VN Ren'Py Completed Snow Daze: The Music of Winter [v1.6] [Outbreak Games]

[WOMANpukumaru]

anyone got 1.7 update?

OH….


Oh….just so innocent. So pure. He doesnt even know…I wish I could go back to being this innocent

 

[yercat]

Here is a summary of the situation, because I know a thing or two about how to navigate in these things.

I will be referring to the documents that can be found in the 'DOCUMENTS' section of the webpages.

First 'Critical Bliss' trademark – abandonned

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This trademark was never registered, as the applicant (Lewd Media LLC) did not reply to the examiner's objections. This objection can be checked in the 'DOCUMENTS' section of the webpage.

Let's have a quick look at the objection, which is the first and only one the examiner sent.

The examiner objected that the applicant had filed no proof that "the applied-for mark" is "actually used in commerce for each international class of goods identified in the application", and that either such proof had to be filed or that the class of goods and services of the trademark had to be amended.

CB had preemptively filed as alleged proof in their initial application a screenshot of

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("Specimen" document, dated Apr. 22, 2023). This did not convince the examiner.

The application became abandonned on Apr. 29, 2024. The 2-month deadline to revive the application has long expired (and so has the deadline for reinstatement), so no revival is possible. This trademark application is completely dead.

It must also be noted that no trademark attorney was linked to this trademark, so Lewd Media LLC filed the trademark application themselves and likely had to deal with everything themselves.

Second and third 'Critical Bliss' trademarks – pending

The 'Critical Bliss' tradermark has been re-filled with two trademark applications,

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(filed 18 July 2024) and

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(filed 21 March 2025).

None of these two trademarks have been registered so far, as the examiner has, here also, raised some non-final objections that still need to be solved.

These two trademarks are represented by the IP cabinet legalipexperts.com, so CB has the support of trademark professionals to advise them, remind them of upcoming deadlines, etc. (these cabinets are financially expensive).

Here again, for the two cases, the applicant had preemptively filed alleged proof of use, but this time they only provided the URL of their Steam publisher page (no screenshot), see "Application" document in its section 'Goods and services'.

And also here again, the examiner made the same remark as before in his objections. For the semi-figurative version, they have also requested that the description of the logo be amended to be more factual.

It must be noted that all three trademark applications have all been reviewed by three different examiners.

CB failed to reply to the examiner for the word trademark application, thus the application was abandonned, but it was then revived one month later due to a successful petition to continue processing (they argued that "Applicant has firsthand knowledge that the failure to respond to the Office Action by the specified deadline was unintentional. The signatory did not receive the Office action prior to the expiration of the response period", see "TEAS Petition to Revive Abandon Applic" dated Jun. 25, 2025).

CB has until 28 September 2025 to reply to the examiner's objection for the word version.

CB has until the 27 November 2025 to reply to the examiner for the semi-figurative version.

Also of note, while the first trademark was filed under the ownership of the company Lewd Media LLC, the two new ones are filed under the ownership of the natural person Ryan Javan Caldwell.

The other difference is that the newly-filed trademark applications have the same list of goods and services but do not mention "Downloadable video game software" in their lists; this was likely done to remove the redundancy with the "Downloadable video game programs" they already had in these lists.

Some of the stuff you mentioned seemed weird, like the trademark under the name of a real person and that they were still pending approval.

Let's see what happens, we got till like 1 December to see if they are struggling or not.

 

[Mickil]

Some of the stuff you mentioned seemed weird, like the trademark under the name of a real person and that they were still pending approval.

Let's see what happens, we got till like 1 December to see if they are struggling or not.

For the fact the newly-filed trademarks are under the name of a real person and not of the company that will use it, this is indeed weird.

For the fact they are still pending: this is completely normal, as 99% of trademarks will receive at least one objection from the examiner for various reasons. Registering a trademarks takes at minimum months, and sometimes years of back-and-forth with the examiner.

However, abandonning the first trademark, to then file a new one with the same trademark and the same list of goods and services is very weird. Usually in IP, the earlier the application is filed the better.

 

[WOMANpukumaru]

so he’s handed the game over to a different team, and they’re fumbling it too..The question is…why? Sure, milking fanbase but you can do that with like any indie game, why has this game gone through 2(3? If we’re counting the team change from the original release to the revamp to the remake) teams and all of them leave it on the shelf?

1. the voice acting, I think is a huge culprit.

iirc they even got a new voice actress for Sarah? So that’s now four different voice actresses that have to record lines for an entire game. Especially since every single line in the game is voiced. On a porn game…about women being brainwashed by an incel.

