VN Ren'Py Jessica O'Neil's Hard News [v0.60] [stoperArt]

[dolfe67]

It just is mindblowing how little content a developer has to provide for people to keep paying for this crap.

Yeah just having a relative successful launch and a year or two of hard work and then you can do the bare minimum, you're set up for several years. No wonder some devs are starting multiple games in the hope of the "jackpot"

 

[Rodrigo Tannuri]

Don't forget about Anna...

Who is Dee? From witch game?

 

[xCalon]

Who is Dee? From witch game?

Dating My Daughter

 

[adrian12]

Does anyone has an info on when the next update will be released ?

 

[Obranyi]

Does anyone has an info on when the next update will be released ?

Milker Dev posted an hour ago new "interesting" blog, waiting for someone to share what he said there, like I saw beginning he is "working"

 

[IIKEKWII]

"Working on a pretty big scene at the moment " more like another scene with connor and 10mins tops game time Let me guess update will come next month now??!!

 

[Jozef Minge]

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Hi, everyone.
Working on a pretty big scene at the moment. Almost 100 image so far, and I still have another small branch to make. It's probably bigger than I initially intended, but I go where the flow leads me. And it's always hard to resist showing Jess from all angles.
After this one I have another relatively big scene at the end of the in-game day. I was planing to add another scene(s) from the next day, but it's been a while since you've played anything, so I'll release it as usual with Jess getting to bed.
The image here is not from the upcoming update, just testing something.
Have fun, and thanks for the support.

 

[palmtrees89]

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Hi, everyone.
Working on a pretty big scene at the moment. Almost 100 image so far, and I still have another small branch to make. It's probably bigger than I initially intended, but I go where the flow leads me. And it's always hard to resist showing Jess from all angles.
After this one I have another relatively big scene at the end of the in-game day. I was planing to add another scene(s) from the next day, but it's been a while since you've played anything, so I'll release it as usual with Jess getting to bed.
The image here is not from the upcoming update, just testing something.
Have fun, and thanks for the support.

Thanks for sharing.

This devblog is pretty much confirming that the next release is towards the end of the year considering that he's said almost the exact same thing last year around the halfway mark of 0.55.

Last year around the same time he's been talking about another branch "not many people would want to play", considering if he should add it or not, and another event after that. Some time later came a devblog of him saying that this last scene would turn out to be "bigger than initially intended", almost the same wording as it is here, which then took another ~3 months.

Truth be told, this whole thing sounds like a copy-pasta from last years devblog with a couple words replaced and added. lol

Oh, and regarding this one; "And it's always hard to resist showing Jess from all angles.". Anyone with a bit of knowledge in DAZ&Co knows that simply moving the camera in a scene to show a character in different angles is among the least time consuming things to do, but stoper obviously makes it sound like he'd have to set up the scene from scratch entirely. One could literally make 50 renders of Jess in different angles with nothing but moving the camera around and then pressing the render button again, which the rendering is a matter of minutes with his 4090. Stoper on the other hand is saying this with a purpose, and that purpose is to make it seem as if he's putting alot of extra work on himself, having to "restrain" himself from doing that, when infact it's straight up nonsense.

And if he was truly concerned about his supporters getting anything to play with (hence his comment about another extra scene he "planned" for the day after), he would have released the last scene for the current PD months ago. This is nothing but a pet on his own back trying to look like the good guy for his supporters. That whole sentence is complete nonsense as he can release the day and keep working on the next one anyway, planned or not.

 

[Obranyi]

Thanks for sharing.

This devblog is pretty much confirming that the next release is towards the end of the year considering that he's said almost the exact same thing last year around the halfway mark of 0.55.

Last year around the same time he's been talking about another branch "not many people would want to play", considering if he should add it or not, and another event after that. Some time later came a devblog of him saying that this last scene would turn out to be "bigger than initially intended", almost the same wording as it is here, which then took another ~3 months.

Truth be told, this whole thing sounds like a copy-pasta from last years devblog with a couple words replaced and added. lol

Oh, and regarding this one; "And it's always hard to resist showing Jess from all angles.". Anyone with a bit of knowledge in DAZ&Co knows that simply moving the camera in a scene to show a character in different angles is among the least time consuming things to do, but stoper obviously makes it sound like he'd have to set up the scene from scratch entirely. One could literally make 50 renders of Jess in different angles with nothing but moving the camera around and then pressing the render button again, which the rendering is a matter of minutes with his 4090. Stoper on the other hand is saying this with a purpose, and that purpose is to make it seem as if he's putting alot of extra work on himself, having to "restrain" himself from doing that, when infact it's straight up nonsense.

