VN Ren'Py Summer's Gone [S1 Steam + DLC] [Oceanlab]

[Ali ibn Hassan]

Hey yossa999

You earned that outside of a game thread!

Good job

Edit: Shit, thought I was somewhere else! I'm gettin' a bit old and confused

 

[yossa999]

Hey yossa999

You earned that outside of a game thread!

Good job

Edit: Shit, thought I was somewhere else! I'm gettin' a bit old and confused

You, CC fanbois are so sensitive

 

[twipwas]

I guess you don't really have much else to play.

This whole part is your personal opinion. So, instead of saying "You" change that to "I" I'll show you

"This game is just such a masterpiece, In the beginning of the game I totally fell in Love with the lovable Idiot that is Nami and I want to punch Bella in the face for messing with her but then Bella's arc begins and now I fell in love with her too!"

It definitely isn't a masterpiece, to me. And is that all it takes to make it a masterpiece? the game didn't make me fall in love with anyone. Hate and annoyed though, yeah, the game makes me feel that till the end.

Thank you so much for correcting me, this solves a lot of confusion everyone might be having with my post!

I guess you don't really have much else to play.

Perhaps, I just set the bar extremely low, which makes life so much brighter. You should try it!

Because then it also means you are a masterpiece ♥
Much Love.

Edit: No, I really meant "you" here, not "I".

(Not actually setting the bar real low, this game is amazing)

 

[twipwas]

So which of the girls are confirmed LIs?

You can find it here: https://f95zone.to/threads/summers-gone-ch-4-5-full-oceanlab.29981/post-6400878

(If you ever lose the link, its also listed under "Extra" on the first Post on page 1)

 

[PaxHadrian17]

Does it matter?

I daresay it doesn't matter at all because most likely you will never see MC get most if any of them into bed.

Just saying, has any of you realised that the latest update where the storyline moved forward was released 11 months ago?

Ocean is cleaning up and reworking SG Season 1 ahead of the Steam release.

You seem content to point out the time since we had an update to the story, moving it forward, but that ignores the entire reason for the rework which has taken significant time away from moving the story forward.

Steam is a Big deal - a successful launch on Steam = a major increase in resourcing, allowing for the purchase of better/more hardware, more music licensing and even adding others to help with SG/WIAB universe development (like someone to coordinate music purchases so Ocean can spend more of his time advancing the SG story).

Here is part Ocean's Dev from Mar 16, 2023:

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Updated on

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Hello,

So, it's finally time.

... links for download

Changelog:

New with the Full release: - Added 979 new Renders to Chapter 2

• Added 2 animations to Chapter 2.
• Added 17 new renders to Chapter 3. (Removed the Said Fight cinematic.)
• Re-rendered 300+ renders for Chapter 3.5. (More on this in a future Dev Log.)
• Added 6 new licensed music tracks.
• Finished removing all music that would've needed to be removed in the future. (Including the cinematics music.)
• Added 6 new licensed music tracks.
  ...

In addition, Ocean added in pathing supporting Sasha's LI path; making changes to the initial Victoria encounter; and is working on adding an in AVN phone for better immersion, all of which has been discussed in dev logs released every other week for SG.

If you support Ocean with $, it is your choice to continue or to stop.

If you are here taking SG for free then complaining that it is not being released in the timeframe you've determined for Ocean, then that is an Entirely different issue.

Ocean is The most ambitious of the developers I support with $.

I'm happy to do so and, if his historical performance and communication is a good guide for the future, I will continue to support and enjoy SG.

Would we like SG delivered more quickly with renders/music/animations/story equal to or better than what we have now - Of Course, but I'd like the same for EVERY AVN I enjoy. The reality is Wanting this has no impact on actually Getting this -- wanting provides No new resources to execute 'getting' SG or any other AVN with all the bells and whistles mentioned above.

If I can wait and hope (often forlornly) for Isaac Asimov's Foundation series to be turned into a major series on TV/cable, and decades later it is, I can certainly give Ocean the time he needs to develop SG when I get to view the steps in that development every month.

Cheers!!

 

[Doomyk]

I don’t know if this was discussed or not, but I have a little theory about Nadia. It seems that in her diaries she writes either a novel or short stories and the fuel for her stories is role-playing games in the library. So, if in the future Nami starts any fantasies about Nika , and he begins to be indignant at Nami, then the first person to shush him will not be Nami, but Nadya herself. The official version is that everything in the game is not real, unofficially it is fuel for her story.

 

[Doomyk]

If I can wait and hope (often forlornly) for Isaac Asimov's Foundation series to be turned into a major series on TV/cable, and decades later

Part of me would really like to see the end of eternity on the screen. But the other part says that maybe it’s better not to. Transferring such a complex and non-linear narrative to the screen is a very difficult task. In addition, for a wide audience you will have to simplify a lot, something cut. So maybe it’s better to let it remain only a book? It’s like once there was news that they wanted to make a serial about the chronicles of Amber. To be honest, I was very skeptical about it then.

