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

[Dr.TSoni]

Don't worry, before Ocean will manage to release his precious baby, it will be Winter's Gone...

I'll butt in for a moment.
For those less familiar with the topic, when it comes to Ocean's, the seasons are those of Westeros.

 

[RNasc4444]

Summer's Gone and Winter is coming

"Summer's Gone" is only 1 of 4 books. We're still missing "Autumn's Here", "Winter's Cumming" and "Spring has Sprung".

*CUMMING! Winter's Cumming.

Get it right, man!

 

[DarkOs31]

Just read the Dev logs here that will tell you what's up.{use that search thingy that people tend to forget about}
But yes there is an update coming......join the rest of us
in the pool date.....you might get lucky!

I really hope most of us are wrong and there'll be a release in December .
Reality is,the more popular an AVN gets,the releases take more and more time and no it's not cuz it takes more time.
It's more like "how long can i milk the system until those dumbfucks realise it" , most of the time it goes like this :
First 3-4 high quality releases in a short time (maybe in 1 year) ,popularity skyrockets,patrons increase and money flows in.
Second phase,updates take 6-8 months "cuz quality takes time"
Third phase ,updates take more and more time and excuses arise like "some illness,HDD crashed and lost all assets,or even a hurricane crashed their house" ,sprinkle some polls and some exclusive "8k highest tier" personal request char. renders who'll absolutely apear in the next update (Promise promise) and you have the perfect business created with low effort.
That's what's happening most of the time,YES there are still reliable devs out there who deserve our money ,who are working really really hard to produce high quality content,and there are also devs struggeling with poor quality games,but putting all their heart into this poor quality games.

 

[yossa999]

From reading the latest comments, it seems that people still expect an update to drop even though the last one was over a year ago. Are we sure something new is coming soon? Or is it just hope?

Depends on how you define "soon".

If you're one of those guys who expects updates every 2-3-4 months, then no, SG has never had "short" update cycles.
Furthermore, the current update will be approximately the size of 3-4 regular SG updates. Plus, a few months ago, WiAB update was released (including on Steam), which is approximately twice the size of regular WiAB updates.

Another notable feature of Ocean is that he releases updates sooner or later. Over the five years of WiAB and SG's existence, many games that launched around the same time and were warmly welcomed by the public and had high expectations and promises were abandoned. SG and WiAB are still here. You can read his be-weekly dev logs and see how development is progressing, so unless he's put a ton of effort and imagination into fake logs, the current update's development is heading towards the completion.

If nothing happens to the dev, I think the update will be released near the end of the year, although I wouldn't put my finger on a specific date - it could be December, or January of next year. Ocean has never been known for very accurate time estimates. What I'm sure of is the game hasn't been abandoned, and the dev is working on it.

 

[DarkOs31]

Another notable feature of Ocean is that he releases updates sooner or later. Over the five years of WiAB and SG's existence, many games that launched around the same time and were warmly welcomed by the public and had high expectations and promises were abandoned. SG and WiAB are still here.

That's why i still believe in him. YES the updates take a lot of time,but he always backed it up with incredible renders,story and animations.
I admit i was sceptical about the WIAB remake,but visually it's a better game now,can't say for sure cuz i stopped at 0.3 cuz to many games in my backlog.
Even i'm a sucker when it comes to Kat,lol.

Funfact : yesterday i saw a license plate from a german car "WI : AB **19"
(WI = Wiesbaden)

 

[SToyS]

Another notable feature of Ocean is that he releases updates sooner or later. You can read his be-weekly dev logs and see how development is progressing, so unless he's put a ton of effort and imagination into fake logs, the current update's development is heading towards the completion.

From April to December last year (9 months), Ocean made 1800 renders for SG. At this rate of work, it will be "late" rather than "early". Well, as for the rest, I completely agree with you.

 

[SDDA]

That's why i still believe in him. YES the updates take a lot of time,but he always backed it up with incredible renders,story and animations.
I admit i was sceptical about the WIAB remake,but visually it's a better game now,can't say for sure cuz i stopped at 0.3 cuz to many games in my backlog.
Even i'm a sucker when it comes to Kat,lol.

Funfact : yesterday i saw a license plate from a german car "WI : AB **19"
(WI = Wiesbaden)

Could you please tell me what this amazing story is?
Because so far, what I’ve seen is: an emo boy goes to university where every girl is a bombshell and, of course, they all instantly fall for him. Meanwhile, he’s struggling with trauma, goes to therapy, but somehow is also extremely gifted in sports. Even the characters are classic AVN archetypes: the tomboy sister, the rude blonde, the sports freak, the poor girl who needs saving, the caring stepmom… It’s not terrible, but honestly we’ve all seen this play out a hundred times before.


What really carries the game are the visuals. The renders have always been top-notch, no question there. But let’s be real—in six years of development since 2019, only about two weeks of in-game time have passed, and the introduction is still the only part that’s actually finished
So where is the "he always backed it up with story" part? - The most generic AVN story and it barely moved in 6 years, maybe im too blind to see it.

Lets not even bring up things like when he wasted months of development time on a DND board game...

 

[El_Magnifico]

Could you please tell me what this amazing story is?
Because so far, what I’ve seen is: an emo boy goes to university where every girl is a bombshell and, of course, they all instantly fall for him. Meanwhile, he’s struggling with trauma, goes to therapy, but somehow is also extremely gifted in sports. Even the characters are classic AVN archetypes: the tomboy sister, the rude blonde, the sports freak, the poor girl who needs saving, the caring stepmom… It’s not terrible, but honestly we’ve all seen this play out a hundred times before.

