Ren'Py Summertime Saga [v21.0.0 wip.5003] [Kompas Productions]

[Delafayette]

I really enjoyed the game and am looking forward to updates.

 

[Gato21]

I really enjoyed the game and am looking forward to updates.

You're infinitely more patient than I am. I'm just hoping that by the time the next real update comes out, my telomeres haven't all sluffed off by then and I have my faculties to play the actual game. Maybe DarkCookie might even get it out before heat death of the universe if we are lucky.

 

[Scoobsta]

You're infinitely more patient than I am. I'm just hoping that by the time the next real update comes out, my telomeres haven't all sluffed off by then and I have my faculties to play the actual game. Maybe DarkCookie might even get it out before heat death of the universe if we are lucky.

has it almost been two years now? it's hard to keep track but I had forgotten about this game for a while and my man is genuinely still on the tech update WTF

 

[Gato21]

has it almost been two years now? it's hard to keep track but I had forgotten about this game for a while and my man is genuinely still on the tech update WTF

I periodically check the progress for a laugh and then play a game I actually care about.

 

[Omnikuken]

I periodically check the progress for a laugh and then play a game I actually care about.

So you play Summertime, since you're still here commenting about games you care about

 

[Gato21]

So you play Summertime, since you're still here commenting about games you care about

You caught me, at one point of my life I did play and even enjoyed this game. Are you going to spank my hypocritical, naughty ass? Saying that I care about Summertime Saga is a bit of a stretch, however. Care, as in it now provides entertainment in its glacial development, yes. Schadenfreude, yes.

 

[Gato21]

he is a white knight troll. just ignore him. or you can do what i did and just copy his profile and make people think it's him talking.

Nah, he can be funny. Maybe not on this thread. He's alright. Wish he would have given me some some push-back.

 

[Omnikuken]

Nah, he can be funny. Maybe not on this thread. He's alright. Wish he would have given me some some push-back.

Lies, I'm always funny

 

[manneychin]

has it almost been two years now? it's hard to keep track but I had forgotten about this game for a while and my man is genuinely still on the tech update WTF

In 30 days, on 14-Feb, we will pass 2 years since DC first said he started to work on this (check my post history for links to Patreon supporting this). In 2019 when the Tech Update was proposed to patreons, it was on an explicit estimation that it would take the same as about 2 major releases, which at the time took about 4 months. So we are a monumental almost-twice over the deadline. Meanwhile, nobody saw any kind of working demo or anything that would show actual progress towards a deliverable game. All that was seen regarding the Tech Update are disjointed drawings of backgrounds and characters and never ending telenovela stories about losing/hiring people, focusing and redoubling and reredoubling efforts, etc. Lately even the stories died down.

How many years would it take before F95 recognizes this is vaporware? This situation obviously demands a change in how games are tagged [ABANDONED]. There's a need to introduce an [INLIMBO] state and apply it here, at the very least.

 

[Omnikuken]

In 30 days, on 14-Feb, we will pass 2 years since DC first said he started to work on this (check my post history for links to Patreon supporting this). In 2019 when the Tech Update was proposed to patreons, it was on an explicit estimation that it would take the same as about 2 major releases, which at the time took about 4 months. So we are a monumental almost-twice over the deadline. Meanwhile, nobody saw any kind of working demo or anything that would show actual progress towards a deliverable game. All that was seen regarding the Tech Update are disjointed drawings of backgrounds and characters and never ending telenovela stories about losing/hiring people, focusing and redoubling and reredoubling efforts, etc. Lately even the stories died down.

How many years would it take before F95 recognizes this is vaporware? This situation obviously demands a change in how games are tagged [ABANDONED]. There's a need to introduce an [INLIMBO] state and apply it here, at the very least.

DC's estimates were never close to reality, you believing him won't change that nor will it make him go faster.

Next you want "proof of concept" for a recode, good luck with that. How do you expect to witness progress on the code ? Unren the game every new pre-tech and check if 1 line out of the 20k+ changed 1 word ? They can't and won't do that. People already struggle not fucking themselves up with the pre-techs and saving in 2 places, imagine the drama of having 6+ versions of the code floating around .......

