Osana’s not finished yet. She should have been finished by now. I owe you an explanation. That’s what this blog post is about.
I have a lot to say about the situation. How much? Well, this blog post is over 3,300 words long. That should give you an idea.
Scroll down past this fan-art by Akihito_Draws and click “Continue Reading” to get started.
43 seconds into this video from January 16th, 2017, I made a vague comment about how “a lot of stuff […] going on in my personal life […] took up a lot of my time, and took a lot of my attention away from Yandere Simulator”. I never divulged the details, but now that the situation is practically mainstream knowledge, I have to talk about it.
Starting around January 2017, I began to receive massive amounts of harassment. This was the point in time when people began to:
- Prank call my phone
- Send weird things to my house
- Post my personal information online
- Make attempts to hack into my accounts
- Send me lengthy essays telling me why I should kill myself
- Flag all of my social media to try to get my accounts banned
- Try to convince my team members to stop contributing to the project
- Submit false reports to the police in an attempt to get the SWAT team to show up at my house
- Spam me with gifs of people being killed, dead bodies, pictures of mutilated genitals, gore, scat porn, bestiality, animal abuse, gifs of animals getting killed, etc.
Many content creators receive harassment, but what people have been doing to me has gone far above and beyond what a person usually experiences on the Internet. I wish I could be an emotionless robot or a solid stone wall that is not affected by this stuff, but the truth is that, yes, it has affected me. Receiving all kinds of abuse and mistreatment on a daily basis gradually reduced my mental health, resulting in depression, lost enthusiasm, lost motivation, and most importantly, lost productivity.
If I had to explain it with a graph, it would look like this:
In 2016, my productivity was great; I was kicking ass and working fast. In 2017, my productivity fell like a rock as a result of the harassment I was receiving. The harassment continued throughout 2018, so my productivity stayed low. In 2019, the harassment subsided, and my productivity began to return. But, in 2020, a new wave of harassment began, and so my productivity plummeted like a rock.
I cannot possibly overstate how much of an impact the harassment has had on development. If this year had never seen a spike in harassment, I would have finished Osana in February and released her by Valentine’s Day. Actually, if the harassment had never begun back in January of 2017, you probably would have gotten Osana in early 2019.
So, what caused the harassment to begin in the first place, what caused it to continue for multiple years, and what caused it to become so widespread?
The answer to all three questions is the same thing: Misinformation. People are constantly saying things that aren’t true – things that cause them to feel justified in treating me like garbage.
“Yandere Simulator is made entirely of stolen assets!”
Not even true. When Yandere Simulator was an early prototype, I temporarily used a small number of models that came from other games, as placeholders. These models were always a very small minority of all assets in the game. I never intended to use them for long, I have already replaced all of them, and at this point in time, Yandere Simulator is now composed of 1% store-bought assets and 99% original assets created specifically for Yandere Sim. Also, I always removed placeholder assets immediately if the original creator ever asked me to.
“YandereDev streams video games all day long instead of working!”
Not even true. You can visit my Twitch channel and see the length of each stream; they’re short. It doesn’t make sense to make a big stink about this, anyway. It’s perfectly normal for people to come home after work and enjoy a leisure activity before going to bed; that’s daily life for millions of people all over the world. There is nothing weird about playing video games for a little while after the workday has ended.
“YandereDev fired a tinyBuild programmer because he couldn’t understand his code!”
Not even true. I never “fired” anyone, and I had no problem understanding the tinyBuild programmer’s code; the problem was that there wasn’t much work for him to do, since we couldn’t refactor the game while I was still adding features in order to maintain a regular upload schedule on YouTube. I explained the whole situation in detail here.
“YandereDev doesn’t credit his volunteers!”
Not even true. The game has a credits screen, where every volunteer is credited. That’s literally the opposite of not crediting people.
“YandereDev wants to include a rape feature in Yandere Simulator!”
Not even true. Someone photoshopped a Reddit post that I made to create this false narrative.
“YandereDev wants to kill his parents!”
Not even true. I made an edgy post when I was a teenage kid, but that was 16 years ago. Obviously, any post that old shouldn’t be taken seriously.
“YandereDev wrote an erotic story about rape!”
Not even true. I planned to write a story about a rape victim who became a vigilante that killed rapists and child molesters. The story began with the protagonist being raped. I never finished the story, but you can tell from reading the rape scene that I intended to portray rape and rapists as absolutely disgusting, not erotic.
“YandereDev portrayed himself as a cute, innocent girl in order to gain sympathy!”
Not even true. The purpose of my Hate and Shame video was to ask people “Imagine how you would feel in this situation.” My YouTube analytics page tells me that the majority of my audience is female, so I made the protagonist female to make it easier for my audience to relate to her.
“YandereDev portrays his critics as demons!”
Not even true. The grey gremlins in my Hate and Shame video represent people who stalk, dox, and harass others over the Internet – not critics.
“YandereDev kills Midori because she represents his fans and he hates his fans!”
