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

[TurdFondler]

If you took a random 20-something pajeet and told them you're bankrolling their next 5 years but they will live in a basement and code a game for you all day, every day, you'd end up with a finished product.

 

[Gilgamesh The Pharmacy]

Please understand, the great cum chalice raid of 2020 was just too damaging so the (apparently finished) Osana has to be delayed for another century while Eva picks up the pieces of his non existent psyche (and adds ten billion memes).

FTFY

 

[Banworld]

Jose is right, YanSim has never had a kickstarter, but the development roadmap has always been as follows (this is now removed from the website lol).


Currently, the planned development is as follows:

You can see the general outline is the same, release the first rival and then do a kickstarter, then pump out the rest of the game. In my opinion, this is why Alex has relented so much on Osana, because it means the game no longer has the whole 'it's a demo' defence. These goals are also all very unrealistic, considering the game has little in the way of a framework to build upon and anything added will likely throw up a huge amount of bugs. Alex has also discussed being the head dev for a team of people in videos, which will not work out well when they have a conflict.

Alex is vastly underestimating the time it will take to churn out the rivals, it's not like he has solid, reproducible code for rivals or a way to quickly code routines and events. If this were any other project, I'd say that once you have one rival done you're likely 60-75% of the way through your job since you can just use that template for everything else. Not to mention he wants them all to have unique elimination methods and for all of them to have some 'dark secret' you can use against them. We're already over a quarter of the way through the year and he's expecting to release Osana, conduct a crowdfunding campaign, fail a crowdfunding campaign, and just code the rest of the rivals with the remaining time?

 

[ThatDutchManace]

I don't think he ever mentioned what his minimum goal will actually be. Hiring an entire studio worth of staff won't be cheap. Mighty No. 9 was a piss-poor 2D platformer, it had a minimum goal of 900k, got more than 4 million, and still had to cut features due to "tight budget" aka mismanagement. And that was done by people who actually worked professionally in the industry for decades. What kind of money would Eva need for his anime Hitman? Considering what he has in mind, this game would be closer in scope to Shenmue 3, and I'm pretty fucking positive that Eva's not getting 6 million dollars, nor will he be able to manage that kind of production.

He can barely manage himself, so I doubt that his team would be helping him for long.

I can already see it happen. the hired team fixing everything, followed by Alex just throwing a fit and firing all of them because his anime titties are now just a tiny bit smaller.

 

[LitmusPaper]

I don't think he ever mentioned what his minimum goal will actually be. Hiring an entire studio worth of staff won't be cheap. Mighty No. 9 was a piss-poor 2D platformer, it had a minimum goal of 900k, got more than 4 million, and still had to cut features due to "tight budget" aka mismanagement. And that was done by people who actually worked professionally in the industry for decades. What kind of money would Eva need for his anime Hitman? Considering what he has in mind, this game would be closer in scope to Shenmue 3, and I'm pretty fucking positive that Eva's not getting 6 million dollars, nor will he be able to manage that kind of production.

If by some miracle (and I mean a big fat if) he does put up a successful Kickstarter, I feel he's just going to take the money and run. It's probably been said before but he's in way over his head with this ambitious project, and I refuse to believe he hasn't realised that.

There is simply no way he can lead a team professionally, he's too emotional and his ego is too fragile. He can't even handle criticism from his fanbase since he regularly censors critique he deems invalid (which contrary to what he claims about it needing to be nice it's usually on a whim), so how would he respond if his game miraculously was completed and published, and was critiqued professionally? His reaction when MikeZ attempted to give him constructive criticism, and his continuous insistence on "critique has to be be nice or it's invalid" doesn't inspire much confidence. He's so against taking on board constructive feedback that people have asked him to take coding courses for years to fill in blanks and he still refuses to do that.

 

[José Mourinho]

As much as it would be funny to see Alex having a successful Kickstarter and then just take the money and run, I personally don't really see him doing that. What would actually happen imo is that he'd actually use the money to actually hire programmers for the game but however there will be some internal conflicts going on especially with his code. And then all the money into the Kickstarter was mismanaged.

Jose is right, YanSim has never had a kickstarter, but the development roadmap has always been as follows (this is now removed from the website lol).

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Currently, the planned development is as follows:
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You can see the general outline is the same, release the first rival and then do a kickstarter, then pump out the rest of the game. In my opinion, this is why Alex has relented so much on Osana, because it means the game no longer has the whole 'it's a demo' defence. These goals are also all very unrealistic, considering the game has little in the way of a framework to build upon and anything added will likely throw up a huge amount of bugs. Alex has also discussed being the head dev for a team of people in videos, which will not work out well when they have a conflict.

