Whether the second game had existed or not, this would have happened either way. I simplified it for the post because I don't wanna air out all my personal details online about every individual reason why this is occurring, so I kept it to the major ones.
Since the last release I have been working hard on the games (approx. 80h work weeks. 20ish hours at my part time job and the rest on the game), it's only in the last couple of weeks that I started struggling to find any time. As I saw my schedule getting progressively busier for the foreseeable future, I weighed my options on whether I could even continue the game moving forward, and what I would have to sacrifice to have any semblance of balance.
I didn't want people paying for months where I wouldn't have time to work on the game. So I gave it some serious thought, tried to think of solutions, but this was the answer in every case. I love the game but I have to pause here. The patreon is already paused as well and any custom renders I've fallen behind on will be completed to fulfill their patreon rewards. It sucks, but most AVN's are incredibly time consuming to make even if you're fast.
a pity, but understandable.
you could try to release what you already worked on as an alpha/beta release. there is 6months worth of work, so people might appreciate what they get. the community and modders would come together to fix the bugs and make it work, i'm sure.
If you want to know the answers to the questions you have assumed incorrect answers about, feel free to DM me. If it really isn't a hang-up about LI virginity on your part, then there's no need to engage about it in a public forum, and yet you did.
dude, it's a public forum to literally discuss the game and its details... why should I DM you?
if it's not in the game, then it's not canon, nor confirmed. the dev can change his mind or forget, or get bribed by a fan to make a change at any time. even a work can be changed afterwards ("Han Shot First!")...
so, no I have not "assumed incorrect answers", I have discussed with information available in the game/story itself. what comes from outside doesn't matter.
I don't care about the actual virginity, but those are details that make up the personality of the character, they add nuance and layers, and if there are inconsistency and incoherence, they break immersion and suspension of disbelief (especially important in a fantasy story). The initial conversation was about Melanie personality and promiscuity displayed with MC that clashes with her claimed personality traits of shunning everyone out side of her family. as another example for Reyna, we could add that for the thousands of years she was waiting, there is no guarantee at this time that she was sexually faithful to the previous god.
Saw the dev just dropped this. I was wondering would you guys think still be worth playing despite this. lol this game was gonna be one of the next HS games I play in a few weeks. Typically I don't play dead games but still curious enough that and im almost out of decent HS games
i'd say you should play it and enjoy it for what it is. there is more focus on story than relationships, you could like what is already there. the latest update ends like the end of a season of a TV series without a hard cliffhanger, inviting you to come back for a potential next season that is not yet financed
there is a concept called "death of author" in literary work.
the idea is that a text should be read as if the author dropped dead the moment he finished writing it.
any author statements such "in my story I meant for X to be Y" should be ignored. All that matters is the text itself.
it does make sense i many ways. the author might not remember what he thought 10 years ago. or has changed his mind. or is being politically pressured into re-framing their earlier words, or is just bad at elucidating their position and accidentally wrote something that is the opposite of what they meant.
death of author isn't absolute, but it is a commonly held view. and besides, one shouldn't need to receive a DM from the author telling them that "ackshually, this girl was a virgin". if she was meant to be one, it should be in the original story.
YES! thank you for this. that's exactly what it is.
