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

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Ali ibn Hassan

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AlexFXR said:
I don't understand what you are talking about. How are the censorship filtering systems such as PG, ST, SUT, etc. and the ban on driving, alcohol or voting related to each other?

If you're interested, there are 3 erotica/porn filters in the world.
1. 10+....13+ depending on the country (complete ban)
2.16+....17+ (erotica allowed, porn still prohibited)
3.18+......21+ (erotica allowed and porn partially allowed)
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You mean to say that these are applicable anywhere in the world?
For sure?
You're not just making a sweeping statement?

You are, as usual, making sweeping generalizations!

A swedish 15 year old is allowed to watch whatever in, for example, a cinema. Violence or explicit pornographic extravaganza!
An 11 year old is allowed the same if accompanied by someone 18 or older.

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John Ness

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I don't agree with the attacks on Robin. She was friendly with the main character in the gym. She covered the main character who entered the women's restroom, thereby putting herself at risk. Yes, she lures the MC to Zara and Nadya with lies, but they don't pose as much of a threat as Ayuya and her karate friends. The MC could simply ignore them and go back to his business, but no.

Not the smartest plot twist, but whatever. Despite the masochistic tendencies of the MC, Robin comes to the rescue again, calling Bella or Marla to free the MC. After this, at the first opportunity in the book club, Robin tries to patch things up with the MC, she is a nice girl and it seems that without a good relationship with Robin, the main character will not have a good relationship with Sasha!
 
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As I'm revisiting the game assets across multiple versions for my mod, it's amazing to realize how much Ocean has not only reworked, as we know, but often doctored and, dare I say, butchered, some of his renders for the Season 1 release, by applying some blur effect on Photoshop to hide background elements he wouldn't want to show anymore, for whatever reason, instead of re-rendering the shots. It had happened on a limited number (maybe a dozen) of shots between Chap 4.5 and Chap 5 Beta releases, but the amount has increased dramatically between the latter and the official Season 1.

They may not appear to the untrained eye but side-by-side comparison is cruel. It is also creating many continuity errors as this "doctoring" would not be consistant and some shots would be altered while the next ones would not. Even worse, there's been a couple of re-rendering dones until Ocean realized he had enough of it, and decided to blur subsequent shots instead to accelerate release time...

It happens particularly in ZPR college and the coffee shop, among many random places...
Let me give you a few examples.

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Here you might think "ok he erased the intertwined snake and leaf emblem but you wouldn't know, no artifact to be seen". Correct. How about this then ?

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Notice the leaf artefact near Nami's hair, or near her left arm?
And this is not, by far, the worst example. All images showing the snake/leaf emblem or the leaf on its own have been altered in a similar way to blur them out...

Talking about continuity errors, how's this? He removed the leaf emblem from the podium in the auditorium, as evidenced here :

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But other shots featuring the same podium have been left unaltered !

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Here's an example of "let's re-render these shots...oh wait no, takes too much time, let's blur the others"...
Focus on the lettering of the Coffee-shop name...

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There's even an example of a blurred shot (see below) where MC is even referencing what's written on the banner, while we as a player can't even read it anymore !!

scene c139 with dissolve
d "(ZRP... I wonder what that stands for.)"
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All of this "badly-doctored" artwork is evidence of a final release that was getting on his nerves, he clearly didn't want to spend additional time to get it out there. But as much as I love the game myself, and bought it on Steam on day 1, I feel this is truly a disgrace to what his game stands for in terms of render quality. I'm not questioning how valid these changes may or may not be, it's his game and he must have his reasons, but how poorly it was executed. It's even worse than that: have a look at the lake scene of topless Nami, and focus on the beer cans shots (I won't post these renders, too many already). See how some of those are re-renders where the snake logo has been replaced with the leaf (why?), but in other shots, the snake is still visible but blurred out?

All of these undoctored shots will be restored in the upcoming newer version of my mod, for those who care about such things.
 
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John Ness said:
I don't agree with the attacks on Robin. She was friendly with the main character in the gym. She covered the main character who entered the women's restroom, thereby putting herself at risk. Yes, she lures the MC to Zara and Nadya with lies, but they don't pose as much of a threat as Ayuya and her karate friends. The MC could simply ignore them and go back to his business, but no.

