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

[dlaskas]

I'm going to just say it.

This game works better without the backstory. The mystery and figuring out the relationships is half or more of its appeal.

Discontinue WIAB, not just because of the workload, but because it will improve SG as a story. Just sparingly weave in the necessary plot elements from WIAB where it makes sense in SG.

Flame away.

it was so calm.
so.. so calm.
even bob didn't ask (too) many questions this time around.

and now... now it's gonna be an unfollowable shitshow. just like the WiaB thread.
gah!

 

[yossa999]

Oh boy...this gon' be fun

I too sometimes enjoy popping into a thread, dropping a grenade, leave and watch the shitshow unfold from a distance!

Open the floodgates!!!

Grenade or not, but this is the reality. When someone suggests focusing on one game and putting another on hold/abandoning, they're suggesting giving up WiAB, not the other way around. Poor Katie fans... if there are any of them here of course.

 

[The Krogan Dude]

I'm going to just say it.

This game works better without the backstory. The mystery and figuring out the relationships is half or more of its appeal.

Discontinue WIAB, not just because of the workload, but because it will improve SG as a story. Just sparingly weave in the necessary plot elements from WIAB where it makes sense in SG.

Flame away.

Don't be a D... oh.

 

[Miranha157]

So the redone assjob scene looks like there's no need for the uncut version right? So that's a promise Ocean's delivered on. It's naturally disappointing that it won't be in time for the holidays, but this is probably one of the most promising devlogs I've read in a while. Update size has been refined more accurately, Ocean's actively seeking people to take care of tasks that aren't Ocean's specialties, and we've got excellent indication of major story progression with a Katie render, with some shadowy figures in the background. I wonder why Ocean's kept them hidden? The woman of the left could be...

Do you think he will redo the hot tub scene or is it a new scene of season 2?

 

[Miranha157]

Ocean is making a mistake IMO not cutting the episode into two parts

Doing so would give us new fresh content faster, and the follow-up update would come quicker as well, getting ocean into an 5-6 months release. He'll also have to learn to condensate and make some sacrifices, because having 30 chapters with that rate of half chapter release is unsustainable.

But I can't help but be impressed. 700 renders a month of THAT quality, while working on two games, is pretty insane. You can't call him lazy. I can't wait for the new episode to come .

And those preview, chef kiss. Katie fans are blessed.

He had already said that he would no longer do half a chapter, it would be a whole chapter.

 

[BobTheDuck]

Do you think he will redo the hot tub scene or is it a new scene of season 2?

New season, there have been multiple previews of that scene, getting spicier each time. Hopefully we don't get the whole scene leaked in previews before the chapter is out!

it was so calm.
so.. so calm.
even bob didn't ask (too) many questions this time around.

and now... now it's gonna be an unfollowable shitshow. just like the WiaB thread.
gah!

I tried to limit myself just for you. Besides, this thread isn't ready for futa Helen memes.

 

[dlaskas]

I tried to limit myself just for you. Besides, this thread isn't ready for futa Helen memes.

aww, i love you too! ;*

also, downloaded old wiab just for that scene..... too short, but sweet.

 

[Maviarab]

if there are any of them here of course.

Just for that...have them both this time

 

[AlexFXR]

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Ahahaha... yes you are right, it is just great science. Unfortunately yossa999, Maviarab and BobTheDuck do not understand this and get angry at people who call Ocean a milker. If DPC did that, then 20 pages would already be written about what an asshole he is.

 

[dameromexxx]

Any guesses when Ocean releases the first chapter of PLF? I think this whole drama needs an additional third thread. Then I'll officially buy a ten year supply of popcorn and cola

 

[The Krogan Dude]

He had already said that he would no longer do half a chapter, it would be a whole chapter.

Which means he's gonna do more chapters. That's the same thing

 

[Miranha157]

I'm going to just say it.

This game works better without the backstory. The mystery and figuring out the relationships is half or more of its appeal.

Discontinue WIAB, not just because of the workload, but because it will improve SG as a story. Just sparingly weave in the necessary plot elements from WIAB where it makes sense in SG.

Flame away.

I like WIAB more, and well WIAB is being created from scratch so let's wait for the scenes from the next chapters, and for me he could pause SG and focus 100% on WIAB and when he finished everything he would go back to SG, you would be happy and so would I!

 

[Penfold Mole]

I'm going to just say it.

This game works better without the backstory. The mystery and figuring out the relationships is half or more of its appeal.

True

Discontinue WIAB, not just because of the workload, but because it will improve SG as a story. Just sparingly weave in the necessary plot elements from WIAB where it makes sense in SG.

Flame away.

