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

[RNasc4444]

You said it. It's a game in development, so yes, everything is in flux until it gets fixed in the final release. Or maybe not...

Have you read how J. R. R. Tolkien "developed" his Middle Earth "universe"? Every story of each character was re-written a shit ton of times through several decades until some of them were fixed in The Hobbit...
And then some of them re-written and fixed in a slightly different way in The Lord of the Rings

And some of his stories were never fixed anywhere until his son tacked these stories together somehow in the Silmarillion. Wasn't it described in the introduction part, I kind of remember vaguely? How he found multiple versions of the same story and then multiple versions of another story with some other characters, but the "history" or parts of the story in the first story didn't match the other story and so on.

This is how stories are written. They are in flux until the final version gets published. And sometimes the next story published re-writes some things again.

In Oceans case, the Steam release of a full season seems to be the publishing part that fixes the story in place. Hopefully.

You can either try to cope with it. Or go full retard. Never go full retard, man!

Ok nevermind I was wrong. I am actually further away from yossa than I've ever been I just had to read your post to realize how utterly insane that fucking take is.

Once you publish anything THAT should be the final version of everything that has been written so far. THAT is how you tell a story. THAT is how you write a story. Jesus fucking Christ imagine JK Rowling publishing the 3rd HP book in which she makes a couple of changes. Turns out the story is actually in 1800's Mexico and Hermione is a talking poncho I can't even find the proper words to describe how fucking absurd that is.

 

[Hobocop Harrier du bois]

Ok nevermind I was wrong. I am actually further away from yossa than I've ever been I just had to read your post to realize how utterly insane that fucking take is.

Once you publish anything THAT should be the final version of everything that has been written so far. THAT is how you tell a story. THAT is how you write a story. Jesus fucking Christ imagine JK Rowling publishing the 3rd HP book in which she makes a couple of changes. Turns out the story is actually in 1800's Mexico and Hermione is a talking poncho I can't even find the proper words to describe how fucking absurd that is.

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[Havoc_313]

Started the vn and I've got renders missing like crazy

 

[John972]

I’ve read what you all said, but isn’t WIAB a game with multiple love interests? So you choose who William ends up with, which means nothing is really set in stone when it comes to who’s the parent of who in Summer’s Gone. Unless there’s one canon ending in WIAB and the rest are just alternate universes where you pick the LI you want… of course, a harem ending would fix all of this.

It depends on how many SG characters are canonically fathered by WIAB William. At this point, Ayua is the only strong candidate. Everyone else is speculation with no real evidence.

Then, it depends on how WIAB plays out. Just because William potentially ends up with a particular LI at the end of the game doesn't preclude him manwhoring progeny into this world with multiple women along the way. The downside is that would involve forced pregnancy to kept both AVNs aligned. At this point, the only likely forced pregnancy would be with Miru because of Ayua, and WIAB has already established that Miru wants to have William's babies, hell or high water.

A real killer plot twist would be if William turns out to be impotent.

 

[Ray_D]

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[Rhinoisliquidjuice448]

Has it been stated what role Katie plays into season 2 and beyond? Also is there any other wiab character teased to appear in this season aside those who had already appeared?

 

[Hobocop Harrier du bois]

Has it been stated what role Katie plays into season 2 and beyond?

We'll have to wait and see.

Also is there any other wiab character teased to appear in this season aside those who had already appeared?

Well since nika is gonna go train in Ayua's dojo, we'll most likely meet Miru. If there's gonna be a second book club meeting, we might meet leia. Other than that, it's up to the writer.

 

[Crashbullet]

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might be Ayua sisters. You’ll recognize Adriana (?) from the book club with her tattoos

I think it's Seryl's little sister.

 

[Monetka_]

 

[bobbo69]

There was a post from the Dev yesterday

Summer's Gone - Season 2 - Chapter 1 - Dev Log #30

 

[Maccabbee]

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I just love Nadia and her banana. They're so fun.

 

[Hobocop Harrier du bois]

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Who circumcised the banana? Poor Nadia..

 

[Penfold Mole]

Once you publish anything THAT should be the final version of everything that has been written so far. THAT is how you tell a story. THAT is how you write a story. Jesus fucking Christ imagine JK Rowling publishing the 3rd HP book in which she makes a couple of changes. Turns out the story is actually in 1800's Mexico and Hermione is a talking poncho I can't even find the proper words to describe how fucking absurd that is.

You might have missed what I tried to say, that it looks to me as if Ocean doesn't really count the story being published until a full season is finished and published as a full game on Steam and other game stores. Partial seasons available chapter by chapter on Patreon seems to me as an early access WIP (Work In Progress) draft.
If you consider this as your point of view, you might avoid going crazy over every change in details, minor or major.

Would I be writing a story this way or developing a game, I might be inclined to do the same. Actually, quite a few other devs do the same.
Being an author isn't that easy. You can always see flaws in your story and you want to tweak its details as long as possible. Even after publishing it, make a re-write, a new "improved" edition after a while

 

[yossa999]

Who circumcised the banana? Poor Nadia..

I think it's from the egg-room on Ocean's Discord, they put eggs on renders from the game. Although I haven't seen this render of Nadia.

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