VN Ren'Py WVM [S2 Ch. 1 Ep. 13 B5] [Braindrop]

[MarkChadWinters]

I think I wrote it before, but as much as BrainDrop has disappointed many people on this site, until people stop paying him ....why would he ever stop? I mean, if I could walk into my work, sit with my feet up all day, and play on my phone and get 0 work done, but still get my full pay, then fuck it, why wouldn't I?

Unlike a "real" job, if you have people who are basically throwing money at you, it's hard to to actually want to earn it. And when those same people tell you you are amazing, that would make you feel good. So getting money for next to no work, plus all that Dopamine running in your brain from people telling you that your just the Bee's Knees, why would BrainDrop want to change?

I'm not defending him. I'm just saying, people dont' change until they feel they have to. And clearly, BrainDrop don't have to. At least, right now.

And I just seen now that I lied about coming back in a week. After this post, I'll be back in a week. I'm being as trust worthy as BrainDrop is when it comes to dates. My bad.

 

[nataknight]

Am i in the minority in saying id wish the basketball part of the story got more progress ?

 

[MadMax68]

Am i in the minority in saying id wish the basketball part of the story got more progress ?

No, you're in the majority who would settle for any progress.

 

[MessiahRO]

Am i in the minority in saying id wish the basketball part of the story got more progress ?

dude what the hell are you talking about? weren't you reading the previous comments?
in order to get more basketball content first we need more actual game progress and as things are coming along you've got time to kill before this amazing dev (cough bullshit) releases all of them so called episodes or chapter or whatever the fuck they are...

 

[nataknight]

dude what the hell are you talking about? weren't you reading the previous comments?
in order to get more basketball content first we need more actual game progress and as things are coming along you've got time to kill before this amazing dev (cough bullshit) releases all of them so called episodes or chapter or whatever the fuck they are...

No i honestly didn't, i just started this game yesterday and was wondering if others felt the same. Ill have to look back tho.

 

[BleachIT]

View attachment 3287520

Partial Dev Report 2 (01/22/2024)

Yo!

The last report was very self-critical and all of that remains true but I'm not going to be on that vibe every week. Instead I'm just going to say the plan and also the order of operations I'mma be following to close out this month and begin the next as that is where my head is at.


First things first is finishing and releasing the second part of Episode 13. This part will be around 300 renders and 9-10 animations. This part covers a scene with Rachael as well as their trip to the spa.
My target time to release is anywhere from Tuesday-Thursday this week.

Then I'll focus on releasing the last part of Episode 13.
Most of my issues with part 2 have been intertwined with part 3 so there's no cascade of problems for me to alter. My target for releasing is anytime before February 1st.
(Part 2-3 will release to all patrons at the same time, no tier timing due to the delays.)

After the releases, I plan on catching up on the side content.
Starting with the Bday renders, then Character Sheets.

After that will be the Season 1 report.

After all of that is complete I'll focus in on Episode 14 which will hopefully be a much smoother experience as it's familiar territory with everyone returning to WVM.
I'm not entirely sure how I'll handle the releases for Episode 14, It will likely be pretty varied as I plan on testing out a few things. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

That's all I have to share for the moment, as always thank you all so much for the support. I truly appreciate it. I hope you all have a wonderful week and I'll talk to you soon.


(There has also been an issue with patreon charging a select few despite pledges being paused these last couple of months. This is not intentional and is an error! Please check to see if you were charged and please send me a message directly here on patreon to let me know asap so I can get a refund sent to you straight away!)

 

[Wen I Say]

View attachment 3287520

Partial Dev Report 2 (01/22/2024)

Yo!

The last report was very self-critical and all of that remains true but I'm not going to be on that vibe every week. Instead I'm just going to say the plan and also the order of operations I'mma be following to close out this month and begin the next as that is where my head is at.


First things first is finishing and releasing the second part of Episode 13. This part will be around 300 renders and 9-10 animations. This part covers a scene with Rachael as well as their trip to the spa.
My target time to release is anywhere from Tuesday-Thursday this week.

