will be there improvements on anna love route in 1.9 ? + in the beginning of the game i found "skip to friday" buttom .. but when i made a progress in the game i couldn't find it anywhere
Last comment from Dr.Muramasa on this was the main focus will be on Steam as the store front platform of choice, but they might look at adding the option to purchase it on Patreon for example. Though this most likely comes down to what the new law of the week is from payment processors, when the game is ready to ship...
Hello there,
just like advised, Steam will be the main selling platform, but we'll see if there is a way to make it accessible through other ways(This is a maybe). Of course, as previously planned, the game will continue to be fully free here and steam will only contain an extra new character and a quest related to it only, and this is due to steam policy.
Hello there,
as stated in other comments, the steam release has a 50/50 chance to happen in August, and no, it won't be after 1.9.
It will be 1.9 - 2.0 - steam release.
If the dev isn't sure about the actual release date, why is there a hard date on Steam? There is literally an option to just say "coming soon". I understand that apparently the IDEA of release dates seems to just OFFEND everyone involved in this project, but maybe they should stop giving hard release dates if that is the case...
Hello there,
it doesn't offend anyone involved (Kal is the solo dev of this side project), its just a lose/lose situation. When no date is stated people start speculating that it wont come out/ start asking for when it will be and when given either a year or month they still ask for a specific date or get mad for no date, while on the other hand when a date is given some things happen, more stuff gets added, there's things to fix, LIFE happens.
We always advise dates are estimates that might, or might not be possible, yet users still assume is a hard date. Like I said, it doesn't offend anyone, there's just no winning when one part wants one thing and the other wants other thing.
Communication hasn't been handled the best up to progress, but at the same time its hard to advise on progress with information without giving spoilers when stuff just gets added out of nowhere because "hey, this would be nice". 99% of the times the delays happen because of feature creep, and while is still bad because is a delay, it still means theres more content than planned.
Anyways, is something that should change, but change is hard. All there is left is learn from previous mistakes and move forward.
in my opinion this was a snowball effect, there are countrys that didn't understood april's 5th was a joke from april`s fools, plus, the next day you forgot to delete the date or explain that was a joke so people got nervious waiting. in the end was just a joke who get out of the hands.
in the bright side you can assume that people really love your game and work
Don't re-write history. The April 5 release date was there WAY before April 1st. It was NOT a joke, it was a deadline that was missed. Anyone who says otherwise is lying to you. What kind of April Fools' joke is visible the month before April Fools' Day and actually uses April 5 instead of April 1st for the day?
im sorry if that wasn't that day, but im pretty sure i saw it in april 1st because i enter to the page almost daily.
If that's when you saw it I can't blame you, but it was there well before. I had a dilemma about whether I wanted to restart the game or wait until the update about mid-late March, and when I saw that release date I decided to wait. I'm still waiting to this day, lol.
Hello there,
we have already advised on some of the content that will be present in 1.9, but yes, there will be more than just that, of course we will not advise on what it is as we never give the full list of added content until release.
Thanks for all the hard work you put into this game! I've got over 200 hours in Starmaker Story and it's actually inspired me to start learning game development. Even though I know basically nothing about game dev right now 😭, I'd love to learn more and maybe help out someday if there's ever a chance. Looking forward to the next update!
Game over after the Steam version. Hopefully a spinoff to come with a whole new cast and location after that, but this is to be decided after a 6 months gap following the Steam version. All we can do is pray.
el 5 de abril fue una broma del día de los inocentes, ellos no esperaron que escalara tanto, solo se les olvido borrarlo el 2 de abril, por eso después de esa broma no han publicado fechas, esto solo son problemas de diferencia cultural porque aquí en mi pais se celebra lo mismo pero el 28 de diciembre. solo ten paciencia.
Interesting sophistry. people did not criticize the content ,people are talking about time ,every time make a promise but can't keep it ,can't people question this?
Hello there,
the user hasn't said the people are complaining about the content, he is advising how people WOULD complain when certain things wouldn't be added.
People can question it for sure but not start saying there are "broken promises" or other things users have said. The reason why is taking longer has been explained multiple times, and the dates for release have always been advised to be estimates. I won't go deep in the topic, is true that the estimates have been far off, but the content increase (which was already advised) is also a lot more than planned.
