Cultcow EvaXephon / Yanderedev / Alex Mahan / Alexander Stuart Mahan / cannotgoogleme - Edgy weeaboo coomer with pedo tendencies and 15+ years internet history as a lolcow, now known as a disaster developer behind eternal debug build called "Yandere Simulator", confirmed groomer and dollfucker

[Kuritan Deplorable]

If I did not have to worry about uploading a new build on the 1st and 15th days of every month, then I would be free to focus on large, time-consuming tasks. The game would update less often, and would not stick to any sort of predictable update schedule, but – each update would be guaranteed to be something significant.

Or, you could do major features and release regular updates at the same time if you just stopped being a retard. Its called branches, in whatever repository software you should be using. You can safely isolate major feature and rework projects over in one branch, have a rolling patches and small things branch in another, build your regular releases off the small things branch, and bring in the major feature branch for release whenever it happens to be ready.

Its so simple you'll find this concept explained in every 15 minute "Git for noobs 101". Its not realistic to finish most features in one two week crunch regardless, and lets be honest 85% of your "must fixes" are stupid bugs introduced by half assing your last fixes, so pulling back on that list will be a self correcting solution anyway.

Of course, the retards are voting for "when major releases are ready" because they buy his absolute crap. So begins Yansims attempt to defeat its true rival, Heartbound, in the real competition space of "Not releasing anything at all". All we need now is for him to start streaming classic wow in a hardcore server.

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

The man who used to make videogames

What games?

As for the schedule he's been using for over a decade now - it is not even his idea. I remember, it was suggested by one anon in the first threads since Alex kept creating those with little to nothing new to show and that started making everyone pissed at him.

 

[Tracey Townley]

This information is over a month old but i haven't seen a archive of it here, so i'll add it here.
Sophie Stardrop is a "game developer" who pretends she knows how to make games, i do think she is the next YandereDev.
I suggest watching her videos as i think she acts quite similar to Alex, narcissistic.
Even searching her username on YouTube shows up drama videos about her.

Sophie would accuse Alex of sabotaging her game called 'HeartStrings: A Yandere Story' by Alex using a similar design to Sophie's character.

peservetube

There are many issues with Sophie's video to the point where a r/Osana user have even made a thread detailing the issues of it.

Spoiler: entire post here

Hello guys, before I start discussing about this video I want to clarifiy some things. First of all, I do not support Yanderedev in any sort of way, hes problematic. Second of all, I don't want anybody who I will talk about to be harassed because of this comment. Third of all, this post isn't made to laugh at other people's effort/artworks. Okay, so let's begin! If you don't know who "SophieStardrop" is, shes a content creator and also a game developer who works on a game called "Heart strings". The game is inspired by Yandere Simulator and has gotten some support over the past weeks. However, as the time went by, Sophie was called out for some things....and I want to talk about it.

1. Sophie lies to her own fans. So the first lie was that she "doesn't delete her hate comment", which are actually just critics, and that "Youtube censors their comments". So...I dont know is this is 100% true, but I saw many youtube videos and posts that shows delted comments that told her not to talk shit about Yandere Simulator's mechanic when her game is barely functionable.
2. "Stolen" design. I think this is the biggest thing that started this drama. So, Yanderedev was called out by Sophie that he stole a design from her game. You know that in 1 May 2025, Raibaru's design was changed, and to Sophie, the design looked familiar with hers. Now, I don't wanna be an asshole, but if you scroll down this post, cause I'm pretty sure other people are talking about this too, her design isn't THAT similar with Raibaru's. Not to mention the fact Raibaru's new designed was inspired by an official artwork that was made for the game back in 2015. (I don't know if Sophie is trying hard to get attention from others by clowning Yandere Simulator, or she just made a simple mistake....)
3. Sophie trashes Yandere Simulator. Talking about trashing the original game made by Yanderedev, there are like...5 videos of Sophie criticizing Yandere Simulator, when (again, I dont wanna sound rude) she has a game inspired by Yandere Simulator where her: whole support, money and also community comes from. I'm not defending Yandev, because he's a fucking groomer, but why wouldnt she instead of concetrating developing her new game or talking about how problematic Yanderedev is, she complains about THE GAME? Isn't it kind of strange? Plus, her husband, I think his name is Pinky, has a channel where he critizizes yandere simulator, and to be honest...at this point I'm not even suprised. Considering the fact his and her most popular videos are about critizizing Yandere Simulator, it's pretty clear they're clowning the game for clout. I'm sorry, but even if this sounds VERY rude coming from a guy who doesn't know shit about programming, Yandere Simulator is ten times better and more realistic than Heart Strings. Maybe Heart Strings would be better than the other game if the developer starts working on writing, design and developing more. There's no need to trash Yandere Simulator, a popular game, to promote your Yandere Simulator fangame. (If you want you can trash Yandev, cause hes a creep)
4. Sophie is acting like she's the victim. This accusation didn't come from me, it came from other Yandere Simulator fans who raged when they saw her complaining about their game, but thinking about it...Sophie is A BIT acting like she's the victim. Why would you ever make 6 videos trashing a video game that inspired your whole career on internet, and then expect no bad consequences? IN CONCLUSION: Sophie shouldn't be harassed on the internet, and neither her husband or her supporters. The only thing I would say is that if you are inspired by a game, never talk shit about it or make a whole fandom turn against you. Also, before accusing Pedodev of stealin design, you should ALWAYS check if the design looks exactly like your design, or atleast check the official artwork to see if the creep did it intentional. In case you wanna check Sophie's channel after reading this, remember, DON'T harass her and DON'T send her death threats. This post wasn't written to support Yanderedev, it was supposed to make people understand the situation. In case you have any questions please comment down below!

