VN Ren'Py Abandoned Luke's Way [v0.36a] [Evil User]

[FuhQ314]

No, when they can't even make a post within 6+ months to let people know what's going on, then it's as good as dead.
You don't even need a computer to post an update, can be done on your phone.

This, just like Midlife Crisis, Ecchi Sensei and so many others is so far beyond "just wait, he's probably really busy IRL" that considering anything other than dead is fanciful.

Seems what they all have in common is they are all 6yo+. Devs really should plan on ending their AVN after 5 years at most for several reasons, starting to look dated and almost everyone including the devs themselves will be getting tired of it by then 2 of those. Also blows my mind that even though it's abandoned 147 people are still paying him (or paying his corpse if he died). Hell if you wanna throw away money and get nothing for it just Paypal it to me. If it were me any month there's no update is a month that I don't pay them, it's not like that unsub or pause button is hard to find.

 

[FuhQ314]

I had liked this game. Hopefully it comes back

I've never heard of an AVN getting an abandoned tag removed once tagged with one anywhere. Even coming back from on hold more often than not ends up being just a pit stop to abandoned.

 

[FuhQ314]

and yet we havent had an update for Summertime Saga for more than six months and it doesnt have an abandoned tag on it.

There's probably a sign of life of some sort with that dev, even if just a Discord post saying "hi". If it seems like the dev may as well have died irl then it's abandoned after 6 months instead of 18 (when devs in that club usually just stop working on their AVN without actually saying so and string subs along with some useless weekly wallpaper).

 

[Anteron]

I've never heard of an AVN getting an abandoned tag removed once tagged with one anywhere. Even coming back from on hold more often than not ends up being just a pit stop to abandoned.

I have, but it's very rare.

 

[Content_Consumer]

Seems what they all have in common is they are all 6yo+. Devs really should plan on ending their AVN after 5 years at most for several reasons, starting to look dated and almost everyone including the devs themselves will be getting tired of it by then 2 of those.

It's along the same line of reasoning as to why I laugh at people who think that Summer's Gone will ever get finished.
That Dev has told us how many chapters it will have to be considered complete [16 chapters to go] and yet after years of work, and also doing a rework once already because the renders looked dated, it still has 16 years of development left at the current pace.

It isn't going to happen. He isn't suddenly going to switch from making one chapter per year to making 8 and getting it done in just two more years of dev time.
On top of that he'll feel that the renders are outdated again and have to redo them all.

 

[cxx]

I've never heard of an AVN getting an abandoned tag removed once tagged with one anywhere. Even coming back from on hold more often than not ends up being just a pit stop to abandoned.

seen few times after dev returns to game and releases update which comes here.

 

[Holmster74]

Discord says something about a move and some personal reasons, but the game is still in development. This does not come from dev...

 

[Legal1709]

Came back to see how it was going and saw that the dev just vanished, that's sad, last time I played was on version 0.23.2

 

[cxx]

Came back to see how it was going and saw that the dev just vanished, that's sad, last time I played was on version 0.23.2

well then you have lots to catch up.

 

[Legal1709]

well then you have lots to catch up.

Nah, just skipped it all and it seems I didn't miss much lol, I didn't remember the animations were so poor

 

[cxx]

Nah, just skipped it all and it seems I didn't miss much lol, I didn't remember the animations were so poor

nope, mc fucks 1 or more of his "girls" and that's it.

 

[Nezron]

I always said there are just too many girls in this game. A harem game should have a max of 8 or so girls... any more than that it is just too hard to give each girl time, and it is just more renders to try and do.

Then there is the complex story of the MC becoming this big player in the world. Another thing that tends to kill games is an overly complex story.... developers get stuck trying to figure out how to keep the plot going... then just give up.

And the pregnancy thing in games like this, if you keep it going eventually you are going to have to deal with pregnant girls and render those, then if they actually have kids... then what... you have to render those as well.

I never figured the developer would finish this. I did like the game.
peace

 

[TigerWolfe]

I always said there are just too many girls in this game. A harem game should have a max of 8 or so girls... any more than that it is just too hard to give each girl time, and it is just more renders to try and do.

Then there is the complex story of the MC becoming this big player in the world. Another thing that tends to kill games is an overly complex story.... developers get stuck trying to figure out how to keep the plot going... then just give up.

And the pregnancy thing in games like this, if you keep it going eventually you are going to have to deal with pregnant girls and render those, then if they actually have kids... then what... you have to render those as well.

I never figured the developer would finish this. I did like the game.
peace

Your I told you so has been duly noted.

 

[cxx]

I always said there are just too many girls in this game. A harem game should have a max of 8 or so girls... any more than that it is just too hard to give each girl time, and it is just more renders to try and do.

Then there is the complex story of the MC becoming this big player in the world. Another thing that tends to kill games is an overly complex story.... developers get stuck trying to figure out how to keep the plot going... then just give up.

that's why groupsex exists.

i didn't find this complex.

 

[Trminator]

I always said there are just too many girls in this game. A harem game should have a max of 8 or so girls... any more than that it is just too hard to give each girl time, and it is just more renders to try and do.

Then there is the complex story of the MC becoming this big player in the world. Another thing that tends to kill games is an overly complex story.... developers get stuck trying to figure out how to keep the plot going... then just give up.

And the pregnancy thing in games like this, if you keep it going eventually you are going to have to deal with pregnant girls and render those, then if they actually have kids... then what... you have to render those as well.

I never figured the developer would finish this. I did like the game.
peace

You do know that other game on here, Grandmas House? It does deal with those "issues" you mention, quite well, TBF

 

[Anteron]

Nothing on his Patreon since November last year. Anyone on his Discord?

 

[Nezron]

You do know that other game on here, Grandmas House? It does deal with those "issues" you mention, quite well, TBF

I play Grandma's House as well, and it has the same problem... too many girls. Now Grandma's House does not have a problem with story..... because there is no story. It is just the MC interacting with the girls of the update. A harem game should be a few well defined girls, maybe 6-10. But games like Luke's Way, Grandma's House, WVM... etc that just keep adding girls are not giving the player the time with girls they may like. Or too much time with girls they don't like.

Not saying I don't like all these game, because I do. But think about it... when was the last time the big police girl in Grandma's House had a scene, or the Purple Haired Martial arts girl?

anyway try Cosy Cafe, to me that game is a good harem game.
peace

 

[Anteron]

THAT's not a game I'd be interested in. No old ladies, please.

 

[botc76]

I've never heard of an AVN getting an abandoned tag removed once tagged with one anywhere. Even coming back from on hold more often than not ends up being just a pit stop to abandoned.

Just this week, Tyrant got an update after who knows how long it had the abandoned tag. ANother game had a new chapter coming out relatively recently after years of no updates.

 

[Trminator]

Nothing on his Patreon since November last year. Anyone on his Discord?

Noting there since 6+ Months, either.