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

[Rover]

He then puts it on Steam for 5$, only a few people will buy it and after some time YanSim will be one of those games you get in bundles but never actually play.

That's a fitting fate for sure, and a funny one. Imagine it's 2050 (optimistic) or whatever, and you get "Yandere Simulator" in a steam bundle, or as a joke gift from a friend. You decide to google it... And holy shit there's so much autism behind one little five dollar game.

 

[Table Country]

I'm an adult, and I wouldn't consider Alex a role model. I just think the response here is overly negative.
I admit, I'm not sure how Alex didn't find some of these bugs on his own. I think he might have rushed the demo release. It's probably because of the fangames that are being worked on. These games are a threat to the crowdfunding campaign's success. Why would someone donate to the campaign when there are fangames that are being released for free? So he had to put the demo out as fast as reasonably possible, and then fix the bugs afterwards, which he is doing.

Have you considered suicide?

You probably should.

 

[Catgirls are Love]

Isn't eavesdropping on Osana and Raibaru's rooftop conversation supposed to trigger "???" to become "is being stalked" in the student info tab? Because the last four times I've attempted it, it hasn't happened.

The triggers are very strange in that I believe they require you to be within a specific distance at a very specific time. If you happen to miss that exact second, too bad, you're screwed. This also means that things like you being able to learn Osana's opinions about gardening can be gathered from rooms inside the school where you can't actually overhear the conversation or even see Osana, but you're close enough to meet the requirements and learn anyways (even if the straightest path is through a wall). This also leads to things like eavesdropping on the conversation at the roof corner, where you can be close enough on the roof to have the audio play, but then run into the nearby stairwell and have the audio grow so loud it's as if you're standing next to Osana (to be fair, the next audio segment won't play as you're no longer on the roof, but it is yet another design oversight).

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

The triggers are very strange in that I believe they require you to be within a specific distance at a very specific time. If you happen to miss that exact second, too bad, you're screwed. This also means that things like you being able to learn Osana's opinions about gardening can be gathered from rooms inside the school where you can't actually overhear the conversation or even see Osana, but you're close enough to meet the requirements and learn anyways (even if the straightest path is through a wall). This also leads to things like eavesdropping on the conversation at the roof corner, where you can be close enough on the roof to have the audio play, but then run into the nearby stairwell and have the audio grow so loud it's as if you're standing next to Osana (to be fair, the next audio segment won't play as you're no longer on the roof, but it is yet another design oversight).

well that's fucking stupid, I was hugging the ...fan thing but not so close that I would get caught.
"murder shouldn't be easy, but it should be fun" well right now it's tedious as hell to do anything else, alex.

 

[Big Bad Wart]

The whole fire extinguisher thing is fixed by making it so Osana doesn't pick up fire extinguishers anymore. edit: I didn't even notice that weird glitch when going up the stairs

While the toutorial screens still switch between A/B and E/Q unless you press the down arrow in which case it locks onto E/Q. How does this even happen?

If someone has the last build downloaded can you try and pressing ALT+Shift+s, Ctrl+Shift+s, or windows key+ Shift+s because I remember pressing these and my screen getting stuck looking one way while my avatar moved. This doesn't seem to be happening in the bug fixed build so wanted to see if it was just my PC acting up.

 

[Professional Meanie]

Honestly, you guys are being way too harsh on Alex. You should be impressed that Osana is finally out instead of tearing it down. Yes there has been a lot of bugs, but they are being fixed. Also, it's not even the full game, you guys are hating on an unfinished product.

I'm just saying, you shouldn't expect the demo to have no bugs on the first release. You can't find every bug. It's just not possible. That's why it's important that Alex gets actionable feedback on the game.

Is this a falseflagger I smell?

 

[José Mourinho]

I'm an adult, and I wouldn't consider Alex a role model. I just think the response here is overly negative.
I admit, I'm not sure how Alex didn't find some of these bugs on his own. I think he might have rushed the demo release. It's probably because of the fangames that are being worked on. These games are a threat to the crowdfunding campaign's success. Why would someone donate to the campaign when there are fangames that are being released for free? So he had to put the demo out as fast as reasonably possible, and then fix the bugs afterwards, which he is doing.

I'm probably the closest among the regulars here to be sympathetic to Alex himself but holy shit even though I do agree to some extent some of the criticism to Alex is dumb, you aren't helping either.

1. I don't really care too much about the bugs honestly since game is still in a pre-alpha stage and the purpose for that is to get the community to find any more new bugs to report. But if the game is still in that stage for six years and if Alex actually did do some bug testing while developing Osana I can understand why people are pissed why it's so buggy. If six years (or six months whatever the fuck that is, my point still stands) of development of Osana is considered "rushing" to you, then I have nothing else to say.

2. As someone said before, the fangames are the reason why Alex decided to quickly finish up on Osana. And do you seriously think these fangames based off a complex system are gonna be released for free? And considering how these fangames crashed and burned, even without these, there's still more reasons not to donate to Alex's crowdfunding campaign.

 

[SIGSEGV]

game is still in a pre-alpha stage

I'm pretty sure that Alex himself has said that the release of the demo would mark the end of Yandere Simulator's pre-alpha stage.

 

[José Mourinho]

I'm pretty sure that Alex himself has said that the release of the demo would mark the end of Yandere Simulator's pre-alpha stage.

Yeah I forgot he said that, even so it's still dumb to release Osana in an unfinished buggy stage and call it end of pre-alpha.

Unless Alex is gonna backtrack on this shit.

 

[BScCollateral]

I'll glad to give a solo / inexperienced dev some slack, but at this point Alex has been working on this for six years. Even part time, he should be an expert at this point.