Keep up the good work, author! Looking forward to your next update—it's definitely worth the wait.
Yes,my remarks are a bit radical.I think this is a great game, but I think the time planning could be better.
There was no reasonable explanation given as to why all the extra content couldn't just be in another update.
That's kind of the whole thing... He could have made 1.9 and then 1.9.1; 1.9.2; 1.9A or whatever for the extra content. Like he has done several times prior.
Instead it turned into scope creep and all the deadlines passed without any real reason for them to. He could have done half of the work, released that, then did the other half and released that. Same timeline, same work done, just more releases for the people to enjoy.
If anything he might be creating more work doing it all at once if there is no proper version control etc. since more bugs might slip in that become harder to track and resolve. Considering he's also revising old content at the same time it might become a complete soup. I'm sure he's a competent dev and it'll all be fine in the end but you can't help but worry about it at least a little. Especially with the deadline eventually turning into 'It'll be finished whenever it is'. For a lot of people that's seen as a red flag in content development. (for the record I'm not saying it actually is one in this case.)
As for the 'more content' a lot of it has historically been catered to a very small minority shouting loudly on discord to have it. The majority of players might not ever even interact with it (or be averse to it). So the update having that as an extra or not doesn't really matter to them. That's kind of besides the point though... Since we haven't really been told much about what's actually being added as extra content aside from the planned content, it's difficult to say what to expect. (In all fairness, I, like a lot of other people no doubt, also haven't dug much deeper than what has been publicly posted here and there, so there might be things I'm not aware of)
If there were at least some more explanations/updates or teasers of what is actually coming, I don't think it would have ever reached this point of malcontent, to be honest.
"As for the 'more content' a lot of it has historically been catered to a very small minority shouting loudly on discord to have it. The majority of players might not ever even interact with it (or be averse to it)."
Being very vague here, why not be honest and actually quantify and say what you mean by this instead of using open ended soft terms?
Avoiding the question entirely I see. You're just a concern troll who wants to stir the pot because you don't like certain content.
"Yeah, that vocal minority insisting on seeing two men go at it in a game about the player and Anna is kind of odd to me as well. It sort of matches the world setting, so I can sort of understand why it's there in this case. It could probably also just be its own game, though, if we're being fair."
"The very obvious solution with including kinks in your game is usually to just make an alternate version of the kink scenes with an option to toggle the content if you want. Making that content is a big time sink already and having most of the people just not even engage with that content only makes it a bit of a waste of time otherwise."
Ah, you did say what you really think before. The content is purely optional, but that isn't enough for you, you just don't want it to exist at all.
This is a situation where you, yet again I should add, completely disregard the content of the conversation and start nitpicking to attempt to create some sort of 'gotcha' moment instead of actually adding to the conversation. The statement isn't going to change just because I happen to refer to different content than you had in mind.
Did you create that account just to troll and sow discord and hatred or something? With every comment you post, that seems to become increasingly more true at least.
If you insist on an answer, though, I don't mind answering your question. I'm not avoiding anything at all. I'm a functional adult capable of debate, and I don't mind being corrected if I'm wrong. In fact, learning opportunities like that are usually welcomed. You should maybe try joining the debate sometimes.
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There are multiple niche fetishes present. There are several -dere types in the game; there is a sweaty, greasy tomboy and robot sex, etc. too. Not all of those are for everybody. So yes, I was more general for a reason. These ones are somewhat agreeable to the general population, though.
For the averse bit I was, however, mainly referring to, as just about everybody knows and it didn't really need saying, the hermaphrodite content. Or rather, what is wrongly tagged as 'hermaphrodite' (yes, that's what 'futanari' refers to) and is actually just gay/shemale/trans content, as they don't have both sexes but only have male sex organs.
The people that consume futa and/or gay/trans content make up a highly niche single-digit percentage of the adult population. In other words, well over 90% of the population does not enjoy that content or does not willingly seek it out at the very least.
