VN Ren'Py Abandoned Midlife Crisis [v0.34 - v0.1 Dark] [Nefastus Games]

[fotogaik]

His last post here was on July 23rd last year. 318 days ago.
His last activity was on September 18th last year. 261 days ago.
His last logon (presence on forum) was on January 16th this year. 141 days ago.

As everyone does, I also hope he's okay for his own sake. He's been through some really dark times. But for the game it doesn't really matter if he's okay or not. All signs post to the fact that the game is abandoned.

Edit: Knowing people, you can expect resentment to start creeping in over the weeks and months to come. People will eventually start accusing Nefastus of having been disingenuous the whole time and building up the fan base to milk as soon as some comfortable revenue threshold had been achieved.

 

[The Wicked One]

Anyone have any proof of life for poor old Nef?

No words on Patreon or Discord. On the Discord server, people are giving up after Nefastus fully logged off of Discord... Even the most staunch MLC fans (including myself) are leaving the server due to arguing, and the usual outlandish theories.
Even his usual apologists on the Discord server are coming to terms with the fact that he is probably not coming back, for XYZ theory... and even if he does return, I, personally, am not sure I could trust him enough to support him the way I used to.
But for what's it's worth, and if he ever sees this, Nef, I hope you're OK.

Edit Update - I left the MLC Discord (like many long time fans have), so I won't have eyes on whether or not he comes back there, or not. And I think the moderator, Keymaster, might close up shop on the Discord server, anyway.
Before I left, I scoured through Nefastus' old posts, and comments, and it is super clear he was going through some shit with his mental-state, and with family. It's been a cycle for years now, him disappearing I mean, but I fear this time it is permanent... but in the bottom of what remains of my heart, I hope he proves me wrong some day.

 

[Panda Sarcástico]

why the game as abandoned??? i just love this game

 

[Mommysbuttslut]

why the game as abandoned??? i just love this game

Dev disappeared, abandoned tag gets added after so many months of no communication from the dev. It might not be actually abandoned for good but at this point it's probably safe to assume for one reason or another it probably is.

Dev was always not the best at communicating and was prone to lapses of perfectionism.
Dev has also previously been hospitalized for serious medical issues.
Dev was also having some serious personal issues regarding their family.
There's no way to know beyond speculation but it could be anything from writers block spiraling into abandonment, personal life not allowing the time and energy to continue developing or god forbid the dev could be dead for all we know. We don't have any answers and the most we can do is speculate. Hopefully he's alright and whatever's stopping him from developing will be resolved but no way for us to know and all we can do is give our best wishes to him.

 

[Ermi33]

Dev disappeared, abandoned tag gets added after so many months of no communication from the dev. It might not be actually abandoned for good but at this point it's probably safe to assume for one reason or another it probably is.

Dev was always not the best at communicating and was prone to lapses of perfectionism.
Dev has also previously been hospitalized for serious medical issues.
Dev was also having some serious personal issues regarding their family.
There's no way to know beyond speculation but it could be anything from writers block spiraling into abandonment, personal life not allowing the time and energy to continue developing or god forbid the dev could be dead for all we know. We don't have any answers and the most we can do is speculate. Hopefully he's alright and whatever's stopping him from developing will be resolved but no way for us to know and all we can do is give our best wishes to him.

Thanks for this info (I didn‘t ask, but good to know)

 

[palazzo]

Thanks for this info (I didn‘t ask, but good to know)

No, but the person they quoted did.

 

[dorleans]

Thanks for this info (I didn‘t ask, but good to know)

Yeah, "abandoned" tags on F95zone are to be taken with a grain of salt. It's the only site on the internet even making an effort to be rigorous about it, so they tend to err on the side of, well, rigor. There are games I've watched cycle in and out of abandoned status half a dozen times since I joined. Two even got completed.

 

[Ermi33]

No, but the person they quoted did.

That came out wrong of me . I wouldn‘t impute your info was needless.
Peace!

 

[Panda Sarcástico]

Dev disappeared, abandoned tag gets added after so many months of no communication from the dev. It might not be actually abandoned for good but at this point it's probably safe to assume for one reason or another it probably is.

Dev was always not the best at communicating and was prone to lapses of perfectionism.
Dev has also previously been hospitalized for serious medical issues.
Dev was also having some serious personal issues regarding their family.
There's no way to know beyond speculation but it could be anything from writers block spiraling into abandonment, personal life not allowing the time and energy to continue developing or god forbid the dev could be dead for all we know. We don't have any answers and the most we can do is speculate. Hopefully he's alright and whatever's stopping him from developing will be resolved but no way for us to know and all we can do is give our best wishes to him.

I hope he's just doing a big update and hasn't really abandoned it

 

[DuarT]

I hope he's just doing a big update and hasn't really abandoned it

At this point, I just hope he's okay.

 

[Ermi33]

At this point, I just hope he's okay.

That’s the most important thing!

 

[SunSai]

Farewell Nefastus, MLC.

 

[BaeScout83]

Farewell Nefastus, MLC.

Since when did this become an airport, where departures needs announcing?

 

[Blueray]

lets say if hes gone can some one else work on this game?

 

[c3p0]

lets say if hes gone can some one else work on this game?

Yes? No? Perhaps? 3931? 6389?
What do you mean to say?

 

[OleJackRipper]

I searched and could not find the answer to this. Has anyone dl'd the compressed version and 7zip said.
"Can not open file as archive"? I imagine I'll have to get the full sized version. But this one is new to me.

 

[WICKEDp4th]

I searched and could not find the answer to this. Has anyone dl'd the compressed version and 7zip said.
"Can not open file as archive"? I imagine I'll have to get the full sized version. But this one is new to me.

Sooo,
i downloaded the PC compressed Version 0.34 from MEGA and had no issues unzipping the Archive with 7Zip.

 

[Cartageno]

lets say if hes gone can some one else work on this game?

Short answer is "No". Even if we somehow knew that was what happened (and I find that a very morbid thought experiment).

Legally, of course depending on where somebody lives, but since this is published internationally, let's apply common rules, copyright in general ends 70 years after a person's death. So with anything copyrightable from this game (I don't know which parts are, but some certainly do qualify), whoever wanted to do that would not be allowed to use it unless they tracked down the descendants and got their okay to use this.

Technically, you would need to recreate all the stuff in this game, so either somehow get to his computer (see A), or get the correct assets from third party sites, find the correct slider positions and similar - doable but hard.

Most importantly however, whoever continued this game would not be Nef. Nef's style is (and I am using "is" intentionally instead of "was") pretty unique. You would need some writer to really catch the spirit and the charm of what this is all about, what makes it popular - and that's a tough to impossible task because no matter how good a writer you yourself are, you would be different and it would clash. And odds are that people who are good enough to do so would be very hesitant (unless asked by Nef himself or those close to him) because they tend to respect the works of art of others. Anybody actually trying to do so would almost certainly not understand how to do it and produce the "Oh, a boob, I have a hard thingylingy, let's go fuckyfucky" drivel from somebody who technically has a female friend because his mom likes him, that we see all over the place, without understanding the story, the characters, or anything else really.

This is Nef's work. We can hope for it to continue (second in line to "hope that he is or at least will be OK"), but if he doesn't finish it, nobody will do so.

 

[c3p0]

And odds are that people who are good enough to do so would be very hesitant..

To add here:
People who are that good, that they could write in his style, would often already have their own project to work on.

 

[Bloodguard]

To add here:
People who are that good, that they could write in his style, would often already have their own project to working on.

Definitely the best thing about this game was the writing. It's some of the best you will find in adult games.
No one will ever be able to replace Nef.