Unity Breeding Season Estrus [v0.0.1] [H-Bomb]

[ZOObastik]

Glad to see H-Bomb is still around. Always wondered what happened to him after he got f-ked over with his last game.

I'm sad that initial breeding season got abandoned.
But as I see it now, after almost a decade:

First half of developers (H-Purple and others) are making their own game and have been working on it for the whole time, with updates every one-two months and with neat full-screen pixel-art animations, with several game mechanics and fights

Other half (H-Bomb) was somewhere offline and now started something with fucked-up AI shit

So maybe, just maybe, H-Bomb deserved to get fucked with his last game

 

[Axato]

I'm sad that initial breeding season got abandoned.
But as I see it now, after almost a decade:

First half of developers (H-Purple and others) are making their own game and have been working on it for the whole time, with updates every one-two months and with neat full-screen pixel-art animations, with several game mechanics and fights

Other half (H-Bomb) was somewhere offline and now started something with fucked-up AI shit

So maybe, just maybe, H-Bomb deserved to get fucked with his last game

I mean, H-bomb doesn't appear to be really trying with this one, more than 6 months have passed since the first release and the game hasn't gone very far.
I don't have many hopes but I wish he proves me wrong

 

[Besharia]

I might be the minority here but I always felt Breeding Season was far superior to Cloud Haven or whatever the name is. Breeding Season had a focus and did that thing well. CH on the other hand suffers from what I call World of Warcraft Syndrome. Where the game tries to do everything and fails to do anything well. The only reason WoW is successful as it is is because Blizzard has enough people and money to brute force through it's problems... CH doesn't have that. It tries to do farming, crafting, adventuring, breeding, etc. And to me fails at all of them.

 

[RunningFurniture]

I might be the minority here but I always felt Breeding Season was far superior to Cloud Haven or whatever the name is. Breeding Season had a focus and did that thing well. CH on the other hand suffers from what I call World of Warcraft Syndrome. Where the game tries to do everything and fails to do anything well. The only reason WoW is successful as it is is because Blizzard has enough people and money to brute force through it's problems... CH doesn't have that. It tries to do farming, crafting, adventuring, breeding, etc. And to me fails at all of them.

its called cloud meadows

 

[Besharia]

its called cloud meadows

Yes that's it. Arigatou.

 

[DracoParadoxVI]

I might be the minority here but I always felt Breeding Season was far superior to Cloud Haven or whatever the name is. Breeding Season had a focus and did that thing well. CH on the other hand suffers from what I call World of Warcraft Syndrome. Where the game tries to do everything and fails to do anything well. The only reason WoW is successful as it is is because Blizzard has enough people and money to brute force through it's problems... CH doesn't have that. It tries to do farming, crafting, adventuring, breeding, etc. And to me fails at all of them.

I kinda feel the same way. I have to admit that I own Cloud Meadow on Steam...but it doesn't feel the same. I didn't like that it's now kinda RPG, the fact that all monsters look the same (same hair, same animations, same faces, etc) along the monster x monster animations being just super tiny pixel art animations felt like a huge...setback, like, it feels like I got less from Cloud Meadow compared to Breeding Season. And I think there's also less monsters compared to BS, which it's a shame

 

[Nijinda Futatama]

I kinda feel the same way. I have to admit that I own Cloud Meadow on Steam...but it doesn't feel the same. I didn't like that it's now kinda RPG, the fact that all monsters look the same (same hair, same animations, same faces, etc) along the monster x monster animations being just super tiny pixel art animations felt like a huge...setback, like, it feels like I got less from Cloud Meadow compared to Breeding Season. And I think there's also less monsters compared to BS, which it's a shame

I might be the minority here but I always felt Breeding Season was far superior to Cloud Haven or whatever the name is. Breeding Season had a focus and did that thing well. CH on the other hand suffers from what I call World of Warcraft Syndrome. Where the game tries to do everything and fails to do anything well. The only reason WoW is successful as it is is because Blizzard has enough people and money to brute force through it's problems... CH doesn't have that. It tries to do farming, crafting, adventuring, breeding, etc. And to me fails at all of them.