Not the smartest plot twist, but whatever. Despite the masochistic tendencies of the MC, Robin comes to the rescue again, calling Bella or Marla to free the MC. After this, at the first opportunity in the book club, Robin tries to patch things up with the MC, she is a nice girl and it seems that without a good relationship with Robin, the main character will not have a good relationship with Sasha!
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First of all, thank you for not refering to the MC by that disgusting abomination of a default name! I don't care how much of a fan Ocean is of Won Piss.

Secondly, I totally agree. Clearly Robin is not fully aware of how strong the bond between the MC and Nami is. Had she known the effect it would have on him, I'm certain she wouldn't have used Nami. She also barely knows the MC at all so she opted to use the one thing that could work. It certainly wasn't nice and some animosity towards her is warranted but it's silly to hate her for that misstep after you see how much regret she has for what she did. Not forgiving her is fair, but straight up hating her for it is a bit of a stretch imo.
 
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alain8891 said:
As I'm revisiting the game assets across multiple versions for my mod, it's amazing to realize how much Ocean has not only reworked, as we know, but often doctored and, dare I say, butchered, some of his renders for the Season 1 release, by applying some blur effect on Photoshop to hide background elements he wouldn't want to show anymore, for whatever reason, instead of re-rendering the shots. It had happened on a limited number (maybe a dozen) of shots between Chap 4.5 and Chap 5 Beta releases, but the amount has increased dramatically between the latter and the official Season 1.

They may not appear to the untrained eye but side-by-side comparison is cruel. It is also creating many continuity errors as this "doctoring" would not be consistant and some shots would be altered while the next ones would not. Even worse, there's been a couple of re-rendering dones until Ocean realized he had enough of it, and decided to blur subsequent shots instead to accelerate release time...

It happens particularly in ZPR college and the coffee shop, among many random places...
Let me give you a few examples.

Before (Chap5 Beta):

View attachment 3683903

After (Season 1):

View attachment 3683907

Here you might think "ok he erased the intertwined snake and leaf emblem but you wouldn't know, no artifact to be seen". Correct. How about this then ?

Before (Chap5 Beta):

View attachment 3683924

After (Season 1):

View attachment 3683922

Notice the leaf artefact near Nami's hair, or near her left arm?
And this is not, by far, the worst example. All images showing the snake/leaf emblem or the leaf on its own have been altered in a similar way to blur them out...

Talking about continuity errors, how's this? He removed the leaf emblem from the podium in the auditorium, as evidenced here :

Before (Chap5 Beta):

View attachment 3683940

After (Season 1):


View attachment 3683941

But other shots featuring the same podium have been left unaltered !


View attachment 3683950

Here's an example of "let's re-render these shots...oh wait no, takes too much time, let's blur the others"...
Focus on the lettering of the Coffee-shop name...

Before (Chap5 Beta):

View attachment 3683963

After (Season 1) (re-rendering):

View attachment 3683966

Before (Chap5 Beta):

View attachment 3683964

After (Season 1) (blur):

View attachment 3683968

There's even an example of a blurred shot (see below) where MC is even referencing what's written on the banner, while we as a player can't even read it anymore !!



Before (Chap5 Beta):

View attachment 3684005

After (Season 1) (blur):

View attachment 3684002

All of this "badly-doctored" artwork is evidence of a final release that was getting on his nerves, he clearly didn't want to spend additional time to get it out there. But as much as I love the game myself, and bought it on Steam on day 1, I feel this is truly a disgrace to what his game stands for in terms of render quality. I'm not questioning how valid these changes may or may not be, it's his game and he must have his reasons, but how poorly it was executed. It's even worse than that: have a look at the lake scene of topless Nami, and focus on the beer cans shots (I won't post these renders, too many already). See how some of those are re-renders where the snake logo has been replaced with the leaf (why?), but in other shots, the snake is still visible but blurred out?

All of these undoctored shots will be restored in the upcoming newer version of my mod, for those who care about such things.
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It is all very interesting but please....for those scrolling or with less than stellar bandwidth (it's also just good forum ettiquette), spoiler tag images if including a lot of them (especially if not going to use thumbnails).
 
