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

[Crashbullet]

Also, the release was on course for December, but because of the Patreon incident, I now need to prepare the Steam and GOG release.

This means the entire game will have to go through a review again, and judging by the two previous reviews, it will take about a month.

So prepare for a January early Februrary release.

Just two months to wait, we've waited two years, and we'll wait some more)

 

[Ahx]

Just two months to wait, we've waited two years, and we'll wait some more)

What about the people here who could die tomorrow?

 

[Crashbullet]

What about the people here who could die tomorrow?

After the release of WIAB... well, they will die happy at least, and whoever lives will face the

 

[NozToh]

I said like 4 months ago the update is gonna end up coming Marchish lol, looks like I'm gonna be proven right

 

[Miranha157]

It's not my fault, and I can't release an update of this magnitude just on SS.

It's your supporters' fault

 

[imagica]

This guy always delivers with his dev logs . What a load of crap through and through.

 

[seniorboop]

Another delay. I doubt there will be an update before March.
This is getting really ridiculous.

100%. Keep in mind this is the same update he thought he'd be able to get out the door in December....

...Oh, you must've thought this upcoming December? Nah. December 2024.

Runaway scope creep adds another victim to its tally,

The Summer Curse strikes again

 

[RNasc4444]

Look at what has become of these devlogs. How far we've fallen from greatness. From the Tax, Workstation and Blender Arcs to this. Not even a mention of the gym progress. Oh well...

Place your bets gents! My money is on a mid March release.

 

[LHDLLB]

He says January/early February. There's no doubt this time.

March it is then

 

[Holyx9]

Hello,

I apologize for the one day delay, but I have unexpectantly gotten sick with some sort of ancient flu.

I felt good until I agreed to move a very ancient, big, sturdy wardrobe. It hadn't been moved for about 50 years and the dust that came with it could be classified as a bio-weapon.

By the evening I felt really weird, and by morning I felt like I had inhaled the black goo spores from Alien.

It's been five days and I feel a lot better, but I'm still sensitive to light, especially displays.

I've tried to do as much work as possible over the past three days, and today I managed to work for a few hours, but I think I'll need another two days to get back to the usual 10 to 12 hours a day.

General news
Marvelous Designer
I've gotten a lot more comfortable with MD. I've been using it in stills and animations and it's such a great tool.

Davinci Resolve Studio 20
I hate Adobe. And I now finally made the switch from Adobe Premiere/After Effects to Davinci. I would've cancelled adobe anyway as I need to save some money now and I had been giving them 65€ a month for the past 4 years to get access to all their software. (I still use Photoshop/Lightroom).

The new cinematics will be edited in Davinci... and it already feels so much better. I can't believe how bad the performance of Premiere was on my beefcake of a PC.

I've looked into my Zbrush morph folder, and since I started SG's update, I've created 2943 morphs. 90% of it is for clothing. 5% hair, 4% props, 1% boobs.

Summer's Gone - Season 2 - CH 1 - 3
I've spent some days fixing stills, on days where I was too dead to work, I just read through the script, fixed some thingies, changed others.

I've completed about 9 animations, and I'm 35% done with the biggest cinematic of the update (1:32).

Right, regarding the cinematics... Some changes were made... And I know what I said... No more music licenses... But listen... I've come across two songs that were perfect... They fit so perfectly that I'd risk bankruptcy to have them in the game.

I replaced the one minute cinematic with a new one, which has more or less the same visuals but slightly different now.

The one I replaced will be used later in the season in a similar scenario.

Then, I will add a third cinematic of 40 seconds. Means, the next update will have:

Cinematic 1 - ~30 seconds Cinematic 2 - ~ 1:32 minutes (40% done) Cinematic 3 - ~40 seconds

The teaser I mentioned before isn't needed anymore because of the change. (Cinematic 2 will be partially revealed in the near future)

The beginning of Cinematic 2 looks like an album cover... or a cool mouse pad.

View attachment 5360596

I don't count the various animation sets in the update as cinematics.

There is one scene I'm still eying... The environment doesn't feel right... I might take another look at it, but for now, it's fixing stills I knew I messed up over the course of the update, and creating animations.

I still need to do a bit of main menu coding, but it's all getting a bit overwhelming and I'd rather not fall into the usual "Release-Depression" because I have to do so much at once.

Oh right, I'm also in contact with an artist that has a song which would perfectly fit a very important Chapter. After a bit of back and forth regarding the contract, him creating a new contact, me implementing his wishes into mine because I don't take risks with licenses, I now haven't heard from him in like a week.

So I'm not counting on that. It would be the last song I'd buy for Season 2. (As if).

Previews:
Puppy

View attachment 5360598

Fake Cheeto

View attachment 5360599

Soonish I will stop posting previews.

Also, the release was on course for December, but because of the Patreon incident, I now need to prepare the Steam and GOG release.

This means the entire game will have to go through a review again, and judging by the two previous reviews, it will take about a month.

So prepare for a January early Februrary release.

It's not my fault, and I can't release an update of this magnitude just on SS.

I like SG and Ocean is a pretty good dev but this is massive slap in the face for his SS supporters. I support Ocean through his SS and his current monthly income is about 6500$ a month and growing. For him to not want to release it on SS and making his subs wait another month or two for steam and GOG is ridiculous. This is the definition of taking for granted your supporters.