 

[weirdscix]

Ocean is cleaning up and reworking SG Season 1 ahead of the Steam release.

You seem content to point out the time since we had an update to the story, moving it forward, but that ignores the entire reason for the rework which has taken significant time away from moving the story forward.

Steam is a Big deal - a successful launch on Steam = a major increase in resourcing, allowing for the purchase of better/more hardware, more music licensing and even adding others to help with SG/WIAB universe development (like someone to coordinate music purchases so Ocean can spend more of his time advancing the SG story).

Here is part Ocean's Dev from Mar 16, 2023:

You must be registered to see the links

Updated on

You must be registered to see the links

Hello,

So, it's finally time.

... links for download

Changelog:

New with the Full release: - Added 979 new Renders to Chapter 2

• Added 2 animations to Chapter 2.
• Added 17 new renders to Chapter 3. (Removed the Said Fight cinematic.)
• Re-rendered 300+ renders for Chapter 3.5. (More on this in a future Dev Log.)
• Added 6 new licensed music tracks.
• Finished removing all music that would've needed to be removed in the future. (Including the cinematics music.)
• Added 6 new licensed music tracks.
  ...

In addition, Ocean added in pathing supporting Sasha's LI path; making changes to the initial Victoria encounter; and is working on adding an in AVN phone for better immersion, all of which has been discussed in dev logs released every other week for SG.

If you support Ocean with $, it is your choice to continue or to stop.

If you are here taking SG for free then complaining that it is not being released in the timeframe you've determined for Ocean, then that is an Entirely different issue.

Ocean is The most ambitious of the developers I support with $.

I'm happy to do so and, if his historical performance and communication is a good guide for the future, I will continue to support and enjoy SG.

Would we like SG delivered more quickly with renders/music/animations/story equal to or better than what we have now - Of Course, but I'd like the same for EVERY AVN I enjoy. The reality is Wanting this has no impact on actually Getting this -- wanting provides No new resources to execute 'getting' SG or any other AVN with all the bells and whistles mentioned above.

If I can wait and hope (often forlornly) for Isaac Asimov's Foundation series to be turned into a major series on TV/cable, and decades later it is, I can certainly give Ocean the time he needs to develop SG when I get to view the steps in that development every month.

Cheers!!

The issue is, even before the Steam release, he started reworking this and his other game, now it's being reworked again, the sensible thing would have been to make one game at a time, complete it, then rework for a Steam release.

He never posted updates on Patreon except very rarely, and posts saying I need XXX hardware, I think the last was he needed two A6000 GPU's which at that time were $5-6K (USD) each, even though he had 3090's.

There were plans for so many chapters that it wasn't realistic that it would be completed, and that was before reworking.

The grammar even in the last rework I tried needed work and realistically needs a native English speaker to proof.

Technically, it's impressive what he has managed with Daz visually, but he doesn't seem to have a clue with planning a product.

 

[twipwas]

Could you do us a favor and post the full game here? We all are waiting for the release of Ch5, so you having the full game means you are Ocean and have the game completed already or you are from the future and mess with our expectations. (I know that you meant the game until now but i had to joke like this).

Yes.

(I really liked your Joke, and for clarification: of course, I am Ocean from the Future. We need those A6000 to run the time machine so that he can receive the renders for the updates from me in the Future. It's a slow process, so we need more of them. Also, it creates a lovely bootstrap paradox in the process as a bonus. But this will be our secret; don't tell anyone this.)

 

[Ali ibn Hassan]

Yes.

(I really liked your Joke, and for clarification: of course, I am Ocean from the Future. We need those A6000 to run the time machine so that he can receive the renders for the updates from me in the Future. It's a slow process, so we need more of them. Also, it creates a lovely bootstrap paradox in the process as a bonus. But this will be our secret; don't tell anyone this.)

Please pm me the lotto numbers for next week!

 

[Penfold Mole]

Part of me would really like to see the end of eternity on the screen. But the other part says that maybe it’s better not to. Transferring such a complex and non-linear narrative to the screen is a very difficult task. In addition, for a wide audience you will have to simplify a lot, something cut. So maybe it’s better to let it remain only a book? It’s like once there was news that they wanted to make a serial about the chronicles of Amber. To be honest, I was very skeptical about it then.

I think I'd be OK with the movie of Foundation if Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens would write the script and Pete would direct the movie.
Sure, some people will probably never forgive them for cutting Tom Bombadil from their script, but their Tolkien movies are probably the best epic and incredibly complex and nonlinear stories made into epic movies in history.
Sorry for the offtopic. Got carried away.

 

[yossa999]

Wow, this is bad news. But I don't quite understand, could you please explain it a bit more?

