Like @Dilettante, I too do not jump ship the first sign of trouble, but understand why others do. Still, compared to some devs, who start promising games and stop a few months later, Gumdrop brings quality stuff, so he should be given one more chance, but he really should think about his deadline managment.
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- Jun 6, 2017
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Yeah, i agree with that too. It's not like this is huge problem. He just needed to finally release it in some way, and then solving and fixing stuff. Some devs do that.
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Whew its almost aug. 2nd here and its still not out..
Is it first time fiasco or he does this constantly every release?
Is it first time fiasco or he does this constantly every release?
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But yeah, the is legit zero chance this game ever makes it anywhere near a 1.0 release.
Writing is kind of on the wall, I've seen it way too many times with big and small time developers in early access games, once they start talking like that project abandonment usually happens a month or two later tops.
It is a good game and all, but yeah don't get yur hopes up for it ever being actually finished.
Writing is kind of on the wall, I've seen it way too many times with big and small time developers in early access games, once they start talking like that project abandonment usually happens a month or two later tops.
It is a good game and all, but yeah don't get yur hopes up for it ever being actually finished.
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It will only get worse as US people awake and see the latest post.
Hope Gumdrop doesn't lose it and comes back stronger.
It's day 1 of the month, its normal.
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he lost release date and people got mad? look at some other dev who dont give a shit about their updates for months and people still pledge, wtf.
give this man a day ffs
give this man a day ffs
This is totaly normal look at the bigger developers same shit every 1st of month they have huge dips.
- Jun 6, 2017
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Exactly. I know many devs like that. They never announce any exact dates, just producing updates in 2-3 or even half of the year or more. And people know that, still pledging and patiently waiting for release.
This situation with patrons leaving, as many people said, is normal for the beginning of each month.
Also maybe Patreon automatically removes the pledge if it cannot charge the credit card ?
- May 31, 2017
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i fixed my typo within a pretty reasonable timeframe. If you read the rest of my post, you could easily conclude i meant west coast. Thought i was gonna get away with the mistake too! hah.
As someone who is fluent in the art of procrastination, I don't see why anyone would support this for now. He clearly pushed off actually working on this until the last possible moment, and it came to bite him in the ass. What does he do instead of fixing the problem? Writes an entire page of text while he is pondering what his next course of action is. . .
Not to mention this whole remastering shit while your project isn't even close to being finished.
Not to mention this whole remastering shit while your project isn't even close to being finished.
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Yeah it is pretty much a semi common type thing that seems to be done with a lot of "real games" in early access when it is obvious the developer is floundering and/or just burnt out, I've seen plenty of steam games pull the remaster ruote out of nowhere(that doesn't actually really change shit other than buying more time in hopes of not getting called out on lack of updates) and 9 times out of 10 project is essentially abandoned not too long after.
Now I'm not saying people should be all "fuck this guy gimmie mah moniez back!" because it is actually pretty good for what it is so far, but...yeah don't be fully surprised if he just disappears in a month or two.
Let's hope he stays and organizes himself better in the future.. now let's wait for today's release.
Hope he expanded the story even more!
Hope he expanded the story even more!
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Nah. People are leaving because instead of going forward with more content he decided to redo most of the pictures of the game. He did that even if people were telling him than all was fine and good and they favored more content.
On top of that, he decided those last hours to do so some PR for the arrival of the new version, posting a lot of messages to say than all was good, and incoming. And suddenly, nothing but excuses.
Again.
- May 31, 2017
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My thoughta exactly. release to higher tier patreons with a "Dual Family-HD" version. In a few days when you release to lower level tiers, you have time to compress images and deliver "Dual Family" or "Dual Family-SD". Gives him many hours extra for compression, while creating amothwr reason for patreons to subscribe in a higher tier, all with the same amount of work, but in more time to do it.
Not sure how you came to this conclusion
Do you have spy cameras in his house? Or maybe did he create a website where we can watch him work on the game? Try to be more objective, otherwise you come off looking like a complete ass.
While you're contemplating a response, consider this: if it takes a month to develop content, and he has 5 versions worth of content to remaster...
how many renders could a renderer render, if a renderer could render renders?
When someone is promising you a release time, and is still promising that release time within hours of it ending, and that time has passed by over 12 hours, you know they were just trying to throw shit together at the last minute. When he realized that plan wouldn't work, he had to write a page-long excuse.
Here's the simple answer: don't re-render a game that has about 30-45 minutes worth of content.
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I think he decided to do a bit too much within a month's time. To not only "remaster" but add another update on top would be quite a bit of work. It would have been amazing if he had pulled it off but I'm not surprised he didn't. As many people have mentioned, the touch ups to previous images wasn't really necessary atm. More suited for end game updates but to each their own. He seems to be fairly inexperienced when it comes to time estimation. Hopefully he learns from this.