Ren'Py Abandoned The DeLuca Family [Season 1] [HopesGaming]

[HopesGaming]

I just want to make something clear.
The disappointment and annoyance I have over the update time is aimed at my self due to my own hopes (no pun intended) and because I want to deliver it to you guys to enjoy as quickly as possible.
It is however not to the people that have high expectations due to the wrong reasons.

I have and will always be transparent. This game is my side thing. A hobby that I enjoy when I started and have only grown to love more. This I have said time after time. I have other things I enjoy as well. Such as going to the gym (I was sitting too much).
Some may respect that fact and some may hate it. I understand, but it is what it is.

About patrons. Only patron as long as you feel like you can both support it economic wise and if you feel like the dev is delivering what you want from the dev. Whatever that may be, as it is different from person to person.
I respect 'em all. Patrons, former patrons, and non patrons. As long as people enjoy the game, that is what is important.

Happy New Year!

 

[JJJ84]

I just want to make something clear.
The disappointment and annoyance I have over the update time is aimed at my self due to my own hopes (no pun intended) and because I want to deliver it to you guys to enjoy as quickly as possible.
It is however not to the people that have high expectations due to the wrong reasons.

I have and will always be transparent. This game is my side thing. A hobby that I enjoy when I started and have only grown to love more. This I have said time after time. I have other things I enjoy as well. Such as going to the gym (I was sitting too much).
Some may respect that fact and some may hate it. I understand, but it is what it is.

About patrons. Only patron as long as you feel like you can both support it economic wise and if you feel like the dev is delivering what you want from the dev. Whatever that may be, as it is different from person to person.
I respect 'em all. Patrons, former patrons, and non patrons. As long as people enjoy the game, that is what is important.

Happy New Year!

Not gonna lie, while it would have been pretty nice to have the update before the New Year, as you said it is what it is. Everyone has either other things they enjoy doing and also other commitments as well, and Devs are not exempt from that.
Also, you've made it crystal clear from beginning that this is a hobby.

So don't feel too bad for us, about not being able to deliver it on time (for 2021). Cause those of us who love the game and genuinely enjoy the game understand your position.

For what it's worth, I think the season finale will be a real kickass way to start 2022, and I'm hyped for it.

But before that, just wanna wish you and all the other DeLuca soldiers out there a Happy New Year.

 

[ArtMeat]

HopesGaming I've been following this game since just before the last update. I do (some) code development professionally. This was my second experience with AVN's (shoutout to Mr. Dots' "Melody"). I've since played a half-dozen or so others, mostly as recommended discord. I can't stress enough how vastly superior this story and it's art are to everything else I've played and I can appreciate the amount of effort and time required, especially since it's hobby. The pulls upon the heartstrings with Luna's story is unbelievable. I DO NOT CARE HOW LONG updates take. Good things are worth waiting for. To those can't accept that, go somewhere else! Before I made my first post here, I read THIS ENTIRE FORUM from Page 1 (we're on Page 1080, now, right?) and I really don't understand why there are so many posts about the schedule. It detracts from the point of the forum, which, IMHO, is to discuss the game, not rehashing the same-old BS. I respectfully request the moderators just delete these stupid, one-line, pointless posts asking for updates.

So, to encourage discussion about the game, I suggest the following: The Mysterious 6 are NOT a family, but a collection of the old war losers boss's descendants, kind of like Strefan but more like the Pacificatori, yet chaotic and vengeful in nature. As a Luna Fanbase member, nothing else matters. They must be found, infiltrated and systematically eliminated in very public, lengthy, painful and humiliating ways. I know the next update will not satisfy me in this. But I accept that, knowing that Hopes' passion for his hobby will resolve my thirst for revenge. In the mean time, I will enjoy watching our MC evolve and grow into an appropriately capable and remorseless adjudicator of the justice deserved by the perpetrators of the horrors inflicted upon my one and only love.

<3 Luna Forever <3

 

[HopesGaming]

BorgiaBou
Think what you want. The game is currently free due to my hobby status (even outside f95zone) and I've been transparent with how I do things.
Like it or not. That is your choices. But no reason for being condescending.

A quick search on your name and how you bash other devs, and the issue may be a bit deeper than a random porn game here.
I, nor any other devs, owe you anything.
Take some time off the site and relax a bit. It's not healthy with all that microaggressions and built up resentment. No amount of quirky emojis can conceal that.

