yeah, I hear that a lot, but we have nothing, we don't ask for the update even if it's been a while but if you take a break or have some issues with the game at least keep us informed once a month if nothing
its still being developed as, explained in the comments by the dev, ch5 is the biggest project theyve done so far. furthermore, i think that the dev is working alone(or few at least), thus development is very slow
This is, genuinely, one of my favourite NSFW VN's I've ever played, so it's definitely disappointing that there hasn't been a dev log or any content update on itch since over a fuckin year. The Patreon only recently got a message update after an extended gap from May, but I can't *view* it since it's behind a paywall, so my only estimation of the post would be "oh I'm still working on it guys"
personally im of the opinion that if you make one game, and make it good, imma pay money for it. jack of all trades, master of none, is how you go broke
appears hes moved on to radiant which means this one wont get any attention. radiants patreon has activity this year but the patreon for this ones on the other hand was last posted on in august 21 so yeah. shame.
I think a lot of people just want communication too, taking on 2 projects is doable and perfectly fine as long as your "investors" are kept in the loop. I myself am perfectly ok with supporting 2 as long as i know progress is being made.
taking on two projects is fine, IF YOU HIRE PEOPLE. it is blatantly obvious that one person is barely capable of keeping up with the investors demands fort regular content releases, and is a fulltime job for a single person. regardless of how big of a render farm you have rendering for you, writing code cannot be sped up. if you think you have time for two games, then your games are going to be buggy and shit quality, or your investors are going to be ripped off by the expectation for regular, sizable updates released AT LEAST every 6 months, with 3 months being more acceptable (ie: not generating complaints). if you cant meet that investor requirement, sell your idea to someone who can.
ah yes, I must go out of my way to go onto the Discord to look for updates for the game rather than them just managing their own page, a brilliant idea Nick! Brilliant!
And what is the matter with going to the developers' Discord to learn more about the game? Something worth it takes effort. Are you implying that your own enjoyment is not worth the effort?
Smash's biting sarcasm aside, John, it's far from unreasonable to expect some measure of professional conduct from someone who is taking money for a product or service. Requesting or even demanding that SD keep his clients and customers informed by properly maintaining his storefront and Patreon pages on at least a monthly basis would be par for the course and understandable even without the long silence broken only by one or two comment threads spaced out over more than a year following the last update.
Monthly or maybe a bi-monthly basis is ideal and more than welcome. No need for players to hunt for their Patreon and enter their Discord but..
^sigh^ ..it is what it is, I am afraid.
Edit: The developer has stopped updates for Polarity for the foreseeable near future. I have checked but not thoroughly. The indie developer and another are putting effort in their joint venture game, Radiant, which isn't free.
See my above comment regarding professional conduct with paid products and services and maintenance of storefronts and payment sites. Expecting his entire consumer-base to go out of their way to search for information on a product that the immediate evidence suggests is abandoned when he neglects professional maintenance IS, in fact, an unreasonable suggestion. Expecting those same people to go out of their way to search for ADDITIONAL information when he upkeeps maintenance is reasonable. That would be the difference between telling everyone to go read his Discord for ANY information when he keeps his pages dark versus telling people to go read his Discord for extras he holds back or doesn't think of when he keeps the lights on with monthly remarks.
Addendum: As a clarification; this is not meant to "beat on" Sir Dammed or invite others to do so. It is no more and no less than a reminder to all of professional standards - even if those standards have fallen increasingly by the wayside over the past twenty years. Anyone who DOES take this as an excuse to denigrate Sir Dammed, Spannerface, or anyone else for anything but what they post here directly WILL be reported for harassment.
Enjoyable game. The story is intriguing. Just learn when to use "I" and "ME". As a direct object it should be "It's probably best the class doesn't know about your mom and me" not "you mom and I." It just makes you sound ignorant when you're trying to sound proper. As the subject of the sentence it would be the personal pronoun, such as "You mom and I slept together." A subject is always followed by a verb, in this case, "slept." Would say "Me slept." No, that sounds retarded, neither would you say, "Give it to I." That also sounds ignorant.
no, the modern AMERICAN dialect adaptation to use "you and me" when listing yourself and another person, is incorrect, and not proper English. "you and I" is always correct.
you need to research more. As an English teach with a lifetime of experience you use the pronoun appropriate to the part of speech. As a direct object, its me, as a subject its I. Its always been this way, it has not changed. Verify your information before stating inaccuracies. Me go to store today. Will you go with I? Wrong wrong wrong.
your argument is invalid butt seriously, your argument is a fallacy of false equivalence, that is indeed a grammatical rule, but not the one that applies in this grammatical situation. you should go get a refund on your ESL-china work permit.you know what else is grammatically wrong? - "wrong wrong wrong" is wrong, you forgot the commas, and the syntax is doubly redundant.
