discussion Abandoned Games

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[cosicosi89]

There should be a way to buy these assets and continue development

 

[IFF01]

I have two I miss,
Our Fate and My life in a loli kingdom

 

[IFF01]

Ecchi Sensei and all the drama around it.

I could agree with this one

 

[likeabike]

Bitch Breaker from Unknown Error. Such a random game about a kid being forced to work under a crazy boss. you can guess from the title what happens lol. Maybe not dead but hasn't been updated in over a year now. Dev just works in silence and randomly appears like a dad coming back for your birthday after leaving for a year to get milk

 

[IFF01]

"pushed to a crappy complete game", immediately reminded me of Human Dairy Farm, the dev suddenly finished the game to a crappy complete game. Sad, I liked that game.

I have to agree with you on this

 

[eezergoode]

Out of all of the games I have played that have been abandoned, My Sweet Neighbors by Pandelo is the one I most wish would make a comeback. Can't really explain why, nothing in particular that I can think of made it any better than the others, but for some odd reason I have to pop by the thread every couple of months to see if Pandelo had come back... In addition, I really would love to thee Kindred;: The Reburns get a surprise update.

 

[cosicosi89]

I think it's more than funding. Maybe it's the time head space and energy

 

[Xia Liu Bei]

As a developer myself I think I can speak on this with some authority.

The biggest reason is many developers get into this with unrealistic expectations. They see how much the top developers earn and think with a little coding and a few renders they can earn this too. They don't understand how much work you have to put it into making a game. This leads to my second point.

Developers underestimate just how much time, money, and energy is required to develop games. Most of them don't have the work ethic or discipline to persist for very long.

Aside from these two major issues, you also have the issue of entitled pirates who shit all over a dev and their game. Not with constructive criticism, which devs would almost literally kill to receive, but rather just nasty scumbag human beings who vomit their filth and nastiness out on people from behind their shield of anonymity. There is nothing quite like hearing someone who stole your product shit all over you about how terrible your product is, how terrible you are, and then drop their demands about what you need to do differently in the future to satisfy them.

 

[Xia Liu Bei]

1. A developer did not get the financial support (on the same Petreon) he had hoped for. The examples are legion.
2. The developer overestimated his strengths (especially his talent as a writer), writer's block is a common story. Such projects don't die immediately, the process can take years, but their end is the same.
3. Disagreements within the development team. Not often, but it happens.
4. A developer can simply die. This also happens.

Like Palmer. :'(

 

[cccman]

Colllege life just getting good

 

[Maximmillian]

Exiles

 

[Wolf707]

53x – Homecoming​

Luke's Way​

 

[draslimeil]

I still wistfully think about My Sweet Neighbors, my first Vn heartbreak.

 

[4rcan1st]

Strange nights is the best abandoned game, no contest... well, there is another one, but it must not be named.

 

[HuevosAzules]

Apartment 69
Gates Motel
Buried Desires
Corruption Time
Proud Father
Midlife Crisis

 

[shashisoram1946@gmai]

Midlife crisis

 

[walld]

My dream is that all the content creators that find it hard to continue a game would come together and create a game engine that can help work on stories to lessen the stress and finish the games. I think the first game engine that can do that would make a fortune.


In the future, I imagine a personalized game engine that lets the user create the game story on the fly and generate the renders. I would pay for that engine.

 

[catman290]

53x – Homecoming​

Luke's Way​

oh yea 53X was good.

 

[censoR]

The Tyrant