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Maviarab said:
It is strange...I'm guessing the snake/leaf logo's are not of his design and something he found perhaps? Not royalty free perhaps? Who knows...the inconsistency is weird though, like you say, almost like he just gave up heh.

Will look forward to seeing them back in as they should be :)
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There are other examples of blur or re-renders I didn't mention. For example some of the cars (the Holgersons' car or Katie's car) were evidently based on Audi cars. He re-rendered the Holgerson's, but again for Katie's, he just blurred some of its features so it's no longer recognisable as an Audi. I decided the keep the re-rendering for the Holgersons', it's a minor change and has no consequence. The blurs however on Katie's :(

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alain8891 said:
There are other examples of blur or re-renders I didn't mention. For example some of the cars (the Holgersons' car or Katie's car) were evidently based on Audi cars. He re-rendered the Holgerson's, but again for Katie's, he just blurred some of its features so it's no longer recognisable as an Audi. I decided the keep the re-rendering for the Holgersons', it's a minor change and has no consequence. The blurs however on Katie's :(

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He really didnd't want to take any chances did he lol.

And that particular one is dumb, given everything else at that distance hasn't 'lost focus'.....*shakes head*
 
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FutureHNDXXX said:
Season 2 - Chapter 1 - Dev Log #6
Just now
Hello,

So... The first Dev Log of Season 2 with Season 1 behind us... It feels good.

I have just added the Android version to the pinned release post of Season 1 and released the two soundtrack packs on Steam.

50% of the revenue will go to the music artist. From my various talks with different artists, I know how little (if anything) most of them make.
I wish I could've done the same for Vesky, but he's with Musicbed, so that's not going to happen.

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The Intangible has been with me for a very long time, and I'd consider "
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" as much "SG" as most of the Vesky songs.

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I only found him recently, but he was a pleasure to talk to. His enthusiasm and the fact that we're both living in Berlin only added to it. And I really liked "Flüsternde Schatten."

Sadly, I still used the old contract for Late Kids. I find them criminally underrated, and I will soon contact them to re-license the music for Season 2 and use my new contract. If they accept, I will do the same for them when S2 releases on Steam.

GOG and EPIC
Season 1 will be released on GOG on the 17th, and Epic Games on the... Yeah... Umm... They found my Steam page and are forcing me to add achievements to Epic.

Epic:
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It's a pain in the ass to add the achievements to Epic. But hopefully, I'll finish that before the 17th.
(Both pages should be available in Germany.)

I will ask them for an exception if I can't get it to work. (I saw several posts of Devs who didn't have to do it.)

Season 1's pricing and the Serene Tier.
Let me also address the new Tier. I've mentioned through 2023, that Season 1 will match the pricing of the digital storefronts.
GOG, for example, checks my other stores and matches the pricing. I can't put the pricing there myself, so I had to adjust it.

Season 2 - Chapter 1 will, of course, be available for the Summer tier. ($5) Nothing will change to the Season 2 access until it is released on the storefronts.

SG's release on Steam was nice, but the greatest thing is that no more reworks are left. I can't even describe how "light" I feel.
By far, my personal highlight.
I, of course, still stand behind the reworks. Doing it was the right choice and now that it's done, it actually feels like I finished an update for once.
Previously, I finished, for example, Chapter 4, and I knew that another 2k renders were waiting for me with the rework... And by the time that was done, I was already under some pressure to release the next update.
It slurped me mentally. But the slurping is over.


Summer's Gone - Constellations
Season 2 - Chapter 1

Season 2 gets a fancy name and a fancy new UI.
Previews
My favorite camgirl.


"Must protect."

Besides the new main menu UI, the whole dialogue display has been upgraded. (Of course, Messe created it.)
This is how it would look in Season 2.


It's centralized now, and the choice menu also looks really nice. (I'll preview it in the next log.)
Quite a huge portion of S2-Chapter 1 is under non-disclosure. Previews will be limited for a while.
But in the next log, I will show some Bellchen previews.

I think next week, I've recharged my social batteries and will start contacting a few new music artists and the ones I want to take into Season 2.
This doesn't include Grace Mesa, etc.
Due to Season 2's adult nature, we won't be hearing them again—at least until I have enough "weight" to get custom deals with the big music companies.

I'll see you in two weeks!
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Two weeks later, will the DevLog be released today?
 
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