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

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BobTheDuck

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jllkfsdj said:
It's Wollust, modeled after Germany, so it's 0 unless he was in some private facility. IIRC in Germany medical costs are covered by the mandatory medical insurance.
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Fair point, but it's modelled somewhere between the US and Germany, but piecemeal. I'm just thinking it's not necessarily a plot hole byt maybe a plot point. Nonji might have paid to keep it off the records, because it was violence (whether by Nika or others) that get him there. Considering Noji's friends, she is handing out with all the rich people, so that might be a mystery we will discover.
 
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Well, Ocean has made mistakes again with his reworkings. Firstly, he shouldn’t have remade something that was already good, I’m saying this in the scene of the MC’s visit to a psychologist.

And secondly, according to the plot, after visiting a psychologist, MC and Bella go to the hairdresser and get a fashionable hairstyle. But in the new renderings, MC is already sitting with a new hairstyle at Amber’s reception, and not shaggy as before.
 
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From Ocean's Dev Log dated May 2, 2024:


... there will also be two Soundtrack packs.

With my new contract, I can sell songs as external soundtracks, etc., and I've added the clause that they get 50% of the soundtrack sales.

The industry standard is, I think, 15%, but I want to help underrated music artists. Sadly, Late Kids and I still used the old contract. But if they want to work together again for Season 2, I will get them on Steam for S2.

I think this is a very smart business move.

I know of plenty of creators who monetize their digital art and soundtracks on Steam, selling them as unique downloads.

The royalty structure Ocean is offering - 50% - is a great incentive for these music entities and future music entities to continue to work with Ocean/sign up for Season 2 of SG.

I don't have any specifics on Steam residuals from these types of sales, but no one complains about receiving an extra check every XX days.

Cheers!! :coffee:
 
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Didn't look that closely till this recent convo. Yeah I agree Nojiko did look better in the old o well not that big of a deal at least Ocean decided against her getting a boob job so i'll put that in the win category.
 
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Dessolos said:
Didn't look that closely till this recent convo. Yeah I agree Nojiko did look better in the old o well not that big of a deal at least Ocean decided against her getting a boob job so i'll put that in the win category.
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It's not really a big deal but it ticks me off that he can't stop fiddling with the models. I think this is the only game I can't help noticing character's body size and shape change, not only from update to update but render to render as well.
 
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Don Sucio

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Doomyk said:
Don, I'm completely with you. Many of us would like the dark path and triangles, and even as you said, we would like Bella and the others to find out about Nika + Nami quicker.
A small problem is that the vision of the Ocean's plot may not coincide with our expectations. And how can I put this mildly? It might turn out like in the movie Eurotrip (2004), where one of the characters wanted sex, but got flugegeheimen.
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Oh i know! I know we can´t play as an absolutely evil Mc, Ocean´s vision of the game changed and i´m good with that, i like SG like it is right now. But i´m going to still trying to be an asshole in some situations and with some characters, i´m just going to go with the mood.

Dessolos said:
Unless the MC fucks her on cam while Nami watches one day.
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And that would be so fucking hot... Just imagine Nami jealous wacthing Nia and Nika fucking in her online show :oops:

rudy007 said:
He should listen to his patreons... Why does he do that? Changing characters look in time when game is about to be released. Its not only one render, probably few hundreds of them. Without any reason. Nojiko was a great charater who's worse now. I'm not to sure how I feel about that. I liked her formal model very much. I can live with minor changes, but going to change hundreds of renders is just stupid. What's next? He didn't change Bella for some time? Let make her less attractive and equip her with her own airbags... So her car doesn't need them anymore...
Ocean, please bring old Nojiko back and end this changes of their appearances without anybody asked for...
I know he isn't here anymore, but this shit need to stop now...
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Yeah... One of the things i hate about games is when the characters models change suddenly...Ocean do this often.
I´m not a Patreon yet, this season 1 will be the proof i need for subscribing in to his Patreon but there are some things that he need to change, not because i say it just because is not good for the game, and many people say this too. (I suppose this is a relative thing too, is just my opinion after all)

But well, Ocean has his own politicy about listen to his patreons so we can´t do nothing.

RNasc4444 said:
This is the future of all of Ocean's character models.


Make peace with it :ROFLMAO:
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PaxHadrian17 said:
I know of plenty of creators who monetize their digital art and soundtracks on Steam, selling them as unique downloads.
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Yes, THEIR digital art and soundtracks, not 3rd party artist's soundtracks... =/

I mean, sure some bigger games (and movies obviously) sell soundtracks with 3rd party artist music in them, but... come on... This is a cashgrab scheme, and honestly, personally I would rather support the artist directly than give a dev a cut of the money (plus Steam's take)... Sure, the artists agreed, so it's on them, but yeah it's not like this is an incredibly charitable move or anything like that.

Beyond all that though, everyone's milleage will vary, but I'm very much against someone who'll censor his own work for a few more bucks... plus it sets a terrible precedent going forward... Ocean keeps saying S2 will have sex and all that, but I don't believe him... considering how much he keeps changing stuff, it's almost inevitable he'll string people along and then change his mind at the last minute again because "steam" or "music licensing" or whatever other excuse he can come up with.

Not that any of that matters though, this thread dates back to May 8 2019, I'm assuming that's around the time the first release happened... it bascially took 5+ years to release 5 chapters... and we're not talking massive chapters with loads of branching and mini-games and whatnot... but to me, it's the self-censorship that's the last drop as far as I'm concerned... I'm not even sure this can be considered an AVN any longer...
 
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Jacowboy said:
Yes, THEIR digital art and soundtracks, not 3rd party artist's soundtracks... =/

I mean, sure some bigger games (and movies obviously) sell soundtracks with 3rd party artist music in them, but... come on... This is a cashgrab scheme, and honestly, personally I would rather support the artist directly than give a dev a cut of the money (plus Steam's take)... Sure, the artists agreed, so it's on them, but yeah it's not like this is an incredibly charitable move or anything like that.

Beyond all that though, everyone's milleage will vary, but I'm very much against someone who'll censor his own work for a few more bucks... plus it sets a terrible precedent going forward... Ocean keeps saying S2 will have sex and all that, but I don't believe him... considering how much he keeps changing stuff, it's almost inevitable he'll string people along and then change his mind at the last minute again because "steam" or "music licensing" or whatever other excuse he can come up with.

Not that any of that matters though, this thread dates back to May 8 2019, I'm assuming that's around the time the first release happened... it bascially took 5+ years to release 5 chapters... and we're not talking massive chapters with loads of branching and mini-games and whatnot... but to me, it's the self-censorship that's the last drop as far as I'm concerned... I'm not even sure this can be considered an AVN any longer...
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Dude stop being such a Drama queen, you’re usually not this unreasonable and butthurt.

The people who buy the music dlcs obviously want to support the dev and for him to get a cut. Otherwise they just can buy the music from the artist.

And the probability of these people buying the music otherwise is near zero so of coures it’s a nice and good deal for both party’s.

Nobody is forced or even strongly allured to buy a damn music dlc if he doesn’t want to support the dev.

Ocean tried to make a SG release on steam (his homecountry) possible but steam/germany fucked him over anyway.

There will be lewds in S2, of course you’re free to not wait and never touch SG again, but you will anyway despite the ranting

And yeah Ocean isn’t the fastest when it’s about pushing updates, spectacular news
 
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