VN Ren'Py Abandoned Ecchi Sensei [Day 22-23 Final] [BlueCat]

[ryyyn73]

I'm not so sure that Latecomer *can* be easily thrown off the team.

If I understand correctly, then BC is writing the german script and doing the renders.
And if previous posts are to be believed, making the images is not all that much work with the systems in use.
I'm not bringing this up to attack BC here. It's about something else.

Latecomer did the coding, management and translations.
While translations generally might not seem hugely important, these are translations *to* english and not *from* english. So they are extremely important for the success of the game.
So possibly, Latecomer might have put as much work into the first three weeks as BC did.
(I agree that much of what we heard about the coding of the merge was BS, but I'm talking about the first three weeks here.)

It's not that easy to let the guy go that created half of your product...

Now, this is speculation. But BC and Latecomer are RL friends right?
So, suppose that BC had the idea and Latecomer helped make it happen.
Then it seems possible that he did half of the work without receiving half of the income...
Making it even more difficult to let him go.

I don't know whether this is true but at least it seems like a plausible explanation.

 

[GreggoryLove]

I think the MTL did fine with the translation. As others have said, I'd rather have the content with possibly iffy grammar than no content at all. At this point having ANY content released would be better than continual delays that have damaged the enthusiasm for this otherwise excellent game.

 

[Smarmint]

Bluecat will work in parallel to start releasing new content again to get stuff back underway.

When?

Bluecat now has a specific plan, and knows what he needs to do, even though all his fans have been telling him this for over a year (one wonders what he was doing all this time), so he should be able to give a rough estimate, say a 3-4 month window.

So. When will new content be released? Will we or his patrons see anything in 2022?

 

[Bloodguard]

So. When will new content be released? Will we or his patrons see anything in 2022?

There will never be new content. I can't believe you guys are falling for this again.
BC is a certified nutter who cracked under the pressure of being a game Dev and will never put out anything new. He does like the money though, so he will keep coming up with BS excuses as long as it gets suckers to keep paying him for nothing.
If the money ever actually runs out, he will retreat to his padded cell and stay where he belongs.

 

[OctoSky]

There will never be new content. I can't believe you guys are falling for this again.
BC is a certified nutter who cracked under the pressure of being a game Dev and will never put out anything new. He does like the money though, so he will keep coming up with BS excuses as long as it gets suckers to keep paying him for nothing.
If the money ever actually runs out, he will retreat to his padded cell and stay where he belongs.

Days 21-22 are complete!! I just need a translator! I just need a translator!

 

[RandoCard3]

When?

Bluecat now has a specific plan, and knows what he needs to do, even though all his fans have been telling him this for over a year (one wonders what he was doing all this time), so he should be able to give a rough estimate, say a 3-4 month window.

So. When will new content be released? Will we or his patrons see anything in 2022?

They're not going to promise anything, and risk missing the deadline again. I don't like it, but as long as they get it out, they're less likely to have it blow up in their face if they don't set deadlines.

 

[Deleted member 3482284]

What makes it funnier is that they're not even new lines. It's old dialogue that was translated. I guess there aren't enough new lines to be able to compare them

Bluecat will wait until Plan R until he admits he's been committing Robbery by taking money from badly informed, misled people

 

[OctoSky]

What makes it funnier is that they're not even new lines. It's old dialogue that was translated. I guess there aren't enough new lines to be able to compare them

Bluecat will wait until Plan R until he admits he's been committing Robbery by taking money from badly informed, misled people

Everytime someone mentions a Plan B or Plan XYZ or whatever, I always think of Patrick from Spongebob and I imagine Bluecat is writing his To-Do list while the second image is Latecomer working on the merge.

 

[Brazilian Engrish]

A new update?

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[OctoSky]

A new update?

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Yeah there will be a new update....sometime between now and when the Patreon money drops below 100 dollars.

 

[RandoCard3]

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Probably not soon, but apparently BlueCat has decided to work on new days while Latecomer continues trying to get the merge working. There was a brief concern regarding translators not sticking around, but they were convinced to go with a machine translation, which looks pretty good based on the examples shown.

Not sure how long it'll take, but it seems like the most amount of progress that we've got in a good while.