archive

 

[Cask of Amontillado]

Behold the Cult of the Yandere Development Syndrome

 

[BinaricHate]

Krexa

Anne

Jelly

Everything else aside HOW in God's good name did a yandev groomcord jannytranny who composed fan music for yansim and some autistic gay freddy five night funkin fan game manage to fuck 3 different girls in the span of a few months? To say that this is unheard of would be an understatement. This is like Boltzman brain meets monkey smashing keyboard levels of probability. Astronomical so might say.

Like I'm actually shell shocked here. Usually when you read stories about discord degenerates like this guy you can rest well knowing that they typically die single or they troon out and castrate themselves/41%. Effectivly ending the family bloodline right then and there. This fucking guy is more than capable of reproducing if he wanted to. Can you imagine how horrifiying that is? This automatically makes him like 1,488 times more dangerous than yandev simply for the reason that he is capable of creating more hellspawn like himself. Christ.

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

Everything else aside HOW in God's good name did a yandev groomcord jannytranny who composed fan music for yansim and some autistic gay freddy five night funkin fan game manage to fuck 3 different girls in the span of a few months? To say that this is unheard of would be an understatement. This is like Boltzman brain meets monkey smashing keyboard levels of probability. Astronomical so might say.

Like I'm actually shell shocked here. Usually when you read stories about discord degenerates like this guy you can rest well knowing that they typically die single or they troon out and castrate themselves/41%. Effectivly ending the family bloodline right then and there. This fucking guy is more than capable of reproducing if he wanted to. Can you imagine how horrifiying that is? This automatically makes him like 1,488 times more dangerous than yandev simply for the reason that he is capable of creating more hellspawn like himself. Christ.

Anne and Jelly are the same person, sorry for not clarifying that. Otherwise I find it ironic that Scameron decided to start his youtube neet career by shitting on another man who ruined his life by sticking it into crazy.

 

[lumaleelumabop]

June 30 update (archive)

Hi! Got a new build for you! How big is it? I’ll let you decide, but this blog post is 20,000

To read a list of everything that was added/changed/improved in the latest update, scroll down past this gorgeous and artistic illustration by idil ayvaz!

New Amai Bake Sale Animations​

A set of animations has been created for the students who are interacting with Amai’s bake sale:


There are 20 new animations in total:

• Three variations of “Amai greets customer” and “Customer greets Amai” (6 total)
• Three variations of “Amai describes all of the different food for sale” and “Customer listens to Amai describe food” (6 total)
• Three variations of “Amai watches customer purchase food” and “Customer purchases food and says goodbye” (6 total)
• Animations depicting the customer reacting to Amai’s food, determined by whether or not the food was poisoned (2 total)

Hopefully, this will make Amai’s bake sale seem a lot more lively and interesting!

