Unity Abandoned Legend of Krystal: Rebirth [v0.8] [LOK Team]

[UnitaryMatrix]

Long story short:

- VladimirRomanov that places himself right now as a writer/director has already worked on LOK:Re in the past - he is one of the main collaborators and can be considered to be one of the ground developers from the start. As far as I understood, story that you have expirienced so far is by a large margin story that he himself designed for LOK:Re and he was the one who wrote the majority of dialogues and characters up to this moment.
As far as I understand he and Abelius had some kind of work-wise problems, which is why they later decided to stop working together. But as we can see right now - it seems that Abelius changed his mind and wellcomed Vladimir back.
What does it mean? It means that the story and characters and dialogues should stay the same way as they were - they will be changed here and there, but their very concept will not be altered. Whihc imo is a good thing, because so far I really enjoyed it.

- I tried to ask about Gizmo's (current new and the only one coder from now on) past, but it seems that he preferred to stay more or less Anonymous. Dev-s and collaborators didn't provide any info on him.
Though they said that he has AAA-game expirience and that he should be able to manage this game as a breeze.

- Archie, who is a new senior animator, on the other hand decided to share his portfolio.
You can check them out through the links that he provided via discord:

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There also was mentioned that he contract-worked for WayForward (if that says something to you).

- Abelius from now on is going to be managing ONLY animations under supervision from Archie (since Archie seems to have much more expirience in animating department under his belt). No more scenery+dialogue+animating+coding all at once for Abel.

- Kuja is still the one and only artist of LOK:Re that we all know and love.

So yeah, thats basically what I know from hanging in the public discord.

P.s. Yeah, it seems that Trello will no longer be a viable thing. Maybe at all, since they are goign to revamp the whole project. So yes, R.I.P. LOK's Trello.

Thanks for taking the time to look this stuff up, really! Obviously, I can definitely see why you'd want to remain an anon when working on the development of a H-game, I was mostly curious! If he's a AAA programmer, then that's fab!
However, I'm more excited about them acquiring an animator from Wayforward (Shantae games are well known for having smooth animations)! From his portfolio, it seems he's already acquainted to Spine, which is what Team LOK have been using.

I'd say this is very good news!

 

[garypoon]

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That's how you get 'em.

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[Detective Cancer]

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Saved as "Jojothink.gif" very important.
But also...

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Gonna stop now before we spam too much xD

 

[efarseer]

Do I understand correctly? They make games from scratch, and you need to wait another month for the release?

 

[Detective Cancer]

They made it sound like they're putting out a small demo to show the new capabilities of the team, and then they'll go back to working on the actual game and put out proper updates while also retroactively improving the rest of the established game.

 

[Porn_Jesus]

The confusion is complete. The trello page is down btw.

 

[Detective Cancer]

Kuja never used it anyway, no big loss.
I think most devs forget they can use it, it's an added step that most people don't look at.

 

[Ion.TemUS]

Couple of things:

1. Not sure if an AAA-programmer isnt wasted on this project. I hope the man gets payed enough for his hard work
1b. That counts for all, I hope with hiring this team he actually has some people who are passionate but also get compensated for the work they will put in. If not I hope they are just doing this as a side-job

2. The work of the lead animator looks really solid. The only concern I might have is his artstyle seems very bubbly and not in line with what LoK was so far, but if Kuj. sticks to the core design I hope that wont change a lot.

3. I hope TO GOD OR ALL THE POWERS IN THE UNIVERSE that they are not seriously attempting to completely re-do all the things they have done so far, because if they do that and it even takes half as long as the game took until now Im just not interested anymore. Like come tf on, just add new stuff. I hope all they do engine-wise now is to polish the code and make the gameplay more fun. If they start from scratch Im gonna loose it.

At that point it would just scream "cash cow" from all sides. Like Abel going up to those new team members being like "cmon, you guys dont have a job atm. Im just gonna put out your names behind this project and the backers will come back and pay more again. We do that for a few months, get some minor stuff done, then I announce that unfortunately financial funds are not enough to pay you guys and either they will pay us more or you guys can move on to other jobs"

Sorry for that cynical thought experiment, but its not far off considering all the stuff I have seen people on patreon pull off, esp. in the adult game section.

 

[Detective Cancer]

My only hope is, assuming they don't fuck it all up, get into a fight in 2 months and have a drama bomb that splinters into 4 separate games like other Patreons have... uhhh that they don't go the way of making every scene a garbage CG animation like that Cenvir one. That would upset me, though it would not surprise me.

 

[Porn_Jesus]

Kuja never used it anyway, no big loss.
I think most devs forget they can use it, it's an added step that most people don't look at.

