Flash Abandoned Teraurge [v2.13] [Meandraco]

[DekuTheGooner69]

Your list is...strange.

First off, it's instantly wrong right off the bat when you get to Teraurge, the first game on the list. Because this game has both a male and a female protagonist. You don't seem to note multiple protagonists for any other games on the list either and since Teraurge was missed, I'm going to guess several others have different selectable protagonists as well.

Secondly and the most obvious thing to note from the first line, why is it specifically only noting monster girls? I thought the point of teratophilia was meant to be sexual interactions with monsters in general, male and female, not just girls. Especially since the point is to not have human-looking ones, which is what the vast majority of the "monster girl" genre falls into, girls with minor monsterish parts. Which is very much not teratophilia. They're completely different genres.

Thanks for the pointing it out, well first im a dumbass i totally forgor about it lol, and second well its my fault i should have put teratophillia or just monsters content instead of monster girls (im gonna rectify it to prevent confusion) but i rarely have seen any "male" monster content and people prefer female monsters in general.

Hmm well its a bit complicated, girls that are on the monster side with a humanoid body are still considered as teratopilia like this for example.


Even some monsters in teraurge have "humanoid" bodys, its just that true monsters that dont look humanoid at all is really rare, people call them monster girls because it simpler and its kind of a matter of perspective tbh.

 

[maxidave]

Is their any hope for V3? Somone shoot me and tell me the truth!

 

[lnppo]

Is their any hope for V3? Somone shoot me and tell me the truth!

Game has not been updated in almost 6.5 years.....what do you think?

 

[ChubbyFatBoy]

Is their any hope for V3? Somone shoot me and tell me the truth!

Hmmm... I will commune with the spirits for an answer.

Ok.... 1st try ain't looking too good... but don't worry!

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[DopamineTerrorist]

idk about you guys but this is not funny anymore

 

[maxidave]

Hmmm... I will commune with the spirits for an answer.
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I will cope till I die XD. ty btw

 

[ChubbyFatBoy]

I will cope till I die XD. ty btw

...then you cope. You cope as much as you can goddamnit! You inhale that shit hard until you overdose!


And I'll be right there with you.

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[nackedsnake]

How to make a Teraphilia porn game:
-step 1: make a normal porn game
-step 2: now color all the ladies blue
-step 3: call it Teraphilia (it's monster girls)
-step 4: post a link to it in this thread


bros, I'm tired of this.

Bro at this point with proper prompt, AI might actually generate some passable Teraphilia contents.
(Yes it'll lack the connection / emotion like hand-craft stuff hs, but at least it's something.)
But apparently all these AI Slops don't really care, they just wanna chase a trend, cash in quick money with 0 Effort.

Tho TBF I don't see many of them advertise themselves as "Teraphilia", mostly just someone recommends randomly, when we are looking for monster / alien games that's not human-reskin or furry.

 

[someonebody42]

Bro at this point with proper prompt, AI might actually generate some passable Teraphilia contents.
(Yes it'll lack the connection / emotion like hand-craft stuff hs, but at least it's something.)
But apparently all these AI Slops don't really care, they just wanna chase a trend, cash in quick money with 0 Effort.

Tho TBF I don't see many of them advertise themselves as "Teraphilia", mostly just someone recommends randomly, when we are looking for monster / alien games that's not human-reskin or furry.

or OR you could try and wrangel some people to pitch into a world building project

 

[Excessive_Perversion]

Not money for nothing, money for his art. He still does monthly art that no one else does. Team Cherry (Hollow Knight and Silksong developers) are 3 people, which is 3x Teraurge's. Silksong has Hollow Knight money to keep it funded for all those years, while Teraurge is made by a guy with a full time job. I know it sucks theres no updates but comparing TU to Silksong is not fair at all.

 

[lnppo]

Not money for nothing, money for his art. He still does monthly art that no one else does.

What monthly art? His Patreon has been dead for almost 2 years now (except of course the money he continues to collect).

Team Cherry (Hollow Knight and Silksong developers) are 3 people, which is 3x Teraurge's. Silksong has Hollow Knight money to keep it funded for all those years, while Teraurge is made by a guy with a full time job.

You know how Silksong got funded? By the revenue from THE FULL, COMPLETE PRODUCT THAT THEY CREATED AND RELEASED.
And the vast majority of porn devs have full-time jobs, lmao. What, you think everyone except Meandraco is Dark Cookie?

I know it sucks theres no updates but comparing TU to Silksong is not fair at all.

