VN Ren'Py Dog Days of Summer [v0.5.1] [BlackWeb Games]

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brody990

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Is this still being updated or is the other game taking priority? Because its been a while and the updates weren't massive to begin with.
 

GokutheG

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Is this still being updated or is the other game taking priority? Because its been a while and the updates weren't massive to begin with.
The dev alternates between developing their games. I think the dev is spending time redoing the code of this one.
 

SonsOfLiberty

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well its been a year since the last update, so you can make you own conclusions
Well, as said above, they go back and forth between games and update one a few times, then return to the other one, there other game was just updated 3 weeks ago: Mother Lovers Society [Ch. 5.1] [BlackWeb Games]

And we have this to...

I am not moving this game to unity. I am however, reworking the code because right now it is too much of a mess. But I am going to release a full sorority event before I release the revamp because I don't know how long that is going to take. So right now I am focused on finishing that event.
I guess good thing no Unity, everyone will be not using Unity now because of what happened....yeah, Unity is dead.
 

BigAlzBub

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The backlash is so harsh, it must surely only be a matter of time before they reverse course on this. At the moment I suspect they are just seeing if they can ride this out, given the level of outrage, I would imagine no.
 

BlackWebGames

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After what I'm seeing, and hearing about the Unity fiasco, it's just predatory and scummy.
I agree, and they have said that new builds of the game count as a new download and given my plan is to release a lot of updates over the years including on steam some day, so I have a feeling I would rack up that 200k downloads pretty fast and once I past the monetary threshold every update I can get a bill for 'fees' that exceed what I am making.
 
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SonsOfLiberty

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I agree, and they have said that new builds of the game count as a new download and given my plan is to release a lot of updates over the years including on steam some day, so I have a feeling I would rack up that 200k downloads pretty fast and once I past the monetary threshold every update I can get a bill for 'fees' that exceed what I am making.
It will kill lots of indie, gacha, mobile, the whole range of game development.
 

BigAlzBub

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I agree, and they have said that new builds of the game count as a new download and given my plan is to release a lot of updates over the years including on steam some day, so I have a feeling I would rack up that 200k downloads pretty fast and once I past the monetary threshold every update I can get a bill for 'fees' that exceed what I am making.
Were you going to recode DDS into Unity? Can you still do what you want to do in Ren'Py?
 

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Dunno if it's of interest to anyone but I've invested a bit of my time into creating flow chart for myself to keep up with the game logic in the 0.48 compressed test build by going through the script itself and tracking all the variables.

It's missing the final branches, is ugly, large (~1.4Mb), has probably some errors and has no information about specific scenes (some may be deduced by the choice of variable names) but I think I'll share it before the effort goes to waste.
Please don't be fooled though - the amount of alternative dialog based on decisions is astounding and not reflected in this chart.

P.S.: Just wanna say great game BlackWebGames and compliments for taming that beast of a story tree. There were a few things related to the game logic I've noticed in the script files. Might be a little late for feedback though with the new version on the horizon but could PM (if that's even possible on f95, dunno) you the findings if you'd like.
Anyhow: Best of luck for the future. View attachment 1077214
I got a headache just looking at the whole layout, it's worse than the paths in the Fate series...
 

Alley_Cat

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How would he do that? Thread is not owend by the dev, do that is literally impossible.
Also the defenition of this prefix can be found here.
His last update on the progress of this on Subscribestar was a little over two months ago, so in that regard he's still good. And still about 6 months until there needs to be a game update.

Last I saw was the return of Mom from Europe and the start of Viv working at the sex shop, so there seems to be enough renders done for an update, he's just waiting on the reworked and more efficient code. Which ideally means that updates should be more frequent from here on in.

So yeah, it's been a long time since this got an update, but it's going to be hell worth it when the next update arrives.
 
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365 days since the last update. Happy anniversary!!
Jesus. Like I know working on these games takes A LOT of time and hard work which I totally respect, not to mention he has a couple side projects..... but a YEAR now without a single update?? My faith in this game's progression and completion has been quickly dwindling in the last month or two
 
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