(After making a sale, Amai logs the purchase on her phone. While doing this, she is distracted, and doesn’t notice how the customer in front of her is reacting to her food. This is why she is unaware of whether or not her food is making people sick.)

By the way, I’ve added a few little details to the bake sale that I’ve always wanted it to have:

1. Previously, only one student could walk towards the bake sale at a time. This would sometimes lead to very long stretches of time where nobody was interacting with the bake sale. Now, multiple students can set the bake sale as their “target destination” – and if multiple students arrive at the bake sale while someone else is already interacting with it, the other students will form a crowd behind the customer and “wait their turn” to interact with the bake sale.
2. There is now a jar on the bake sale table where students drop money whenever they purchase something from Amai. This jar can be seen visibly filling up with money each time a new purchase is made.
3. There is now a little piece of paper on the bake sale table keeping track of how much money the bake sale has raised so far. This number changes absolutely nothing about Amai’s week, but it’s something I always wanted to add. (Still, in the future, I might tweak the exact cost of the food Amai is selling.)

Flip-Flopping on Rival Deaths Closing Clubs​

At some point in time, I made a game design decision: “If the player kills a club leader, their club will close, even if every other member of the club is still alive.”

A lot of people questioned this decision. “Wait, shouldn’t the club remain open? The substitute club leader can simply step up and become the new club leader.”

I replied, “No. The rival was the glue that held the club together. Her death would devastate the other club members so much that they wouldn’t even want to be in the club anymore.”

However, I’ve put a lot of thought into it, and I’ve decided that this was a bad call. Thematically, it might make sense if I insist that everyone in the club really loved the rival…but, in terms of gameplay, it sucks for the player to lose access to gameplay mechanics just because they successfully performed their objective and defeated their enemy.

So, from now on, the death of a rival will not cause a club to shut down. For example, after Amai is eliminated, her clubmates will simply return to their normal routines.


As of right now, this only applies to Amai, but it’ll also apply to all other rivals moving forward, as well.

Leaving Ryoba’s Room and Interacting with Her Family​

In 1980s Mode, it is now possible to leave Ryoba’s room and interact with her family!


You can see Ryoba’s mother, father, and grandmother in person. You can speak to her sister through a door, and hear the sound of her grandfather snoring, but you can’t actually interact with them in person.

Currently, each character only offers one “conversation,” and they spend each day in the same locations, performing the same actions. Ideally, they would relocate to a new location every day, and offer a new conversation every day. However, it would take a lot of time to write that much dialogue, so, for now, they each only offer one interaction.

New Fountain Water Effects​

Eagle-eyed readers may have already noticed this in a screenshot up above, but the iconic fountain at the center of the school has been updated with new water effects!


You might think it’s a bit hard to tell the difference without seeing it in motion (or seeing a direct side-by-side comparison) but I think it’s a huge improvement over the previous one!

New Chiptune Music in Pass Time Minigame​

Hey, you know the little minigame you can play while using the “Pass Time” feature?


From now on, when you activate that feature, you will hear a chiptune version of the “Schoolday” background music. And since there are 13 different schoolday tracks, this meant adding 13 different chiptune tracks to the game. That’s a lot of new music!

New 1980s Mode Light Music Club Rhythm Minigame Artwork​

The Light Music Club’s rhythm minigame now has new artwork!


I’m completely in love with the artwork that was created for the minigame – I hope that you like it, too!

UI Navigation Sound Effects​

Recently, one of Yandere Simulator’s volunteers pointed out that a large number of features in Yandere Simulator lack sound effects, and provided me with some sounds to implement. After implementing these effects in situations that were previously silent, I immediately noticed a huge leap forward in terms of the “user experience” and overall production value of the game. Many of these areas were, specifically, in the game’s menus:


I’ll list out a few of the places that now have audio where none existed before:

• Opening/closing the pause screen phone menu.
• Selecting icons in the pause screen phone menu.
• Opening menus or backing out of menus in the pause screen phone menu.
• Opening/closing the weapon menu.
• Making selections in the weapon menu.
• When equipping a bag, putting an item away in the bag, taking an item out of the bag, or dropping the bag.
• Confirming a decision to leave the protagonist’s home and go to school/town.

(Some of these sound effects might get adjusted or replaced in the future, so if you listen to them and don’t like them, please don’t panic about it.)