Happy New Year

 

[Golden Trump]

HopesGaming No need to waste your time and energy on those who are ranting about the game even though they are getting it for free and are not spending a single penny on it . Its just that they don't have a life or friends so in order to cope up with the harsh truth they come here to rant so that they can get attention what nobody gives them in their actual life and finally get someone to chat with them. One of such cases is already shown in above posts.

KUDOS

 

[Candy Suxx]

HopesGaming No need to waste your time and energy on those who are ranting about the game even though they are getting it for free and are not spending a single penny on it . Its just that they don't have a life or friends so in order to cope up with the harsh truth they come here to rant so that they can get attention what nobody gives them in their actual life and finally get someone to chat with them. One of such cases is already shown in above posts.

KUDOS

Truer words were never been spoken brother.

 

[MarianTheSharkFace]

lol someone is butthurt because peoples are doing what they want with their money

 

[Vidal the king of Pervert]

You've convinced me. You are morally superior to me and everyone else here.
Your parents taught you well indeed, my friend. Enjoy your stay here at our lovely pirate forum. Keep pirating and bashing! Make them parents proud!



Yep this. Except it's 3k (before taxes). Which I am very happy and grateful for. But not enough to go full time. To give an idea, in Denmark the average monthly income is 6.6k (before taxes). Combined with high living factors and high risk, the adult industry is - not something I dare to jump into fully. Not yet.

Anyway. The guy is just an oddball as the money doesn't really matter as in the end I am not the one who controls who patronage or not. The patrons do.
Lorenz is a good example. He was patron when he wanted and removed it when he felt the updates took too long, which is fair.
I think he just is annoyed that someone is making money doing something he himself feels is easy work.

forgive me my Lord but do you have a plan for next year to bring out the updates faster because after

Gracie update and cordia is Luna's update
forgive my insolence

it's just I haven't seen Luna in so long and the last time I saw her that' red-headed Bitch

had her hands all over her it was the worst day of my life

my heart absolutely broke that. Day

am going to kill that Bitch one day

and again forgive my insolence


long live the leader of the Luna fanbase

 

[Cabin Fever]

Oh but you see there is something that stops me from doing it... my f'kin' common sense is doing that, i couldn't live with myself knowing that some suckers are paying for my "hobby" and i'm not delivering pretty much nothing in return no matter if my intentions are right and i'm transparent with everything i'm doing (no wonder there are some devs, true just a few who are stopping payments on patreon cuz of this)... i was taught from childhood that getting money without working for them is no good... so yeah i couldn't do that tho i wish but this mofo that my parents taught me called manners is not letting me...

Manners? Based on your responses here, I'm sorry to say that it looks like your parents didn't do such a good job teaching you that.

 

[Cabin Fever]

Dude i'm sorry but on what planet do you live where 5k is not enough money to live not decent but good?

That would be on this very planet, where in many countries, and indeed even many parts of US, where 5k is only a decent but not a good amount, especially since there's this little thing called tax on that 5k.

 

[Ahx]

That would be on this very planet, where in many countries, and indeed even many parts of US, where 5k is only a decent but not a good amount, especially since there's this little thing called tax on that 5k.

Oh...He doesn't get any of that mate...I think we should stick to our usual retorts..." Go away...we're out of free candies "

 

[MrLKX]

Here is a rough overview, if I should have overlooked something, then I ask kindly to correct me:

Gross income
- Share that Patreon keeps
- Tax share of this gross income
= net income
- Living expenses (food, rent, electricity, water etc)
- Other additional expenses (e.g. car, spare parts for the PC, unexpected expenses etc)
- Regular taxes
= What is left at the end

It's always amusing how much people underestimate the amount of taxes, etc.

 

[Cartageno]

Dude i'm sorry but on what planet do you live where 5k is not enough money to live not decent but good?

Prices in Scandinavia are way higher, taxes are way higher than in other places, Patreon takes a share of the earnings.

Also, being self employed means you have to pay for all your work stuff, computers are more expensive when you need high quality power to do the renders and will burn out faster, there's licenses, all kind of stuff.

Yes, even with all that, you can survive on 3k but it isn't just the "money you get for work", you'll have to deduct a lot. And for me it wouldn't be an alternative, despite living in a cheaper country with a lower tax rate (still higher than e. g. the US), since I get way more for my regular work. Again, you can live off 3k, you can support a family on 3k, but it isn't "good" but in the end well below average here.

Also you seem quite obsessed with the number 700 - but these people know what they will be getting and also can speak for themselves. Not everybody who thinks differently than you is just naive.

