I will not address any of the accusations you just made.
But I will tell you that Sweet Affection is by no means a "reboot" of Research into Affection.
It's still the same game just under a new name to get rid of the confusion with RIC.
That said - Sweet Affection (former RIA) is going strong with huge monthly updates.
To provide numbers:
Last months update of Sweet Affection had a total of - 1511 Images - 04 Animations - 55.433 Words
That's a shame.... would have been nice to see.
I really hope it wasn't a member of staff that deleted the comment.
If I am wrong, I apologize;
but Jesus Christ, how suddenly fucking convenient.
Do you mean the situation ?
If so, I don't think you quite understand the definition of the word "Suddenly".
If you mean my "sudden" reply?
If so, I'm pretty sure I answered that in the actual post... "I Didn't want to..."
But it is apparent that won't be enough for you, so let me explain what lead me to actually post something.
I was notified by several users on discord back in March that someone had made a statement in this thread about my situation, that someone from my team, as well as others had answered and corrected their statement but they weren't accepting the responses.
"Considering this is a public forum, that is to be expected, people don't like to be proven wrong"
Two days ago, I finally got a couple of hours to myself, so I logged into discord to catch up with my team and responed to comments / messages, this didn't take as long as it usually does so I decided to log into F95zone to check out posts and reply to comments that fans/my team hadn't got to yet.
This, is when I came across yours and realised you were the person the users on discord were talking about.
After reading your messages I realised that you were right "I really need to post an update on the situation"
The rest however, is in correct and my team did a fantastic job on correcting you on this, sadly, you were not convinced.
Hence why I'm here again, wasting the very little presious time I do get to myself, having to clear up miss information.
So here goes :
Sorry, but I have to call a lie on this about JD being in charge, since Boom has said on HIS patreon page that JD has been ill, but getting better while he has been working on Sweet Affection, what with it now being version 0.7.0 and having the name, menu, and start screen changed to reflect the "name change" (not to mention the additional content, art work or renders etc... put into the update). While I agree that Family is important, the fact that Boom has devoted his time to "Sweet Affection" and has - to all appearances - abandoned this game (with not one word recently on HIS patreon page) tells me that 1) this game HAS been abandoned, 2) he could give a rats ass about his supporters - or potential supporters - for THIS game, 3) his word is suspect and potentially worthless, and 4) any game he is either producing - or involved with - is probably not worth the time to download and/or try or support.
First of all : "HIS" / "In charge"
Yes, The patreon page / Projects are mine, aka, under my name, this does not mean I am the only one working on them.
Just because a project is under "Ba-Games", does not mean I am the only one working on it.
Hence the reason we changed the pages name from "Boom's attic games" to "Ba-Games" as it's a group effort.
a) If you mean, "In charge" as in, who can fire who, then yes, If i wanted to be an idiot and fire JD, I could.
b) If you mean, "In charge" as in, of the project (Sweet Affection) then no, JD is the lead developer on that project.
Second : "Me working on Sweet Affection"
a) If you mean, "Working on" as in spending 5 minitues writing a progress report + posting the update, then yes.
b) If you mean, "working on" as in spending 1 evening at the end of the month compiling the builds, then yes.
Anything else, Nope, you're wrong, that's (95% JD - Art, Writing, Animations) + (5% Quonix - Coding).
Third : "I worked on Sweet Affection while JD was sick - Proof : The Content + Name change"
I'm very, very confused by this... by any chance, did you miss read something?
Sep 13th :
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So please tell, after I told my supporters that no one was working on Sweet Affection + no update will be released.
How did you possibly come to the conclusion that I worked on it while JD was sick?
If you mean by the amount of content that went into build (0.6.10) "1548 images",
- This has been the avarge for the past 13 months...
If you mean the name change / menu change
- This happend 3 months after JD was sick... we released (0.6.11) + (0.6.12) before that even happend.
Forth : Final Thought on the first part
Just because I use the word "we" does not mean I'm including myself,
I use "We" as a term which is used when referring to a group of people, in this case, BA-games.
Having gone through his patreon page, the last comment he made regarding this game was in February of 2020, and mentioned it was on hold due to family emergency. I will never say he lied about that, since that is not something (at least I hope) someone would want to risk lying about, but damn, it has been over a year since the game was put on hold, no comments (as far as I can find) have been made here - or on patreon - by him regarding this game since February of 2020. Apparently he has enough time out of his busy schedule of taking care of his family member to work on Sweet Affection (AKA RIA), yet cannot be bothered to work on THIS game which has patreons and a following of potential patreon supporters.
First : "No update on the situation"
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Already apologized and stated why here.
As a side note, thank you all that actually took the time to reach out to me privately and ask if I was okay, how the situation was going and if there was any news on the subject instead of posting false information about it on a public forum.
I know my replies were a couple of days late, but I made sure to reply to everyone that asked, whether that was on Discord, Patreon or here on F95zone.