I’m still trying to decide what is a better idea – use a consistent set of sound effects for all menus, or use different sound effects for each menu, depending on the specific type of menu it is, and the purpose of the menu. As a result, you might come across menus that have one singular sound effect implemented but are otherwise silent, because I’m currently testing out whether or not that sound effect sounds “correct” there. Don’t worry about reporting these as bugs; they are just works-in-progress.

Improvements​

• Updated the profiles of Nagaharu and Raizo (also known as Study-Kun A and Study-Kun B) to reference their nicknames. Also updated their likes/dislikes to include positive feelings towards “Reading.”
• The Student Info screen has been upgraded so that anyone who is not in an official club (such as “The Delinquents” or “The Bullies”) is described as being in a “Group” instead of a “Club.”
• The 1980s Mode gravure photo shoot minigame has been updated with a new “camera flash” sound effect, so that it’s not using the same one that is used when the protagonist takes a photo.
• The stove in the Cooking Club has been updated to use the Akademi white-and-gold color scheme, just like every other prop in that room.
• From now on, if a character has been blinded by a Smoke Bomb, Ayano can kill them without being countered or entering a struggle.
• Updated Mantaro’s hair texture, because his previous hair texture was solid black and that looked pretty bad.
• The ramen shop in town now has new background music. This background music may be replaced in the future.
• In Custom Mode, there is now an “Are you sure?” confirmation window before you randomize a student.
• Updated Supana Churu’s hair model.
• Updated Kuu Dere’s hair texture.

