Rakssu

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F95 affected the rise of Summertime Saga. To denyO that is to deny facts and evidence.

It was the 2434th post on this site, 25 August 2016 - just 21 days after F95 went live. It was one of the first 100 games posted on this site. That was only 9 days after DarkCookie created his Patreon account. DC got his first Patreon subscriber on 18 August 2016 and had just 24 subscribers the day before F95 listed the game. One month later, he had 250 subscribers and by the end of 2016, just 4 months after starting his Patreon account and 4 months of being listed on F95 - he had 1,667 subscribers with over $4,000 USD per month of contributions. Also, DC was #870-ish of adult game creators on Patreon when he started, broke the top 10 in January 2017 and became the top adult game creator on Patreon (by number of subscribers) in October 2017 with over 6,000 subscribers and about $20,000 USD per month - just about a year after being on Patreon and listed on F95. And has never relinquished that number 1 status since.

The case can easily be made that without F95 (and, perhaps similar sites in 2016 and 2017), Summertime Saga would have struggled to gain awareness, and thus, popularity, and thus, financial success to be where it is today. That said, it has grown so large since those initial couple of years - with over 24 million results on a Google search for "Summertime Saga" (over 2 million, alone, for video results) - that F95's influence on his financial success today is much less dramatic than it was in the past.
Oh yeah I can see that. What I meant is f95 hasnt affected it on a negative way. Thanks for your input tho.
 
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On the bright side, it's nice that they've started doing proper monthly updates.
IMO we should give praise where it's due (not here but on stream), that way DC's more open to listening to other ideas
(cough cough more coders/posers cough cough) instead of doing wtv he wants because "they'll complain anyway"
 

PayneToTheMax

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Darkcookie is sick and not streaming?
Again?
In summer?:HideThePain:
Can happen if the weather is all over the place and the temperatures fluctuate wildly. Alternatively he ate something bad that made him sick.

On a different note, it's been quite a while, but why was Eve peeking into the guy's shower again?
 

sucklepuck

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On a different note, it's been quite a while, but why was Eve peeking into the guy's shower again?
Eve pranked Roxxy and her friends as revenge for picking on her for having little titties and dyed hair in the locker room. I think she put green hair dye in their shampoo or something.
 

thedoomerjo

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Roughly 90% of Mia's story has been posed (across all characters involved).
I hope the art for her route has been redone too. Ditto for Mrs. Johnson's route. It'd just be weird looking for these routes to have the old art when everything else, down to the character sprites and backgrounds, has been redone.
 

Count Morado

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why has Anna´s name been changed to Abby?
Why is it a big deal? Unless you thought that DC meant they changed Annie's name to Abby. Anna is a different character. And whether or not you might have been confused - it would be my hypothesis Anna's name was changed to reduce possible confusion.
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Arees16H

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This is from the last post on patreon "Posed the Awesomo quest with the new art for Abby (formerly Anna)". Thats where my doubt comes from
 

St. Nix

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Why is it a big deal? Unless you thought that DC meant they changed Annie's name to Abby. Anna is a different character. And whether or not you might have been confused - it would be my hypothesis Anna's name was changed to reduce possible confusion.
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I was just about to ask. But this is make sense. Thank you.
 

randommal3

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i just wished that they put the Story into One Character Focused Storyline then goes to other characters. i hope they actually did it this time with these Reworks or Tech Update.
 

St. Nix

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i just wished that they put the Story into One Character Focused Storyline then goes to other characters. i hope they actually did it this time with these Reworks or Tech Update.
Nah, i think it's still free roaming. You can go with all of them simultaneously. With some easter egg here, and there of course. Like you can see Harold have a steamy blowjob from Yumi, when you hanging out in park in Eve route, if you encourage Harold and Helen divorce beforehand.
 