That is quite a bit to get out of 4 different VAs who probably aren’t getting paid THAT much, and have other projects, and whatever deal they made is now with a different team. Every time a line is changed it has to be re voiced. You have to get good takes. Etc. a bigger more professional studio could handle this. These people are not great at managing, as we’ve seen and can’t even get a grasp on what they’re even DOING. Remember these are the same people that did a remake in the middle of an already ongoing revamp


There’s a reason other games on this site DONT have voice acting m. Especially since we don’t know how much they actually added to the game.


2. The animations. No idea how much they added, but each one they add is more work.





3.bunch of different cgs and different outfits for the characters. Let’s assume they carried on with the pattern of the original game. Different outfit each day. One or two changeable cgs for one scene a day for 4 different characters. Let’s just say an average of 7 pictures per character, considering different poses and expressions and positions. That’s 28 pictures a day, some scenes animated. That’s not counting the endings. The comedy scenes they added. If you’ve been following projects on this site, you know how much of pain it can be to get an artist to just draw a couple static cgs of a wolf girl bending over, once every couple months or so.


The subject matter. Let’s be real here. This is a game about a pseudo-borderline-shota incel sexually ass*ulting his entire family as revenge…not…exactly the most marketable concept, especially with the way things are now censorship. First game already faced trouble with patreon and such(hence “step twins”) and things are worse now. The game is EXTREMELY niche, and is going to be released on tiny dark corners of the internet to a bunch of degenerates(me included). This…isn’t going to be some huge accomplishment to release.

I’m not giving them excuses. The game would have been done by now with even sub par standards of effort.

I’m saying that this project itself might be a hard sell outside of the hands of a really passionate developer who REALLY wants this to exist. And that’s clearly not these devs. I think they got into this but realized midway through that it’s too much of a pain in the ass for them.

again, not making excuses. Putting it into perspective.

 

[yercat]

so he’s handed the game over to a different team, and they’re fumbling it too..The question is…why? Sure, milking fanbase but you can do that with like any indie game, why has this game gone through 2(3? If we’re counting the team change from the original release to the revamp to the remake) teams and all of them leave it on the shelf?

1. the voice acting, I think is a huge culprit.

iirc they even got a new voice actress for Sarah? So that’s now four different voice actresses that have to record lines for an entire game. Especially since every single line in the game is voiced. On a porn game…about women being brainwashed by an incel.

That is quite a bit to get out of 4 different VAs who probably aren’t getting paid THAT much, and have other projects, and whatever deal they made is now with a different team. Every time a line is changed it has to be re voiced. You have to get good takes. Etc. a bigger more professional studio could handle this. These people are not great at managing, as we’ve seen and can’t even get a grasp on what they’re even DOING. Remember these are the same people that did a remake in the middle of an already ongoing revamp

There’s a reason other games on this site DONT have voice acting m. Especially since we don’t know how much they actually added to the game.

2. The animations. No idea how much they added, but each one they add is more work.

3.bunch of different cgs and different outfits for the characters. Let’s assume they carried on with the pattern of the original game. Different outfit each day. One or two changeable cgs for one scene a day for 4 different characters. Let’s just say an average of 7 pictures per character, considering different poses and expressions and positions. That’s 28 pictures a day, some scenes animated. That’s not counting the endings. The comedy scenes they added. If you’ve been following projects on this site, you know how much of pain it can be to get an artist to just draw a couple static cgs of a wolf girl bending over, once every couple months or so.

The subject matter. Let’s be real here. This is a game about a pseudo-borderline-shota incel sexually ass*ulting his entire family as revenge…not…exactly the most marketable concept, especially with the way things are now censorship. First game already faced trouble with patreon and such(hence “step twins”) and things are worse now. The game is EXTREMELY niche, and is going to be released on tiny dark corners of the internet to a bunch of degenerates(me included). This…isn’t going to be some huge accomplishment to release.

I’m not giving them excuses. The game would have been done by now with even sub par standards of effort.

I’m saying that this project itself might be a hard sell outside of the hands of a really passionate developer who REALLY wants this to exist. And that’s clearly not these devs. I think they got into this but realized midway through that it’s too much of a pain in the ass for them.

again, not making excuses. Putting it into perspective.

I just want to clarify you that this remake wont have animated scenes, they said that maybe it could have on the steam log, but they already answered on the discord that it won't happen. So that's like a shit load of work less to do.

 

[sprigglesdiggles]

you JoInEd ThE dIsCoRd after all?

 

[yercat]

you JoInEd ThE dIsCoRd after all?

Lmao hahaha, yeah, but long ago, I'm there from like 2022 i believe, all before the retarded "jOiN tHe DiSc0rD" stuff started.

 

[Gubbaman]

I want you to know that now whenever I hear Habanera from Carmen, I get an erection.