Fixes​

• In Mission Mode, if the player was given the mission objective of “Feed your target to a carnivorous plant,” and the player dismembered their target and fed each limb to the plant, the game would not acknowledge that the player had met the criteria for completing the mission. This bug has been fixed.
• Apparently, I left a debug command in the game – if you press the spacebar key during Osana’s Wednesday “take a photo to share with Senpai” event, you teleport to the place where Osana takes the photo. Wow! It took like 5 years for someone to find this! Anyway, this debug command has been removed.
• In 1980s Mode, if the player expelled their rival, Senpai would still go stand at the location where he and the rival were meant to have their next event. He would stand there indefinitely, even while other students were going to class. This bug has been fixed.
• If the player stood too close to Geiju, he would say one of the generic “You’re standing too close, get away from me,” lines – but this would be out of character for him, since he is only supposed to speak in 2-word sentences. This oversight has been corrected.
• After 5:00 PM, if the player spoke to a rival who was walking towards the shower building in order to change into their school uniform, the rival would forget about changing clothing and would walk through the school wearing a swimsuit. this bug has been fixed.
• If the player loaded a save, the player would not be able to interact with anything a certain distance away from the initial spawn point until a certain number of seconds had passed – up to 10 in some circumstances. This bug has been fixed.
• If Ayano stood extremely close to Budo and then participated in the Martial Arts Club’s club activity, Ayano would slowly “orbit” around Budo instead of standing in place, as she was supposed to. This bug has been fixed.
• If the player used Info-chan’s Services menu to force a student to leave school, saved the game, and then loaded the game, that student would simply run in place instead of running out of school. This bug has been fixed.
• If the player tried to electrocute Senpai during a “Senpai and Osana talk before going home” event, the event would not end, and Senpai would glide across the ground while in a fixed pose. This bug has been fixed.
• If the player killed a student, wrapped their corpse in a body bag, then got sent to the counselor…upon leaving the counselor’s office, the corpse would have a “Talk” prompt above it. This bug has been fixed.
• At home, if the player opened the Stokr menu, closed it, then paused the game and then entered the Student Info menu, then closed it, the player would lose the ability to walk around. This bug has been fixed.
• If the player plugged a power strip into a power outlet and then saved the game, the game would not accurately remember the state of that power strip or outlet upon loading the game. This bug has been fixed.
• When moving photographs around on the protagonist’s corkboard at home, the speed of the cursor and the photograph was ridiculously inconsistent (but only for keyboard+mouse users). This bug has been fixed.
• If the player expelled Osana on Friday, Senpai would spend the rest of Friday standing on the school rooftop for hours and hours, waiting for an Osana that will never come. This bug has been fixed.
• If a student council member broke up a fight and then sent the player to the counselor for “disturbing behavior,” the game would softlock during the counselor conversation. This bug has been fixed.
• If the player performed a “subtle stab” on a student who was struggling with a mind-broken slave, they would lose the ability to attack anyone for the rest of the day. This bug has been fixed.
• In Custom Mode, if the player gave a student council member the “Violent” Persona and then let them witness the protagonist carrying a weapon, the game would softlock. This bug has been fixed.
• In Custom Mode, if the player designed a character with a non-default skin color, the character’s skin color would become incorrect if that character was kidnapped. This bug has been fixed.
• In Pose Mode, if the player activated Raibaru’s loose socks and then tried to switch to a different pair of socks, the loose socks would never deactivate. This bug has been fixed.
• In Custom Mode, if the player tried to design a delinquent character with a positive reputation, his reputation would immediately drop down to -67. This bug has been fixed.
• If the player pushed a student to their death from the rooftop, they would lose the ability to attack anyone for the rest of the day. This bug has been fixed.
• In Custom Mode, certain neck accessories would appear on a character’s body when designing them, but not when taking their portrait. This bug has been fixed.
• One of Raibaru’s uniform textures was incorrect, and featured details (red trim) that other students didn’t have on their uniforms. This bug has been fixed.
• If Ayano disarmed a delinquent, and then that delinquent witnessed Ayano carrying Nemesis, the delinquent would freeze permanently. This bug has been fixed.
• If the player repeatedly stole students’ smartphones, with each theft, the smartphone model would become more and more distorted. This bug has been fixed.
• During Osana’s “talk with Raibaru about touring all of the clubs in school” event, Osana would perform the wrong idle animation. This bug has been fixed.
• After I updated the way that the game handles outlines, Science Club lab coats lost their outlines when being worn by students. This bug has been fixed.
• If the player saved and loaded during Week 2, all students would go back to following the routines they followed during Week 1. This bug has been fixed.
• When skipping the intro cutscene, the narration and background music did not fade out into silence, as they were supposed to. This bug has been fixed.
• Sumire’s “Missing” poster appeared during the 1980s Mode tutorial, even though nobody knew she was missing yet. This oversight has been corrected.
• If the player saved and loaded the game during Amai’s bake sale, the bake sale would not resume when the save was loaded. This bug has been fixed.
• Budo would still offer his “talk to Raibaru for me” Task even if Raibaru was dead and Budo had attended her memorial. This bug has been fixed.
• If the player photographed a student, that student would not instantly gain an outline, as they were supposed to. This bug has been fixed.
• If the player photographed a student and sent the photo to Info-chan, the student would not gain an outline. This bug has been fixed.
• After changing out of her swimsuit, Ritsuko would not change from her indoor shoes into her outdoor shoes. This bug has been fixed.
• After I updated the way that the game handles outlines, some of Senpai’s hairstyles lost their outlines. This bug has been fixed.
• If the player drowned a student, they would lose the ability to attack anyone for the rest of the day. This bug has been fixed.
• Amai’s new hair model was not appearing in her Thursday “walk to school with Senpai” event. This oversight has been corrected.
• If a student had a grudge on the player, they would have a green outline instead of a yellow outline. This bug has been fixed.
• Fixed bug that would cause Chigusa’s Yandere Vision outline to turn white instead of red after she changed into her bikini.
• If the player smothered Amai, then saved and loaded the game, Amai would come back to life. This bug has been fixed.
• The balcony you jump from in the Rival Bakery Stealth Mission had a stretched texture. This texture has been fixed.
• After I updated the way that the game handles outlines, Ayano’s ponytail lost its outline. This bug has been fixed.
• The game’s credits were ending before all names had finished scrolling across the screen. This bug has been fixed.
• The “boxes of foil and boxes of trash bags make different sound effects” feature wasn’t working. Now it is.
• Gita’s Task was impossible to complete – but only in LoveSick Mode, specifically. This bug has been fixed.
• The button prompt for Osana’s Monday rooftop event would sometimes not appear. This bug has been fixed.
• Shinako Bunzai’s glasses were not rendering properly in her student portrait. This bug has been fixed.
• In the 202X Kokona tutorial, “Yandere Vision Outlines” were not functioning. This bug has been fixed.
• Amai was using the wrong hair model in the scene where she commits suicide. This bug has been fixed.
• It is no longer possible to wear a swimsuit and gloves/a raincoat/an occult robe. It created bugs.
• The “Senpai meets Amai” cutscene was blurry when played at 1080p. This bug has been fixed.
• It is no longer possible to open the map while using Yandere Vision. It created bugs.
• Fixed a typo in the subtitles for Ai’s Tuesday afternoon event.