Then I'll focus on releasing the last part of Episode 13.
Most of my issues with part 2 have been intertwined with part 3 so there's no cascade of problems for me to alter. My target for releasing is anytime before February 1st.
(Part 2-3 will release to all patrons at the same time, no tier timing due to the delays.)

After the releases, I plan on catching up on the side content.
Starting with the Bday renders, then Character Sheets.

After that will be the Season 1 report.

After all of that is complete I'll focus in on Episode 14 which will hopefully be a much smoother experience as it's familiar territory with everyone returning to WVM.
I'm not entirely sure how I'll handle the releases for Episode 14, It will likely be pretty varied as I plan on testing out a few things. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

That's all I have to share for the moment, as always thank you all so much for the support. I truly appreciate it. I hope you all have a wonderful week and I'll talk to you soon.


(There has also been an issue with patreon charging a select few despite pledges being paused these last couple of months. This is not intentional and is an error! Please check to see if you were charged and please send me a message directly here on patreon to let me know asap so I can get a refund sent to you straight away!)

Wait, season 1? But aren't we on season 2? Am I misremembering, I highly doubt he is talking about the remake plus who cares about B-day renders when there are like 999,999,999,999 female characters? This dude will do anything but actual development. Imagine an author writing a 1000-word blurb for every chapter or listing out every fucking character's traits. Bro, please just develop the game why are you endlessly side-questing? I say this but I'm honestly not surprised....To anyone who's new here, we might sound like ginormous assholes but this dude once upon a time was a credible dev and had a vision for this title...but that was Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaany moons ago.

 

[johnnyM]

 

[Wen I Say]

real talk my foil hat theory is that BD actually banked up a lot of content in the beginning for wvm which is why his releases were so fuckin rapid. Because it doesn't make sense that with better equipment the updates became more scarce. Now this dude is scrabbling to make content every update which is why the game feels so segmented from update to update coupled with the fact that he's a serial procrastinator leads to this....

 

[Akabakka]

Am i in the minority in saying id wish the basketball part of the story got more progress ?

Not at all . The basketball and whole "big rookie comes to save an ailing club" angle is what initially sold the game to me , even if it's an AVN . Hardly the "my man is the savior , let's share his seed across the world" Jaimie cult byline .

But i never , never expected to have only one match in so many chapters , and such idiotic plotlines such as a school not even being able to fill a whole team , and even losing most of its team that way

 

[aaachris]

from an update every week to milking like nothing changed. Prediction for 'it's a hobby' rant: May 2024 on worker's day

 

[Cat-in-the-Hat]

real talk my foil hat theory is that BD actually banked up a lot of content in the beginning for wvm which is why his releases were so fuckin rapid. Because it doesn't make sense that with better equipment the updates became more scarce. Now this dude is scrabbling to make content every update which is why the game feels so segmented from update to update coupled with the fact that he's a serial procrastinator leads to this....

The game was obviously massively front-loaded; I just doubt it's the same person who did the initial launch and now.

Models changing (and becoming, well: "they all have the same smile" = "I'm not a talented user of this 3d program" in a 'this is a job / career, and these are obviously newbie errors' analysis); inability to crunch / put out renders in a timely fashion (??lower tech setup??); total cluelessness about plotting / story (I mean, it wasn't Shakespeare, but there was at least some arcs going on, which now seem to be relegated to "...but wait, here's a new LI and a new plotline and we'll go do something totally irrelevent") and finally, "imaginary employees on Discord who write like I imagine an employee writes (secretly a LI in disguise)" who don't actually do any of the work that a job requires (you know, "PA / Assistant" is kinda a common job, in the real world).

The constant stream of IRL drama / addiction to Discord screams teenager / young adult as well.

