Surely a part, like me, does not feed on hopes but, unfortunately, if you look around, many projects (milking) are updated with absurd timing and still after half a decade they obtain equally absurd funding and this latest trend facilitates the infestation of parasites.
Will all due respect towards one of the best fan-artists I've seen on this site, Acquainted doesn't even come close to this game's initial impression: all the girls look the same, also a bit cartoonish, and the stories in both games are not comparable. Let alone the fact that I'm not even sure Yuno is still working on the game, while I'm quite confident that Race Of Life is still (slowly) being developed.It's same as Acquainted. After awesome first release it went to once per year update. So,you wait or forget it. Ppl usually only bitch or defend while time is passing. Nothing else to do
Definitelly didn't mean to compare. This one is way better. I took Acquainted as example only. But,yes that one seems to be one hit wonder while ROL still have high hopes. Like I said before,nothing else we can do apart of waiting.
BADIK never went more than a year without an update. It use to be a couple of months for an update but every update usually takes longer than the last now. People including myself say that the last episode was a year because the previous update was an interlude that was about a character that was introduced in the following episode but it did not further the story or have any of the BADIK characters in it. It was a year between episode 8 and 9 but there was some form of content between that time.
It's technically not their first project, but the first one was a short VN that you could even consider a Beta of their second game, while the second one was abandoned almost right away.
And how many hours did you have after BADIKs update was delievered? I usually had 2 - 3 hours. And i do remember when couple of times when update was delievered years or more later. Not that i'm against BADIK, from my part they can take as much time as they need. Now for this game i do know that this is the first game (not first game of this dev but you get my point) and before we go for a witch hunt let's give this dev a chance to deliever an update. I do get the players that 8 - 9 months is long period but right now comunication is right from dev part towards their patreons and when update is ready it'll come. I always try from my part to give everyone fair shot. This is not a nice guy, knight in shining armor bs cause it ain't my thing however to everyone i try to give one chance and that's it. For this games first release it was good from my part at least.
A few hours too.
The longest time between an update has been 9 months and before that almost 7 months. Before those 2 episodes updates were around 5 months or less.
I agree. I know that the episodes are getting bigger so will need more time. I wouldn't even complain if an episode took a year to complete because I know that with 9 completed episodes, the interlude and a previously completed game that BADIK won't get abandoned or take extra time for no reason.
The problem is that this is not the first game of this dev. His first game recieved 4 updates and got abandoned. I know that it wasn't his fault it was writer that left. The problem is that his name is attached to an abandoned game.
For some people he blew that chance on his last game that got abandoned.
I thought that EP7 and 9 took way longer cause those two episodes from my view were the longest ones i waited. If your info is corect thanks for corecting me.
Yeah i know. I mean i wasn't aware till receantly that this dev worked on two other games. I did check both of them and they have 4.5 review score, only one was abandoned while the other was finished. Also it seams that players had positive reception from those games. My opinion is that he would make greater mistake if he decided to dettach his name from TBDOL. I would understand that as something dev is trying to hide and would be doubtfull about future updates of this game. If explanation is true and writer did leave then indeed it's not his fault.
Yeah i get you on that. Actually i sort of agree. Not that i mind waiting 9+ months for EP2 but i do get where you're coming from about smaller updates.
I have only a few scenes left and the most important one is with a big race. I will start it in June and when I finish it, I will probably be able to determine the date of completion of work related to rendering and give an approximate release date. I’m slowly starting to see the end of the work, which I’m very happy about. Of course, we have to add sound effects, music, put everything into the code and play it carefully, check if everything works well, but it is not as time-consuming as posing renders or rendering itself. I recently rendered the animation that I assume has broken the render time record. Over 26 hours of rendering alone. And all because the scene takes place at night and because it’s dark I couldn’t use the denoiser. Denoiser really drops the quality, especially in the dark spots of the render so I can’t always use it but when I can it saves a lot of time.
Episode 9 did take over a year after episode 8 but there was the interlude between them that didn't advance the main game but did give some back story on a character introduced in a flashback in episode 3 that then joined the game in episode 9.
Episode 2 is written, just the rendering, testing and polishing to finish. Ep 3 is being written now, and it'll be shorter than ep 2 to shorten the development time.
Here's to episode 2 then.