 

[jacob bond]

so...wasn't there a sequel planned?

 

[azraelswegul]

so...wasn't there a sequel planned?

there was back when this game just finished... then it was delayed, and delayed and delayed, and then the patreon shut down and then Snow Daze was set for a remake instead, and that remake got in the hands of (seemingly) a scammer developer team that has delivered nothing and keeps just eating donations in over half a decade, and then there are no further announcements to anything else.

Big shame. Alongside Tropical Daze, Snow Daze Remake and Overwhored 2 seem like will forever be stuck in the "concept" limbo to never ever see the light of day, I'm afraid.

 

[yercat]

so...wasn't there a sequel planned?

There is, Tropical Daze, but it'll likely never happen since when it was announced Cypress was still with snow daze trying to make a DLC, that was later decided to be a whole remake, then he wasn't able to handle the whole thing and delivered the entire project to the infamous critical bliss publisher that doesn't communicate with fans of any game.
You can go to his publisher page on steam and look for the threads of snow daze redaze, venture seas, orc massage, ntraholic remix, and others, where people is asking for status of things because those game were either never updated again nor came out.

If you really actually go to the threads of snow daze redaze and ask, tell Frost to go fuck himself when he tells you to go to the discord for information.

 

[Chaos_Gardian]

Does anybody have more of the audio diaries?

These are the only ones I can find:

Noell

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Kira

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Sarah

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Bloopers

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[Huntsman217]

I tried downloading the apk how do I turn it into an app?

 

[Count Morado]

I tried downloading the apk how do I turn it into an app?

See:
https://f95zone.to/search/534985531/?q=Android&t=post&c[thread]=142&o=date

 

[WOMANpukumaru]

I want you to know that now whenever I hear Habanera from Carmen, I get an erection.

Yeah I’ll never hear the song the same again lol nothing like hearing some opera and immediately thinking about beating off yo your own mother*ahem* STEP mother in the shower lom

there are quite a few songs that I hear out on the wild that I first heard in games from here, so every time I hear them I get distracted. A lot of the time, not even associated with a particular scene, just a subconscious association with something pleasant.

 

[soxfanforever]

Every time I get a notification from their Discord I know with certainty it's for some other stuff I don't care about at all. It's been like 7 years since dev first mentioned Tropical Daze (which at this point I expect will never happen), and what like 4-5 years since ReDaze was presented? Add in the circus with CB, I should honestly just mute the server and check in once a year for whatever else has happened. Crazy how many solo devs I've seen deliver a complete game in the time that nothing at all has seemed to develop from this title.

 

[yercat]

Every time I get a notification from their Discord I know with certainty it's for some other stuff I don't care about at all. It's been like 7 years since dev first mentioned Tropical Daze (which at this point I expect will never happen), and what like 4-5 years since ReDaze was presented? Add in the circus with CB, I should honestly just mute the server and check in once a year for whatever else has happened. Crazy how many solo devs I've seen deliver a complete game in the time that nothing at all has seemed to develop from this title.

Just put a bad reaction to whatever stupid shit they post that doesn't have any to do with the game and keep going, it will be like that for another long time and there's nothing to do about it. You can also make threads on the steam forums just to move the waters and mess with them and also tell frost to go fuck himself when he writes you to go to the discord.

 

[Spurdor]

That disclaimer seriously ruins the immersion. Is there at least an official admission by the dev that the step-family thing s just an excuse and that it's actual real incest?

 

[polisummer]

That disclaimer seriously ruins the immersion. Is there at least an official admission by the dev that the step-family thing s just an excuse and that it's actual real incest?

It is real incest and the disclaimer is just an excuse.

 

[WOMANpukumaru]

I find myself here again for some reason, out of random curiosity. I knew there’d be nothing. But it still actually kinda crazy there’s…nothing.

It is…completely baffling to me how there aren’t any progress reports at all. I don’t even know if I’ve ever seen this from a game development project like this. Big companies? Sure. But Even the most shitty projects on here will have some art or something sometimes. Something about what they worked on. But they don’t even care enough to even do that.

Really just confirms I don’t think they even want to work on this game anymore. There is no passion or love for this project. I’m an… …aspiring game developer myself and if you want people to see. You want people to be excited. Making progress feels great.

I mean just compare this to redaze/the extra day and that was a DOWNGRADE from how much they blabbed about the first game release. Extra art. Previews. Announcements. Statements from voice actors. Holiday arts. Polls. Hell, remember the fucking 3d rendered backgrounds from redaze?



There’s really only one reason for developers to just be radio silent like this. They just don’t have ANYTHING to show. At all. Nothing worth showing, nothing they’re excited about. Nothing they think we’d be excited about. Nothing they’re proud of.