Others Happy Heart Panic [Build 23 SS] [Doggie Bones]

[Nameless_person]

Damm...guess that's it

 

[SmolAngery]

Dev probably stopped updating due to all the stress from all the people in their Discord constantly begging for updates. Like, an unhealthy amount of people were begging. Unfortunately saw this coming. No one can deal with that much stress and expectations without collapsing. Though I'd prefer this than an extremely rushed product.

 

[MortimerScharf]

Dev probably stopped updating due to all the stress from all the people in their Discord constantly begging for updates. Like, an unhealthy amount of people were begging. Unfortunately saw this coming. No one can deal with that much stress and expectations without collapsing. Though I'd prefer this than an extremely rushed product.

If only he did his fucking job instead of siphoning money from his Subscribestar and Patreon while going radio silent on it for almost a year. Ever since this catastrophic scam of a game, I've started doing my research on creators before actually donating to the product's development in the case they are anything like this embodiment of sloth.

 

[Stan The Incubus]

I remember back when there was the possibility of lore for this game, and how we still got updates semi-regularly. The fact that doggie goes so long without so much as an explanation as to why they drop off the face of the planet or anything really makes me sad considering that even despite the overly-heavy focus of ABDL stuff in recent updates (looking at Mint when I say that), this game has some promise and charm to it that is genuinely being squandered and milked for easy money from people who are too stupid to realize that funding doggie at this point is throwing your money away.

Look back at all the stuff that was teased with the premise of "might be coming later, just not now" and tell me doggie hasn't been sitting on at least 4 or 5 whole updates worth of content, enough stuff to fill out the lab, the garden, hell even give the newer sections of the game plenty of content, and STILL have enough left over to add in more areas that will never get finished because graphical overhauls and combat system reworks (for the 4th fucking time) are somehow more important than the thing we actually play this game for, let alone a FUCKING GALLERY SO WE DONT NEED TO GO THROUGH THE ENTIRE MAP FOR ONE SCENE.

It's sad to see this game that i used to consider pretty cool and unique go the way of Bare Backstreets and just go completely to shit. It's like the world's slowest fucking car crash.

 

[AristocraticT]

I will see you guys on the next game thread, if there's ever another game like this one.

...Or when the abandoned tag gets backsied, in which case I'll be here to bitch and moan some more.

 

[alexanderXD]

I remember back when there was the possibility of lore for this game, and how we still got updates semi-regularly. The fact that doggie goes so long without so much as an explanation as to why they drop off the face of the planet or anything really makes me sad considering that even despite the overly-heavy focus of ABDL stuff in recent updates (looking at Mint when I say that), this game has some promise and charm to it that is genuinely being squandered and milked for easy money from people who are too stupid to realize that funding doggie at this point is throwing your money away.

Look back at all the stuff that was teased with the premise of "might be coming later, just not now" and tell me doggie hasn't been sitting on at least 4 or 5 whole updates worth of content, enough stuff to fill out the lab, the garden, hell even give the newer sections of the game plenty of content, and STILL have enough left over to add in more areas that will never get finished because graphical overhauls and combat system reworks (for the 4th fucking time) are somehow more important than the thing we actually play this game for, let alone a FUCKING GALLERY SO WE DONT NEED TO GO THROUGH THE ENTIRE MAP FOR ONE SCENE.

It's sad to see this game that i used to consider pretty cool and unique go the way of Bare Backstreets and just go completely to shit. It's like the world's slowest fucking car crash.

through code digging i think gallery is just currently being used as way to make sure everything is the right height or something

 

[Curon]

Didn't took the lesson from No Man's Sky

 

[Theovonpapen]

If only he did his fucking job instead of siphoning money from his Subscribestar and Patreon while going radio silent on it for almost a year. Ever since this catastrophic scam of a game, I've started doing my research on creators before actually donating to the product's development in the case they are anything like this embodiment of sloth.

It's sad to see this game that i used to consider pretty cool and unique go the way of Bare Backstreets and just go completely to shit. It's like the world's slowest fucking car crash.

Dev probably stopped updating due to all the stress from all the people in their Discord constantly begging for updates. Like, an unhealthy amount of people were begging. Unfortunately saw this coming. No one can deal with that much stress and expectations without collapsing. Though I'd prefer this than an extremely rushed product.

Let's be clear here: Nobody actually want to see this game fail. We all want DoggieBones to actually deliver the meal on time, or at least edible. The last time I had to say this was about a 100 pages or so ago, but I'm sure those discord mod simps are too dense to understand that.

As for Happy Hearts, I suggest you split each stage into it's own pocket game. The upside is that you're not dragging all the files alongside the new content each update and whatever extra bytes that are gained through a dispersed set of games (since there are their own game) are offset of the loads of repetition of the centralized singular game.
From dispersion of stages into separate games, you can update them separately, bypassing Patreon guidelines and allowing a more focused development of the individual sects of each game. And let's be fair, the stage select hub content is so little (as well as money being so useless to the point that an ATM exist) that nobody would actually miss it.

I'm going to stand by this. At this point, it's not just a suggestion anymore, it's basically a surgery. DoggieBones shouldn't continue working on this exact game since he is unable to keep up on both the content and engine. Scrapping both new stages entirely and put it in a different version would actually improve productivity at this point, since the coding isn't repeating the previous 3.

In all honesty, I don't think Doggiebones actually has a clue to where he's going. Instead of finishing one stage completely, he shoves two stages with very, very underwhelming results. He keeps changing the HUD and combat mechanics as if it was a roulette. And he has no clue what the point of money should be or the balance of weapons (with most being too shit to replace melee). And even if he released his North Korea cosplay update, I have no clue nor confidence on what he'll do next.

 

[AristocraticT]

North Korea cosplay????