The issue is, even before the Steam release, he started reworking this and his other game, now it's being reworked again[...]

So he has reworked Summer's Gone once and now he's reworking it again? I didn't know that.
The only rework I know of is that he planned to remake the first two chapters as part of the Steam release. He has completed the new first and half of the second chapter. The rest of the new second chapter will be released along with the chapter 5 full in the next update and that's the whole first season which he is going to publish on Stream. Could you please tell more about that earlier rework that he did before the rework of the chapters I just mentioned?

[...] the sensible thing would have been to make one game at a time, complete it, then rework for a Steam release.

Could you please advise him which of the two games he should throw away along with all the people who have been following him since the first day?

He never posted updates on Patreon except very rarely, and posts saying I need XXX hardware, I think the last was he needed two A6000 GPU's which at that time were $5-6K (USD) each, even though he had 3090's.

This is so strange. It’s just that in this thread different users publish dev logs every two weeks on Wednesdays or Thursdays. It is alleged, that these logs were copied from his Patreon page. The last one was Dev Log #14 from Oct 4, we were expecting it on Oct 3, Wed, but it was published several hours later.
https://f95zone.to/threads/summers-gone-ch-4-5-full-oceanlab.29981/post-11880376
The previous Dev Log #13 was from Sep 20, Wed. Two weeks interval. There's even a link to the original Patreon post.
https://f95zone.to/threads/summers-gone-ch-4-5-full-oceanlab.29981/post-11766777
And another one, two weeks earlier, Dev Log #12, Sep 7. Once again, there was a slight delay between posting it on the Patreon page and here in the thread.
https://f95zone.to/threads/summers-gone-ch-4-5-full-oceanlab.29981/post-11663567
I wouldn't call be-weekly logs as very rare. He's been doing this regularly for at least the last six months. I’m not sure about the earlier logs, need to look for them, but they also seemed to come out quite regularly.

And the last three logs don’t say much about the new GPU, maybe I didn’t see something there? Although I remember that earlier, maybe a month or two ago, he wrote in several logs that he was trying to get a loan for a hardware upgrade, described the advantages of a new gfx-card, and so on. There was even a big debate with a few funny trolls in this thread. Perhaps this is what you meant.

 

[twipwas]

Please pm me the lotto numbers for next week!

Its 4

(Yes its a reference)

 

[Ali ibn Hassan]

Its 4

(Yes its a reference)

I'll post your cut Ad futurum!

 

[Ali ibn Hassan]

There's a lot of talk about "The Steam Release" as if the tracks are already laid down and crowds at Grand Central Station are eagerly waiting for the arrival of the train that's still in the shop for maintenance and upgrade.

Is it a sure thing?

Other devs ( Naughty of LoML for example ) had planned and got green light from Steam but got the " No, no, we never guaranteed anything" in the end.

 

[yossa999]

There's a lot of talk about "The Steam Release" as if the tracks are already laid down and crowds at Grand Central Station are eagerly waiting for the arrival of the train that's still in the shop for maintenance and upgrade.

Is it a sure thing?

Other devs ( Naughty of LoML for example ) had planned and got green light from Steam but got the " No, no, we never guaranteed anything" in the end.

Is there even such a thing as a sure thing? At least that was the plan.

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[BobTheDuck]

There's a lot of talk about "The Steam Release" as if the tracks are already laid down and crowds at Grand Central Station are eagerly waiting for the arrival of the train that's still in the shop for maintenance and upgrade.

Is it a sure thing?

Other devs ( Naughty of LoML for example ) had planned and got green light from Steam but got the " No, no, we never guaranteed anything" in the end.

As much as I hate to play into the meme, what part of the lewd content could cause steam to reject it? Seriously though, there are plenty of more overtly problematic things that steam has for sale, might as well have one wholesome game where a tenant remains a tenant who actually goes to a university that even looks like a univeristy

 

[Ali ibn Hassan]

Is there even such a thing as a sure thing? At least that was the plan.

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For the media tycoons it's strictly business.
They think with their second appendix ie. their wallets, counting their $ in advance and if there's even a single leaf falling in an otherwise healthy garden they may hit the brakes.

But you're right that they've already got the finished layout and the auto bahn is just waiting for the acceleration lane to open.

 

[Ali ibn Hassan]

As much as I hate to play into the meme, what part of the lewd content could cause steam to reject it? Seriously though, there are plenty of more overtly problematic things that steam has for sale, might as well have one wholesome game where a tenant remains a tenant who actually goes to a university that even looks like a univeristy

I like wholesome!

 

[Ottoeight]

He doesn't sound upset to me, he's always that grumpy and sarcastic.

But yeah, complaining about wait times from a guy with Corporate Culture banner in his signature sounds pretty ironic.
I like Corporate Culture, if anything.

I'm killing time in that thread, too.