Alex is vastly underestimating the time it will take to churn out the rivals, it's not like he has solid, reproducible code for rivals or a way to quickly code routines and events. If this were any other project, I'd say that once you have one rival done you're likely 60-75% of the way through your job since you can just use that template for everything else. Not to mention he wants them all to have unique elimination methods and for all of them to have some 'dark secret' you can use against them. We're already over a quarter of the way through the year and he's expecting to release Osana, conduct a crowdfunding campaign, fail a crowdfunding campaign, and just code the rest of the rivals with the remaining time?

If the absolute worst case scenario would come into reality (aka his Kickstarter is unsuccessful), he'd be ready for even more mockery especially that not only it would make the defense that "It's not in a demo phase, the full game would be better" to be invalid, but the wait for it would be completely not worth. Perhaps this is why he's trying to add some stuff into it in the hopes that it would have some redeeming qualities even if the rivals are executed to be terrible? Maybe I'm giving Alex too much credit.

Still the question is whether Alex can actually hold the Kickstarter within this year (in other words, actually releasing Osana and get feedback from public players and release a demo to get prepared for the Kickstarter) or it will be delayed until next year again.

 

[The Reaper]

He better be giving away this game to people who've supported him when he's finished. Its been in development for six years and I'm not sure when he opened the patreon, but if someone gave just a dollar a month for the last five years they have given him 60 dollars overall.

 

[LitmusPaper]

He better be giving away this game to people who've supported him when he's finished. Its been in development for six years and I'm not sure when he opened the patreon, but if someone gave just a dollar a month for the last five years they have given him 60 dollars overall.

It's been open since the 11th of November, 2014. So this year will be the sixth year he's had it.
His Patreon is his biggest broken promise he made to his audience, which was to 4chan, and that he'd never make one. It doesn't wait for the game's development, so he's getting paid either way.

 

[Gnarly Sharpie]

He better be giving away this game to people who've supported him when he's finished. Its been in development for six years and I'm not sure when he opened the patreon, but if someone gave just a dollar a month for the last five years they have given him 60 dollars overall.

Kickstarter supporters are to get a Steam key for the game after it is released, at least according to the 2019 version of the roadmap. No compensation is however mentioned for loyal Patreon supporters who do not throw any more money into the hat on the second round, nor what happens should Steam reject the game as Twitch has.

 

[LurkerDog]

Kickstarter supporters are to get a Steam key for the game after it is released, at least according to the 2019 version of the roadmap. No compensation is however mentioned for loyal Patreon supporters who do not throw any more money into the hat on the second round, nor what happens should Steam reject the game as Twitch has.

Imagine the sobfest if Steam downright denied his game on their platform. Oh my god..

 

[Catgirls are Love]

Imagine the sobfest if Steam downright denied his game on their platform. Oh my god..

I want to say that there's practically no chance of Steam not allowing Yandere Simulator on their platform, but after thinking about it I'm honestly not sure. While they may distribute many adult-only titles, I think there's a distinctive lack of games where you play a schoolgirl that murders your classmates which seems like the kinda thing that has the potential to draw mainstream media attention in a most unpleasant fashion.

Edit: Also, if Yandere Simulator were on Steam, I'm fairly certain the userbase would rip him a new asshole over his game. Not much fun, repetitive, poor performance, etc...the forums would be a dumpsterfire that would never get better.

 

[SolarSickle]

I want to say that there's practically no chance of Steam not allowing Yandere Simulator on their platform, but after thinking about it I'm honestly not sure. While they may distribute many adult-only titles, I think there's a distinctive lack of games where you play a schoolgirl that murders your classmates which seems like the kinda thing that has the potential to draw mainstream media attention in a most unpleasant fashion.

Edit: Also, if Yandere Simulator were on Steam, I'm fairly certain the userbase would rip him a new asshole over his game. Not much fun, repetitive, poor performance, etc...the forums would be a dumpsterfire that would never get better.

I'd argue that the problem wouldn't be so much underage violence as explicit underage sexualization through (mostly) the pantyshot mechanics. A problem he could easily get rid of by simply removing the pantyshot system altogether. The last thing YanSim needs is a currency system (or two currency systems, given that there's a shopping street... three currency systems if he ever introduces the Yakuza character). The only way to justify currency systems is to lock items commonly found in or around schools behind it. The only grey area may be the cigarettes, but even then you could always just make one of the adult characters a smoker. Voilà, you now have a plausible reason for why cigarettes are present in a high school. You don't need pantyshots to get them anymore. But I guess this doesn't fit Alex' "vision".

