Ren'Py The Mind Society [v0.5] [Adventures in ENF]

[Draconias]

I like this game. But without an update in over a year, I think we can stick a fork in this and call it done. I imagine the Abandoned tag will appear soon.

The game is being actively worked on and the devs are keeping their patrons in the loop about what's going on. It ain't dead.

Memory serves, this is the only VN they work on...I think their graphics designers or something like that. Basically, a group of people that have full time jobs doing something else, and maybe spend an hour or two a month (could be more but judging how long for updates) working on this VN.

If they were only working 1 or 2 hours a month each update would take 5-10 years. Game development takes a lot more time and effort than most people on this forum think it does.

 

[Ramagar]

The game is being actively worked on and the devs are keeping their patrons in the loop about what's going on. It ain't dead.


If they were only working 1 or 2 hours a month each update would take 5-10 years. Game development takes a lot more time and effort than most people on this forum think it does.

I do not mean to be disrespectful, but a year without an update, they are not working on this. They are milking this.

 

[Draconias]

I do not mean to be disrespectful, but a year without an update, they are not working on this. They are milking this.

I disagree. If they were milking it/abandoning it they would not bother communicating about it. That's the common thread amongst game devs who abandon their games. But I suppose we'll see.

 

[Ramagar]

I disagree. If they were milking it/abandoning it they would not bother communicating about it. That's the common thread amongst game devs who abandon their games. But I suppose we'll see.

One of the definitions of milking here is saying you will do an update and never do. You just want the people paying you to keep paying you without doing anything.

 

[Freddi Schreiner]

Would be simple for the Dev's to end this discussion / speculations by giving an "official" update in this thread !?????

 

[Visionary25]

The Patreon post was already leaked in the thread.
Sometime in April.

 

[Canto Forte]

We got official updates ... by one gracious dev who would spare the time to chat:
we certainly missed the deadline for late Feb release, meaning mid March it is,
so fingers crossed y”all.

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[Ramagar]

There are some very good dev's on here that keep their fans up to date very often. Almost every day. Then there are dev's on here that are never on here. Some do not even post the updates to their games here. They have someone else do that.

 

[Durisaz]

It's just my guts feeling, but I believe that they are working on game and not milking it. Simply live got in the way and they can't developed in speed that we would like to.

 

[lewdcherry]

phenomenal game

 

[lionmc]

It's just my guts feeling, but I believe that they are working on game and not milking it. Simply live got in the way and they can't developed in speed that we would like to.

Thank you. We are slow, sometime we are unlucky and occasionally we're even lazy but we are definitely not liers or crooks. We're also not fools; we spent years working on this game, if we did it all to scam people out of a few hundred bucks we would need our heads checked.
We're almost there.

 

[s921035]

I think developers should be encouraged. A good game takes a long time to release. This makes perfect sense. After all, to bring us a good gaming experience.

 

[Shaidov]

I take it the game is abandoned?

 

[SonsOfLiberty]

I take it the game is abandoned?

Literally 2 posts up from your comment is about the games progress.

 

[Ion_444]

Amazing game, super high quality. Very rare to see something that so exactly pertains to my tastes in mind control content, with both engaging characters and an interesting MC mechanic with appropriate world building to back it up.

Would like to see a bit more, but I understand that working on projects of this high of quality can take a very long time, especially when it's not a priority project.

 

[edscorp]

Is the game abandoned?

 

[SonsOfLiberty]

Is the game abandoned?

If you had looked literally 5 posts up you would have had your answer.

 

[Visionary25]

If you had looked literally 5 posts up you would have had your answer.

Pretty sure they're just trolling you at this point.

 

[NoobGames]

Don't think they are trolling, just facing quite a bit of issues. Nevertheless, the next version should be out in a few daays

 

[Visionary25]

But I fear it will be extremely short. Not blaming the devs, this is a side project.

I wanna know is if every branch has different renders. For ex, if you choose Alex to be infatuated with you or to defer to your judgement, are there multiple different images? Clothing changes, poses etc.
That eats up a lot of time whereas dialogue can be shifted pretty easily without much effort.