- Apr 24, 2020
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I think one aspect is how old it is. It was the first AVN I discovered (from a PH walkthrough), definitely and early one for the hand drawn style.
Ren'Py Summertime Saga [v21.0.0 wip.5003] [Kompas Productions]
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Define progress. What was the last thing you remember about them when you played.
- Oct 12, 2019
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I do not remember. But the last update I played was with the pizza woman. There were no scenes for jenny or landlady
- Jan 25, 2020
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This is not a dating sim atleast not yet .you don't date anyone you just progress through their story and fuck that's it.the dating part isn't in game yet.
- Aug 12, 2016
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Judith update is still maybe 2 years away(maybe 3), Jenny and ladlady are complete for now with a lot of scenes(especially Jenny )
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- Oct 12, 2019
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Did they get more scenes after the pizza lady update? It would be great because I'm not interested in the rest of the girls at school, maybe Roxy, I just know she's his girlfriend now.
- Jun 24, 2018
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If only everyone universally used that system along with more structured definitions of alpha, beta, release, lol.
It is safe to say that this game is now in development hell.
- Jan 21, 2022
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It was safe to say that about a year and a half ago.
- Aug 17, 2017
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I don't think it's that DC is incompetent, it's just that he doesn't care enough about finishing the game to crack the whip and micromanage his team (i.e. improve productivity), something he's never liked doing. From his POV, why should he rush? He used to contract as a supervisor in video game animation AFAIK, and whenever he talked about it he gave the impression he hated everything about it. Then a goofy side project he worked on blows up and sets him/his family up for life, a "job" where he can just draw assets, set a general development strategy then delegate the rest to a team. He's even had multiple kids since the game started making a load of money. I get the feeling he doesn't view it as a job he needs to get 100% productivity out of to hit milestones/goals, he views it as early retirement and a merciful escape from management/crunch hell working a wagie job.
you should probably set your expectations accordingly
you should probably set your expectations accordingly
- Jul 12, 2017
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2-3 years is really generous with the pace DC is taking, i'd say at least 4-6 if it even comes out at all, this feels like severe burnout and a project on the cusp of being abandoned.
- Jun 3, 2017
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No update in months, but subscriber count has been going up the last couple months. Did DC do another interview with someone, or is this strictly because of these monthly update(s)?
Edit: interview*
Edit: interview*
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- Aug 1, 2022
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Seems like DC has a tons of tsundere fans who unsuscribe and suscribe depending their mood or something idk.
Update. Singular. Dated 30 May. And that promise is broken unless he updates soon.
Oh...who wants to take that bet?
- Sep 26, 2018
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this is from may 29th there is not post on may 30th
Monthly status updates:
We know a lot of you are anxious about the release of the Tech Update and have voiced concerned with the the speed of development. The progress bar is not currently displaying an accurate progression of the work being done due to the nature of the Tech Update requiring a heavy amount of back and forth with content implementation (and testing). It makes it hard to "close" tasks until the update is stable and ready to ship. It also explains why art tasks were faster and simpler to close, while Posing and Code seem to trail behind. The majority of the art meant for the Tech Update is completed, yes. However I'm still improving and adding content while the remaining Code/Posing work gets wrapped up. The progress bar will be more reliable once we get back to the regular development cycle for stories and gameplay.
To better help fans understand the ongoing development, monthly status updates will be posted here on Patreon (at the end of each month) with a listed summary of all the work that's been done for each department. It won't list every single small change, but at the very least show the broad strokes of what's currently being done. This will paint a clearer picture of the development progress and perhaps get a feeling of how close we are getting to a release each month. Hopefully this will make some of you feel at ease with some of the questions you've had.
That being said, here's the first status update for this past month!
Art:
We hope this clears up some of fog surrounding the Tech Update and thank you for all the support.
Keep you posted!
-DC
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Monthly status updates:
We know a lot of you are anxious about the release of the Tech Update and have voiced concerned with the the speed of development. The progress bar is not currently displaying an accurate progression of the work being done due to the nature of the Tech Update requiring a heavy amount of back and forth with content implementation (and testing). It makes it hard to "close" tasks until the update is stable and ready to ship. It also explains why art tasks were faster and simpler to close, while Posing and Code seem to trail behind. The majority of the art meant for the Tech Update is completed, yes. However I'm still improving and adding content while the remaining Code/Posing work gets wrapped up. The progress bar will be more reliable once we get back to the regular development cycle for stories and gameplay.
To better help fans understand the ongoing development, monthly status updates will be posted here on Patreon (at the end of each month) with a listed summary of all the work that's been done for each department. It won't list every single small change, but at the very least show the broad strokes of what's currently being done. This will paint a clearer picture of the development progress and perhaps get a feeling of how close we are getting to a release each month. Hopefully this will make some of you feel at ease with some of the questions you've had.
