I've made Twine games before, for free. What I made was more stable and functional than what is being produced here for large amounts of money. When conditions do not exist to move the scene forward, you A) Fix it, or B) Leave it alone and rake in cash. ThaumX chooses B. When the scene fails instead of doing what it is supposed to do, do you A) Fix it, or B) Ignore it because you can't be bothered. Again, ThaumX chooses B.
Definitely he has the cynical way to do this: make the bare bones of a game and stop any meaningful development.
Now I need to change my review text, because 0.49 sets up NPC men and women to approach your character for dates. This is a welcome change. However, let us now focus on the negatives:
This game is seriously bug-ridden and full of incomplete code and incomplete text. It does not properly handle lists, and it gets things mixed up. Dates can schedule at impossible times, not warning you until it is too late. There are many, many times that generated text does not have proper conditionals, and generates full of error codes. Basic conversations are still not really right, and you have deceptively limited choices in talking with the core NPCs. For instance, you can seduce Toby into frequent sex, but he will only sometimes acknowledge the romantic relationship. There is also still no descriptive text for female-female orgasms. Clothing can have a damaged status that NPCs will comment on, but when you check it, it is not really damaged. You can put on clothing inside an NPCs home, and the game does not know that you put it on. A marriage proposal ends the game because it generates an error every time you try to respond. The laundry list of bugs goes on, and is probably more extensive than anyone knows.
Definitely he has the cynical way to do this: make the bare bones of a game and stop any meaningful development.
Now I need to change my review text, because 0.49 sets up NPC men and women to approach your character for dates. This is a welcome change. However, let us now focus on the negatives:
This game is seriously bug-ridden and full of incomplete code and incomplete text. It does not properly handle lists, and it gets things mixed up. Dates can schedule at impossible times, not warning you until it is too late. There are many, many times that generated text does not have proper conditionals, and generates full of error codes. Basic conversations are still not really right, and you have deceptively limited choices in talking with the core NPCs. For instance, you can seduce Toby into frequent sex, but he will only sometimes acknowledge the romantic relationship. There is also still no descriptive text for female-female orgasms. Clothing can have a damaged status that NPCs will comment on, but when you check it, it is not really damaged. You can put on clothing inside an NPCs home, and the game does not know that you put it on. A marriage proposal ends the game because it generates an error every time you try to respond. The laundry list of bugs goes on, and is probably more extensive than anyone knows.