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I hope you're all doing well. I wanted to share some news that I received this past Saturday, which has had a big impact on my life and made me reconsider my priorities. After much thought, I’ve made the difficult decision to pause all activities related to RoyalCandy for the time being.
This wasn’t an easy choice for me, especially considering how much your support has meant in helping me live my dream of becoming a game developer and achieving financial stability. I’m incredibly grateful to you all for making that possible, and it’s tough to step away from something I’ve worked so hard on. But right now, this is the best decision I can make.
While I’ve always aimed to be open and honest with you, I can’t go into details about what’s going on personally. What I can do is pause all billings, so no one will be charged moving forward. It wouldn’t feel right to continue accepting payments without being able to deliver the work you expect, like some others might do in similar situations.
Thank you so much for the past seven years. It’s been an absolute pleasure being part of this community, and I’m deeply grateful for your support. I’m not sure when, or if, I’ll be back, but for now, I have to say goodbye.
Take care,
Jason
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That above means what exactly it means, that the game is on PERMANT HOLD, and it MAY NOT come back.
So, yes, this might be the end of RoyalCandy (Jason), and No More Money, and any other games he had in the works
I wish you luck Jason, my dad had a heart attack 3 days ago, so I can relate to sometimes you have to step away, because life is more important.
FUCK this was like one of the best plot games ever in this site, I wish all the strength to the creator and I do hope everything gets solved and eventually he can return to this game or even start anew.
Why does it feel like most of the better content creators are hit with strokes of unfortunate circumstances.
Bad karma for fans as well as for the devs. It always seems that the better or best stories/game devs wind up with unfortunate and usually life-altering situations. Some have even passed. Meanwhile, we get stuck with a bunch of Other devs who are milkers or lazy hacks, putting legitimate good ones under scammer microscopes when they do have issues. It is what it Is.
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He had the dignity to step back responsibly and honor those that had honored him. Best of luck to him, truly enjoyed his great work.
Step back and take a closer look, that applies to about all of life. The best always seem to get dealt the worst hands.
if they live in a 3rd world country they never have to work again & now live in a gated community.
just do the math
just do the math
Onhold, hm not that surprising. Never believed that the game will be completed, at least we had some nice scenes with Charlotte and Tris (i didnt even believe we will ever get those). Was a nice ride, with overall too slow development, but... well, it is what it is. Another one bites the dust, for whatever reason, hopefully nothing too sad and just general life-changes that changes the priorities (like getting a child or so)
Romania is not 3rd world country buddy... really not. But well, living there is cheaper than in the US or germany for that matter... thats true.
There was probably going to be roughly another two years of development time to properly finish the game, was going to be roughly 8 to 10 episodes to series ending season 4, and a large ending. With the fan base (paid and otherwise) Royal Candy has / had, all he had to do was keep development going until the completion and would have had, what, another $120- 140K USD ( a real currency, not dollarettes like the CDN $ ) or more...no way did he bail because he's now "set for life". A real life event occured and hopefully he is able to get back to development when the time is right...
so... any recommendations for similar games (in particular the witty dialogues)? this VN is peak to me just because of how fun the conversations usually flowed.
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Hope the dev gets well soon, want to see the endings he has in mind.
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I was trying to update the list of all the titles I wanted to continue, when I discovered that the game is in a "Onhold" state.
I then read the reasons, I'm really sorry. I hope the developer recovers soon. It's not easy when things in the family are not going so well. So I cross my fingers that he recovers. And that he can then eventually continue the title.
Definitely one of the best titles on the site.
Thank you for lets us play you game, hope you can come back again.
I then read the reasons, I'm really sorry. I hope the developer recovers soon. It's not easy when things in the family are not going so well. So I cross my fingers that he recovers. And that he can then eventually continue the title.
Definitely one of the best titles on the site.
Thank you for lets us play you game, hope you can come back again.
I'm starting to think whatever banners I put on my profile next to "Desert Stalker", gets discontinued. It happened with Glamour, False Hero and Red Lucy. Now this one's on hold (and considering the circumstance will get thrown too).
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Been a while since I last played this (like, almost 3 years), so I deleted my saved games and started from scratch. I'm so glad I did as I love this game. The dialog and humour is especially good and has had me laughing my ass off again. Such a nice game that way. Especially the whole brother and little sister dialogs as I grew up with a younger sister with about the same age difference as in this game (minus any sexual interests), and my sister and I have fun bugging each other to this day. My mother and I got along about the same (minus the sexual interests), I think I slapped her on the ass one day as a joke when I was young and her response to me was to look back at me with a smile and say "you dirty little pup!" LMAO... so... similar family dialog as what we went through.
Some of the shit that happened with my older brothers and their girlfriends, and the parties they had in our home could probably make some good visual novel material.
One scene that especially made me laugh out loud was this...
Some of the shit that happened with my older brothers and their girlfriends, and the parties they had in our home could probably make some good visual novel material.
One scene that especially made me laugh out loud was this...
Then fucking don't!
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hey everyone...I have F95 checker for my games and within the last couple of weeks I've had several games either are on hold or abandoned and I'm talking about popular games...it's very depressing but I realize that family is more important than anything else but it's still heartbreaking...I hope the dev gets his problems in order