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Well there's a free tier so costs nothing to see if he eventually get on with something ... anything, so my guess is that's the bulk of them I've that tier on a couple of games that aren't abandoned yet but are looking unwell
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The amount of hubris that was on display with Dark Silver, it's fitting how it's all crashed and burned.
If you tell the story of Dark Silver, you shouldn't forget the circumstances in the past years ...
As far as I remember from posts in the Glamour (2018) thread the dev team was half russian and half ukrainian when the war started, so they had to move to avoid sanctions and being drafted ... moving to a different country with different costs of living and labour meant that old calculations about income and spending were no longer valid ...
A second point was definitely that after re-implementing most of the BB story in Glamour they reached kind of a creative standstill ... by that time the patrons (and forum members) were split into 2 camps for Max (BB) and Kate (Glamour) and it was difficult to publish content for one side without pissing off the other side. The original concept for Glamour ( see her : https://thef95zone.info/threads/glamour-v0-57-dark-silver.10579/ under "More Info") was more or less dropped. At least that was my impression ...
I liked both BB and Glamour because of the likeable characters (except Eric) ...
As far as I remember from posts in the Glamour (2018) thread the dev team was half russian and half ukrainian when the war started, so they had to move to avoid sanctions and being drafted ... moving to a different country with different costs of living and labour meant that old calculations about income and spending were no longer valid ...
A second point was definitely that after re-implementing most of the BB story in Glamour they reached kind of a creative standstill ... by that time the patrons (and forum members) were split into 2 camps for Max (BB) and Kate (Glamour) and it was difficult to publish content for one side without pissing off the other side. The original concept for Glamour ( see her : https://thef95zone.info/threads/glamour-v0-57-dark-silver.10579/ under "More Info") was more or less dropped. At least that was my impression ...
I liked both BB and Glamour because of the likeable characters (except Eric) ...
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If dev would have finish BB he would have been rolling in money but when he abandoned BB he lost almost half his supporters.
Dev was slowly gaining supporters back but like you said having BB and Glamour in the same game took away from content from each other and he starting losing supporters because of it.
Its a real shame that dev abandoned BB, it was one of the best game/VN at the time.
That was really only a consideration from 2022 onward.
It has zero bearing on the checkered history prior to that.
That kind of thing happened in BB as well.
It happened in both several times, to the point that it comes across more that there was no plan for most of the various storylines beyond a basic outline that got all but thrown out due to having patrons (highest tier) dictating development.
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I think BB would be as forgotten as Man of the House if he'd finished it, it's everyone else trying to finish it and put thier own spin on it that has kept it alive
"Kept it alive" is an interesting phrase to use... More like won't let the life-support be turned off so it can be put out of its misery.
Off all the fan remakes and attempts to finish, BB In Space is at least trying to be a fresh take on it.
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As far as I can remember there is no android port for this original game.
Maybe one of the knock-off games has one but this one does not.
It's been 5 years... even the replacement game has been discontinued.
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1st game = abandoned.
2nd game (this one) 7 years = abandoned.
3rd game = abandoned.
What are you talking about 5 years its been almost 7 years now, just a little over 1 month from now will be 7 years.
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2525 days, 7 hours, 21 minutes, this very evening and…
…and I’m not counting, I’m not counting!!!
P.S. I’ll forgive everything Dark Silver, come back!!!
…and I’m not counting, I’m not counting!!!
P.S. I’ll forgive everything Dark Silver, come back!!!
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Surely i know about the other games but the best is allways from the original himself.
People didnt believe HL 3 coming now it is
You're right, I guess Covid did a number on my intuition of how long it's been.