VN Ren'Py Where It All Began [Ch. 3 Full] [Oceanlab]

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Nifferman

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Oceanlab said:
I would prefer to work on one game at the time. I like to finish a task before I start another, otherwise, things tend to get messy.

But I can't put one of the games on hold. That's like admitting defeat, or so it feels to me.

Even tho developing two games does bring some negativity with it, it also gives me something I would not want to miss ever again.. Variety.
The constant change of faces is wonderful. I never get bored and it always excites me to work on the other game again. It's like an extra boost of motivation.

People get angry and I hear constant nagging. I can deal with that.




True. The cinematics might not be worth the time investment from a player's perspective.
But they are for me.


I always try to improve, I always try to bring things to a new level. It's what keeps me going. I get happy when I discover something new and I can't wait to implement it into the game.

Of course, I could have stayed with Iray and not switched to Octane, I could've stopped watching hours and hours of Lightroom, Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, Inkscape, Materialize, Blender tutorials and instead settled with what little I knew.
I could've prevented many negative feelings from all the setbacks I experienced over the last year. All the frustration that comes with trying to improve, if I had just stayed where I was 8 months ago.

But I don't settle for "Average".
I know that many people don't care that much about the visuals as long as they're not totally crap.

I did announce to do half-chapter releases to counter the "Quality-Time ratio" and this should fix a lot of problems.

But in the end, I don't owe anything to anyone. People can nag and insult me as much as they want, it doesn't affect me anymore and it won't speed up the development either.
There are a lot of games on this site to take a person's mind off a devs development schedule.

My games are long and my goal is to be a long time developer. I don't plan on burning out in the next 1-2 years because of a bad Work-Life balance. So many games are already abandoned because of this and many will follow.
And containing a healthy balance is one of my top priorities and this does take some time away from actively developing but it makes sure my games won't end up abandoned.
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Wow you could feel his dedication just through this reply alone
Negative reviews will come man just keep doing what ur doing and ppl will support
 
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Abhai said:
hmmh..im wondering are those two connected somehow:unsure:
yep, Ocean is doing a really great job with these two projects(y)
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I invite you to look back at the previews! Ocean has added slight easter eggs for these games. And yes the chance of these games being connected is big, but.. how? Time will tell!
 
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Sphynx- said:
I invite you to look back at the previews! Ocean has added slight easter eggs for these games. And yes the chance of these games being connected is big, but.. how? Time will tell!
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The games are set in the same universe.
 
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mijati said:
rofl how summer is gone can be perfekt ? its not even close to a game its not even close to 1/4 of a game ....still its like a demo u can play for 30 mins
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i can see your point there, yet, even that demo/intro shows a promise of possible one of the greatest games around here.
(regrading quality of renders, diversity of characters, intriguing story, and the other stuff needed for avn masterpiece) ;)
 
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mijati

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Abhai said:
i can see your point there, yet, even that demo/intro shows a promise of possible one of the greatest games around here.
(regrading quality of renders, diversity of characters, intriguing story, and the other stuff needed for avn masterpiece) ;)
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nope... there are far more games out her where u can easy say they are 100 times better ...in case about charaters, story, renders ....and so on .. but i guess thats some kind of "taste" .. and taste is something we can talk about for endless times^^
 
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mijati said:
rofl how summer is gone can be perfekt ? its not even close to a game its not even close to 1/4 of a game ....still its like a demo u can play for 30 mins
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Sorry dude but I found the characters in summer's gone far more compelling and the pacing is on point. Complexity in side characters is always good but you don't find a well made complex MC itself that easily and his interactions with other characters is also very relatable as of a person with complicated feelings would react. You often find yourself going with the flow of the game where it takes you to but this games feels like as if you have freedom to your own will and find the decisions exactly how it should be rather than just accepting it as the game wants you to. It has very intriguing and gripping storyline. It's one of the most unique VNs out there for sure and it's in my top 3. Quality>Quantity just my opinion...
 
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True most games on this site have very bad story telling and have way too many sex scenes and way too fast I like how summers gone is slow all cheracters are so good most games on this site are harams with 1000 sex scenes that is pretty boring
 
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Personally I think Katie is better written than any of the characters in Summer’s Gone.

What Summer’s Gone has over WIAB is that it was made later by Ocean after he actually knew what he was doing with the aesthetics and is more consistently gorgeous as a result.
 
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This another post of mine that is going to get a lot of facepalms but I have to say it, specially after reading some of Dev posts.

ANIMATIONS ARE OVERRATED! I wish there were LESS animations. Now that I have your attention, before telling me to fuck off let me explain.

Obviously I like them and they make the game better, but from what I have been reading it seems they take so much time to make and seem to be the bottleneck. I would prefer less animations and faster updates. I am here more for the story than anything else. In other words, the cost does not seem to justify the benefit for me. More over, animations could be included in the final version of the game, giving us a nice reason to replay it.
And specially with sex scenes, almost nothing than can be done with animations cannot be conveyed pretty much as good with images in my opinion. This is clearly not true for non sex scenes, of course.

Having said that. Hit me with as many facepalms as you think I deserve. I said what I wanted to say.

Hopefully, Dev's new PC makes my comment more trivial.
 
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