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

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

Yandere Dev just said on stream that Osana will not be ready this month.

So much for that.

pigs will fly andf ell freezes sooner if Osana is implemented. There's even a tumblr blog dedicated to "When Osana Will be Implemented."

 

[tortoiseshell]

 

[Salty Spitoon]

pigs will fly andf ell freezes sooner if Osana is implemented. There's even a tumblr blog dedicated to "When Osana Will be Implemented."

At this point, I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[LucasSomething]

I don't get it, why does Azzman use Alex for a video again? I didn't watched the video so sorry if I say something wrong but doesn't it makes the "YandereDev situation explaination video" kinda.. useless? Don't get me wrong, Alex deserves every asskick he gets from the internet but Azzman knows how easily he gets triggered. The rage video is an insider but still.. Alex WILL watch the video and hello drama. It's unnecessary.

It was already useless because Alex never accepted the apology, i'm glad azzman stopped giving fucks.

That's one big thing that always rubbed me the wrong way about YanSim: the characters just felt so bland and basic (aside from perhaps Kokona.) I always decided to give Alex the benefit of the doubt and thought he'd develop them more as development went on, but that doesn't look like it's happening between you and me.

You can easily sum up the characters like so: Emotionless girl Ayano, generic Senpai, tsundere Osana, shy weird girl Oka, ditzy Midori, etc. Kokona is probably the best developed character, and all of it will be rendered completely pointless once Osana is implemented. You can see why the fans of YanSim were clamoring for Kokona to become an actual rival: she's actually interesting compared to the other characters, and people want to see her story through.

I know Ayano is supposed to be a stand-in for the player, but it doesn't seem like Alex treats her like that, at least to me. He always goes "Yandere-chan would do this, Yandere-chan would do that, etc." like she's not a vessel for the player and rather her own stand-alone character. Because of this, I end up seeing her as her own character, and considering her background and (lack-of) personality, I can't get invested in her at all. She feels like a block of wood. Even when you decide to go pacifist and pair your rivals with other boys, you can tell that Ayano is just being manipulative and trying to get her own way on her own instead of actually caring about her rivals' well-being and love lives, like I probably would in that situation. The video about her childhood did nothing to alleviate the pain. In fact, it made her even more boring to me.

(Also, I can't be the only one who feels the way he treats Midori in his videos as rather insulting to his fanbase, considering she's sort of a stand-in for them.)

IMO the problem with Kokona is that Alex doesn't know what "Show, don't tell" means, he keeps saying she is a poor girl who gets bullied by everyone but ingame we never see she actually being bullied by default, instead, she is always tallking casually with her 5 friends and no one seems to treat her differently. And while she is nicer than every other student, her entire personality is defined by her sad story, if you remove those then who is Kokona? In the end Alex just created her to test murder methods, he didn't want her to be interesting either. And that's what kill the game, Alex didn't make anyone interesting so why should i be interested?

I don't honestly think he ever planned Ayano as a player stand-in, if he wanted then he would do what every other game does, let you name the protagonist. Ayano is like this because, in his own words, "i didn't want to hear people complain about not liking her personality so i gave her no personality." It was always a lazy cop-out, he didn't know how to make a likable character and so he didn't.

 

[30 Dollar Haircut]

https://yanderedev.wordpress.com/2017/10/18/october-18th-bug-fixing-build-2/#more-11167

Bug fixes. Some of these are honestly shocking to be in the game in the first place, but what should I expect from him at this point

 

[sweetpepperfairy]

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Excuse me while I take a deep breath and scream into the void. This man has in no way properly researched naming conventions in Japan. There are entire websites dedicated to the selected characters specifically meant for name building and their multiple pronunciations how can you fail so completely at literally just googling information it's not that fucking difficult I swear to fuck all this is just ridiculous

 

[Helvetica Scenario]

Alex, you colossal sped, stop overcomplicating this.

There's a really simple solution to the Shit Names Saga: type 'Japanese Names' into your search engine of choice, and hit Enter. That is it. That is literally all he has to do - if he wants to get really fancy, he can tack 'Meanings' onto the end of that search string. Yandaddydevpai here is very obviously not clever, creative or witty enough to do anything else when it comes to making characters - and names are very important - so why the hell is he still trying? Picking appropriate names is practically the only thing about this entire godawful project he could substantially improve by just following his own unimaginative, lazy as fuck instincts and letting Google do all the heavy lifting, but no. No, instead we get told we should be taking characters called Snobby Snob and Is Death and Ath Lete and Childhood Friend and Green Green and My Waifu perfectly seriously, because it's this bullshit he's actually sinking time and effort into.

