Ren'Py Summertime Saga [v21.0.0 wip.6705] [Kompas Productions]

[ScottyLQ]

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In the first months the money was quite humble. The really big growth came about a year ago after 0.15 - actually just by the time he started to release those really big updates. And right now we are indeed dealing with those mistakes which have certainly been made during that first year.

Aaaand, just like I said, it jumped from where it was in 2018 (25-30k) to the 50k figures.

Are you telling me a game that's making 25k a month is unpopular?

 

[CrazyChris83]

Any new pregnancy in the game?

 

[johndoe77]

version 18. 18 times has restarted the game. It must be to give the impression that the time you play after waiting several months is more profitable ... Yeah I know that changing the story already written can ruin the backups but damned in this case you advance your story and after you rework. it would be more logical. it would give more variety and then the pleasure of finding again old characters. Take 8 months, 1 year to reworked the mother, aunt and sister who already had the most scenes, so quickly is a rather unwise choice.
The time of updates and the level difference between upgrades make it rather frustrating. I have the impression that I will have a white beard or darkcookie will stop the game before having more than the story of 3 or 4 characters and a majority of what? finally teasing. there is
The fact that the version is buggy despite having to start over from the beginning and the (it seems) 200 bug corrected does not help.
After many years, for that lot of money, with a crew of 7 people I expect a little more.

I'm curious about the new character who's supposed to be unlocked in the game but let's be honest it's a lot of "déjà-vu" with risk of bug and get stuck for restart (again) the happy heart and see 4 new scenes .
Currently there is only Roxxy who for me has both an interesting story and a satisfying number of scenes.
Oh And I almost forgot the halloween quest.
The quests of the teachers with for 4 introduced a little variety with a good story even if I regret that DC is put a music teacher with HUGE tits not to make us really benefit.
The story that brings the mother, sister and aunt to bed has no great interest. it's mostly for incest sex.
Mia has a good story but for what? His update we especially benefited from his mother and the nun SM? Mia only a strip and an Hscene in a position.

 

[j4yj4m]

Aaaand, just like I said, it jumped from where it was in 2018 (25-30k) to the 50k figures.

Are you telling me a game that's making 25k a month is unpopular?

No, I sad that those reworks we see now are about content which was made when the game made little money. Most of Jenny's content was literally made in first 6 months for example and badly needed to be updated. Once it was clear that the game would make really big money (basically a year ago, as you say) they changed to a way better strategy. But that doesn't remove all those things which had been produced before that.

 

[secretsonny]

He don't work faster with more money . He said he will speed up project with more money and nothing .... he just redraw old scenes ... play to skribbl.io . THANKS PATREONS !

What he works on is up to the patrons. So blame them for the repeats.

 

[totor83]

It is because the game begin to be popular that DC slow down ....... And if he work alone maybe this work begin to be boring .. ?

 

[ScottyLQ]

No, I sad that those reworks we see now are about content which was made when the game made little money. Most of Jenny's content was literally made in first 6 months for example and badly needed to be updated. Once it was clear that the game would make really big money (basically a year ago, as you say) they changed to a way better strategy. But that doesn't remove all those things which had been produced before that.

That was my bad, I thought you were the guy I was talking to at first who was saying this game was "unpopular" until last year. This game was making 4-6k six months into development. There's popular games in this site that are making 500 bucks YEARS in. No matter how you see it, this game was shooting for the moon almost since the beginning. The exponential growth alone was enough to make anyone realize it.

 

[ScottyLQ]

As for these updates taking so long because they focus on "old" characters from early builds of the game that require too much work on code and whatnot, I guess all we can do is wait and see if, when they move on to NEW content, they still take as long to produce.

Just don't forget that part, folks. Once people are conditioned into accepting one status quo, that's it.

 

[j4yj4m]

That was my bad, I thought you were the guy I was talking to at first who was saying this game was "unpopular" until last year. This game was making 4-6k six months into development. There's popular games in this site that are making 500 bucks YEARS in. No matter how you see it, this game was shooting for the moon almost since the beginning. The exponential growth alone was enough to make anyone realize it.

I think in this case it's mainly about scale. SS started as "DC trying to teach himself coding" and that still shows. They took his code, improved it and at some point relized that it just wouldn't work and that the whole game needed a proper base. The same goes for the art. At some point they recognized that the game would become unplayable on android if they'd not introduce the rig-system (which basically means to redraw most old stuff) and optimize it as much as possible.

One may blame them for the lack of foresight but I find it hard to not agree with those decisions. If they'd stuck to the old and messy code, the game would probably be completely unplayable by now.

 

[Qmil679]

is Walkthrough already available for version 0.18? Thanks in advance for your help and sorry for mistakes / google translator

 

[tesugepe]

absolute unplayable buggy....u cant skip minigames or make progress with other chars story(earlier builds)..map in livingroom is wrong..it shows night livingroom all the time with the mother even when it is day...cant they dev do something right in his life, there are still (...)iots who still support him with cash...glad i never supportet this..................whats the use of releasing .018 ver when its buggy as F..lol the dev had time almost a year to deliver

 

[Jonboy80]

This patreon ALWAYS had good (if not great) funding, friend. Far as I know last year it only jumped from 30k+ to the 50k region.

The first time he broke 25k and reached his final goal was in March of 2018. Prior to that, he had fewer than 8000 Patrons. It took him two years to reach that point.

Edit: I see someone else has already pointed out what I was talking about.

 

[totor83]

PAtreons have access buggy version before others

 

[PatreonTed]

He don't work faster with more money . He said he will speed up project with more money and nothing .... he just redraw old scenes ... play to skribbl.io . THANKS PATREONS !

You're welcome!

They put a cap at $25k and said if they got to that level they would add people. They got to that level and added people - they promised nothing more and delivered what they promised. Now it looks like they could use another coder to help Dogeek, particularly during bug fixing season, but I thoight I read something about DC putting a call out to find another coder.

 

[totor83]

They added people thy promised ? no I don't think

 

[totor83]

You could imagine they work all the day like you and me , but i think he is milking

 

[zeppelin]

In the locker at school (two variations), at her trailer, the beach (with I think three or four combinations, including Becca and Missy), plus her mom in Sport Fuck mode.

That's "lacking"??

Yes? The scenes and angles were also bad, and the one on the beach was especially terrible and low quality. No BJ's, no titfucks, nothing. Roxxy was literally known for her lollipop fixation and yet you couldn't even make her suck your dick.

So basically she had 3 sex scenes that were all unsatisfying, either cause of low quality or bad angles.

 

[Magneto98]

Too damn slow development for pulling in 50k a month.

 

[totor83]

Too slow for a real team you mean ...

 

[ScottyLQ]

The first time he broke 25k and reached his final goal was in March of 2018. Prior to that, he had fewer than 8000 Patrons. It took him two years to reach that point.

Edit: I see someone else has already pointed out what I was talking about.

Yes, but what was your point to begin with? That two years making increasing sums up to 25000$ a month was too little?