This game was dead long before Minxy stopped posting.
she probably tried to milk something out of it
You gotta make a decent amount of money to milk it. People are quick to put that label on anyone without thinking about how much money it takes to make that worth any effort. Most likely Minxy didn't realize just how much work goes into making a game over a long development process or simply wrote herself into a hole. Instead of dealing with the backlash of angry people, she just stopped altogether. More or less it wasn't an intentional milking so much as someone not bothering to turn the faucet off.
There are pages on patreon where you pay per item rather than a monthly basis. Mind you, the ones I am thinking of are not for games.
Honestly? all i can tell you, is already written in previous pages...like how she intentionally continued to milk money, despite people sending her even tutorials about how she can stop the monthly check(or you know, that automatic monthly thing that takes money from your bank account just to send them to her) and how she keep acting like "no, you guys never told me about how to do it"
man it sucks seeing games that have a lot of potential going to waste by Developers that either don't care or just doing it for the money
and i forgot to mention(i was about to edit my previous post, but you replied like 2 seconds before i could do that)
shadowr19 that's pretty much what happened...i managed to be critical while still encouraging her as much as i could, i used the "harsh but fair" approach, until the updates started to make little sense and she began to disappear for like 2 months and 29 days, and on the 30th day she came back to post one of those excuses, or claim that she was actually working hard, even sharing screenshots...which we discovered were the same pictures but with different levels of zooming
The 2 hours is you being kind
...but in reality what pissed me off about the dev is the "hey, i'm back, i will make the game great again" and less than a month disappear again, the dev just posted some screenshots about the "new game" and that, but in the end, finally look like patreon is cleaning the site, is not the first "dead" game that i have seen that they remove everything from there.
Just posted about it my dear home-boy XDThe 2 hours is you being kind
Beside trying to compile a mental list of what makes a good game, I've been trying to understand what causes a game to die like this. I get the sense that the plot/premise was complex (to be polite). Is that what did it in? Did the Dev get painted into a corner?
There was no plot in this game...only a vague premise.
Perhaps the opposite of being painted into a corner, but just as difficult when trying to plot where to go.
I think the dev didn't even think about a plot, but while in MyNewFamily the plot is minimal, but it's at least linear, even the order of birth, makes sense
"I need a cast of characters made up of A, B, C, D, and E. And I can't think of a way to make it happen without it being silly or awful, or both."
But that's you
of course keep in mind what Avaron said...Minxy, personality-wise isn't(or wasn't) a problem...but i don't know...she didn't love her creation...that's what i think...sometimes i feel like, she simply wanted to make easy money or maybe she thought that a porn-VN on Renpy would be easier to make...
I'm intrigued by what you said about linear plots. One of my struggles is that I have a plot worked out, but I'm having problems branching it. It either means writing extra stories, or fragmenting the existing one. Extra means more work (and not all the stories will be as good as the "main" story). Fragmenting means my actual story won't exist.