He is like always pretend that he is "working", yeah I'm ''working'' on pretty big scene, WOW And in result update will be 15-20 minutes with sex with Connor and teasing with others

 

[Ragnar]

I go where the flow leads me.

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[Jozef Minge]

Thanks for sharing.

This devblog is pretty much confirming that the next release is towards the end of the year considering that he's said almost the exact same thing last year around the halfway mark of 0.55.

Last year around the same time he's been talking about another branch "not many people would want to play", considering if he should add it or not, and another event after that. Some time later came a devblog of him saying that this last scene would turn out to be "bigger than initially intended", almost the same wording as it is here, which then took another ~3 months.

Yes, he said something similar in the middle of August last year. Like I said some posts above - September!

 

[bobbo69]

It's funny that he mentioned that he made almost 100 images so far after 8 months, some Dev makes that in a week, guess he's been real busy

 

[palmtrees89]

It's funny that he mentioned that he made almost 100 images so far after 8 months, some Dev makes that in a week, guess he's been real busy

Yeah well, those 100 renders are supposedly only for this "big event", and there's likely some more prior to that, but if I had to take a guess I'd say he's maybe 150-200 renders deep. Still has to "add" another branch and the last event which is apparently going to be rather big aswell. Either way, last year when he was talking about all those "branches", they turned out to be basically non-existent. Those events were mostly just cut short due to previous choices and/or a handful of different renders to replace dialogue with different dialogue. But in stoper's world, those "branches" require a month of work, if not more.

I personally don't see a release happen before November, if even that. Guess one can only hope that I'm wrong and Jozef Minge's guess is more accurate, but I doubt it.

 

[GingerSweetGirl]

What a line of bullshit. Not for one second do I think he's actually built a scene with 100 renders. In fact, even if it's true, that's an absurd number of renders for a single scene. More renders does not necessarily equal "more quality", it's just more for the sake of more. He's just regurgitating the same excuses, in another month or two we'll hear about how sick he's been. And this image isn't from the update? Why not include something from the update? You mean to tell me that not 1 of the 100 renders could be used without spoiling anything? No way. He isn't showing anything because he doesn't have anything to show.

I think Stoper has officially become worse than L&P.

 

[DIRTY FILTHY Animal]

What a line of bullshit. Not for one second do I think he's actually built a scene with 100 renders. In fact, even if it's true, that's an absurd number of renders for a single scene. More renders does not necessarily equal "more quality", it's just more for the sake of more. He's just regurgitating the same excuses, in another month or two we'll hear about how sick he's been. And this image isn't from the update? Why not include something from the update? You mean to tell me that not 1 of the 100 renders could be used without spoiling anything? No way. He isn't showing anything because he doesn't have anything to show.

I think Stoper has officially become worse than L&P.

 

[BorgiaBou]

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  Yeah, I canceled my pledge. This is a very promising game, but not 30+ bucks per update promising.
  The author needs to revise his workflow. The Ren'Py scripting can easily be done during the rendering process, even with placeholder images if necessary. And so can optimization (of the already finished renders) and translation.

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    Bullshit. The guy boots about what an expert he is, then says he can't hire help, because his DAZ library is too big. You can find a coder to save you the RenPy time, you can find a writer to help you with the writing, you can find a guy to pose crowd characters or build scenes in DAZ, you can find an animator, you can find someone to do postwork...And this crap about "people wanting cheap porn games" *using Jim Sterling's mocking voice* is pathetic. Considering how many examples of quality, well written games there are. If anything, most of the projects that get supported a lot have either quality writing and/or solid gameplay. What a clown!

C'mon Lust&Passion its your time now to shine, look how the wheel has turned...

 

[Tennoujirex]

Yeah well, those 100 renders are supposedly only for this "big event", and there's likely some more prior to that, but if I had to take a guess I'd say he's maybe 150-200 renders deep. Still has to "add" another branch and the last event which is apparently going to be rather big aswell. Either way, last year when he was talking about all those "branches", they turned out to be basically non-existent. Those events were mostly just cut short due to previous choices and/or a handful of different renders to replace dialogue with different dialogue. But in stoper's world, those "branches" require a month of work, if not more.

