#Devlife patreon update#
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Sorry for the rant, but I have seen three (new) devs get frustrated about this in the last few months. Hundreds of hours of work don't deserve 3 minutes of your time?Īs I said, I've made my peace with the situation.Īnd while I'm using Isa as an example, it's just to show the numbers.īut if you want new games: Give those damn likes, ratings and wishlist entries.Īnd yes, that's one reason why I'm going for a steam release. Likes and ratings don't cost anything except 3 minutes of your time. Would you offer a product for this ratio? There is a reason why so many games get abandoned - and it is not always because the dev thought they could make $10k in a month.Ībandoned games are why I hear "I won't support a dev, there's a chance they'll stop developing". While I have loyal followers and fan base after more than a year (thanks guys!), new developers see the time they invest and the feedback they get.Ī dev asking you to whishlist their game on steam.Īnother asking you to rate the game. Isa's last update got an estimated 50k-70k+ downloads, just from my sources. Not to mention the hardware, the cost of assets and electricity.ĭevelopers starting in 2018/19 or earlier had a much easier start in terms of building a fanbase. Creating a VN takes dozens of hours a week if you want to deliver a reasonable amount of content and a good story in more or less good quality. Some want more feedback, some want more approval, many want and need more support.Īnd I don't blame them. If I'm not able to release 4.1 by the end of February, I'll pause Patreon in March. I might be able to finish it in February, but even then I wouldn't release it if the rework wasn't done.īecause adding choices might break saves and it makes no sense to add 1-2 hours of playtime now and force you to restart in 4.2. So the question you all want an answer to is:īecause of the rework, I'm way behind schedule on the update.
#Devlife patreon code#
The story itself will be the same though.Īt the same time I'm working on 4.1, I've got a few hundred stills plus animations and 1000 lines of code done now, and I've set up two new locations (Alex's apartment and a club). For example if you deny Alex in the pool scene at Isa's Isabella still says "I've heard you two in the bathroom". There are some hiccups to fix in the story/logic. Right now I'm concentrating on the renders, which means making new ones or polishing the old ones and rendering them overnight. polishing the animations and trying to make them feel more natural. I'm not just doing a rework, I'm working on the new update at the same time (and when I get tired of both, I play around with Blender). if the rework comes out in February (?), that's a 3 month cycle, would a new chapter come out 3 months after that? So six months for a new chapter? 9 months?" "I can understand that you're reworking the first chapters and pushing for a steam release, I'm sorry there won't be significant new content soon. It seems more than unclear what I'm doing and where it's going After yesterday's post I got a DM asking about the timeline/workflow.
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