No. Continuing WIAB likely won't give enough backstory to SG to ruin it. Ocean isn't the kind of writer who ruins the story by explaining too much. WIAB will highly likely give more confusion and new questions for SG, rather than answers.
Ocean won't reveal anything too soon. He hasn't done it so far and I doubt that will change.

 

[Miranha157]

Sometimes I want to say something good about Ocean, praise him, but when I see how he deceives his fans, I feel sad.

Ocean said... I quote log 11: "I guess I'm closing in on the 50% mark. Keep in mind that the development only really started in late May." It turns out that in a little over 2 months Ocean did 50% of the renders. Well, good job, it's logical to assume that he will do the remaining 50% of the renders in about 2 months. And now 2.5 months have passed and we get a new log in which Ocean writes that he has done more than 2000 renders in total. How should we understand this, it turns out that Ocean did nothing all these months, but wrote to us in the logs how hard he was working? By this point he should have all the renders ready if we believe his words.


Ocean said that his 2x3090 renders 1 frame in 4.5 minutes. If we divide 60 minutes by 4.5 minutes, we get more than 13 renderers per hour, let's round it up to 10 renders per hour and give a head start to make it easier to count. It turns out that about 40 renders will be done in 4 hours, and not all night as Ocean said. That's not all, besides this, he also has 2xA6000 which are equal in speed to 2x3090, and there are also 2x4090 which are 2 times more powerful than 2x3090 and can render the same 40 frames in 2 hours instead of 4.

But that's not the most important thing. When Ocean creates renders during the day, he can do it on one PC, why don't other PCs render at this time? He was constantly asking his fans for money to buy new video cards to speed up rendering. Now he got the money and bought new video cards, so why are they turned off all day instead of rendering?
I'm tired of reading this bullshit.

You can't trust someone who promised "x" and delivered "y" in the first season, even though I like Ocean's work I would never give him any support.

 

[dlaskas]

You can't trust someone who promised "x" and delivered "y" in the first season, even though I like Ocean's work I would never give him any support.

you don't have to give him any support if you don't want to.. however, it would be nice and absolve you of any potential entitlement if you refrained from bashing him in any way on his game threads. especially since you get his product for free.
that should be a rule.

also, i mean that in general, not only you specifically.

 

[Krytax123]

Whats going on here? Its surprisingly quiet considering Ocean announced the update will be late and that someone suggested to kill off wiab

Even simple minded haters like alex seem to start to lack passion in hating and baiting.

I think getting a 6-7k renders update will be nice, i kinda like the badik updates sizes too even tho they take a long time.

In the end the only important thing for me is how many renders&animations/year a dev is able to produce, anything above 4k renders + a few animations is already top in the avn buisness.

 

[Silver_Crow117]

I’m glad that not only the… exotic Hot tub scene is being put back in the game, but also improvements to it!! Love me some Cheeto's!!

 

[-Maniackanime-]

Whats going on here? Its surprisingly quiet considering Ocean announced the update will be late and that someone suggest to kill of wiab

Even simple minded haters like alex seem to start to lack passion in hating and baiting.

I think getting a 6-7k renders update will be nice, i kinda like the badik updates sizes too even tho they take a long time.

In the end the only important thing for me is how many renders&animations/year a dev is able to produce, anything above 4k renders + a few animations is already top in the avn buisness.

It's been a year or more of a lot of nothing, it's bound to be quiet. Such a shame I really like stories where a single character can make a game shine (Im talking about the MC of course, no homo).

 

[jock1a]

i think ocean is comfortable with the current support that he has. Unfortunately i feel the same as Miranha157 i can't support ocean because of several factor's. i support several game developer's and have supported him in the past as well. i think the game is awesome visually,but the last update kinda took it to a level i can't ignore. No hetrosexual in the world would resist and be that disfunctional over a preteen romance. If you can call anything preteen a romance. if your going to make it fantasy then make it fantasy. If your going to try and make it real world believable then do that. I still have the orgy scene with Vic,Mia,cheeto and mc at vic's place that was cut content and redone. I understand why it was cut and i actually agree with that decision as it didn't really fit the rest of the story. i know the mob will come after me for this,but that is ok. i just think both of the games could have a much larger following if there was some small changes in the story and updates were a little more often. But since i am not supporting it. I really don't have the right to say that. So redact that. But the mob attacking everyone that says anything negative about the game doesn't help that. Reason being if your not committed to the game, as some people are you just file it in the i don't care column and forget it. There is way to many good games out there to endure a hassle every time you attempt to comment on a game.

 

[The Krogan Dude]

In the end the only important thing for me is how many renders&animations/year a dev is able to produce, anything above 4k renders + a few animations is already top in the avn buisness.

Animations ? Please ! OceanLab doesn't do "animations", he creates cinematics.