- Aug 18, 2017
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In case anyone actually gives a shit, here's the solution to the piano puzzle:
After you complete it, you get more text and an animation of the son and mom slow-dancing and then a three-second animation of the mom standing naked. Credits come after, with a screen that says to wait until the next release on Feb 26th
After you complete it, you get more text and an animation of the son and mom slow-dancing and then a three-second animation of the mom standing naked. Credits come after, with a screen that says to wait until the next release on Feb 26th
- Jun 30, 2018
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I have been in that discord for 3 years now and all the people with any sense know it's all a sham and none of those people expect anything to come out but we stay there just to hang out and people here are like," ermahgerd he is scamming people someone please tell them", we know.
Well that was weird af. 
safe to say no one saw that one coming
nuts!
safe to say no one saw that one coming
nuts!
- Oct 4, 2018
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Holy shit. This thread is a fucking riot to read. I was not expecting this. I'm tempted to eat my own shorts while laughing my ass off. What the goddamn hell is this clown up to? This is straight up glorious trolling while making bank. You can't make this stupid and silly ass shit up. That's a damn fine piece of mental work there, gumdrop. /s
Guy's fucking mental to pull this shit off. I couldn't have conceived of a more hare-brained release after these "promises". I saw thru all that bullshit 4 years ago after praising him at first for his unique work at that time. Then as people can see, he started going off the rails at Part 7, royally messed up 9, put out a weak 10, promised an update/fixes within 2 months, then 1, then a few more... at that time, it had become quite plain to me that he can no longer be trusted with any money nor would he stick to producing content. Like he had decided to ghost his own Frankenstein Monster.
And now 4 years later, he puts out this piece of crap? That's a hell of an insult to his patrons and supporters. And it's self-inflicted. What a dumbass.
Guy's fucking mental to pull this shit off. I couldn't have conceived of a more hare-brained release after these "promises". I saw thru all that bullshit 4 years ago after praising him at first for his unique work at that time. Then as people can see, he started going off the rails at Part 7, royally messed up 9, put out a weak 10, promised an update/fixes within 2 months, then 1, then a few more... at that time, it had become quite plain to me that he can no longer be trusted with any money nor would he stick to producing content. Like he had decided to ghost his own Frankenstein Monster.
And now 4 years later, he puts out this piece of crap? That's a hell of an insult to his patrons and supporters. And it's self-inflicted. What a dumbass.
- Apr 27, 2017
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Oh, we know most of you have long given up. Most are more bewildered by the actual paying patrons.
P.s
Then just make your own social discord where you don't have the obvious restrictions of mods having to enforce GD'd rules.
- Aug 11, 2017
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I don't know if he's stupid, he was after all intelligent enough to mislead a good amount of people to rake in at least $600 or $700 per month. But as far as scams go, this is definitely the most intriguing one I have ever witnessed lmao
It's almost a shame because df may have been something really good but if he wasn't a scammer, we wouldn't have gotten this masterpiece, so I'm almost glad it was all a lie
- May 11, 2017
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- Jul 28, 2017
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What in the blue fuck was that? Like seriously, what the fuck? It's like Frog Fractions decided to drop acid. I've seen performance art pieces that were more coherent. Whatever he's smoking, he needs to share. I can't imagine being someone that gave this fucker money expecting an actual game rather than whatever....THAT was. Words fail me.
O Captain my captain, deliver unto us your masterpiece!
- Oct 24, 2019
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its a shame the game was never finished .... it was a great game
lmao, nice. There's this line in the new release of whatever the fuck he just put out that stood out to me. The majority of the "game" is set up like it's a piano lesson and right before it ends, the narrator tells the player about how it's okay to make mistakes when learning the piano, and they should focus on learning from them rather than dwelling on them. I honestly think this is gumdrop's way of telling his patrons they got scammed and to move on rather than get angry about it. What a madman
Gumdrop said he was remaking DF and would put release it in a series of 3 releases, the first being today. On the day of the first release (again, today), he deletes almost everything from his Patreon and site referencing the original DF and just left the upload for the new release up called "DFX." It's a weird, short thing that has you complete a clicking minigame to get to the main menu before doing a coloring and piano minigame, and then it ends. There are a handful of animations scattered about in the background while the Italian narration with English text goes on about piano lessons and stuff.
My guess is that gumdrop is tired of carrying on the charade and just decided to end the scam in a way that was funny to him. The animations included are probably just the animations he hired other people to do and he doesn't have use for anymore. At the end of the "game' there are a bunch of links to stuff like a kirby 64 playthrough and daft punk song, so he's definitely just fucking with people at this point
I wonder what Kyle does next. Maybe some school shooting ? I mean, given his mental state, he's clearly rdy for it.
