Ren'Py Abandoned What a Legend! [v0.6.04] [MagicNuts]

[TuffyTenToes]

well this one went the route of "popular porn game milking its success" route 3 updates in. is that a record or what?

 

[magicnuts]

The way things are progressing, I think it's fair to assume that v0.4 will probably release somewhen next week. Really excited to finally see how it all continues.

Bear in mind that we have plenty of editing and debugging to do, not to mention testing the game properly after everything is done. Imagine getting the game after all this time and not being able to play it because of errors; nobody wants that.

Yup I agree. It's been 4 months since last release. The developer's Patreon says: "We are plan to release an update every two-to-three months. Each release will have around 30-40 mins of gameplay."

I do think the 30-40 minute game play every 2-4 months is a bit underwhelming though.

I have explained the reasons behind the current +4 month to the patrons (on multiple occasions), the gist of which is that we wrote Myrtle's story with three quests in mind, and the third one required a lot of artworks and posing. We did not plan for it to go beyond three months, but once we had started to work on the story, there was no way to scrap the third quest without messing things up. So we decided to err on the side of going beyond our ideal time-frame but hopefully have a more complete story.

On the plus side, this release will be slightly more than 30-40 mins.

Also, people have to realize that we WANT to update the game more frequently, yes more than you want to play it. But this is as fast as we can develop the game while still taking one day a week off. If we want to do it faster, the quality might suffer. Design decisions are probably the only thing we can change to speed things up; for example: I think we could have designed the story in a way that required two quests only or made one of them shorter. We might do something like that for the next update.

PS. thanks for quoting me from our Patreon page, I noticed a grammatical mistake.

Bruh, I'd support the hell out of this game just to get the release scheds faster and constant. Too bad the pandemic sucks all the bucks we have

Don't worry about it, man. The game's free. Enjoy it when it's out, and take care of yourself.

Well i dont want spam but i wanted to ask if mc will be still dumb in game progresion or not...
It looks like good game but plaing with him is painfull

He will change (slightly) as the result of the Main Story. But there are side quests too, and given that people might play them in any order, we cannot change him drastically, or things might stop making sense.

 

[laeg]

Bear in mind that we have plenty of editing and debugging to do, not to mention testing the game properly after everything is done. Imagine getting the game after all this time and not being able to play it because of errors; nobody wants that.


I have explained the reasons behind the current +4 month to the patrons (on multiple occasions), the gist of which is that we wrote Myrtle's story with three quests in mind, and the third one required a lot of artworks and posing. We did not plan for it to go beyond three months, but once we had started to work on the story, there was no way to scrap the third quest without messing things up. So we decided to err on the side of going beyond our ideal time-frame but hopefully have a more complete story.

On the plus side, this release will be slightly more than 30-40 mins.

Also, people have to realize that we WANT to update the game more frequently, yes more than you want to play it. But this is as fast as we can develop the game while still taking one day a week off. If we want to do it faster, the quality might suffer. Design decisions are probably the only thing we can change to speed things up; for example: I think we could have designed the story in a way that required two quests only or made one of them shorter. We might do something like that for the next update.

PS. thanks for quoting me from our Patreon page, I noticed a grammatical mistake.


Don't worry about it, man. The game's free. Enjoy it when it's out, and take care of yourself.


Why and how are we 'milking its success'?


He will change (slightly) as the result of the Main Story. But there are side quests too, and given that people might play them in any order, we cannot change him drastically, or things might stop making sense.

ok than i will see how slightly

 

[FlamesOfVengeance]

Bear in mind that we have plenty of editing and debugging to do, not to mention testing the game properly after everything is done. Imagine getting the game after all this time and not being able to play it because of errors; nobody wants that.


I have explained the reasons behind the current +4 month to the patrons (on multiple occasions), the gist of which is that we wrote Myrtle's story with three quests in mind, and the third one required a lot of artworks and posing. We did not plan for it to go beyond three months, but once we had started to work on the story, there was no way to scrap the third quest without messing things up. So we decided to err on the side of going beyond our ideal time-frame but hopefully have a more complete story.

On the plus side, this release will be slightly more than 30-40 mins.

Also, people have to realize that we WANT to update the game more frequently, yes more than you want to play it. But this is as fast as we can develop the game while still taking one day a week off. If we want to do it faster, the quality might suffer. Design decisions are probably the only thing we can change to speed things up; for example: I think we could have designed the story in a way that required two quests only or made one of them shorter. We might do something like that for the next update.

PS. thanks for quoting me from our Patreon page, I noticed a grammatical mistake.


Don't worry about it, man. The game's free. Enjoy it when it's out, and take care of yourself.


Why and how are we 'milking its success'?


He will change (slightly) as the result of the Main Story. But there are side quests too, and given that people might play them in any order, we cannot change him drastically, or things might stop making sense.

I completely understand. Take as much time as you need to polish things. I don't mind waiting if the end product is of high quality so no pressure.

Stay safe, Pistachio. And Chestnut as well of course. Keep up the great work you guys!

 

[Dad of Boy]

Will never understand how people can complain to one of these developers about how infrequently they update when the dev is not only using hand drawn images but is also literally posting updates on a forum for them to get for free and running on the good will of patrons.

