Goodbye Volcano High - "The Future of Gaming", The Parody Game of the Beloved Snoot Game Franchise

[Fishy Fish Fish]

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Cavemanon

I Wani Hug that Gator! is a choice-driven narrative about teenagers struggling to find their way. Help Inco, loser highschooler extraordinaire, navigate his budding friendships (and romance!) while surviving being the only human in a dinosaur-filled school.

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I Wani Hug that Gator! on Steam

I Wani Hug that Gator! Is a choice-driven narrative about teenagers struggling to find their way. Help Inco, loser highschooler extraordinaire, navigate his budding friendships (and romance!) while surviving being the only human in a dinosaur-filled school.

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I like the cast in this one much better already. That's definitely because they're original and not based on KO-OP's preexisting donut steels. Hell, the art for them looks way better, and they have much cooler designs that actually work with the anatomy of their respective dinosaur.

 

[Vecr]

I played the Snoot Game today. I was not interested in actually playing it before because I pretty much knew how everything worked from looking at discussions. I guess I forgot enough by now though, because I got ending 3 instead of 4 when I actually played it. Apparently Reed *did* have the wiring figured out fine. I'm not sure why I thought my real-life electrical wiring skills would somehow transfer into a game. One surge protector plugged into one outlet is not good enough for a bunch of big amps. I guess I assumed it was multiple strips on multiple circuits that Anon was going to set up, but he was clearly not paying attention to detail (as much as a fictional blank faced guy written by 4chan can). I forgot about the glowing markings under the blacklight, so I guess that's an upside to not getting all the decisions perfect. To get back on topic though, I'm not too sure about Cavemanon's I Wani Hug that Gator!. I don't know if you can drive a successful game company off a two-year-old meme that even most people on 4chan have forgotten.

 

[Halmaz]

I'm not too sure about Cavemanon's I Wani Hug that Gator!

Who knows, maybe it ends up overcoming its meme origins and turns out to be a game that can stand on its own merits. I hope it releases before Volcano High and gains success. Cavemanon beating KO-OP a second time would be hilarious.

 

[Activelo]

2022 Wrap-Up + A New Wallpaper for You! (A)

Ramo
Art Club

It’s the end of another year (so they say… I’ve got my doubts )! We want to start by saying thank you for sticking by us and our queer dino game. The kind and supportive messages we’ve seen these last few weeks following the release of our teaser trailer have been delightful and lovely. We don’t take our fans for granted, and wanted to show you with that reveal that we know waiting for something you’re excited about is hard! So yeah, thank you for making it easy on us.

As Goodbye Volcano High moves into its next phase of production, we’re saying goodbye to some of our team members. This has got us understandably emotional! We’re happy to have been able to grow the team up with such an amazing and compassionate group of people and thrilled that the game is coming up to its finish line, but we’re also sad at the prospect of returning to the digital office in January without everybody on the Slack. It’s bittersweet saying goodbyes, so we want to dedicate this newsletter to our talented GVH team.

As we reflect on the passing year and think about its highlights, I think everybody at KO_OP would agree that they’re our biweekly sprint reviews! (Hardcore seconded, I love sprint reviews—Marty). It’s a time when we all get together on a Zoom call and chat/crack jokes/show love/dream up GVH merch/speculate on wacky DLC content, and generally enjoy each others’ company and amazing work! There’s lots of special stuff from the sprint reviews we haven’t shared yet, so why not load up this retrospective with a selection from the different departments? (I don't hear any complaints!!—Marty)

STORYBOARDS

CHARACTER ART

ANIMATION


BACKGROUND ART
That's it from us! Until next year, dinos

And if you hadn't already or are new to our game, please consider wishlisting on Steam!
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Marty
Editor in Chief of the Yearbook

Marty steppin' in here since Ramo prepared this lovely newsletter! Lemme pull my weight lol: we’ve been noticing requests for our new key art—this time without the logo—so I’m glad to say it’s now available Show us your new desktops when you get a chance, cuties!!

The storyboard gif is supposed to be slower like the one on the site, but I'm not really good with messing around with gifs in general.