Second : "Has enough time out of his busy schedule to to work on Sweet Affection"
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Already answered in this post.
But just to clarify, that's (3-5 days a month in total to myself)
"no, not full days, An hour here / 25 minitues there"
I spend very little of this time actually on myself, it's mainly spent catching up with my team or answering comments, emails or private messages... Like now..
The only time I spend more than an hour behind my computer is at the end of the month.
When I'm compiling the latest update to (Sweet Affection) / setting the uploads off.
During this time, I'm also catching up with my team + implemeting any bug fixes into the build at the last moment.
So No, I'm not exactly using it to contribute content into (Sweet Affection) while refusing to work on this one...
So Please, stop saying this, it's diminishing the amount of hard work JD actually puts into the other game all by himself.
Sorry, but from my own personal point of view and experience - as a supporter (originally) of this game and as an experienced reviewer and critic of Porn games from Illusion and JAST, as well as a number of original Japanese Eroge and Hentai games - his word and actions at least seem to show me he is dishonest and cannot finish his games, instead working on other people's games and fucking over patreons and potential patreon supporters. Again, this is my OWN PERSONAL POINT OF VIEW AND OPINION,
First : "As a supporter originally"
I've sent you a private message.
Second : "His words and actions"
I've just cleared up / corrected your interpretation of my words/actions,
if you have anymore, I'd be more than happy to clear up / correct those too.
Third : "working on other people's games"
If you're an experienced reviewer and critic of porn games,
I'd very much suggest possibly doing some actual research on the games you're reviewing / critiquing on.
Besids the "Working on" topic which I've cleared up / corrected you on multiple times now.
The (Other peoples games) you're referring to, is in fact, "MY" game...
That I started alone, worked on alone, hired JD to work on with me and now still paying JD to work on in my absense.
Which prompted me to make him the lead developer on said game, yet remaining under BA-games.
THIS game had, and really still has, a great deal of potential, but due to the lack of work, updates, or actual comments from Boom, not only would I NOT recommend this game, but I would seriously recommend no one bother with ANY of Boomatica's games - simply based on this game alone.
First : "THIS game had, and really still has, a great deal of potential"
Oh, Finally something I don't need to clear up / correct you on.
Second : "but I would seriously recommend no one bother with ANY of Boomatica's games"
Well, what can I say, we or "I" am not going to please everyone.
I do hope though that after you've read this reply and have had everything cleared up enough for you to understand,
that you change your mind on the subject.
Oh wait... there's more...
Ok, I will accept your reasoning regarding J.D. and his work on RIA (Sweet Affection). Yet as far as I can see, regarding Boom, is he is also working on RIA and abandoning Private Community, totally ignoring - I suppose you could call it - his fan base and supporters as well as potential supporters.
First : "Working on Sweet Affection aka "RIA"
Well, I've already cleared this up, but I'm still mind boggled how you possibly came to this conclusion.
Besides the fact that the game is released through my patreon page,
"Which, we're a group, not just me"
I see no indicator of how you possibly came to it...
I mean, in my very
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about having to put the game on hold, I let everyone know what was going to happen.
I can understand - somewhat - his putting Private Community on hold for a time, but damn... he COULD have spent one month working on RIA, then the next on Private Community (going back and forth between the two every other month to SHOW it is still a viable game and not just another abandoned good potential game, basically screwing his supporters and potential supporters.).
First : " Spend one month working on RIA then one month on Private Community "
Again, the "working on"...
You're really fixated on this aspect, your whole opinion / speculation seems to be based on something 100% false.
Anyway... besides that fact that I personally am not working on anything, as stated above, several times now.
I myself have already explained this, as well as my team, here on f95zone, Patreon and Discord.
Learning Daz3d "Which we use for Private Community" is a whole nother level and very time consuming.
Not only does it take much longer to learn, but it's also very expensive, as you need to pay for all the assets that are used as well as having a decent system to render the images.
Considering the income we make from the page bearly covers living costs,
it's not like we're splashing out on these kind of things.
JD is currently working on Sweet Affection full time and does not have the system, assets or time to learn / render images for Private Community, believe me when I say this, as we have spoken about this in lenth several times.
So when we see someone like you say, "why not just work on both", it's not that simple.
We really wish it was, but it's not and to be blunt, if you think otherwise then you're deluding yourself.
Now let me be clear about something, (which I also have in the past)
When I say "Team"
I'm not referring to 10-50 people in an office, I'm referring to 5 people working from home some of which arn't full time.
1. Me (that is currently on the sidelines)
2. JD (Working full time)
3. Quonix (Coder, works 2-3 days for us when the build is ready)
4. Outsider (Musician : Freelancer, as and when we need him/her)
5. BloodyFace (PR : Not even being paid, just being a fantastic person, so we count them as a team memeber)
So when you see me use the word "Team" it's to show respect to those that have/are doing work for us!
Only 1 person is working full time creating content and holding down the fort, and that is JD.
I hope this clears up the very apparent confusion.
