Aylia's Story Alpha 0_02

i cant get the game in copy paste

s-v

So the game is a little wonky at the moment, a lot of pictures missing, but i cheesed my way past that, but in the end i got stuck when trying to do the quests with Kira and Bogwort I cant fix that, the game basically thinks its the past day, so i cant go where i need to go Just wanted to give you some feedback, the missing face files were "BogwortFacesetUpdated" and "MinorChar1"

Just release it when you're ready and don't comment on here. It's a waste of time and only takes away time from developing.

At least hey I'm not dead...And current complications.

Nine Horse Hitch

Personally I'd rather not. I don't want to see YT try and give another estimate to have everyone jump on it again.

thswherizat

Well, we're 1 week past the delayed release date for 0.10. Any possibility of a brief status update?

raska42

One thing I can definitely say from my day job - moving stuff from one system to another is not ever a simple, straightforward, easy process. Heck, just trying to make two databases using slightly different flavors of SQL talk correctly via ODBC can be a migraine-inducing exercise in frustration and the screaming of "WHY?!?!?!?!?" :P Best of luck getting everything imported into RPG Maker and all the pointers and references working as intended, YT!

Noticed you're back on ULMF, hopefully that lights a fire under you. If not you're gonna have to deal with some very vindicated shitposters. But snarkiness aside you've got me cautiously optimistic again.

What a ridiculous comment. Clearly the only solution is to make an even newer face set. =P

raska42

I like to thing YT is is either fixing all the face sets or replacing the new with the old one. YT could even be stuck in a debate over new or old face set. Because the new face set seems to be liked but the old face set is also well liked.

Nine Horse Hitch

You don't like to read, do you?

Can't advance in the mines. There's a game breaking bug right after the first fight. Winning the fight or using "advice" in fight results in a crash to desktop with the following error message : Unable to find file graphics/faces/bogwortfacesetupdated.

Can't help but agree with a most of that. Worth noting that just because people aren't posting doesn't mean they're happy with how this is(n't) going. Part of that may be (as YT has said) people posting tends to be a distraction for him. YT: I know you don't like the idea of programming straight into RPG maker, but is your dislike of it really worth the 2-3 months it will take you to move everything over? (estimate based on your current speed/numbering (.10 is 10%?)). I'm not trying to be a dick, just consider if it's worth it.

raska42

Another day another missed deadline. So from reading all of Yummy's comments I think we can make the following inferences: a) Yummy's wife is definetly the breadwinner and making big bucks. She has to be for them to buy a new home, meet with and plan renovations and hire in-home daycare all off of one income. I see this as both a good thing and a bad thing. Good that she can support her family on one income comfortably. Bad because I don't think there will necessarily be financial pressure on Yummy to treat this as more than a hobby, which leads to; b) Yummy's comment that we can't expect him to be working a full time 30-40 hour week when he isn't charging on a monthly basis. While this is true I would like to point out that Yummy has been the only one making the representations in December that upon going "full time" things would speed up. Perhaps "full time" means different things to different people but when you put that expectation out there I think it's fair game when people call you out on your lack of working full time; C.) The continued self-inflicted missed deadlines/ making the constant same mistakes. I don't know why at this point Yummy even posits when something is going to be released. Again, he does have a point that since we as patrons haven't paid anything yet we shouldn't complain -- but as each deadline comes and goes and the different variety of excuses come up Yummy's personal capital continues to fall at least in my opinion. It's gotten to the point where Yummy passive aggressively threw the Man in Black under the bus for the .02 snafu. To reply to some of the discussion here that Yummy should ignore the criticism because it's coming from less than 1% of his fans that may be true in the aggregate. I think it's important though to remember how many actual pledged patreons he has. When you take that number into account it's a lot higher percentage than 1. At the end of the day all of our complaints will account for nothing if a superior product is delivered, but unnecessarily alienating the actual people who are willing to pay for this project is never a good business model; D.) Hearing Yummy's comments about the game which took 15 years to develop and understanding how that could be is extremely discouraging to the extent that it shows his mindset to the degree that delaying this farther and farther down the road is fine compared to other projects. The ultimate conclusion that I am sadly starting to realize is that Yummy is not pressed for funds and can quite literally take as much time as he wants as a hobbyist. The comment earlier in the thread where Yummy said that we have no idea how much of his "spare time" he has devoted to this again reflects that it is still just a hobby. Five months "full time" and still no full time development? I think it's getting to the point where while we will see chapter 1 at some point this summer I have serious doubts we'll see chapter 2 this year nevermind if we will get a completion of the game. As has been said before, there are more than enough games out there to play but it's incredibly sad to see the path that this very very promising game is trending. I will continue to support Yummy and sincerely hope for the best but I think without any real financial pressure he may not evolve past the point of having this as a hobby unless the wife eventually pushes him. Again I am just speculating on his finances but so many major acquisitions coming on the heels of Yummy leaving a full time job more than suggests money isn't an issue-- which is awesome that he is in a position to chase his dreams. I just hope that the motivation to see them through eventually follows.

