See:While I am always open for an option 3 or even 4 or more. I believe this is contradicting when you "I was there when He (Regium) wrote the story for Summer's Gone and I influenced it too." If that exact sentence was in Ocean's native German and if Ocean didn't state he was doing a favor for a mate to help him develop his own game, I would take it more literally.
but say " Ocean gave Regium a story outline or a script, which Regium fleshed out into Chapter 1 of a game he developed and released (and this is what Ocean says he did). Regium would have no need to acknowledge this. "
Because if we can use the German as an excuse for one you can also use it for the other.
So if we were to give me a more in my opinion 3rd option that would be. If Ocean may have provided him with the basics of story writing as in formatting, content length, bullet points to keep with consistency.
Sure, he had as much influence as the guy asking Elon Musk about the gas and the booster situation. At that point in time.
And to be clear on a few thing, English is also not my primary language.
Doubt ill be doing excel sheets, but I do appreciate you finding them and given that I am currently sick with admittingly fuck all to do anyways. ill get to the playing, would have been great if 2.5 was also in there. but this will do for now.
EDIT: Not sure I can do much with 3 as at this point obviously Ocean already fully took over which I just realized . but ill take it anyways
https://f95zone.to/threads/summers-gone-ch-5-beta-oceanlab.29981/post-12751186
I still have archive copies of all game versions and the changelogs.
What I meant about the original German, is that nuances can be lost when non-native speakers express themselves in English.
So, "I was there when He (Regium) wrote the story for Summer's Gone and I influenced it too." could be:
(a) literal, i.e. exactly what it says in English, or
(b) it could mean Ocean was there when Regium developed and fleshed out a story outline/plot into Summer's Gone Chapter 1 (i.e. "wrote the story"), after Ocean provided that story outline/plot to Regium (" ...I influenced it too.").