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

[Rilakkuma]

Once again, I don't really think this sucks. The asthetic he's going for is "a game that looks cute but really it's fucked up". Of course, if he keeps showing off all his content on youtube as soon as he makes it, the shock value is lost. The animations and crap he has aren't bad for the stage of the game that he's in, but they'll all need to be redone and polished. This will never happen if he keeps changing the scope of the game every week.

He needs a dev team. But he will never get one. Because he's not in it to make a game, he's in it to be a glory hound.

 

[Anarchaprincess]

I'm actually pleasantly surprised with the update. It's not that good but it's surprisingly decent for a egomaniac dev denying the need of a team can do in a month

If he weren't like that, or if he doesn't change really, it could have been a good game despite the niche audience is weebs.

Yeah the animation problem like arm going through boob is an issue but at the same, it's not that much of a big deal, professional companies do that with hair going through outfits and such.

 

[Fatcat]

At this point I'm really curious to see how he organized his work and schedule on Yandere Simulator but it's probably something like
8 a.m - wake up
8 : 30 a.m - read email for 6 hours and then complain about them in everyway single way possible
and he then spend 1 hour stealing assets and the rest of the time creating easter eggs although he said it's not on top of his list of priorities and apologize for the delay of the next build

 

[Helvetica Scenario]

Wait. If YanDev's going to change the design of the school uniform - or replace the stolen assets he's been using for the backgrounds, even! - then surely the cut scene he's been talking up as so awesome and game-changing is going to need to be totally redone? I don't know anything about games except how to play them, but surely he can't just swap out one set of assets for another in a pre-rendered cutscene?

 

[Lackadaisy]

Wait. If YanDev's going to change the design of the school uniform - or replace the stolen assets he's been using for the backgrounds, even! - then surely the cut scene he's been talking up as so awesome and game-changing is going to need to be totally redone? I don't know anything about games except how to play them, but surely he can't just swap out one set of assets for another in a pre-rendered cutscene?

The animations likely wouldn't match up (not that they're that great anyways), which is why every character is a palette/hair swap of Yandere's model.

At this point I'm really curious to see how he organized his work and schedule on Yandere Simulator but it's probably something like
8 a.m - wake up
8 : 30 a.m - read email for 6 hours and then complain about them in everyway single way possible
and he then spend 1 hour stealing assets and the rest of the time creating easter eggs although he said it's not on top of his list of priorities and apologize for the delay of the next build

>implying it's a.m. when he wakes up

 

[Rilakkuma]

Wait. If YanDev's going to change the design of the school uniform - or replace the stolen assets he's been using for the backgrounds, even! - then surely the cut scene he's been talking up as so awesome and game-changing is going to need to be totally redone? I don't know anything about games except how to play them, but surely he can't just swap out one set of assets for another in a pre-rendered cutscene?

Surprisingly, he can. If he already has the animations done, he can just change out models. (Assuming it was done correctly the first time)/

 

[otacon]

I think it's very possible to have humor and heavy subjects exist together in a single game, such as in Dangan Ronpa.

oh yeah, i definitely think the two can coexist, but it takes a far better writer than YanDev to pull something like that off. mostly what i'm worried about is the fact that he cannot establish a coherent tone. it started off as something almost like Girlchan in Paradise but now i don't even know what the fuck he's going for. I guess like @Rilakkuma said, he's going for a fucked up game with cutesy graphics? But Naughty Bear already tried that, and look at how terrible that game was.

 

[CMora]

Is that supposed to be something to have in a game that is literally a joke?
Because even if he says "Sounds like domestic abuse" it's clearly not about just abuse.[/MEDIA]

You know, no matter how much he repeats that "Yandere-chan is not a good person," the lengths he goes to prove it are so creepy. Yes, a 17-year-old girl would totally kidnap a classmate and use her as blackmail! I get it, she's an unfeeling 2edgy4me sociopath, but the game would benefit from him toning it down (and getting more people on board...)

Also, I think he put in another stereotype.

 

[CWCissey]

You know, no matter how much he repeats that "Yandere-chan is not a good person," the lengths he goes to prove it are so creepy. Yes, a 17-year-old girl would totally kidnap a classmate and use her as blackmail! I get it, she's an unfeeling 2edgy4me sociopath, but the game would benefit from him toning it down (and getting more people on board...)

Also, I think he put in another stereotype.
View attachment 100530

Christ Yandev, Ganguro died out in Japan ages ago! Unless she's meant to be one of the offshoots...

 

[Lackadaisy]

Christ Yandev, Ganguro died out in Japan ages ago! Unless she's meant to be one of the offshoots...