Guess I should have posted a minute earlier, awkward place to leave it. Well heres hoping those few days aren't to release just .10 or this add later plan is a bust.

Thanks again for the comments, critiques, words of support--all of it. I appreciate your involvement. I'm stopping responding to comments again for a few days, as it is just too much of a timesink right now. That doesn't mean I don't care, I just want to get .10 out and spending 1-2 hours reading and replying to comments is delaying that a bit. I plan to continue proof-of-progress releases into chapter 1, so there should no longer be months without any sort of release. I hope that for those who have relayed valid concerns, it can help alleviate them a bit. Thank you.

YummyTiger Gaming

Look, I get many supporters here are frustrated with Yummy-Tigers progress, but your frustration is not helping him achieve Aylia's Story any faster. I have supported many other creators of various adult art before, and out of all of them, Yummy-Tiger has been the most honest of the bunch. Many times I would pay for content I didn't necessarily want, just so that I would ensure that the author / artist would be able to continue to survive and work on their main project. So far Yummy-Tiger hasn't charged anyone here a single dime for Aylia's Story or asked anyone to pledge for something else, just so he can continue to work on the H game. Yes, it is disheartening to learn that there is a long way to go, but at least Yummy-Tiger was working on the project to the best of his ability while juggling his family life. Not stopping and going on vacation or asking for money because his computer burned out or some other nonsense.

xellos49698

Yes, it is the go-to excuse, but it's also true. Doesn't mean I need to sit back and listen to people make snide little remarks. Saigon's made a number of them. Great, he's frustrated. He's made his point. What does the "Yea, prologue might be finished be then..." comment achieve. It fucking pisses me off, it achieves that. Even with procrastination, I've still dropped more hours than I can count into this. I'm sorry people are frustrated, but if you can't at least see that I'm spending time on it, I don't know what to tell you. Now, I'm going back to work. Thanks for the comment, and I agree, I need to move on from that excuse. I was just pissed.

YummyTiger Gaming

This is probably the best I can do to try and explain: <a href="http://imgur.com/QdcPJbK" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://imgur.com/QdcPJbK</a> Last fall, I had artwork done, dialogue trees done, main quests done. I needed to merge them all together. So, I slowly start putting together the final flow chart, make dialogue mesh together, add dynamic interactions so they referenced earlier stuff, etc. I didn't do this in RPG Maker, as trying to keep track of it all is near impossible in RPG Maker. I've tried a number of programs, artify seems to be a winner, although I'm trying to learn draft 3. I was using labrynth before, but it is pretty basic. The turtle was misleading, because I thought I could transition from assets to RPG Maker quickly. Just copy paste, make it fit, and move on (3-5 days tops). It's not ending up that way, but I also am not about to start working primarily in RPG Maker either. Sorry I was misleading.

YummyTiger Gaming

Sorry if this seems like spamming but didn't want to just reply since the comment thread is moving pretty fast. The thing is you explicitly said the turtle related to completed work. "For the chart, the turtle will represent the point to which the game is in its final form. So, when the turtle is at "Day 1" the game is playable through Day 1." While we all know this wasn't going to be 100% true I'd like to think I'm not an idiot for assuming this would at least mean something was playable. From the day 1 post: "Still, a chunk of Chapter 1 is polished and ready to go". I just wanna know how you reconcile not having even put the prologue changes into rpgmaker and the entire turtle chart? I hope I'm just missing something and this project is salvageable, but the pieces don't add up no matter how many times you mention supposed reworks.

