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is there any estimated date til when the 1.9 might drop?im losing my patience i know it will be worth the wait but even an estimated date would help
Hello there,
negative, the whole thing started for an incorrect estimate, no estimates or dates will be given anymore.
yo will you be release your game on G.O.G to? because i cant even get on your game steam page because of a stupid law in my country says i cant have a credit card because of medical reasons but on G.O.G i don't need to jump through hoops just to be able to buy games like yours. p.s i enjoy playing your game it is fun
Thank you to the development team for creating such a wonderful game. I’ve already added it to my Steam wishlist, and I’m looking forward to playing the full release.Also, I’d be really happy if Chinese support could be considered in the future.Please don’t feel rushed — good games are always worth waiting for. Take your time and make the game the way you want it to be. Best of luck with development!
To be fair has been over two weeks since the update now.
Dr.Muramasa anything to share? Is Kal still getting distracted by feature creep or is he full focused with an unbreakable acceptance criteria for 1.9 now?
There's been no news at all, and Kal isn't even fully focused on development. It seems he's in no rush to release version 1.9. He's just lost in his own fantasy world — he even has time to play the DLC for Age of Wonders 4.
Age of Wonders 4 has new DLC 😮 Jokes aside dude needs to have a life outside of development. I am sure he is plodding along slowly but surely.. my main worry is he is getting distracted by more "that would be cool to have"'s 😬
WRONG!!!! Kal should spend 16 hours a day minimum working on Starmaker, 7 on Eclipse.
He can use a fleshlight hooked up to one of those wooden rocking birds. It's 2026.
Hello there,
there has been more feature creep, but it shouldn't be far away, progress has been steady.
Hello, Dr. Mura. If you feel comfortable sharing with us, do you expect the 1.9 update to come out in a matter of days, weeks, or months?
If the answer is weeks or months, it might help people relax and explore other projects instead of constantly refreshing this page. I know I am guilty of that occasionally.
Looking forward to the update regardless.
Hello there,
I don't expect it to be days since testing also needs to be done, not just finishing stuff. But I dont expect months. Not a guarantee tho, only Kal knows the full extent of what he is thinking.
Wah, the art and the animations is half the reason I fell in love with that game...
You are in for a treat though 😈
So there haven't been any updates in four months? He's been slacking off the whole time? Doesn't he care at all how long players have to wait?
Buenas,
- No tendria sentido ya que el transcurso de su mision es sin sexo hasta que llegas a tener 5 corazones. Se han añadido acciones que mejoran or afectan su estado.
- Ya no se añadiran mas distritos.
- Habran mas eventos en otras partes del mapa.
-Ana tiene una opcion en el guardaropas luego de 4 corazones, no deciso si mas sera añadido.
- Una de las funciones de los finales es comprar una nueva vivienda y mudarce con algunos personajes.
- Improbable, se tienen en cuenta las personalidades de los personajes.
- Adrian se mantendra en solo irse con los finales.
Hello there,
Starmaker is done by a single person. As per what caused the delay, just as advised before its mostly due to feature creep, being bigger than initially intended.
You have enough time to do all that, delete, redownload with dial up internet and do it again
Hello there,
the game will be open to mods. Is a bit different since the game uses GC2 but it will be as facilitated as possible.
It’s been noticed that he spends eight hours every day playing other games. How much time do you think he has left to finish developing the new version?
This is the first time I've seen this claim. Where did you get this information? Was the dev playing 8 hours a day every day, or was it only a one-off thing? Additionally, was the dev doing this recently, after the delay, or was this months ago?
Secondly, even if this was true (and I do not have any evidence that it is), the developer is allowed to spend their free time however they please. The insinuation in your claim is that the dev is playing video games instead of working on the update.
Not only do we not have evidence of this, how many hours of dev work are we entitled to in a week? Is the dev required to work a full 40-hour workweek? Are we allowed to be upset if he only spends 20 hours a week making the game? Are you giving him money to compensate him for that time?
I am frustrated with the development of 1.9 as well, but we have no say over what the dev does during his free time.
I think we are all frustrated because we are waiting on the edge of our seat for an update we were told was just around the corner months ago (before the estimated release window was removed). That is upsetting, but it is important to remember why we are upset. Were you upset when the dev took a month-long break after the 1.8 release? I did not see the same critique of the dev during that time on Itch. The difference in the two scenarios was clear communication about release windows, not how much time the dev spent working every week.
You are allowed to be frustrated that the update is taking longer than expected (I am). But I have no evidence that the dev consistently spends that much time playing games. Additionally, I think the problem is not what the dev does during his free time, but that a deadline was missed.
I think the real question is what game is he playing, this will make it acceptable or not...
