Others Abandoned Secret Horse Files 3 [v0.38] [Levy]

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ARU1048 said:
Even so, I think the main problem is that taking so long creates expectations that are too high for what the game will actually be (more or less like Hytale but in reverse). When the update finally comes out, everyone will expect it to be a masterpiece, and since that probably won't be the case, everyone who supported it from the beginning will feel scammed.

In the end, developing a porn game isn't very different from developing a normal game. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I mean, we've been told rather bluntly, that when the update comes out, the only changes will be on the back end.
We'll have the same content we have now, just maybe faster FPS.

The only thing that's probably being over hyped is the future post update stuff (how long we'll be getting those), and the modding capabilities.
Though, even that's being tempered because looking through the updates does give a fairly reasonable look at what the engines capabilities are.

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Oh i know that, i watched the dumpster fire that was No mans sky. Every update lured in people who thought this space exploration game will become some advanced universe simulation and the devs rolled with it.
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I don't think the pitch was a universe simulation game, pretty sure the space exploration was a consistent focus, it was just meant to be very robust, Internet Historian did a deep dive into what was promised and what was delivered a while aback.
From what I remember it has delivered on 95% of the promised content several years ago, and is still getting some decently sized updates... Yeah, there was another one just a few a days ago.
 
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souldray said:
Wow, even the "demo" might take some big time to release...Some year's....probably
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Yes, there's a lot there. I hope this doesn't fall down the endless pit of feature creep - I don't think that sentient beds are super important.

I'm not here for the ponies, I'm here for the sandbox; seeing so much time dedicated to pony lore (and apparently animated R34 on the main menu?) and a tone shift away from the dungeon is a bit disappointing, although I'm aware that I'm not exactly the target audience. My hope had been that the character framework would open the possibility of human 'subjects', as seen in Rack.
 
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Dang and here I thought there was a step towards progress when he promised monthly posts. It would've been cool even if it was like "hey guys not much as been done this month" at least that would have been transparent. Now we've waited months for him to tell us is resigning the game from the ground up? The engine itself was a big enough undertaking but now we're back to concept sketches. Maybe in a few more years we'll have something playable again.
 
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home_brew said:
Now we've waited months for him to tell us is resigning the game from the ground up?
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Assuming you mean "redesigning," no. He's finished* building the game engine, now he's preparing to make an actual game out of it. Artwork, menus, characters, etc. have to be made before you can play with it.

* As a programmer I am morally obligated to qualify that statement by saying that no such project is ever REALLY finished as long as you can come up with cool ideas to add :D
But there comes a point when you can start doing stuff with it, and it seems he's hit that point
 
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Looks like it's not going to be this year either. Starting to look like a never ever. Maybe I'll check back in a year to see if 06/01/2026's update is something like "Good news guys, I finished one character! We're on a roll!"
 
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home_brew said:
Dang and here I thought there was a step towards progress when he promised monthly posts. It would've been cool even if it was like "hey guys not much as been done this month" at least that would have been transparent. Now we've waited months for him to tell us is resigning the game from the ground up? The engine itself was a big enough undertaking but now we're back to concept sketches. Maybe in a few more years we'll have something playable again.
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Theres not really much of "redesigning from ground up" here.

The engine is more or less finished. Everything else is built upon that.
An animated main menu or even a map isnt something that needs full remake of everything.
 
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Well, we all were afraid that might just died from age themselves, but what if the author is died from that? That's would be ironic
 
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souldray said:
Well, we all were afraid that might just died from age themselves, but what if the author is died from that? That's would be ironic
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Thats my only fear in any long project, that theres a chance that down the line the author just disappears because life comes around and decides that your category should no longer be "vanilla and wholesome".
 
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I made a slightly modded version of this over a year ago just tweaking things to my preferences. Then I totally forgot about it, and only just rediscovered the folder I had it in. (some changes: made filly/colt body types smaller (similar scale to Ramage), a "no balls" option to make non-full-package futa, made butts puffier and clits bigger, more "toy linking" options (dildos to clits, sleeves to throats/urethras), increased power of "cum volume" and "orgasm duration" spells, removed the looped motor/magic sound, added a couple sloppier sex sounds to the pool, etc.)