Yes and no. It is fairly easy, but tedious to move things over to RPG Maker, but I don't really see any other practical way of doing this without building the game outside of RPG Maker and moving it in. RPG Maker is just not a great planning program. It's fairly limited in a lot of things actually. The prologue was a nastier move, because it is not something I've touched in over a year, beyond the artwork. So, there was more opportunity to change things there than chapter 1, which is much more recent work. For example, alluding to the turmoil between kingdoms. That is pretty fleshed out now in my notes, but was just an idea when I wrote the prologue. Aylia's personality is more concrete, and her feelings towards the Eliandre and Divines. I've injected much more introduction to the world and lore. Did it NEED to be done? Probably not, but I kind of thought it would take 2-3 days, and it's taken much more. I am who I am, for better or worse. I doubt I'll ever totally free myself of perfectionist tendencies, but I do still believe I can improve how I manage them. How I approach my artwork is a drastic improvement, I just need to apply the same logic to my writing.

YummyTiger Gaming

So Yummy, yes I know, life is busy sometimes. But bro, you haven't even been able to release the prologue. You're still delaying, every - single- time, even now on these incredibly small buggy chunks. You had a working prologue 2 years ago, so now you can't blame us for feeling like you're going brutally backwards in development (YES, I'm aware you made changes). I know this won't do anything since you've commented on it before, but stop, just freaking stop editing your game, put it in RPG maker, and release it. If you aren't 100% happy go back and edit it later. This is absolutely ridiculous. You will NEVER release the game if you don't put your damn foot down. Also I'm not sure why you think you're close to a release with everything outside of RPG maker, is it that easy to just implement it all in?

Dumai12

Still getting the "Unable to find file: Graphics/Faces/BogwortFaceSetUpdated issue

At some point in the near future, I'll set one up.

YummyTiger Gaming

What about the Discord?

Nine Horse Hitch

It's not exclusive to the porn industry. No matter where you look on the internet you'll find this shit. YouTube, Twitch, Steam, various non-porn forums, online gaming communities. Toxic people are everywhere. One can only accept them as as much of a part of our community as everybody else.

The entitlement and obnoxiousness found in these comments is pretty exclusive to the porn industry. However, YT, don't sweat it - these toxic commentators make up less than 1% of your viewer base. Please do not let their demands cause you to rush and make an inferior game. Take all the time you need to make your game the best it can possibly be. Solo game developers have a lot on their plate and most of us understand that your deadlines are tentative estimates - you've apologized more than enough and your payment policy shows that you are fair minded. Keep up the good work, don't let the game die, and try your best to have thick skin!

You skipped over the questions about the previous progress charts saying everything you're doing was aleady done. Figure that's the part that matters most, were they just bull?

Thanks for the comments, sorry I only have time to respond to a few. Thanks for your support.

YummyTiger Gaming

I didn't try to use Mega as an excuse. I fully planned on releasing another update the following day. So, I didn't bother going through any hassle of trying to upload somewhere else and setup some other sharing option. Mega was not loading for me at that point, be it other people's link or my own account. So, I made the post and moved on. I wanted to give people a response, because I saw the mistake I had made. When I didn't get it done, I put up the link. I don't think I've made it clear, but these are not "releases," they are basically a bunch of tech demos. They will probably ruin your experience, but people want to see something, I'm giving them something. I tell you don't play them, wait for the real releases. I plan to make a full post on it to clarify.

YummyTiger Gaming

I'll do my best to give you a nice, long rundown. Prior to January, about 55 hours a week went to my job. There was a window early summer I went part-time, but that kind of went out the window when I got a pay increase and promotion in the fall. In December, I spent upwards of 80 hours a week on an installation project. It literally burnt me out, but I got paid a lot for it, and it has been part of what is funding me now. In January, I had my second child. I figured when my wife was on maternity leave, I'd get nearly 8 hours a day to work. That was a joke, I got about 2-3 for awhile, then maybe 4-5 until late April. We bought a new, bigger house in late April, and sold our house last week. So, there went another bunch of time dealing with fixing issues, inspectors, renovation designers, contractors, etc. That's not even including the packing and moving. My time seems to always somehow disappear. That doesn't even account for procrastination, time wasting, browsing forums, answering patreon, redoing shit, learning scripts/RPG Maker features, and whatever else I'm forgetting. Take it for what you will. It's also the reason I'm trying a new release pattern. Hoping that it can slowly move this forward. The content is there, I just need to get it into RPG Maker and do the less exciting work. Thanks for your support.

