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

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Leinad_Sevla

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UncleFappy said:
Who knows. He clearly misjudged the time necessary and his own perfectionism and experimenting complexes delaying things. But hey, I admire the ambition. Reminds me of Jim Butcher and the Dresden Files.
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You think he will ever come to terms that he either loosens on his perfectionism or settles for less updates in order to ever finish this?
 
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Relax guys, he won't abandon the game due to burnout, because he works on 3 projects precisely because that way he avoids burnout according to him. lol

But seriously, he won't be able to finish any of his projects alone if he continues like this, he'll have to give in his perfectionism.
 
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Leinad_Sevla said:
You think he will ever come to terms that he either loosens on his perfectionism or settles for less updates in order to ever finish this?
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:unsure:

In terms of dev time and how he works, not anytime soon. I look at DPC and how he seems to have no self control on expanding and trying to push his limits as he gets new tech, and if someone more regimented and prolific than Ocean can't do it, I don't see Oc- "I orgasm at just the thought of experimenting and pushing my limits"-ean doing it.

But I can see him compromising on the story, shortening bits, making it more compact. Maybe its a 15 chapter story now, do a basic three-act story.
 
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With the amount of reworks involved, Ocean is no doubt a perfectionist to a certain degree. Still, I feel like he is more of a person who doesn't realize his own limits. He is obviously biting off more than he can chew with the whole oceanverse games. I mean, considering the current schedule, it seems it will take him about 30-40 years to wrap up just SG and WIAB. There's no chance he can do that all by himself, without help from others.
 
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Ray_D said:
We all know it, man. We're just here to see how far Ocean can go before he abandons or gives up on the project.:BootyTime:
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Impossible. He will never abandon his babies! Best bet is he will die of old age before completing them.
yossa999 said:
What a confusing thread. Nothing is clear. Either Ocean is a perfectionist who polishes every render so that it looks like a photo. Or he is obsessed with quantity by all means. Either he is about to abandon his projects, or he will milk them for 30-40 years. Either he does nothing but rework, or he releases a ton of content and sells it at the major storefronts despite the postworks and reworks.

My only hope is that the experts in the thread will explain everything to me. They have enough experience in development worth ten Oceans, they know where the holes in cheese come from. :unsure:
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What a confusing thread. Nothing is clear. Either Ocean is a perfectionist who polishes every render so that it looks like a photo. Or he is obsessed with quantity by all means. Either he is about to abandon his projects, or he will milk them for 30-40 years. Either he does nothing but rework, or he releases a ton of content and sells it at the major storefronts despite the postworks and reworks.

My only hope is that the experts in the thread will explain everything to me. They have enough experience in development worth ten Oceans, they know where the holes in cheese come from. :unsure:
 
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SweatyDevil said:
With the amount of reworks involved, Ocean is no doubt a perfectionist to a certain degree. Still, I feel like he is more of a person who doesn't realize his own limits. He is obviously biting off more than he can chew with the whole oceanverse games. I mean, considering the current schedule, it seems it will take him about 30-40 years to wrap up just SG and WIAB. There's no chance he can do that all by himself, without help from others.
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Ocean is trying to follow the path of NLT and make several games in one universe. He hasn't succeeded yet. This is because NLT is 100% focused on each of its games, and Ocean is only 50%. Therefore, Ocean constantly wants to redo or improve something.
 
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Summer's Gone - Season 2 - Chapter 1 - Dev Log #37
Hello,

So, in the past 10 days the PC averaged about 22-25 renders a day. Even though I create more, it’s the usual story of loading 20+ characters.

Sadly, my 4090 on the other PC can’t handle some of the scenes and just stops all together.

One day went bye-bye due to a region wide power outage during the night and well…

…this puts us at around 6980 renders… Let’s just say 7000 still renders.

Muuusic and cinematics
I recently acquired a license for another cinematic that will be in this Chapter. Great song, great cinematic.

I’m going to buy two more songs and then I will stop buying music licenses for about a year or two.

Due to what’s happening in the NSFW world, I must make sure that no matter what happens, I find a way to keep paying my leasing rates for the Workstation + GPUs, as well as the electricity bill. (All together about 2000€/month).

The good thing is that I already have about 15 cinematics for Season 2. (The songs are all licensed and paid for.)

Upgrade
After 5 years I retired my 49” monitor and got myself a new Samsung 49” OLED. I tried to get as close to my old color settings as possible, but it can’t look the same.

Due to the strong blacks of the OLED display, the renders naturally looked more contrasty.

Means, the renders for you might look a little brighter now in comparison to my old ones. Maybe? Maybe they'll look the same.

Preppy
Preparation of the environments and characters is almost done.

One good thing that comes from this update is that I will have done so many environments and places that ALL future updates will benefit from it.

The number of new environments must rival the entire Season 1.

The good thing is all of them will be used again and again throughout the seasons.

Languages for Season 1
I finished a new language selection screen and SG Season 1 will get a lot of new languages soon.

- Spanish

- German (Official Bella nickname: Bellchen)

- French

- Russian

- Polish

- Italian

- Turkish

- Portuguese

- Simplified Chinese

More will be added overtime.

USK. Danke Merkel.
I will soon do the USK Rating in Germany, then SG S1 can be sold in Germany on Steam but the cheapest option is still 1800€… Aaahhh… I must do it, though.

Previews
The sheer sadness I felt hovering over the countless, amazing Zara renders and I knew I couldn’t pick any of them…

OLED Previews… I hope they look fine. (Messy approved)

4K attached.

Mhhhm.

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Cute

When you tell Sasha about your Lego collection. (Bluebrixx is better.)

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7000/8000 still images... to blueball people.

Every time I see this number, I wonder if I had been repeatedly dropped as a bibi.

100%. I make lewd games.

While it might have been a dumb idea to make an update the size of four updates, I now can’t imagine a better way to finally put the rework era to rest.

I’ll see you in two weeks.

- Ocean
 
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