Ren'Py Summertime Saga [v21.0.0 wip.4468] [Kompas Productions]

[Omnikuken]

I find it amusing that so many people are angry that OTHER people are supporting this game on Patreon. Do any of these people know what Patreon actually is? It is not a Kickstarter. It is not an Indiegogo. By signing up to Patreon, you are becoming a Patron of the arts. Being a Patron does not give you anything except the pleasure in knowing you supported this particular artist. You are paying to support the artist in whatever works catches his fancy. If DC decided to spend the next 6 months making a nude self portrait in the Summertime art style, that is his choice. And it is the Patrons choice to continue to support this artist in his endeavors. This is not about Game Development and Project Management as many seem to believe. It is about the passion of the artist for his work, and the passion of his Patrons.

He did stream and film himself naked for the 30k$ reward ....... You're not far off reality

 

[BPLydia]

He did stream and film himself naked for the 30k$ reward ....... You're not far off reality

wait,WTF!?? I'm out of the loop here lmao. Can u give us more context?

 

[srksrk 68]

wait,WTF!?? I'm out of the loop here lmao. Can u give us more context?

I think that was the thing he promised on Patreon he would do once the $30,000 were reached

So noone says DC doesn't stand to his word!

 

[srksrk 68]

Please try this save and try to access the computer in the room. I have fixed it, when I try to log in getting an error and I can't ignore it this time anymore. I have extracted your mod in the Summertime/game folder. All the resources are there.
Erro:

  File "/media/Woooo/Summer_mod/renpy/loader.py", line 576, in load
    raise IOError("Couldn't find file '%s'." % name)
IOError: Couldn't find file 'backgrounds/computer_no_nude.png'.

While loading <'Image' u'backgrounds/computer_no_nude.png'>:
  File "renpy/common/000statements.rpy", line 531, in execute_call_screen
    store._return = renpy.call_screen(name, *args, **kwargs)
IOError: Couldn't find file 'backgrounds/computer_no_nude.png'.

OK, I went through the pain and installed Ubuntu 20.04 in a VMware box, and Summertime Saga inside it -- including Mod and all optional content. Runs fine without any issues (once I figured out how to run it at all, that is). I also loaded your save and it works perfectly, without any issue. So I absolutely do not know what runs wrong on your end...

I can now add Ubuntu to the list of supported platforms even.

 

[xupenzio72]

I turned off the mods and now idk how to activate.
Any help????

 

[ShinigamiEX]

Please open the console (SHIFT+O) and type:

config.searchpath

Do you see the game folder in the output? The one containing the images folder? It should look something like:

[<...some paths to optional content, if any>,
'<summertime folder>/game',
'<summertime folder>'/renpy/common']

If it does look like that, try disable the optional content in the configuration UI (parameter NO_OVERRIDES), start the game again and see if that helps. Check the searchpath again to be sure that no optional content is in the list.
Also, if the problem persists, we should move this discussion to the Mod's thread.

Thank you for all the responses. I did a fresh install last night and it worked perfectly.

 

[codex35]

He did stream and film himself naked for the 30k$ reward ....... You're not far off reality

lol when ?

 

[srksrk 68]

I turned off the mods and now idk how to activate.
Any help????

If you are talking about Naughty Tribute Mod: go to the main menu (either ending the save you have currently loaded, or close the game down and start again without loading a save). On the screen showing the picture of MC on his bike, click on the text at the bottom saying "Naughty Tribute Mod [...] -- DISABLED", close the game and restart.

 

[nawbra]

If an enterprise doesn't possess the flexibility, workforce, methodology, or time to complete a process as part of a project, do you know what they do? They hire contractors. I contract for a living. I come in, do a thing, and leave when it's finished. Rinse and repeat, that's my role.

People underestimate just how expensive that can be in the long run. Some tasks are good for contracting - like perhaps the art if DC can adequately convey his vision & have contractors that can match his style, but just look at the time loss that has happened with the programmer staff changes DC has made and how substantially the codebase has changed. You start hiring rotating groups of contractors and you're going to either be left with complete spaghetti code or significant repeat costs in onboarding and refactoring as different people have different opinions on what is 'best'.

I'll 100% agree that I don't understand how there isn't more progress at ~$60,000/m, but to say it's a bad business practice on the part of DC is silly anyways. Look at any large company - they try to optimize profits all the time. From a capitalistic perspective if the community values his service at ~$60k why should he try to provide more content? Do we expect that his patreon support will increase at a proportional rate? If it doesn't he's making a non optimal financial decision and if it does we'll be right back at square 1 with people saying that DC makes $90k/m, but doesn't produce 1.5 times faster.