The guy scammed hundreds of thousands and Patreon has now the evidence.
The guy scammed hundreds of thousands and Patreon has now the evidence.
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- May 11, 2017
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As far as I know from what I can piece together, and from what I hear... This is the most likely situation of his actual story:
So there is this game developer named gumdrop. Back in March of 2017 He starts off as a normal developer actually making a pretty good game at a pretty decent rate. It's called Dual Family. He says it's going to be 30 parts, and he seems like a normal dev probably even a decent dev at first. Had he continued on that path he would probably be completing the game around now or some time later this year depending on the level of scope creep and how he branched it.
Updates 1-6 seem fairly normal nothing out of the ordinary. The guys money is rising and rising each month. Peaking at around $10,000. He got in the Incest game market when the getting was good. There was no covid back then, people had jobs. Apparently he was working with a small crew of a couple of guys he hired to write and render for him. To my knowledge the other 2 devs he was working with were like. "Um... hey can we get some of that cash too buddy? We are making like 10k now, and it kinda sucks working for free." And he is like "Who is this we you speak of? That's my money bitches" So he shakes off his team mates that helped him build the game, and then he is on his own having done his first scam he got a little taste of scamming oh and it tasted good. Unclear when exactly he ditched his team.
Updates 7,8 & 9 gradually got worse and worse. At some point he probably picked up a drug addiction. He probably wasn't use to having all of that money. He could have been smart about it, perhaps buying a home, a car, spend a bit on a crew and further development and put the rest in the bank for a rainy day. I bet a lot of it went up his nose or in his veins. When he starts doing the drugs he really stops giving a fuck about the game. (I am gussing he enjoys both heroine and coke with my experience with junkies). May of 2018 is the last update he ever had I believe, but it was clear that production was slowing down in a big way by then.
He does have this drug addiction, and decent man who has stopped production on a game would pause the patrons pledges, but not him as he needs that drug money more than they need their update. A decent man would hire a new crew to help keep it going... That wouldn't work for him as his crew would want a piece of his drug money, he thinks "fuck them", and goes it alone.
He figures "How long can I just kick the can?" So he goes on patreon and he is active on patreon probably posting on average a couple of times a week. Due to actively posting on patreon it keeps a fair core of people continuing to donate to him. He has about 600 patrons now with a $5 minimum buy in so it's gotta be at least $5,000 he is still making after nearly 3 years of no release.
At first nobody was the wiser. There are games out there that do take a lengthy time to make an update for. Using my game as an example: Sin & I probably spent around 7 months give or take making day 1 of our game but this was over a thousand renders and 10 animations and 6400 lines of code, and buidling the gui and gathering assets, and figuring everything out how to work as a team plus we were learning and making a workflow system and getting know each other and stuff. So it is possible for legitimate developers to take a long time between updates. Making big releases can take time. This is not abnormal.
Sometimes even a great Dev will delay a release, or miss a deadline. I'll give stoper as an example the maker of JOHN. That's a beautiful game very well written, and amazing renders. The guy is a perfectionist so sometimes something will be out a couple weeks or a month after a deadline he set. This does aggravate some hate at stoper, but at the end of the day he does always deliver, and in spite of not keeping his own self imposed deadlines better a little late than never. Thing is when a release does come it's always glorious and it does come so people quick to forgive and forget then a lot of people get cranky when misses the next one and gotta wait a little longer. You can really tell stoper loves making that game and it's a real passion for him to make. A highly recommended game by me.
Thing is no developer or developer team is going to spend nearly 3 years without an update, and gumdrop does what stoper does with the delays and stuff but then doesn't deliver as stoper does. Gumdrop tries to pass himself off as a guy like stoper when it's growing clearer and clearer to more and more people he is not. So the guy keeps saying this or that pushing that goal post a little further back each time. After so long some people grow to think "This guy is full of shit.".... And it keeps on growing.... And more people think "This guy is full of shit..." and keeps going and it keeps on going and going and generating more and more distrust. It's just bubbling over at this point. Even in recent posts he is admitting that he hates his own game, is unmotivated, and doesn't' care to work on it anymore.
He may actually release a real update next time. Without all of the piano bullshit. He may even hire a little team and be slave driver saying "Get to work!" There are people in 3rd world countries that will work for awfully cheap. It is possible for him to spend a small fraction of his drug money on actual game development to see it grow again. The thing is though even if he does that he is not going to see it through. He may do a few updates, and people will think he is getting his shit together again, and start to trust him again. No, don't trust it. He can't be trusted even in such a case. It will all be a ruse.
After long anticipation.
This is what we got a 400 Mb music folder slap on our face
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