You're right, because Team Cherry has actually created MULTIPLE finished products, whereas Meandraco has done nothing except create a shallow, proof of concept demo where most of your playtime is spent wandering around the large map trying to find the minuscule amount of actual content that's hidden in the game.
Oh, and then he bsed about how the next update would be soon and created a few pieces of art on occasion to keep Patrons on the hook so he could collect >1k to 250 dollars a month over the course of 6.5 years.

Seriously, don't defend this guy.
He's outright said here in the past that he just views his Patreon income as free money with no strings attached and that his Patrons are owed nothing.

 

[nackedsnake]

What monthly art? His Patreon has been dead for almost 2 years now (except of course the money he continues to collect).

You know how Silksong got funded? By the revenue from THE FULL, COMPLETE PRODUCT THAT THEY CREATED AND RELEASED.
And the vast majority of porn devs have full-time jobs, lmao. What, you think everyone except Meandraco is Dark Cookie?

You're right, because Team Cherry has actually created MULTIPLE finished products, whereas Meandraco has done nothing except create a shallow, proof of concept demo where most of your playtime is spent wandering around the large map trying to find the minuscule amount of actual content that's hidden in the game.
Oh, and then he bsed about how the next update would be soon and created a few pieces of art on occasion to keep Patrons on the hook so he could collect >1k to 250 dollars a month over the course of 6.5 years.

Seriously, don't defend this guy.
He's outright said here in the past that he just views his Patreon income as free money with no strings attached and that his Patrons are owed nothing.

Was just talking about this, IMO Most Patreon Projects that don't have a defined project plan are scams that Prey on False Promises and Para-social Relationship.
Unless you are providing a service like selling monthly art pack or commission, can still be exploitative at times, but borderline fair transaction.

Technically Meandraco is right, he doesn't "own" patrons anything, cuz there's contract nor obligation defined for him to fullfill.
But it's also very unfair to those paid patrons who believed in the project - you could say they should be hold accountable for their own spending, but many ppl don't really know better. Especially the multi-layer psychological manipulation happening here.

 

[LS47]

Was just talking about this, IMO Most Patreon Projects that don't have a defined project plan are scams that Prey on False Promises and Para-social Relationship.
Unless you are providing a service like selling monthly art pack or commission, can still be exploitative at times, but borderline fair transaction.

Technically Meandraco is right, he doesn't "own" patrons anything, cuz there's contract nor obligation defined for him to fullfill.
But it's also very unfair to those paid patrons who believed in the project - you could say they should be hold accountable for their own spending, but many ppl don't really know better. Especially the multi-layer psychological manipulation happening here.

This is why I don't believe in the Patreon model system. On principle, it sounds like a good idea; your money goes directly to support the artist itself to help him continue his work and you can tip any amount at any time depending on his progress. But in practice, this model entirely relies on trust and honor; two things that don't last for long in a world where money is everything. There is nothing preventing the content creator from just... Taking the money and not doing anything past the bare minimum to prove he at least exists. And you can't count on supporters to do the right thing and steer them in the right way by withdrawing their pledges when they show no result, otherwise MD's account would be at $0 right now.

I remember a few years back when he was a bit over $750 from the ~$250 he had when I first found out about him, it really seemed like ppl were very enthusiastic about his project. I genuinely think that, had he stuck to his promises and did a bit more of advertising of Teraurge, he could have very well reached the threshold to make this a full-time job like he wanted. But he decided to do nothing instead, and that's where we're at now.

 

[Excessive_Perversion]

What monthly art? His Patreon has been dead for almost 2 years now (except of course the money he continues to collect).

My mistake, his art has stopped for a while now. Though his streams still does art it's for free.

You know how Silksong got funded? By the revenue from THE FULL, COMPLETE PRODUCT THAT THEY CREATED AND RELEASED.
And the vast majority of porn devs have full-time jobs, lmao. What, you think everyone except Meandraco is Dark Cookie?

And Hollow Knight got funded by a kickstarter that exceeded what they asked for. I'm not trying to diminish Team Cherry's work, i'm just stating that there is no way in hell a teratophilia, bestiality based rpg can try to ask for a kickstarter and expect to gain enough financial freedom to focus on the game.

Seriously, don't defend this guy.
He's outright said here in the past that he just views his Patreon income as free money with no strings attached and that his Patrons are owed nothing.

I'm not trying to, I've seen enough promising projects get abandoned that i know not to expect anything from anyone, I'm just saying comparing Teraurge to critically acclaimed, heavily-hyped, and industry-disrupting Silksong is NOT a fair comparison at all, especially when you're being reductive.