Y'all need to be patient.

 

[Rubbishcoder]

Best part of moaning at devs for not being quick enough is making them reply to you instead of working on the update therefore making it take even longer.

 

[ZagorTeNay]

We need to start flogging the peasants.

 

[johnelros]

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Hi everybody.

I hope you're as excited about the release as we are! We're extremely close to finishing the main content, and it's great to see everything in the game.
Chestnut has been drawing the sex scenes and doing the hidden photos. She's done with everything except the art of the last sex: it has a bit of a complicated perspective, and instead of a simultaneous mutual masturbation, we might have one masturbation after another in the same scene.
She plans to finish that artwork by the end of today, and I will try to animate it during the weekend. Then I will be coding and writing the sex dialogue (including the pre-post stuff), as Chestnut is editing the art.

Release date?
I know many of you wonder whether the release will come out this month or not. I honestly don't know, and it depends on how fast we can do the edits and the debugging and whether we find any/many errors in the testing phase. We're working very hard to have this release out as soon as possible, and we can promise that the update will be out on the day it is ready and that we will not artificially delay it. In other words, if the game is ready on the 31st, we will release it on the 31st (regardless of the number of refunds that we might have to issue), and if it is ready on the 1st, we will likewise release it on the 1st.

Refunds
And speaking of refunds, I got this email from Patreon about my inability to refund last month's late subscribers:
"
Hi there,
Thank you for taking the time to write in and report this to the team.
I looked into this for you, and this does appear to be a glitch on our end. While I'm unable to fix this for you right now, I've shared your report with our engineering so we can further investigate this issue.
I'm unable to provide an exact timeline for when this might be fixed, but I'll be here to help if you notice any changes or have any other questions in the meantime.
Wishing you the best, stay safe and healthy!
Regards,
"
As you can see, there aren't any solutions right now. If you're one of the patrons who joined us in December's final days and have continued to be a patron in Jan, I will refund you in Feb. If you're not a subscriber in Feb, you'll still receive a refund. And if you still are a subscriber in Feb, this shouldn't impact your membership as the refund will be for the previous month. This is the best I can do without taking away your access to our content. And this is assuming that the same error will not happen in Feb.

Have a wonderful weekend
Cheers

 

[bobthelemon]

We appreciate the weekly reports and dev replies

 

[mochamas23]

Good

 

[yanderepls]

Amazing art and writing. If I get my promotion at work, I'm gonna donate some money to the devs. You're doing the Lord's work.

 

[Hich75]

i loved the art on this one, great potential

 

[godders3000]

As a patron of this game, I would argue that patrons have a place to decide whether the quality, extent, and timeliness of updates is worth their patronage. If they decide that it's not, then they are completely in their right to reduce the amount they give, possibly even to zero. I personally have not reduced my patronage amount.

If you're not a patron, then I question the value that you're providing by complaining that two people who are working all day, 6 days a week, every week to give you a game for free, aren't working hard enough.

Tlaero

I agree with the sentiment.

I'm not a patron myself, so maybe I should stay quiet, but you can clearly tell from the output quality that the developers are spending their time working on the game. The polish and care going into this project is incredible and if I was financially able, I would definitely support it.

 

[MaroaMina2]

This is litterally the kind of game I wish I can pay full bucks to have the full version to play it without waiting. Nice art and writing.

 

[Rubbishcoder]

The game will get more and more following as the version number increases, plenty of people on this site won't touch anything under a 0.5.

Best thing for everyone paying or not would be just let them do it at their pace with their ideas.

 

[HogRocket]

As a patron of this game, I would argue that patrons have a place to decide whether the quality, extent, and timeliness of updates is worth their patronage. If they decide that it's not, then they are completely in their right to reduce the amount they give, possibly even to zero. I personally have not reduced my patronage amount.

If you're not a patron, then I question the value that you're providing by complaining that two people who are working all day, 6 days a week, every week to give you a game for free, aren't working hard enough.

Tlaero

I am also a Patron, and have been for some time. I am perfectly happy with what I'm getting for my "investment". As a self -employed small business owner myself I know nothing ever goes as planned and the reason I'm willing to support WaL is that the quality is first class when it's delivered. I'd rather wait for the best than get rapid crap. I only back things on Patreon or Kickstarter that I feel have real, long term, value.......and this is one of those things.

 

[paradroid]

I'm not a Patreon supporter for various reasons (I don't support any Patreon, Adult or otherwise)
I know I have zero say in what happens, and for that reason I will not post a demand asking when an update is due, or that a certain character has to do this this or that thing etc.

All I can do is post my opinions (not demands) and thoughts, and to enjoy the game when updates do come out, however long it takes.

 

[ShadowLing56]

Love this game.. can't wait till next update

 

[kuhoka4]

High quality means longer time for updates i dont understand why people talking like where update ? This game posses really high quality art plus animation and story sadly that gonna take a longer than other games let me say one thing art really good i am sure drawing that not gonna be easy and thanks for game you and your wife doing really good work here i really love it good luck with game.

 

[Odin Eye Patch]

im not a regular on this forum so i have a question

will this map be opened up to us later on so we can explore more and will we be able to go back home to are 5 mothers