Ah, so you believe that William Shakespeare was an expert in the use of specifically 21st Century dialectical modern American English in the late 1500s, as was Charles Dickens in the mid 1800s, and as also Edgar Allen Poe in the early 1800s. They must have been great mediums of times to come and you yourself an expert historian and scholar of their works.
your fallacy of false equivalence has zero validity. we are not discussing archaic authors who used English, we are discussing modern authors who use American Dialect. this has already been stated plainly, maybe you should learn to read before trying to write?
LOVE, LOVE this game, the choices, options not to mention the work and hours put into it. This game, Neko Paradise, My New Family, Heros Harem Guild, Tales of Unity are so beyond what I had hoped to find. Don't ever stop!
aight so, im new to this whole thing but i just wanted to say, this is the first time a game has actually given me anxiety over my choices, some of them feel so drastic and it fucking WONDERFUL! its immersive and i feel like im losing my mind, so please keep doing a wonderful job! when it comes to good writing, things take time.
So firstly: I post regular progress reports in our Discord servers, which are free/open to the public and can be accessed by anyone, Patron or no.
I manage a TON of different pages like this one, so it's easier/faster for me to just share news about development there.
Anyone who is in these servers is aware of why Ch5 of Polarity is taking a while, as I've explained it numerous times before... but allow me to give you guys here on Itch a quick rundown.
1. No, Polarity is not abandoned, nor is development on hold!
2. Yes, I released Ch3 of my other game, Radiant, fairly recently.
3. Yes, there's a very good reason why this one is taking so long.
As I explained over on Discord, Polarity Ch5 is the biggest, lengthiest, and most complex update I've created to date. It is double the size of Chapter 4, which was already much larger than any of the previous chapters. On a single linear playthrough, the chapter is over four hours long, and that's excluding those with multiple save-files who will replay to see the different paths.
So naturally, because the update/chapter is so large, it's taking quite a while to develop. It's basically a years worth of development condensed down into one update. I've been very open and transparent that this would be the case.
Now as for why the chapter is so large...
Polarity Ch5 marks the end of Part 1 of the story, so you can basically think of it like the "finale." It is also perhaps the most important chapter of the game. Getting it right is extremely important to me, especially since it's the turning point of the game and sets the stage for the second half.
Anyway, sorry you guys have been waiting for a while. Just know I appreciate y'all and I'm working on it! Your concerns & criticisms are very valid, and I don't blame you guys for having them.
oh my gosh, this is no joke one of my favorite games from this website I played it around a year ago and kind of forgot it existed thank you so much for updating it.
I'm sure the number of comments asking for an update can feel discouraging, but take it as a positive that so many people desperately want to see more of what you have to offer. Hope you're going well!
Does this mean that chapter 5 will come out soon? It's been a year and almost 3 months. Also radiant is amazing. I love it and can't wait for a new chapter of that as well
It seems like the dev is ignoring this to keep making money from the people who want this game to finish. Probably finished it and is just holding it. I've seen a few other devs do this when they realize they won't keep getting paid for it once it's finished.
This makes very little sense for me personally (I can't speak for other devs), as whenever I put out a new chapter or update my income increases substantially. The quickest way for me to earn money would be to just churn out chapters as quickly as possible with little thought or care put into them.
However, I do things a bit differently than many developers, in the sense that I do not limit myself to a set length or schedule. This allows me to make the chapters as lengthy/complex as they need to be without hurting the game's overall polish or quality. It's a slow & difficult process, but I think the final product will prove without a doubt that it was worthwhile.
Anyway, I posted a little progress report/explanation in the comments above for you guys. I hope this helps to ease worries & concerns: https://itch.io/post/4175864
its locked behind donors he states this quite clearly the last update was may 27 20201 stating from the headline that chapter 5 is in its final stages of development. people really need to think he has a patron link for a reason even if you cant pay the headline says it all.
looks like this is yet another good game with potential that ends up getting abandoned. hasnt been a update in almost a year no new chapters or anything.. Come on dev listen to the people
This game is another nice surprise, characters are nicely wrote, renders and animations are good and the story so far seems interesting, choices seems matter too (at least that's the feeling I get with current build). I'm really curious how everything will turn out.
The only thing I can by picky is the time-frame, everything happen very fast (around 1 week in game) but it's always hard thing to do in VN... and it's still better that artificially making it longer.
