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Definitely not. As far as I know, the dev of TP at least "semi-froze" development and didn't give players an adequate explanation why.
The two games I am aware of with similar bans as DMD : Big Brother and Research into Corruption. These were also banned. But these two games are OFFICIALLY--the dev says so--discontinued.
For now, DMD is to be continued even after 0.17. The details of when/how this continuation will take place is totally unclear as of yet.
so money are lost?
 
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Patrons pay monthly.
As long as a dev delivers "something" during that month, the contract is fulfilled. DMD had zero patrons--they "belong" to MrDots Games.
Legally, no money is lost. No one thinks this system sucks more than I do. I refuse to be a patron because of it.
But I believe in individual freedom. Every person is free to decide what's most appropriate for himself...
we will wait in march i hope they returned.
 

Kryptozoid

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MrDots said last week that DMD's next update would be just postponed 2 weeks. Which makes it about mid february, if nothing new has been said since then.
 
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No firm date yet. Players are hoping this month, but many think in March.

If you look in the top right corner of your screen. Just below your name is "search". By customizing the search for "search titles"--in this case Parental Love--all the threads relating to that game will be listed. Very good thing to remember...
what next on the list of this month? except melody.
 

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MrDots said last week that DMD's next update would be just postponed 2 weeks. Which makes it about mid february, if nothing new has been said since then.
It would be disappointing if we get another announcement on the eve of the supposed update
 

Kryptozoid

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It would be disappointing if we get another announcement on the eve of the supposed update
It could unfortunately happen since the annoucement for the new game I don't give a shit about seems deadly serious. I hope it's just to comply with Patreon rules and just to look like a genuine game. I hope in fact he will make a playable 5mn demo with 12CGs thrown in and then resume work on DmD. But I'm beginning to seriously doubt it... On the other hand, he won't kill the cash making machine that is DmD. But we may end up with something like 2x slower updates for DmD if he decides to work seriously on the new game.
 
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STRIKO

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For Mrdots. Rename your game to: DATING MY DREAM GIRL=DMDG! And then you should't have any more problems with Patreon. Keep up the good work, this is really a TOP SHIT GAME! :cool:
 

armion82

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The new project, "Melody" has its first release on March 23.
I'm sure MrDots will keep the community informed about his future plans regarding DMD.
Any idea if Melody will use Ren'Py like DmD?
Already said my wishes on DoD thread.
 

RomanHume

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Able coders in this thread said the DMD code was never "clean" from the start and kept getting worse. This continued until the mess in 0.16.
Unity, the other main option to Ren'py, has even more complicated code than Ren'py. So, it looks like Ren'py all the way...
As a Dev what is awkward sometimes is that Ren'py feels like it was written for people who don't code. I only say this because a lot of the coding we do in Ren'py is Ren'py specific. And while it is intuitive and makes sense for what you're trying to do, it sometimes hinders you from writing efficient python code that you could use to clean up complex story structures like ours.

We plan on a lot of twists, turns and alternate story paths, and if we could just encapsulate that in some basic python objects, life would be simple. But in Ren'py you have to sort of, "break out" of the Ren'py engine to run normal python code. But sometimes running those objects in that extra scope, causes some unpredictable behavior that simply can't be fixed because the rest of Ren'ply exists in a black box and you don't know what is going on behind the scenes.

There is a curve, both for people who code professionally and people who don't code it all. The curve just comes from two different directions.
 

armion82

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Able coders in this thread said the DMD code was never "clean" from the start and kept getting worse. This continued until the mess in 0.16.
Unity, the other main option to Ren'py, has even more complicated code than Ren'py. So, it looks like Ren'py all the way...
Well way better than using RPGM.Most game using it only to make us going around.Malise and the Machine,A Zombie's Life and Roundscape Adorevia are from the fiew that makes the walking around on the map fun.
 

armion82

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RPGM works WAY better for action games than either Ren'py or Unity.
If/when that stops being the case would make 3D even more popular.
You are right and I still can't believe how much still use it but there games not action at all-almost all female MC corruption games/Sarah's Life,Elena's Life,Lida's Adventure,Lily of the Valley,Road Trip etc./
 
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Kane Salvatore

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14.5 is a re-issue of the version I use (not the main one on page 1). It provided better save compatibility between Chapter 1 and Chapter 2. It worked great when 0.15 came out.
Also, if you were also sent a walkthrough you could check to see if there are any changes compared with what we have on page 1.
there is a difference right at the start
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"How is Rachel doing?" instead of "How is mom doing?"
plus the removal warning
 
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