 

[Mr.Miyagi]

As Goodbye Volcano High moves into its next phase of production, we’re saying goodbye to some of our team members.

Good for them, get out while the getting is good.

think everybody at KO_OP would agree that they’re our biweekly sprint reviews! (Hardcore seconded, I love sprint reviews—Marty). It’s a time when we all get together on a Zoom call and chat/crack jokes/show love/dream up GVH merch/speculate on wacky DLC content, and generally enjoy each others’ company and amazing work!

Gee, I wonder why the game still hasn't come out. I get the impression that the "hang out and goof off" mentality isn't limited to once a fortnight.

And if you hadn't already or are new to our game, please consider wishlisting on Steam!

Wouldn't anyone signed-up for the newsletter already know when the game releases, without getting the email from Steam for wishlisting it? Or does Valve actually give some kind of incentive for devs to get a large number of wishlistings for their game, like front page ads or the new releases pop-up?

 

[Muggsy]

Wouldn't anyone signed-up for the newsletter already know when the game releases, without getting the email from Steam for wishlisting it? Or does Valve actually give some kind of incentive for devs to get a large number of wishlistings for their game, like front page ads or the new releases pop-up?

The more wishlists a game has the higher visibility it gets due to Steam's algorithm. It's also just a good quantifiable measure of potential game sales, especially for publishers.

 

[Yours Truly 2095]

Wait is this shit still not out?

 

[TEA 3HF]

Wait is this shit still not out?

Snoot game is

 

[Halmaz]

So KO_OP is loosing devs, as some of them managed to realize the ship is sinking. I bet when they pointed this out, they were labeled toxic and ended up on the shitlist. I also have a hunch the ones who were ousted, I mean, left willingly (wink wink), were the devs who were responsible for actually working on the game. That bit about their "sprint reviews" pretty much confirms the team has very childish mentality and no sense of priority as a result. The main game's development is going nowhere, yet they waste time on "dreaming" about shit like DLC and merch. Well, in reality, you can dream as hard as you want, it is not gonna come true, unless you are willing to work towards achieving it. They can doodle to their heart's content, the code is not gonna write itself.
I am now almost completely convinced this game is not gonna see the light of day.

 

[RSLUG30]

As Goodbye Volcano High moves into its next phase of production, we’re saying goodbye to some of our team members. This has got us understandably emotional! We’re happy to have been able to grow the team up with such an amazing and compassionate group of people and thrilled that the game is coming up to its finish line, but we’re also sad at the prospect of returning to the digital office in January without everybody on the Slack. It’s bittersweet saying goodbyes, so we want to dedicate this newsletter to our talented GVH team.

strong suspicion that this is not due to developers leaving voluntarily as other kiwis have said, but rather due to KO-OP overhiring for their given budget and now having to downsize to save the rest of their funding for more "important" team members and/or the game itself.
we've seen the signs of the project scope being scaled back - the supposed story rewrite and the delays that came from it, a sudden burst in productivity that likely comes from outside management actually getting their shit together, and now team members getting chopped off the payroll.

if anything, this makes me believe that we'll actually see this game finished to some degree within a human lifespan.
sony wants their game, and they're sick of waiting for the adult daycare to deliver.

 

[Halmaz]

sony wants their game, and they're sick of waiting for the adult daycare to deliver.

I am 100% sure KO_OP cannot finish it on its own. Sony needs to intervene by firing the least productive members of the team and put someone competent and focused on the helm, who has to bring all remaining lazy faggots to heel. Question is, has this already happened, or the devs who left could see it coming annd decided to jump ship before the angry bosses come knocking.

 

[ShitLurker]

Why are you lot assuming Sony gives a fuck now? The fucking game is going to Steam now and Sony has not recognized it's existence outside of the reveal trailer.

If they are parasiting anything it's the Canadian goverment, wasn't the game getting gibs from some retarded leaf program?

Also, my take is the opposite. They did the rewrite since the original writer got kicked from the church (was it because she was a shotacon or am I confusing shit) and the product must distance itself and I'm still betting they expanded scope after Snoot Game. The guys leaving are because they know this is a professional dead end, I bet my balls it's developers who know this does fucking nothing for future ventures and only the "creative and managerial" class are not rotating constantly.