 

[lnppo]

And Hollow Knight got funded by a kickstarter that exceeded what they asked for. I'm not trying to diminish Team Cherry's work, i'm just stating that there is no way in hell a teratophilia, bestiality based rpg can try to ask for a kickstarter and expect to gain enough financial freedom to focus on the game.

If we do the math he has easily made over $10k off Patreon in the time since the last update and he hasn't even put out the Unity port that allegedly exists, let alone release anything new.
At this point I think if you gave Meandraco $10,000,000 nothing would change and he would continue to do exactly what he's been doing for the past 6.5 years.

I'm not trying to, I've seen enough promising projects get abandoned that i know not to expect anything from anyone, I'm just saying comparing Teraurge to critically acclaimed, heavily-hyped, and industry-disrupting Silksong is NOT a fair comparison at all, especially when you're being reductive.

It really breaks down pretty simple: Team Cherry made promises, collected money for them and then fulfilled them.
Meandraco made promises, collected money for them and then did nothing but continue to collect more money for 6.5 years.

If Meandraco had actually worked on the game and followed through instead of lying and bullshitting, he would have been massively successful.
Likewise, if Team Cherry had taken their Patreon money and chose to lie and bullshit instead of working on the game and releasing it then Hollow Knight would be remembered similarly to Teraurge (a great concept by a scam artist) and Silksong never would've happened.

 

[Excessive_Perversion]

If we do the math he has easily made over $10k off Patreon in the time since the last update and he hasn't even put out the Unity port that allegedly exists, let alone release anything new.
At this point I think if you gave Meandraco $10,000,000 nothing would change and he would continue to do exactly what he's been doing for the past 6.5 years.

10,000 USD in installations of a few hundred (if that) per month. 1000 USD a month isnt even enough to even consider quitting your job and work on a game, let alone a couple hundred dollars.
If we ACTUALLY do the math, $10k USD over 6.5 months averages out to 128.2 USD/month over 78 months. That is lower than minimum wage than the country with the lowest currency value, Lebanon (11,485,756.16 vs 18,000,000). If he received 10k USD in one sum amount, then that might have been a factor in the decision to work on the game full time or not.

It really breaks down pretty simple: Team Cherry made promises, collected money for them and then fulfilled them.
Meandraco made promises, collected money for them and then did nothing but continue to collect more money for 6.5 years.

And I'm not refuting that Meandraco abused the trust of his Patrons for what little monetary gain he could muster out of such a niche game. I'm just saying that getting paid a little over a hundred dollars/month across 6.5 years (assuming your math is correct, im not checking that) is nowhere near receiving a lump kickstarter sum of 37,046 USD to work on a game.

If Meandraco had actually worked on the game and followed through instead of lying and bullshitting, he would have been massively successful.

Come on, there's no way you actually believe a fully developed Teraurge would be anywhere near "massively successful". Better games have died with more revenue and they dont touch subjects such as alien sex and bestiality.

 

[lnppo]

10,000 USD in installations of a few hundred (if that) per month. 1000 USD a month isnt even enough to even consider quitting your job and work on a game, let alone a couple hundred dollars.
If we ACTUALLY do the math, $10k USD over 6.5 months averages out to 128.2 USD/month over 78 months. That is lower than minimum wage than the country with the lowest currency value, Lebanon (11,485,756.16 vs 18,000,000). If he received 10k USD in one sum amount, then that might have been a factor in the decision to work on the game full time or not.

You act as if there are only two options here: quit his job and work on Teraurge full-time or don't work on Teraurge at all.
That is not the case. If he put so much as a single hour of work into Teraurge once a week, we would have a game with quite a bit of content by now and his support would've increased immensely allowing him more freedom to work on the game.

I don't care where you live, if you're collecting a minimum of $250 a month, you could dedicate 5hrs a month to working on the project you are receiving the money for.

And I'm not refuting that Meandraco abused the trust of his Patrons for what little monetary gain he could muster out of such a niche game. I'm just saying that getting paid a little over a hundred dollars/month across 6.5 years (assuming your math is correct, im not checking that) is nowhere near receiving a lump kickstarter sum of 37,046 USD to work on a game.

The only one who knows the exact sum is Meandraco, and I'm not going to pretend that my ballpark guesstimate is super accurate, however he has, at the very least, received 5 figures for "working" on the game.

Come on, there's no way you actually believe a fully developed Teraurge would be anywhere near "massively successful". Better games have died with more revenue and they dont touch subjects such as alien sex and bestiality.

