VN Ren'Py Abandoned Stormside [v0.23.1.4] [Atemsiel]

[DougsLeftNut]

Nope. I have no relation to Atemsiel at all.

Its all pure deduction. There are only so many things that can keep you from communicating entirely. Neither form of death, sudden or slow really fit the pattern.

The only thing I could come up with is legal issues. I. e. Prison.

Second place is lost interest. But even then complete radio silence after a post that said the intention to release next month isn't really fitting either imo.

Again, the bar is pretty high. There are only a limited amount of things that make you unable entirely to communicate over discord or whatsapp.

And with the pattern of reduced communication beforehand it limits the possibility even more.

There are hundreds to a thousand of reasons why a AVN Project might stop development. But only so many that make it impossible to communicate that.

Again. Its all tinfoil hat speculation. But its based on logical deduction.

My theory is he's Ukrainian or Russian and was conscripted into the armed forces.

 

[Tiur]

My theory is he's Ukrainian or Russian and was conscripted into the armed forces.

Reasonable theory, but he is a native English speaker, from a predominantly-English-speaking country which does not have military conscription.

 

[joebob77474]

Hope someone else picks this game up.

 

[kurosx]

My theory is he's Ukrainian or Russian and was conscripted into the armed forces.

Nonsense. He was abducted and probed by aliens. That's always the reason.

 

[DeiMan2077]

My theory is he's Ukrainian or Russian and was conscripted into the armed forces.

Someone in the chat has already replied to me that he is British.

 

[DeiMan2077]

In general, according to my version, if something really happened to him, someone else would have unsubscribed from his contacts, or at least the information somehow reached through someone, although of course God forbid. As it is, burnout or something related is still possible. By the way, he wrote about this in a New Year's entry, but then he said that he still had strength left and that he had only partially burned out. But he was mostly talking about the update, not the game itself, that it was just hard for him to make such updates.

 

[dewayne4478]

In general, according to my version, if something really happened to him, someone else would have unsubscribed from his contacts, or at least the information somehow reached through someone, although of course God forbid. As it is, burnout or something related is still possible. By the way, he wrote about this in a New Year's entry, but then he said that he still had strength left and that he had only partially burned out. But he was mostly talking about the update, not the game itself, that it was just hard for him to make such updates.

but as former backer, he had over a year. he even took time off from working on it October of 24.

 

[jaredh72]

I think it would help with the burnout if he cut down on the massive number of possible paths for each girl in relation to their interaction with the MC and with other girls. It has to be pretty bad already, especially when making sure there isn't a combination that was missed, and we haven't even decided on the main path for half of the girls yet. I can't see it being done without more help. If it would mean the continued development of the game, I'd be ok with him spending time remaking the game to reduce the possibilities. Having it be abandoned altogether would be a worse alternative, especially if it is abandoned because he did what other devs have done and literally worked themselves to death.

 

[MorallyLucky]

My theory is he's Ukrainian or Russian and was conscripted into the armed forces.

No offense but the writing in this game is top notch. Not to dismiss ESL people or anything but it's way more likely that a native speaker wrote this than the alternative.