 

[KenJin]

I'm playing for free so I'm not complaining

 

[MarianTheSharkFace]

wow two full pages of people pointlessly quarreling if the dev deserve a patreon or not......can we please stop and return to the main topic wich is worshipping our lady and saviour Luna DeLuca?

 

[HopesGaming]

Wow talking about being a condescending prick

The harder someone tries to punch, the less they can actually take the punch themselves.
You spend your time with passive aggression towards devs and other members who disagree with you, yet you become like a small anime character that goes 'nani!' once someone does what you do on a daily basis.

I am kind to civil people and fire back at the same style towards people that act entitled and superior.

so yeah i make my parents proud of me cuz i work my f'in' ass off for my money and don't have a "hooby"

So, in the end, this is what it is all about. Money. Not the game nor the update time, but simply the money. You're working hard, probably minimum wage and tough physical job, yet someone else is making money by 'sitting and doing easy work'.
There are many people like you. It is the entitlement of "I deserve more! I deserve the money!".
All I can tell you is - this is the entertainment business. You rarely get money based on the job effort. Even if it is heavy effort or low effort. Money is based on the entertainment factor. And let me tell you a secret, our little niche part of the entertainment world is nothing compared to the mainstream entertainment business. Your heart that wishes the money will get a heart attack if it knew how much some big profile people earn by doing simple 5 mins work.

dude you talk about good will and transparecy how many times you stoped your payments in this period...

Why should I stop it? Based on your arbitrary time limit you yourself has decided for my hobby project? Well, sorry boss. Guess I will stop it immediately.
You basically created a time limit for me and now are saying I can't get more support because I've crossed your personal time limit. Can you really not tell how much entitlement that there is over such a sentence?
No matter how many times I talk with a Filius, they always manage to baffle me.

Yeah you God damn right i am annoyed by "devs" who are taking advantage of ppl trust and naivete,

I guess it is up to you to save all these naive people then.
Be their savior! Show the world how much more you know than them. That they are being brainwashed and simply do not know that these evil devs are cheating them!

do you have a plan for next year to bring out the updates faster because after

Gracie update and cordia is Luna's update

Yeah, the plan was for this update to be the smaller and faster one, but since it is going to be the end of season update the quicker updates was moved to the next one.
So, yup. After this I will send Luna to you faster, haha.

wow two full pages of people pointlessly quarreling if the dev deserve a patreon or not......can we please stop and return to the main topic wich is worshipping our lady and saviour Luna DeLuca?

I probably share a bit of the fault, heh. I tend to spend a little extra time with the Filius people because I find it funny.
Time to go back to the work so you guys can play around with the girls again.

love the game SOOOOO much, really... However I like to know, are Luna, Gracie or both virgin... ? I mean, except If we have sex with them... I need to play more, but I wanted to know... I hope they are, because is one of my wishes before die C: ...

Both of the sisters are virgins

 

[JJJ84]

Sadly, won't be out before the new year. I really tried my best to get it out in December, but that just won't be a reality.
Still working hard to get it out quickly tho!
There will be a patreon dev post before the end of the year.

you was the one to say after the last update who took you 7 or 8 months cuz you had to "change" the hole game that the next one won't take so much time, well its 8 months and counting... man o' man you manage to fool them folks, bravo...

lol he never said that.

Here is what he actually said (from the actual Dev post back in October 2020, I just edited it down to relevant bits):

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Hey DeLucas

Another thing I am planning is making shorter updates and faster releases instead of my current long updates with longer updates. Just to test the waters and see how you guys will like that instead. But even then, there will be times that will be changed if there will be events at the length of 'My Name Is Luna', those takes a damn long time to make but are also rare events.

-HG

You're throwing accusation at him as if he was guaranteeing to everyone that it's gonna be quicker releases for every single release post-v0.07, but it's not what he said.
Even after this dev post, he said couple of times in this game thread that it's gonna depend on the content, and even before your post, he did say since this (upcoming update) is a season finale, he's taking some more time to put more events/content into it.

 

[Cartageno]

Both of the sisters are virgins

However, this might be a case where the good old future perfect will come in handy.

 

[Paco Loco]

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Luna Event (Lewd + Story) - 95%
Gracie Event1 (Story) - 100%
Gracie Event2 (Lewd)- 99%
Gracie Event3 (Story + Lewd)- 99%
Gracie Event4 (Story)- 95%
Gracie Event5 (Lewd)- 20%
Story Event (season finale) - 30 %
Misc - 35%
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Hey, Delucas!

