dexter111

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It had the potential to be my favorite game, but the developer is a coward. You can't convince me that in a game with such a 10/10 character like the sister there is any point in having extra main characters not to mention extra locations far away from the sister. Developers are usually too scared to focus on the main prize because they are worried that they will disappoint the bulk of their audience or that the project would be eventually stop being interesting when the sister is already in love with you/locked up in the basement. It happens over and over again. It's the reason most games end after 0.1 or 0.2 and they never get traction.
i wonder what made you think that the sister is the main prize here
 

HHSForever

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Jul 16, 2017
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Creating a village and characters is easy. Anyone can do it. It just takes time. To create an interesting game requires much more than that. It requires skill to build a relationship like the one with the sister and it requires a lot skill to keep the scenes with them that take hours to play through interesting. The dev ran away from that like the coward he is and started working on scenes with secondary characters.
This is part of the game, not the whole game, as mentioned before the game title is Runaway Princess, not brother and sister live alone in small village. She is not an adventurer, she stayed behind while he travels but I am pretty sure the dev had mentioned her continuing to be apart of the game from his original plan. He did a great job building their relationship and day to day life at home,h e expanded on the game world and then lost motivation, ideas or time to continue working on it. You could say he was bad at prioritizing or maintaining consistency, not that he was a coward. If anything it was probably to show how far from his comfort zone the main character was going, a little like Bilbo going on an adventure. He is young, he is used to his lazy village life and now he is going out and exploring the world himself, meeting new people, experiencing a new life. If the game continued he could have returned home to her at some point, maybe to bring her along to various hub locations once he established himself in a town or city, but instead, the game was abandoned. Hopefully the remake includes all aspects of the original and builds on them.
 
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I did not thought that Princess on the run was a serious project since we got no release despite all this time. Apparently a release could be near? I'll need to take a look to see what the team behind it have done, and how much content is in there. I had really liked Runaway princess.
 
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WuzzyFuzzy

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I did not thought that Princess on the run was a serious project since we got no release despite all this time. Apparently a release could be near? I'll need to take a look to see what the team behind it have done, and how much content is in there. I had really liked Runaway princess.
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FretKarton

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Feb 19, 2019
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As far as I've been told, the Dev had to delete and throw everything away because of changing politics in his country and he was hunted by the government for this game. To stay safe, he had to delete everything. I have been a supporting member from the dev and became one just today from the consortium that will try to work on this game, with a slightly other name: Princess on the run. We'll see what will happen.
 

RiamMar

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Sep 15, 2017
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As far as I've been told, the Dev had to delete and throw everything away because of changing politics in his country and he was hunted by the government for this game. To stay safe, he had to delete everything. I have been a supporting member from the dev and became one just today from the consortium that will try to work on this game, with a slightly other name: Princess on the run. We'll see what will happen.
Yeah, we are going to make a thread for it, when we are closer to or done with a demo. We're pretty excited, having the writer that help in the development of Runaway Princess, a talented 3D artist, composer and... me.
We hope we can fulfill the expectations of the fans of the original with our re-envisioned version with new twists and challenges and obviously a continuation of the story.

I'll try to post some of the new renders later on and keep y'all updated here as well.
 
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