 

[LucasSomething]

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Instead of "authentic sounding" names, why can't it simply be authentic names? And for those who dont get, Alex is giving them color+animal names because it's a reference to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Symbols_(China)

Get ready for 4 new characters who might be rivals/friends who will add nothing to the game. Also, this kind of theme naming was done better in other media especially the dragon and tiger motifs, like yakuza does with Kiryu/ Taiga and Ace attorney with Ryuichi/Toranosuke. Adding random sylables that are common in names will only make people miss the reference and think it's stupid.

If we go by Alex logic, a character named after a "purple flower" should be called "Purplianna Flowerietta".

 

[Henry Wyatt]

at first I thought his game sounded pretty cool

then I realized its just a weeabo hitman clone with metal gear rising's dismemberment mechanic

 

[GENESIS]

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Sounds like Alex got bored of butchering Japanese culture and moved to Chinese now...
I assume those four students are going to be his next 'ace up in his the sleeve' AKA look forward to him making an entire video about those students when he will be out of ideas and won't have any remarkable progress to report about.

 

[Salty Spitoon]

IMO the problem with Kokona is that Alex doesn't know what "Show, don't tell" means, he keeps saying she is a poor girl who gets bullied by everyone but ingame we never see she actually being bullied by default, instead, she is always tallking casually with her 5 friends and no one seems to treat her differently. And while she is nicer than every other student, her entire personality is defined by her sad story, if you remove those then who is Kokona? In the end Alex just created her to test murder methods, he didn't want her to be interesting either. And that's what kill the game, Alex didn't make anyone interesting so why should i be interested?

The closest we get to seeing Kokona getting bullied is when you post online about her compensated dating. After that, she goes and sits on the roof all alone at lunchtime. And then there's the flower/graffiti on her desk depending on how low you've gotten her reputation. But even then, she's still wearing her friendship bracelet (I think, unless he changed it) and we never actually see her other classmates do anything to her, nor does Saki comfort her at all.
Kokona is not a very interesting character if we're talking about all media, but in terms of YanSim, she definitely is, which is why people want her to become an official rival. So none of her story is rendered pointless. Which it will be, considering how damn stubborn Alex is. He's said that if he ever does DLC that Kokona is a strong candidate. With the direction that the development is going I don't see it happening, so I'll believe it when I see it.
It's kind of bad when the most interesting character in your game is still pretty boring.

Ayano is like this because, in his own words, "i didn't want to hear people complain about not liking her personality so i gave her no personality."

That has got to be the dumbest excuse for not writing a proper character I have ever seen.

 

[Kiki The Witch]

Kokona isn't interesting. The thing is that the other characters are so one-dimensional and detestable that when a character who is normal, nicer and has a sad story appears, people get attached to this character. But Kokona is just as bland as the others. Like LucasSomething said, if you remove her sad story, what is interesting and likeable about her?
Also, it doesn't make sense to do a character like Ayano be a stand-in for the player because the point of somethingdere is that it describes the character's personality. You can't give some whatever personality for a character like that because it will contradict the archetype they belong to. It would be cool if Alex made a yan (no mercy) and dere (pacifist) route, Ayano would still be a yandere but would change, but what he made with her character just doesn't make sense.

 

[sweetpepperfairy]

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Instead of "authentic sounding" names, why can't it simply be authentic names?

There's a really simple solution to the Shit Names Saga: type 'Japanese Names' into your search engine of choice, and hit Enter. [...] if he wants to get really fancy, he can tack 'Meanings' onto the end of that search string.

NOPE NEVERMIND I'M NOT DONE YET.

The thing that is boggling me is that this is just so damn easy! Wikipedia has articles talking about the naming conventions and character pronunciations of Japan. The sources are right there. And using Google to check names you've created and whether real people are named those names takes next to no effort! Heck, even just running the names by a Japanese person would bear better fruit than what he has going on.

I can do the first one (white tiger, or as he named her 'Shiromi Torayoshi') literally while I'm typing this post.

