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

[The Glorious LIME]

Incidentally, I would never have found Ocean's VN's if it weren't for this pirated site, and subsequently became a supporter. I'll believe him when he says he needs money to upgrade to pump out higher quality with more speed or hire more people to cover his weaknesses. I have no reason to not take his word so far.

Pretty much this. Not just the difference in quality, but the willingness to fix your previous work to match your current quality too. Like you said, I found him through this site, loved it and chose to support.

As someone who works in graphic design, game dev and animation, I can attest to the fact that HW upgrades can cause massive productivity changes, and seeing how he's making 2 games at once, he can use all the upgrades he can get.

On a side note, for those who are not playing the Bella route, who appears at the end of the beta chapter?

 

[Lurcher1]

On a side note, for those who are not playing the Bella route, who appears at the end of the beta chapter?

You just get an image of Elsa from her Aurora post

 

[Vopeco]

Pretty much this. Not just the difference in quality, but the willingness to fix your previous work to match your current quality too. Like you said, I found him through this site, loved it and chose to support.

As someone who works in graphic design, game dev and animation, I can attest to the fact that HW upgrades can cause massive productivity changes, and seeing how he's making 2 games at once, he can use all the upgrades he can get.

On a side note, for those who are not playing the Bella route, who appears at the end of the beta chapter?

That would be Elsa. Ely for short.

 

[Ruff Ryder]

Coach Hill is HOT!!!

 

[Ilhares]

Coach Hill is HOT!!!

Right you are, Kenny! But who do you have to reject before you get the chance to play ball with the coach?

 

[Uriel ☁]

Btw Nvidia RTX 6000 is out now, its more powerfull than A6000 as it uses 40xx arch (Ada Lovelace). But its recomended retail price is like $9999

He doesn't need speed, he needs VRAM to load complex environments and the A6000 has twice the amount of memory.
Anyway it might drive the price of the A6000 down a little so still good news.

 

[PaxHadrian17]

Patreon Goals

"The possibility to buy a professional render farm, and external cooling for it. (Prices go far into the 5-digits.)

This would speed up every aspect of the development process immensely.

Animations still take up to a day to render and the more sophisticated they become, the longer they'll take"


Hmm, really?

[This would speed up every aspect of the development process. Animations will still take up to a day to render and the more sophisticated they become, the longer they'll take]

Even this

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a release date, is hidden behind a paywall x3 I already know what type of Dev you are. I will let every simp figure it out for themselves. If, a big if, I am wrong, then, I am wrong.

Summer's Gone was fun (being rude to everyone) but it is time to find something better, and a trustworthy, loyal (not hiding most, if not all, things behind paywalls and not a lying) Dev.

You come across as quite entitled...

Ocean's Patreon page (and SS page for that matter) both show how his releases work.

He is not obilgated to change that for you, me or anyone else - If someone is not a supporter at a particular level, the release is hidden behind a pay wall - which is how this works for 95% + of creators using either Patreon or SS.

Ocean has a range of goals that certain levels of support will enable.

He may never get to the goal you posted - but at least he Is putting a significant amount of $ from his supporters back into both SG and WIAB.

He is a very productive creator, particularly given the issues with energy in Germany specifically and Europe in general all European based creators are trying to cope with.

I do think your last sentance in your post best captures your entire post - 'Summers Gone was fun (being rude to everyone) but it is time to find something better ...'

Perhaps F95 has hash tags for 'Rude' and 'Entitled' - good luck finding those elsewhere.

 

[VicLex22]

Where is Bella??

don't worry bro, if you're on her way then she'll be in every chapter.
a lot or a little, but it will

 

[deuxrayme]

So, wtf is MC's default name?
It's still showing up as blank for me if I didn't input a name at the start.

Are you using a mod? If so, the creator may not have updated the code used to have that part. In the non-modded beta, the default name is Nika.

 

[alanrock]

So, wtf is MC's default name?
It's still showing up as blank for me if I didn't input a name at the start.

Stanley Kirk Burrell

 

[vivaloveyou]

This game is no doubt beautiful like the art of mouth, but I still can not understand, in having so many beautiful women love the male protagonist, why can only be satisfied with kissing, and has not asked to have sex with women, so I am very confused

 

[Turret]

This game is no doubt beautiful like the art of mouth, but I still can not understand, in having so many beautiful women love the male protagonist, why can only be satisfied with kissing, and has not asked to have sex with women, so I am very confused

The MC is still recovering from a very serious loss. Summer, his girlfriend, vanished or died (currently not known what exactly happened). And it is hinted that whatever happened was criminal in nature.

 

[AchedCroissant]

 

[McGreed]

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One smile from Bella and my heart melted. I can't even describe in words how genuinely happy I was when I saw her

 

[yossa999]

This game is no doubt beautiful like the art of mouth, but I still can not understand, in having so many beautiful women love the male protagonist, why can only be satisfied with kissing, and has not asked to have sex with women, so I am very confused

I see it like this. Since he lost the love of his life he was in a very dark place completely shutting himself off from the world for two years. The game begins when he makes his first small attempt to crawl out of his shell and start interacting with people since that time. All events in the game so far are lasting about a week or less. He has already taken a big leap from being completely socially deprived to interacting with many people (who are mostly a horny girls). With many of them he builds relationships, romantic or friendly.
It's a perfectly natural way from outcast to popular guy. He just can't jump from almost asexual hermit with no interest in the slightest social contact to a crazy love machine. At the current moment in the game, he has already met most of the girls, they got to know him, certain relationships of varying degree of intimacy were established. Beside that he realized that he had a psychotrauma and that he wanted to be healed. So as the relationship building and the healing will progress, sex will become a natural next step he is willing to take. And don't forget that the first four chapters are an "introduction" according to the dev.

 

[AchedCroissant]

One smile from Bella and my heart melted. I can't even describe in words how genuinely happy I was when I saw her

She smelling the MC's jacket and crying and because she misses him so much and she had to come back but she's too tsundere to accept it

 

[Old Man Al]

... If, a big if, I am wrong, then, I am wrong.

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Summer's Gone was fun (being rude to everyone) but it is time to find something better, and a trustworthy, loyal (not hiding most, if not all, things behind paywalls and not a lying) Dev.

Ah, I see

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[Old Man Al]

So, wtf is MC's default name?
It's still showing up as blank for me if I didn't input a name at the start.

Nika. I didn't make a screenshot, but it was answered by Ocean on Discord a few days back. I am not a 100% sure, maybe it was a joke. As a fellow German I find this name... usual, and not really fitting. But it is not my story to tell.

 

[Vopeco]

don't worry bro, if you're on her way then she'll be in every chapter.
a lot or a little, but it will

I wonder if this is true for Nami as well. If she'll be in every chapter, a lot or a little, if we're on her route so far.

 

[Cabin Fever]

Nika. I didn't make a screenshot, but it was answered by Ocean on Discord a few days back. I am not a 100% sure, maybe it was a joke. As a fellow German I find this name... usual, and not really fitting. But it is not my story to tell.

It's not a joke. Here's the actual code in Renpy:

$ name = renpy.input("What is your name?", default = "Nika", length = 14)