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

[c3p0]

Uh, you're remembering it wrong.

Season 1 finale was a cliffhanger, but it was Gracie getting shot in the DeLuca family's dinner (or could have been breakfast or lunch, for all we know) with an attack from unknown forces. Poisoning food was what happened to MC in the very early part of the game.

And I was sure it was when Jony or whatever his name is, died again.

 

[Smarmint]

I just hope you are right, but at the same time it's hard not to go with the sentiment. As alfius pointed out as well. Content wise the game has not really progressed much since 2022, surely there was a steam (re)release, we had some lore and some lewd content with the bikini lady, but story wise there was next to nothing.

I think everything went downhill, in a major way, since Hopes added the text based mini game. It's not the mini-game itself, which is frankly just bad and seems to belong in a completely different game, but also it just seems to have taken all his attention or perhaps allowed him to pass off development to someone else, so everything else has been very short and rudimentary, not to mention taking over a year each release for the last 3 or years. This game has been in development for 6 years, but the last several years have been basically next to nothing story wise.

This looks pretty much like the slow death we have seen with many, many games here. The dev takes longer and longer to release, with less and less content per release, less and less communication, until all but a few fans forget about it. It's too bad. Story-wise, Deluca Family is in the top 5, but development has to actually happen.

 

[Lorenz1]

I think everything went downhill, in a major way, since Hopes added the text based mini game.

I remember how in the discord literally everyone were telling him that mini-game idea is shit and will kill the game by distracting him from the main plot. Then he took a year and a half introducing like 3 quests with combined playtime of about 20 minutes, and it all went downhill from there.

Sometimes people are not wrong.

I think Lockhear made more renders with Deluca characters in the last 3 years than the dev.

 

[1reaper1]

4 months without an update and people are calling it dead. Noobs do not have much experience with games here, if they knew how long it takes for some games to release an update.

yet most active games even though they only get 1 update a year usually have devs talking more than what is it now ? once in 6monts or something. i could agree with you if the dev had said anything about the game. instead they dont seem to have been active here or in discord or even online in discord as far as i can see. instead we get a dead patreon not used since may, a dead f95zone and a dead discord also since around may. i mean not as much as a HI PEOPLE. they put out season 1 and went dead silent

 

[Luizodia]

When you have a fanbase that support everything you do or in this case don't do and attack anyone who even think about asking if there is any update about the game you don't need to do anything
I like this game so much but at this moment I don't give a fuck about it anymore

You couldn't be more right about that. The Deluca family's fanbase is probably the worst I've ever seen on this forum. I remember that some time ago, you literally couldn't say anything about how Hope was taking more and more time to deliver updates without them attacking you and making you feel bad about it. But it seems like maybe the people who were criticizing him weren't so wrong after all, huh?

 

[JLucci]

I think everything went downhill, in a major way, since Hopes added the text based mini game.

Hmm, I actually like the mission mini game and thought it was an improvement over what we had before. To me, I'd say the Steam release and supposedly going "full time" as a dev is when things went south.

 

[Alfius]

4 months without an update and people are calling it dead. Noobs do not have much experience with games here, if they knew how long it takes for some games to release an update.

I'm not shitting on the game or the dev. It's a great game and I have nothing against the dev. But just look at the enthusiasm for the game. I posted a week ago and we are still on the same page.

This game used to be one of the top games on this site. If you look at other top games, you can barely keep up with the thread. Your post disappears inside a ton of other useless posts. (That's why I rarely post in very popular game threads)

I would expect the same from the Deluca Family, but the enthusiasm for this game has died. I was just making an observation. I'm not excited about updates anymore, since they have been a bit underwhelming for a long time. So a new update for TDF does not excite me anymore. And I say that as an absolute fan of the game. It's not that the quality of the story went down, but it feels like the story does not move forward.

In any case... not going to post more negative posts. The game is still an awesome game. I just motivated myself to play the latest updates....lol

 

[1reaper1]

of course enthusiasm dies when there is not as much as a word from the dev about the game in multiple months.

 

[raider_manhc]

Uh, you're remembering it wrong.

Season 1 finale was a cliffhanger, but it was Gracie getting shot in the DeLuca family's dinner (or could have been breakfast or lunch, for all we know) with an attack from unknown forces. Poisoning food was what happened to MC in the very early part of the game.

yeah thats the cliffhanger i was thinking about, with

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.... but as there has not been any new real updates for a year i havent played it since, so remembered it

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[camube]

im good with hopes not updating us as long as he's actively working on it

 

[minibaer12]

im good with hopes not updating us as long as he's actively working on it

Well, that is the big question: is he still working on it???

 

[dami123]

This game is one of the best game I've played but it updates super slow. I really like the mafia story of it, it's hard to find games with similar concept

 

[Halfwic]

Well, that is the big question: is he still working on it???

Most likely...the dude has always put out updates on his Patreon veeeeery infrequently. Pretty sure this game has gotten the abandoned tag a few times due to how rarely he talks about it. When the update is ready or near ready he talks about it, it isnt ideal but it's whatever.

 

[minibaer12]

Most likely...the dude has always put out updates on his Patreon veeeeery infrequently. Pretty sure this game has gotten the abandoned tag a few times due to how rarely he talks about it. When the update is ready or near ready he talks about it, it isnt ideal but it's whatever.

Your Word in God's Ear

 

[damiandik]

How do I increase my perception? My other stats are quite ok but I am stuck on that

 

[Nerdbro]

Are there any cordia scenes or not? It's grayed out in the gallery

 

[salamista]

Are there any cordia scenes or not? It's grayed out in the gallery

Not yet. Hopefully in the future...

 

[Crashbullet]

A good game from a lazy developer, he promised to work on the game full time after the release on Steam, and then disappeared forever

 

[Krytax123]

i think he does. there's steam release and the lore articles. Why wouldn't he want a Season 2 steam release and additional income.
The question for me is whether he's working on this full time (regular working hours), or in his spare time like the majority of devs

i prefer quicker updates if it's full time tbh. But to be fair to hopes, DPC release update once a year even though he's full time4

DPC is a shitty comparison, his updates have the size (or bigger) like fully completed other avns.

 

[HornyyPussy]

A good game from a lazy developer, he promised to work on the game full time after the release on Steam, and then disappeared forever

So the end of time is here since this is forever huh?

How do you know that he is NOT working on it just because we haven't heard from him for a while? Know something the rest of us doesn't (regarding Hopes)?