The updates are regular; generally we get either 1 update per month (for a big update like the dorm wars or beach) or 2 per month (for smaller ones). Right now he's on a vacation, but he's resuming work on the game in February to release .29 in mid-March, which will be the last big update for a while; he says he's going back to 2 small ones/month for a while after .29.
Less than 20%? If the release date at the home page is correct and the updates have always been this regular, then we're possibly looking at multiple years (plus an enormous VN) before we get to the end of the game. That's kinda rough. If that's the case, I'm at least hoping that maybe we'll be having the focus on each route seperately rather than all at the same time so we can at least get the story further forward faster. If the dev is simultaneously working on both routes and is planning on finishing them at around the same time, we'll be waiting for a looooong time.
There are no parallel routes in the game at this time, at least not in the context you're thinking. There are certain flags that are affecting dialogue, but they're all going to wind up at the same place as the game progresses, it's just different ways of getting to that point. "Good/bad homie" is already starting to become less important as Rin has started to forgive him for his action, and the "Good/bad uncle" flag will likely just determine when or how the game actually shifts into the next stage.
Yeah but he has to look at each single one to see which one is the normal one and which one has extra text after it, hence the >99%
On the plus side, Sel's been making this game for not quite three years and already has way more content than games that have been around for a lot longer, so I believe in his ability to actually follow through on his insane ambitions.
Bluejay scene commentary, info sheet about Maki, some reference pics for Io, scene with loli Maya in her shrine maiden outfit, picture message from adult Uta. It's great.
If there's passion for the project, I'm sure everything will go perfectly fine. My comment wasn't really meant to imply that I'm doubting whether the dev can deliver, it's more so me being a little "upset" (for the lack of a better word) that it'll possibly take half a decade to see the end to this story.
More importantly, it doesn't seem like there'll be much feature creep, which is what derails a lot of these projects (gimmicky minigames, trying to patch free-roam into a mostly linear game halfway through, overflowing cast, etc). Sel has a clear idea of what he wants the game to be and is chugging along on it, and has never given us reason to believe he won't finish.
This is uhhh exactly what happened though
Eh, one cast expansion two years ago is not what I would call a feature creep, on the account of the lack of creep. It becomes a real problem when new characters just keep appearing one update after another, because it indicates the lack of an overall plan and the author just repeating the beginnings of character arcs instead of developing them further and/or moving the plot. Just expanding the scope of the game has its own difficulties, but at least the game can still be on rails to completion.
all of those characters did not just appear all at once, they were dripped in over several updates. this also resulted in longer periods of time where characters got ignored for awhile, and in some cases ignored at rather pivotal situations that made no sense to get ignored over. The cast expansion wasn't badly done though, but it definitely had these issues popping up time to time.
I mean, the point of the care packages was to encourage people to actually subscribe and get cool bonuses instead of pirating the subscriber edition, and it seems to have worked because the care packages get removed by the mods when they get leaked.
ok, but that wasn't my point at all. guy makes 6 figure + a year working solo on a game he has full creative control over regardless of pirating and then does borderline EA gacha style money making schemes. I've seen the road most games go down when they do shit like this and it isn't pretty. let's hope the game doesn't go down in flames through frustrating paywalls and what not. and i gave over 60 bucks in donations before pulling it because paying anything more for a VN is ridiculous
The thing that makes gachas terrible isn't that the companies sell extras to their games, it's that the companies sell you only a chance of getting the things you actually want and get you to gamble. The care packages are all preannounced and contain exactly what they say they will (plus the letters, which are a neat little extra).
But it's not random. The EA-like gacha BS relies on gambling addiction mechanism, which does not not apply here. You know ahead of time what you will get in a specific month care package. You can even buy them individually for half the sub price after two months.
i was saying it is BORDERLINE EA gacha style fuckery, not that it was. the next logical steps of the monetization process would lead into these things and its concerning when ever I see the first steps towards it. it always starts with DLC and horse armor. Also I am genuinely hoping that I'm wrong and it doesn't go past what it currently is.