Agreed, in my opinion it didn't understand what made Breeding Season great and largely lost its essence. The monsters were supposed to be the focus, having 0 variations of the monster (other than color swaps that were an afterthought in development) takes all of the fun out of the breeding part of the game. Sure, the animations were neat but once you've seen them once that's it. It's not a good enough dungeon diving rpg and the other aspects of the game don't carry it. The npcs are okay but BS had better npcs overall. And futa fans were just thrown a (singular) bone. This is why there are still so many indie devs trying their hand in this little sub-genre, because there hasn't been one complete game that truly scratches the itch that BS did (though I will always give a nod to Breeders of the Nephelym for coming the closest despite being a f2p one man passion project, it deserves some respect despite its flaws).

 

[Besharia]

Agreed, in my opinion it didn't understand what made Breeding Season great and largely lost its essence. The monsters were supposed to be the focus, having 0 variations of the monster (other than color swaps that were an afterthought in development) takes all of the fun out of the breeding part of the game. Sure, the animations were neat but once you've seen them once that's it. It's not a good enough dungeon diving rpg and the other aspects of the game don't carry it. The npcs are okay but BS had better npcs overall. And futa fans were just thrown a (singular) bone. This is why there are still so many indie devs trying their hand in this little sub-genre, because there hasn't been one complete game that truly scratches the itch that BS did (though I will always give a nod to Breeders of the Nephelym for coming the closest despite being a f2p one man passion project, it deserves some respect despite its flaws).

Agreed I love BotN.

 

[aspar4gus]

lol it'd be hilarious if this gets abandoned again so soon, last post was february, oh the poor gullible 102 patrons...

 

[Argrond]

lol it'd be hilarious if this gets abandoned again so soon, last post was february, oh the poor gullible 102 patrons...

It already is. I have no idea what were those 102 people thinking falling for this just like that.
But it's HBomb we are talking about, everything is possible with this dude except frequent updates and mental stability.

 

[Auxilia]

I guess the dude is cursed by himself. Old dev should return to breeding season and abandon cloud meadow. or maybe mix it somehow together. let this, H bomb, or whats his name languish in the limbo he created.

 

[DoktorGuro]

lol it'd be hilarious if this gets abandoned again so soon, last post was february, oh the poor gullible 102 patrons...

I don't know if I want to laugh at these people for throwing money away or be mad they were fooled so easily...

 

[Argrond]

I guess the dude is cursed by himself. Old dev should return to breeding season and abandon cloud meadow. or maybe mix it somehow together. let this, H bomb, or whats his name languish in the limbo he created.

It was impossible. Iirc H-Bomb took half of the work with him, so the rest of that team did not have much on hands except art and maybe some pieces of code, so there was no point in salvating that sinking titanic. Besides, if they even tried to, H-Bomb could easily sue them for using his title. There was a detailed explanation with walls of text and examples of what was going on, but in the end titanic has sunk for good, no need to disturb its ghost.

 

[aspar4gus]

but in the end titanic has sunk for good, no need to disturb its ghost.

i'd have agreed to this if not for the reason that the ghost still had its curse afflicting all breeding genre games

please ghost, u've taken (and comatosed) enough games, just rest in peace and let us have at least ONE finished bs-like game

 

[PaganWarlord]

It was impossible. Iirc H-Bomb took half of the work with him, so the rest of that team did not have much on hands except art and maybe some pieces of code, so there was no point in salvating that sinking titanic. Besides, if they even tried to, H-Bomb could easily sue them for using his title. There was a detailed explanation with walls of text and examples of what was going on, but in the end titanic has sunk for good, no need to disturb its ghost.

I'll leave the allegations of what happened before the zero hour alone, but the aftermath is pretty objective.
Legal agreement (or lack thereof) that S-Purple worked on meant his art was his property, so as soon as he decided to quit H-Bomb could no longer use any of the art S-Purple did, which was most of the game at that point. If you suddenly say that the thing that you worked on is now your exclusive property and the other party cannot use it to continue development it is only natural that it works both ways.

 

[Argrond]

I'll leave the allegations of what happened before the zero hour alone, but the aftermath is pretty objective.
Legal agreement (or lack thereof) that S-Purple worked on meant his art was his property, so as soon as he decided to quit H-Bomb could no longer use any of the art S-Purple did, which was most of the game at that point. If you suddenly say that the thing that you worked on is now your exclusive property and the other party cannot use it to continue development it is only natural that it works both ways.

That's exactly what happened. )
But, since the message I quoted was about why S-Purple couldn't continue original BS, I've replied from his side of that issue.
There were more than enough accusations, allegations and other fun activities at that time, no need for more.