YummyTiger Gaming

I told you not to play it. 90% of the work I do on Aylia's Story has nothing to do with RPG Maker. You can't write or properly edit in RPG Maker. You can't draw in RPG Maker. You can't do music work in RPG Maker. I've procrastinated the tedious moving of all my shit to RPG Maker for a long time, in doing this, it is forcing me to stop procrastinating the shitwork and get it done. Yes, I missed the dialogue tree after combat since it was on a different page, and forgot about the common event for advice. If you choose to play these bug-ridden proof-of-progress releases, then you choose to deal with shitty bugs and a much less fun experience.

YummyTiger Gaming

I feel pretty lucky, actually.

YummyTiger Gaming

I'm not giving you the shoulder shrug. I've spent more hours on this damn game than I've spent on anything else I can think of. I've sacrificed more of my spare time that I can count. If you think I don't care, then I don't know what to tell you. If I didn't care, I would release little updates and charge monthly.

YummyTiger Gaming

Really? Well, thanks I guess. Appreciate the support!

YummyTiger Gaming

I'm glad people finally seem to be starting to get annoyed

Wild fires are spreading, this is just .. wow.. I mean this much support and it almost seems like he's giving us the shoulder shrug. At this point not sure you will be able to hit that deadline of end of May early June? I mean we are almost in the middle of the month already...

Shyft

'quick' releases is probably bad phrasing there.

thswherizat

What's honestly mind boggling is the eldritch, levels of constant delays that come from unfortunate casualties. Yummy must be the person with the worst luck on earth

Glad I'm still patiently waiting on the game. Glitches are bound to happen with quick releases I'll wait for the finished Chapter 1 before I download. Also, not trying to add to your burden here YummyTiger, but I should mention that I can't view extra Load 1 or Load 2 replies here, etc. I'm assume website traffic is the cause, but thought you want to know.

xellos49698

I liked the old face sets.

Nine Horse Hitch

Im a bit sad and disappointed how things are looking currently. We dont even have the full prologue and what little is there, is filled with crashes, not to mention the old artwork in combat. If thats the state of prologue then i dont even wanna imagine how Chapter 1 looks right now...

Saigon

Fixed the faceset by myself but there are only further crashes waiting for you. So I guess we'll have to wait for 0.3...

TheAlex

just copy the old faceset and rename it for now, makes it work, just sometimes you get out of place Bogwort faces XD

Furanky

Didn't the changelog say something about new artwork for kissing the goblin? Bad enough that every event past literally the first one crashes for not having updated facests

TFLlama

Dammit Yummy... now the game crashes either in or after the first fight because of Bogwart's faceset, again. Also noticed that the battle artwork is still the same, even though Aylia is now wearing white panties instead of brown, and Bogwart's entire facial structure has changed.

ArdenW

Yup, you've got something wrong in the files. Graphics/Face/BogwortFaceSetUpdated is missing,.The Game is good, but this can actually crash IN the first fight, if you try to have Bogwort give advice.

Yeah, still doesn't let you progress further than the first fight. Do you not have those images to toss into the game, the updated face set?

thswherizat

Hello Yummytiger and guys, I have at Aylia's story Beta 0_02 two problems many can you or YummyTiger help me the same when the first fight with Bogwort on ADVICE or when the fight is finished and Bogwort to appear I get the following error message: "Unable to Find file: Graphics / Face / BogwortFaceSetUpdated "you have this error or can you help me fix this. Expectant greetings play999. Ps .: sorry for my bad english.