Not even true. Midori represents the concept of a ditzy person asking silly questions with obvious answers. Not fans. I “kill” her in my videos because it became a goofy running gag.
“YandereDev spends all day reading e-mails instead of working on the game!”
Not even true. There was a brief period of time in 2016 when e-mails ate up a huge chunk of my time, but it hasn’t been that way for years.
“YandereDev is intentionally prolonging the game’s development to make as much money as possible from Patreon!”
Not even true. That doesn’t even make sense in the first place. I almost never mention my Patreon at all; if my goal was to make money through Patreon, I would be promoting it constantly. Furthermore, prolonging a game’s development would only serve to anger the supporters, resulting in less money. This narrative falls apart after 2 seconds of thinking about it with common sense.
“YandereDev defends pedophiles! YandereDev believes that pedophilia is a sexual orientation!”
Not even true. People seem to have developed this impression by completely misinterpreting some random remarks I made when I was arguing with someone in 2014. I made those remarks largely because the person I was arguing with was frustrating me, and I just wanted to be contrarian towards them. I compared mental illness and sexual orientation because they have one similarity: a person has control over neither of those things. This was not a statement that pedophilia is a sexual orientation.
“YandereDev wants to abolish the age of consent and replace it with a “sex license”!”
Not even true. The same answer from above applies here as well. During that argument from 2014, I focused on trying to contradict my opponent so I could feel like I was “winning” the argument. At some point, the discussion turned to a hypothetical thought experiment about a “test” that could accurately measure someone’s level of mental development to determine whether or not they had mentally reached adulthood, and could be trusted to engage in sexual activity. My casual speculation about the effectiveness of this hypothetical test should obviously should not be taken as an indication that I actually want to abolish the age of consent.
“YandereDev refuses to accept programming assistance!”
Not even true. I am currently accepting programming assistance from multiple programmers, and have always welcomed programming assistance throughout development.
“YandereDev bans people and blocks people when they post an image he’s insecure about!”
Not even true. On January 20th, 2020, while I was sleeping, someone came to my Discord server and posted unflattering pictures of me from when I was a teenage boy, in an attempt to troll. This person got banned by moderators, and then went on Twitter to say, “YandereDev banned me for posting his face!” This caused tens of thousands of people to come to my Discord server purely to post my face, under the belief that it would make me angry. They all got banned for spamming, which cemented the false narrative that I was personally banning people because I was insecure about an old photo. By the time I woke up and got out of bed, there were tweets about the situation with 40k likes. False narratives run wild on the Internet.
“YandereDev uses the Patreon money for personal purchases!”
Weird narrative. The Patreon money was always my salary for working on the game, not the game’s budget. I was transparent about this from Day 1. Once I started earning beyond $3.5k per month on Patreon, I started putting the surplus money towards Yandere Sim. I stated this extremely clearly in the “Goals” section on my Patreon page. Every year, I log how the money is spent in “Transparency” posts. Even with that said, every personal purchase I make is made with my savings from before I even started working on Yandere Sim.
“YandereDev owes tinyBuild money!”
Not even true. When tinyBuild and I parted ways, the final draft of the termination agreement did not involve any debts.
“YandereDev doesn’t think games improve from criticism!”
Not even true. In this screenshot, I am not replying to the guy with the cat avatar. I am replying to a completely different guy whose message was not included within the screenshot.
“YandereDev is a bad programmer!”
The code in Yandere Sim was written hastily so I could maintain a rapid upload schedule for YouTube. That code was written to facilitate YouTube videos, not to serve as the game’s final code. It doesn’t reflect my idea of how to write efficient code. It doesn’t even matter, because the plan has always been to hire a programmer to replace me and re-write my code, anyway. I explained this in thorough detail in a video from 2018, and everyone seems to have completely forgotten about it. I wrote a longer explanation here: https://yanderesimulator.com/CodeExplanation.txt
“YandereDev’s code is bad because of if-else statements!”
Clickbait YouTubers have exaggerated about how bad if-else statements are in order to make sensational, scandalous videos. if-else statements aren’t even a big deal, and do not actually have a significant impact on framerate. Real programmers can easily explain all of the ways in which these YouTubers have gotten their facts wrong.
“Someone re-created Yandere Simulator in less than 2 weeks!”
Not even true. Someone extracted Yandere Simulator’s assets and used those assets to develop a simple game prototype. They created an announcement trailer showing off what they had done. Despite the fact that their prototype only contains a fraction of the functionality of Yandere Simulator, their announcement trailer gave hundreds of thousands of people the false impression that it was possible to “re-create” the entirety of Yandere Sim in only two weeks.
The only reason that their prototype looks even remotely presentable is because they simply copy-pasted all of the assets that were created for me over the course of 6 years. (Not store-bought assets, but Yandere Simulator’s original, copyrighted assets.) They created nothing original, and simply stole all of my material. It’s the most blatant theft I’ve ever seen in the history of the game industry.
