How many lines of the code are there? How about converting and compiling it to something more easily editable than flash?
Play this version, 2.6(not 2.6b fixed or 2.7, that one was bug for me too)Playing as male all events works, except gym...
You mean sort of like this link, two posts above yours?
Check it out, they only started recently but have made some great progress.
Very cool. I'll try it out when it's been developed a bit further, I'm glad someone's doing it
what happened to the dev team? did they just get up and leave? seems like this game had its share of problems despite how popular it was
The original solo developer turned over code and Patreon access to a new team when the project got financially successful at the same time as it became a coding nightmare to update. At the point of its highest earnings, about $8k (American) per month, development changed dramatically, coming to a standstill before being managed in a completely different way. Online presence changed, the original blogspot was abandoned but Patreon was updated just enough to keep the money flowing. There could be a number of reasons for that, but my personal theory is that he was muscled out by a small Bratva crew who saw the opportunity for easy money. The project got too successful, got noticed for its income, and they muscled in. They got access to the important thing, the game code and the money, but didn't bother with the rest of the online presence. The only question in my mind is if the original developer is still alive or not.
I think this can be explained with a bit less Mafia theory. After all, they managed to put out one or two updates after months of silence, with some new stuff besides the mess of new bugs, but it were updates. Unless you say they kept the original developer in a dungeon and forced him to throw something out...
Well let's face that fact too: they were NEVER able to finish one of their games. Mario's Castle, Peache's Story, Legend Of Krystal, all uncompleted "games". So that shows their true nature if you ask me...
Maybe it could be explained by developer burnout and failure cascade, but my theory is predicated on the idea that the original one-man dev, Marune, had his last update with 2.4. Everything after that was a different direction and coding style (not including T-Cast's work to fix the mess in that assessment). Former collaborators and translators were left out in the cold. 2.4 came out in June of 2017, right after the peak of highest earnings (over $13k in April, according to Graphtreon) and was the last update by Marune of the Blogspot and various other game sites that carried SIMBRO. Prior to this time the dev was highly active on the LoK forums and many other game sites like Newgrounds and a few Russian pages, but then he stopped posting. He just dropped off the face of the Earth. Not the first time that's happened to a developer, sure. The new devs managing it from 2.5 on had an entirely different communication style, amateurish coding, and it was clear they were only communicating on Patreon so the Patrons wouldn't leave. Marune was Slavic, from a former USSR nation if archived posts are to be believed. It was around this time his presence on the web simply disappeared. Could be other explanations, sure, but for a while I was really pissed about the direction the game had taken and was doing as much investigation as I could without going to Georgia (the nation, not the U.S. state) to see what had happened to him. Everything pointed to him disappearing not just from his Marune identity on the web, but actually disappearing and being unavailable to people who had been in communication with him for years.
love for money, 0 love for their projects+laziness, end of discussion guys
Heard something different. And if you check their partreon site you will be able to see that you can still donate:
