A new build is now available. There’s nothing too special about it…just some bug fixes. If you’re curious to see a list of everything that is different in this new build, scroll down below this beautiful artwork by dinosaurito!
- Fixed bug that would cause Oka Ruto to perform social animations with her face up against a wall after her club closed down.
- Fixed bug that would make scared male students slightly float above the ground after witnessing murder.
- Fixed bug that would cause Occult Club students to sit down in midair after their club closed down.
- Now, if you turn Kokona into a mind-broken slave, she will commit suicide if she is given a knife.
- Now, a mind-broken slave will commit suicide if their target dies before they reach their target.
- A student who is following Yandere-chan will no longer react to Yandere-chan’s giggles.
- Fixed skirt clipping issue in Kokona’s motion-captured Monday morning event.
- Fixed bug that was causing the nurse’s face to deform in a strange way.
- Modified some of the Senpai Shrine text.
- Fixed typos on two door signs.
By the way, something occurred to me recently!
The more time I spent thinking about the “bury a corpse in the garden” gameplay mechanic, the more it began to fall apart…
- Police wouldn’t stop digging at a dead cat; cops and police dogs are trained to ignore “false positives” like that, since it’s one of the obvious things a criminal would do to throw the cops off their trail.
- Police dogs are too well-trained to go off and sniff out dead animals when they’re at a crime scene, so the police wouldn’t just say “Aw shucks, the dumb dog got distracted by a cat!”
- The corpse of a dead cat would be super suspicious all by itself, since there really isn’t any good excuse for the cat corpse to be there.
Of course, there are counter-arguments to all of the above…
- The police have a very limited amount of time to conduct their investigation, so if they have an excuse to stop investigating something, they take it.
- The police have an especially unreliable and untrustworthy police dog, and expect him to screw up.
- That area of the garden is a “pet graveyard” which explains why dead animals would be buried there.
However, I don’t want to add a new feature to the game if it means throwing in a whole bunch of new lore just to explain the existence of the feature.
In the end, this is what I think makes the most sense:
- The local police simply do not have police dogs. Yandere-chan does not have to worry about police dogs. She didn’t have to worry before this feature was suggested, and she won’t have to worry in the future, either.
- The police simply cannot locate corpses that have been buried underground. They have no way to detect whether or not a corpse is buried in the ground.
- After 24 hours, a buried corpse will begin to smell, and it will be discovered, prompting a police investigation and a drop in School Atmosphere.
In other words, I think that the gardening club should be a place to temporarily store corpses while waiting for a better opportunity to dispose of them. For example, you’d store corpses in the gardening club while you’re waiting for the delinquents to move away from the incinerator.
YandereDev, YandereDev! Why not just dispose of corpses in the woodchipper, then?
I’ll probably move the woodchipper to the opposite side of the school; the hedge maze.
Are you removing the kitten-killing feature because of animal lovers who complained about it?
As usual, you didn’t listen to a word I said, Midori.
Aw…
No; I’m not changing my mind about kittens because of offended animal lovers; I’m changing my mind in the pursuit of better game design.
This has become a pattern, hasn’t it?
- Suggest new inventory system.
- Controversy!
- Next day, decide to change the nature of the inventory system. Not because of controversy, but because of game design.
- Suggest new combat system.
- Controversy!
- Next day, decide not to proceed with the suggested combat system. Not because of controversy, but because of game design.
- Suggest new corpse-elimination method.
- Controversy!
- Next day, decide to change the corpse-elimination method. Not because of controversy, but because of game design.
Most of the time, I don’t impulsively talk about new mechanics; most of the time, I critically examined all of the possible flaws of an idea, and consider multiple alternatives before I speak about it. However, every now and then, I get so enthusiastic about an idea that I want to share it with the world right away, before I’ve thought critically about it…which, sadly, almost always ends negatively for me.
If you take any lessons away from the “kitten controversy”, it’s this: game development is about tossing around ideas. Some ideas stick, some ideas don’t. I’m going to be tossing around lots of ideas…that’s how we make a better game. You definitely shouldn’t freak out when you hear an idea you don’t like, because that idea might disappear the very next day for a completely arbitrary reason.
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I want fried Kitten, please.
kittens r the devil
Well then, I love the devil
Sounds delicious.
delicious
[laughing]
I actually really love that idea
Keep up with being awesome YandereDev! 💩
A good idea, Dev!
I don’t get why people are getting so worked up over the kitten concept, though. I mean, it’s just a video game. They really need to chill.
I don’t get why everyone gets upset over killing a video game kitten.
I’m an animal lover but I don’t mind killing an animal in a game if I have to.
•3•
If you’re going to reject a feature because you hate killing animals, just stop following development.
*applause*
why can’t yandere-chan wrap her victim in a garbage bag? and everyday that the corpse is buried, the player should have the responsability to mask off the smell. That’s what i do every time…
I love this idea but for maybe no longer than a week
The police would definitely open the garbage bag if they dug it up though.
I mean, I really love cats and kittens, but I can just avoid that particular concept in the game. Not like it’s the only way to progress through it, anyway.
Exactly. I wasn’t keen on the concept, half because its a kitten, half because it didn’t make sense as was pointed out, but it could easily be avoided.
I really like that we got to hear the idea. I love following the development for this game, so hearing ideas that are thrown out is a fun bonus.
It bothers me that such huge flare ups only happen to ideas that are talked about and not the one that are actually put in. That’s like being mad at someone talking about beating your mother and not when they actually do it.
There is a problem though. Corpses usually don’t smell when buried beneath earth. At least I’m pretty sure they don’t, never buried one before to test it. 😀 I do know however, that they even rot slower because of the lack of fresh air and the cooler temperature which act as a natural preservation, mummification and things like that (also causing less smell).
However, because of the slower rotting speed, when the time of death is estimated and someone doesn’t know about this, the estimated time wouldn’t be that far in the past as it actually is, because the distinctive features appear later, because of the preservation. Usually the police knows this, but I think it could make an interesting gameplay mechanic. Like kill someone, bury him and then go get an alibi until the police finds the body at the end of the day or the next. They could notice the body by finding a large patch of freshly dug over earth while looking for a missing student. And when they estimate the wrong time, a time yandere chan was in class, she has an alibi.
We only need a reason why the police doesn’t know this or why they estimate the wrong time. Human error? Low education? No professional autopsy, no professional coroner? Or something like: she was killed at night before school, but yanderechan dressed her up with a school uniform, leading to a wrong conclusion?
I wish the dev would finally listen to fans like these.
He does need to see, this is such an awesome idea
YandereDev needs to see this.
You’re burying them under liked 4 inches of dirt. The holes aren’t THAT deep.
I vote that if you bury a body you actually have to plant flower people will assume the odor is from fertilizer
I’m not sure Yandere-Chan can dig a hole deep enough to provide any serious insulation from surface temperature. If she had all the time in the world, then sure, but she’s a school girl with a limited time budget. I think to slow down rigor mortis and decomposition to any degree, you need the temperature at freezing or below, which you aren’t going to get by digging a two or three foot hole, for example.
Also, the initial smell comes from gut anaerobic bacteria breaking down the gut and producing by-products like methane. It’s not so much rotting as it is just the bacteria that’s already there. I’m not sure if you could smell this immediately as the gas is released, but maybe if a gardening club member was digging around in the garden for club activities, they could smell it.
I think the only way you could seriously screw up a time of death estimate is to take the body home and freeze it for a while.
SAKI, YOU’RE SO USELESS!
This is awesome!
Yandere Dev, Yandere Dev! I sort of want to see Kittens prowling around the school…. makes it more lively. 🙂
If anything you should add more animal
Hmm… So there’s a chance the whole kitten thing is still gonna be a possible thing in future updates/full game release? Well in my opinion, that’s gonna make the game pretty trashy (Yes, I am bothered by the whole kitten thing as well. Mainly because I believe animal cruelty is sick and disgusting, and should never be done. Yes, even in video games, sue me.). BUT, that doesn’t mean the whole game is going to be trashy. I personally think that the game is still an amazing piece of work and will be outstanding when fully released.
Even though I personally despise the kitten idea, a game is a game. You’re always gonna have parts you love and parts you hate. For example, Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage! I love the game to death, but think Ocean Speedway is a giant piece of trash world for a speedway. An even better example, Overwatch! I love playing as a wide verity of characters. Mercy, D.va, Mei, McCree to name a few. Fuck Bastion. Remember, this is all only opinions.
It’s not gonna happen… did you even read the whole article?
I guess the worlds name is Midori now.
“Yandere-Dev, Yandere-Dev! Kitten killing is too cruel! However, I want you to keep in the burning people alive, the bully people until they commit suicide, the breaking a person’s mind through torture until they even kill their best friends and then themselves, the grinding the body in wood cutters and befriending a girl only to take advantage of her mechanics.
But the kitten thing is too far.”