Believe it or not, unique games that fulfill a niche are VERY popular.
Text-based games like Corruption of Champions can make almost $30k a month on Patreon (that's not including their SubscribeStar) and I assume Fenoxo is making at least as much for TiTS so there is a market for bizarre shit with decent writing.
Meandraco was able to get over $1k a month at his peak and that was with a game that was SEVERELY lacking in content, if he consistently updated the game I genuinely could see him making enough to comfortably quit his job.

 

[Vega The Moth]

I would like to point out that at no point did Meandraco explicitly promise that giving him money would contribute to the development of Teraurge. It was implied, sure, but Meandraco was very deliberate with his choice of language in the matter. To that end, it appears Meandraco views Teraurge as a fun side project - something that he may work on every now and then if the whimsy strikes him. He's said it before in this very thread: it's going to get done regardless of what you say or do. That's because Meandraco doesn't care. He's going to work on it when he feels like it and he feels absolutely no obligation towards getting it done or not. You may feel like since he is getting money from Patreon he should work on it, but he simply does not agree. Meandraco views his patreon as a way to send him some money because you just like him or the things he puts out online. As a strings-free tip jar, if you would. The language he chooses when talking about the subject bears this out.

So that said, I would like to ask: Why should we give the game any more importance or attention than what Meandraco does? If he doesn't care how we react or what we do, then why should we? If the game comes out one day because his random and sporadic development, then great. But Meandraco has made it clear he does not care what we think, he going to work on the game (or not, depends on how he feels) regardless of what we do. It doesn't matter if he's making $0 or $10,000 dollars on Patreon. He doesn't care. Don't bother being hyped, don't bother being anticipatory, just be happy v2 happened and move on. There's nothing more here. Meandraco does not feel obliged so neither should we, no matter how unjust we may feel it is.

 

[lnppo]

I would like to point out that at no point did Meandraco explicitly promise that giving him money would contribute to the development of Teraurge. It was implied, sure, but Meandraco was very deliberate with his choice of language in the matter. To that end, it appears Meandraco views Teraurge as a fun side project - something that he may work on every now and then if the whimsy strikes him. He's said it before in this very thread: it's going to get done regardless of what you say or do. That's because Meandraco doesn't care. He's going to work on it when he feels like it and he feels absolutely no obligation towards getting it done or not. You may feel like since he is getting money from Patreon he should work on it, but he simply does not agree. Meandraco views his patreon as a way to send him some money because you just like him or the things he puts out online. As a strings-free tip jar, if you would. The language he chooses when talking about the subject bears this out.

So that said, I would like to ask: Why should we give the game any more importance or attention than what Meandraco does? If he doesn't care how we react or what we do, then why should we? If the game comes out one day because his random and sporadic development, then great. But Meandraco has made it clear he does not care what we think, he going to work on the game (or not, depends on how he feels) regardless of what we do. It doesn't matter if he's making $0 or $10,000 dollars on Patreon. He doesn't care. Don't bother being hyped, don't bother being anticipatory, just be happy v2 happened and move on. There's nothing more here. Meandraco does not feel obliged so neither should we, no matter how unjust we may feel it is.

You're more charitable towards him than I would be but I agree with you more or less.

Personally, I don't think about this game at all anymore outside of when post notifications for this thread pop up since, like you said: Meandraco doesn't give a shit and the likelihood of a new version of Teraurge is pretty much 0%.

However it annoys the hell out of me when I see people desperate to defend him when he has openly lied and bullshitted for over half a decade at this point.
I'm sure next year, or the year after that he'll pop up again to tell us about how great the update will be and how it's coming soon or some other typical bullshit from him and everyone will pop-in to praise him and tell him how they can't wait and then he'll disappear for another year or two just to return with the same goddamn bullshit and the cycle will continue.

 

[kep31]

You're more charitable towards him than I would be but I agree with you more or less.

Personally, I don't think about this game at all anymore outside of when post notifications for this thread pop up since, like you said: Meandraco doesn't give a shit and the likelihood of a new version of Teraurge is pretty much 0%.

However it annoys the hell out of me when I see people desperate to defend him when he has openly lied and bullshitted for over half a decade at this point.
I'm sure next year, or the year after that he'll pop up again to tell us about how great the update will be and how it's coming soon or some other typical bullshit from him and everyone will pop-in to praise him and tell him how they can't wait and then he'll disappear for another year or two just to return with the same goddamn bullshit and the cycle will continue.

Can you please point out a comment from him where he "openly lied and bullshitted" or said how "great the update will be" or "how its coming soon", that is such typical bullshit from him?