I have kids too and i have a job aswell. And i still have couple hours a day where i have time to do stuff i want. So i am struggling too see where ur time is going yummy. It seems like ur not priotizing this project much. Its rly a shame because i rly liked the lore and characters that you made for this game, at this rate we wont see much of it this year :(

Didn't you JUST finish saying that telling yourself "you guys aren't paying anything so it shouldn't be a big deal to wait" was the entire cause of your procrastination issues and that it needed to be corrected in a previous post? Yet here you are already using that excuse again. Whether or not we're paying, you understand that when even triple A games keep pushing deadlines back and back and back it irritates the fanbase? You need to stop using excuses like that.

Blorken Shfeel

I wasn't joking when I said "see you in August" back in January.

Yummy, do you realize that at this rate it'll take you at least 6 months to get ch.1 delivered? 'cause for now it's been 10 days and the full prologue isn't completed yet. The prologue which was already done more than a year ago. Are you still so sure about the end of the mont/early next month deadline?

MasterQi

Yes. YT, you should double or triple the estimated time before giving release date. It's a simple thing : Tell somebody it will be ready in two days, spend 4 days, he will be angry. Tell him it will take 6 days, release it after 4 days, he will be happy. And if you have an issue that cost you 2 days of work, you still can meet your deadline. That's basic project management.

TheBob

And it crashes after the battle regardless anyway

Porksword

You can't say you couldn't get it done because you had to watch the kids then say it might take till Friday. This is the most frustrating thing about this mess. Every time there's a missed deadline we get an excuse about how something took up your time, then nothing once you've had that time five-fold. If it wasn't finished because you only got half a day to work on it then it should be finished tomorrow. If not it's your fault it's late(r) and no one else's.

Getting Bogworth's advice in the first battle crashes the game already :/

Porksword

Thank you, that's good to know.

YummyTiger Gaming

MEGA’s free service provides 10 GB bandwidth (refills every 30 minutes)

xellos49698

Because he now needs to do a cost benefit analysis. While before the free option was a useful tool now with the current plans it isn't. He needs a way to be able to control the release as much as possible to prevent it from being stolen while people who should have access can easily get it.

Nine Horse Hitch

Yummy, you can't exactly give us a changelog without any way of confirming anything (i.e. no release to download and playtest -_- ). If you are concerned with Mega, why not Google Drive? That's what ker uses.

ArdenW

Please no torrents, I really don't like them. Stick with either Mega or if your looking for something different, I would recommend keep2share. Keep2share is where I usually find most of H games I've downloaded over the years. It's slow, but safe, nothing ever gets taken down or flagged on Keep2share.

xellos49698

Why don't you use torrents and let the people support the bandwidth? I know the first minutes might be a problem to upload, but after a while there's no other service that is as fast as a torrent well seeded. Aside that you can use gdrive or even onedrive or mediafire. Mega has a limit to how much you can transfer, just check under your profile.

I've been patient until this post. There wouldn't have been a problem with ongoing delays. But giving us a pseudo release with a really bad excuse (Mega not available? Well, use another service. Google for example!?!). Sorry Yummy that was not a smart move. Will stay Patron for now because I hope for the best, but will have a more realistic look at the whole situation from now on. Think you can't blame me for that -.-

TheAlex

Google drive is a great alternative, but the Mega sub only costs around 5-10 dollars for the first two stages and the limits on those first two are very generous. I'm seriously looking forward to tomorrow. Hoping to hit some uncharted territory finally. ^_^ But as someone said you CAN bypass the mega limits using some other apps but I'm not sure what they are or if they're worth it. Whatever you do don't use those janky websites like rapidgator or shit like that. I paid for a sub to one of those a few years back because that's all this one forum used to post stuff to. However my CC number was quickly stolen and used to make a 150$ purchase from some Russian website. Stick to either google or the cheap Mega account things. Also if you run into issues uploading or storing stuff on mega or google drive, just delete the super outdated versions to clear up space for newer stuff.

Blorken Shfeel

Also this, some mirror links to the bigger releases might be a great idea

Miene

If you don't want to pay a mega subscription, you can also go for a Google Drive account. The bandwidth is pretty good and at least it's fully free.

TheBob

As far as I can tell for MEGA, there is a restriction of 990 MB every 5 hours for free accounts (downloading and uploading?). I generally hit this when downloading multiple games at once, but there are ways to bypass it for free. I believe as long as you don't exceed your storage limit then you won't have a problem.

