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

[sidiouspein]

Glad I saw that changelog. I'll wait for the next update whenever that happens.

 

[Niccolado]

Got one question....

Will The Deluca Family come to gog.com? I do not buy games on Steam....

 

[Teal80]

The VN mode is really bad unless you have played before. It misses any context for changes between scenes, when using equipment and is confusing without linking visuals between the various scenes.

You jump from the end of a scene to a blank screen with some seemingly random choices (because you went back to your room and picked up the laptop). You therefore have no idea why things happen, things arrive automatically, though you never went through the process of ordering them, the reasons and story elements of searching for these items is lost.

Scenes jump from the end on one location to another without any intermediary explanation of where you are or were intending to go. Suddenly I'm in a town but I dont know what I'm doing here.

My advice is not play VN mode as a first playthrough - you will be baffled.

Still love the game - just not the VN mode.

 

[DrDerpington]

Hmm, so no new update for at least 1 year. And now new release without any new content whatsoever, only same old and a bit of VN mode.
And some people wonder, why are we skeptical.

And this game started so promising. But then the dev started swimming in money and his work ethics has gone downhill. Now it is mostly about milking money with minimal effort. So sad.

 

[Jimayo]

But then the dev started swimming in money

 

[c3p0]

Hmm, so no new update for at least 1 year.

Up to the 0.06.x updates the release time was OK. Not fast, but we had a average of 3-4 updates per year. After that we only have 1 or 2 updates per year and more like 1 updates per year. I don't blame hope for it, he always was upfront on this with us.

But for a game to have success it would need a faster and more constant update cycle. Also for that few updates per year, they are to small. Again nothing against hope, only stating my opinion why the game isn't such a success instead of all the goods it has.

So, going for a major release, I have this numbers:

Game version	Date	Time between updates [d]	Time between updates [M]	Average time between updates [M]
0.02	2018-09-09
0.03	2018-11-15	67	2.23	2.23
0.04	2019-03-18	123	4.10	3.17
0.05	2019-09-28	194	6.47	4.27
0.06.1	2020-03-22	176	5.87	4.67
0.06.5	2020-06-19	89	2.97	4.33
0.06.6	2020-07-24	35	1.17	3.80
0.07.2	2021-04-08	258	8.60	4.49
0.08.0.3	2022-07-06	454	15.13	5.82
0.09	2023-01-21	199	6.63	5.91
0.09.5	2023-05-08	107	3.57	5.67
1.00.0	2024-02-28	296	9.87	6.05
		Min	1.17
		Max	15.13
		Average	6.05
		Standard deviation	4.03

Edit:

• 2024-04-05: Update table to game version 1.00.0

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Thus, you must be from Mercury or Venus.

 

[Jimayo]

To gain Special Render: Chibi Isabel, from the Entrance go North, then East, then South.

Nope. You can only go east. There is no north at the entrance. East, then north or south. If you go north then it's east to a dead end.

 

[matschbirne]

ok, I don't know if Hopes knows...

playing in VN mode and got a little heart from Gracie that somehow got stuck.

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don't mind, like her too


edit: ok, never mind...save game and reload and the little heart is gone

 

[Deviton123]

Does anyone have a save file with an updated gallery?

 

[Gio]

Does not work on the steam version!

steam version not 0.9 so yea

 

[HornyyPussy]

Hmm, so no new update for at least 1 year. And now new release without any new content whatsoever, only same old and a bit of VN mode.
And some people wonder, why are we skeptical.

And this game started so promising. But then the dev started swimming in money and his work ethics has gone downhill. Now it is mostly about milking money with minimal effort. So sad.

Almost impressive how wrong you can be in so few sentences.....

 

[klckr]

Damn, such disappoint.
I have been a Patreon supporter for years now, why would I care about a Steam release at all? It's more of a slap in the face for supporters I guess.
I want a continuation of the story, which has been at a complete standstill since januari 2023.
Hopefully steam sales will give some kind of impetus to the project.

 

[Trojaner]

why would I care about a Steam release at all?

That is "YOU" problem, not ours. People here take what the get.

 

[HornyyPussy]

Damn, such disappoint.
I have been a Patreon supporter for years now, why would I care about a Steam release at all? It's more of a slap in the face for supporters I guess.
I want a continuation of the story, which has been at a complete standstill since januari 2023.
Hopefully steam sales will give some kind of impetus to the project.

Kinda answered your own statement there sport.

 

[klckr]

That is "YOU" problem, not ours. People here take what the get.

There is not really a problem, like I said I am just a little disappointed because I see an update to a project I have been looking forward to a long time and there is basically nothing new. Of course this is a "me" problem as emotion is inherently personal. I'm sorry of this offended you somehow.

Kinda answered your own statement there sport.

It's a rhetorical question not a statement bud.

 

[Vertius]

It's been a long time since I've played this, is there any content with Cordia, yet?

 

[FROZER]

people, how can you see the girl koga ani bvayu in ms’s bathroom? What should be done for etawa?

 

[JJJ84]

It's been a long time since I've played this, is there any content with Cordia, yet?

Cordia content will be coming in season 2.

 

[Kylie Bloodmoon]

Uh, if you were under that impression that I'm assuming you haven't really checked this thread for a good long while.
Hopes, myself and people who are even decently active in the thread have been saying there will be no new story content with the steam release and it will just feature the VN mode, Codex and the Gallery.

I think I said it at least several times leading up to the Steam release lol.

And there were a lot of IRL things going on with Hopes which took him away from the much of the game's development;



Yeah i havent been active in here in a long time. I understand life happens and you gotta take care of your health and real life before game development. It has been quite awhile sense the last update though. So i can see both sides. I am kinda bummed there is no new content after so long but depending on what all was going on, like i think yall mentioned a wedding, that would make a lot of sense as to why development has been slow. Hopefully he is good health wise at least and able to get back on things relatively soon.

 

[Kylie Bloodmoon]

There is not really a problem, like I said I am just a little disappointed because I see an update to a project I have been looking forward to a long time and there is basically nothing new. Of course this is a "me" problem as emotion is inherently personal. I'm sorry of this offended you somehow.

Dont apologize to him dude. He was being an ass with his response to you. If he got offended by what you said, thats a him problem. Not a you problem. People need to stop apologizing for someone else getting offended at a perfectly reasonable or innocently intended statement. And people need to stop feeling like the did somethibg wrong when someone lashes out like a child because of something you said without any ill intentions. The intent behind a statement is what makes it bad or not.