1st and 15th Updates​

You might be wondering if I’m planning to dump the “update the game on the 1st and 15th days of every month” update schedule and adopt a new “Only release a build when there is exciting new content” policy.

Well, let’s see what the fanbase thinks about it: https://poal.me/ep4top

Looks pretty conclusive! But…what about the patrons? The opinions of my paid supporters are worth a lot to me, so I want to check in with them and see how they feel.


Hmm – interesting! Different ratio, but same prevailing opinion.

Over the past 2 weeks, I received a tremendous amount of feedback regarding the “should I abandon the 1st and 15th schedule?” question. Both sides made a lot of incredibly good points.

“Now that you don’t upload YouTube videos anymore, the twice-a-month updates are the only thing to look forward to. The only thing keeping the game on life support. Take that away from us, and the game will die.”

Gulp!

“A game project simply cannot move closer to completion while the developer is held to two-week deadlines, because it ignores the reality of game development: Most significant tasks will require more than two weeks of exclusive focus.”

Gulp again!

After hearing everything that both sides have to say, it feels like the two-week schedule grants short-term benefits, but holds me back in the long term.

My current plan is to achieve a sort of compromise; a middle-ground. If I’ve accomplished a ton of cool stuff during the most recent two-week cycle, I’ll release a new build on the 1st or 15th day of the month. But, if my next task is something that cannot be completed before the end of the current two-week cycle, I won’t release a new build until after that task is complete. Feels like it’s the best of both worlds.

And, if you’re ever thinking, “Is the game dead?! Did he quit?! Is he actually making progress?!” you can visit my Patreon, where I’ll occasionally share previews of upcoming content.

On that note…

Birthday Stream​

The reason why I released a build today on June 30th instead of tomorrow on July 1st is because today is…my birthday!


Preparing a new build can be quite time-consuming; I didn’t want to spend my birthday doing something so tedious, so I decided to just release the build one day early, and then take a rare vacation day.

If there are any critical game-breaking bugs in the current build…I’m sorry, but I won’t be fixing them for a full 24 hours. If anything is broken in this build, you’ll just have to wait until July 2nd (at the earliest) to get a bug-fixing build.

By the way, in case you’re curious what I plan to do for my birthday…I’m going to stream a video game! There was once a point in time when I streamed daily, and rigorously followed a very specific schedule. It was something I was incredibly passionate about. However, I eventually decided to “lock in” and focus more of my time on Yandere Simulator, which led me to gradually stream less and less until I stopped altogether. In fact, I haven’t streamed at all in over 5 months! (My last stream was way back on January 19th!)

If you’d like to catch my stream, you’re welcome to visit https://kick.com/yanderedev – I plan to start streaming around 2:00 PM in the PST timezone. Hope to see you there!

 

[Big Money Dog]

From an ex-moderator on Yandere Simulator's Discord Server.

 

[AbduluCthuluZulu]

From an ex-moderator on Yandere Simulator's Discord Server.

This feels like a long awaited sequel to the cum chalice meme I never knew I wanted.
What the fuck is with his hair and outfit in this? It looks like a bad attempt at a Wayne Campbell cosplay.

 

[Protistology]

From an ex-moderator on Yandere Simulator's Discord Server.

This is what the kids on Epstein's island saw when they first woke up.

Why are his eyes so big? Drugs?

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

"June 16th: I think, I should stop posting updates in the middle and the end of the month, unless I have enough to present"
LITERALLY THE NEXT END OF THE MONTHS:

June 30 update (archive)

From an ex-moderator on Yandere Simulator's Discord Server.

Ok, that's not weird at all. Context?

What the fuck is with his hair and outfit in this? It looks like a bad attempt at a Wayne Campbell cosplay.

Looks like it was the first attempt at his "apology" video. According to him, he then was advised to put on a hat. About his hair - well, he is in his late 30s and is getting bald, looking more and more like someone from amber alert with each day.

Why are his eyes so big? Drugs

Filters. Alex looks like shit.

2023

2020

I can give you a hint who's ideas hat and filters were.