As for the gator game, I'll certainly keep an eye on it, but for now I'm not too thrilled with with the heroine's design and it's very fucking hard to write a cripple just in general, but hey, if that spiritual 4chan energy is in caveanon and he can summon whatever the hell made Katawa Shoujo happen I'll definitely send a few bucks his way with a purchase.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

(was it because she was a shotacon or am I confusing shit)

No, she wrote a news article about how disgusted she was about pornography featuring digital representations of actual real life teens and how to make them less gross for her own viewing pleasure.

I am 100% sure KO_OP cannot finish it on its own. Sony needs to intervene by firing the least productive members of the team and put someone competent and focused on the helm, who has to bring all remaining lazy faggots to heel. Question is, has this already happened, or the devs who left could see it coming annd decided to jump ship before the angry bosses come knocking.

I just really want it to release man, I doubt it'll even cause a blip on much of anyone's radar (outside of this thread and the /fang/ threads of course) but it looks like it'll be such a glorious shitshow that I can't not pirate it and give it a play through.

 

[ShitLurker]

No, she wrote a news article about how disgusted she was about pornography featuring digital representations of actual real life teens and how to make them less gross for her own viewing pleasure.

Ah right. I imagine there was something else under the hood to chuck her under the bus, since evey single sexual deviant seems to have an army of defenders no matter what unless they are hated internally.

My point still stands, she got the Sergey Kirov treatment, so anything involving her had to be purged. Hence the rewrites, which probably made the whole thing gayer on an exponential metric to virtue signal.

I expect the project to be dead, but I honestly want it to come out just to read an edgy playthrough of it.

 

[Kel1 shi1]

Good for them, get out while the getting is good.

Gee, I wonder why the game still hasn't come out. I get the impression that the "hang out and goof off" mentality isn't limited to once a fortnight.

Wouldn't anyone signed-up for the newsletter already know when the game releases, without getting the email from Steam for wishlisting it? Or does Valve actually give some kind of incentive for devs to get a large number of wishlistings for their game, like front page ads or the new releases pop-up?

I'll say it again, for this type of indie developer making a game and telling everyone you are making a game is more important to them than actually making the game and releasing it. Becuse at that point everyone will see the game is shit and you'll want to distance yourself from it by making excuses about how it's not your fault the game is shit. That's when the undeserved asspats stop.

 

[StacticShock]

I'll say it again, for this type of indie developer making a game and telling everyone you are making a game is more important to them than actually making the game and releasing it. Becuse at that point everyone will see the game is shit and you'll want to distance yourself from it by making excuses about how it's not your fault the game is shit. That's when the undeserved asspats stop.

met niggers like that on my uni, at the end of the last semester guess what they showed.
pure garbage, no seriously, big team with "frens" that did absofuckinglutely nothing, at least i had the excuse of doing all that shit alone for giving a subpar silly time sink, lol.

no doubt they'll pull a groove street studios if sony presses them to release the damn thing, INDIA SUPERPOWER.

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

What if they are reverse-ingeneering Snoot Game and trimming plots for easier insertion into it?

 

[Smug]

What if they are reverse-ingeneering Snoot Game and trimming plots for easier insertion into it?

That would be too high-effort on their part, and too hilarious for all us spectators.

 

[StacticShock]

What if they are reverse-ingeneering Snoot Game and trimming plots for easier insertion into it?

nigga it's ren'py, you can literally just open the files in the data folder and read as is no problem, you can at best encrypt the images into one big package but wait, you can easily decrypt it too.
so yeah, they will probably trim the fat out of the artanons that made all the womanly features of fang stand out and call it a day, or maybe tell rajeesh to do it.

 

[Runch]

2022 Wrap-Up + A New Wallpaper for You! (A)

The storyboard gif is supposed to be slower like the one on the site, but I'm not really good with messing around with gifs in general.

Is evening dress Fang supposed to challenge our preconceptions of theysculinity?

The devs insist at every turn that Fang is a they/them just so they can post pics like that and gleefully ban everyone who says "you go girl!"