Re: Alansya Chronicles - Fleeting Iris (Former Ayame's Adventure)
Well, i hate to say it, because i like the early demo but i agree.
I played a game which was translated by rpgheaven, it's called To H, if i'm not mistaking and anything done in this current game comes directly from it.
So, watching rpgheaven bragging about his professional team whom does nothing is something funny.
And talking that way about another game developer (sarah's life dev) isn't going to make you any better.
By the way, even if sarah's life mapping is terrible, the artwork is really good and he released quite some content already.
I'm not sure you'll ever going to do as much as he did.
That's your opinion, my opinion is that Sarah's Life game is dreadful from any perspective you look at it, it had 5 patches with less content gradually each time, it had no focus but bimbo wife gets fucked by everything with a heartbeat, it was 3D art which while it's nice when it's done well, takes faaaar less time to render than it takes to draw art from scratch (simple fact), it barely had any content story wise or plot, she was a super slut that only figured out how slutty she was well into her marriage as if every guy ever didn't try to get into her pants before, I say this because the H-scenes happen for the dumbest possible reasons imaginable. The game brought absolutely nothing new to the scene, not a new story, nor mechanics, hardly it could be developed by passion for creating, because it was pretty much a a clone of stuff that was already around, it didn't improve the scene in absolutely anything, it was just another game.
The game had absolutely no "gameplay" or choice whatsover, it's a VN, it was almost a "manga done in RPG Maker", mapping was dreaful (one of the worst I've seen, EVER) and buggy as fuck (having to press a button to switch between maps? please.) They were fundamentally worse than the RTP maps, and the only reason the dialogue wasn't almost impossible to understand, and this coming from me! Was because a user from this forum was helping Impure re-write everything.
In my opinion, anyone that thinks Sarah's Life was a good RPG Maker Hentai game, immediately loses any credibility they would possibly have next to me. MY OPINION.
If you consider that Sarah's Life was a good game, I'm certainly not the person who's gonna argue with you. It's your opinion, I RESPECT IT, it's one of the things that people are actually entitled to have. I'm just pointing it out because people like to think every Patreon is Christ and has to pay for every other Patreon's sins, so I'm criticing it
post-factum, the
factum being, he took the money and ran. I'd also like to point out that if he was a serious developer, he would probably accept my help early on as I offered as he clearly needed guidelines, first page of his thread. He didn't need it because it was nothing but a cash cow, I've helped DOZENS of other Patreons around for the sake of the English H-RPG Maker community, absolutely free of charge or any type of compensation.
I've never seen a single thread or "studio" benefit so much from the mods of this forum. They've done a great job of keeping your thread free of truth and real criticism. You should rename your "studio" to "Artful Dodger" because I've never seen a "studio" dodge accountability like yours does.
You use the words "studio", "professional", etc.
As a fellow game developer, I still to this day don't understand why so little gets done month in and month out on your game. Your development time is atrocious and the fact its in the medium of RPGMAKER has turned this into a running joke. To this day I think your game is a scam and you seek only to slowly dangle a carrot at the end of a long string.
You shouldn't be surprised by the attacks and hate you're getting, because it's WELL deserved.
I'm going to put you on the ignore list because, honestly you have no idea what you're talking about and you're clearly just trying to take personal attacks, but the mods remove just that, personal attacks, that's not criticism, that's being a dick and expect people to take it politely, so no, that's not how it works.
We don't dodge stuff, we basically don't respond to idiocy, like rea_jak that went on every patreon creator thread spamming the same stupid message with the checklist and called our game 3D and vanilla sex in the process. Never heard the saying "if you don't have anything positive to say, don't say anything?" Yeah, neither have dozens of these kids, but I'm not the one who should mod them, so I report the posts to the competent staff of this forum to do it, simple. You obviously don't know the difference between being an asshole and being critical.
You can't just approach a total stranger and say "HEY MOTHERFUCKER, WHAT TIME IS IT?" And then go "no offense", that doesn't make it any less offensive, and thinking you have any reason to say what you're saying, like many people here that accuse us of stuff when they clearly have NO IDEA what they're talking about, doesn't make it any better of an argument. We get it, the game is not free, you're mad at it, let's start a personal crusade because if I can't have something, no one can.
Also, I'm not going to talk with you like "a fellow developer", I don't know who you are, and a hundred people here call themselves "developers", on the internet if you want to make a point, like saying "from a fellow developer", you're supposed to say what you developed and show examples so we can see if we can take your word for it, you're not a developer, you have 9 posts since 2011, you're a lurker, that's what you have behind your name, unlike us.
I am aware of hard line of average income dividing west and east EU. I did jump ahead and said most, pretty much forgetting about the east (no hard feelings, very personal reasons).
I should correct myself and say, 50% of EU countries. I am sorry for clouding myself, due to "stuff". I am not going to dodge something that I screwed up myself.
Still, based on their posts and what they say, I am assuming HS is from west EU. That's why I don't think they are milking if they can get much more by delivering the game.
Also, 1 year or 2 years isn't that long for small indie game to be delivered.
I wouldn't be shocked if their project management was just shit xD
Just saying, because where I am coming from, I always get the feeling that people don't even know what "project management" is
Personally I wouldn't mind a peek to know how it's managed
And if that's have been posted, I probably just didn't see it.
Because our project is much more ambitious than most other projects in the scene and we dedicated time to scripts, voice acting, polite mapping, menus, re-writing scenes that the community weren't happy with and making sure everything were according to standards that we believe to be higher than, well, pretty much
almost everything that came out and didn't take 3~4 years to make (cough, virgin island, cough).
Also, minimum wage where I live is about 550€ or so.
