New Patreon Release is out for Patrons of Tango Fiction with two new endings!
Transfigure .52
Thinking about maybe supporting on patreon how many months ahead is the patreon version? Also any eta on the free version?
Thanks for your consideration. The Patreon version is one large update ahead, or approximately 2 months. Generally I release it for free after about 3 weeks or whenever the next release is finished. The next Patreon release is probably 3 weeks out but I am trying to finish it as quickly as I can.
I don't think
Boejakka is wrong tho. He has a point and it is good advice for
TangoTF to consider. It is always good to listen to the "customer" (in this case the Patreon supporters) input as they are paying you to develop the game. But, as a developer you still need to have a clear end goal and path you want / need to reach or you risk leaving multiple things incomplete. So it can be a difficult balancing act of whether you should follow your own internal path or the whims of your "customers".
I don't think he is wrong either. I just think you guys may have slightly unrealistic expectations for a 1 man dev team creating one of the most ambitious projects ever with very limited resources. I spent six months in pre-production before I even released a demo and I have very detailed plans and outlines for how to proceed and complete the project. I have done my best to balance my own creative vision with that of my supporters and the practical suggestions made by those with more expertise in certain fields like coding. I've also responded to many critics and incorporated their ideas when/if I think they are prudent. However, the most common critique I get these days is essentially "your incomplete beta game is incomplete. It would be better if it was complete," and I don't find that particularly insightful or helpful.
Good game , nice written, but sometimes i get tangled and it could be more reader friendl. Only negative thing is that after finding some end i have in reached ends only that one. Other dissapear.
The save system functions on a single save game file meaning if you restart or swap saves it may have different ending data. It is intended for a user to have a "main" game that they then keep playing after finding an end (quickjump can be used) so that all the ends are found on one save. If you reload an earlier save from before those endings were reached, it is not logged. If you hard restart the game (instead of navigating to "main menu") it clears all variables including ending data, that's why there is a "main menu" button. It's not a great system compared to Ren Py but it works.
Can you provide walkthrough for each case?????
One day, yes. In the near future, no. There is an incomplete walkthrough I started on the TFGS site if anyone ever wants to pick it up before I get back to it.
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If you request some hints for a specific path, either myself or another user can probably help you out. There is an ending list in the newest version. Many paths have a lot of content but do not contain a complete ending (yet).
Then simply stop doing the requests for the time being. Saying it's beta is not an excuse. Tons of games show that and I don't mean only NSFW games. They simply branch out when it can and not when when followers want it. They don't know how long it takes for something to get added. You do.
If you want to go with the analogies then fine you have made a town but 75% of the houses misses a roof and windows making them unlivable. The towns council want you to add more houses and switch every week but you'll need 2 weeks to actually complete a set of houses. So one of the 4 houses is finished.
Oh yeah I know my way around game development and all I'm saying is the path you're currently walking will never end and will make the game only more incomplete as time goes on. And it shows since some of the paths I took are dead for more than 2 years. So it comes down to either keep taking the correct path or keep hitting walls. And Twine only allows a certain amount if backtracking until you can't and you are limited to knowing which save is where.
All I'm saying here is when you add a new character then keep on building on it and finish those paths and not switch halfway. Sure you have more than a 100 endings I trust you did and is impressive, but there are like what 500 paths now?
My time estimates have not been accurate lately, especially as the dev processes becomes more complicated and has more steps.
Transfigure started as a concept, then became a demo, then grew into an alpha. Once most of the features I wanted were in game it became a beta on it's way to 1.00 (gold / release). A concept isn't a finished game, nor is a demo, alpha, or beta. They imply it is incomplete. It's not an excuse, just an accurate descriptor. Zero percent of beta games are finished regardless of genre and I've played hundreds. Generally beta games contain an average of zero endings (they are saved for paying customers and release so as not to spoil later content), whereas mine has like two dozen on its way to 100+. I am purposely leaving the ends with the most spoilers until last and am taking an unconventional but measured development path.
There are about 30 main content areas and each has multiple endings so that's ~70-80. There's probably 300-400 paths but about a quarter are cosmetic and a quarter will redirect into other areas with a unique but short segue. As I've expanded the scope of the project there are some blank areas but I will fill them in with free writing and bonus endings as one of the last steps.
Damn. I was hoping for a good lesbian route. If there was one, it wasn't obvious.
I just did a big Julie update for .52. There is also F-F content for Sam, Rhea, Louise, Victoria, and some tidbits like Marg, Bloom and other random females. Accessing content is opaque by design, meant to mirror the path of a real life. Sometimes you turn right and you might meet the love of your life, other times you might get hit by a bus or meet someone with the potential to ruin or enrich your life. If you want some direction to a specific area just ask. Many of the lesbian routes are found on paths with males where you turn down their advances.