Offering 10:1 odds some Saudi Prince bought it as a vanity project... there are few people in the world *this* much of a fucking disaster. Or someone had a huge car crash and lost the cognitive ability to function as a professional, which the entire project screamed of when first launched (slick, marketed well, front-loaded content, huge PR push > massive Patreon, PR splash cards, aesthetics in color design (yellow bold logo) that descended into "going to put some fucking shocking purple clashing furniture in as an update" etc etc). Someone dig up that bit where the Patreon access was handed over to McKenzie - given that has bank details attached (and changing who gets paid isn't trivial, precisely to prevent Fraud), that's a massive guilty tell (as in projection: "hmm, my new PA / LI is going to do precisely the thing I did as part of her narrative" - this is the online version of "dupers' delight", btw ,and so obvious). It's also totally unbelievable: who in reality hands over passwords to their income stream to a random Discord hanger-on? The answer is: no-one (and I mean no-one) who does this for a living; it's basically demanding someone steal / scam you out of your livelyhood.

TL;DR

Current owner is LARPING being a Game Dev, actual Dev / team sold off this project a few years ago.

 

[otronegro]

BD supporters be like

 

[kcaldw]

BD supporters be like

I think this is like some of his supporters as well. Just sitting there drinking up his BS.

 

[Black Orchid]

The game was obviously massively front-loaded; I just doubt it's the same person who did the initial launch and now.

Models changing (and becoming, well: "they all have the same smile" = "I'm not a talented user of this 3d program" in a 'this is a job / career, and these are obviously newbie errors' analysis); inability to crunch / put out renders in a timely fashion (??lower tech setup??); total cluelessness about plotting / story (I mean, it wasn't Shakespeare, but there was at least some arcs going on, which now seem to be relegated to "...but wait, here's a new LI and a new plotline and we'll go do something totally irrelevent") and finally, "imaginary employees on Discord who write like I imagine an employee writes (secretly a LI in disguise)" who don't actually do any of the work that a job requires (you know, "PA / Assistant" is kinda a common job, in the real world).

The constant stream of IRL drama / addiction to Discord screams teenager / young adult as well.

Offering 10:1 odds some Saudi Prince bought it as a vanity project... there are few people in the world *this* much of a fucking disaster. Or someone had a huge car crash and lost the cognitive ability to function as a professional, which the entire project screamed of when first launched (slick, marketed well, front-loaded content, huge PR push > massive Patreon, PR splash cards, aesthetics in color design (yellow bold logo) that descended into "going to put some fucking shocking purple clashing furniture in as an update" etc etc). Someone dig up that bit where the Patreon access was handed over to McKenzie - given that has bank details attached (and changing who gets paid isn't trivial, precisely to prevent Fraud), that's a massive guilty tell (as in projection: "hmm, my new PA / LI is going to do precisely the thing I did as part of her narrative" - this is the online version of "dupers' delight", btw ,and so obvious). It's also totally unbelievable: who in reality hands over passwords to their income stream to a random Discord hanger-on? The answer is: no-one (and I mean no-one) who does this for a living; it's basically demanding someone steal / scam you out of your livelyhood.

TL;DR

Current owner is LARPING being a Game Dev, actual Dev / team sold off this project a few years ago.

I also suspect that devs changing may be very well true, on the S2-CH1-EP10 update render quality took a major hit I even left a comment back then mentioning that:

do the renders in this update look a little "off" or am i imagining things?

Also the model change that occured is in my personal opinion weird to say the least, it is more like someone trying their best to copy the orginal models, all skin texture changes were for the worse.

 

[MessiahRO]

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I think this is like some of his supporters as well. Just sitting there drinking up his BS.

as fucked up as this is, this is probably the most eloquent thing that actually makes any sense at all.

 

[Silentorange18]

MC done more shooting in bed than court

 

[tslojr]

Neverwhere Tales is a great game..so far.

Bro, just started Neverwhere. 15 minutes in and the bar is already a reference to one of my favorite book series. Thanks for the recommendation.

 

[Bloker997]

So.. update was ready like month ago? But it's still not ready?

 

[johnnyM]

His updates are always done months ago, and are always not ready, simultaneously. So many futures, and they are all real, we just don't know which one will coalesce. Until then they are all happening.

Now that I think about it, I think that BD might be related to Grif from Men In Black 3.