VN Ren'Py Isabella - Chasing Shadows [Ch. 4.3] [badtimetales]

[MiltonPowers]

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Happy first Sunday of Advent from Val

 

[badtimetales]

Well, first...
Yes, I'm alive. And working.

I just didn't migrate the F95 VM to the new PC for some time (months... *caugh*).

Isabella has 46 patrons/subs after 4 years of development. I don't think anyone, including Badtime, is expecting a sudden explosion in popularity and paying patrons this late in development.
Creating a VN requires time and effort, it's like a job, a job that in this case is not paid.
I can understand why development is getting stale. Badtime has shown passion and work all this time, but it can't be easy to invest time and effort in something that doesn't work as you expected.

Thanks Ragnar.

To be honest, both, Patreon and Steam are not what I expected.
To be clear, I'm doing way better than other games on Steam and I got back what I invested in Hardware, Software and Assets.
Some devs aren't so lucky.

So there's no reason to complain, all in all I started Isa as a hobby project (well, that escalated quickly).

Better not talk about buck for an hour or a week. But that was never the plan (while it would have been nice though).

I really hope you are wrong, but its really not looking good.
I purchased on steam at last release as well.
Real shame if you are right, it was looking like a great game.

It's not abandoned, it'S just an overconfident dev fucking himself up.

Man i see this dev creating (and posting) so many renders and now even animations for all kind of stupid special events (halloween, christmas, valentines day) but barely getting any development done.

I started to stop subbing to devs who do lots of these shit and special requests and so on, maybe they are better off as artists than as devs and there surely seems to be a demand but im out of this shit.

This avn started really good back than but to me became quite annoying, the whole setup with the two girls (and the animals) just doesnt work for me in this avn. Everything seems unessecary complicated and convoluted and the white knight "opportunities" feel too constructed to me.

It often feels like it aims to annoy the reader (or at least people like me) and the bad development speed just made it worse.

Good luck to the dev anyway

Well, if it doesn't work for you (with 1|2 + 1 girls) I'm sorry, but I made that quite clear.

People underestimate the work that's needed in "animations".
So the ones you have seen now would have cost me days setting them up in Daz or Blender and a few hours like I did them now.

It's called "learning".
There are some ingame (sex) animations in the discord Patreon/Steam channel, to show what is possible.
More to be seen in the update.

It’s been over a year since the game was released on Steam… I know it’s a solo-developed project, but shouldn’t we at least be able to get an idea of how far along the development is?

Yea I wonder that too hope it isn't abandoned

Edit. It is still ongoing it been confirmed by Dev in discord

It's not abandoned and yes, I'm fucking months (or nearly a year) behind.
*sigh*
And yes, I should have said something months ago. But it's not so easy to admit to yourself that you fucked up.

 

[Krytax123]

Well, if it doesn't work for you (with 1|2 + 1 girls) I'm sorry, but I made that quite clear.

People underestimate the work that's needed in "animations".
So the ones you have seen now would have cost me days setting them up in Daz or Blender and a few hours like I did them now.

It's called "learning".
There are some ingame (sex) animations in the discord Patreon/Steam channel, to show what is possible.
More to be seen in the update.

Sorry man, you got kinda into the crossfire over my annoyance of bonus renders anything not canon coupled with suboptimal development speed, you do you and you have skills even if it doesnt exactly fit my taste no matter my bitching

And to be more in detail even tho it doesnt really have to matter for you: I like both girls, just the interplay between the three of them isnt really working for me (yet?)

 

[badtimetales]

And there's "happy second Sunday" with Alex missing

Sorry man, you got kinda into the crossfire over my annoyance of bonus renders anything not canon coupled with suboptimal development speed, you do you and you have skills even if it doesnt exactly fit my taste no matter my bitching

And to be more in detail even tho it doesnt really have to matter for you: I like both girls, just the interplay between the three of them isnt really working for me (yet?)

Bonus renders mean "rendering at the highest quality you can do".
Testing new lights, new cam settings, new post work tools and so on.

Like using AI to create better animation in a shorter time.

Both you need experience with.

Can't tell you if the interaction/karma between the ladies will work for you, guess you have to wait for the final release of the game.

 

[katzenstreu]

Welcome back.
badtimetales

Hoffe dir geht es gut. =)

 

[Moosica]

Glad to see you back and happy to know the game isn't abandoned.
I really enjoy the game and it would have been a disaster to learn it was shut down. Best of luck with the development of this great game, "BadTimeTales".

 

[Grumpy Old Aussie]

It's not abandoned and yes, I'm fucking months (or nearly a year) behind.
*sigh*
And yes, I should have said something months ago. But it's not so easy to admit to yourself that you fucked up.

Not me, I'm perfect

Seriously though, we all fuck up at times. I have a PhD in fucking up. Just remember you have people with you until the end. Brush it off and move forward mate.