You shared your opinion and now I’m sharing mine. If you think any of the above is okay in a video game but killing a cat is “too trashy” then you should probably get your priorities straight. This is a game about a psychopath, plain and simple. One of the key signs of psychopathy is cruelty to animals. Psychopaths can literally feel no form of sympathy for anyone or anything. For them, killing a cat would be no less of a problem for them than squashing a bug would be for us. Wanting to play this game and being horrified it has animal cruelty is like playing GTA 5 and being surprised there is car stealing.
This game is about a psychopath who is willing to do *anything* to get what she wants. If it includes killing a cat, she will do it. Psychopaths have no moral restraints. If a kitten murder bothers you then you better leave now because it’ll only get darker from here.
Agreed
Oh my god EXACTLY. Praise you for sharing this to every single pussy who thinks the kitten thing is too far. and god damn you were speaking the truth there! again… Praise to you 🙂
Thank you!
Thank you for addressing the people that are like, “NO DON’T KILL KITTENS! But oooooh, that fountain of blood coming out from Saki’s neck is cool!”
Could you possibly, i dont know, actually READ the article. Thats how you know you was ready to argue
Why are you even trigger when it’ not even gonna be in the game like chill.
I think we should be able to plant flowers on top of the corpses to hide the smell!
Maybe use some other way for that, but that would be a good idea if you had more than one corpse there, or not. Because then the police would notice it. But it would look like someone cares about them. Eh no. Your dead someone buries flowers over you. Uh. . . No
That would be neat and makes the grave less suspicious, especially if the smell (if implemented) was to leak, it could be mistaken as manure to help the plants grow.
Love it
You could also put real manure over the flowerbed/grave. Cops notice the smell, see the manure, and turn their attention elsewhere because they don’t have much time and don’t want to spend it digging through poop.
However, planting flowers on top of a bed would prevent you from retrieving the corpse or burying more corpses there unless you have a good reason to uproot the flowers.
I really like this idea actually, just because I want to see more mechanics implemented that take advantage of club specific things.
Agreed
The idea of animals in the game was a good one, they could have been a good idea to lead of stay police dogs but what if any corpse starts to smell after a certain point? Like this could be very useful when the photography club is in full swing at the school because yanderedev said they would roam the halls of the school if the atmosphere is low enough. But what if they were outside the school at some time as well? That could be a logical thing for them to do so they could keep watch in case a murder happened outside the school, having a corpse of an animal have a smell could be a way to get them off their guard if they are outside so it would be easier for yandere-chan to eliminate them or sedate them so she can move along with a corpse and dispose of it.
That made no sense at all
Also why would you need to kill the photography club? They have nothing to do with the at all! I mean unless you need to join it. But still! Killing them does nothing! Your just wasting your time. Unless one of the rivals is in photography club. . . Hmm. . .
Game*
Because they can screw you over very easily. Imagine them as extra senpais/teachers: If they catch you doing anything a Teacher would chase you for, they’ll end the game just as quickly as Senpai would, because they’ll snap a picture of you and send it to the police. So while killing them isn’t really nessecary, it saves you a lot of trouble if the atmosphere is at the point where they’d roam the halls.
…did you read the post?
And what about, burying the corpse in the morning….and then going back when night falls to dispose of it properly? Pretty much like the kidnapping mechanic.
Well the people angry has done
Completely skippable discussion time! (Does wordpress have a spoiler feature for commentators?)
I think what should happen is that burying a body lets you store the corpse and then you could sneak back onto the school grounds and incinerate it after school (you already can sneak back onto school grounds to retrieve unconscious students). Maybe induce a penalty that makes you come to school later since you’re tired from your criminal activity. That said, the police probably would probably notice the recently disturbed earth in the Gardening Club and check it out, so the Gardening Club helps to trivialize the body hiding aspect, but not the bloodstains or the witnesses.
Also, why would a police force include an incompetent police dog at a potential murder investigation?
What if. . . You made it so, that after one day there was (Air freshener? I dunno something that smells sweet) And you would bury it (Or spray it) onto the corpse. So that the smell wouldn’t show. Also, this has nothing to do with anything I just said. But you really need to make new animations for the larger weapons. Because Yandere Chan doesn’t hack people with the axe. She hits them with the side. . . . Yeah, you get the idea.
YanDev: “I decided against this game mechanic and it has nothing to do with the uproar it caused.”
Everyone else: “Yeah right…”
Rinse and repeat.
About three times.
