens when that game is complete and there is no more development going on? Most supporters will stop giving them money of course. You can try and start up a new project but what if lots of your supporters aren't really interested in that? At best, you keep most of your supporter and your income does not change, at worst, you loose a ton of money. Its litterally better, from a financial standpoint, to not complete games ever and prolong development for as long as humanely possible.

The only exception are for creators who plan to make their life career about creating adult games, they might be more inclined to build a good and reliable track-record for the longevity of their career. But vast majority of amateur devs don't plan on doing this forever.

Supporters are much more inclined to keep throwing money at the same project, even if development is extremely slow or non-existing, rather than supporting a new project due to a bias in the brain called the

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. I honestly wish this was more known among supporters and they start being more picky with whom they throw money at because its honestly disgusting how so many creators are taking advantage of this.


TL;DR: There are financial gains for devs to never complete games. That is why half, if not most, projects end up being abandoned and never finished. Devs are essentially taking advantage of supporters.

 

[rocket1league]

TL;DR: There are financial gains for devs to never complete games. That is why half, if not most, projects end up being abandoned and never finished. Devs are essentially taking advantage of supporters.

These games are way more lucrative than they should be. You can make one successful adult game, collect tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of several years while you work your primary job, dump those returns into your favorite investment bond, stocks, or index fund, then you are set for life.

 

[naturaljunior]

feels like forever milk mode

 

[Woworuntu]

Does anybody have newest save?

 

[statess]

i want the new save file/ is there a debug?

 

[Shinra33459]

I mean, I kinda saw it coming that this game would end up getting abandoned at some point. The updates were getting more and more lackluster, and the majority of the most recent ones were pretty much bugfixes. Hell, when was the last time we got a new male Nephelym; years ago? This does remind me of what started happening with Breeding Season before that whole shitstorm happened. Less and less updates were coming out with meaningful additions that would keep people coming back for more.

I feel like with the scope of what the dev wanted, working on this project alone was a horrible idea. Just one person to do all of the coding, modeling, animating, and everything else was just setting this project up for failure and eventual abandonment from the very beginning. When you have a project this big and has this large of a scope of what you want it to be like, you need a team to get it all done. You need a programmer (maybe even multiple), somebody working on the modeling, an artist, an animator, sound artist, level designer, and much more. If one of these is failing at their job or bringing unnecessary drama to the team, then as a project manager, you do your job, fire them, and get somebody new.

I am sad to see this game get abandoned though. I had high hopes that it would eventually get finished, but even then, I had a nagging feeling in the back of my mind that this would happen. Maybe the dev will prove us wrong; maybe he'll come back and give a new update that adds a lot more content to the game. However, I'm honestly doubtful at this point, and from where I'm standing, this game is going down the same road as Legend of Krystal: Rebirth.

 

[femboytom]

Anyboy got a "finished game" save file?

 

[DudeBro79]

Anyboy got a "finished game" save file?

But you can't finish the game... There's no defined end state.

 

[RubyZeronyka]

But you can't finish the game... There's no defined end state.

Which funny enough is one of the things I like about this game. Sort of.... You can start on a gameplay but there's not an effective "end". So you can keep playing and had as many great-great-great-granddaughters as you want.

Tho, just do me a favor. FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK. Don't keep your descendants named like "Randomite's offspring's offspring's offspring's offspring's offspring's offspring's offspring's offspring's to-the-infinity-and-fucking-(pun intended)beyond's offspring" lol

 

[ElfLover23]

The forum has specific rules on when the Abandoned tag applies, not whatever time you (or any other user) thinks the tag is justifiable. According to the rules stated here :
- Prefixes
--- Abandoned
------ "After 3 months of inactivity from the developer's public creator/crowdfunding accounts (Patreon, SS, etc),"

Same thread but a few posts bellow:
--- "The game has been abandoned (confirmed by the dev) or the developer hasn't been heard from posted anything related to the game for at least 3 months."


The last post from the dev on both Patreon and SubStar was in September, and their Twitter account is currently suspended. You specifically stated it has been 5 months, which means the other user is right and this game should be tagged as "abandoned", at least until the dev re-establishes contact or posts anything new.

Yeah I guess so. I checked the Discord as well right now and realized he hasn't posted there since October.

 

[AlphaBit]

what his patreons are supporting? guy probably have a harem of his own from his patrons support and he don't let them even jerk off to his fake models.

 

[RubyZeronyka]

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what his patreons are supporting? guy probably have a harem of his own from his patrons support and he don't let them even jerk off to his fake models.

Dang, the guy makes around 30k monthly for doing basically nothing? Guess I'll become an indie game dev too. Whatever thing I make, STONKS! lol

 

[PorkiDrifter]

Probably waiting for UE6 to come out to invest!

 

[gladius89]

Well, his Twitter account has been suspended...

 

[Shinra33459]

Well, his Twitter account has been suspended...
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Considering his Patreon has been dark since September, he hasn't been heard from on Discord in months, and now this, I'm worried that he could have been doing something less than savory

 

[oppaifiend]

I love the art style and models in this game, especially how it spawns offspring with mixed color palettes etc.
We must save and download all we can.

 

[Domdeyso]

Can anyone help me, I want to activate the cheats but nothing appears for me and I don't know how to make it appear where to put the cheats, and how activate the incest

 

[florameriadoc]

Can anyone help me, I want to activate the cheats but nothing appears for me and I don't know how to make it appear where to put the cheats, and how activate the incest

you need to press the tilde key, if you can't, go to settings, looking for the binding key tilde, double click it and you can change it

avoid letters because most of them are use for cheats.

to make incest possible, I might miss some info, but if you create a new note, and call it: imma.degenerate it might work
if not, well that's because I'm missing an info to make it work properly