VN Ren'Py Abandoned Dual Family [Stream Extras] [Gumdrop Games]

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Morah SDG

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yeah i don't pledge anymore, got busy with work so I don't really check any progress of devs in patreon now I decided to just buy a game that is finished instead of supporting something that might not be finished
I guess that it's just strange to me. I'm more than fairly well the fuck off, but I still manage my own finances and see who and what I owe month to month. Can't imagine just letting even a dollar's amount just sit on the back burner and forget about it.
 

asokaaso2

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I guess that it's just strange to me. I'm more than fairly well the fuck off, but I still manage my own finances and see who and what I owe month to month. Can't imagine just letting even a dollar's amount just sit on the back burner and forget about it.
well i'm really dumb sometimes to trust someone i don't know lol
 

Zellio

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What really baffles me: Gumdrop hasn't talked about personal issues - his mental illness - that are forcing him to postpone his upcoming update yet. This is quite unusual here for Patreon devs' standards.

You have to admit that developing a Patreon-funded porn game is one of the most dangerous jobs. :whistle::whistle:
Maybe he has a special type of disease and will be spending a long time in the hospital

 

lostraven

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Laying down the groundwork for the next excuse I see.

He'll suddenly become 'burdened' with all these extra animations because of Fatcat's vocational change thus meaning he'll need to find 'another animator on short notice' or 'do it himself' thus the deadline is probably missed...But who knows, maybe he'll prove me wrong, but it's the perfect card to pull.

Must be s snail phase training local people I suppose, seeing he said the same to lostraven in that interview, whatever.
There is no training.
There's probably not even any real staff, or if there is actually any 'real' staff, I doubt they're that in the loop with the project and just out-sourced 'some' of the work, the bulk Gumdrops no doubt keeps for himself. It's all incredibly dubious.

I suspect that's part of the reason he's so determined to keep everything 'in-house', not for efficiencies sake, but rather because if an outside source actually got to peer behind the production curtain, they'd possibly reveal just how much tom-fuckery was going on.

The truth and lies are so interwoven with Gumdrops I'm not even sure if he believes himself anymore.
Smoke and mirrors.
 

Trapezio

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The truth and lies are so interwoven with Gumdrops I'm not even sure if he believes himself anymore.
I told you: he's mentally ill (like every devoted Patreon porn dev is). He isn't aware of it yet: when he is, he will make it known. Then, his patrons will start collecting money for his medical treatment. :D
 

Joshua Tree

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Lol, it seems that even Kyle himself begins to believe that the "FatCat" is real. Lies are piling up and Kyle is drowned so deep that he no longer knows what is real.
He is real enough @

If you go back in the thread you will find a poster here that contacted him as well. If you lose grasp of what is real and fiction, you might consider find another thread for the sake of your sanity -)
 

TheFapperBoy

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This animation debacle has become such a shit show. Here he is saying that his animator is busy with his own personal work plus Gumdrops work, and then he's not even going to work with him going forward in the future. Dude, at some point you have to look at this, and say "Fuck. This isn't working." Cut your loses, and implement animations in a later update when you have a "local team member".

This is where his Patreons could exert their power by voting with their wallets. You want this update to be released? Cancel your pledge. Make that 8K drop down to 500 dollars. The update would be released TODAY... finished or not. But, it's not happening.

But hey, if they're happy with some still images, and some artsy-fartsy dialogue every 2-3 weeks for another year... more power to them. I got off this ride long ago.
 

Joshua Tree

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This animation debacle has become such a shit show. Here he is saying that his animator is busy with his own personal work plus Gumdrops work, and then he's not even going to work with him going forward in the future. Dude, at some point you have to look at this, and say "Fuck. This isn't working." Cut your loses, and implement animations in a later update when you have a "local team member".

This is where his Patreons could exert their power by voting with their wallets. You want this update to be released? Cancel your pledge. Make that 8K drop down to 500 dollars. The update would be released TODAY... finished or not. But, it's not happening.

But hey, if they're happy with some still images, and some artsy-fartsy dialogue every 2-3 weeks for another year... more power to them. I got off this ride long ago.
Patreon's isn't a constant, you see people vote with their money, but you also get new patreons jumping onto the bus.
 

MurkyTurtle

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"In the mean time our team is working on what we can for Act II"

Does anyone seriously believe he has a 'team' working on this? He is such a fucking fraud.
I got curious how many games on this website have started up after the last DF update with solo developers, animations, and multiple updates, and honestly it's like half the games on the "most liked" front page. Hell, DrPinkCake started and finished "Acting Lessons" and started up "Being a DIK" with three updates since the last update. For a team effort, MrDots started and has nearly finished "Melody" while also working on DMD. If this fraud had an actual team, they must have completely scrapped their work like a dozen times over at this point ala Duke Nukem Forever.
 

Joshua Tree

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I got curious how many games on this website have started up after the last DF update with solo developers, animations, and multiple updates, and honestly it's like half the games on the "most liked" front page. Hell, DrPinkCake started and finished "Acting Lessons" and started up "Being a DIK" with three updates since the last update. For a team effort, MrDots started and has nearly finished "Melody" while also working on DMD. If this fraud had an actual team, they must have completely scrapped their work like a dozen times over at this point ala Duke Nukem Forever.
Well if that is any measurement to go with, you know if he end up release anything at all it would be a giant clusterfuck of a disappointment just as Duke Nukem Forever turned out. DNF got passed around like a redheaded stepchild between several creators though.
 
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This animation debacle has become such a shit show. Here he is saying that his animator is busy with his own personal work plus Gumdrops work, and then he's not even going to work with him going forward in the future. Dude, at some point you have to look at this, and say "Fuck. This isn't working." Cut your loses, and implement animations in a later update when you have a "local team member".

This is where his Patreons could exert their power by voting with their wallets. You want this update to be released? Cancel your pledge. Make that 8K drop down to 500 dollars. The update would be released TODAY... finished or not. But, it's not happening.

But hey, if they're happy with some still images, and some artsy-fartsy dialogue every 2-3 weeks for another year... more power to them. I got off this ride long ago.
Dude, he is lying about the animations. As I have explained in my post with a link to all the "previews", there is no evidence he has done any work whatsoever, and that's the reason there isn't any update, and the reason there won't be any.

And he is lying about "Fatcat", he is just some random dude he commissioned, there is no "staff" or "team" as he calls it. It's all a scam intended to deceive gullible people.
 

Joshua Tree

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And he is lying about "Fatcat", he is just some random dude he commissioned, there is no "staff" or "team" as he calls it. It's all a scam intended to deceive gullible people.
Afaik, he never said Fatcat is something else than just commissioned though. Implying otherwise would possible upset Fatcat and come back to bite him in the ass. As for his team else? At present time it could just as well be made up of; Huey Dewy and Louie, the Three Stooges, or how about leftie and rightie.

Here in the real world, when talked to "team" leaders or similar, its not unheard of them present their team, not hide them in the closet to never be seen.
 
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