 

[Wolfen5]

What makes it funnier is that they're not even new lines. It's old dialogue that was translated. I guess there aren't enough new lines to be able to compare them

Bluecat will wait until Plan R until he admits he's been committing Robbery by taking money from badly informed, misled people

Or until a Jack Reacher of porn games blows this wide open. Guess we'll have to entertain ourselves with this mess until then.

 

[layer1avn]

A Spanish guy is taking over development. The game will be renamed to Ese Sensei.

 

[OctoSky]

A Spanish guy is taking over development. The game will be renamed to Ese Sensei.

Considering how Spanish people are hard workers we should see new content within the next 2-3 weeks. No more than a month.

 

[Parnso]

Giving, that there was an update around every month? back in the day.
Shouldn't we get an update than in a short while?
I mean, the problem BC had was only the translation, with that out of the way, he can do as back in the day.

 

[RandoCard3]

Giving, that there was an update around every month? back in the day.
Shouldn't we get an update than in a short while?
I mean, the problem BC had was only the translation, with that out of the way, he can do as back in the day.

In theory, but I'm not sure how likely it is. How long does a machine translator take to get through this much text? After that, is there anything that needs doing before he can send it out to the Alpha testers? Does Alpha and Beta testing need to be extended to account for proof reading now being the part of the package?

I'm wondering if any of this could extend the time before releases. Though, I suppose a part of me is so used delays and excuses, that I find it hard to imagine them getting things out at a steady pace. I felt the same after the Week 1 merge, so hopefully I'm wrong again.

 

[OctoSky]

In theory, but I'm not sure how likely it is. How long does a machine translator take to get through this much text? After that, is there anything that needs doing before he can send it out to the Alpha testers? Does Alpha and Beta testing need to be extended to account for proof reading now being the part of the package?

I'm wondering if any of this could extend the time before releases. Though, I suppose a part of me is so used delays and excuses, that I find it hard to imagine them getting things out at a steady pace. I felt the same after the Week 1 merge, so hopefully I'm wrong again.

Yeah but Rando, the week 1 merge didn't take 2 years. They had problems, got over them, and released more content. Now I think your feelings are on the right side this time.

Proofreading seems like it would be faster not slower. After all you are just reading it while correcting. Bluecat could be doing the machine translating while people are correcting what they have done so far. Seems like it might be faster. Doesn't mean the content will be released faster, just that the translations will. I think its the coding that will be the bottleneck. If the last year is anything to go by than the coders will slow the whole thing to a grinding halt.

Just my opinions. All we can really do though is sit and wait and see.

 

[joker2008]

That's literally the opposite of what I just said. Supposedly the big issue was getting translators to stick around. Skummy convinced him to go with machine translation for now, and with the examples shown a few days, the translation is looking better than Latecomer's translation.

Sidelined may have been a poor choice of words on my part, but it seems like it's no longer the main focus anymore.

1. They're currently independent of each other. You can carry over saves, but that's it. And you can skip weeks, if you want.
2. Yeah, the specials are standalone, and some have been implemented into the main game as flashbacks or dream sequences. As for what patches you need: For Week 1 you need "Week 1 - Final". For Week 2, you need "Day 8-14 - Final Release" and for Week 3, you need "Day 20+21 - Final".
3. There's no traditional walkthrough, but if Week 1 has Lain's mod, which will tell you what each choice leads to. Week 2 and Week 3 have something like that implemented by default.

Hope that helps

Thanks no that was awesome

 

[Redyscom]

A Spanish guy is taking over development. The game will be renamed to Ese Sensei.

Ecchi sensei to spanish is more like "Profesor Pervertido", ecchi is the pronunciation of H in Japanes, but in the context of H from Hentai (Pervert).

And over all the problem,I literally have no idea what happen these months... years? But for what I read from you guys the merge into Month 1 have problems over translation to English and Spanish, from Germany? Maybe i just missread something IDK (If someone can explain what happen to me I'm gonna be grateful). We just can wait for news over a release date or an announcement from BC abandoning the whole game.

 

[layer1avn]

Ecchi sensei to spanish is more like "Profesor Pervertido", ecchi is the pronunciation of H in Japanes, but in the context of H from Hentai (Pervert).

Alliteration is a thing, y'know?