Others Completed Future Fragments [v1.0.6] [HentaiWriter]

[dragonsix6969]

I stopped complaining about the prolonged period of game development when I started doing it myself.
Solving encountered problems can take up literally 90% of the time spent on a given thing.
Self-discipline, or the lack of it, is also a terrible. When struggling with problems, you quickly feel reluctant to work.

for the game you need a desire, care and love it almost like with a car believing in your product and don't quit halfway.

 

[HentaiWriter]

New poll's up; you can vote for multiple selections on it!

 

[HardcoreCuddler]

remember that 30 tasks example you gave?
I fucking feel that bro
Whenever I go to fix something in a project I find another 15 tasks that I gotta get done, I swear, even if everything was done right for the most part.
Most of them are "Find out why the F this crashes here" or such, which give you pretty much nothing to work with, so you can't just get to fixing it first, you gotta find out WHY it happens, then figure out a way to fix it, THEN actually fix it...now rinse and repeat this a few times for like every task XD

 

[omp123]

Most of the time people doing the impatient bitching are the ones who don't even pay for it. Take your time on the game, don't worry about the crying near the finish line.

 

[Sologor]

CUT

Shut up and take my money already! XD

I am totally cool waiting an extra month and the game has been wishlisted on steam for a long time. My only "issue" is the lack of pre-purchase and the fact pretty much all upcoming metroidvanias on steam are currently TBA.

Don't lose faith and keep going, if the grim reaper doesn't claim me first or world war, internet failing and any and all circumstances that could prevent me from buying the game, you already have a guaranteed customer. Maybe it has already been answered but why no pre-purchase?

 

[HentaiWriter]

Whenever I go to fix something in a project I find another 15 tasks that I gotta get done, I swear, even if everything was done right for the most part.

Story of the last 7.5 years of my life.

Most of the time people doing the impatient bitching are the ones who don't even pay for it. Take your time on the game, don't worry about the crying near the finish line.

Well, I mean critique is valid regardless of someone paying or not, it's just kind of weird how people simultaneously say "western porn games are garbage quality" then turn around and go "games should come out immediately, cut content, dont bugtest, just put it out" etc.

Maybe it has already been answered but why no pre-purchase?

So the reason you can't pre-purchase it is because Steam has two ways to put your game up on it;
- Normal Way (what we did) where you can wishlist it, but you can't pre-purchase it, you can only buy it when it comes out
- Early Access, where you can effectively pre-purchase it

The reason why we didn't do Early Access is because that's mainly for games that aren't even close to being complete, and it's expected that you'll be getting new builds to play with, give feedback on, etc. as a tradeoff for pre-purchasing.

Since we didn't have much else to put out build-wise by the time we got on Steam (as everything remaining was either A) back-end stuff like the Achievements system (not Steam achievements, our own system), getting in sound effects/music/voicework, bugfixes, etc. or B) spoiler-heavy stuff like story things, the true final boss, final gameplay areas, etc.), we didn't want to go Early Access and then just not put out any builds.

There's a lot of other algorithm-based stuff that means Early Access wouldn't work well for our game too, but that's the main reason.

Wishlisting it though really does help a lot!

 

[rroniandmagj]

anyone have save for latest?

 

[NoxUberholen]

this looks like a game that Indeimaus would do a let's play of and ngl i would totally watch that

 

[Leeduva]

Story of the last 7.5 years of my life.



Well, I mean critique is valid regardless of someone paying or not, it's just kind of weird how people simultaneously say "western porn games are garbage quality" then turn around and go "games should come out immediately, cut content, dont bugtest, just put it out" etc.



So the reason you can't pre-purchase it is because Steam has two ways to put your game up on it;
- Normal Way (what we did) where you can wishlist it, but you can't pre-purchase it, you can only buy it when it comes out
- Early Access, where you can effectively pre-purchase it

The reason why we didn't do Early Access is because that's mainly for games that aren't even close to being complete, and it's expected that you'll be getting new builds to play with, give feedback on, etc. as a tradeoff for pre-purchasing.

Since we didn't have much else to put out build-wise by the time we got on Steam (as everything remaining was either A) back-end stuff like the Achievements system (not Steam achievements, our own system), getting in sound effects/music/voicework, bugfixes, etc. or B) spoiler-heavy stuff like story things, the true final boss, final gameplay areas, etc.), we didn't want to go Early Access and then just not put out any builds.

There's a lot of other algorithm-based stuff that means Early Access wouldn't work well for our game too, but that's the main reason.

Wishlisting it though really does help a lot!

Is it because Future Fragments is a metrodvania,is why you guys are having difficulty finishing?

 

[HentaiWriter]

Is it because Future Fragments is a metrodvania,is why you guys are having difficulty finishing?

It's nothing specifically for the genre, it's just overall the process I was talking about with things appearing to only need say, a month to finish a task, but it ends up being far longer due to bug-fixes, gameplay tweaking so it's fun and not just slapped in there, fixing things we didn't know would be issues at first despite rigorous planning, etc.

That said, yeah, being an action game, and one with as many interlocking systems (achievements, the Ideal system, the story variants in general, the 50 powerups, the individual level mechanics, enemy AI and mechanics, etc.) it was, and is fairly challenging to make content for.

But we should still be good to submit by September 22nd (or before it possibly) so far.

 

[Leeduva]

It's nothing specifically for the genre, it's just overall the process I was talking about with things appearing to only need say, a month to finish a task, but it ends up being far longer due to bug-fixes, gameplay tweaking so it's fun and not just slapped in there, fixing things we didn't know would be issues at first despite rigorous planning, etc.

That said, yeah, being an action game, and one with as many interlocking systems (achievements, the Ideal system, the story variants in general, the 50 powerups, the individual level mechanics, enemy AI and mechanics, etc.) it was, and is fairly challenging to make content for.

But we should still be good to submit by September 22nd (or before it possibly) so far.

I understand now.

 

[N0ir2]

Is there any way to unlock all gallery?

 

[HentaiWriter]

Is there any way to unlock all gallery?

For the most part, just beating the demo will do it.
In the full game though, it'll be unlocked through skill and exploration-based achievements.



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[Jack-a-Dandy]

Can't believe this project is close to complete! Also, will the soundtrack be available as DLC on Steam?

 

[HentaiWriter]

Can't believe this project is close to complete! Also, will the soundtrack be available as DLC on Steam?

Yeah, it'll be on Steam; 90% of the proceeds will go to the musician (who we paid for the tracks individually too, of course)

 

[Linlex]

Have been silently checking for 2 years now. Decided to say I cant wait for the game to come out and appreciate the time you are putting into the game. Have it wish-listed on steam. Probably the only H Game I will actually buy and not just pirate.

 

[Shadowclonezero]

art is nice, who is the artist?

 

[HentaiWriter]

Have been silently checking for 2 years now. Decided to say I cant wait for the game to come out and appreciate the time you are putting into the game. Have it wish-listed on steam. Probably the only H Game I will actually buy and not just pirate.

Thanks a lot we're gonna do our best to make this the best game we can!

art is nice, who is the artist?

It's TriangulatePixels; they don't really have any social media though, and have only done art for this game for the most part, so practically everything they've done is already visible in-game etc.

 

[rroniandmagj]

For the most part, just beating the demo will do it.
In the full game though, it'll be unlocked through skill and exploration-based achievements.

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ok, give me save please

 

[HentaiWriter]

ok, give me save please

AFAIK there isn't a specific "save" that will unlock stuff in the current demo, you'd just need to beat the demo to get the gallery unlocked.