Spoiler

FILTERS ON

FILTERS OFF

 

[Nord15$]

Twenty Two now and I'm starting to think that I'd be a old man before he actually gets the game done.

 

[Trombonista]

Twenty Two now and I'm starting to think that I'd be a old man before he actually gets the game done.

LOL you actually expect him to finish the game. Calling it now, he'll flounce before the final rival is added.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

LOL you actually expect him to finish the game. Calling it now, he'll flounce before the final rival is added.

And if he does flounce, he'll do so while blaming the players. Half his design style is stopping people from having fun, eventually he's going to do so in a way that pisses off just enough of the active supporting community, to where he really gets his head shoved up his ass over it. Announces that since he can't implement features because of the community, he won't implement features, and that'll be that.

 

[Nord15$]

Though I'm surprised that he hasn't just use the money got to hire people to do the stuff for him.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

Though I'm surprised that he hasn't just use the money got to hire people to do the stuff for him.

This has been debated heavily earlier in the thread, I'd encourage you to read back through highlights, but the summary is immense ego combined with immense incompetence - He cannot allow someone to improve his codebase at this point both because it validates people calling it shit, and any improvements would fundamentally be bottom up rewrites of entire systems, which would put them outside his own ability to understand and utilize. He's a very, very poor programmer, so applying even basic design principles and abstractions would make it impossible for him to understand program flow.

Search back for what happened with the Tinybuild developer, he had that opportunity and choked it in its infancy with his behavior.

 

[Trombonista]

Search back for what happened with the Tinybuild developer, he had that opportunity and choked it in its infancy with his behavior.

Yeah, he complained that he couldn't understand the rewritten code. You'd think he would have tried learning the programming language Tinybuild was using, but apparently streaming vidya was more important to him.

 

[Diesel Boogaloo]

Yeah, he complained that he couldn't understand the rewritten code. You'd think he would have tried learning the programming language Tinybuild was using, but apparently streaming vidya was more important to him.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but YS was originally written in UnityScript (which is basically Javaascript), Tinybuild started porting it to C#, Alex threw a fit, but later was forced by Unity to port YS to C# anyway?
So he was capable of handling a new language, he's just petulant and lazy.

 

[Hazy Wasian]

It's also ego. Since the days of MikeZ, he envisioned himself as the battle hardened solo dev who rose from the ashes of scathing criticism and hatred who showed them all singlehandedly with his own viral successful project.
Fan games and other Yandere games also endanger this vision as (usually) the most notable ones steal attention from his own.
It's unthinkable for him to admit his own shortcomings or share the spotlight with anyone else.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but YS was originally written in UnityScript (which is basically Javaascript), Tinybuild started porting it to C#, Alex threw a fit, but later was forced by Unity to port YS to C# anyway?
So he was capable of handling a new language, he's just petulant and lazy.

I don't remember if Yansim used it, but I don't remember Alex's complaints being about a language shift, it was the design shift. Any idiot script kiddie can learn a new language, its really not that hard, and if you already know Javascript, the hardest part of picking up C# is getting used to its strictness around variable typing. If you can read Javascript, you can immediately read C#, for all the basic behaviors you'd expect - declarations, loops, functions, etc. And it doesn't take much design knowledge to recognize basic programming patterns once you can read those behaviors.

The problem was Alex couldn't understand and work within the most basic of abstractions or separation of responsibilities regardless of language, his code is extremely direct and explicit. Always manual condition checks, always done at the moment of consideration, chained together with more and more flags to attempt to build complex behavior, because he cannot effectively predict the state of his code at an arbitrary point in execution. That's a basic, foundational skill for a developer of any kind of system, not just games. Without it, separating logic, checks, and generally abstracting code away to focus on single facets is impossible to keep in your head - If he doesn't check for all the possible suspicious clothing right now, he can't follow his own program flow well enough to trust it already got checked and flagged somewhere else. And the less said about his unwillingness to use more engine-specific conventions like Unity's component style approach instead of monolithic scripts, the better.

So when the tinybuild dev started wanting to perform sane changes like encapsulating and separating conditional logic into their foundational components, he couldn't understand it. If he couldn't understand it, he couldn't implement his new features in it. So rather than acknowledge his own failings and need to develop and learn, he axed it under the risk of him no longer being able to manage his update cadence.