There is nothing wrong with liking that content, of course, you do you. Nobody is judging here. It is simply the reality of the situation that it is not everybody's cup of tea.
p.s. "The content is purely optional, but that isn't enough for you, you just don't want it to exist at all." I pity you if that is what you got out of my previous statement. Content being optional is the same as it not existing already if you're not into that type of content. That was the point I was making back then. It's simply a bit of a waste for that content to be optional when it could be enjoyed by everybody if there were alternative versions. It's not the same at all. Also, for the record, it wasn't always optional. 😅
"There is nothing wrong with liking that content, of course, you do you. Nobody is judging here. It is simply the reality of the situation that it is not everybody's cup of tea."
You contradict your previous statement. "It could probably also just be its own game, though, if we're being fair." What's "fair" about it not being in this game? This implies its existence in this game is unfair.
"The very obvious solution with including kinks in your game is usually to just make an alternate version of the kink scenes with an option to toggle the content if you want."
Why is this obvious? Why should there be versions of certain characters just to cater to people who dislike their existence in the game? Why just, not do those character's content? A tad hypocritical of you to bemoan the development of the update, yet endorse creating alternatives for certain characters.
"That was the point I was making back then. It's simply a bit of a waste for that content to be optional when it could be enjoyed by everybody if there were alternative versions."
I'm not going to get into the terminology debate, I don't care for it. But this is vile. The characters have been designed to be what they are. "Just change the gay character into a woman." There is one femboy, and 3 futas that have content. (I'm sure you'll mention the Starmaker page for Rose as well.) You have claimed "As for the 'more content' a lot of it has historically been catered to a very small minority shouting loudly on discord to have it." You never quantified what amount of "more content" exactly, it's a very small percentage of the full game.
"It's not the same at all. Also, for the record, it wasn't always optional."
I assume you're referring to the spotting minigame? So simply seeing the characters is bad, I understand.
Also claiming nobody is judging futa and femboy content is at best ignorant and more than likely purely disingenuous.
1st of: What is wrong with you? Who hurt you? You are trying your hardest to nitpick at things to find something to critique and hate when in reality there isn't anything there. At the very least you used arguments, for which I commend you.
"This implies its existence in this game is unfair. " => No it does not in fact imply that. A 'fair judgement' is an impartial, unbiased decision based purely on facts rather than personal feelings or prejudices. I said 'it could be it's own game.' Is this not a fair and accurate statement? There is certainly enough quality content for it etc. If you don't think that is fair( thus think it is unfair), then you are arguing that it couldn't be it's own game, for whatever reason you might have for that. It has nothing to do with the existence of anything.
"Why is this obvious? " => Because if there is alternate versions of the scenes EVERYBODY gets more scenes. Did you forget that creating extra scenes doesn't only go one way perhaps? There would obviously be more scenes with the kink as well for other characters.
"I'm not going to get into the terminology debate, I don't care for it. But this is vile. The characters have been designed to be what they are." => What do you even mean by that? They were created to be living in an alternate universe already. So you believe in this one character in this one universe only but not in subsequent alternate universes with other version of the character? How do you feel about many of them having gone through changes during development then? 🤨 Technically every choice you make in game is in itself already another alternate universe as well. Are the ending characters not the real characters either then aside from the 'true ending' ones? These characters already aren't designed to simply be one single way or the other from the get-go. The players essentially design and shape them throughout the game. So by your logic the developer and everybody playing, including yourself is vile.
I read books quite often, I'm already part of thousands of alternate universes, one more doesn't really rattle my chain. I'm sorry I'm not emotionally attached enough to only believe in a single alternate universe in a single game I suppose? I really wonder why you are this emotionally invested though, genuinely.
"I assume you're referring to the spotting minigame? So simply seeing the characters is bad, I understand. " => No, you clearly do not. It is not really about seeing the characters, it is more about expectations and them being subverted. But I suppose it could be for some. It's a physiological response for a reason.
"Also claiming nobody is judging futa and femboy content is at best ignorant and more than likely purely disingenuous." => I never made this claim and I'm not sure why you're bringing it up. Is it because I said 'nobody is judging here' in reference to our conversations and you somehow assumed I was speaking for everybody here? I'll rephrase in that case: 'I'm not judging'.