 

[j4yj4m]

Do we expect that his patreon support will increase at a proportional rate? If it doesn't he's making a non optimal financial decision and if it does we'll be right back at square 1 with people saying that DC makes $90k/m, but doesn't produce 1.5 times faster.

Once we talk about art and creative areas this rising gap is actually pretty normal. Your favorite band, singer, actor etc. won't start to release 10 times as many songs, movies, etc. either, just because they are suddenly making millions instead of peanuts.

They release what they produce and the money they make is determined by how many people like what they do.

Else I'm indeed sure that his support would grow if he'd manage to hire people he needs, but then we'll indeed be back to where we are now. Some will always complain anyway.

 

[Sothyr]

My got an update.

I got some issues reported and I hope I removed all.

I do not play the game in the moment. I need 3-4 versions until I play patreon games again.
But if I get reported in the mod thread any issues, I will try to solve them.

I just can't test the issues myself. I need a screenshot of the situation (or the exact sentence and wih a short description of the scene).


And thanks for adding the mod in the main post. But it is not .

 

[kakekiko]

He did stream and film himself naked for the 30k$ reward ....... You're not far off reality

did anyone record it?

 

[nolli]

Once we talk about art and creative areas this rising gap is actually pretty normal. Your favorite band, singer, actor etc. won't start either to release 10 times as many songs, movies, etc. either, just because they are suddenly making millions instead of peanuts.

They put out there what they produce and the money they make is determined by how many people like what they do.

Else I'm indeed sure that his support would grow if he'd manage to hire people he needs, but then we'll indeed be back to where we are now. Some will always complain anyway.

For what this "game" is and don't get oh it's technical and codings difficult and blah blah bullshit then look at what jobs out there pay that type of money each month Senators, Congressman don't even come close, then reckon on 7 years, then do the math, these people are batshit crazy congrats you've created a multi $m for a fap.

 

[GeneGodHand]

then look at what jobs out there pay that type of money each month Senators, Congressman don't even come close, then reckon on 7 years, then do the math, these people are batshit crazy congrats you've created a multi $m for a fap.

i'll trade any senator and congressman for a good fap, idk about you

 

[Omnikuken]

For what this "game" is and don't get oh it's technical and codings difficult and blah blah bullshit then look at what jobs out there pay that type of money each month Senators, Congressman don't even come close, then reckon on 7 years, then do the math, these people are batshit crazy congrats you've created a multi $m for a fap.

Let's pretend DC keeps all of that for himself and the other 4 devs get nothing. Let's also pretend tax and govt doesn't take about 1/2 of what each dude gets. Let's now pretend he didn't put his wife on the credit roll

 

[j4yj4m]

did anyone record it?

Not that it'm aware. There's a picture of him wearing a horse head while doing that stream floating around but that's it. It was spontaneous on some porn platform and thus many people missed it. And to be fair, it was obviously a joke when he created that target and he thought he'd never reach it. So it's kind of understanable that he didn't advertise it.

For what this "game" is and don't get oh it's technical and codings difficult and blah blah bullshit then look at what jobs out there pay that type of money each month Senators, Congressman don't even come close, then reckon on 7 years, then do the math, these people are batshit crazy congrats you've created a multi $m for a fap.

It's not like somebody is paying that kind of money alone. The average patron pays ~$2,5 while many pay $1. The numbers get big because DC seems to have a pretty much global audience by now where the US/noth american part of the playerbase is actually only third behind SEA and europe.

 

[TheFapperBoy]

I'm guessing the people that constantly push the "HE'S MILKING HIS PATREONS!" narrative have never followed a developer that has actually milked his Patreons. I don't get it. DarkCookie has never pulled the shit that Developers like ICSTOR, or Gumdrop have done. He's never abandoned the game. He's never not delivered an update. His content doesn't leave you with blue balls. I didn't have to wait several updates to fuck Roxxy. I got it all, and I nutted the same day.

Is the game perfect? No. Is every update a fucking master piece? No. But, come on give me a break with this milking shit. Go to the thread about Dual Family, and educate yourself on what milking actually is.

 

[H2R]

gumdrop?

 

[poodles]

I think the “milking” complaint is valid only when DC sets expectations. For instance, he made an official blog post stating that this update would take 2 months because it would be split in half. It’s now into 4 months. Criticism about missing deadlines by that much is valid.

personally, what I think would help his Patreon is more transparency. Posting more often with status updates and previews (which isn’t uncommon from other devs) would go a long way to invalidating that criticism.

 

[Omnikuken]

Status updates : check the progress bars
Previews : get in the streams