Next point : backgrounds and chars. Yes, he did draw new backgrounds, widened most of the older 1s for the new screen rez and made a bunch of new girls to go in those new locations. He also did many of R(h)onda's stuff. Could he go faster ? Maybe. Should it take him 2 years to do that ? Maybe. Will him having done everything he needs for the next 3 updates make the tech build come out faster ? Lolnope

Last point : "abandoned" tag. Mere fact DC still streams daily and you get a pre-tech every 3-4 months means your wetdream of the tag coming in here is null and void. Even better with you trying to make F95 change how it works.

 

[PatreonTed]

In 30 days, on 14-Feb, we will pass 2 years since DC first said he started to work on this (check my post history for links to Patreon supporting this). In 2019 when the Tech Update was proposed to patreons, it was on an explicit estimation that it would take the same as about 2 major releases, which at the time took about 4 months. So we are a monumental almost-twice over the deadline. Meanwhile, nobody saw any kind of working demo or anything that would show actual progress towards a deliverable game. All that was seen regarding the Tech Update are disjointed drawings of backgrounds and characters and never ending telenovela stories about losing/hiring people, focusing and redoubling and reredoubling efforts, etc. Lately even the stories died down.

How many years would it take before F95 recognizes this is vaporware? This situation obviously demands a change in how games are tagged [ABANDONED]. There's a need to introduce an [INLIMBO] state and apply it here, at the very least.

I'm pretty tired of DC's glacial pace on this release, but this is a silly take. There's been what, 15-20 scenes added to the game since they started working on the tech update? Those all count towards progress.

 

[l1nk5]

IIRC Tech Update was supposed to help with speeding up the development of regular updates. Which seems rather funny and quite ironic right about now. How many "sped up" updates does it take to justify the two year stall we got. It's not like they'll start releasing at a rate of once per month or something.

 

[Omnikuken]

I'm pretty tired of DC's glacial pace on this release, but this is a silly take. There's been what, 15-20 scenes added to the game since they started working on the tech update? Those all count towards progress.

More like close to 30 scenes

IIRC Tech Update was supposed to help with speeding up the development of regular updates. Which seems rather funny and quite ironic right about now. How many "sped up" updates does it take to justify the two year stall we got. It's not like they'll start releasing at a rate of once per month or something.

Nope to everything. Nope it won't speed up regular updates that we're not getting yet, since they aren't done with the tech update 1st. Having a less fucked up code doesn't mean DC now draws 3x faster and the part-time coder can now magically output 2 updates a week. We haven't got any "sped up" builds yet, nor will we get any when the tech comes out

 

[Ass bandit]

Why is the coder only part-time?

 

[McSlut]

All that was seen regarding the Tech Update are disjointed drawings of backgrounds

i noticed this too. i'm not sure if DC is still working on the game after he is done streaming or if those 1-2 hours streaming (half of which is just joking around with the chat) is all he does for the game right now, because he has been working on the same background for 2 weeks while back then he started drawing a background on stream and finished it a day later.

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yeah i'm sure as soon as the camera is off he keeps drawing more art assets for 6 hours daily

in terms of art he should have been done with rhonda and annie update art multiple times over by now but we know he is not.

 

[itsyeboii]

i noticed this too. i'm not sure if DC is still working on the game after he is done streaming or if those 1-2 hours streaming (half of which is just joking around with the chat) is all he does for the game right now, because he has been working on the same background for 2 weeks while back then he started drawing a background on stream and finished it a day later.

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yeah i'm sure as soon as the camera is off he keeps drawing more art assets for 6 hours daily

in terms of art he should have been done with rhonda and annie update art multiple times over by now but we know he is not.

Could be that he reserves certain work for his streams while working on spoiler stuff behind the scenes, but I do think he takes plenty of days off, because why shouldn't he.

I wonder what DC actually does with all the time he has now. Does he just draw assets as if he's on schedule or is he kinda twiddling with his fingers, working on some art at an "I guess I'll do this" pace until the tech-update comes out? It would actually be a good opportunity to work on another project.

