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

[Donnie Brasco]

I just finished Summer's Gone and the impression is pretty good. The lack of sex scenes is a little unusual for this type of entertainment, but I guess the second season will spice up this VN a bit. Someone asked me earlier who was my favorite, but since I just started playing the game I answered Summer. Now that I'm done I can say that there are at least half a dozen girls in the game and you can't go wrong choosing any of them. In my case, without a doubt, it would be Bella. However, if it turned out (2nd season) not to be such a good decision in the long run for one or more reasons, I don't think I would really be interested in continuing all that. Nami, which is one of the aforementioned good choices, certainly has a lot of fans here. However, I am not one of them and I can say that she was very often very irritating. It is very obvious that she is in love with the MC. And I'm pretty sure that when MC and Summer were in a relationship, she wished for Summer to leave more than once. Which eventually came true. However, sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for, because in the end not everything turns out exactly as you imagined. To put it mildly, the MC in particular did not take it very well.
I would add a few more details that caught my eye. I don't think any of the blondes in the game are natural. To be exact, there are at least ten blondes which are actually non-blondes. While playing, one song playing in the background seemed familiar to me, as if I had heard it before. The musician is Grace Mesa and then I discovered that he is the musician who made the song for Being A DIK as well. In the end, the songs are not the same, but I like them both. And finally Robin. She is definitively my second choice despite her weird mother, but I'm not sure she will have significant role in the future Robin's hairstyle is a hairstyle I've been looking for a long time. Luckily someone shared it on the Summer's Gone fan art thread.

 

[BobTheDuck]

When i was in school (5-13 years old more or less) there was a coffe shop with sweets and that stuff inside the school, students could buy candies, sandwiches and that type of things and teachers could buy a coffee or i don´t know, whatever they want (not alcohol of course). In high school there wasn´t any of that, and in college there was again a bar/coffee shop where students could eat and more.

I know in the majority of universities in my country there are some bars, in schools and high schools not many.

The university I went to and at least two others in my city have bars on campus. We even persuaded one lecturer to hold the lectures in the beer garden, that was 25 years ago. Only difference is now no lecturer would risk the public liability to hald the lecture in the bar

 

[OutOfAshes]

Wow.....you did what Ocean and MC couldn't do in 5 years.

well i work like a real German fast and efficient ..

 

[PaxHadrian17]

So many words and so much meaning. This guy has a lot of pathos, but he is completely incompetent when it comes to the professional 3D program that is Blender.
Blender is a great program, but it's not the toy he thinks it is and to work in it you need a systematic approach, not Ocean's “I'll only learn lighting” approach.
Ocean's approach is to work on instinct, it's a trait of almost all developers on this site, but it doesn't work with Blender, Zbrush and other programs.
You can't just take clothes from MD, put them on a character and make an animation, it won't work. You'd have to do retopology, and for retopology you have to understand topology. Not to mention that Blender has a separate section dedicated to geonodes, which allows you to do amazing simulations and effects.
So, if Ocean really wants to learn Blender and work in it, it's going to take time, and that means once-a-year updates are definitely not going to happen.
I'm actually very skeptical and negative about switching from DAZ to Blender, it doesn't make any sense. If Ocean decided to switch just because Blender has more cinematic lighting options, then he didn't know how to work with lighting even in DAZ itself.
Blender isn't perfect and it won't be able to pull off big scenes just like DAZ couldn't. To be successful in Blender, you first need to learn how to optimize scenes, understand where you can save polygons and where you can't.

I get that you have your 'professional' opinion about Ocean's abilities with Blender, and the inference re: Daz.

How much of Summers Gone, Season 1, did you actually play?

You see - I only see you commenting on a single dev log versus a 4+ year body of work.

It might be that Any opinion Anyone could draw about a dev with one dev log where he has posted 100+ dev logs might be a bit narrow in focus and lack 'full' understanding of the dev's capabilities...

As to Ocean's capabilities... here is what some voted for in the 2024 AVN Awards:





Just saying...

Cheers!!

 

[Wirrerr]

I get that you have your 'professional' opinion about Ocean's abilities with Blender, and the inference re: Daz.

How much of Summers Gone, Season 1, did you actually play?

You see - I only see you commenting on a single dev log versus a 4+ year body of work.

It might be that Any opinion Anyone could draw about a dev with one dev log where he has posted 100+ dev logs might be a bit narrow in focus and lack 'full' understanding of the dev's capabilities...

As to Ocean's capabilities... here is what some voted for the 2024 AVN Awards:

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Just saying...

Cheers!!

and let's not forget the Best Looking Characters

 

[mostwanted8]

Sasha's tiddies quite obviously also seem to have more "material".

