VN Ren'Py Abandoned Damaged Goods [Day 2 Part 2] [Yihman1 -Sinappeal]

[CboyC95]

The game isn't dead. Just taking a small break from it as I'm grieving the loss of a loved one, and also I'm moving apartments, and Sin has the other game to work on. I feel like a dick for putting it on hold without saying anything to him first.

I hope you recover from your loss, and I wish you best of luck.

 

[rafa30]

Just two updates and the game is already on hold?

 

[stahalle]

Just two updates and the game is already on hold?

yih had a death in family and sin is working on wings of silicon. when sin is done with the update he starts working on the renders for new update he said.

 

[rafa30]

yih had a death in family and sin is working on wings of silicon. when sin is done with the update he starts working on the renders for new update he said.

I'm very sorry.
I did not know that .

 

[KrisWu]

The game isn't dead. Just taking a small break from it as I'm grieving the loss of a loved one, and also I'm moving apartments, and Sin has the other game to work on. I feel like a dick for putting it on hold without saying anything to him first.

Great. I like this game, and those renders are smooth and fantastic.

 

[FookU2]

At current levels of revenue generation, it's ridiculous to consider myself or Sin to be "Greedy". If we were making over $1,000 a month and bitching because it's not $1,500 or $2,000 or $10,000 you would have a very solid argument, and I would agree with you. However, if you look at the Patreon income it's a very low $53 a month and has been stagnant in the $50 - $100 range for several months now.

Games may be free to play due to how common piracy is but they are not now nor have they ever been free to make.

Damaged Goods costs more to produce than it generates in income by about a scale of magnitude. This is without considering labor costs and only considering costs of electricity, assets, and necessary hardware to create renders that is with sin and I working for free as slave labor.

If just 1% of players paid $1 (or $5 if not broke) per month we would be just fine financially. We aren't making those numbers and that is all we want.

Currently, we have about 1,650 renders and 31 animations. You suggest we shouldn't think about getting paid until we have made 100 times that which is 165,000 renders and 3,100 animations (Which would make Damaged Goods the biggest adult game ever made in history by far being over 100 GB download) & you expect us at our current budget with our current team to be able to create 100 times what we created in 2 years time? In order to pull off that task, we need to start a cult and get a team of fanatics behind us also willing to work for free, and we just don't have enough Koolaid for our endgame there.

You are right that we are competing for "Simp Bucks" against pornhub, chaturbate, onlyfans, ect in a very saturated market. To some degree we probably compete with strip clubs, and streetwalkers too. Why should simps spend money on adult VN instead of on one of those? Well, what we do is very different from what they do. We use our brains where they just use their bodies. I get the simps love to be able to tell a girl that would not give them the time of day in real life to stick a finger up her butt while dressed up as wonder woman and that gets them off I really do understand that logic.

In our defense, a computer-generated girl will never get old and become unattractive. Ten years could pass in real time, and Rose wouldn't age a day. You will be able to control who she sleeps with and when. She is smarter than those bimbos, and has more personality. She will always love you even if you are poor or rich. That is why the "3dcg waifu" is far superior to the "cam whore" alternatives. Rose is never going to give you herpes selling you her used bath water, or break your heart, or cheat on you or neglect you. A lot of these girls working on webcams got a boyfriend or a pimp taking a lot of their money. What we make is "Art". What they make is "Porn".

Financially successful games going on hold or being abandoned is not a legitimate excuse as to not support a financially unsuccessful game. That's the same as saying, "What the point in going to the gym? Someone with a gun can just shoot you tough guy." That defeats the whole purpose. Plus that's not us.

And thanks for the PS. We are trying to make a good quality game here. Our level of positive feedback, and reviews does not reflect back in our earnings. We need more people who enjoy the game to step up, and help us keep it going.

Sin suffers financially from making the game, and so do I.

Excessive unpaid work can be very stressful. We look forward to the day when we are just slaves, and not making the game at a loss, but instead making it for free. So that's why it's not really fair to call us "Greedy".

You make art that is also porn (or porn that is also art..same thing lol). Anywho...most people understand that the more time you spend developing a game, the less time you have to actually work a normal job. And unless you can pay your bills from game development, you HAVE to take time to work your job. ALSO..tacking in social life..family, friends..things that keep us sane as humans lol.
It depresses me to see a good game go onhold, but still not as bad as abandonment. But, understandable.

 

[yihman1]

You make art that is also porn (or porn that is also art..same thing lol). Anywho...most people understand that the more time you spend developing a game, the less time you have to actually work a normal job. And unless you can pay your bills from game development, you HAVE to take time to work your job. ALSO..tacking in social life..family, friends..things that keep us sane as humans lol.
It depresses me to see a good game go onhold, but still not as bad as abandonment. But, understandable.

