VN Unity Abandoned Star Maidens [Ch. 2 v0.2] [Banana Juice]

jenn20 · Aug 12, 2019

Banana Juice said:
About our laziness.
We are working on the job. On average, 10 hours a day, 5 days a week. We come in the evening and spend another 2-3 hours on the game. Not every day. We do not work on the game at the weekend, as everyone should sometimes relax. What do you need to do to release at least such a short update? Let's see. Four art (3-6 hours each), three backgrounds(1-2 hours each), a new character (6 hours to create an image), 3 portraits for a new character (3 hours), 15 pages of script (12 hours), scene coding (this includes the search for sounds, music, portraits, particle effects, translation, testing - a total of 20 hours), builds for 4 platforms (1 hour), placement on file sharing (30 minutes). Let's count: we've got about 50 hours of clean working time. We published the previous update on July 18. Since then, it has been 15 working days (as I mentioned we rest on weekends, as we have families, friends, and we can not sit for work 7 days a week). So to release this update we had to spend 50 / 15 = 3.33 hours a day. Every day.
About being condemned to failure.
Let's read what we say about deadlines on our patreon page.
"How often will updates be released? It will take us 1 to 3 months to create each Chapter."
The previous Chapter was released on July 8. But we spent 2 weeks creating new features that players asked for (fast forward, rollback, gallery, etc.) We tried to implement as soon as possible. After such a hard crunch, we rested for about a week. So we started to develop a new Chapter on July 29. We released this update 2 weeks later.
Yes, it's short, but we promised to release an update by that date, and we didn't want to break that promise.
Total passed 15 days from the declared 3 months. That's about 15 percent. You also need to consider that we published not all of that had to do with that time, but only fully finished material.
P.S. This is a forum where people share their games absolutely for free. If you support someone financially, and that someone doesn't keep their promises, breaks all deadlines, you can write to him on his patreon page or anywhere else where you support him. There is no point in splashing out your negativity on the developers here. Especially if these developers have not done anything wrong. Peace to all!

Great work and a lot of potential
What software do you use for the artwork

Banana Juice · Aug 12, 2019

jenn20 said:
Great work and a lot of potential
What software do you use for the artwork

Thanks! We use Daz3D for rendering and Photoshop for postwork

jenn20 · Aug 12, 2019

Banana Juice said:
Thanks! We use Daz3D for rendering and Photoshop for postwork

Thanks...
Writing is the easy part for us.. it’s the art where we are lacking
What about VirtAMate

thjnh1591 · Aug 13, 2019

How do I access the save from the previous version?

thjnh1591 · Aug 13, 2019

thjnh1591 said:
How do I access the save from the previous version?

nvm I found it

Deleted member 1481465 · Aug 14, 2019

I like what you're trying to do however I have two main issues:

1) The translation and grammar is really not very good. It makes the conversations distracting.

2) The descriptive text is very flowery for a VN. I would understand if you were writing an erotic novel, but the renders are there to fill in a lot of detail. 6 text boxes full of info on how water trickles down a woman's body is - to be honest - distracting as we already picture that in our heads.

Keep up the good work, but I would suggest better translations.

het2000 · Aug 16, 2019

Too many sex scenes that don't involve MC. That's not a good start..

WaveOfPig · Aug 17, 2019

Banana Juice Is there any way that you could upload a mac version that is accessible like the first release?

rafa30 · Aug 17, 2019

Banana Juice said:
Thanks! We use Daz3D for rendering and Photoshop for postwork

any chance of having an incest patch in the game?
mainly Brother / Sister

Marcope · Aug 19, 2019

Nice renders, did we know when will be the next update?

Pirat1000 · Aug 20, 2019

Is there any chance he's not his own son and brother??? And have sex with your beautiful red-haired sister???????????

Banana Juice · Aug 20, 2019

Spareaccount1 said:
1) The translation and grammar is really not very good. It makes the conversations distracting.

We are working on localization. At the moment it is being redone again. Soon we will release a build with much better localization

WaveOfPig said:
@Banana Juice Is there any way that you could upload a mac version that is accessible like the first release?

Yes, certainly. We will release a build with a working version for Mac.

rafa30 said:
any chance of having an incest patch in the game?

It may be.

Marcope said:
Nice renders, did we know when will be the next update?

We got a lot of criticism for too short an update. The next few updates will only come out for patrons. Except for the update with the new localization and fixes for Mac. A plot update for everyone will come out when we finish the second Chapter. This can take anywhere from one to two months.

WaveOfPig · Aug 20, 2019

Banana Juice said:
We are working on localization. At the moment it is being redone again. Soon we will release a build with much better localization

Yes, certainly. We will release a build with a working version for Mac.

It may be.

We got a lot of criticism for too short an update. The next few updates will only come out for patrons. Except for the update with the new localization and fixes for Mac. A plot update for everyone will come out when we finish the second Chapter. This can take anywhere from one to two months.

I think people only complained about the short update because they didn't understand the modifying that went on under the hood.

Synnerai · Aug 21, 2019

Yup, the guys worked on ton of features for the game after the first release, so there was no time to make much content... at first I was afraid that we are gonna get updates like this, but immediately realised it was bullshit, because I remembered the reason.
P.S. I hate Jack for not going on that "date" with Beth... I want to kick his ass! xD Yes, I made a mistake like that when I was in high school, that's why! xD

Kingvlad · Aug 21, 2019

Great news Banana Juice

Keep up the great work