I personally don't see a release happen before November, if even that. Guess one can only hope that I'm wrong and Jozef Minge's guess is more accurate, but I doubt it.

Let's not forget the "Animation" excuses that arrive the closer we get to the release for further delays.
That alone shoots the estimations to the end of the year closer to what you have predicted.
As always stoper has the habit of saying so much with so little meaning while absolving himself from any accountability.

 

[armion82]

What a line of bullshit. Not for one second do I think he's actually built a scene with 100 renders. In fact, even if it's true, that's an absurd number of renders for a single scene. More renders does not necessarily equal "more quality", it's just more for the sake of more. He's just regurgitating the same excuses, in another month or two we'll hear about how sick he's been. And this image isn't from the update? Why not include something from the update? You mean to tell me that not 1 of the 100 renders could be used without spoiling anything? No way. He isn't showing anything because he doesn't have anything to show.

I think Stoper has officially become worse than L&P.

Well if L&P can use 400 renders for a single scene,why not 100 renders
There is also a game with a scene with around 6000 renders.

 

[palmtrees89]

And this image isn't from the update? Why not include something from the update? You mean to tell me that not 1 of the 100 renders could be used without spoiling anything? No way. He isn't showing anything because he doesn't have anything to show.

Yeah, I found that line to be quite weird aswell. Like, why would he even mention that this render isn't from the update? He's never done that before as far as I know. He's barely ever providing actual teasers or hints as to what's to come in the next update anyway, atleast none of which show anything worthwhile (Dartboard and Milkshake renders during previous devcycle for example). The first 6 months of that devcycle had absolutely nothing except for the "custom" beach scenery showcases, which that asset was barely used even tho he made it sound like it's such a big deal taking months of time to create.

But this time..? So far we've seen a closet which he's apparently spent an entire day on (lol), a render of Jess arriving at work, and we're already 8 months into the cycle. So yeah, that really begs for the question as to why he did not simply use one of those 100 renders for his new devblog if he has them. "I was testing something". What the actual f....? Testing what? Shooting a render with Jessica's ass in a string to use for your devblog?

So yeah, maybe he has indeed nothing yet except for the last scene of the current PD, and the first couple renders of the next one...And maybe plans for what to create in the coming months when he finally starts working. Last devcycle already had heavy indicators that he's not done anything the first 6+ months, but I'm not gonna pull those posts up again and well, this time around he's basically said himself that he hasn't done much of anything for the first 6 months, except his excuse was a different one.

 

[GingerSweetGirl]

Yeah, I found that line to be quite weird aswell. Like, why would he even mention that this render isn't from the update? He's never done that before as far as I know. He's barely ever providing actual teasers or hints as to what's to come in the next update anyway, atleast none of which show anything worthwhile (Dartboard and Milkshake renders during previous devcycle for example). The first 6 months of that devcycle had absolutely nothing except for the "custom" beach scenery showcases, which that asset was barely used even tho he made it sound like it's such a big deal taking months of time to create.

But this time..? So far we've seen a closet which he's apparently spent an entire day on (lol), a render of Jess arriving at work, and we're already 8 months into the cycle. So yeah, that really begs for the question as to why he did not simply use one of those 100 renders for his new devblog if he has them. "I was testing something". What the actual f....? Testing what? Shooting a render with Jessica's ass in a string to use for your devblog?

So yeah, maybe he has indeed nothing yet except for the last scene of the current PD, and the first couple renders of the next one...And maybe plans for what to create in the coming months when he finally starts working. Last devcycle already had heavy indicators that he's not done anything the first 6+ months, but I'm not gonna pull those posts up again and well, this time around he's basically said himself that he hasn't done much of anything for the first 6 months, except his excuse was a different one.

I think he just makes art for his enjoyment, without regard to the game. And that's fine, we all need to recharge and making art for art's sake is healthy. But after all of these months, it strikes me as really tone deaf to share a generic render in lieu of an in-game render. Forget us, the jaded pirates, but have the courtesy to toss your patrons a bone. They've been paying you for months, they've earned something of note. And yes, maybe many of them are fine or don't think anything of it, but from my seat I think the ethical thing to do would be to go above and beyond and give them something. If you're so proud of the scene you're working on, then give them a tiny taste. It just seems like bad business to do otherwise.