Miene

Yummy to your question there is a limit for free accounts not sure what it is though

Cory Carson

Now we just see if "tomorrow" means 01:00 Pacific on Tuesday morning, or if it means 23:58 Pacific on Tuesday evening. Or if in fact, "tomorrow" is a code word that means "did I say Tuesday? I meant Thursday".

ArdenW

Sit and waiting while coming up with sex haikus.

Nine Horse Hitch

he seems to have skipped a version

Cory Carson

he edited the post explains what went wrong mega is apparently being atit

Cory Carson

So we still dont have key?

Goblin steve

You must be new here the amount of times YT has said it is almost ready only to push it back is enough to aggravate even the most patient of people as it stands i have only been waiting 1 year instead of the 2 some people have been waiting.

Cory Carson

i don't get why people seem to complain more with this guy who isn't even really charging yet versus other people who don't talk never update and charge monthly i can understand the upset if yt was charging monthly but he's not so calm down and be patient

habibo

One day we'll look back at this post and laugh, but not today :

Furanky

Not a good look passive-agressively blaming the Man in Black for your oversight Yummy.

So, whats going on?

Goblin steve

Figured, there never was a 0_02

He can probably do so, if he begin to charge monthly...

TheBob

*cheers in goblin* So if .03 was going to be public than what going on cause there is no .03 and just going to .1?

Nine Horse Hitch

i have tried everything i could do. Email and message. Now i wait.

Nine Horse Hitch

*cries in goblin*

Nine Horse Hitch

He forgot to give it and is now ignoring things here to work on the game so we are kinda stuck without it

Cory Carson

BTW what is the decryption key? did I missed it in the previous posts?

DarthVictorius

Yummy, please do us all a favor and hire someone to manage your patreon, so mistakes like this don't happen. That way you can continue working on the game, and posting awesome updates, while there's oversight over this sort of stuff.

PresidentialCandidate2024

Yea ur right, better too wait little longer for the public link that is most likely to be encryption free xD

Judging by the changelog it's not worth playing quite yet anyway, don't worry too much.

Miene

he probably hasn't checked since he is working to release the other one so we probably have to wait

john

He wanted us to wait so much that he subconsciously didn't put it in so we have to wait

Cory Carson

Damn.. still no decryption key? ;(

fucking ridiculous

Key :( but looking forward for Aylia too.

nozero

Since YT said he is actively avoiding the forums, I dropped him a line, about the decrypt key, even if there is no fix for this version, hopefully it will help for the next release from him, here's to looking at Aylia!

Darthjake

mine says decryption key needed.

Xool,) Now the train is chugging in the right direction. Too bad about the encryption key, but now that YummyTiger has most of what he needs in place, it should be fairly smooth sailing from here I hope. Just so long as his next update is accessible that is.

xellos49698

if it's the part at the end of the link, yes I do believe it did.

Systematic Chaos

Even tried to copy the key from the link from the earlier version, but it seems it changed.

Markus S.

Why are you still giving more dates when you just missed 4 in a week?

Bad time to go off the wire. We don't have the encryption key, so it can't be downloaded.

Well, he have a family, and it's not because he is supposed to work full time that he had to work full time even the week end.

TheBob

"Shouldn't take more than 2-3 hours, so I'm hoping to get 0_03 on Sunday/Monday" - what? No wonder it takes so long to release anything when 2-3 hours of work = few days...

Saigon

Didnt this happen before? :D

QUICK! Guess the encryption key! xD

DaBouncer

LOL, I guess that's what can happen when trying to release something in the middle of the night. Hopefully he at least checks the first few comments before turning in for the night so he can realize he's missing a crucial part of the Mega Link. ;)

Well this is an unfortunate turn of events

Cory Carson

What's the decryption key?

Slarry

Yeah, the link is broken, it lack the key at the end :(

TheBob

YUMMY! WE NEED A DECRYPTION KEY!!

ArdenW

RIP Either that's a broken link or the file is encrypted, YT.

Blorken Shfeel

Awwww shit first to witness this.

Blorken Shfeel