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CultcowEvaXephon / 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
Way I see it, there are really only 2 options.
1) Game comes out, it's awful. Alex get's shit on.
2) Game doesn't come out. Alex get's shit on.
I wouldn't even be mad at the latter to be honest, he could at any point just cancel the game and be done with it, that happens often in indie development, but with him pocketing hundreds of thousands in patreon bucks, that makes all the difference, suddenly its not just an overly ambitious project that failed, it would then be an overly ambitious scam that succeeded.
Pretty much this. Tinybuild was his best bet for a quality version of the game to come out. Keeping in mind the dude is still using basic (stolen? I forget) unity (I also forget the engine he's using) models and assets. The guy has yet to make a single quality thing himself. They style and look of the game is going to be that because he's too lazy to get someone to make real assets for him. Like, real talk, who's going to do all this for him? Most independent help has walked away from the project. After Tinybuild, I doubt any other developer is going to want to help. The project has been slowly losing public interest. The only thing he can do is shit out this game in 3 years and everyone will trash it.
I don't know how YanDev expects to make a game. He can't even make proper easter eggs, even though that's currently 90% of his "game".
Aren't easter eggs supposed to be hard to find and rewarding? Not "Press F to become Sans Undertale".
Also, Alex probably won't post the new build tomorrow or people will think it's an April Fools joke. To be honest, the whole April Fools thing really just gives him an excuse to not work on the game.
I know I'm a couple days late, but goddamn, that new headmaster tape is the fucking dumbest waste of time and a sad, pathetic attempt at creating "lore" for this sandbox. Since, someone kindly informed us a couple pages back that the sister is the FUN girl (which I will quote below), I just got to say that has to be the dumbest plot twist that I've ever seen, especially because of how unfitting the whole concept of the fun girl is to the attempted "world building" of the game. He can't just rip off ideas from other games and expect it to fit perfectly into his game. Gaster fit into Undertale because his addition took the world building into consideration, which the FUN girl fails to do. The FUN girl is an Easter egg, and Easter eggs should not be relevant to the plot. Honestly, he should scrap the idea of the FUN girl altogether and put her up in the sky with all his other "deleted" content from this game.
What annoys me the most about the tapes is that they’re extremely long (the newest is over seven minutes!) and you can’t even do anything else while they’re playing.
Seeing how there’re supposed to be ten tapes each for Yandere-chan’s mother, the Journalist and the Headmaster (and I think he talked about adding some tapes for the Counselor), Alex expects the player to just sit through hours of exposition. Even FNaF didn’t do that.
Also, the “sister” from the latest tape is obviously Fun Girl, the W. D. Gaster rip-off, while the brother is the current CEO and Megami's father.
On a different note, I don't know if I'm being over dramatic with this, but since Alex is known for stealing ideas, I'm a little suspicious. I clearly remember saying something a while back on here wondering why the school doesn't exist to train future employees for the Saikou company, and the new headmaster tape said something along those lines. I don't know how long he's been working on that, and I may have guessed something that he already had the idea for, but then again, I remember who exactly we are talking about. If my suspicions are correct, I just got to say that it's not cool to rip ideas straight from the farms, Alex. These ideas are kiwi-farmers exclusives. Other than that, I don't know how to feel about this, and I quoted what I said before and put the part I referenced in bold.
Wait a minute, if the school is owned by the Saikou family, who supposedly run the biggest tech company in the world, wouldn't the school be more tech-savvy? Why wouldn't it be one of those STEM schools with smart boards and laptops? I don't know much about Japan and Japanese schools, but common sense makes me expect it to be a STEM school that prepares students to work for the tech company, that the owner of the school happens to also own. Why isn't there a robotics team at this school?
well as its the first day of the month the monthly subscriptions expired, so i assume you joke, but i think you nailed it, now April 2 his patreon sits with 1.231 patrons at $4.298 per month , so he clearly lost 18 patrons and $206, maybe some people noticed his bullshit, so we need to keep the track this week if more people leave him or it will stabilize like usual
because every pledge needs a reward, patreon nowadays it's a joke and a charity, but it was not intended that way, he needs to deliver what he promises or he loses support, of course the patron has the option not to choose a reward
but overall the definitive response it's that Alex its a busy guy making his game, so he doesn't have time to give rewards.
Edit: also the rewards are to motivate the patron @Hopeman ehmm even if its just a $1 reward, you can donate more if you want, its not limited to donate max $1
well as its the first day of the month the monthly subscriptions expired, so i assume you joke, but i think you nailed it unironically, now April 2 his patreon sits with 1.231 patrons at $4.298 per month , so he clearly lost 18 patrons and $206, maybe some people noticed his bullshit, so we need to keep the track this week if more people leave him or it will stabilize like usual
Now this is weird, maybe Graphtreon missed the window when Patreon charges patrons, so they overestimated.