Ganguro has been dead for at least ten years now. It really just proves he knows nothing about Japan outside of anime and porn games.

 

[Rilakkuma]

I feel like the aesthetic of this game would be more pleasing if instead of trying to emulate actual Japanese trends, he just ripped it ALL from anime. It would give it a sort of ridiculous, humorous, tongue-in-cheek feel. Kind of like someone making a movie about America and referencing 80s action movies only.

 

[X_X]

oh yeah, i definitely think the two can coexist, but it takes a far better writer than YanDev to pull something like that off. mostly what i'm worried about is the fact that he cannot establish a coherent tone. it started off as something almost like Girlchan in Paradise but now i don't even know what the fuck he's going for. I guess like @Rilakkuma said, he's going for a fucked up game with cutesy graphics? But Naughty Bear already tried that, and look at how terrible that game was.

Its a mystery. He let his audience guide him. He pretty much is Toru Nanamine from Bakuman. He had an idea but needs others to finish it in a way he likes.

 

[Pepsi-Cola]

You know, no matter how much he repeats that "Yandere-chan is not a good person," the lengths he goes to prove it are so creepy. Yes, a 17-year-old girl would totally kidnap a classmate and use her as blackmail! I get it, she's an unfeeling 2edgy4me sociopath, but the game would benefit from him toning it down (and getting more people on board...)

Also, I think he put in another stereotype.
View attachment 100530

Christ Yandev, Ganguro died out in Japan ages ago! Unless she's meant to be one of the offshoots...

tbf I think this is a part of some kind of Anime parody thing because Ganguros were a really popular comic relief character in Anime for a long time, but that implies that he's still trying to make the game a satire and not a edgy hitman clone with anime characters. I don't even know what he's trying to do, at this point.

 

[Hat]

The thing is he's not trying to make a joke game or a parody at all; he's a weeaboo who watches animé and is into erotic video games and everything in his game is completely serious in his mind. Yandere Simulator is his own personal little torture porn wish fulfillment, with a few stupid little jokes and memes because he is easily distracted.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

I feel like the aesthetic of this game would be more pleasing if instead of trying to emulate actual Japanese trends, he just ripped it ALL from anime. It would give it a sort of ridiculous, humorous, tongue-in-cheek feel. Kind of like someone making a movie about America and referencing 80s action movies only.

Thing is, that requires effort, something our old pal Eva clearly doesn't want put into his game.

Also, I think he put in another stereotype.
View attachment 100530

That's quite uncomfortable, and as other mentioned, dated.

Also, we sure that's not supposed to be a Ganguro chick and not a botched attempt at clown makeup?

 

[Buer]

Is that supposed to be something to have in a game that is literally a joke?
Because even if he says "Sounds like domestic abuse" it's clearly not about just abuse.

Also:

You know, I know being kidnapped and being held for ransom could end with the victim being psychologically traumatized but for her ENTIRE life? That's a bit of an exaggeration. Nothing was even done to her in that video that would make her like that. Yeah she would be traumatized but she'd get over it eventually. He could have added that despite what she went through she wants revenge and is after the one who did this to her(and so does her father). Not sure how yanderedev could go about incorporating that into a game but if I was that girl's dad I would definitely want revenge/justice. I wouldn't leave it at that. And if this girl was indeed broken as he puts it why would the father allow her to go to school? Wouldn't she have said that's where she was kidnapped? Wouldn't she have also said who the last person she saw before she was kidnapped was yandere-chan? I think he just put the girl as traumatized and broken because he doesn't want/doesn't have the capability of answering these questions. If the girl is broken then he doesn't have to worry about the consequences of yandere-chan's actions. Also apparently no parent gives a shit about their daughter/son because the torture to break someone requires days. Wouldn't the parents have been worried by day one if their daughter/son didn't come home? Seriously this guy cares more about the gruesome violence in this game than rather if it makes sense.

Also, speaking of which, I know we don't know much about yandere-chan's mom but if she's anything like yandere-chan how did she become pregnant and have yandere-chan? Yandere-chan seems incapable of talking to senpai let alone getting close so how did her mom do it? Or did she just rape her senpai? I really hope yanderedev doesn't go with that route but he most likely will.

 

[Helvetica Scenario]

Wow, someone really needs to remove this guy's boob slider privileges until he can get over his desire to make teenage schoolgirls look like they're smuggling melons. I thought Kokona's boobs looked pretty ridiculous in that intro shot, and then he had her turn around.

