Ren'Py Summertime Saga [v21.0.0 wip.5258] [Kompas Productions]

[j4yj4m]

I know they started with making cookies, but how did they manage to cash in and turn their interest into money? How do they combine the two things you said?
I am also very interested in this work and I even agreed to give up my work completely and stick to this work, but what is the secret of this work?

In DC case it's not really just an interest. He worked in the animation industry in something like a team leader position before and started freelancing right before he started to work on SS to teach himself working with Ren'Py. People liked it and that's how we are where we are. But it's not like he started with no experience in working on projects etc.

Else? Dedication and time. He streams 5 times a week and seems still pretty motivated to deliver actual quality, even though there are certainly decisions which one can disagree with.

 

[spike4u]

hi, i have a problem with the Garden Minigame. When i press the "Clean the Garden"-Button to start the Minigame, The MC tells that he has to tell Diane the he is starting to work. But even when i Talk to Diane, it will not start.. So im kinda Stuck there. Already tried to load different Savefiles with no success.

Any workaround there?

 

[RobertoCasas]

^ You won't ever get Eve and Grace together doing anything resembling lewds. Ever

That would be cool but I'd have been fine with one at a time in there. It's not a big shower.

 

[Omnikuken]

He always spams that about the development. The real fact of the matter is that these last updates were special and took longer than usual. After the main story updates are done its back to basic character updates so we might have some good stuff to look forward to by this time next year. Also dont buy into the widescreen stuff, DEV had a poll for it and it did not pass so its not going to affect the initial roadmap.

DC is already working on widescreen during the streams, poll means nothing. And we're ~3 months into 0.20.8 and we're barely a 1/3 done. Whatever happened before in other builds means nothing if it takes over a year for 0.20 to complete and it still takes 6 months+ per major update afterwards

I know they started with making cookies, but how did they manage to cash in and turn their interest into money? How do they combine the two things you said?
I am also very interested in this work and I even agreed to give up my work completely and stick to this work, but what is the secret of this work?

He started ~4 years ago when a lot less wonky devs were spewing trash/greed games around. And there was also this thing called wincest that helped push the game into god tier.

 

[j4yj4m]

Also dont buy into the widescreen stuff, DEV had a poll for it and it did not pass so its not going to affect the initial roadmap.

He just said yesterday that he'll probably poll the additional sex scenes which will be implemented with the widescreen update after 0.20.8 is released (which will likely be another chance for Eve, Grace, etc. to get some content). In case that still doesn't convince you, you'll just have to wait and see. Having said that, these smaller polls for specific issues have never really meant anything and DC tends to ignore them if he thinks there's something better to do.

 

[Xenoga'me]

Thank you for your answer. I am interested to know if the game was viral enough or if advertising tricks were used.

 

[j4yj4m]

Thank you for your answer. I am interested to know if the game was viral enough or if advertising tricks were used.

DC said said quite a few times that he doesn't even want merchandise and doesn't do any advertising at all. Having said that, it was a very different time 4 years ago and the game has been in patreon's top 10/5 or so for almost 3 or so years by now. That's a luxury few others have.

 

[Xenoga'me]

Thank u for this worthy information, where can i read more?

 

[j4yj4m]

Thank u for this worthy information, where can i read more?

I remember one very old

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but else you'll probably just have to ask him during his streams or so if you want to know something specific. He'll usually answer questions.

 

[Marphey]

^ You won't ever get Eve and Grace together doing anything resembling lewds. Ever

Because of the Patreon stupid no incest policy.

 

[Curb Your Enthusiasm]

Because of the Patreon stupid no incest policy.

lol patreons little no incest policy is basically a joke. Any dev no matter who or what project they work on can easily dodge/subvert it and FYI he already does since we can clearly fuck mom and sis and aunt in game.

The real reason we probably wont see any eve/grace content is because the dev is more interested in getting out the scheduled updates, these main story updates have halted progress quite a bit.

 

[Badjourasmix]

The reason why we won't see any Eve and Grace stuff is because they are sisters and when DC removed the incest from the game, the mom became the landlady, the sister became just a roommate and the aunt became a friend of the mom. You can have sex scenes with them because the game says they are not related. I am pretty sure that if patreon didn't have a problem with incest we would have at least one scene with eve and grace.

 

[Curb Your Enthusiasm]

The reason why we won't see any Eve and Grace stuff is because they are sisters and when DC removed the incest from the game, the mom became the landlady, the sister became just a roommate and the aunt became a friend of the mom. You can have sex scenes with them because the game says they are not related. I am pretty sure that if patreon didn't have a problem with incest we would have at least one scene with eve and grace.

So the whole notion of incest patches, relationship renaming, secret button activating and other tricks just dont exist to you?

The only time it doesnt work is when the dev has a "hate fanbase" that actively wants the project to fail, a good example of this was "Nergal's Nest" when he was making Urban Demons. He was taking very long in development and his fans started to think he was milking them so they had him reported for having incest, patreon told him to change or his account would be terminated and so he had to hurry and finish Urban Demons or risk losing access to patreon.

 

[Omnikuken]

^ Everything you wrote has nothing to do with DC. All the patches/mods/whatever are all fan-made. Moment DC puts a hint of wincest anywhere near the game, it's gone and Patreon is dead. No more $ nor game

 

[Curb Your Enthusiasm]

^ Everything you wrote has nothing to do with DC. All the patches/mods/whatever are all fan-made. Moment DC puts a hint of wincest anywhere near the game, it's gone and Patreon is dead. No more $ nor game

I guess a roommate and landlady attending a funeral for YOUR dad while the mob extorts money from your landlady because of things YOUR dad did makes for a way better plot in the long run LMFAO

Patreon only cares about obvious incest and even then they only launch an investigation if its blatant. Ofcourse no one cares if she is publicly referred to as landlady we all know the relationship and measures to ensure the actual intended gameplay is experienced.

Now "Taffy Tales", that dev got scared shitless by patreon and he caved and fully integrated a roomate/landlady scenario thats actually apart of the game and is no longer incest based, sucks but that game still has potential.

 

[tywren]

And this is why DC needs to migrate his donor base to Subscribestar, they give zero fucks about incest content.

 

[Badjourasmix]

And this is why DC needs to migrate his donor base to Subscribestar, they give zero fucks about incest content.

He will not go to subscribestar he is making a shitton of money on patreon and he will not risk losing that.

 

[Curb Your Enthusiasm]

And this is why DC needs to migrate his donor base to Subscribestar, they give zero fucks about incest content.

So far everything is fine so no need to move anywhere. So long as the incest method is hidden or provided via a third party everything should continue as normal like it has so far. What matters is what patreon can prove and so far on paper they cant prove anything.

 

[Omnikuken]

Paypal says nope to wincest. Patreon has Paypal. Substar doesn't. He won't lose all the Paypal'ers just to please a faction of weirdos who scream for wincest. Just wait 4-5 years when the game is "done" and he doesn't need Patreon anymore for "real" wincest

 

[Curb Your Enthusiasm]

Paypal says nope to wincest. Patreon has Paypal. Substar doesn't. He won't lose all the Paypal'ers just to please a faction of weirdos who scream for wincest. Just wait 4-5 years when the game is "done" and he doesn't need Patreon anymore for "real" wincest

Like I said earlier theres no need to do that when its already in the game to the extent its going to be. Summertime Saga isnt a "incest" game. Its a game that has incest in it. Storywise the landlady is your mom, the roommate is your sister and the woman who looks exactly like your mom/landlady is your aunt.

Its not rocket science, can DC openly say the game has incest? No. Can he strongly imply it and provide means to facilitate familial relations? Sure, if he wants.