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Odean did a good job with the best girl's boobies

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[BobTheDuck]

So many words and so much meaning. This guy has a lot of pathos, but he is completely incompetent when it comes to the professional 3D program that is Blender.
Blender is a great program, but it's not the toy he thinks it is and to work in it you need a systematic approach, not Ocean's “I'll only learn lighting” approach.
Ocean's approach is to work on instinct, it's a trait of almost all developers on this site, but it doesn't work with Blender, Zbrush and other programs.
You can't just take clothes from MD, put them on a character and make an animation, it won't work. You'd have to do retopology, and for retopology you have to understand topology. Not to mention that Blender has a separate section dedicated to geonodes, which allows you to do amazing simulations and effects.
So, if Ocean really wants to learn Blender and work in it, it's going to take time, and that means once-a-year updates are definitely not going to happen.
I'm actually very skeptical and negative about switching from DAZ to Blender, it doesn't make any sense. If Ocean decided to switch just because Blender has more cinematic lighting options, then he didn't know how to work with lighting even in DAZ itself.
Blender isn't perfect and it won't be able to pull off big scenes just like DAZ couldn't. To be successful in Blender, you first need to learn how to optimize scenes, understand where you can save polygons and where you can't.

So I agree with you, Ocean won't learn blender by just focusing on lighting. But do you know how long he's been practicing and fiddling with blender? I think it's somthing like two years. Ocean isn't happy yet with his blender skills and won't transition to blender until he's surpassed what he can do in daz. The lighting thing is judt a recent thing. He's just using it as an insight into the way he thinks (obsessively sometimes) about details. He's not looking at it as the only solution. But by looking at it he realises what some of his compromises in daz are, and what ways of thinking he has to drop, while continuing to put up with it until his blender skills are superior.

I mention this because 1 you sound like you're talking shop, which means you know more about blender than I do and 2 your account is shiny and new, you probably haven't read all 13 devlogs for season 2, and possibly haven't seen any of season 1 devlogs, and might not even know about WiaB's (his other game set in the same world 20 years earlier) devlogs. You're possibly unaware that he paid for courses for a second worker (which didn't work out as they weren't passionate enough) to develop sets in blender, or that Ocean has been doing his own courses for professional development. The fact that he hasn't written in detail about all of his blender discoveries... well I personally would prefer he put that time into the games than explain it to people on a pirate site. At the end of the day, people will judge the results, not the devlogs.

All I can say is Ocean does abuse the sculting tools when it comes to breasts. Only Eva hasn't his puberty despite being old enough and all the others risk hormone therapy whenever Ocean is testing boob physics As far as the problems go, Ocean does get lighting right far more than stopping messing with his girls. I'm stuck with the face I'm born with, let them stay recognisable from now too.

 

[Adhdclassic]

Funny I was thinking about the pill Sasha gives Nika
Sertraline
nah I would rather have depression and Anxiety issues.
2 of the mass amount of side effects is erectile dysfunction and sexual issues.
Should Nika be using this?

 

[SlowGoesSlow]

Funny I was thinking about the pill Sasha gives Nika
Sertraline
nah I would rather have depression and Anxiety issues.
2 of the mass amount of side effects is erectile dysfunction and sexual issues.
Should Nika be using this?

It's not like his dick is working anyway.

 

[Adhdclassic]

It's not like his dick is working anyway.

Exactly.

 

[BobTheDuck]

Funny I was thinking about the pill Sasha gives Nika
Sertraline
nah I would rather have depression and Anxiety issues.
2 of the mass amount of side effects is erectile dysfunction and sexual issues.
Should Nika be using this?

What would make more sense is if he'd already been using it and Amber prescribed an alternative to get him excited by life without drugs

 

[Adhdclassic]

What would make more sense is if he'd already been using it and Amber prescribed an alternative to get him excited by life without drugs

Looked at the rest of those side effects and there are a lot. There is a contradictory side effect. As I said before erectile dysfunction was on the list but there is a penile issue some men get a 4-hour painful erection. so maybe he should take it give Bella her fun.

 

[BobTheDuck]

Looked at the rest of those side effects and there are a lot. There is a contradictory side effect. As I said before erectile dysfunction was on the list but there is a penile issue some men get a 4-hour painful erection. so maybe he should take it give Sasha her fun.

Fixed it. Only fair to supply his supplier

 

[Adhdclassic]

Fixed it. Only fair to supply his supplier

Touche

 

[Adhdclassic]

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They got the same hairdo. Frightening how similar they look.

 

[vampires69'in]

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They got the same hairdo. Frightening how similar they look.

 

[BobTheDuck]

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The best wrong! I hope she's got more screentime than this joke.

 

[Dr.TSoni]

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They got the same hairdo. Frightening how similar they look.

 

[Deleted member 7769805]

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Yeh I often got a few problems with games, like some models all look the same, so half way during the game you don't know who is who.

Another problem I often have is, they create a LI, and then they change her tits or her hair style, so all you 'invested Love' is going out the door, and you need to rekind yourself to that model.

 

[Dr.TSoni]

Yeh I often got a few problems with games, like some models all look the same, so half way during the game you don't know who is who.

Another problem I often have is, they create a LI, and then they change her tits or her hair style, so all you 'invested Love' is going out the door, and you need to rekind yourself to that model.

Aside from the hair style, I agree with everything. I don't mind Cheeto's hair style changes