I have absolutely nothing against booby ladies in video games, but even if this character wasn't an underage girl she would still look absolutely bloody ridiculous. It's blatantly obvious that the base model he's using wasn't designed to be that busty and that he's done absolutely no work to make her look like she actually should be save shoving a slider up as far as it will go. Tits do not work that way. Bodies do not work that way. Shirts do not work that way. If Kokona was supposed to be ineptly-modeled eye candy or a joke character that'd be one thing, but she's got a fucking tragic past. She's got a dead mother and is selling her body to help her debt-ridden dad, but she's also got neon hair, helium balloons down the front of her shirt and the same terminal case of resting bitchface that effects every single other female character in the entire damn game. Am I meant to take this character seriously or not? For heaven's sake, YanDev, just pick one.

As regards Yandere-chan's mother - yeah, you guessed it. She kidnapped and raped her own crush because fuck you, that's why.

Ryoba abducted her upperclassman, tied him to a chair, and forced him into a relationship with her, revealing that her mother had done the same to her own crush, implying that she was a yandere too. Ryoba eventually married her upperclassman, giving birth to a single daughter at around the age of 19.

So, if the endgame is abducting Senpai, raping him into stunned compliance and then popping out another embryonic yandere while she's still young enough to be hot in the sequel, why does she give a fuck about discreetly getting the other girls out of the way first? It clearly doesn't actually matter what Senpai ultimately thinks of the main character or if other girls are after him if she's just going to abduct him, break him mentally, and force him to marry her anyway. An idea that would be rightly considered absolutely fucking horrific if the main character was male and his crush was a girl, for the record, so why do you think you get a pass, YanDev?

Oh, yeah: the mother also has boobs bigger than her own head. Looking forward to seeing that model in-game, seeing how brilliantly he's handled Kokona.

 

[Buer]

Oh, yeah: the mother also has boobs bigger than her own head. Looking forward to seeing that model in-game, seeing how brilliantly he's handled Kokona.

The mom looks a bit like the counselor so I imagine the mother's model will be similar. Also, is it just me or does the counselor look like Meiko from prison school:
Meiko-

Yandere Simulator Counselor-

 

[Ferls]

I'm glad that the big emotional cutscene he was talking about was just some shot-reverse-shot conversation on a couch in which a girl rambles on and you're hardly even listening to her.

Seriously, if not for that interactive section you probably could have just played a video cutscene made in MMD and it'd look better.

Anyway, this is a prime example of what I posted about once with him prioritizing the presentation over the function. Most of the stuff he showed off in the video shouldn't even exist and even will be removed. Let's not even touch on the numerous numerous issues with the story like Helvetica did above. The entire sequence of events is so so flawed and badly written, explicitly excused as a placeholder as well. If you're not going to put in the effort to make it a believable story just because it's temporary, why present a story at all? Why not just go through the motions? For example, meet Kokona on the rooftop and instead of going through a whole dialogue with her just have some animations play and have the text say "Kokona explains to you that her father is actually in debt to the Ronshaku company". Instead of these two text message conversations, do one of those black screens that just says "this happens". So much effort was put into this and it's not even a story worth telling and it's not necessary to do to test the functionality. And it's not staying, either. Even if Kokona gets converted into the Drama Club president like people say she might, it would have to be rewritten entirely to fit the vision for that character or at least to not suck and totally break all of the principles that keep this "stealth" story together.

I mean really, I can't get over how many holes are in that story. He's so preoccupied with "I know it's unrealistic for Kokona to give up her crush so easily" that he didn't even acknowledge how dangerous the entire thing is for Yandere because of how many signs point to her. Not only could the Ganguro girl testify as to who kidnapped her. There's so much wrong. Kokona might tell someone "I have to go to Yan-chan's house after school I'll see you later" and then suddenly she goes missing because you chose to eliminate her. You join the music club to gain access to the instrument case, and then suddenly you lose it and that case turns up at someone's house with a person in it.

He's created so much extra work for himself and others. Just to test a small amendment to an existing feature (kidnapping).
I suppose it's because it's what he feels he needs to do to keep people interested, but a lot more people would be a lot more interested if he made a significant amount of progress with the game.

• If the majority of the fanbase was actually expecting this build to have burials, raincoats, and teacher routines, and are angry that those features weren’t in this build, then my next objective will be to put those features into the game as soon as possible.

I know he's a freak about "being the kind of dev who intracts with fans" but I'm glad that he's now explicitly a doormat for them to walk all over. In case the video game club didn't make it clear enough, now we have him telling everyone "I'll do whatever you guys want me to do".

 

[X_X]

The mom looks a bit like the counselor so I imagine the mother's model will be similar. Also, is it just me or does the counselor look like Meiko from prison school:
Meiko-

Yandere Simulator Counselor-

He is a fan of Prison School. He mentioned that the incinerator is even modeled the same as the one in the manga. Look forward to the Prison School mod easter egg.