Edit: For the record: Judging is a cognitive process of evaluating something based on criteria. Liking is the emotional or preferential response. They aren't 'judging' the content, they are disliking it.
Can I ask though, why are you trying so hard to hate on me for giving genuine, logical advice (critique at times, I suppose) based on facts, devoid of emotion? I've been nothing but nice and polite, yet you're slinging nothing but unfounded hate towards me. It truly perplexes me. I'm sure there are plenty of more deserving people out there.
" I said 'it could be it's own game.' Is this not a fair and accurate statement?" Again, implies they don't belong in THIS game. You can try and dilute your point and use soft language all you want. You're still singling out the futa and femboy characters. "It could probably also just be its own game, though, if we're being fair." You're differentiating certain content as not belonging/fitting into Starmaker.
"These characters already aren't designed to simply be one single way or the other from the get-go." What? You're claiming the futa and femboy characters weren't designed to be futas and femboys from the get go? Prove it.
"What do you even mean by that?" I like how you completely ignore the example I use of "turn the gay man into a woman." Just toggle all the LGBT stuff, that would be "fair" after all. That stuff "could probably also just be its OWN game, though, if we're being fair."
"It is not really about seeing the characters, it is more about expectations and them being subverted." What expectations? Phoenix is on the Itch page. Arvus games has had futa and femboys since Adorevia. And yes, asking for a toggle/alternatives objectively means seeing them is bad/not wanted. It's basically an arachnophobia toggle. But, you know, for futa and femboys.
"They aren't 'judging' the content, they are disliking it. " It being optional isn't enough though, they don't want the characters to be in the game at all. They want the characters to be toggleable. Simply seeing them is bad.
The mental gymnastics you're doing to downplay this is impressive.
'Again, implies they don't belong in THIS game.' No, once again it does NOT imply that. I also mentioned that it does sort of fit in the story given the world that was created. ('It sort of matches the world setting, so I can sort of understand why it's there in this case.') You are completely changing the narrative to fit your flawed logic. The statement is 'it could be it's own game' and it certainly could be. No buts or ifs about that.
'You're claiming the futa and femboy characters weren't designed to be futas and femboys from the get go? Prove it.' => Again, changing the narrative entirely. That is not what I claimed and you know it. Don't try to "read between the lines" when there is nothing there to read.
'Just toggle all the LGBT stuff, that would be "fair" after all. I like how you completely ignore the example I use of "turn the gay man into a woman."' => It's a game with customisable options. You're telling me you NEVER change the protagonist or NPCs in ANY game when they are customisable? You play with every character and setting set to 'default' because that's how it was created? I bet you changed the MC's name in this game, you hypocrite. Stop making up these braindead arguments that hold no water...
'What expectations? Phoenix is on the Itch page.' => Phoenix is, so many of the others are not.
'And yes, asking for a toggle/alternatives objectively means seeing them is bad/not wanted. It's basically an arachnophobia toggle. But, you know, for futa hermaphrodites and femboys.' => I suppose you are sort of correct (for once). Seeing it kills my boner and makes me physically gag at times. (Usually when I go in not knowing.) Again: 'It's a physiological response for a reason.' Do I want the content gone though? Of course not. It has every right to exist and you can't judge people's preferences and likes/dislikes. (A rule you should maybe apply yourself btw) That's why, as I've said before, the best option is usually a toggle. Or an option along the lines of 'do you want this character to use image set 1,2, or 3?' This serves everybody. Everybody gets their preferred choice. Both the 90+% of players and the <10% of players. There is no mental gymnastics or downplaying anything. All I'm saying is most people would appreciate more options. This is just a factual statement. I don't understand why you insist on arguing against something that obviously benefits all parties...