Worked hard this month to finish the main event of this event. Gracie Event4 (Story)
It has moved from 89% to 95%, but that because I've added extra stuff to it as I thought it was fitting (a whole new forest scene at the end). So it's more of 35% plus work done on it but just stretched due to new plan.

The plan is still to get it out before the end of the year (will require hard work, but hard work is what I will do!). Right now, I need to focus on the final part of the event and then focus on the last Gracie lewd and season finale scene, which I've already done a lot of the footwork on.

-HG

From what I saw, HopesGaming already warned about a very tight schedule to finish the version almost a month ago (november 30th). Then, even with that, he said that was still on the plan to deliver on december. From what I saw, he seemed really motivated to finish and deliver the new release before 2022. From MY perspective, december is a tough month on work - you have a lot to do and a very little time to accomplish before holidays and all what comes with it - covid tests, family reunions, costs, etc. If you can do all your main job without problems, deal with your daily schedule, it's ok. But we are not talking about a main job. Hopes has a main job and developing Delucas is a side-job, or a hobby, as he input.

Other thing that made me think about was this:
Gracie Event5 (Lewd)- 20%
Story Event (season finale) - 30 %
Misc - 35%

The main story event was on early development on november 30th and at that moment, was clear he may have huge issues to keep on schedule, for a dev who does a main job and family to care, besides this project, on one single month. Maybe, Hopes was motivated enough to believe it was possible, but he warned on patreon (TY, johnelros) a probable delay. It is not like for who's are updated from the news on thread, a huge surprise. Besides, it was a delay, not a shutdown, like ocurred on Oath of Loyalty, just for example.

Sadly, won't be out before the new year. I really tried my best to get it out in December, but that just won't be a reality.
Still working hard to get it out quickly tho!
There will be a patreon dev post before the end of the year.

This time, was not one of his patrons who's delivered the news. It was the dev himself who's telled to us - a users/fans on a forum who's in majority, doesn't pay for his work. I respect him for that. Even more, because he seemed pretty annoyed for didn't reach his own expectations to finish earlier.

So far, I have no reasons to not trust on Hopes when he says he seriously tried his best. And I don't believe that is a naive or else. I'm not (yet) paying for his work, but it is a matter of budget at this moment. I'm planning to do on 2022 and the first project to pledge is Delucas.

Besides, from who's lost his father and almost lost one of his sisters due to covid this year, a delayed game is a far lesser problem on this shitty 2021.

I expect a far better 2022 for me, and for all of us.

And much much more Delucas!

Peace, bros.

Keep going, HopesGaming

*Like the phylosopher Zorlun said: My english will make your eyes bleeeeed!!

 

[Vidal the king of Pervert]

The harder someone tries to punch, the less they can actually take the punch themselves.
You spend your time with passive aggression towards devs and other members who disagree with you, yet you become like a small anime character that goes 'nani!' once someone does what you do on a daily basis.

I am kind to civil people and fire back at the same style towards people that act entitled and superior.



So, in the end, this is what it is all about. Money. Not the game nor the update time, but simply the money. You're working hard, probably minimum wage and tough physical job, yet someone else is making money by 'sitting and doing easy work'.
There are many people like you. It is the entitlement of "I deserve more! I deserve the money!".
All I can tell you is - this is the entertainment business. You rarely get money based on the job effort. Even if it is heavy effort or low effort. Money is based on the entertainment factor. And let me tell you a secret, our little niche part of the entertainment world is nothing compared to the mainstream entertainment business. Your heart that wishes the money will get a heart attack if it knew how much some big profile people earn by doing simple 5 mins work.



Why should I stop it? Based on your arbitrary time limit you yourself has decided for my hobby project? Well, sorry boss. Guess I will stop it immediately.
You basically created a time limit for me and now are saying I can't get more support because I've crossed your personal time limit. Can you really not tell how much entitlement that there is over such a sentence?
No matter how many times I talk with a Filius, they always manage to baffle me.



I guess it is up to you to save all these naive people then.
Be their savior! Show the world how much more you know than them. That they are being brainwashed and simply do not know that these evil devs are cheating them!




Yeah, the plan was for this update to be the smaller and faster one, but since it is going to be the end of season update the quicker updates was moved to the next one.
So, yup. After this I will send Luna to you faster, haha.



I probably share a bit of the fault, heh. I tend to spend a little extra time with the Filius people because I find it funny.
Time to go back to the work so you guys can play around with the girls again.




Both of the sisters are virgins

thank you my lord you just made my day



Luna the One Waifu To Rule Them All