 

[TheFinalCountdown]

I'm an adult, and I wouldn't consider Alex a role model. I just think the response here is overly negative.
I admit, I'm not sure how Alex didn't find some of these bugs on his own. I think he might have rushed the demo release. It's probably because of the fangames that are being worked on. These games are a threat to the crowdfunding campaign's success. Why would someone donate to the campaign when there are fangames that are being released for free? So he had to put the demo out as fast as reasonably possible, and then fix the bugs afterwards, which he is doing.

Shut the fuck up Alex.

 

[SIGSEGV]

I'll glad to give a solo / inexperienced dev some slack, but at this point Alex has been working on this for six years. Even part time, he should be an expert at this point.

This really cannot be stressed enough. It's been six fucking years, and Alex still doesn't understand object oriented programming. Instead of designing a base class for NPCs and then making derived classes for different categories of NPCs (e.g., teachers, students, police), he has a monolithic heap of spaghetti code that will be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to reuse. At some point, you'd think laziness would compel him to figure out how to make his own life easier, but he hasn't even done that. Somehow, despite all of this, Alex has the audacity to call himself a developer, when in reality he's churning out shit that would make even your average pajeet weep tears of blood.

 

[Burmese Rice Farmer]

This really cannot be stressed enough. It's been six fucking years, and Alex still doesn't understand object oriented programming. Instead of designing a base class for NPCs and then making derived classes for different categories of NPCs (e.g., teachers, students, police), he has a monolithic heap of spaghetti code that will be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to reuse. At some point, you'd think laziness would compel him to figure out how to make his own life easier, but he hasn't even done that. Somehow, despite all of this, Alex has the audacity to call himself a developer, when in reality he's churning out shit that would make even your average pajeet weep tears of blood.

Not sure if this has been brought up before, but considering Alex's ineptitude with basic OOP concepts like polymorphism and abstraction, is C# basically the only language he has experience in besides the god-awful UnityScript of yesteryear? Seeing as he just likes to mangle scripts for NPCs to only grab info from itself based on conditionals, it genuinely feels like he doesn't know he can call on other scripts for info basing, at least from what little I remember of the source leak. If C# is his first true foray into a primarily object-oriented language, then it's no wonder he can't ever make something functional out of YanSim besides his unrelenting scope creep

 

[odumegwu]

I'm pretty sure that Alex himself has said that the release of the demo would mark the end of Yandere Simulator's pre-alpha stage.

Alex can say a lot of different things - he made kuudere character and called it Yandere Simulator after all. Whatever he baked out, can't be called demo. It's an alpha build at best.

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

The whole fire extinguisher thing is fixed by making it so Osana doesn't pick up fire extinguishers anymore. edit: I didn't even notice that weird glitch when going up the stairs

So now she just doesn't go there? Hell of a fix, sir! Just like taking a shit into kitchen sink if your toilet is broken.

 

[odumegwu]

So now she just doesn't go there? Hell of a fix, sir! Just like taking a shit into kitchen sink if your toilet is broken.

This is standard procedure for "fixing" the bugs, Alex style. Wasn't there an exploit where you could pour gasoline on Osana and kill her in unorthodox way - and then Alex made it so she instinctively jumped backward to avoid getting splashed? Well, how can you fix spaghetti code like this? If you do not want to touch this abomination and write it from foundation, you can only have hotfixes.

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

This is standard procedure for "fixing" the bugs, Alex style. Wasn't there an exploit where you could pour gasoline on Osana and kill her in unorthodox way - and then Alex made it so she instinctively jumped backward to avoid getting splashed? Well, how can you fix spaghetti code like this? If you do not want to touch this abomination and write it from foundation, you can only have hotfixes.

Remember, spaghetti monster always comes back twice as powerful as it was and if even someone like Valve has hard time fixing this, then Alex has 0 chances.

 

[Erica]

I'm probably the closest among the regulars here to be sympathetic to Alex himself but holy shit even though I do agree to some extent some of the criticism to Alex is dumb, you aren't helping either.

1. I don't really care too much about the bugs honestly since game is still in a pre-alpha stage and the purpose for that is to get the community to find any more new bugs to report. But if the game is still in that stage for six years and if Alex actually did do some bug testing while developing Osana I can understand why people are pissed why it's so buggy. If six years (or six months whatever the fuck that is, my point still stands) of development of Osana is considered "rushing" to you, then I have nothing else to say.

2. As someone said before, the fangames are the reason why Alex decided to quickly finish up on Osana. And do you seriously think these fangames based off a complex system are gonna be released for free? And considering how these fangames crashed and burned, even without these, there's still more reasons not to donate to Alex's crowdfunding campaign.

I would also say I’m somewhat sympathetic to Alex, and will add to this post from that context (not to say I think he’s 100% the victim, just that a lot of the criticism and trolling that comes his way are from people who think they’re way smarter than they actually are).

But additionally, I don’t know why the fan games would lower his bottom line. None of them actually finished/got to a playable state (aside from some of the knock offs, though they had significantly less content and appeal). Also a lot of the people who jumped to suck Dr Aepis’ dick fell off the bandwagon long ago; they won’t give money to this kind of project anymore. They’re only spamming twitter because it pisses off Alex.

 

[AnAccidentalMishap]

Well, I did call that he'd push out a half assed Osana. Sooner than I thought he would though. I'm surprised he didnt take a few years with all his fucking sperging and jacking off.
Though man do those Post-processing effects look like absolute shit, I'd ask if he got some retard to sneeze on his code but thats pretty much what he does.

 

[Rungle]

Honestly, you guys are being way too harsh on Alex. You should be impressed that Osana is finally out instead of tearing it down. Yes there has been a lot of bugs, but they are being fixed. Also, it's not even the full game, you guys are hating on an unfinished product.

I crashed my game 2 times in 10 minutes