VN Ren'Py Dual Family [v1.22.1ce] [Gumdrop Games]

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Joshua Tree

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No offense, but that's pretty stupid considering unreliable most devs are. Games are always getting abandoned, going on hold, or running into problems with development. You should probably check more often than once a year lol.
Should go easy on him, not like he is alone doing such. Question is if he learned from it, and won't repeat it. It's a slow process to get the masses to ease up on the leniency a lot of creators is shown. Yeah, it's all about support the creators but if all you get out of it is bumpkiss in the long run it's time to wake up and smell the cheese.
 

Joshua Tree

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how in the big F Gumdrop gets increased patrons, does he promotes the game on other sites?
It's plastered all over the internet (adult sites etc), and on Steam. So yeah, it's "out there". What he lack in produce updates he make up for in create awareness and interest in what he already made. In that department a lot of creators got a lot to learn from him (, no, not the lack of work ethics, the part about promote what you got)
 

JollyGeorgieM

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As the story goes, Dumdrop emerged from his basement lair one day and asked his cult:
Dumdrop In The Wild.jpg
They were so used to saying "Yes" to anything he offered them that they did it again here, and so this game is "Coming Soon". What a pity.
 
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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.
 
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