Overall, great game, keep a good work! Can't wait how the things turn out (hope there will be happy harem end :P)!
Good news after about 3 months of silence another post on patreon. Apparently he did some sort of double update. (Whatever that means) So hopefully we will get our next update in the coming weeks.
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Can you make it downloadable on the itch.io app? So not only on the website.
Great game can't wait to what else happens
https://discord.gg/Ch2Dvu6 for lazy people I'm posting his discord link here your welcome I accept thanks in bitcoin:) .
The last post on discord was Aug 9,2021 same with his Patreon.
Abandoned, dev started a new patreon for Radiant while still accepting money for this one.
really....? such a waste
pretty sure he's working on both, last I heard it hasn't been abandoned
yeah, I hear that a lot, but we have nothing, we don't ask for the update even if it's been a while but if you take a break or have some issues with the game at least keep us informed once a month if nothing
scroll down a few comments, devs' update post is only 3 months old
''only'' 3 months ? After more than a year without update. I think just a monthly message about the progress is not disrespectful to ask
i'm just the messenger buddy
It is what it is if he decides to stop then let him stop
see my previous post stop spreading misinformation whether or not the game gets finished what you are doing is wrong.
its still being developed as, explained in the comments by the dev, ch5 is the biggest project theyve done so far. furthermore, i think that the dev is working alone(or few at least), thus development is very slow
Still no news whyyyyy 😭😭
Still no news even on patreon...
This is, genuinely, one of my favourite NSFW VN's I've ever played, so it's definitely disappointing that there hasn't been a dev log or any content update on itch since over a fuckin year. The Patreon only recently got a message update after an extended gap from May, but I can't *view* it since it's behind a paywall, so my only estimation of the post would be "oh I'm still working on it guys"
basically they've been working on their other game which also had a sizable update recently. Called Radiant if you want to check it out.
personally im of the opinion that if you make one game, and make it good, imma pay money for it.
jack of all trades, master of none, is how you go broke
appears hes moved on to radiant which means this one wont get any attention. radiants patreon has activity this year but the patreon for this ones on the other hand was last posted on in august 21 so yeah. shame.
I think a lot of people just want communication too, taking on 2 projects is doable and perfectly fine as long as your "investors" are kept in the loop. I myself am perfectly ok with supporting 2 as long as i know progress is being made.
taking on two projects is fine, IF YOU HIRE PEOPLE.
it is blatantly obvious that one person is barely capable of keeping up with the investors demands fort regular content releases, and is a fulltime job for a single person.
regardless of how big of a render farm you have rendering for you, writing code cannot be sped up. if you think you have time for two games, then your games are going to be buggy and shit quality, or your investors are going to be ripped off by the expectation for regular, sizable updates released AT LEAST every 6 months, with 3 months being more acceptable (ie: not generating complaints). if you cant meet that investor requirement, sell your idea to someone who can.
Read down in the comments and check out their discord....
ah yes, I must go out of my way to go onto the Discord to look for updates for the game rather than them just managing their own page, a brilliant idea Nick! Brilliant!
And what is the matter with going to the developers' Discord to learn more about the game? Something worth it takes effort. Are you implying that your own enjoyment is not worth the effort?
'Cause ooh, I am enjoying the game right now!
Congrats on sounding creepy?
Thank you!
Your time and effort in reading my comment made my day.
Smash's biting sarcasm aside, John, it's far from unreasonable to expect some measure of professional conduct from someone who is taking money for a product or service. Requesting or even demanding that SD keep his clients and customers informed by properly maintaining his storefront and Patreon pages on at least a monthly basis would be par for the course and understandable even without the long silence broken only by one or two comment threads spaced out over more than a year following the last update.
Yes. That, I agree.
Monthly or maybe a bi-monthly basis is ideal and more than welcome. No need for players to hunt for their Patreon and enter their Discord but..
^sigh^
..it is what it is, I am afraid.
Edit: The developer has stopped updates for Polarity for the foreseeable near future. I have checked but not thoroughly. The indie developer and another are putting effort in their joint venture game, Radiant, which isn't free.
i use itch, you know, where the game is hosted, not discord, where the game is not hosted.
only if you want to know about the updates and stuff, which you do/did, so it wasn't an unreasonable suggestion
See my above comment regarding professional conduct with paid products and services and maintenance of storefronts and payment sites. Expecting his entire consumer-base to go out of their way to search for information on a product that the immediate evidence suggests is abandoned when he neglects professional maintenance IS, in fact, an unreasonable suggestion. Expecting those same people to go out of their way to search for ADDITIONAL information when he upkeeps maintenance is reasonable. That would be the difference between telling everyone to go read his Discord for ANY information when he keeps his pages dark versus telling people to go read his Discord for extras he holds back or doesn't think of when he keeps the lights on with monthly remarks.
