nikkunamesu

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It's been around 320 hours since then. Any word on the new demo? I didn't see it after then.
They sent it to the testers and they are squashing bugs nonstop

I'm excited though, guys. After nine years of development, we finally get to play the first level of the game!
The full game is nearly done. Just saiyan
 
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burryniceuser

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I haven't followed this game closely at all since I played the demo 8 years ago or whatever. The whole thing about releasing a new demo rather than working on releasing the actual game tells you all you need to know. This game isn't coming out any time soon.
Edit: He PMed me lol. Guess he really doesn't have anything better to do.
 
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D4n0w4r

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I still don't get HentaiWriter. Was he just a compulsive liar, or did he intend to slowly move the goal posts forever?
 

MasterXY

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I still don't get HentaiWriter. Was he just a compulsive liar, or did he intend to slowly move the goal posts forever?
I think we'll find out later this month or next month

I haven't followed this game closely at all since I played the demo 8 years ago or whatever. The whole thing about releasing a new demo rather than working on releasing the actual game tells you all you need to know. This game isn't coming out any time soon.
Nah I think its fine, we don't really have a proper trial demo for the game that isn't years old at this point and this needed to be done anyway. Wouldn't it be weird to have a trial for the game that takes place in the middle of the game? If his progress reports are to be believed he's just about done the fire level minus 1 cutscene, it'll be interesting to see whats been worked on in the last 2-3 years if nothing else.

Though all of that said, imagine my surprise when I heard about the demo right before I went on vacation thinking when I returned in a week I'd be able to to try it out, and here we are 2 weeks later lmao. Starting to feel bad for the dev they get so excited to announce they're almost done with something only to hilariously underestimate how much work is left to do.
 

Noble 6

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From what it says in there they're almost done with it.
The kerfuffle is that they've been saying this for years.
If you go back a few pages, you can find many links to official blogs and quotes that say things like "We're almost done, we'll send it off to Steam and have it up by the end of the month!" and the quote was from like two years ago.
It lead to many questions, as later things were revealed like the final boss still being nowhere done, or hundreds of scenes weren't in the game yet.
So nobody knew how it was near-complete years ago and almost ready for release back then, and everyone is pessimistic about it being said again this time.
 

silver24240

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So nobody knew how it was near-complete years ago and almost ready for release back then, and everyone is pessimistic about it being said again this time.
From what I remember (granted this is from a while ago, which says something about how long this has taken lol) there's some issue with steam where they won't approve a game to be listed until requirements x y and z are fulfilled and the state of the game then didn't measure up. That's the likely reason why the progress towards it being released hinges pretty much on getting all those cutscenes finished or something. Now as to why the newest announced DEMO hasn't been released weeks later, who knows
 

Noble 6

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there's some issue with steam where they won't approve a game to be listed until requirements x y and z are fulfilled and the state of the game then didn't measure up. That's the likely reason why the progress towards it being released hinges pretty much on getting all those cutscenes finished or something.
We only had one person's word on this, and that one person is known for saying things that end up being incorrect.
Even just thinking about it logically: Steam allows Early Access games all the time, as well as many blatantly-unfinished games in general.

I would sooner assume that what you and I were told was just not true.
 

arkublai

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Like even if game will be released tommorow it wont live to expectations of 10 years of development. Fuck there are people who solo pulled fare more complex indie progects in far less time limit. And by the way how long since FINAL level enemies were showed with animations? 3 years ago? 4?

This is just money leeching at this point and few hundread guys with tons of copium and free money to donate to HackWriter.
 

Rixen

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I'm gonna be honest, I feel lucky I discovered this game only a few months ago, because I didn't have to through that whole shitshow everyone's describing lmao

Then again, who knows, perhaps the game won't release this year either, so I'll know how that feels like
 
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Zazazap

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I've been among the first people to support this project, I spent quite some money over time and really beleived they could do it... But frankly after all this time and seeing only spreadshits and them saying stuff like "Almost there !", "Final stretch !", "Next month we'll have something big !" only to get a new spreadshit explaining there was some bugfix, saddly I don't really expect this game to come out at any point...
I don't know what's wrong, either HentaiWriter was too optimistic about the release date when the project started, or they are a perfectionist who can't accept to release a game that's not perfect. And a "perfect" game doesn't exist, it's one of the first things I learned as a dev, you HAVE to accept your game is flawed in some aspect and just release the thing at some point.

[EDIT] From what they told me, it's because they had tons of things planned and did not want to release the game without core content, maybe their eyes were bigger than their belly. All I hope is for them to prove me wrong and release this game I've been waiting like the messiah... And I say all that without any hard feeling. :)
 
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