Minus the part where Emo Boy hasn't still fucked a single one of them because he still can't get a boner

 

[DarkOs31]

Could you please tell me what this amazing story is?
Because so far, what I’ve seen is: an emo boy goes to university where every girl is a bombshell and, of course, they all instantly fall for him. Meanwhile, he’s struggling with trauma, goes to therapy, but somehow is also extremely gifted in sports. Even the characters are classic AVN archetypes: the tomboy sister, the rude blonde, the sports freak, the poor girl who needs saving, the caring stepmom… It’s not terrible, but honestly we’ve all seen this play out a hundred times before.


What really carries the game are the visuals. The renders have always been top-notch, no question there. But let’s be real—in six years of development since 2019, only about two weeks of in-game time have passed, and the introduction is still the only part that’s actually finished
So where is the "he always backed it up with story" part? - The most generic AVN story and it barely moved in 6 years, maybe im too blind to see it.

Lets not even bring up things like when he wasted months of development time on a DND board game...

Then why are you still here?

 

[DarkOs31]

Because so far, what I’ve seen is: an emo boy goes to university where every girl is a bombshell and, of course, they all instantly fall for him. Meanwhile, he’s struggling with trauma, goes to therapy, but somehow is also extremely gifted in sports. Even the characters are classic AVN archetypes: the tomboy sister, the rude blonde, the sports freak, the poor girl who needs saving, the caring stepmom… It’s not terrible, but honestly we’ve all seen this play out a hundred times before.

Ofcourse we've seen those tropes everywhere,thats the common trope of story telling,no?
Annoying tsundere girls from manhwa's/manga's etc. ,giga chads like Mc who's talented as fuck etc. ,why should i pinpoint the flaws?
All you said is the norm of story telling,so we shouldn't watch blockbuster movies cuz the story was told in other movies before?

 

[X2JZcf]

what this amazing story is?

 

[SDDA]

Ofcourse we've seen those tropes everywhere,thats the common trope of story telling,no?
Annoying tsundere girls from manhwa's/manga's etc. ,giga chads like Mc who's talented as fuck etc. ,why should i pinpoint the flaws?
All you said is the norm of story telling,so we shouldn't watch blockbuster movies cuz the story was told in other movies before?

I never said he should’ve avoided every possible cliché or that he had to come up with something entirely unique. Defending your point doesn’t mean putting words in my mouth. What I asked was: when exactly did he ‘back it up with story’ that you’re so in awe of? Because from what I see, aside from the generic tropes there isn’t much else yet — we just finished the introduction. Two weeks of clichés stretched over six years of development doesn’t exactly sound like amazing storytelling to me. Sorry the unique part is when he made the MC impotent unless he thinks of his childhood friend that he last saw when they were kids.

 

[DarkOs31]

I never said he should’ve avoided every possible cliché or that he had to come up with something entirely unique. Defending your point doesn’t mean putting words in my mouth. What I asked was: when exactly did he ‘back it up with story’ that you’re so in awe of? Because from what I see, aside from the generic tropes there isn’t much else yet — we just finished the introduction. Two weeks of clichés stretched over six years of development doesn’t exactly sound like amazing storytelling to me.

Before you try to insult me,i never tried "Defending your point doesn’t mean putting words in my mouth." nor was it my intention.
Showing a lil bit of myself in an anonymous forum,the way he pictured Nika is something i respect,cuz reasons.
You are right,six years of development and this is all we got isn't satisfactory,no reason to suggar coat it.

 

[grey_shadow]

Ah, yes, the classic "woman dealing with trauma from hitting another character with her vehicle" that's in every other game, along with the sister trope "saintly cripple whose legs don't work but whose libido just kicked back in"

 

[RNasc4444]

Lets not even bring up things like when he wasted months of development time on a DND board game...

The idea is awesome and it brings all kinds of interesting possibilities. It's sad that the implementation so far sucks absolute ass but let's not discard the DND stuff just yet.

 

[DarkOs31]

Lets not even bring up things like when he wasted months of development time on a DND board game.

Lol,you are so clever?
It's a skill issue on your side if you need to blame his work.you don't like his AVN,fine.
Why don't you just skip the bullshit and tell us your real reason for disliking this AVN?

 

[flaviopaganini]

I agree with all sides, the story really is quite cliché, and what stands out are the visuals. But let’s be honest, the dev deserves credit no matter what. After all, this community has kept the topic alive all this time, full of theories about the plot. Just for that alone, I think he deserves some recognition.

 

[LHDLLB]

I agree with all sides, the story really is quite cliché, and what stands out are the visuals. But let’s be honest, the dev deserves credit no matter what. After all, this community has kept the topic alive all this time, full of theories about the plot. Just for that alone, I think he deserves some recognition.

The plot is cliche but is very engaging and Ocean has a unique talent for writing characters

 

[Tremonia]

Ocean has a unique talent for writing characters

DUUUUUUDEEEE!!! You can't just come out of nowhere with bangers like that. Because of you, I choked on my tea and almost coughed my lungs out! But it was a good one. I give you that.

 

[LHDLLB]

DUUUUUUDEEEE!!! You can't just come out of nowhere with bangers like that. Because of you, I choked on my tea and almost coughed my lungs out! But it was a good one. I give you that.

I mean you don't need to like the man or is work, I have many complain about both AVNs, but to negate his quality is just silly. For all his fault Ocean has a unique talent to writing character that plus is quality as a visual artist allowing him to give life to this character is the reason that SG and WiaB has such a fanbase. The plot has just enough mystery to keep one going but in true is nothing that is really breaking the mold, it is very cliche in some places and all the reworks really did not did either story any favors.

EDIT: Gramatical errros