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look sharp people, new update just dropped
(a game status update)
(a game status update)
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Hello,
I'm currently sitting at almost 1500 renders. I thought I could've skipped most of the Mila renders in Chapter 3.5 but well... No.
So I did most of them. I didn't touch the renders in the changing room nor did I touch the ones during the basketball game.
The rework, especially this last part now has been draining me mentally like crazy. That's why I will leave the changing room renders etc. like they are.
I need to move on from the rework for my sanity.
Chapter 2 & Chapter 3 are done and there are only some CH3x5 Mila renders in the queue.
As soon as I can ship the game to Steam to get it completely approved and stuff, I will make a log where I'll note down everything I've changed.
I took yesterday off, not just from developing but from screens in general. That's why this bibi log came out today.
I did put WIAB on a 2-3 week hold to finish up SG Season 1.
I talked about a irl friend in the past who wanted to do my postwork... Well, he's traveling through South America now, and so all the postwork goes to me.
I've already started the postwork & continued to work on the new intro, too.
If the new intro doesn't finish before I'm done with everything, I'm going to release without it. I would then upload it as soon as it's done.
I learned to handle these release weeks quite well in the past. They lasted usually for about a month (Before the reworks parts), but these "Release weeks" have been going on since September.
And it's taking its toll on me.
It's my fault. I should've never given an estimate. And there won't be any more estimates in the future.
Anyway, another ~ 1500 renders for Season 1.
Now it's mostly just postwork & continuing the translation.
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I definitely wish Ocean the best with managing his mental health and can't wait to purchase Season 1 on Steam - I think it's gonna be a cracker of a game.
Reworking chapters 1 to 3 was always going to be a big task (i.e. to bring those chapter renders up to the Ch 4+ quality). However, the mental fallout from the Mila changes was self-inflicted. I am not saying Ocean was wrong to make the change, only that any interested observer could clearly see what a big task it would be to make Mila's appearance relatively consistent across chapters 1 to 5, once the changes were set in stone (i.e. the amount of work needed to replace renders in Chs 2 to 3.5).
To be honest, I would be happy for Ocean to take a break after the Steam release. I'd much rather have him chugging out updates feeling fresh and motivated than to see him stress and burn out.
AVNs be fucking up Devs like crazy.
If you never did a rework, you would have been fine, maybe.
Sounds like you're getting tired of working on these games.
I wouldn't call that person "a friend" dude dipped on your ass.
Oh, I can already see that.
Indeed it is.
- Dec 28, 2023
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This moment has emotionally wrecked me 
I'm looking forward to season 2.
Team Nami!!
I'm looking forward to season 2.
Team Nami!!
- Jul 18, 2020
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The smartest thing he has said I will no longer give estimates let's hope he sticks to that unless he is 100% sure about a date
For real because I've was expecting it at the end of January and got so disappointed. Better to be happily surprised.
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Or he should just give Scotty estimates and 2x-4x the time he thinks it will take him.
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I liked that he gave those, he was wrong but not half a year wrong, and it gave us some clue when are we gonna the updates.
from his point of viev it was a mistake, I get it because some ppl lack patience a lot, so the only way to deal with them is by not giving any dates.
And I still liked it bc I usually make thouse estimations myself bc I'm keeping track of all his updates, I have them written down, I listen whats his plan, to make thouse asmuptions. So him giving estimations was nice.
People are just hyper impatient these days, look at big aaa-game releases like cyberpunk or something like that, people get so angry about delays and apparently prefer a shity unfinished product in time over a finished product which got the time, sweat and tears to become something truely good.
At the same time they cry about the half-assed ea games which are a result of these overly strict timelines.
Similar with Ocean and DPC, these guys put their everything into their avns, trying to create something truely unique and putting their hearts into it and a big crowd is just whining about it and just want/expect the same shitty fast-food like 95% of all other avns.
Really annoys me.
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Wow, people really just do not get the fun of this whole thing, do they? It's like watching a Cathedral getting built, or a Monk illuminating a manuscript. Yeah you'll be dead for it's finished, but you get to witness something magnificent come into being.So??
I started reading the series A Song Of Ice And Fire when the first book came out in 1996.
I'm looking forward to the next book in the series - which has taken years longer to reach fans than we hoped for - 28 years after the release of the first book.
It is part of the price we pay for supporting someone with a grand vision.
Ocean/Summers Gone is the most ambitious dev/AVN I am supporting with my $ and my time.
I don't expect everyone to agree with me/my view of Ocean/SG any more than I expect everyone to be willing to wait for the next book in the series that served as the basis for GOT.
Feel free to respond as above every 6 months for the next ten years, if you feel this is the best use of your time.
I'll be here, on this thread, sharing what I enjoy about Summers Gone, and I believe my time will be well spent...
Cheers!!
If you want timely mediocrity, well, there's literally the entire rest of modernity.
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Jesus Christ y'all are fucking weird... Just so you know, back when I called Ocean's "fandom" a cult, I was doing so in jest. Then I come here and read shit like this...
Someone fetch me the holy water.
- Sep 10, 2021
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Hahaha, I didn't even know you said that, that's awesome.
Though in this case I'm afraid it's nothing to do with the rest of the fandom. It's just that I'm a Medievalist, and these are my all-purpose reference points. (I thought about comparing it to Ikon crafting, but I didn't know if people here would be familiar enough with Eastern Orthodoxy's traditions of holy art.)
Side note - I'd be happy to fetch you the holy water, but... you do realize the implication of that is you're requesting to be baptized into the faith, right?
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Haha you're right. Don't take my comments too seriously though I'm just fucking around most of the time.
Though in all seriousness, it kinda bothers me when people idolize or put Ocean's work in a pedestal. This game isn't perfect. Far from it. Even if you love it and every update fills you with excitement, it's important to hold the dev's feet to the fire. Praise the good but don't leave out the bad. You aren't doing Ocean, yourself, the game and all other players any favors otherwise. And for years this thread was a circlejerk of blind praise. Nowadays its more even but a lot of valid criticism is still dismissed as hate by many.
I'm also eager for the update to come out so I can finally leave a damn review for season 1.
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no offense of course but thats just what I get whenever I check on here
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It's not about idolization. He's just doing something new and delightful in a visual medium we'd all kind of given up on hoping for either from. (I was trying to describe the SG sensibility/aesthetic to someone the other day, and came up with "It's like if Wagner wrote Dawson's Creek". I'm pretty proud of that one, but let me know what you think.)
It's something beautiful and weird when it's so, so hard to find anything that's either. I guess people just want to marvel at this lovely thing they stumbled across. Maybe your best bet would be a more direct line of communication, or at least a forum he pops in on more often.
But I'll make you a deal - if you can tell me the name of a perfect game, I'll consider bothering to look for something in SG to constructively criticize. (Note - must be a VN. MoO2 is obviously the perfection of 4x strategy, but that gets us nowhere.) Aside from anything else, I genuinely do not understand this medium well enough to form a basis of literary judgement. If I had a like, some generally acknowledged pinnacle of the form I'd at least have somewhere to start.
Oh, but don't post it here or they'll delete this whole little interaction. These accounts have some kind of dm function right? Feel free to do that.
(Post-Script -none of the above is a critique of other adult VNs, my intended target was the state of contemporary mainstream visual/narrative arts in general. The last thing from those that took me off guard in the same way was... wait, are we allowed to mention, like, normal books? Nevermind, I'll just play it safe and let this trail off...)
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