Sadly, I forgot about the feature after a while, but when one thinks about it, it really didn’t make sense…I still want to see at least one animal in the game that can be eliminated (squirrel). I also want to add that at first, i thought the new build had something to do with the demon summoning because of the fanart in this post. LOL
I look forward to the next summoned demon installation for the game, but I also look forward to more elimination methods and I definitely look forward to the matchmaking method. It can also include broken hearts.
Thanks for this build and I might play it later to get some stress off my back.
Hey Yandere-dev. Now that this kitten controversy has blown over, I just thought of a great idea for an easter egg.
Via a random chance (either by fixed low probability odds or through a convoluted RNG seed such as a number of seconds after the game has started up according to the system clock)…
there will be a kitten playing with butterflies somewhere in a hard to spot corner of the garden. Spending some time to play with it or pick it up to cuddle it restores a chunk of sanity. Afterwards, it scurries off and doesn’t spawn for the rest of the game.
That would be a silly reference to show that you didn’t bring up the feature just for the grotesque action of killing kittens. And on top of that would be pretty fucking cute.
r u retarded? “YandereDev gets too much e-mail! Sending YandereDev an e-mail will slow down the game’s development!
DO NOT e-mail YandereDev with:
Suggestions
Questions
Requests
ONLY e-mail YandereDev if you are:
Reporting a bug
Volunteering to help
Making a business inquiry”
This is a WordPress comment not an email… Commenting here doesn’t get in the way of any important email.
You’re right. He does get too much e-mail!
But this isn’t an e-mail message. He isn’t getting any notification to read this. This isn’t going to an inbox alongside a bunch of other messages nagging for his attention.
This is a comment in a comments section on a blog post. He might read it, he might not. It’s a suggestion, not a demand. And most of all, if he were to read it it would be on his own terms.
Jesus Christ dude, this is not an email it’s just a comment.
I’ve seen you post bugs on here. Instead of asking people if they’re retarded, why don’t you read and write things correctly? Yanderedev does not read comments on his blog, ONLY email. So he’s not going to see the bugs you reported unless you email him.
says the dude who posts bugs ON A FUCKING COMMENT SECTION when he specifically said to EMAIL IT TO HIM. Jesus Christ what has the world come to.
YOU constantly post videos with bugs. And check your grammar. I know you copy and pasted that whole “YandereDev gets too much e-mail!” thing from the website.
I like it i love jab easter eggs
I’ve been searching for more ways to increase sanity. Cuddling a kitten who is playing with butterflies might be a good way to do that…
Agreed. This would especially be good since petting cats can help lower blood pressure and lowers stress
Ha he did read it xD
I’m looking forward to that!
Oh shit he actually read it. Uh… Hi Yandev?
While I’m here, I might as well hand out a few more ideas that hatched in my head before I go back into lurk mode.
So we can cuddle the kitten, yeah? But what if we go back to plan A and kill the kitten?
I was thinking that another way to further increase the meaning of the easter egg is if you kill the kitten while you’re holding it.
If anybody sees the kitten corpse, they react like it’s a dead body. However, the catch is that the kitten corpse has special properties that automatically override whatever personality type the witness is and forces them into pursue and apprehend mode no matter where you are on the map. (Kinda like how the animal lovers were protesting on various methods of reaching you, no?)
In my mind, I could see a particularly hilarious scenario where placing the kitten corpse in the courtyard or near the entrance of the school while everybody’s leaving would cause an immense chain reaction and turn the rest of the day into a Benny Hill style chase scene.
The only way to avoid this fate should you kill the kitten is to dispose of it in the vegetable patch. (Tying into its conception.) So whadaya think?
On a completely unrelated note, in the same vein as Yandervania, perhaps you could fulfill that idea of a beat ’em up style game by making something called “Streets of Lust” (as opposed to Rage) or Double Deregon. I dunno, this whole exchange from the start has been me throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks.
Anywho, I’m glad I got the juices flowin’! Thanks for reading through my long winded ideas!
P.S. If this is the catalyst for a bunch of people suddenly thinking that if I got a response for a suggestion that means that they should hand out suggestions too in a never ending flood of misery, I’d just like to say right now that I’m horribly sorry. I never wanted this.
Make a video Yandere DEV!
Does he have anything to make a video about? No. He doesn’t.
He needs to make a video about him making a video.
Makes sense! Now that I think about it, he needs to make a video about him making a video about him making a video.
Buried bodies being discovered a day later seems a bit quick. Could fertilizer or other chemicals like lye be used to cover it up for longer?
