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As this game approaches its next release, the big question on my mind is... have they made a serious attempt to advance the main plot lines, answer the questions in the opening scenes, and fill in WIPs like the library lounge, or has it focused once again on satisfying the fetish requests of the patrons?
Those questions have been answered long ago. Patreons voted for Jenny in 0.18, Eve in 0.19 and main story in 0.20 release.
 

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So, with that logic, a street artist who is working on a road painting has to draw faster the more people he attracts and the more tip he gets, yes? That makes perfect sense. Not.

It's not DC's fault that people apparently like the game so much to donate all that money. Where in that whole concept is it said that he has to work faster only because people throw their mony at him?
If the creator takes longer than other creators making much less money, that is the point the criticism. You make it too simple. If he is making that much money, you bet he should be working much harder than others, and apparently, others are making less are working harder. If people stop throwing money then dont complain.
 
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I will explain what I am talking about.
If they really had some kind of operating time of a new game or a whole product, then SS issues would have gone much faster, since the DCs would not have to worry about income, since there is a new project. However, neither the new project nor the stable release of SS is observed. I supported this project for too long so as not to notice such an obvious scheme.
You're welcome to your opinion, negative as it may be. From what I've seen of said opinion, you mainly want a lower quality game with quick updates to satisfy your fapping needs. I don't blame you. That's the normal thing for this genre of games, so it's what you expect.

However, it's rather obvious to me that DC wants a well designed game that has some substance beyond providing spank material. Something with quality AND quantity. It does seem to me that Summertime Saga is a labor of love for him. He's doing what he wants to do with each character while allowing the patrons to dictate the order he works in. He's not having anyone tell him what to do with each character. It almost feels as though he wants to legitimize adult interactive fiction through his work. Show people that it can be more than just fapping material. I'd liken him to Sierra Lee. She also works rather slowly but puts a lot of effort into her writing and storytelling.

Personally, I feel that this sort of title isn't for you, at least, not until it's completed. You're too impatient for new material. You've become accustomed to a faster paced release cycle set down by previous creators.
 
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If the creator takes longer than other creators making much less money, that is the point the criticism. You make it too simple. If he is making that much money, you bet he should be working much harder than others, and apparently, others are making less are working harder. If people stop throwing money then dont complain.
Are they working harder though? As I said in a previous post, they're copy/pasting prerendered 3D models into pre-made rooms and taking screenshots. Oftentimes, the writing is subpar with glaring typos or grammatical errors. I'd say making every scene from scratch is harder.
 
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So, with that logic, a street artist who is working on a road painting has to draw faster the more people he attracts and the more tip he gets, yes? That makes perfect sense. Not.

It's not DC's fault that people apparently like the game so much to donate all that money. Where in that whole concept is it said that he has to work faster only because people throw their mony at him?
You completely misunderstood my point. But lets look at your example since its completely different than game development and on its own context makes no sense. If a street artist is making art and people around him come to look at his creation and throw money at him it would not make him draw faster. It may entice him to wow the crowd but thats it. But if the same street artist made a promise of a sizeable amount of art and is given a large sum of money to continue to evolve his art, would people simply sit around idly for 6 months while he mixes his paints? What if the artist continues to make more promises that would lead to a bigger picture, but that would take 6 months to finish? The problem here is that the hypothetical artist in question is no longer doing street art, they are being funded by patreon supporters. There is money going into the development of the game/art. Large sums of money that carry with it, large expectations. This is no fault of the artist that is the reality of the world. Not only that, one of his patreon goals was to hire other people to work on the game. So its no longer a street artist that we are looking at but a team of artists working on the same piece of art. It should go faster no matter in which way you look at it. But alas there are always complications.
 

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Facepalm...
What kind of quality you say, the same body and different heads. Same breasts on identical bodies? The plot with Diana "wait 5-6-7-8 days." Full and ugly redrawing without which you could do? Can a branch be completed in a pool that has been from the beginning? Just ugly releases of versions 0.17.0. and 0.17.5?
Perhaps your logic follows from the fact that you did not support the author in dollars and you are satisfied with everything?
Old: Really high quality drawn
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Dianne update was also kinda subpar in comparison. Why not use the Roxxy update, which had great character progression, great art, and great scenes? Dianne suffered because she started off as the aunt and then was changed. Her story really doesn't make sense with the relationship changes.
 