Is there any interest in me cleaning that up and sharing it? (I'd need to spend a little time removing some incomplete/buggy stuff that I left enabled from poking around testing, since they break or crash the game when used)


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I'll take any positive reacts to this message as people voicing interest, but it might be a week or two before I get around to it. If you want me to notify you if/when I post it, reply to this (or DM me) and ask and I'll ping (or DM) you when I do.

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And I know nobody asked, but here's a review I just wrote up from a "I dug around the obfuscated guts of this game" perspective:

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Even though the release code is obfuscated and an absolute nightmare to reverse engineer, doing that gave me a lot of appreciation for both just how much thought the guy put into the systems and how ambitious their vision for it all is... and also how just how ridiculously badly in need of a complete refactor the codebase was. It looked like layers of systems on top of other systems making everything exponentially more complex, each decent on their own, but together was reaching or had reached a breaking point.

Despite how complex it had gotten, I think even running into that problem at that level shows a lot of competency and capability, as does the fact that they recognized when they did that it was time to start over. I can't imagine doing that for my own projects. If it were me, scrapping a project and redoing it from he ground up, committing to over a year of not getting any dopamine from positive feedback on builds, I'd have probably quit a dozen times over.

Reading their devlogs from the past year they've posted some really compelling ideas. I feel like they explain the systems in kinda vague terms that are hard to really look forward to and appreciate without seeing it in action, but I honestly see the vision.

Even with how elegant everything is fitting together this time and taking what he learned from his high level mistakes from the first pass on it, it's still an absolutely insane amount of work for a solo dev and the fact that it's taking years doesn't surprise me at all. This isn't a "renpy dev taking a year to add a couple images and some dialogue" situation, this dude can actually write code and it's clear they're putting a lot of thought into the systems design for this.

Dai Levy, if you're reading this, from a random ass modder/gooner that hasn't given you money: I believe in you, you can do it ("it" being make this porn game) (said in the most wholesome way)
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TL;DR: I feel impatient whenever I'm reminded this game exists because I want it to come out, but despite the wait duration and the lack of any new builds, I think the amount of time it's taken so far looks like it matches the amount of work required. I hope they power through any difficulties and make it to a release, I have faith in their designs and ability to code.

(though from the progress updates, I feel like we should be able to get at least a basic test build showing off the new engine by the end of 2025, even if it's jank and barebones; if we don't see anything by then I'll feel a lot less optimistic about their ability to power through any difficulties)
 
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fellup said:
I made a slightly modded version of this over a year ago just tweaking things to my preferences. Then I totally forgot about it, and only just rediscovered the folder I had it in. (some changes: made filly/colt body types smaller (similar scale to Ramage), a "no balls" option to make non-full-package futa, made butts puffier and clits bigger, more "toy linking" options (dildos to clits, sleeves to throats/urethras), increased power of "cum volume" and "orgasm duration" spells, removed the looped motor/magic sound, added a couple sloppier sex sounds to the pool, etc.)

Is there any interest in me cleaning that up and sharing it? (I'd need to spend a little time removing some incomplete/buggy stuff that I left enabled from poking around testing, since they break or crash the game when used)


EDIT:
I'll take any positive reacts to this message as people voicing interest, but it might be a week or two before I get around to it. If you want me to notify you if/when I post it, reply to this (or DM me) and ask and I'll ping (or DM) you when I do.

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And I know nobody asked, but here's a review I just wrote up from a "I dug around the obfuscated guts of this game" perspective:



TL;DR: I feel impatient whenever I'm reminded this game exists because I want it to come out, but despite the wait duration and the lack of any new builds, I think the amount of time it's taken so far looks like it matches the amount of work required. I hope they power through any difficulties and make it to a release, I have faith in their designs and ability to code.

(though from the progress updates, I feel like we should be able to get at least a basic test build showing off the new engine by the end of 2025, even if it's jank and barebones; if we don't see anything by then I'll feel a lot less optimistic about their ability to power through any difficulties)
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what do you even do to mod this game, I've looked into the files and found where you keep the models in pieces but thats about it in terms of changing anything if thats even used for modding
 
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