Will the town have a funeral home or crematorium? A number of real-life murderers have mixed their kills in with legitimate corpse disposal to hide them. Fake a suicide today, hide an extra corpse with that one tomorrow!
Love it add lye
yandev: i wanna be a dev that listen to my fans
yandev: but also i dont give a shit what you guys want im changing it for my own reasons if you dont like the game ur a filthy sjw
lol ok.
You don’t get it, do you?
He’s NOT listening to the ones who scream “don’t kill my neko chans!!! ;_;”
He’s listening to the people who actually have a logical reason as to why this method won’t work, like the one kuuhaku00 has stated above.
Any questions?
Meh ignore people like these. They don’t get it.
Agreed, Kevin.
No, no, I do get it. And I didn’t say anything like “don’t kill the kittens oh nooo” or anything like that- if it was a good idea and had logic behind it I wouldn’t care either way. Kill a cat, dog, bird, I wouldn’t give a shit, yeah?
I’m talking about how he didn’t even say he was listening to people with reason?? He bitched about how every idea he has ends up with controversy (which in itself should be a red flag tbh) then said he was changing it for realism purposes and game design.
Idk, I just don’t like the game’s direction. He’s flawed the whole yandere trope and it seems like he’s doing everything in his power to make it as grossly sexual as possible, despite it dealing with high school girls. He wants it to be realistic, then adds teachers with outfits that are really unrealistic in a school setting. idk I just wanted to put that out there.
“If you don’t like the game, you’re an SJW”
So does that mean removing kitten killing is anti-SJW? And does that mean the majority of his fans want him to keep killing cats and he’s changing it “for his own reasons”?
(Side note- I damn well hope this game’s fanbase isn’t full of SJWs, if this game becomes a political movement (especially a left-leaning one) I’m gonna fucking bury someone under a dead kitten)
“Suggest new inventory system.
Controversy!
Next day, decide to change the nature of the inventory system. Not because of controversy, but because of game design.”
?? ???? ?? when did yall read that he was changing it because people didnt want the kitten killing like bye
I’m actually glad that yandere dev kept the kitten killing idea.I mean c’mon just don’t use that method if ur gonna whine about it.
He kept it? I believe he said he realized it was unrealistic.
he did.i posted this before he said it
I personally liked the idea as it had yet another element in letting the player decide how monstrous or humane Yan-Chan really is even though I personally Adore kittens. Still someone catching her killing the kitten should give the same repuatation penalty she got from killing anyone else and Sempai could never love a Kitten Killer.
Man a lot of people are upset about killing kittens idea when it was, like I said, AN IDEA!
“Yes! An idea!”
Then you looked at the comment section.
Is it just me or dose temporarily burying a body to dig it up later totally ruin the whole purpose of it being a body disposal method entirely??? I say plant so flowers on top they will think its fertilizer or dig a deeper
It doesn’t have to be a disposal method. It can be a way of concealing the body when the means to dispose of it aren’t available (aka when you can’t use the incinerator). When there are more students in the environment, you won’t always be able to run to the incinerator with a dead body.
I hear what your saying but as a yandere serial killer why would you want to go threw that many step. and as far as the delinquents yandere already knows there schedule breaks so it would be pointless because just to dig a whole your covered in dirt. Kill a student covered in blood clean up bury a body covered in dirt clean up resurface the body covered in dirt again then carry body to incinerator clean up. Maybe you could remove one or two steps but id chose the music case over this its too many steps for no reward
Given that it’s a school garden and you have the risk of people showing up at any time, Yandere-chan probably wouldn’t be able to dig deeply enough to hide the corpse thoroughly, leaving it close to the surface. I feel that noticing the smell after a day or so does make
sense.
bitch he didnt say “thank you for following the development of yandere simulator” im triggered
WHAT?!?!?! HOW CAN YANDEREDEV DO THAT?!
I have an idea that could work for the animal killing part that can help you with a rival too
say there is a class pet , like a hamster or something. A student will be assigned to care for it.
Yandere chan could use this to her advantage and steal the animal or kill it. That student caring for it would then find it missing and look around the school, if they are in an isolated area while looking it would be perfect for yandere chan to eliminate them or you could frame them for killing the animal. Thats just my idea. Feel free to use it if you want yandere dev
YandereDev isn’t gonna read this and he doesn’t take suggestions.
You don’t speak for him astha. Get a life for fuck sake.
I get that a lot.
Sometime, he takes suggestions. But not by email ^^
“The police have an especially unreliable and untrustworthy police dog, and expect him to screw up.”