Jokes a side the fact Kal is playing games is a good thing. There is nothing worse than a developer that doesn't actually play games or developers being lead by someone that doesn't have clue what a game is. 😭 This all results in inspiration that will used within Starmaker and Roundscape 👍
he never really adds enough to justify the long wait time in my opinion especially with how much they use AI to help with the game but there's probably some personal reason as to why or he's just lazy sadly you can't really ask him on the discord either because the mods will just attack you and rally the sheep in there to insult you if you even criticize the dev so we just gotta wait and the release date is whenever he feels like it he should just write that on the page of his next game instead of giving dates that are never accurate
I do not mean this as an insult, but have you played any other NSFW games developed by a small team which does not use AI assistance. The gaps are much larger and/or the content in each patch is by far less. Each Starmaker release is much larger in comparison to other releases, and the clear fault with 1.9 is that it is probably too overly ambitious.
As for mods jumping over your queries, it is most likely the questions you are asking or the way they are worded. If you are asking why is the game talking so long this has already been answered "feature creep" it would be a waste of time for Kal to even answer that question again. If you asked him stuff like "What was your inspiration for Anna's personality?" You would most likely find him more willing to engage.
Couple more weeks now, and should nothing go wrong in testing 1.9 will probably be ready to ship, going by docs language used.
Said it before and will say it again, I love Starmaker. But pushing Kal and back seating his personal time is not going to make a very good update. It is as simple as that. It is not all rainbows and kisses though, my main critics still stand:
que si tuviera mas recursos, hermano el autor de este proyecto factura una cantidad considerable al mes, como me dices que falta de recursos no tiene lógica, se ve que te gusta este juego, es normal a mi también me gusta, pero exageras con tu fe, lealtad, o como lo quieras llamar
espero que el creador de este juego no te termine decepcionando, ya que al parecer eres uno de los que lo defiende a capa y espada a pesar de todo
Alo,
dejame explicar un poco en como funciona este comentario. "El creador factura una cantidad considerable al mes", quisiera ver de donde sacas esta informacion. Espero no te refieras a una cantidad estimada de patreon, que no solo no es correcta ya que patreon adquiere parte de ella, los recursos van al equipo tambien. Starmaker es solo hecho por Kal(el creador) pero Arvus tiene otros miembros y el projecto principal, en el cual el arte es completamente creado por un artista, animado y programado consume dichos recursos.
No hay una "factura considerable", y los "recursos" son destinados al projecto principal.
Gracias a esas cosas y porque starmaker usa AI, es por lo que starmaker se mantiene y se mantendra gratis.
Espero esto pueda aclarar un poco.
Hello there,
where have you seen an attack on someone asking an actual/genuine question and show me the mod that did it. 99% of the questions are always "when update?" Or "why is taking this long, it should be out already" to which the answer is always 2026/when is done.
In regards to "is never enough to justify the wait, especially for the use of AI". You're either not seeing all the content OR worst, thinking this is done by clicking a button that says "generate" and stuff appears. The code is done, the minigames are done, all images and sprites are modified manually after initial generation, some things are fully manually done.
The amount of content on each update for a title that is free, done by a single person, with this amount of polish, that is not even a main project and that it has been usually updated every 3 month is unheard off.
One thing is feeling frustrated with missed release dates, a different thing is talking without foundation. I eager you to either instruct yourself in how a development process functions or try to do it so you maybe can get to understand how things are done and how much effort something takes. The use of AI for the making of starmaker is not a "ntr phone" kind of work, it actually has effort.
Short Recommendation:
For basics of the development cycle, read Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren and How Google Tests Software.
For AI image generation, install Stability Matrix and try popular Illustrious models.
Tracing can be done in GIMP (free) or an entry-level Photoshop package.
For coding, start with VS Code + Continue extension using a small Qwen model. Learn core concepts first (variables, loops, functions, OOP) via CS50, freeCodeCamp, or Unity Learn, then move to Unity.
God bless you guys, it baffles me that you have to go through this. Thank you all for the hard work and amazing content. o7
Good idea, that's exactly what I was thinking, but I don't know if that'll work with Kal
Pregnancy will be event based like Evelyn's current pregnancy route and believe will funnel into endings.
A full impregnation and pregnancy system would take up too much development time and result with having to create new interactive elements and modified sprites and CGs
You will see Anna pregnant, but just limit your imagination or hope for a community mod 😉
Think the "More information will be added later as we get close to the update..." was left there by mistake this time because Kal just edits the post when he gets a moment. Dr.Muramasa recently mentioned there would be no further hints or teases leading up to 1.9 to avoid spoilers.
Hello there,
do not spread misinformation, we had advised no other posts would be made here until the update but that works is being done and the progress was steady(this was little under 2 weeks ago). Not long ago pictures and a video about one of the minigames reworked was posted on discord and I just added it to the post.