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Only bug fixes are left now
in accord with the PT it still seems to code both the animation and the last amount of content related to it,since both writting isnt closed yet,and the 2 parts of coding related to both the last animation and the writing are lacking,unless both the progress trackers are wrong and the game is just on the bugfixing now...
 
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in accord with the PT it still seems to code both the animation and the last amount of content related to it,since both writting isnt closed yet,and the 2 parts of coding related to both the last animation and the writing are lacking,unless both the progress trackers are wrong and the game is just on the bugfixing now...
the writer (captainsploosh) said on discord that only bug fixes are left now
 
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Neither did I. You made the argument about a point no one made which you're doing right now.



Missing the point that people stop their funding for their own reasons in a cyclical pattern which is what you're ignoring.
I have 0 clue what you're arguing in favor of or what you're even trying to say. I suspect you tried to butt into the conversation as a form of "Gotcha!" and that failed.
 
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You are already looking for extremes, Roxxy was nothing at all, a couple of simple scenes that gave nothing. I will repeat the question that you ignore, why did start to redraw? Why did they remove the branch with Diana and replace it with some sort of trash? Why bother to release any new characters when the old ones have been standing still for several years?
If all you're looking for is sex scenes, then yes. But, as I said earlier, I feel like DC is trying to show that AIF can be so much more than spank fodder. Roxxy's character development was amazing in her update. She was a character I had little interest in, being the perfect, blonde, popular girl. but, but the end of her story, she showed herself as being more than tha, that she lived a rough life with an alcoholic mother and weird-o cousin, that her relationship was abusive with Dexter and that she was loyal to her friends.

If this genre of gaming is ever going to get a proper shot at becoming more mainstream and acceptable, we have to stop looking at these games as little more than jerk-off material.

As for why new characters are being worked on and old ones being changed, that's because that's what the patrons voted for. The ones funding this game.
 

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If this genre of gaming is ever going to get a proper shot at becoming more mainstream and acceptable, we have to stop looking at these games as little more than jerk-off material.
Lets be honest here, its never going mainstream and it is and will remian jerf off material. Look at Dead & Alive series, great gameplay but focus on too much tits destroyed its reputation. Also what does this game even have other than sex scenes that we can consider a non hentai game? The awful minigames?
 

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Lets be honest here, its never going mainstream and it is and will remian jerf off material. Look at Dead & Alive series, great gameplay but focus on too much tits destroyed its reputation. Also what does this game even have other than sex scenes that we can consider a non hentai game? The awful minigames?
The decent writing and characters that you can actually be interested in. 90% of pornographics games are little more than charcaters that you quickly get in the sack after speaking to them twice.
 

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So, with that logic, a street artist who is working on a road painting has to draw faster the more people he attracts and the more tip he gets, yes? That makes perfect sense. Not.

It's not DC's fault that people apparently like the game so much to donate all that money. Where in that whole concept is it said that he has to work faster only because people throw their mony at him?
The artist isint providing a product, DC is. There is a difference between a charity and funding a product.
 
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The decent writing and characters that you can actually be interested in. 90% of pornographics games are little more than charcaters that you quickly get in the sack after speaking to them twice.
Folks arent paying for a character development which is passible at best, if they wanted that, they could just read a book. People are essentialy paying for living steroytpes getting their brains banged out.
 
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Folks arent paying for a character development which is passible at best, if they wanted that, they could just read a book. People are essentialy paying for living steroytpes getting their brains banged out.
Some are. But, by that reasoning, so many people wouldn't be tipping/paying DC for the product he's making. If that's all people wanted, they'd be paying others even more for games with quick updates to spank material. The fact that he's getting so much for a game with quality updates that have you work a bit before you start banging tends to go against what you say.
 
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