 

[Miranha157]

I don't wish bad things on anyone, but losing the Patreon is one of the karmas he receives, crazy the game was supposed to come out in December of last year and in the end it will come out a month before GTA 6

 

[PeopleCallMeSmile]

Is this guy for real? Used to support him but the almost ridiculous amount of time between updates just drove me away, now he comes with shit like this? Like, really???

 

[Hobodouken]

I said he would find some excuse to push it past December. Ocean is just so damn predictable at this point.

 

[BobTheDuck]

Hello,

I apologize for the one day delay, but I have unexpectantly gotten sick with some sort of ancient flu.

I felt good until I agreed to move a very ancient, big, sturdy wardrobe. It hadn't been moved for about 50 years and the dust that came with it could be classified as a bio-weapon.

By the evening I felt really weird, and by morning I felt like I had inhaled the black goo spores from Alien.

It's been five days and I feel a lot better, but I'm still sensitive to light, especially displays.

I've tried to do as much work as possible over the past three days, and today I managed to work for a few hours, but I think I'll need another two days to get back to the usual 10 to 12 hours a day.

General news
Marvelous Designer
I've gotten a lot more comfortable with MD. I've been using it in stills and animations and it's such a great tool.

Davinci Resolve Studio 20
I hate Adobe. And I now finally made the switch from Adobe Premiere/After Effects to Davinci. I would've cancelled adobe anyway as I need to save some money now and I had been giving them 65€ a month for the past 4 years to get access to all their software. (I still use Photoshop/Lightroom).

The new cinematics will be edited in Davinci... and it already feels so much better. I can't believe how bad the performance of Premiere was on my beefcake of a PC.

I've looked into my Zbrush morph folder, and since I started SG's update, I've created 2943 morphs. 90% of it is for clothing. 5% hair, 4% props, 1% boobs.

Summer's Gone - Season 2 - CH 1 - 3
I've spent some days fixing stills, on days where I was too dead to work, I just read through the script, fixed some thingies, changed others.

I've completed about 9 animations, and I'm 35% done with the biggest cinematic of the update (1:32).

Right, regarding the cinematics... Some changes were made... And I know what I said... No more music licenses... But listen... I've come across two songs that were perfect... They fit so perfectly that I'd risk bankruptcy to have them in the game.

I replaced the one minute cinematic with a new one, which has more or less the same visuals but slightly different now.

The one I replaced will be used later in the season in a similar scenario.

Then, I will add a third cinematic of 40 seconds. Means, the next update will have:

Cinematic 1 - ~30 seconds Cinematic 2 - ~ 1:32 minutes (40% done) Cinematic 3 - ~40 seconds

The teaser I mentioned before isn't needed anymore because of the change. (Cinematic 2 will be partially revealed in the near future)

The beginning of Cinematic 2 looks like an album cover... or a cool mouse pad.

View attachment 5360596

I don't count the various animation sets in the update as cinematics.

There is one scene I'm still eying... The environment doesn't feel right... I might take another look at it, but for now, it's fixing stills I knew I messed up over the course of the update, and creating animations.

I still need to do a bit of main menu coding, but it's all getting a bit overwhelming and I'd rather not fall into the usual "Release-Depression" because I have to do so much at once.

Oh right, I'm also in contact with an artist that has a song which would perfectly fit a very important Chapter. After a bit of back and forth regarding the contract, him creating a new contact, me implementing his wishes into mine because I don't take risks with licenses, I now haven't heard from him in like a week.

So I'm not counting on that. It would be the last song I'd buy for Season 2. (As if).

Previews:
Puppy

View attachment 5360598

Fake Cheeto

View attachment 5360599

Soonish I will stop posting previews.

Also, the release was on course for December, but because of the Patreon incident, I now need to prepare the Steam and GOG release.

This means the entire game will have to go through a review again, and judging by the two previous reviews, it will take about a month.

So prepare for a January early Februrary release.

It's not my fault, and I can't release an update of this magnitude just on SS.

Thank you again for sharing the log, greatly appreciated!

 

[tremere87]

Well atleast he did not blame germany this time. That was getting pretty old.

 

[sudisudimagi]

How do yall feel about Nia?
It seems like she had some sort of crush on the MC as a child

 

[Tremonia]

It's not my fault

No. It's always the others.

 

[Ravenquartz]

I don't wish bad things on anyone, but losing the Patreon is one of the karmas he receives, crazy the game was supposed to come out in December of last year and in the end it will come out a month before GTA 6

I'm not even sure if it's going to come out before GTA 6. Ocean has a lot of tricks up his sleeve just to delay season 2.

 

[RNasc4444]

How do yall feel about Nia?
It seems like she had some sort of crush on the MC as a child

Annoyed mostly. I'd like to put her in a box and send her to Abu Dhabi. To be as far away from her at all times as possible. I would gladly volunteer to be on the first batch of Mars colonizers just to get the fuck away from her. I'd choose a migraine over her in a heartbeat.

Nia? More like Cya!

 

[Maviarab]

Annoyed mostly. I'd like to put her in a box and send her to Abu Dhabi. To be as far away from her at all times as possible. I would gladly volunteer to be on the first batch of Mars colonizers just to get the fuck away from her. I'd choose a migraine over her in a heartbeat.

Nia? More like Cya!

Sooo...Zara or Nia?