'It being optional isn't enough though, they don't want the characters to be in the game at all. They want the characters to be toggleable.' 🤔Can I maybe advise you to read this back a few times. 'They don't want it to simply be optional; they want better control over how the being optional works.' => Yeah? What's wrong with that exactly? 🤨
For the record, I wasn't really going to bring this up, but since you seem to be fixating on this whole 'LGBT' stuff so much... There are trans people in my friend group. Some I hang out with every other week. Others I play games with 2-3 times a week. And don't get me started on how many are gay/bi... I have no qualms with them, nor do I want them gone. That's just all in YOUR head. You are wanting them gone, or rather, you are wanting me to want them gone so you feel better for berating me... somehow. Well too bad because I don't.P.S. I love how you, yet again, avoided answering the questions I asked you. What kind of mental gymnastics are you pulling off every time to avoid taking any sort of accountability for your actions? 🙃
Hello there,
While is true that previously some lettered releases have had some extra content, it was content that was thought out after the release and was implemented together with bugfixes. The "As for the 'more content' a lot of it has historically been catered to a very small minority shouting loudly on discord to have it" is not really true, everything is taken into consideration if it makes sense and Kal himself wants to add the content.
I can 100% understand that some people might feel uneasy about the development taking this long, which has never happened to this scale before BUT there are things that are not really right, the developer of anything has full control over the decision of how to release the content that is being worked on, there is really no need for an answer for "why all the extra content couldn't just be in another update?" as it was decided to be done for 1.9 to reduce the time needed to add such content and polish near the steam release after 2.0.
Some work has been shown of what's to come without giving spoilers, and some reworks have also been shown, is not like there has been full radio silence since the last update. There are people that say the last update was last year, even though 1.8B (yes, is a lettered update for bugfixes, but it also included a decent amount of content) was around 4 months ago.
This part I don't see how it comes to be a point "If there were at least some more explanations/updates or teasers of what is actually coming". Again, yes, the deadline for the given estimate release was missed, but an explanation, and teasers were given.
Also, on the topic of people that might worry about the update, I can understand it maybe from a newcomer, but most of the complaints come from people that has seen previous updates, that have seen work has been done with Starmaker and that has been advised WON'T be abandoned and will be finished with the 2.0 and steam release updates.
'not really true' so it sort of is, yeah we know. It's been brought up before. 😅
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as it was decided to be done for 1.9 to reduce the time needed to add such content and polish near the steam release after 2.0.
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=> That's not how that works or definitely not how it's supposed to 😂😂😂
Generally, you don't really reduce the time for the work by reducing the amount of versions; at least not significantly. Especially not if you're implementing the new features one by one. If you're doing a bit of everything at once or if you plan to test and bugfix every version extensively etc. yourself though then perhaps an argument can be made. But that's not usually how it goes. It's also not unusual to release an update and have the people essentially be the testers finding bugs. I'm not sure how Kal does his work but I suppose there might be some truth to it being faster as one update. (not if he keeps scope-creeping though 😆)
For the rest of the text about development, sure, I agree for the most part, as I said it's just odd for somebody who has historically been quite consistent to then not be. Especially when the methodology suddenly strays from so many of the general 'best practices'. But yes, it's Kal's project, they can do whatever they want with it. I'm merely just stating how people might think about it.
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This part I don't see how it comes to be a point "If there were at least some more explanations/updates or teasers of what is actually coming". Again, yes, the deadline for the given estimate release was missed, but an explanation, and teasers were given.
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=> Not so much on this platform. I didn't say there wasn't any at all though. But for this platform, the few that were there were mainly people following the discord etc. and posting it here for other people so they were made aware. That and a few posts made by you yourself which can be mostly summed up as 'Delayed again, work is being done, won't spoiler too much.' which is something, but it is a bit of a 'nothing burger' for most. It honestly doesn't tell you much of what is actually going on. Especially for those unaware of how development progresses. There is a reason a lot of creators have started using 'progress bars' to visualise what's going on even if these bars mean very little in a lot of cases.
Personally I think it's a bit odd to not show off some of the best bits to come to get people excited and wanting to work towards getting that scene themselves. A censored scene, a line of text that speaks to the imagination, etc. could also be great options without giving too much away. Perhaps it's intentionally not being shown because it would only lead to more people wanting it sooner, I suppose.
In the end people are only this frustrated because they simply want more of something great and can't wait for the next release. So it only makes sense for people who have played prior releases to complain more than new people. 😂
I think you are just too horny for a game that is free with a solo dev. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
