Just remember the grass is always greener from the other side. In some ways, sure, I like to call it lucky, in others not so much (eg lost over half my OG family in the process, which in AVNs everyone is magically fine with it and even wants to also fuck you after they learn that incest isn't an issue to you).
It's been almost a year...has anyone heard from this dev lately?
From the devs SS pageIt's been almost a year...has anyone heard from this dev lately?
short version is burnout, writer's block and personal issues, so taking a break to clear his head (as he puts it more efficient than endlessly writing and rendering and then not liking the result, trashing it and starting over).It's been almost a year...has anyone heard from this dev lately?
Sorry if this sounds unempathetic, but I've never understood the writer's block thing, as someone who's written literally hundreds of pages of fiction. I NEVER start writing any long form fiction work unless I have a full outline, with major and minor plot points fully resolved from beginning to end. Sometimes I'll add minor details here and there, or change the rhetorical style I assumed I was going to go with for a stretch of writing, but I would never put myself in the position where I have NO FUCKING CLUE where the story is going next. It's just a very strange thing to me...
Yeah if I'm enthusiastic about a story the only problems I have is kinda the opposite, too much material and what to include and discard (otherwise the story would never be finished before I died of old age). But I guess alot of AVN devs go in with only a rough idea for the first few chapters but not a complete story so the plan is wing it and hope for the best (which often ends up in the current situation) or with a rough outline of the whole story but unsure how to go about it scene-level wise. I'm sure here it could be either option and when real life also throws shit at you it obviously doesn't help.
Yea, I understand real life issues getting in the way. It's happened to me as well, so no criticism there. But I hadn't gotten any money for the stuff I worked on, lol. I haven't been on his Discord in a while after K got hit with the banhammer and they took a bunch of his discord out with him. Been paranoid about going on certain discords since then, would rather not be put in a spot where I'm ban evading to access other discord chats. So not really sure about the details of what's going on behind the scenes.
Maybe not a sad panda, but that is one pissed off panda.
well any response to this guys ?
guessing usually no one bothers keeping wallpapers (Ketzal's sets were the only ones I collected before he quit). I haven't been subbed to anyone anywhere since last year so don't have any myself.
there was a person who posted few of em a while ago if am not wrong... cant find his posts rn for some reason.
I think it's the fact that a lot of people start out as a hobby then they decide to go through patreon, etc. The pressure they start feeling from that leads to the burnout, at that stage you're not only trying to please yourself with how the story is turning out but now you have to try please people paying you too, on top of their irl responsibilities and jobs that they have. In short, it's the pressure that kills most vn's.
Short answer is never try to turn your hobby into a day job, it quickly loses it's fun factor when people are bitching about speed of updates, esp from those that think they own you just because they pay you $5/mo or something. Plus most are 1-man shows as it seldom grows to the point where you can hire help, esp if they just started in the past few years and not a decade ago before Patreon went to shit and turned into a cookie-cutter slop factory due to their more recent restrictions (first it was incest, then another kink and another until it's now a long laundry list, practically anything that makes an AVN worth even downloading, let alone paying for, might as well just watch a vanilla porn movie with a plot at this point from the thousands of those already available). Plus most like doing the renders and maybe even the story writing, but coding gets boring as fuck rather quickly to most as it gets rather monotonous after typing 10,000 lines of code every update (usually the first to be hired out if it's a rare dev that can afford to pay someone else to do it).
Turning your hobby into a day job is a valid struggle and could be mental health struggles like depression and ADHD also being a factor
Most of it is the cost/ramp time for a VN. No matter how creative you are, you're going to be limited by your hardware and your knowledge of the physics of rendering programs. That's where a large amount of the bottleneck lies for people who are actually creative, and the fact that you can't just write/draw/record what you want and have it instantaneously come to life can be difficult for some people to deal with. That's part of why you see people who have written hundreds or even thousands of pages of smut/literotica not hack it in the VN space.
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