That would not fly – even for a “It’s just a game” reason. No semi-selfrespecting police force would even USE a police dog that is incapable of performing its duty properly. Police dogs DO have to go through strict training to even become police dogs; no way would an unreliable one even make the cut.
Also, a quick note to anyone who says “If you don’t like the kitten-killing feature, just don’t do it”: what about players who want to do everything in the game? Be it for experience or for the sake of unlocking every achievement? While it certainly is ‘optional’ in the sense that it isn’t a thing required to PROCEED in the game, it DOES become mandatory to do, in such occurences.
“Don’t go for 100% of the game, then?” Yeah, that’s not gonna fly over well. Or would you play only a part of a good game and then drop the rest?
I agree.If the police expect the dog to screw up,they should just fricking take another dog! I don’t get this.”Police should ignore false positives”. Games aren’t suposed to be THAT realistic.
Incinerated bones are still identifiable as incinerated bones unless they’re lost in a larger pile of ash. Police don’t find that.
>> while it certainly is ‘optional’ in the sense that it isn’t a thing required to PROCEED in the game, it DOES become mandatory to do, in such occurences.
if you aren’t mentally able to everything, don’t do everything. it doesn’t matter how much of a completionist you are. anyhow, that’s a stupid small base to cater to.
“i love ice cream! and i love trying tons of new flavours! i wanna try them all! but i’m allergic to peanuts. how dare this shop sell peanut-butter ice cream, preventing me from trying them all?”
… anyhow, those completionists will have to suicide-bait, dismember, and burn alive a ton of schoolgirls first, anyhow. chances are, most will be sufficiently desensitised to the death of one kitten.
Well,I really hope kittens are gonna be a thing…..who else wants a kitten in the school?
YandereDev, what’s up with all these pictures of Oka getting stabbed while lying on the floor?
Yandere Dev, I’m glad that you are willing to hear constructive criticism about your ideas. It involves the community in the game-making process and will make your game so much better in the end. Kudos to you, and keep it up.
Anyone else getting the bug where the patcher keeps not patching because of Antivirus despite Antitvirus clearly being shutdown?
When you open your AV there should be some sort of executable whitelist no need to shutdown the AV. Despite I don’t see any databases bouncing false positives.
DB Multiscan: https://virustotal.com/en/file/ca6170887de58d007206065dde474219204ec5d3e375e1c64e31c4d53adc9ea2/analysis/1469822376/
However, gleb is the guy making the launcher. Probs report that to him -> gleb.noxcaos@gmail.com
I think putting an animation where yandere makes the hole in the ground more deeper and then throws the body in it would be great! then cover it and could bury the cat on the surface! so the police could investigate with the dog and it could have more sense! just my imagination tho (sorry for my english)
Would there ever be a coroner or autopsy for unexplained deaths? And it doesn’t make sense that the local police wouldn’t have police dogs, and even if the local police couldn’t solve it, I doubt they’d just leave the case unsolved at only that, they’d have to get private investigators, a bigger police unit, and possibly even Japanese Government (like Japan’s FBI, if they have one). Making a realistic police mechanic would require a bit of research into forensics (in Japan and in general). I’m sure you’ve done plenty of research though, and development of the game overall is more important.
“No; I’m not changing my mind about kittens because of offended animal lovers; I’m changing my mind in the pursuit of better game design.”
What? That’s toooooooottttaaaaaalllllllyyyyyyy the most believable thing ever! (sarcasm)
Yeah, he probably changed it in part from the concerns of animal lovers. But why would it have to be a kitten? Why wouldn’t it be some mangy, old cat that wasn’t adorable? A lot of people would still think it was unethical, but it’d look a lot less dark. A non-domesticated wild animal (like in America, squirrels, possums, skunks, etc) would be even better but it’d be less likely to be buried, because less people probably care about it, if a car hit it they’d just let it be roadkill.
Maybe you could chum the body in the wood chipper then use it as… uh, “fertilizer” for the gardening club.
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To be honest I love all of the ideas you put down for this game. I love that you are brain storming and throwing around ideas that would make the game better and better. I thought the idea about the grave and the police dog were a great idea, until you game up with reasons why the idea wouldn’t work.
And I agree, maybe if you decided instead that when you bury a body, you can cover it up with planted flowers or a huge bush maybe. And maybe as time goes on with the body hidden people would complain about a foul smell coming from there. It should be a warning that some students can notice it, It’s basically a time limit warning before the police are involved, and maybe you can somehow cover it up by using a very stinky smell to throw the students off, like marijuana or perfume. Maybe you can spread rumors that someone always brings a stinky lunch to eat over there. Or maybe you saw a student bury their dead pet over there, thus reliving the students concern.