Absolutely, I'm moving next month so I gotta have a month's rent for each place ready so I have been working a lot of extra hours to be able to afford that. Not going to go homeless developing a game

 

[FookU2]

Absolutely, I'm moving next month so I gotta have a month's rent for each place ready so I have been working a lot of extra hours to be able to afford that. Not going to go homeless developing a game

I'm a musician. I pretty much dropped everything to work tons of hours at low pay to catch up on bills. (cause that's the norm for struggling wannabes like myself hahaha). So I get it.

 

[herrbertold]

This is an interesting game, and I look forward to it picking up again.
A couple of (hopefully helpful) comments. several times the dialgue is run together in a way that it feels unnatural, such as 2 or 3 comments in one characters reply without any kind of break to indicate that they are seperate. And then the next character replying to that in the same way. Also it seems like the rhyming in the dream sequence is a bit much. It gets . . . cloying? Hard to describe, but it just feels over powering. Perhaps trying to make the rhyming something only the "caster" does, and not the fantasy characters?

Just a couple of comments that I hope are helpful when/if the game returns from on hold.

Thanks for the hard work.

 

[EdogawaKonan]

Damaged Goods Day 2 Part 2 (Rus By Gnomych)

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[FookU2]

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The game is onhold anyway. What was here was really good, but as much as I hate cliffhangers with no known future, I would wait. lol

 

[seekin4porn]

we just don't have enough Koolaid for our endgame there

LMAO
Please, dear God. Allow me a situation IRL when I could use this before I die. Amen.

 

[Saint Blackmoor]

Damm, this game has a lot of tags.
Combat? What, like pulling hair and bitch slapping
But seriously, Looks good. I'll give it a test drive.

 

[yihman1]

I have been packing and preparing to move in real life. I get the keys to my new place on the 24th. I want a week or so to settle in and whatnot, but gonna get back in development talks with Sin in July.

 

[Lizard2214]

A person who thinks about healthy eating smokes cigarettes. We play a person who is a virgin and says no for sex even with a fiance ... What sense could have a story of this type ?
As for me, I will pass

 

[yihman1]

A person who thinks about healthy eating smokes cigarettes. We play a person who is a virgin and says no for sex even with a fiance ... What sense could have a story of this type ?
As for me, I will pass

I'm sorry to hear that. The game is not for everyone.

Sometimes people have certain traits that may seem to contradict one another. You gave two examples. A vegan that also smokes cigarettes. A virgin that has a fiance.

Early conceptions of Rose she was a pothead and she was to be smoking joints instead of cigarettes. Unfortunately, when render time came around the only smoking assets we could find at the time were cigarettes. Kelly was also a stoner, and Jessica was supposed to play a sort of straight edge straight man to their shenanigans...

Rose is primarily a vegan because she cares about animals, and to a much lesser extent for health reasons.

A bigger contradiction would be that she goes to the gym and cares about working out but also smokes.
Another big contradiction would be that she drives an SUV, but is a bit of an environmentalist.

Thought about making Rose having sex with Mark from the start, but went against that for a possible virgin or lesbian playthrough. Some other females definitely do not start out as a virgin in the game. Jessica & Natasha are both big sluts at the start.

There will be plenty of chances for sex, don't worry about that. There is a high chance of very sexual scenes by the end of day 2 which is the current day in-game. Day 1 had a handjob in the morning and a blowjob at night. Not exactly slow-burning it that much I mean come on.

 

[KrisWu]

I have been packing and preparing to move in real life. I get the keys to my new place on the 24th. I want a week or so to settle in and whatnot, but gonna get back in development talks with Sin in July.

Hope this game can get back on track so I can see Rose again!

 

[FookU2]

A person who thinks about healthy eating smokes cigarettes. We play a person who is a virgin and says no for sex even with a fiance ... What sense could have a story of this type ?
As for me, I will pass

Contrary to much belief, there are still women in existence who want to save sex for after marriage, and this means having a fiance while turning down sex. That actually is a thing.

 

[yihman1]

I have officially started moving into my new place. I got half of my stuff over there today, and then I came home, and I'm going to get the other half over there tomorrow. Internet will be hooked up there in 2 days in the morning, gonna unpack and relax for a week or so, then hit Sin up about getting a DG update in the pipeline.

 

[AngelsAfterDark]

Looked intresting then I saw "female MC" .. well guess ill pass on this one..i mean let's be honest here any guy who's actually into this game playing as a chick getting fucked by other dudes should question their sexuality or their mental state.. Anywho good luck with the game, hope the female gamers enjoy this one