I looked at it every day and it was used. Sure there wasn't an entry every day but imo it's better to collect some work and then smack it all in to save some time.

 

[SicilyAB]

Why did they decide to restart? I think the base is pretty good, adding cum effects and barks (calling you a slut etc) and shortening the grind would make the game way more fun and enjoyable.

 

[humi198]

Why did they decide to restart? I think the base is pretty good, adding cum effects and barks (calling you a slut etc) and shortening the grind would make the game way more fun and enjoyable.

the reason they want to do that beacause of the new team consist of 5 or 6 member.Kuja and Abe knew all about game mechanics and how things done but all other have to learn it from the start (im not talking about how to use spine or anyother software im talking about game mechanics) back in january kuja was working on RSP(real side pose) models and thinking of changing the whole game to RSP models.I think thats the reason they are starting from scratch so other member also know whats happening from start and also introduce RSP models.

 

[Porn_Jesus]

So do they restart LOK:R from the beginning or completely change everything?

 

[Ion.TemUS]

Apparently they start from scratch.
I cant..... I cant believe this bullshit its so laughable. Thats just another excuse to take another 6 months to get to the exact point in the story where theys are right now at the moment, isnt it?

How do they want to have ANY SIGNIFICANT content additions if they do it this way? All the things up until now we already played. All the fans of the game will literally wait half a year or at the very least multiple months (on top of the ones we already waited) till they can expect ANY new content story-wise.

The only new stuff they MIGHT add is additional dialogue and jobs. And that willl be spread far and wide across all the new patches and releases and parts of the game.

Inconceivable, really. I might sound super cynical but I cant see how else they are gonna do this. And its stupid.

 

[Porn_Jesus]

Apparently they start from scratch.
I cant..... I cant believe this bullshit its so laughable. Thats just another excuse to take another 6 months to get to the exact point in the story where theys are right now at the moment, isnt it?

How do they want to have ANY SIGNIFICANT content additions if they do it this way? All the things up until now we already played. All the fans of the game will literally wait half a year or at the very least multiple months (on top of the ones we already waited) till they can expect ANY new content story-wise.

The only new stuff they MIGHT add is additional dialogue and jobs. And that willl be spread far and wide across all the new patches and releases and parts of the game.

Inconceivable, really. I might sound super cynical but I cant see how else they are gonna do this. And its stupid.

Imo it was super bad planning and the patrons have to suffer now. I'm very disappointed too. This should never be a thing if people who work on a game have experience and the support cash to invest so much time every day. I could understand it if the team broke apart or someone got killed but this...dumb indeed.

 

[Phanatic]

The only new stuff they MIGHT add is additional dialogue and jobs. And that willl be spread far and wide across all the new patches and releases and parts of the game.

Its somwhat further from that.
Their idea of revamping is that they want to do the project from the start according to the very first concept of the game. Previously I wrote that Vlad was a writer of this project but then he and Abel didn't go well together, so Abel stopped co-working with him. By that point there was only so much done, so the latest updates already didnt have Vlad's vision, this is why Abel had problems with the script and stuff... Now that they are revamping the game, they want to stick close to the original ideas, and since they re-hired Vlad, he will be able to finish his vision of the game.

To that said: they now have a vision of "Game first, hentai second" and now they want add such things to the game as real side view models, world map, more fleet story, clothes and skins, weapons and combat, revamp Cenvir's character for him to be a total douchebag, add a companion system and a minigame "pterodactyl races". From Vlad's words they reference KOTOR's mechanics very heavily.

Also from the talk with Vlad, it seems that the story will gain darker and more serious tones. It looks like that he despises the idea of LOK being light-headed, no-problem date simulator, so he wants to implement a much more serious approach.

So what do you think of that?
I personally was totally ok with a light-headed tone of the game where it was all fun and hentai.

 

[Porn_Jesus]

I'm more doubtful than ever about what they plan to do. Have they learned from it or are we at the same point one year later and another restart happens? I would probably end my support as a patron now if i ever started to support them. :/

 

[Rixen]

Well, it was nice while it lasted, guess all LoK games except the LoK vG are cursed to never be finished.

 

[humi198]

I have been looking on their discord and as i confirmed they are gona use RSP(real side pose) modles here are some pics of indevelopment

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and they plan to release demo version on mid september.But i really do feel that RSP models kill the feel and sexyness of old models i dont like these new RSP models at all thats my opinion.

 

[Porn_Jesus]

We can only hope for the best or don't care anymore. If it gets even better than before...damn awesome but the doubt is stronk. :/