Like you said Ideas are thrown around and you shouldn’t throw out the grave idea entirely because of reasons going against it. I don’t know if you will take my ideas into account since you are in complete control of your game and your vision, but I just want to show how deeply interesting I am into this game and I appreciate the effort that goes into it. I will continue to follow the development!
Well I like how you thought about it logically rather than catering to all the players specific ideas or offenses that were taken. It’s a really good thing. I always thought this game looked inriguing from the start and I knew it had amazing potiential. I know you feel the same way and want to be the one who makes it perfect. Catering to people’s feelings won’t work in a morbid game.
Even I got caught up in it for a bit. I’m an avid cat lover. (specifically cats) and I was sad that murdering it was an option, even if it was fake. I was also offended that it was a cat and not literally any other animal. It had to be the one that is misunderstood as the stereotypic “asshole” pet. Which isn’t true. But I shouldn’t act like that. I was thinking waayy too much in to it. Personal stuff was never a part of the game. Plus, not only is this suppose to be a morbid game but it’s morbid because it’s about a psychopath!
I feel for the others who felt the same way I did but I also realized that was completely illogical.
It’s really cool of you to be so open about the game design as it is. Even if communication between you and your fans can get… heated, as it is, the fact that you are still so open to talking about your ideas and willing to take legitimate criticism is awesome. And I do think removing the kitten killing mechanic, at least as described in the last video, is the best move as far as game design is concerned.
Now, I’m not one of those people who were morally opposed to having the system in the game in the first place- this IS a game where you murder, kidnap, torture, spread nasty rumors, and in general ruin the lives of other people all for the sake of “love” after all- but I have to admit, when you mentioned you’d have to kill a kitten in order to effectively use the body burial mechanic, my first thought was “welp, there’s a mechanic I, personally, am never gonna use.” I saw your logic for its inclusion, and it didn’t bother me necessarily; and while it does seem silly to be so concerned with animal abuse in a game where you can literally set a poor girl on FIRE, it’s just one of those things that’s just too… personal, for some reason. Again, if you went through with it, I ultimately wouldn’t have minded it, and if you have another way to implement the mechanic in a way that you’d think would really enhance the gameplay no reason to throw a fit if you include it. But to a certain point, taking in account how most players are going to react to a certain moral choice IS a game design concern- if most people are going to avoid using an optional mechanic because they they’re emotionally opposed to doing it, then that mechanic is kinda useless in the grand scheme of things. Plus all the other issues with the burial mechanic as you mentioned.
Long story short, I think you’re making the right decision to revamp that feature for many, many reasons, and I really respect you for being so open about this. ^^
Dear yandere dev. I’ve an open letter.
Regarding game mechanics you should only trust yourself.
Because I see this very critical tossing ideas at people that aren’t in the future audience to enjoy the game. Yes that’s gonna trigger a lot here and especialy on youtube since that seems the most vocal crowd. But that doesn’t make sense to let a few ruin it for everyone. If it’s thought out critce about this and that feature it should be heard. But not in that form of a hundred being louder as the logical crowd. Or does a minority speak for everyone.
Putting lid on a tiny flame leads to this mass of nonesense and a feature being criticied for the factor of a few being in the wrong place. What brings?
1st blame the youtubers bringing attraction in a wrong way. This far I haven’t seen one single youtuber declaring this game is meant for older audience. There is this huge misconcept in communication that it implies it’s meant for younger audience.
There should be a really CLEAR disclaimer rolled out for youtubers. If they want to promote the “development” phase they should roll that out to their fanbase aswell with no excuses.
Example Notice
“This is not a playground, this is a serious game development”
“Don’t asign yourself to the development crowd if you haven’t understand the vision of yandere simulator”
Or any sort of what makes that clear.
Second I highly disbelief that most people take this serious enough. I’m astonished by the stupidity in some comments and how this people are -asigned- to make or break a game feature/the whole game so far. This is more a personal concept but dear dev. Please remember to not let unserious critics or personal triggered critics affect the game.
I feel some shaking down and forth between: I’ll make it the way I want it, because I’ve a vision for the game. Or let some misplaced people affected the main core of the game, in a bad way.
This is not the way it should work.
If yandere simulator should stay yandere simulator then please do it your way and only let serious critics have an affect now some 5 minutes thought “That too hardwcore because -I- -or the bandwagon- don’t like it?” critics because this is truely unvital.