Which means he's down from $4401 he had on March 1st by $103.
I checked few other creators and Graphtreon puts the dip correctly on the 1st, I wonder what happened with pledges for Alex.
Anyway, I retract my previous statement. The marketing campaign wasn't successful enough to his influence from waning. Good.
If the pledges keep falling by about $100 a month, he'll get his last sucker money in late 2021. Maybe Osana will be ready by then, but I wouldn't bet on it.
If the pledges keep falling by about $100 a month, he'll get his last sucker money in late 2021. Maybe Osana will be ready by then, but I wouldn't bet on it.
I guess Alex gets to choose how he’ll meet his demise.
Stall YanSim development and run out of audience interest or rush development to make a KickStarter that gets grilled by someone like Jim Sterling.
I know that its late but i want to bring something that Azzman showed in his video, Alex put fucking tin blocks on the roof, i know that stealth mechanics are garbage, but putting tin blocks make it look worst and immersion breaking, this is not fucking metal gear, Alex you need to stop, your game is all over the place
Also the video that post @NateOwen23 , Alex you are a fucking moron if you think that quicktime events are a minigame, they are not, minigame and quicktime events are a different things, minigames are fun, your garbage quicktime events are not, your game is filled with quicktime events the most anti fun thing ever
Azzman's videos showed one more fatal flaw. In previous one, he didn't know what "personas" are, this time he didn't notice that the tapes are from the past. He would know about these if he watched Alex's videos. So, if you want to know what to do, what's the story and what are the core features™ you need to watch youtube videos. Great fun indeed. He can't possibly think that all of new players would just stop playing and look up the solution online. A functional tutorial is one of the only features that can be considered core and that he should implement before Osana.
Azzman's videos showed one more fatal flaw. In previous one, he didn't know what "personas" are, this time he didn't notice that the tapes are from the past. He would know about these if he watched Alex's videos. So, if you want to know what to do, what's the story and what are the core features™ you need to watch youtube videos. Great fun indeed. He can't possibly think that all of new players would just stop playing and look up the solution online. A functional tutorial is one of the only features that can be considered core and that he should implement before Osana.
I feel like nothing he's doing is an accident given what we know about him and his greedy behavior. He's probably banking on the fact that new players are gonna seek out answers and then land on his older videos, which would have a twofold effect 1. keep him and his older videos relevant, and 2. give him a constant stream of ad rev.
From a game design perspective, its awful, but Alex isn't a game designer, he's an opportunist driven by greed. I honestly half expect him to release a brand new set of videos explaining the mechanics in about as much depth as you can expect from his lazy ass, and never include a tutorial. In his defense though, this game is a simulator, and those games rarely if ever do tutorials, they just plop you down in a sandbox and leave you to your own devices, but he's expressed countless times that he doesn't want his game that way.
This game is his meal ticket, the scam ride is never over.
Edit:
I'm calling it now, he'll add a help/tutorial menu, that will just link you to the relevant video for the mechanic you want to learn about on his youtube channel. Probably give a shitty reason for it too. "The information already exists so there was no reason to re-invent the wheel, this saves me the time and effort required to actually program a tutorial which just isn't a top priority for me at the moment." As if what he's doing is some altruistic gesture, when all he's really doing is driving his own wallet.
Well done Alex, for spoiling another one of your 'mysteries'. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that the aunt has a twin now.
As for the drawing, what the fuck is wrong with her face? It looks so henati-ish, it's so uncomfortable.
Tbh it would have been so much better and funnier if it was revealed that the aunt wanted to travel the world because she actually wanted to. No 'looking for long lost sister' bullshit. The idea of the CEO spinning the idea of her wanting to travel into something terrible is pretty funny & would have been a breath of fresh air considering that the whole game is just 'mystery' after 'mystery'
So I want those who don't want to look back in older parts of this thread to remember, FUN girl was originally taken out cause the artist that originally made her didn't like Alex adding her without their permission. Alex tried to passive aggressive them to keep her in but was forced to remove her cause he failed. So this new FUN girl most likely was drawn by a new artist cause Alex is too cowardly to ask that original person permission.
So I want those who don't want to look back in older parts of this thread to remember, FUN girl was originally taken out cause the artist that originally made her didn't like Alex adding her without their permission. Alex tried to passive aggressive them to keep her in but was forced to remove her cause he failed. So this new FUN girl most likely was drawn by a new artist cause Alex is too cowardly to ask that original person permission.
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