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yes respect the massive work that consists of 2 new renders every 6 months.
Posting comments which rip on that thread's specific developer while not providing any substantive feedback for improvement is a fantastic way to motivate them to work harder and is not at all discouraging and demotivating. Instead of saying "moar stuffz" (which isn't substantive at all), my personal recommendation for 17MOONKEYS would be to focus on a single game at a time. Some developers can handle more than one, but it's not most. If the updates for each game are small, it would generally be preferred by most players to have larger updates on a single game until that's finished. Then move on to (or in your case, continue) the next game, and so on.
and what's this about not being able to save/skip? that's blatantly forcing players to replay every new update hoping they wouldn't notice the lack of content.

stuff like this is why no one has any faith in porn games devs here.
I think that's a bad misread on what's happening here. It's something specific to tablet users. If the intent were as you describe, it would be absent from the PC version as well. It is there still on PC. It was a misguided stylistic choice that should be reversed, yes. But if it's an effort to "blatantly forc[e] players to replay every new update", it's a very poorly executed one. Otherwise, it would affect more than tablet (and maybe phone?) users specifically.
 
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17MONKEYS, I know this was mentioned before and I don't remember your response, but again, we have to start all over again? Our saves do no good? As much as I love this game and I do love this game, this is getting pretty old.
 

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17MONKEYS, I know this was mentioned before and I don't remember your response, but again, we have to start all over again? Our saves do no good? As much as I love this game and I do love this game, this is getting pretty old.
Old saves in my games will never work. That’s the nature of the creative process. Writing is rewriting.
If old saves still work, it means I did a poor job on the update.
 
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Old saves in my games will never work. That’s the nature of the creative process. Writing is rewriting.
If old saves still work, it means I did a poor job on the update.
This is actually very often unnecessary, even with rewriting. This may just mean that you're not as used to developing in Ren'Py. For things you can do to ensure save compatibility (except in extreme cases), you may want to consult this guide: https://f95zone.to/threads/how-to-variables-and-save-compatibility.16011/

Beyond that, there are things you for sure can do to aid the creative process so it's not so haphazard as to constantly require a restart. Storyboarding, for instance, can do wonders for this type of thing. These are only suggestions, of course, but I would encourage you not to dismiss them out of hand. You are not the first creative person to struggle with this type of thing, so the experience of those who came before you (I'm not talking about myself) could help you a lot.
 

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Old saves in my games will never work. That’s the nature of the creative process. Writing is rewriting.
If old saves still work, it means I did a poor job on the update.
That is a very stupid way of doing a creative process. Most Ren'Py games allow saves from a prior version to work.

Truly, any developer that has people restarting the entire fucking process after every update is doing things wrong.

And I'm sorry, but that is just a silly concept to have. "Writing is rewriting"? "If old saves work, I did a poor job on the update"? What kind of backward ass thinking is that?
 

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That is a very stupid way of doing a creative process. Most Ren'Py games allow saves from a prior version to work.

Truly, any developer that has people restarting the entire fucking process after every update is doing things wrong.

And I'm sorry, but that is just a silly concept to have. "Writing is rewriting"? "If old saves work, I did a poor job on the update"? What kind of backward ass thinking is that?
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17MONKEYS, hi my friend, because I see you as a friend, you listen to my ideas and suggestions and that is really appreciated. So, these restarts that we have to do are because you are changing the story constantly and maybe adding new art? I have noticed changes in the past but, I wasn't sure this is the reason for having to start over all the time. If this is the reason then that is great. It's like starting a new game. As I've said before, I love your storywriting and the suspense you put into your game. The art is also super. Thanks for listening.
 

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17MONKEYS, hi my friend, because I see you as a friend, you listen to my ideas and suggestions and that is really appreciated. So, these restarts that we have to do are because you are changing the story constantly and maybe adding new art? I have noticed changes in the past but, I wasn't sure this is the reason for having to start over all the time. If this is the reason then that is great. It's like starting a new game. As I've said before, I love your storywriting and the suspense you put into your game. The art is also super. Thanks for listening.
Thank You!
 

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This rule only applies to people who have not YET published their work. Once published, they can NO LONGER rework it! Do you think Herman Melville reworked his novel Moby Dick after publishing it?
This is not version 1.0 final
 
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