Can only speak for more me but I don’t want unicorn simulator. I’m a true supporter of yandere simulator as it was meant to be. Not saying people aren’t supporting by sharing their thoughts. They have a right to do so. i won’t turn my back on the game because it changes. But it’s disappointing to see amazing ideas being crushed for agreeing on the bandwagon.
That’s my true thoughts on the currents events that are unfolding.
If it does something, nice. If it doesn’t thats okay too.
I just hope it isn’t unheard.
Thank you.
Good comment.
Although you have a point about the dangers of crowd pleasing, I’m going to have to disagree with you on some of your remarks. (Sorry that this turned out a bit long.)
Yandere Dev is working on a one-man project. He has his volunteers to which he assigns tasks, but he is solely responsible for coming up with the ideas which will make it into the final project. He is also the only programmer, which leads to a difficult problem. What if he comes up with an idea, only to find out that it is a nightmare to program and does not mesh well with the rest of the game? What if he comes up with too many good ideas, and the end product is full of a bunch of redundant, unnecessary features? Often times it’s not easy for a single person to judge which ideas should make it into the final project and they fail to see how flawed their ideas are until they have already started incorporating them. At this point they must choose to either keep the idea in the game (often to the detriment of the final product) or remove it, rendering all the time they spent on it useless.
It’s true that one-man projects have been successful, such as Stardew Valley and Cave Story, but it’s also important to consider how Yandere Sim differs from those games. Stardew Valley borrowed most of its systems from Harvest Moon with a bit of Terraria or Rune Factory mixed in. Cave Story is a 2D platformer. Because both of these games borrowed and improved on examples that already existed, there were “safe” game design decisions that the developers could make. YanSim is in a bit of a tricky situation because, while it borrows a lot of ideas from games like Hitman, it has its own unique identity. You can’t just run and gun if things go wrong. That is why I am so interested in the development in this game, as someone who is within the target demographic. Yandere Dev has already added so many intriguing mechanics. There’s nothing like it out there, and who doesn’t want to be a Yandere from time to time? I think this game could turn out well, but I think it needs community involvement to get there because there are so many new ideas going into it. Many of the ideas that he has mentioned have, frankly, NOT been good ideas. That’s where the benefit of a large fan community comes in.
People complain about Yandere Dev abandoning the kitten concept, but in reality, it just doesn’t add any compelling new mechanics to the game. It just serves as a second incinerator that doesn’t have a cooldown. Is it really fun to have to hunt down a kitten on campus and kill it so you can fulfill the same function as waiting a few minutes for the incinerator to be available? Burying bodies to HIDE them, not dispose of them, adds much more depth to the game because it encourages strategy beyond tossing the body away and forgetting about it.
This game will never be unicorn simulator. it already has enough shock value to scare away the pearl-clutchers. I mean, just look at the murder-suicide animation, which is AMAZING! Constructive criticism is the most useful tool that a creator has, because without it, they will never improve. “Yes men” don’t help anyone out.
I don’t think you have understand my comment. I’ve no problem with community opinion. I’ve a problem with children changing gamefeatures that are meant for adult. Because some youtubers make this a toystore. Example read come comments on this page. Spam. My god ip bann them already. Before I slap that annoying 12y old with a baseball bat.
So far I’ve turnt in as I recall 7 bugs, despite he never replys and that’s fine. And put my pc out for performance data. Not much I know, at least I’m willing to put time into this. +-90% perhaps only download this for free.
I don’t care about the cat… For sake I’m born in china. You could get cats there as a meal if you want. (Despite moved to EU) Or more trending, snakes. And I’d like to hear whats the idea to temporaly hide the body. Nobody ever comes to the garden club. Afaik 2 npcs only leave school with their current routines. It’s not realistic to imply a smell when nobody is there to notice it?
Unfortunate it doesn’t shock, try -lex mortis- or so lol.
Offended animal lovers? Come on, the game is about killing schoolgirls. What about the offended schoolgirl lovers?
No one’s going to look at this game and go, “The kittens are the ONE THING I’m upset about”.
In other words, anyone mentioning “offended animal lovers” is probably the kind of person who preemptively starts whining and yelling whenever they think someone is going to try to make them consider whether their actions are ethical.
the panty-inventory thing bothered me because it felt weirdly out of line with the game’s overall tone. the kitten thing didn’t, since it DOES fit the tone of the game. not all controversy is created equal; and the kitten-offended people are just being ridiculous. there’s no sound argument for being against killing kittens… when you’ll gleefully kill a hundred schoolgirls.