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

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Bonhart

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ImmortalNight said:
Halloween is a holiday right? :cry:
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No , Christmas, or more precisely a Christmas of an imaginary year,
I understood a mile away where he wanted to go, I wrote it above, he adopted the same technique as last year, now that he has his tooth removed he can feel comfortable another 3 months and take the money from his Patrons

(Sorry for my bad english)
 
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yoyomistro

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Thanks for the update, we'll fucking see lol. Maybe in 2018 people would have given this guy the time of day as there wasn't much quality stuff out there, but more and more talented devs have come on the scene with a good work ethic and solid output so people are going to hold this release to more stringent standards. Also this game was the most convoluted, contrived slow burn I've ever seen. The tortured inner monologues bordered on schizophrenic, and there was some major logical discontinuity. Alas, the characters were still good for the most part and I enjoyed the fact that there's the two protagonists and some depth to the relationship dynamics. It's a shame the writing doesn't live up to the premise and the dev is a scam artist.

fotogaik said:
I wish somebody made a remake of Dual Family with the same good grammar, rich vocabulary, slow pacing and natural story progression over the course of weeks or months instead of hours or days.
I mean, it's silly if you have a normal family and a few hours after a fight and forcing to move out, father fucks daughter/son fucks mom/brother fucks sister.
Maybe it would convince gumdrop's patrons to finally stop supporting him.
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I haven't played the game in a while but the grammar was middling at best. I always say don't confuse bombast for proper writing. The pacing would have been acceptable if the writing weren't so superfluous. I love a good, long, read--Jane Eyre, The Count of Monte Cristo; I'm not saying anyone aspiring to introspective writing needs to be great, but master pacing, more complex grammatical structures, and rhetoric before basting your work with "rich vocabulary".

A solid work in a similar vein that I have nothing but praise for, which releases updates consistently every 4-6 months is Light of my Life. It tackles similarly complex dynamics, employs complex rhetorical strategies sans grandiloquence, and deals with inner conflict without falling flat in an attempt to paint a Kafkaesque suburban drama. Granted this work is more tortured, and purposefully slow, but that doesn't mean the readers should be tortured as well trying to piece together some of your more existential explications.

I'll definitely check out the update but I don't have high expectations.
 
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I agree. But I only played a couple of first episodes and liked the premise, slow pacing and believable characters and story. I dropped out when all the drama with the aunt and niece exploded and decided to not get involved until there's Act III on the way.
 
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fotogaik said:
I agree. But I only played a couple of first episodes and liked the premise, slow pacing and believable characters and story. I dropped out when all the drama with the aunt and niece exploded and decided to not get involved until there's Act III on the way.
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I liked the Aunt and the niece personally; they served to fuel the descent into dysfunction that would make acting on incestuous impulses feasible at some stage. Plus I personally really like antisocial characters in these kinds of games and the niece filled that niche pretty well. Hopefully Gumdrop has improved his narrative skill in the intervening years and the output lives up to the premise.
 
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Yeah friends is becoming very difficult... even we are now in a global warning about a public virus... given oportunity to stay at home. Still he cant release this update. Is becoming very difficult.
 
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Sometimes I theorise "Condrop", eh, "Gumdrop" and "The Typist" are actually the same guy, because the Typist has begun to post strange excuses as well and his release dates are the same extraordinary unreliable s... like gumdrop´s are!
In June the Typist announced that the new update was a week away, to this day it still is not updated. The promised teasers were far fewer than said and only for the higher tier patrons, not the grunts. Last week he wanted to release the update on the 24th first, which was pushed back to the 27th. On 27th the Typist posted that it would be released a day later since due to his anniversary he would be likely hung over and fucked out. Over two days later still silence and no release. That modus operandi sounds familiar to us DF-Thread oldtimers, isn´t it?
The only difference is that the Typist has changed his patron to release only, but just a few weeks ago and the few teaser pics are real pics, not the assinine, unusable cut outs gumdrop tries to sell as new.
 
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