Unreal Engine The Parasites [v0.1.3.0.0] [Rab-Bit]
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I don't think so! Have you ever heard of a perpetuum mobile? It might not work in physics but it can be applied to human spending.
If you could milk Patreon subscribers for their hard earned cash while doing the bare minimum, would you ever finish a project?
Look around, Project Helious (Fallen Doll), Delta Zone, Yuna. These projects will either be abandoned or still in developement for over 10 years. They aren't rushing, they are excusing themselves for the maximum ammount of time, while providing the most vague deadlines and information.
These are the kind of people that chill on the toilet at work and are paid for shitting 7 hours weekly.
I agree with everything you said and want to add that coming up with a new idea is hard and as you've pointed, the incentive isn't there for it when a guy might lose a guaranteed revenue stream. Hell, even major corporations are afraid to try new things which is why almost every movie and game is recycled IP. I'm afraid the "best" we'll get is when they(Patreon creators) remake their old game like is happening with Barbarian. But they will never get finished.
Parasites is masterpiece if compared to Delta Zone or Yuna. Patreon is for supporting creators, not buying products. It's not steam. In theory, you see some project that you like, is unique and dev has some vision around it, and you decide to support. I think parasites is really ok in that reagard. Developer does not lie about NSFW stuff, but is being honest by saying he will never focus on that. And also this game has demo. Really, the parasites is the last patreon funded game that I would shit on. It have unique gameplay, very deep and completed mechanics, and on many levels, deleoper has kept his promises and delivered. And i Don't really like this game, but I see vision, work put in it, and how it is unique. Comparing this do DZ is disgrace, since it's everything that DZ is not.
We are on The Parasites thread comparing projects like Project Helious (Fallen Doll), Delta Zone, Yuna.
Fallen Doll - earns somewhere around 100k per month for a long time.
The Parasites - ~50k per month not for so long.
Delta Zone - at peak earned somewhere around 10k - 15k per month.
and Yuna - 3k per month.
It's literally a half-baked clone of The Forest/SotF games with female MC and one masturbation animation.
I played both The Forest (great game) and SotF (which for me is by far worse on everything), it sure got some inspiration from those but this one is unique in its way, has great animations, has charisma and good gameplay. There are bugs yeah but nothing gamebreaker.
The Forest took a lot of years from a solo developer before it went out, i remember playing the EA 10 years ago, and was full of bugs and raw at best. This has great potential, the last update took a while but put a lot of new map places and points of interests (although empty, but ready for content), many functionalities and even some npc + animation. Everything done by a single persone. If you think about:
- project helius: big team, small updates with no gameplay, only animations, cash gacha grab
- delta zone: what are we talking about? it's a bug mess i don't consider it a game
- yuna: nice concept but far from having the same vision and charisma
the parasites is on another level and has great opportunity to become a solid game.
That's said, being from a solo indie developer, everything could happen! I thank him for the work he put and if it will ever see a final release i'll support him buying the game.
The Forest took a lot of years from a solo developer before it went out, i remember playing the EA 10 years ago, and was full of bugs and raw at best. This has great potential, the last update took a while but put a lot of new map places and points of interests (although empty, but ready for content), many functionalities and even some npc + animation. Everything done by a single persone. If you think about:
- project helius: big team, small updates with no gameplay, only animations, cash gacha grab
- delta zone: what are we talking about? it's a bug mess i don't consider it a game
- yuna: nice concept but far from having the same vision and charisma
the parasites is on another level and has great opportunity to become a solid game.
That's said, being from a solo indie developer, everything could happen! I thank him for the work he put and if it will ever see a final release i'll support him buying the game.
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Your texture streaming is very low (UE engine is default 1000 - terrible). You have to setup manually and put the texture to high.