Ren'Py Completed Midnight Paradise [v1.0f Extra] [Lewdlab]

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JormaNainen said:
This was his staff members answer in Discord when someone asked about the coding:

"Well, the complexity of the code goes hand in hand with how complex things you're trying to achieve. Simple talking scene with progression of images is not difficult (imagine booty calls). Things like having the UI at the top of your screen with buttons triggering certain things (phone, map, skip time) that is more complex of course, because you need to set up the button and also the thing that is going be triggered by it. Then you need to code when will those things be available and when not (Skipping time is not available in every location, for example).

Time itself is not exactly easy either, because you need to have every location react to that system (day/night location) and also the map needs to react to it (show nightclub location only at night, for example).

Then there are things like those phone hints, those are not difficult in terms of code, but they require a lot of focus. They all work based on certain "points" and "flags" in the main story, and if you accidently type in the wrong point, then the hint will show during incorrect stage of the game.

And a whole different story is creating new features (for example improved phone system), there you not only need to make sure it works in itself as intended, but that is also works with all the other already implemented systems.

So, overall it's a combination of many things. And it all requires you to be aware of what else needs to be changed/added if you introduce something new into the game."
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That's still just a bunch of if/else statements and spaghetti code goto labels :geek:
 
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Won't be out for a while. I would assume at least another month or 2. It takes a week or two to get the new coder, get him up to speed.
However, the good news is that probably the next update should be bigger but thats just speculation
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Are you being too optimistic here about the amount of time needed to find a new coder or is there any official information sort of confirming that someone's already on the radar?

I mean, finding a good coder that's interested in joining the project seems to be the biggest problem here considering where we are and where we come from.
 
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I really long for the old days, those times when I started catching a whiff of milk every time I came to this thread or played this "brilliant" game, but most people would call me out for daring to say anything against this god of adult games.

After 2 years without having posted anything here or even played the game, it seems more people are on the same boat now.
Apparently, the dev turned into a full-time scammer. Who would've thought??? :eek::eek::eek:
Really interesting indeed.
 
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Abandoned/on-hold projects, long wait times and unmet expectations are inevitable, when you: work from home, work on NSFW projects (which carry social stigma), decide your own deadline/schedule, plan your own updates, and have no checks & balances to hold you accountable.

The whole Adult VN business runs on what is basically a donation subscription, as long as people are hungry for niche fetish related content (which we always are), there's no incentive/consequence to compel developers to stay true to their word, and stick to release schedules; if you can milk money out of something without any effort/work, why would you work in the first place?

This isn't discrediting the hard work and dedication that some devs put into their work, but the above stated conditions are disappointingly commonplace in this market. That's why devs like Gumdrop and ICSTOR can get away with an ungodly level of milking, and a majority of projects are abandoned quite early.

I'm not sure if that is what's happening here, you can be the judge of that.
 
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I think the simple lesson here, and not mentioning anything else, is if you can't code it yourself, don't do it. That doesn't mean you can't hire a coder, but hiring a coder should be about freeing up your own time to do other things. Not because you can't code your own game.

People talk about Renpy being "easy" to code, but that is relative. It's still coding, especially when you get into the sandbox and day/night system stuff.

Hopefully Lain is ok too. Lewdlab can't help they they vanished, but at the same time you have to have a Plan B for these scenarios. The same thing is happening with Freeloading Family, since the writer vanished. You're working with anonymous people you met online. Any one of us can go *poof* and never be seen again. Either because something happened IRL, or you just got board and moved on.
 
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Aristos said:
I really long for the old days, those times when I started catching a whiff of milk every time I came to this thread or played this "brilliant" game, but most people would call me out for daring to say anything against this god of adult games.

After 2 years without having posted anything here or even played the game, it seems more people are on the same boat now.
Apparently, the dev turned into a full-time scammer. Who would've thought??? :eek::eek::eek:
Really interesting indeed.
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This.
 
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Hey everyone

So a quick update about what happened in the last 1 week.

Thanks to my last post, many talented coders applied to be on the MP development team and we finally concluded the process. Now we have enough manpower to handle the updates and even upgrade the game on certain aspects.

There are a lot of things I wanted to add or modify to be better in the game, but there was never enough capacity for it. Now it seems like we'll have great results and Midnight Paradise will look and feel a lot more like I imagined it.

For example, I was amazed by the new phone system I received from one of our new coders. I'm not going to add it into the upcoming update, because we will do more tweaks and testing with it, and I also wanna make a decent chunk of content for it before we add it, but I'm sure it will make it into the 0.16 update. I'll show more of that later as we get closer to that of course. I'm really happy with this positive turn of events and now that we are assembled, we'll put things in motion and work on releasing 0.15 as soon as possible.

I'll do more regular progress updates until then.

And as always, thank you for your support.
-Dr Sin
 
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JormaNainen，帖子：7321901，成员：4041066 said:
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嘿大家

因此，快速更新过去 1 周发生的事情。

感谢我的上一篇文章，许多有才华的程序员申请加入 MP 开发团队，我们终于完成了这个过程。现在我们有足够的人力来处理更新，甚至在某些方面升级游戏。

我想添加或修改很多东西以使游戏变得更好，但容量永远不够。现在看起来我们会取得很好的成绩，午夜天堂的外观和感觉会更像我想象的那样。

例如，我对从我们的一位新编码员那里收到的新电话系统感到惊讶。我不会将它添加到即将到来的更新中，因为我们会对其进行更多的调整和测试，而且我还想在添加之前为它制作大量的内容，但我相信它会成功的进入 0.16 更新。当然，随着我们越来越接近这一点，我会在稍后展示更多内容。我对这一积极的转折感到非常高兴，现在我们已经集结完毕，我们将开始行动并努力尽快发布 0.15。

在那之前，我会做更多的定期进度更新。

一如既往，感谢您的支持。
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Now i'm sure that the girl of this update will be Ruby. Let's see if this will payoff the almost three years of waiting for the first sex scene with a main girl.
 
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