Shiro187

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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
I do hope this isn't the case. Unlike a game like Cloud Meadows, which i think very much fits this model, I still have some hope left that this godforsaken tech update will end and the game will actually be completed, and development will be brought to a close.
 

itsyeboii

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I hope the art for her route has been redone too. Ditto for Mrs. Johnson's route. It'd just be weird looking for these routes to have the old art when everything else, down to the character sprites and backgrounds, has been redone.
Not gonna happen. The only quest that has a chance for having its scenes redone in the tech-update is Debbie because she's a fan favorite, is next in line for a remake and needs the remake the most, but even that's extremely wishful thinking and likely won't happen in the tech-update as well.
 
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Monthly status updates:
To better help fans understand the ongoing development, monthly status updates are being 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:
  • Continued assisting the Code/Posing devs with optimizing art and fixing inconsistencies. Such as unused art assets , missing shadows, missing character button variants and so on.
  • Inventory item icons have been improved and scaled up for high res.
  • Item closeups fixes and improvements.
  • Lucy character art has been improved to better match naked body silhouette and anatomy.
  • New improved introduction sequence for Jenny on day one with dynamic shot.
  • Reworked Debbie showering spying scene to match her update character design as well as many more frames.
  • Jenny cutscenes (4) have been converted to dynamic shots to better match the flow of dialogue.
  • Converted some old Anon assets holding Awesomo into the rig.
  • Multiple assets renames to function with new codebase.
  • Large rework of old character button art across the game (mainly home and school).
  • Rework of various location "crowds/unelectable characters" that were overly blurred compared to new location background art. Quality is now on par.
  • Intro cutscene improvement on frame where the player is listening into the kitchen conversation.
  • Added 3 new movies to watch at the cinema (3 frame sequences each).
  • Working with animators on a potential rework of the x-ray feature across all scenes in the game.
  • 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.
Code:
  • Rebuilt the in-game computers (belonging to Anon and Jenny) in widescreen.
  • Reorganised, split, and edited PSDs pertaining to computers.
  • Wired in one-time remarks from Anon while browsing the computers.
  • Created various equivalent vector assets for use with the computers.
  • Ensured computers will be translatable and text-to-speech friendly.
  • Updated the fibre-tip pen effect used in Jenny's diary.
  • Reimagined a text tag for underlining typos (used in Jenny's laptop).
  • Added a text tag for custom emojis.
  • Upgraded Ren'Py to 8.1.1, and updated the CI pipeline to handle Android key changes.
  • Revisited asset scaling and made it transparent to most other code.
  • Expanded the asset pipeline to handle pixel art, video, and vector assets.
  • Added information to help Ren'Py optimise certain game areas for performance.
  • Improved a situation where mobile users would be unable to hide the keyboard.
  • Eliminated a class of save issues related to showing dialogue over screens.
  • Resolved an issue where scrolling would cease to work in the phone UI.
  • Fixed various logic issues in the first half of Jenny's route.
  • Started work on the latter half of Jenny's route, which remains in progress.
Posing:
  • Fixed asset names and logic state tests previously bypassed from the middle and end of Diane's route.
  • Posed Debbie's new intro art in the tutorial.
  • Posed the Awesomo quest with the new art for Abby (formerly Anna).
  • Added staging and posing of the phone calls to Josie during Debbie's car breakdown.
  • Added files and wiring framework for the currently available Jenny quest logic.
  • Fixed art name changes for Debbie's morning visit to Anon's room.
  • Added files and wiring framework for remaining Debbie quest posing.
  • Ongoing work on Debbie lewd scenes and repeatables.
  • Roughly 90% of Mia's story has been posed (across all characters involved).
  • Roughly 60% of Jenny's story has been posed (across all characters involved).
  • Improved Roxxy 4some scene variations.
  • Reposed Cedric's Button and all dialogue linked to it.
  • Fixed a few outstanding issues with Eve's posing.
Writing:
  • Currently assisting Code with re-wiring story flow (mainly Jenny).
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Couldn't stream the past few days due to getting sick but will try and get back on starting Monday!
Keep you posted!
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