Nerdbro

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The other theory that fits is that the rumor of him getting in trouble 'cause he's in a country that doesn't allow making such content, so he can't fight the Steam launch without getting in more trouble.

Either way, it's all just speculation on our parts. If someone with talent remade/continued this game and it was good, I personally don't really care about TLG's claim anymore. If anything fits the "abandoned" category this one does, so good luck to anyone that tries.
It's been 3 years do you really think anyone's gonna pick it up?
 

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The other theory that fits is that the rumor of him getting in trouble 'cause he's in a country that doesn't allow making such content, so he can't fight the Steam launch without getting in more trouble.

Either way, it's all just speculation on our parts. If someone with talent remade/continued this game and it was good, I personally don't really care about TLG's claim anymore. If anything fits the "abandoned" category this one does, so good luck to anyone that tries.
i like your sig left part (y)

It's been 3 years do you really think anyone's gonna pick it up?
it isnt a trash to throw in a trashbin.
any time could come somebody who pick it up. the chance is low, but exist.
the game is very good. the characters are very good. the story... the system...
 
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Nerdbro

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i like your sig left part (y)


it isnt a trash to throw in a trashbin.
any time could come somebody who pick it up. the chance is low, but exist.
the game is very good. the characters are very good. the story... the system...
Here's to hoping I really like the game as well.
 
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grey_shadow

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The real problem with any attempt at a continuation is not having the creator's plans to work from, making it likely that any attempt would miss the mark in some way.

Of course, someone could create a similar game with a similar story and characters. It won't be the same (at least not if they're any good) but it could be as good.
 

Lou33

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TLG returned from the dead to warn people about the Steam scam 2 years ago, so yes, he would mind if someone decided to take his IP and continue the story. It's obvious he isn't interested in continuing AOA Academy, nor in letting someone else take the reins of his work.
I am not talking about a scam, I mean more so someone actually continuing it. I mean also who honestly cares if he doesn't want someone continuing his work. Maybe a bad take but personally if a Dev abandones a game and has no plan to ever continue. They shouldn't be able to stop someone from taking the IP, considering a lot of people also pay Devs money for a game that never gets completed.

I wonder if the reason he actually came back to warn people, was to prevent people from being scammed. But who knows honestly, Kinda scummy in my opinion to just drop off the map and not explain to people who paid you 10's of thousands of dollars why you up and left.
 
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The real problem with any attempt at a continuation is not having the creator's plans to work from, making it likely that any attempt would miss the mark in some way.

Of course, someone could create a similar game with a similar story and characters. It won't be the same (at least not if they're any good) but it could be as good.
There are some really talented Devs out there though, I think many could get close to actually replicating the style of the game. But I highly doubt any talented devs would choose to finish others work instead of just making their own game.
 

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I don't believe a word about this so called scam. Steam is very sensitive when it comes to copyright infringements, as they themselves are also partly liable. Should the rightful copyright holder have reported the infringement of their rights to Steam, there is no way that the game would still be available on Steam. However, anyone who makes the claim to Steam will also be asked by Steam to provide proof of this. An affidavit notarized by a lawyer is sufficient for this purpose. Steam would then immediately contact the party that placed the game on the platform and “ask” for proof of legality.

To make a long story short: I don't believe the “someone else is selling my game” story. Personally I believe there were two people who made the game. They fell out and the project fell apart. One of them put it on Steam, the other had access to the account here and tried to spit in the soup.
I thought about that in the past, and the way you put it makes a lot of sense.

Now the question is: Which of the two is making Game of Hearts? :whistle:
 
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Oh boy, here we go again...

So the theory that TLG Games had 2 devs who were working on the game, and possibly there was a fight between them and they abandoned the project, is starting to make sense.
If that is true and the listing on steam is actually from the other Dev (which im doubtful of) Then he needs to come out and say it. I'd actually support a continuation of this game, Was one of my top 5 games. Though I doubt we will ever see it continued
 
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Omniscience25

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It's complicated because even the dev who has the account here at f95 doesn't comment on anything except to say that he wasn't the one who posted the game on Steam. But he didn't comment on why the game was abandoned or anything else... So while he himself doesn't comment on the reason for the abandonment, we only have speculation to discuss.