He wants to name a character 'Shiromi,' which is a name he made because he couldn't find a female name with 'Shiro' in it. Less than ten minutes of research lead me here, where you learn that the kanji for 'white' is this: 白

He's pronouncing it as 'shiro' which is the kun'yomi (meaning reading) pronounciation. There is more than one way to prounoce it though. Most names that have that character use the on'yomi (sound reading) pronounciation, which is 'haku' and guess how many names I found within two damn seconds that had 'haku' in them????? Heck, a couple of names I found pronounce the character as 'kiyo' and 'Kiyomi' in fact IS a common enough female name, albeit with different characters most of the time. Since he seems to be focused on the romaji versions of the names without the character inclusions, and sound puns are still a thing in a lot of anime if I remember correctly, Kiyomi is a good choice. Or he could literally name her Haku or any of those variants.

Now as far as Torayoshi goes, most surnames I found with 'yoshi' in them used the character 吉, which means good luck and was usually the first character. 虎, 'tora' was only in given names really, but if he took 'Tora' and added an appropriate suffix like 山, 'yama' meaning mountain or 多, 'da/ta' meaning many. Then it would fall better in line with the majority of Japanese surnames, since there are ones that use animal+land features. In fact, two more seconds on google showed me that a director is named 'Torada Isao' using the character 田, meaning rice field/rice paddy, so it's a perfectly viable choice!

Torada Kiyomi or Torada Haku! An authentic Japanese name referencing the white tiger. Took me at most fifteen minutes of paying the fuck attention. You are welcome, Mr. Developer.

EDIT: I finally found Shiromi (代美) wherein the 'shiro' comes from a character meaning 'generation' or 'price' and can also be pronounced 'dai.' So he can still use it just with a kanji substitution, but damn if he couldn't have taken two fucking seconds to look for it instead of slapping stuff together and hoping it sounds right.

 

[Wall Flower]

https://yanderedev.wordpress.com/2017/10/18/october-18th-bug-fixing-build-2/#more-11167

Bug fixes. Some of these are honestly shocking to be in the game in the first place, but what should I expect from him at this point

I don't know how to feel seeing how I got featured on his blog with my shitty little comic I made a year ago... Should I be happy or embarrassed?

 

[zFlarex]

I don't know how to feel seeing how I got featured on his blog with my shitty little comic I made a year ago... Should I be happy or embarrassed?

It's exposure for your DeviantArt page, but you might end up with Yandere Simulator fans who want only Yandere Simulator related artwork.
So it depends on how it affects you(if it even does).

 

[Wall Flower]

Hmmm just a thought guys but I would like your input. Should I make more "fan art" and use him to gain more exposure?
I'm in the middle of this, I would appreciate your guy's opinions.
One hand it's vicious and mean to use people like that but given how much of a man baby and immature he is...
I'm sort of leaning towards yes but I do not want to stoop down to his level, ya know?

Edit: Decided not to as I don't want a cult of children demanding yandere sim art. Blehc

 

[Sigma]

Hmmm just a thought guys but I would like your input. Should I make more "fan art" and use him to gain more exposure?
I'm in the middle of this, I would appreciate your guy's opinions.
One hand it's vicious and mean to use people like that but given how much of a man baby and immature he is...
I'm sort of leaning towards yes but I do not want to stoop down to his level, ya know?

No, unless you want all your fans to be dumb underage kids.

 

[LucasSomething]

Hmmm just a thought guys but I would like your input. Should I make more "fan art" and use him to gain more exposure?
I'm in the middle of this, I would appreciate your guy's opinions.
One hand it's vicious and mean to use people like that but given how much of a man baby and immature he is...
I'm sort of leaning towards yes but I do not want to stoop down to his level, ya know?

Edit: Decided not to as I don't want a cult of children demanding yandere sim art. Blehc

Alex is a very fragile person, if he ever discovers you're on kiwifarms he would edit the blog post, remove your art and say something like "I don't support art from fake fans". You're better not getting involved with him and his fans at all.

 

[Wall Flower]

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Alex is a very fragile person, if he ever discovers you're on kiwifarms he would edit the blog post, remove your art and say something like "I don't support art from fake fans". You're better not getting involved with him and his fans at all.

Thanks for the insight, friends. I wouldn't have thought of that. I appreciate it!

 

[sweetpepperfairy]

@Wall Flower Speaking from one artist to another, it's rarely fun to make fanart for stuff you don't like for exposure, even if it gets the ticket done. So even ignoring all the other consequences (the developer's spiteful attitude and the sudden attention from a very...volatile fanbase), there's a good chance you wouldn't be enjoying making the art either. And if you're not getting paid to do it (in favors, guaranteed exposure, and/or money), there's never any point in making art you can't enjoy for yourself.