Addendum: As a clarification; this is not meant to "beat on" Sir Dammed or invite others to do so. It is no more and no less than a reminder to all of professional standards - even if those standards have fallen increasingly by the wayside over the past twenty years. Anyone who DOES take this as an excuse to denigrate Sir Dammed, Spannerface, or anyone else for anything but what they post here directly WILL be reported for harassment.
There's no install file... :|
Omg this game is amazing is has me on the edge of my seat especially the ending of ch.4 I can't wait until ch.5 to see what happens!!!!!
Sadly waiting for ch5 for years now :(
you're not alone don't worry
Enjoyable game. The story is intriguing. Just learn when to use "I" and "ME". As a direct object it should be "It's probably best the class doesn't know about your mom and me" not "you mom and I." It just makes you sound ignorant when you're trying to sound proper. As the subject of the sentence it would be the personal pronoun, such as "You mom and I slept together." A subject is always followed by a verb, in this case, "slept." Would say "Me slept." No, that sounds retarded, neither would you say, "Give it to I." That also sounds ignorant.
actually your mom and I is the correct way grammatically
not as an object, only as a subject. Look it up.
no, the modern AMERICAN dialect adaptation to use "you and me" when listing yourself and another person, is incorrect, and not proper English. "you and I" is always correct.
you need to research more. As an English teach with a lifetime of experience you use the pronoun appropriate to the part of speech. As a direct object, its me, as a subject its I. Its always been this way, it has not changed. Verify your information before stating inaccuracies. Me go to store today. Will you go with I? Wrong wrong wrong.
your argument is invalid
butt seriously, your argument is a fallacy of false equivalence, that is indeed a grammatical rule, but not the one that applies in this grammatical situation. you should go get a refund on your ESL-china work permit.you know what else is grammatically wrong? - "wrong wrong wrong" is wrong, you forgot the commas, and the syntax is doubly redundant.
https://medium.com/@The_YUNiversity/q-is-it-you-and-i-or-you-and-me-2ee3cc312f0a. Its easy to verify, so why do lamebrains post their lies without checking.
Ah, so you believe that William Shakespeare was an expert in the use of specifically 21st Century dialectical modern American English in the late 1500s, as was Charles Dickens in the mid 1800s, and as also Edgar Allen Poe in the early 1800s. They must have been great mediums of times to come and you yourself an expert historian and scholar of their works.
your fallacy of false equivalence has zero validity.
we are not discussing archaic authors who used English, we are discussing modern authors who use American Dialect.
this has already been stated plainly, maybe you should learn to read before trying to write?
LOVE, LOVE this game, the choices, options not to mention the work and hours put into it. This game, Neko Paradise, My New Family, Heros Harem Guild, Tales of Unity are so beyond what I had hoped to find. Don't ever stop!
....did my dog just die?
aight so, im new to this whole thing but i just wanted to say, this is the first time a game has actually given me anxiety over my choices, some of them feel so drastic and it fucking WONDERFUL! its immersive and i feel like im losing my mind, so please keep doing a wonderful job! when it comes to good writing, things take time.
This so much dude..
I did not expect to experience the most difficult choices I've ever made on a game wtf...
I feel bad for practically every single decision
Where I can join discord server? Where is the link?
I realise this is old, but for others:
Radiant: Official (discord.com) is more active I think ?
Eternity Games Official (discord.com)
Addressing the below comments!
So firstly: I post regular progress reports in our Discord servers, which are free/open to the public and can be accessed by anyone, Patron or no.
I manage a TON of different pages like this one, so it's easier/faster for me to just share news about development there.
Anyone who is in these servers is aware of why Ch5 of Polarity is taking a while, as I've explained it numerous times before... but allow me to give you guys here on Itch a quick rundown.
1. No, Polarity is not abandoned, nor is development on hold!
2. Yes, I released Ch3 of my other game, Radiant, fairly recently.
3. Yes, there's a very good reason why this one is taking so long.
As I explained over on Discord, Polarity Ch5 is the biggest, lengthiest, and most complex update I've created to date. It is double the size of Chapter 4, which was already much larger than any of the previous chapters. On a single linear playthrough, the chapter is over four hours long, and that's excluding those with multiple save-files who will replay to see the different paths.