 

[joemancool]

North Korea cosplay????

Damn we got potemkin villaged, in game form.


Obligatory potemkin.

But hey maybe this will light the fire under doggie's ass and they will go "oh i probably should stop goofing off on this update and actually get it out"considering everyday this is marked as abandoned it disuades potential buyers from putting money into their game.

Oh and also apparently they have "semi regular wips". If anyone is actually donating and wants to share some deets that'd be neat so we can actually verify if the cope is real or people are just on that sunk cost fallacy arc right now.

 

[RealEbbaBusch]

-Donates to h-game dev
-Dev abuses donations and stops developing.

Do people never learn?

 

[Curon]

This is gonna become the next Cloud Meadows where they push out random BS and make people pay for it, some people probably subbed and forgot thus they can keep grabbing the cash

 

[Curon]

-Donates to h-game dev
-Dev abuses donations and stops developing.

Do people never learn?

There's H-game devs that does need the money, it just requires people to keep looking for patterns of a "lazy" dev and they have to be conscious in spending for these things to unsub

 

[MalLiz]

Let's be clear here: Nobody actually want to see this game fail. We all want DoggieBones to actually deliver the meal on time, or at least edible. The last time I had to say this was about a 100 pages or so ago, but I'm sure those discord mod simps are too dense to understand that.

I beg to differ. Cynical Morbid as it may be, I think the best thing for this game, the developer, and most of all us players, is for the game to suffer a quick yet miserable death. This shilly-shallying bullshit that DoggieBones is pulling serves no purpose whatsoever. If the game died however, that would at least put a right chokehold on DoggieBones's funding and maybe also serve as a clear warning to that dozy git that he should not procrastinate this damn much.

As I said, it's a cynical morbid point of view, but sometimes a game or game series simply needs to die for there to be any reasonable improvement in the future.

-Mal

 

[Nabebebe]

Did he announced giving up on the game?

 

[M#Cntz]

Did he announced giving up on the game?

Last game update was last year in October, both on patreon and actually published.
Dude hasn't said anything about it publicly/outside of his discord.
The only thing that was said, was:
"Trying to get the next build wrapped up around the end of March; been looking into Godot+Blender"
It's not the end of March, it's not April either, it's May.
Him "looking into Godot+Blender" suggests either yet another rework, abandoning overall, or just simply doing something else.

 

[Theovonpapen]

I beg to differ. Cynical as it may be, I think the best thing for this game, the developer, and most of all us players, is for the game to suffer a quick yet miserable death. This shilly-shallying bullshit that DoggieBones is pulling serves no purpose whatsoever. If the game died however, that would at least put a right chokehold on DoggieBones's funding and maybe also serve as a clear warning to that dozy git that he should not procrastinate this damn much.

As I said, it's a cynical point of view, but sometimes a game or game series simply needs to die for there to be any reasonable improvement in the future.

-Mal

Honestly, your paragraph is far too optimistic, as you underestimated Doggiebones' determination to keep this game alive, underestimated the patrons' determination to keep printing money at his lap and overestimating the death row of the game itself.

The more cynical point of view, that even you would have to admit Mal, is that Doggiebones will always have thousands of dollars sucking dry from his discord, throwing just enough eyecandy to make them believe. Hope all you can, it will not change the minds of many of those too sunken in the cost or are simply too money-dumb to stop subscribing. For every dozen or so who've given up every month, hundreds are ready to throw their wallet at him.

I think my 2nd paragraph from my post you've replied is far more likely. A past-his-prime dev too complacent to reform his working routine and too rigid to pivot from this franchise, let alone game.

 

[AristocraticT]

Guys, guys. The story ends for us without any significant updates for the game. It sucks on principle that a bad dev gets rewarded for being bad. But we did our part, pointed it out, and the best thing now is to let it go and find something else.

Laughing my ass off at the terms "shilly shallying" and "dozy git"...

 

[MalLiz]

Honestly, your paragraph is far too optimistic, as you underestimated Doggiebones' determination to keep this game alive, underestimated the patrons' determination to keep printing money at his lap and overestimating the death row of the game itself.

The more cynical point of view, that even you would have to admit Mal, is that Doggiebones will always have thousands of dollars sucking dry from his discord, throwing just enough eyecandy to make them believe. Hope all you can, it will not change the minds of many of those too sunken in the cost or are simply too money-dumb to stop subscribing. For every dozen or so who've given up every month, hundreds are ready to throw their wallet at him.

I think my 2nd paragraph from my post you've replied is far more likely. A past-his-prime dev too complacent to reform his working routine and too rigid to pivot from this franchise, let alone game.

No offense, friend, but I kind of hate you for being so damn right...

...In all seriousness though, I suppose I was being more morbid than cynical. Strange, isn't it, how a sense of morbidity can be the optimistic point of view in something as fucked up as this game, its shitty developer and senseless funders, huh?

-Mal

 

[Spodeo]

Dev probably stopped updating due to all the stress from all the people in their Discord constantly begging for updates. Like, an unhealthy amount of people were begging. Unfortunately saw this coming. No one can deal with that much stress and expectations without collapsing. Though I'd prefer this than an extremely rushed product.

I agree that people spamming the dev for updates probably gets annoying and stressful like yeah those people are annoying 100%. However, this game has been in development since 2019 and shows no sign of getting done. Games can take a long time to make and having a high quality game with a lot of content that took years to make is awesome, but the updates slowed down and now Doggiebone is radio silent. As a piracy site most of us (I'm aware some people support games they like I have too) can't really be too mad when there is no updates for us cause we aren't paying for the game so like boohoo for us right? But at this point Doggie is just milking their subscribers for money and is overall not a very good dev when it comes to communicating shit especially a game that has an early access model.