seems pretty active on discord... but its all just him bullshitting about his daily life...
As someone with beginner level code skills at best i know just enough about Ren'Py to know it's very good at some things and very hard to convince to do others, it's caused a lot of devs to flip flop over to Unity after a certain point in development.
I understand the whole plot critical thing, but is the function of the maze likely to be plot critical, or just what happens narratively in the maze, who we may meet there ect. There is no point banging your head on a wall for months to write a single feature, especially if Ren'Py itself if the stumbling block. I think most players would sooner accept a "not as intended" level of functionality from the maze so long as it aloud the story to progress, i understand i may to feel as labyrinthine as perhaps Thresh would want it to but i can't see how it would be worth nose diving his morale for.
It's hard to abandon something you put time and effort in no matter how much better it would be to move on...
Nah, despite a few of us being frustrated its just (hopefully) looking like far longer delay/wait than any of us were thinking/expecting. Whatever the reasons, it is what it is. Lets hope the people supposedly need to be in their room that keeps them from typing up the character's lines for some reason get a move on soon.
sorry but we have to disagree about this because of the incompatible change of engines and besides don't forget that this game still is a "text based" game and a don't think RPGM as good engine for this type of game.
If you think you can port the entire game to RPGM in a few months, go for it.
It's kinda sad honestly. What does everyone here think are the factors contributing to this?
After "Burning out" or "Taking a Break", usually intervals between updates grows larger and larger, but I'll be happy to be wrong about MGD it's still among of my favorites, yet we can see usual scenario.
The primary one besides burning out? Patreon. If you were recieving $3,638 a month without having to do anything but update your discord once every few days or so, and on top of that, you have people who defend and enable you to continue to act this way, why would ever feel the need to rush out content?
They just lost interest.
I think this is just something that sounds right but doesn't really add up when you think about it like if they just wanted to start scamming people there'd be no reason for them to take the effort to keep interacting with the community to imply they're still working on the game because most Patreons aren't ever going to get rid of their pledges just because the creator has gone silent, as there are tons of completely abandoned games still getting hundreds for that very reason.
well my theory is: run out of ideas or losing "the joy of creation", this happens because when you start a project and have a lot of ideas to use in it is really funny to implement these ideas but when the time pass and you start run out ideas or you're just make something because your fans want you to,you start losing the joy of develeloping your project until the moment that you are work in project just because you can't let your fans down but work this way is far more depressive and slow that's why takes to much time to update.
I never said anything about them intentionally scamming people (would appreciate it if you didn't put words in my mouth . . . fingers?). I don't doubt that the majority of these devs start out with good intentions and a drive to make the best game out there. I simply stated that this scenario is what it often turns into. It's just human nature to take the path of least resistance. As stated, if you're a dev who has just gone through a burnout phase, your bank account increases by a few thousand USD each month, and you have people constantly making excuses on your behalf about why content isn't being released *cough* *cough*, then why would you rush to make releases? The discord interactions are probably also done with good intentions. It's not that you're intentionally scamming anyone, it's just human nature kicking in.
I never intended to imply you yourself were claiming they were purposely scamming people. I was pointing out a problem I have with the generally widespread idea that people would get a ton of patreon money and then become demotivated and coasting along because they don't feel the need to put out content because they're still getting paid which in my opinion I would consider a scam and is why I described it as such. I just feel like it's far more likely they simply lost interest but don't want to abandon the project or put it on an official hiatus(Or even just getting others they trust to do the work in their place) just because they don't want to look like they gave up.
