- Nov 11, 2018
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Sihil I dont think Sznuk can stop you from continuing the game and story. Maybe just change the game name but since you're the writer from the remake. i dont think there is any legal binding that you cannot continue on the project. Just change the characters name, locale and some back story and you're in the green. From the conversation screenshot, he is an ass. I'll suggest you go with the suggestion from DA22 and try to make a small demo.Many of you are doubting if I'm exaggerating or even lying and rightly so as I've not given any proofs to my claims so I'm posting just one snippet of the conversation. I've got a dozen but I won't release them, including the ones I took way back in November when things felt... wrong. Unless Sznuk actively denies my allegations, I won't post them.
Firstly, what I want you guys to do is to NOT harass him if you're planning to. Look, he's simply burnt out and there's nothing that we can do about it. Yes, I wish he'd handled things more professionally but if he has to go, he has to go. I'm really not trying to start a fight or god forbid, a drama. When I posted the post earlier, I was distraught and ended up making my tone too aggressive. All I want from you guys right now is just let him go to whatever he wants to do next with grace.
I think he's simply burnt out. There are several factors, yes. The biggest of which is that the game simply wasn't making a lot of money. He did note that the way I wrote made it difficult to create renders for him but I don't think it was the biggest reason as everytime he has asked me to change something about my writing style I have. And half of the things he mentioned in the list were already solved.
No, it's not abandoned. But I won't get ahead of myself just yet.
From what he told me, it wasn't as much as a cataclysm as simply the fact that he was burnt out. I wouldn't have had a problem if he'd let me change the direction of the game in a substantial way.
I admit I got pretty ahead of myself with trying to take both NTR and non-NTR together. But you have to see the fact that when we started the game most of the people who gave us money were there for NTR, so we couldn't just have thrown our hands up and gotten rid of NTR.
It does feel like it, I haven't seen many games where rating is above 4 stars for over a year, have over a million views on f95 (even though admittedly half of those would be my own) and yet make around 500$.
Yeah, now I am planning to try to give the game two distinct but well-done paths. Three paths it seems was too much to realistically continue. Even though I didn't see that until it was too late.
Well, thanks for keeping it in the first place
No. Absolutely not. If he wants to leave, I'll just let him go. There's really no point in trying to fight a guy who lives on the other side of the world.
Not drama queen per se, he told me way back that some big changes are going to happen in his life but he wasn't sure. And now he suddenly decides to leave so I'm guessing what he told me about is about to come to fruition. As for the money, I doubt I'll be seeing this month's cut if he hasn't paused the billing yet.
Do I have everything to continue? I don't even know exactly how to continue. I just pirated Lilith7 asset for DazStudio (I think that's supposed to be the model for Sara.) but it'd be very hard to find each and every character on my own.
Honestly, at this point, I'd rather just rely on myself and try to get this done. It will take forever, I know but this is the only realistic way to do it. As for the money, there are more than a few patrons who gave this game more than hundred dollars overall. There's a guy who commented the same on the Patreon and he has paid at least hundred dollars to the game last I checked. And there's simply no way I can justify asking guys like them for money when I have nothing to show for it. Maybe I will restart the patronage but that will not be until I have the episode 5 and the script for ep 6. This is the least bad way of approaching this that I can think of. The plan is to get the ep 5 ready by September, I'll take it slow but we'll get there.
It would give you an idea on the work scope,effort and time required. If you feel you can manage then you can do it solo else you'll get help. From personal experiences in the tech sector, you'll need partners or you'll end up burning out and the game will never come to fruition