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

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Omnikuken

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Lordroedor said:
Thanks to the advice of people in this thread I tried the game. I still didn't finish it but I am incredibly impressed. I mean, there are bugs and more than bugs, the game is not refined in the sense that the characters are not consistent through the questlines. You get a character to evolve, then you get in another quest and you find the character talking in the exact same way she did at the start of the game. And a lot of smaller inconsistencies here and there, directions, places where the characters are or should be get duplicated, etc...

But I understand how incredibly taxing this game is to make. When I was 17 or something like that I made a similar game on rpg maker 2000, during a summer. I used a lot of hard to find sprites from japanese sites for that, and with the help of those I made hundreds others. It was like this game: A sandbox in a town where you could find a lot of small questlines and sexy stuff, dating characters and get to see the evolution of them, with a main quest based on a mystery.

I loved working on it at first but as it grew and grew it became HELL. In these games, as you increase the number of characters, the number of interactions and variables required to keep it coherent increases too, but exponentially. It was ridiculous, keeping the consistency between characters and events as I added events was a nightmare. One new event could force me to remake half the game or more.

At the end I gave up, I was investing too many hours and I was getting nothing out of it. The fun disappeared, it was only a chore.

Back then there was no patreon. There weren't communities like this. I mean, not this big or specialized. The internet was starting. I wonder if I could have gotten to finish it had I some support back then. Who knows.

I really admire people that are able to push forward ambitious projects like this one. Even if they stopped working on this tomorrow, the work that has already been done is impressive.
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Can't wait for you to tell us all about those "bugs" you found and no1 else has
 
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Omnikuken said:
Can't wait for you to tell us all about those "bugs" you found and no1 else has
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What do you mean, "no one else has"? The game is alpha, it's completely unfinished, everytime you get out of the predicted line of behavior you find bugs and problems, even if you don't they are pretty visible. Rooms that should be in darkness appear as day, the bitch that should be sleeping has disappeared, the sprite suddenly changes position for no reason, the wrong sprite appear suddenly, a textbox appears that shouldn't be there, quests that start when they shouldn't, I mean, come on. I am praising the developers but I can't pretend like this is not an alpha version of the game... it's in the title.
 
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Lordroedor said:
What do you mean, "no one else has"? The game is alpha, it's completely unfinished, everytime you get out of the predicted line of behavior you find bugs and problems, even if you don't they are pretty visible. Rooms that should be in darkness appear as day, the bitch that should be sleeping has disappeared, the sprite suddenly changes position for no reason, the wrong sprite appear suddenly, a textbox appears that shouldn't be there, quests that start when they shouldn't, I mean, come on. I am praising the developers but I can't pretend like this is not an alpha version of the game... it's in the title.
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Replayed the entire game when 0.20 came out 3 years and never encountered anything you listed. So I'm either blind, the game doesn't bug out or there's some overexaggerations going around
 
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Lordroedor said:
What do you mean, "no one else has"? The game is alpha, it's completely unfinished, everytime you get out of the predicted line of behavior you find bugs and problems, even if you don't they are pretty visible. Rooms that should be in darkness appear as day, the bitch that should be sleeping has disappeared, the sprite suddenly changes position for no reason, the wrong sprite appear suddenly, a textbox appears that shouldn't be there, quests that start when they shouldn't, I mean, come on. I am praising the developers but I can't pretend like this is not an alpha version of the game... it's in the title.
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Yeah, no. No one else has described any of those things. Maybe you have a buggy Android build? Re-download the game or switch to Windows/Linux.
 
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^ 20$ our dude didn't save in the 2 spots and fuckered himself up. Or brute forced scrollback and fuckered himself
 
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Monstrous Moonshine said:
Seems like the Patreon bucks are slowly drying up, DarkCookie is back to 2020 levels of Patreons and earnings.
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The dude is still making more money in a month than most people in the world make in a year so he will be fine.
 
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Marphey said:
Why is it always that good games on this site never get to be finished ?
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Some games will never be finished on purpose.
Some games will never be finished on accident.
Some games will never be finished from force.
Some games will never be finished from inactivity.
Some games will never be finished due to acts of god.
Some games will never be finished due to acts of fate.
Some games will never be finished because they have no end.
Some games will never be finished because the creators have no desire to stop creating.

Finally, no game will be finished when everyone thinks it should be finished because no one can agree on what someone thinks is the time for it to be finished.

As for Summertime Saga, it is not expected to be finished any time soon because there is still content planned, as well as ideas for possible content to be added. It will be finished when DC decides it is and whenever that is, it will both be too late and too soon for many of his fans. Few will have a sense of completion should DC ever release a final edition.
 
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