That being said, here's the first status update for this past month!
Art:
- Assisted the Code/Posing devs with optimizing art and fixing inconsistencies. Such as unused art assets , missing shadows, missing character button variants and so on.
- Scenes on day one meeting Erik and Mia have been improved with new character assets, backgrounds, dynamic shots, buttons, etc.
- The new "Biker Bar" location now has an interior and Doris will be working as the bartender (non-interactive for the moment).
- Doris now has a secondary outfit for the bar.
- Old Debbie cutscenes and dynamic shots got a facelift (see samples attached to this post at the top ^).
- Added new dynamic shot to Diane's story (garden).
- All of Anna's (now named Abby) old art has been reworked and converted to new art assets + rig.
- Further improvements to the new Mia character art.
- Multiple assets renames to function with new codebase.
- Some character art assets needed splitting into multiple rig parts along with their meta data (Odette and Eve).
- Old Anon assets laying on beds needed legs extended/fixed to fit in widescreen.
- Daily live streams for art are still active (week days) starting around 2:00PM Eastern Time (ET) where you can watch me work and ask questions.
- Resolved minor bugs in reposing tool used by posers.
- Fixed some flow issues indentified in Debbie's route.
- Added sleep-awareness to some character buttons.
- Upgraded to Ren'Py 8.1.0, and dealt with ensuing compatibility issues.
- Improved automatic transitions.
- Built a tutorial for the navigation interface.
- Improved ease with which cutscenes can be posed.
- Added base NPC behaviour for Ivy and Jane.
- Built out roughly half of Jenny's narrative route flow.
- Added a new interface mode for complex interactive props.
- Implemented Anon's phone, minus the hint system.
- Constructed Jenny's diary, and wired it into Jenny's route.
- Ensured that diary contents and text messages will be translatable.
- Linked reposed scenes for the Main story and Debbie up to the game logic code.
- Revisions based on feedback about above scenes, and reported logic oversights.
- Reposed the Debbie scenes we didn't have art for when we did the first pass (late game/lewd content).
- Posing work on buttons particularly for Ivy, Kassy, Lily, and Veronica.
- Finished posing pass on Roxxy.
- Early Mia flow posing ongoing.
- Finished reposing the beginning and end of Eve's route.
- Cleaning up the posing for Jenny's route. (Jenny is the next priority for linking/playtesting this coming month)
- Revisited posing from the start of Diane's route fixing asset names and logic state tests that were not previously available.
- Dialogue for new Becca scenes not yet implemented into the game but animations are done (likely releasing after the tech update).
- New Grace, Odette, and Eve scene dialogues.
- Assisted code with wiring up Debbie and Jenny's quest flow.
- Currently assisting on the hint system for Jenny.
- Button schedule logic for Debbie and Jenny.
We hope this clears up some of fog surrounding the Tech Update and thank you for all the support.
Keep you posted!
-DC
It is not a surprise that we see this pattern of cycle,
1. A new fancy game developer appears and does a good job in game quality and performance of progress
2. They get a lot of supporters and get famous and reputation in the area
3. The game becomes bigger and the team invests money in the wrong places like higher resolution, re-touching what they already created and hesitating to create new one.
4. The progress gets slower or even stopped. Peoples complains. Team excuses.
5. Eventually the team loses the reason why they were successful, why the peoples liked their game
6. Attention lost and peoples leave. They find new game which can fulfill their needs.
7. Repeat from #1
I see this game is somewhere between #4 and #5
1. A new fancy game developer appears and does a good job in game quality and performance of progress
2. They get a lot of supporters and get famous and reputation in the area
3. The game becomes bigger and the team invests money in the wrong places like higher resolution, re-touching what they already created and hesitating to create new one.
4. The progress gets slower or even stopped. Peoples complains. Team excuses.
5. Eventually the team loses the reason why they were successful, why the peoples liked their game
6. Attention lost and peoples leave. They find new game which can fulfill their needs.
7. Repeat from #1
I see this game is somewhere between #4 and #5
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It won't be abandoned. DC has hit the absolute (minimum effort/maximum return) sweet spot. He can go at this pace and effort level till he dies.
I once read about a guy. He worked on a game for 2 years and when it was released, 5000 people downloaded it and 15 paid for it. Well, that's pretty shitty. Now I deal with the fact that if I have a little extra money, I buy the games that I couldn't buy when I was a kid, I only played pirated games. I'm already thinking about patreon. Here on the F95 page, I will try the games and decide. I think that sometimes you need to support it so that the developer can continue to work and see if he will release a good game. But this is just my opinion. Piracy is good because I have also played pirated games and now support their developers on Steam. But piracy can also cause trouble, I've seen little people ruined by it.