Yeah the only way a dev can release 1 update a month is if they stick to the core plot/game and ditch the feature creep. People just want to play a adult VN with choices, they don't need a damn fully functional phone with tons of extra apps as well. Seems like at minimum all the NTR/NTS phone game devs do the same crap with some kind of Instagram clone that they have to create content for that has nothing to do with the main plot. NTR mobile is taking it several steps further with extra apps related to the whole mind control subplot.
I was thinking about this when I was starting my own game and I just couldn't make any sense of it. I wanted to make a phone game with optional NTR content. You have to keep the mystery of NTR plausible enough but if you keep the MC in the dark enough to be realistic, you wouldn't have any actual content. So people cram in Instagram and spyware apps and webcams and whatever which is a way to show more content of the girl acting slutty but then how is the MC seeing all this shit and still somehow 'in the dark'? Plus all that crap adds a lot of dev time. I just said to hell with it and stuck to phone only.
Like I said earlier in the thread - the true mistake is making it diegetic to the game/narrative - I.E. including all functions of the phone the player interacts with as something the MC sees. NTROS is an example of how to handle the separation - a clear delineation between what is the narrative and what is for 'the player'.
And yes, I do agree - the mystery/tension is part of what makes it hot, but the player needs more than just a suspicion.
Alongside the common issue with NTR that tends to make it bad writing being that there's no actual payoff for the narrative karma the female lead accumulates over the course of the narrative, some find it hot, most don't.
When will the update be released? Wasn't it supposed to be this weekend? Has it been delayed again? Will it be released later?
I've come to the conclusion that every time the question is asked, God throws obstacles in the devs way. He's active enough in the discord talking about the game that I believe it's not abandoned.
Is the discord a patreon only type of deal? I've seen other people talking about it but I've never seen a link anywhere.
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I don't think they can even then. Stories like this tend to balloon in size and complexity no matter what since the dev has to juggle multiple branches with all the choices they entail from way back then. Many people (perhaps including the dev) severely underestimate just how much work that is, potential breakage included. Personally, I think less is more and Nosy should have ended it sooner - instead we have updates dragging on longer and longer and the feature creep making an already difficult situation even worse. Just speaking for myself, but it mostly killed my engagement with the game. Definitely makes you appreciate titles like Falling Undercover with multiple devs and an obviously functioning project management with a tight grip on release cycles.
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I honestly think he should just drop this game out entirely.
If he's not even having fun with the game anymore, then it'll very obviously affect the game's overall quality. And his very patient patreon members don't deserve something like that.
At this point, he's just milking the game for what it is. Wouldn't be surprised if comes out and drops a half-assed ending, then drops the whole thing.
If he's not even having fun with the game anymore, then it'll very obviously affect the game's overall quality. And his very patient patreon members don't deserve something like that.
At this point, he's just milking the game for what it is. Wouldn't be surprised if comes out and drops a half-assed ending, then drops the whole thing.
yes, that game has done it best. this game is confused because richard says "the app will give you emotes, physical reactions, etc and you will get more info as the nanobots multiply". and then the game gives the mc emotes, physical reactions etc and information that gets clearer over time. but we are supposed to ignore what richard said in the game and instead pay attention to what the dev said in some discord chat
so not only is the format confused - the text of the game literally contradicts what the author says on discord.
it's like the movie "the room". the "fans" of the movie say the actions of one character make no sense, the director says "oh you need to understand that he's simple minded" but that interpretation is contradicted by the dialogue inside the movie.
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I'm a developer, I understand the difficulties of developing a game, and, if you don't have a clear Schedule or already written story that you need/want to follow, You'll be lost on the middle of the project, and, in case the game gain some audience, you CANNOT let this change your schedule to start to put more unnecessary things on the game, a lot more of options or routes, Imagine this, for each new route, you need to almost rewrite the entire game to have that possibility, so, we see this happens do movies, Animes, everytime that reaches some kind of audience, the producers start to extent things. Don't do that, make it simple and stick to the original project, is better. Want to grow, or do something more complex, complete or challenging? Take advantage of the audience and create a new project.
Can't wait for the inevitable delay into 2026 because of "burn-out". Free money from patreon is too good to miss out.
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for all the shit big name AAA dev studios get, they at least get their games out and can weather gruelling schedules unlike indies.