 

[sirviper235]

You know. A small part of me wounders to this day if it would of been better for the game as a whole if we never have the 'orange man bad' mayor rump story as we got it. As it's...A really outdated part of the game that loses it's appeal as time goes by. I mean let's be honest the ENTIRE storyline is just one huge meme about Trump and his whole family who are all the meme versions of thesmelves and even added in Ricardo and Gordon ramsay and Kim just for again sake of memes. Which become more dated each year.
The entire story is a bit more embrassing than fun honeslty. And honeslty just should be changed at some point/altered. Yeah it might mess with the main story but nobody really cares for it anyway as it's just kinda 'eh'.
So for fun here's my changes.

1.Keep Rump but make it all just a backround joke you see in the mall sometimes.

2.Change the story/meeting and character ages a bit. Namley. Make the daughter a rich girl who just arrived to the shcool
whose a party girl that got expelled from her preivous school and is now here and is the same age as the main character.

3. Make the mom into just a rich milf whose part of the problem and has a thing for seducing young boys, espically her daughters boyfrieds and has her eyes set on the main character

4. Make the story more about learning about why the rich girl got kicked out of her preivous school and learn under the wild, rich paty girl, is a sweet and fun loving girl whose not had the most happy or stable life due to her parents constantly cheating on eachother. And had a string of bad boyfriends.

5. Do an improved verison of Mia's storyline where you choose between the milf or the daughter where you can have one but not both (Yet).

And 6.Just have it so the dad is tied to the mafia still.

I think these wouldn't be too much work and honeslty the school needs more girls in it that we can do stuff with as the only ones of note that aren't teachers are eve and Roxxy and the rest are just kinda...There for now.

 

[1231488663]

Been checking the status every week. Every week, 80% done, 0 changes in the last 24 hours. Today it's 80%, 1 change in 24 hours.
Progress has been made lads. We might be seeing 81% done at the end of this year.

 

[bakasto]

You know. A small part of me wounders to this day if it would of been better for the game as a whole if we never have the 'orange man bad' mayor rump story as we got it. As it's...A really outdated part of the game that loses it's appeal as time goes by. I mean let's be honest the ENTIRE storyline is just one huge meme about Trump and his whole family who are all the meme versions of thesmelves and even added in Ricardo and Gordon ramsay and Kim just for again sake of memes. Which become more dated each year.

I don't get this mindset. Does everyone have to stop making parody movies/games/videos etc. just because eventually they become outdated and zoomer kids won't get all references?

 

[srksrk 68]

You know. A small part of me wounders to this day if it would of been better for the game as a whole if we never have the 'orange man bad' mayor rump story as we got it. As it's...A really outdated part of the game that loses it's appeal as time goes by. I mean let's be honest the ENTIRE storyline is just one huge meme about Trump and his whole family who are all the meme versions of thesmelves and even added in Ricardo and Gordon ramsay and Kim just for again sake of memes. Which become more dated each year.
The entire story is a bit more embrassing than fun honeslty. And honeslty just should be changed at some point/altered. Yeah it might mess with the main story but nobody really cares for it anyway as it's just kinda 'eh'.
So for fun here's my changes.

1.Keep Rump but make it all just a backround joke you see in the mall sometimes.

2.Change the story/meeting and character ages a bit. Namley. Make the daughter a rich girl who just arrived to the shcool
whose a party girl that got expelled from her preivous school and is now here and is the same age as the main character.

3. Make the mom into just a rich milf whose part of the problem and has a thing for seducing young boys, espically her daughters boyfrieds and has her eyes set on the main character

4. Make the story more about learning about why the rich girl got kicked out of her preivous school and learn under the wild, rich paty girl, is a sweet and fun loving girl whose not had the most happy or stable life due to her parents constantly cheating on eachother. And had a string of bad boyfriends.

5. Do an improved verison of Mia's storyline where you choose between the milf or the daughter where you can have one but not both (Yet).

And 6.Just have it so the dad is tied to the mafia still.

I think these wouldn't be too much work and honeslty the school needs more girls in it that we can do stuff with as the only ones of note that aren't teachers are eve and Roxxy and the rest are just kinda...There for now.

Like... nobody ever made a joke about past presidents?