There was an old post where autors declared that readmap of tha game was already set and plan to finish with 1.0 version. They didn't exclude additional contents, but main story was planned to end at 1.0. Anyway it was an old post so I cannot know if plans changed.
Oh no I'm sure they probably want to finish the game at 1.0 what I was saying is that version doesn't mean 10 updates to complete it and that you can make a thousand updates until 1.0 comes out. Don't know what was the plan before but right know there is at least 4 updates in my head that are needed to at least finish what we have now (main story + females "unrelated to main story" storylines) and that doesn't mean that the final version will be 1.1 it can still be 1.0 that all I was trying to explain.
Up to now therey release 01., 0.2, and so on (with eventually some fix like 0.x1, 0.x2, etc), that's why I'm assuming we are having 0.7, 0.8, 0.9 and 1.0, so at least other 4 main updates, probably one main character per chapter
Just checked their twitter/X account and they had 5 options for update 0.8 apparently, I mean sure they can just make a big update with more than one character or 2 for each one or something and still finish it in 4 updates I just don't believe that will be the case.
Yes, as said I don't know the plans, but probably main plot is set and we can expect at least 4 major updates. For sue they can focus on more than one character (and personally I think would be the best, or at least they can have one main focus, but some contents also for other characters, even some more replay situations, would be good) but considerin how long have been last 2 updates I have some concerns in having multiple characters per update...
Either Maple or Holly (or both) would be amazing
As far as I know it was exactly Holly who won the patreon poll so 0.8 will indeed be about her.
I'll just link this comment since everything is explained there. Patrons voted for longer updates starting with 0.4, and the size of each one of those 3 updates has been basically the same as the first 3 combined, with more complex art and coding interactions explaining the progressively longer dev cycles. This time, the raw word count before the polishing phase is said to be about 1/3 of the overall content so far (it will be trimmed down, as explained in the las dev comment). Add a newborn and a bad surgery to the mix, which would grant them about 6 months of paid leave if they were working under contract for a third party, and we are just slightly off their usual schedule, considering the alleged work (and still on it if we are indulgent with the issues that tend to arise when taking care of a newborn 24/7 and the changes this meant in their usual workflow, as they used to work simultaneously and they are now working on turns, which slow things down a little bit as they can't communicate and fix on the spot the issues they detect with each other's work).
As Kisama has tried to explain, those figures are not natural fraction numbers but just common IT notation. In v0.6.02, the digit before the first period (0) means this is an uncompleted version of the planned full game (which will be v1.0), while the second number (6) indicates the accumulative big update order -meaning there have been 5 big updates before this one; and the third number after the second period (02) means this is the second bugfix for that 6th version. So after the v0.9 they'll release the tenth big update, which will be named v0.10, then they'll release v0.11, and so on, until they release the last update which will be v1.0 anyway, no matter what name had the previous one. So fear not, there are still more than 4 updates to get there.
Because the whole point is to never bounce back.
Well, in what disturbed math 0.10 comes after 0.9 ? I never understood these devs that do it like that. 0.1 is the same thing in math as 0.10. In human readable terms, maybe. But the correct way if you want to go from 0 to 1 is 0.01, 0.02... 0.09, 0.1, etc. And there are enough devs here that do that. I guess it's a good indicator on how the dev thinks, as we can see here in this case, by the his extensive knowledge and fast work
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Again, because this is not maths, but a rather common software notation. First block to tell if the software version can be considered a completed work or not (v0, v1, v2...), second block to describe how many main updates have been released in order to complete that work (0.1, 0.2... 0.9, 0.10... 0.34 or whatever), third block to tell apart minor updates and hotfixes (0.1.01, 0.6.02), and there could be even more blocks after that if devs think they are needed to give enough accurate info about how development is going. You can check the 'About' section in any renpy game and see how renpy itself manages its own versions, then demand them to make that numbers 'human readable' (spoiler: they might tell you it's already 'human readable' as long as said human knows what he's looking at, which doesn't seem your caseWell, in what disturbed math 0.10 comes after 0.9 ? I never understood these devs that do it like that. 0.1 is the same thing in math as 0.10. In human readable terms, maybe. But the correct way if you want to go from 0 to 1 is 0.01, 0.02... 0.09, 0.1, etc. And there are enough devs here that do that. I guess it's a good indicator on how the dev thinks, as we can see here in this case, by the his extensive knowledge and fast work
).Yes, the site rule is any games which go more than 18 months without an update get an "abandoned" tag, regardless of whether they are still actively being worked on.
Understand your point. And just to be clear, I love this game, I love the art, I love the characters and I love the story. I want it to be successful and if one day they will decide to do a sort of "phisical version" (I mean some special box with download code, artbook and maybe some extra content) I would be the first to support and pay even a big price (not joking). Just wanted to enter and discuss a bit on the situation after the "abandoned" tag appeared (I had almost a stroke when I saw it), despite I know this is due to precise F95 rules and probably it will be removed after next update, because in every contest (even in a porn site) is discussion and confrontation of different opinions that rise the level of the dialogue
We're making up excuses and a bike again. People don't believe anything anymore, because a lot of good games have become just a fraudulent garbage dump, although they were promising before. The trouble with such developers is that they want money without doing anything, or rather pretending to do something. And they also allow themselves to be indignant at patrons for their questions, and fair questions and criticism. Everything is simple. Make the product in good faith and you will be rich. And when you start lying, coming up with excuses, it jeopardizes trust, although there is an example when patrons look like a flock of sheep that are sheared, and they are happy)
Lmao what a scam. Two months to fix the gameplay of a game without gameplay.
Until recently, I did not want to believe that a project with such a beautiful visual could turn out to be a banal scam, but looking at this message...