Between this and my previous post, a lot of the Saikou family's backstory makes a lot of sense if you understand Alex a little. The high demands for a secretary? Would make sense to nobody except Alex, who himself refuses to hire a secretary because he thinks they'd somehow be incapable of distinguishing between fanmail and business offers (that Alex would inevitably ruin anyway). Him clinging to his "vision" despite it not working out? That sounds like a quality he shares with a certain CEO who built a high school as a gift to his daughter, then built an entire city around that high school but didn't put so much as a single shop in said city because it didn't fit his daughters' "vision" so he built a second city where all the shops that the first city needs go. It's understandable that any author would (perhaps unintentionally) project parts of his own personality into his stories, but in Alex' case this explains some of the most retarded elements of YanSim's lore.

 

[LurkerDog]

I want to say that there's practically no chance of Steam not allowing Yandere Simulator on their platform, but after thinking about it I'm honestly not sure. While they may distribute many adult-only titles, I think there's a distinctive lack of games where you play a schoolgirl that murders your classmates which seems like the kinda thing that has the potential to draw mainstream media attention in a most unpleasant fashion.

Edit: Also, if Yandere Simulator were on Steam, I'm fairly certain the userbase would rip him a new asshole over his game. Not much fun, repetitive, poor performance, etc...the forums would be a dumpsterfire that would never get better.

Yknow, I think I'd pay money just to see him bitch about the "gremlins" ripping him a new asshole in the form of shitty reviews on steam. Not saying I'll ever drop a dime on this dipshit but, still.

 

[The Cum Consumer]

If by some miracle (and I mean a big fat if) he does put up a successful Kickstarter, I feel he's just going to take the money and run. It's probably been said before but he's in way over his head with this ambitious project, and I refuse to believe he hasn't realised that.

There is simply no way he can lead a team professionally, he's too emotional and his ego is too fragile. He can't even handle criticism from his fanbase since he regularly censors critique he deems invalid (which contrary to what he claims about it needing to be nice it's usually on a whim), so how would he respond if his game miraculously was completed and published, and was critiqued professionally? His reaction when MikeZ attempted to give him constructive criticism, and his continuous insistence on "critique has to be be nice or it's invalid" doesn't inspire much confidence. He's so against taking on board constructive feedback that people have asked him to take coding courses for years to fill in blanks and he still refuses to do that.

Ambitious? It's a shitty Unity game.

 

[LitmusPaper]

Ambitious? It's a shitty Unity game.

Don't misunderstand, ambitious doesn't always mean good. He wants this to take place in a large 3D environment, everyone to be unique, have complex schedules, and a myriad of elimination methods, which he has proven unable to do on his own without getting extremely sidetracked with literally everything else. There's also the fact the police are thick as shit and you always return to the scene of the crime. He dived headfirst into the idea without much thought put into planning, which is why it's a shitty Unity game.

It's a social-sim stealth sandbox elimination game; two genres which completely contradict each other. Social sims typically have characters survive throughout the game. If a character dies after getting to know them, it's usually a major plot point of the game and drives the story forward. It's clear Alex put in some kind of social aspect to gain benefits for doing so, but there's a lot more focus in killing and cleanup.

 

[Cosmos]

Okay, I'm aware this picture has probably been posted like 25 times in this thread but I just found it and keep laughing at it every time I see it.

Spoiler

Just posting this made me laugh again lol

 

[Cast Away]

Of course Alex would whine about people telling him to get off his lazy ass and work instead of playing vidya and compare to slavery. This man never had to ever work a job to pay rent and bills.

 

[Cosmos]

I'm watching this video and found this comment:

So basically you can't have Senpai and Yandere-chan both be male, because that would make Alex uncomfortable. Girl-on-girl is totally fine, though!

Considering Senpai is Alex's self-insert, maybe he's disgusted by the thought of another man pursuing him?

 

[SIGSEGV]

Considering Senpai is Alex's self-insert, maybe he's disgusted by the thought of another man pursuing him?

To be completely fair, I'm disgusted by the thought of anyone pursuing Alex, too.

 

[A Sign]

If Alex didn't "Breakup" with Cleaveland maybe that would have been the only time he accepted male on male? then again maybe he fired him cause Cleaveland was trying to hit on him?