So naturally, because the update/chapter is so large, it's taking quite a while to develop. It's basically a years worth of development condensed down into one update. I've been very open and transparent that this would be the case.
Now as for why the chapter is so large...
Polarity Ch5 marks the end of Part 1 of the story, so you can basically think of it like the "finale." It is also perhaps the most important chapter of the game. Getting it right is extremely important to me, especially since it's the turning point of the game and sets the stage for the second half.
Anyway, sorry you guys have been waiting for a while. Just know I appreciate y'all and I'm working on it! Your concerns & criticisms are very valid, and I don't blame you guys for having them.
Thanks,
SirD.
thank you for finally posting this update/statement ive been a fan of your games for awhile now.
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oh my gosh, this is no joke one of my favorite games from this website I played it around a year ago and kind of forgot it existed thank you so much for updating it.
I'm sure the number of comments asking for an update can feel discouraging, but take it as a positive that so many people desperately want to see more of what you have to offer. Hope you're going well!
Does this mean that chapter 5 will come out soon? It's been a year and almost 3 months. Also radiant is amazing. I love it and can't wait for a new chapter of that as well
This is NOT the way to keep your audience :(
It seems like the dev is ignoring this to keep making money from the people who want this game to finish. Probably finished it and is just holding it. I've seen a few other devs do this when they realize they won't keep getting paid for it once it's finished.
This makes very little sense for me personally (I can't speak for other devs), as whenever I put out a new chapter or update my income increases substantially. The quickest way for me to earn money would be to just churn out chapters as quickly as possible with little thought or care put into them.
However, I do things a bit differently than many developers, in the sense that I do not limit myself to a set length or schedule. This allows me to make the chapters as lengthy/complex as they need to be without hurting the game's overall polish or quality. It's a slow & difficult process, but I think the final product will prove without a doubt that it was worthwhile.
Anyway, I posted a little progress report/explanation in the comments above for you guys. I hope this helps to ease worries & concerns: https://itch.io/post/4175864
Thanks,
SirD.
hes done some work for his other game so its safe to assume this one is still being worked on even if its at a slower pace.
still no news ?
If this is chapter 4, why does Patreon say chapter 3?
Dude come on we need an update. Did mc died or bad guy? Like come on.
refer to my pervious post's check his patron its literally linked above.
http://patreon.com/eternity_games
the last update from May, 2 months ago?
i cant help u their people should just chill out and wait. if it gets an update great but if not its not the end of the world
Not sure if anyone else is having this issue but its not giving me a download option when I click install.
what program are you using to install what platform are u on?
I am using the Itch.io app to download content from the sit.
do you have 7zip to unpack the game file you need it or a similar program to unzip and unpack games on itcho once they download.
When is part 5 coming? Can't read Patreon post.
no date yet
its locked behind donors he states this quite clearly the last update was may 27 20201 stating from the headline that chapter 5 is in its final stages of development. people really need to think he has a patron link for a reason even if you cant pay the headline says it all.
the project isn't abandoned check his patron don't be a lazy bitch!.
Buy him a coffee on the website and let him know which game you like and want to see updated.
pretty sure the dev calls himself "eternity games", because it takes an eternity to get through the startup splash screens
1 year no update. fuck you
stop being an impatient you have no idea how long game development takes stop being childish.
Sir how its lookin :) we need the 5 ma man :D
good so far hope for more
going to end up like radiant starts off really strong gets bored moves onto another game gets ppl into it and lets it die like this one
i totally agree. takes a whole year for an update i take it.
he is making progress. again please check his patron link his last update was may 27 2021.
looks like this is yet another good game with potential that ends up getting abandoned. hasnt been a update in almost a year no new chapters or anything.. Come on dev listen to the people
refer to my previous post and please stop spreading misinformation.
I hate to think that this was abandoned, because it has so many good point
Any update ?
Are saves compatible between OS? I don't wanna have to start again.
probably not but which OS are you using windows or linex
June 29th 2020 was the last update? :(
This game is another nice surprise, characters are nicely wrote, renders and animations are good and the story so far seems interesting, choices seems matter too (at least that's the feeling I get with current build). I'm really curious how everything will turn out.
The only thing I can by picky is the time-frame, everything happen very fast (around 1 week in game) but it's always hard thing to do in VN... and it's still better that artificially making it longer.
Overall, great game, keep a good work! Can't wait how the things turn out (hope there will be happy harem end :P)!
Good news after about 3 months of silence another post on patreon. Apparently he did some sort of double update. (Whatever that means) So hopefully we will get our next update in the coming weeks.
Thank you for sharing the update.
Good new! Thanks for sharing