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

[Tim the Enchanter]

Tech update was announced 4 years ago. Based on the current proposed schedule it will take 10-12 months to get the game back to the state it was 2 years ago (and considering that they estimated the tech update to take less than 6 months originally it's fair to say that the current targets are unlikely to be met).

Anyone who still supports this scam financially needs to look at how much money they are wasting and go spend it on supporting decent game devs instead. They will get much better value for their cash and help people who deserve rewarding for their hard work rather than letting this farce continue

 

[viegoatreides]

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This is freaking insane! Thanks I'm no longer a patron. Now they will re-release all the content already released for months. For a moment I thought I had read or misunderstood, but no, that's right. A shame because I was really excited about the """update"""!

 

[McSlut]

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gravity is optional today

This is what qualifies for improved art? She looks like she's having a stroke, possibly because her hands are bigger than her head now.

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my mind is blown by that art dude, worth 2 years of waiting and 2 million dollars. huge improvement

 

[Ousawa]

Well... if we don't get all old content back in this game like in 2-3 months + we get something new in another 2 months (new scenes or redone old scenes) then it's just another scam.

I understand that you want to upgrade your game, but for us players what matters is new content in the game and something we can have fun with. Sorry but new source code or other technical stuff is on your side not ours.

If you give us somethig really good in max 6 months then there is still hope for you (probably).

 

[Arabi1]

my mind is blown by that art dude, worth 2 years of waiting and 2 million dollars. huge improvement

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If that doesn't worth 2 million dollars, then I don't know what does.

 

[Yuki-x]

Just tried it a bit, and.... I'm speechless...
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This release was a huge mistake...

Bullsitting people (and having hordes of paid "defenders") works fine with empty promises...
...but does not work when providing the promised work and it's subpar to the expectations.
And I doubt that any of his long term patrons, will be happy with this "tech update".

 

[ElbaLazo]

I don't mind gravity defying titties but what the fuck is that second picture?

 

[Rsngo]

Some of you guys go out of your way to show how computer illiterate you are. lol

When the tech update was first announced it was clearly laid out that what he was doing is rebuilding the entire game. How are any of you surprised that this is what happened unless you didn't understand a word of the explanation for the tech update?

Yeah, rebuilding the source code from scratch means that every part of the game has to be rebuilt too.

On the coding side, this game is basically a new game now. You can't just copy-paste an old game's code base into a new game's code base and hit a compile button. That's not how software development works. lol

We all know how it works but I don’t give a fuck with 60k a month and 2 years time you can do much more for your community

 

[jackpierce375]

Just tried it a bit, and.... I'm speechless...
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...
This release was a huge mistake...

Bullsitting people (and having hordes of paid "defenders") works fine with empty promises...
...but does not work when providing the promised work and it's subpar to the expectations.
And I doubt that any of his long term patrons, will be happy with this "tech update".

I'm not. I played it for maybe like 30 minutes before just deleting it

 

[Skulljeep]

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Abstract and hilarious.

Not a patreon donor obviously...

 

[Keros]

Told you so, God I love being right!

 

[Maericke]

It's clear as day how the developer wants to do this and I'm baffled he still has the amount of support he does. Not only he reset everything to 0 but he also planned out that the next updates will come every 2 months, while already pointing what content will be in the next 3 updates with arrows.

By the looks of it 6 months from now the "tech update" version might be half as big as "pre-tech update", so give or take 1 year from now the current game MIGHT catch up to what it used to be, only for him to decide to update to 4k or something.

Should've just wrapped the game up fine with the current code and art and started a new one with better coding knowledge or something. Welp. I'm out.

The main story was already done. If he had just spent 1/2 of this time wrapping it up without some of the teased features, I feel like he would've had a much more positive response from people outside his hardcore followers.

 

[KingRei]

We all know how it works but I don’t give a fuck with 60k a month and 2 years time you can do much more for your community

That's fine and all. I'm just questioning the people who are SURPRISED that this happened. This was literally the only thing that could have happened when the tech update was first announced.

 

[Chummmmzs]

lololol people be mad

 

[Adoringfan]

Isn't this release just meant to ward off the Abandoned tag and to get ready for an eventual Steam release? It's crazy people still sub to this game.

 

[fapmeister]

Some of you guys go out of your way to show how computer illiterate you are. lol

When the tech update was first announced it was clearly laid out that what he was doing is rebuilding the entire game. How are any of you surprised that this is what happened unless you didn't understand a word of the explanation for the tech update?

Yeah, rebuilding the source code from scratch means that every part of the game has to be rebuilt too.

On the coding side, this game is basically a new game now. You can't just copy-paste an old game's code base into a new game's code base and hit a compile button. That's not how software development works. lol

It doesn't take two years to code the introduction to a VN in Python.

 

[woody554]

now they are going to update every 2 months I hope it stays that way and it doesn't disappear again for 2 years Again,

I think we all know which timeline we live in.

 

[Adoringfan]

It doesn't take two years to code the introduction to a VN in Python.

It does if you have no work ethic and are getting paid regardless.

 

[KingRei]

It doesn't take two years to code the introduction to a VN in Python.

But it's not just the intro? It's the tech update. It's the infrastructure for all of the game's systems even if you can't see that on the surface.

 

[fapmeister]

It does if you have no work ethic and are getting paid regardless.