sandman85
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I think you need a new watch. Yours are definitely running too fast. The oldest renders are not even 5 years old yet. How do I know that? The first versions of this game was released to this board Sep. 3 2020, and the latest version is dated Jan. 15 2024, which is 1 year + a couple of days ago.
Beside that. I really don't like you comparing this dev abandoned his game to other dev's abandoned their games. I'm pretty sure that if this dev. didn't have a seriously ill kid, he would have continued developing the game. It's far from other dev's who abandons a game, just to start working on a new one.
If you really hate games with old renders that much, you should be bitching in treads with games with multiple paths or games where the dev. is working on multiple games in parallel. In both cases the developing method is slowing down the development which means you will end up with a game with 10-15 years between the first and last renders.
fuck, I like this game. Sad to see it go
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Scove
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I wish Horizontical all the best and have supported him since he began this. Games are fun but family is everything!
I know it's an old comment, but I'm curious. Don't see a way to message you directly, can you send the list?
soldano
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It's a shame to see this game abandoned. It had some really fun plots.
I replied to your message.
Meanwhile, regarding this game, there's a guy in the discord saying he worked on the game and sent TRM coding to be implemented with TRM's renders. He's saying he's willing to work on the game, but the only response is someone completely new saying something about doing designs and a former Illuminati saying they'd hold out some more for TRM's return.
Doloto2022
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I always suspected this game was going to be abandoned by the dev. I really loved the game in its earlier iterations and the premise seemed great, but it was pretty clear that the developer never had a solid plan in place.
The Regional Manager was a game ruled by Patreon polls, resulting in feature creep and a generally disjointed experience all around. It definitely seemed like Horizontical had some clever ideas in mind but he ultimately caved to his supporters, sometimes even adding in content that he himself personally thought didn't fit the narrative. I was even one of his Patreon supporters and watching those poll results come in and Horizontical's responses to some of them was disappointing. Seemed like he really didn't want to add some of the crap that got added, but he felt obliged to since that's how he set the entire process up...
This is a fairly common end-result of games in development being controlled entirely by Patreon polls. It's always a mistake to relinquish that level of creative control--polls should be for minor features or additions that you as a developer are already interested in making. Horizontical would usually just ask his supporters to message him with any ideas they had for content, and he would add those ideas to a poll for all other supporters to vote on.
Sadly, this was inevitable. I'm glad we got what we did, the game itself is an enjoyable romp in power fantasy/humiliation type of content, but it was always going to end this way. I hope Horizontical's next project--likely under a different developer name--is more focused on what he wants to make, not what us gooners tell him we want. (Yes, some of my submitted ideas made it into the game, and no I don't think it was a good idea--my ideas weren't even successful in the polls so clearly they weren't good ideas...)
I don't believe the health crisis nonsense. That's one of the most common things H-game developers use as a crutch to get financial supporters off their backs. Horizontical likely just got burned out working on a project he didn't enjoy anymore. It's fine. He put around four years of his life into this project, that's far more than most developers accomplish before burnout.
To be clear, I hold no animosity toward the guy. In fact I wish him luck in the future and hope he continues making games. I honestly hope he's already working on a different project under a different name and we're all just none-the-wiser. Assuming he didn't enjoy working on The Regional Manager anymore, I feel like that's the best case scenario here.
Good luck, dev. Thanks for all the fun!
(aaaand I'm off to replay this game again, because why not)
The Regional Manager was a game ruled by Patreon polls, resulting in feature creep and a generally disjointed experience all around. It definitely seemed like Horizontical had some clever ideas in mind but he ultimately caved to his supporters, sometimes even adding in content that he himself personally thought didn't fit the narrative. I was even one of his Patreon supporters and watching those poll results come in and Horizontical's responses to some of them was disappointing. Seemed like he really didn't want to add some of the crap that got added, but he felt obliged to since that's how he set the entire process up...
This is a fairly common end-result of games in development being controlled entirely by Patreon polls. It's always a mistake to relinquish that level of creative control--polls should be for minor features or additions that you as a developer are already interested in making. Horizontical would usually just ask his supporters to message him with any ideas they had for content, and he would add those ideas to a poll for all other supporters to vote on.
Sadly, this was inevitable. I'm glad we got what we did, the game itself is an enjoyable romp in power fantasy/humiliation type of content, but it was always going to end this way. I hope Horizontical's next project--likely under a different developer name--is more focused on what he wants to make, not what us gooners tell him we want. (Yes, some of my submitted ideas made it into the game, and no I don't think it was a good idea--my ideas weren't even successful in the polls so clearly they weren't good ideas...)
I don't believe the health crisis nonsense. That's one of the most common things H-game developers use as a crutch to get financial supporters off their backs. Horizontical likely just got burned out working on a project he didn't enjoy anymore. It's fine. He put around four years of his life into this project, that's far more than most developers accomplish before burnout.
To be clear, I hold no animosity toward the guy. In fact I wish him luck in the future and hope he continues making games. I honestly hope he's already working on a different project under a different name and we're all just none-the-wiser. Assuming he didn't enjoy working on The Regional Manager anymore, I feel like that's the best case scenario here.
Good luck, dev. Thanks for all the fun!
(aaaand I'm off to replay this game again, because why not)
Most of what you wrote is just nonsense. I could name quite a number of good games that is using Patreon pools etc. I might be naive, but I do believe his story about the health crises. Why on earth should he lie about that just to start a new game under a new name? Thank God I don't have the same negative view of the world as you have.
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I thought he was rather nice about it, and I share the sentiment of "health crises" being a failsafe crutch Dev's use banking on a majority of naive people who think the vast majority of their fellow pears are good and honest people. Before it was Covid for the failsafe excuse, but now that the word is out, it's just using different wording for the same sympathy result.
Edit: and to answer your question as to why he would lie, it's simple. People will still get suckered into giving him money for his next project when his "health" returns, they will be a lot less likely to fork over money to a dev that couldn't keep control of his own story and quit.
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Have you even read what the dev have been writing about the health issue of his kid? I've seen other dev's abandon their game or being AWOL with health issues as excuse, but none have been so open and detailed about the reason as this dev. Neither have they stuck to their story for as long as this dev did before he finally disappeared. I do not believe every excuse dev's have for being AWOL or abandoning their games, but I do believe this dev.
And if you think dev's makes a fortune developing adult games, you should try it your self.
I can only say again. Thank God I don't have the same negative view of the world as you have.
Milmurnir
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One of the best games of its kind
Great Game, sorry to see it abandoned. The author gave it a good run. Hopefully someone can carry forward the to torch and continue the story as a mod / standalone mod.
Hysni
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Great he did not know how to continue this game ...Bad path and Good path = Shit path's
If its an adult game go YOLO take girls own them ...Maybe he make something similar but better story etc
If its an adult game go YOLO take girls own them ...Maybe he make something similar but better story etc
He paused the game's development due to personal family problems, not because he had any problems with the game's development or its plot. So there's no need to invent anything without knowing the situation, without even bothering to read the previous comments.Great he did not know how to continue this game ...Bad path and Good path = Shit path's
If its an adult game go YOLO take girls own them ...Maybe he make something similar but better story etc
Mephistofeles
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Dude, you have to difference game from reality. Its cool to enjoy this kind of fantasies in the games but this dev had real personal and serious problems (that he talked about in the discord) to take care of. Still he tried his best to give us an amazing game practically free. Have a little respect.Great he did not know how to continue this game ...Bad path and Good path = Shit path's
If its an adult game go YOLO take girls own them ...Maybe he make something similar but better story etc
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