- May 16, 2017
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Ya, I was being fairly sarcastic. One of the most obvious situations that made me believe there was supposed to be some sort of progression, but he got super sidetracked, is that you talk to the red haired chick at the beginning(don't remember her name) and within a single day, she's like, "I think of you as a Son now..." like what? How fkn quickly does a centaur grow up in this world xD? So Alec clearly had an earlier Idea to Incorperate an actual story with progression, but decided otherwise..Honestly I'm not that bothered by the lack of linear progression in the story since I primarily like this game for the smut with the story being a nice side thing. In my previous comment I was referring more towards having a sort of scene checklist to make sure the player got to see all available scenes, rather than bumbling around clicking everything and trying to see if they missed something. This could be anything, from outright telling you what scenes are missing/ are still available to hints of "maybe you should do "X" or go to spot "Y" at "Z" time of day" and the list of hints would empty out as all scenes are found. When the list is empty, you know you have everything
The secondary game he was wanting to make was a side scroller in Unreal Engine 4, and have his sister learn Unreal Engine 4 in basically 30 days. What always COMPLETELY baffelled me, was that Alec always blames the fact of updates taking so long on his complete lack of Knowledge and Understanding of scripting... And those quotes are all for Ren'py... Heck Ren'py is like game scripting for beginners... How in the heck does he think he would tackle Unreal Engine. Ya Unreal Engine starts out easier, but he's saying that he was gonna make a compelling Sidescrolling game in unreal engine, something that no one has ever done quite right. Yet he believed it was do able with his knowledge.. I dunno, It seriously makes you wonder one of two things, either he does just fine with scripting, and he's just milking time and money using that excuse, or he is actually very (sorry I don't know an easier way to say it) unintelligent, and/or lacks common sense to the highest degree..I would say that this game isnt supposed to have a proper story, just playground for funny/fun situations. But disagree on the statement that the guy has a "masterplan". Whole year passed on the guy taking the money and giving nothing in return really. My guess is he has some ambition that is not well thought out to turn this into some sort of... rpg? thinking about how many possible characteristics and mechanics is author going to insert in the game makes me want laugh even thinking about that. its pretty weird. Also the new content quality is all over the place, some is up to the, lets say, um, standards, and... some is horribly poor to the point of being ugly, i suspect some stuff is there just to check some boxes regarding aminations amount to make it look better on paper.
I suppose many of patrons are gettings angry and he realized that things might start to go out of hand fast, so he started filling his roadmap with amount of hours worked on a game not enttirely as a statement of good will, but also as necessary damage control measure.
By the way, i seeeeeeeriously doubt that he'll put this game on steam xD, so if he messes up this patreon of his, that will be it.
Have you noticed surge in his patreons/profit despite giving noting except for two ultimately poor and pointless minor releases? since lets say summer the amount of patrons doubled if Im not mistaken, (somebody coorect me if im wrong), and he gets quite a handsome income from it. I wonder of this will keep him motivate to double his efforts AS HE SHOULD DO, or will it make him feel 'safe' and give himself more time like it was a star citizen patreon or something.... I hope too thet he doesnt get greedy and slice the content strategically. Its both annoying and disappointing to see what he released so far after a whole year.
small edit : ALSO! I just looked at his reach-goals, holy shit this is funny.... theres something about sidescrolling... in terms of this S&F game its utterly pointless, its like the guy was asking to support some of his side job or something... did anyone asked him for a side scrolling game? maybe someone did... i dont know. it has nothing to do with the main game really... also the part abou hiring his sister, it all sounds weird and unproductive... I seriously think that this guy, as talented as he is, is a really poor manager... bottom line : comparing his stretch-goals (money taken) vs what he provided so far doesnt make him look good at all...
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