Furthermore, on Steam, this "dev" deletes every comment that attacks him or says that the game was stolen, and he doesn't even comment on it... I bet many people reported the game's page on Steam but nothing happened.
 

Talmadge

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It's complicated because even the dev who has the account here at f95 doesn't comment on anything except to say that he wasn't the one who posted the game on Steam. But he didn't comment on why the game was abandoned or anything else... So while he himself doesn't comment on the reason for the abandonment, we only have speculation to discuss.

Furthermore, on Steam, this "dev" deletes every comment that attacks him or says that the game was stolen, and he doesn't even comment on it... I bet many people reported the game's page on Steam but nothing happened.
I reported it when I asked for a refund. Because I found out later on that it wasn't the original Dev. Might be a partner. Might be someone who took the game and posted it him/her self. But nothing was done. It's still there.
 
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Joan6969

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So first time playing this{yeah I know it's dead}description says it a Harem yet the walkthrough mod
tells me if I go with this girl so and so path get's locked out. What's up with that? On the First chapter
and I've seen this pop up several times for different girls.... so I take it this isn't a Harem game?
 

DarhkBlu

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So first time playing this{yeah I know it's dead}description says it a Harem yet the walkthrough mod
tells me if I go with this girl so and so path get's locked out. What's up with that? On the First chapter
and I've seen this pop up several times for different girls.... so I take it this isn't a Harem game?
Well its a harem in a sense that you can be with more than 1 girl but not all of them,Not sure myself what combinations you can get tho.
 

MiltonPowers

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So first time playing this{yeah I know it's dead}description says it a Harem yet the walkthrough mod
tells me if I go with this girl so and so path get's locked out. What's up with that? On the First chapter
and I've seen this pop up several times for different girls.... so I take it this isn't a Harem game?

With it being abandoned it's hard to know, but I believe it was heading for a specific harem as one of the possible paths you could choose. What I mean is not all girls would be in it, and Dev would decide which ones were. (That's how it felt to me anyway).
 

grey_shadow

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With it being abandoned it's hard to know, but I believe it was heading for a specific harem as one of the possible paths you could choose. What I mean is not all girls would be in it, and Dev would decide which ones were. (That's how it felt to me anyway).
It's been a while, but, as I recall, there were two clusters - Jenny and her lodgers, or Ashley and the dorm gang - with an early choice between the two limiting who you got close to, but also Jenny and Ashley eventually meeting and approving of each other, suggesting there might be some degree of crossover/merging in the future.

Checking the walkthrough quickly, there are tags for both AshHarem and JenHarem routes, so there were planned poly relationships with each of them, even if they never got further than, for example, Jade talking about threesomes...
 

Joan6969

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Shame to see a game like this{it's really good} with a ton of content go dead. Been at it for almost 6 hours
and just got to the end of chapter 3. And no one knows what happen!....crazy but I'm sure I'm not
the first to say that huh? lol!
 
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Omniscience25

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It's been a while, but, as I recall, there were two clusters - Jenny and her lodgers, or Ashley and the dorm gang - with an early choice between the two limiting who you got close to, but also Jenny and Ashley eventually meeting and approving of each other, suggesting there might be some degree of crossover/merging in the future.

Checking the walkthrough quickly, there are tags for both AshHarem and JenHarem routes, so there were planned poly relationships with each of them, even if they never got further than, for example, Jade talking about threesomes...
If you take a look at some of the sneak peeks that were shown before it was abandoned, it looked like we would get a sense of what Jenny's gang's Harem would be like.

Ashley also didn't seem to give up on MC even though we chose to stay with Jenny for example.
 
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