Because hundreds of thousands of people were tricked into believing that it’s possible to re-create Yandere Sim within two weeks, my work has been completely devalued, I have begun to receive a massive amount of harassment, and I have started to lose all of the support that I had spent 6 years building up.
This is not a case of “another developer is making a superior game!” but is a case of a con artist is pulling a scam that is tricking hundreds of thousands of people into hating me.
“YandereDev threatened to commit suicide to pressure a game developer into cancelling his game project!”
Not even true. I spoke to the guy who ripped my assets, and explained to him that his project was causing people to harass me and pull their financial support from me, as a result of being tricked by his misleading video and misleading statements. During the discussion, I expressed my feelings honestly. I told him that I felt his actions were “ruining my life,” “destroying my life,” “ending my life,” etc. This somehow got spun into a narrative that I “threatened suicide,” even though I never actually said anything like that.
This is the screenshot that people use in order to push this false narrative. There is not a single sentence there where I “threaten suicide”. It simply doesn’t happen. In case you need me to spell it out for you, the meaning of the last sentence is, “If Yandere Simulator would ruin/destroy someone’s life and end their career, I would cancel Yandere Sim.”
“YandereDev deletes comments because he can’t take criticism!”
And here we are at last. Here’s where we get to the heart of the situation.
Whenever I saw people spreading misinformation – like all of the false narratives I just debunked up above – I recognized that these untrue accusations had the potential to do severe damage to my reputation. So, I blocked/banned anyone who spread misinfo, and deleted their messages.
When people saw negative messages disappearing, they assumed that I was “censoring criticism”. That’s not the case; I was simply deleting falsehoods. You can’t call something “criticism” if it isn’t even true in the first place. However, “YandereDev can’t take criticism” is a more entertaining and scandalous narrative than “YandereDev prevents the spread of misinformation,” so that’s the narrative that people went with.
“YandereDev, I heard a rumor about you that you didn’t address here!”
I’m not trying to debunk EVERY false narrative here, I’m just giving you a sense of the crap I have to deal with. If there is something else you want debunked, go here: https://yanderesimulator.com/debunk/
By now, you get the point, right? There is no end to the false narratives and untrue accusations that other people create about me. I’m not trying to sound melodramatic here, but I feel like it’s not an exaggeration to say that I’m at the center of the largest misinformation campaign that has ever occurred in the history of the game industry. I can’t think of a single game developer who has ever been targeted like this before.
All of the misinformation above was picked up and spread by clickbait YouTubers who made tabloid-style videos demonizing me and vilifying me, causing hundreds of thousands of people to develop false perceptions of me. And, after hundreds of thousands of people were tricked into believing that I am an evil villain who deserves mistreatment, harassment skyrocketed and productivity plummeted.
“But, YandereDev! There are screenshots and video clips proving that you’re a bad guy!”
You can have a real screenshot of something that really happened, and you can use it to paint a completely exaggerated picture of someone – like many of the things I debunked above.
Imagine that I have a photo of you drinking a beer; this doesn’t prove that you’re an alcoholic. But a dishonest clickbait YouTuber would probably hold up the photo and claim you’re drinking beer 24/7, all for the sake of getting clicks, views, and precious, previous ad revenue. This is basically what happened to me, but on a much larger scale.
“Why don’t you just stop checking social media?”
Way ahead of you. I stopped using social media years ago. But, I still need to use e-mail and Discord to talk to volunteers and recruit new volunteers. So, there is always a flood of harassment to see every day, even when I keep my exposure to the Internet as minimal as possible.
So, now you understand the situation I’m in. The next thing you have to be aware of is that, when you are put into a situation like this, you become incapable of thinking about anything else, and spend all of your time with very dark thoughts:
- It’s hopeless.
- Why even bother?
- I don’t deserve this.
- It’s all pointless now.
- Maybe I should just die.
- How could this happen?
- I may as well not even try.
- If I die, this will all go away.
- Why did this have to happen?
- I don’t have a future anymore.
- How can these people be so cruel?
- What’s the point in trying anymore?
- I didn’t even do anything all that bad.
- My life has been completely ruined forever.
- After this, I can’t have a normal life anymore.
- Everything I’ve worked for has been destroyed.
- The only way this is ever going to end is if I die.
- There is absolutely no way to recover from this.
- None of this should have happened in the first place.
- I’m not a robot! Of course I’ll get emotional sometimes!
- How can anybody do something like this to another human being?
- This will last forever. This is my life now. This is never going to end.
- This pain and suffering and misery isn’t going to go away until I’m dead.
- This sucks worse than anything else that has ever happened to me in my life.
- Millions of people have been tricked into believing things about me that aren’t even true.
When those are the only thoughts that are swirling around in your head, every waking moment of every day, you can’t exactly focus on work. The majority of your time is spent asking yourself, “If my future has been completely destroyed, why should I even bother?” and struggling to motivate yourself to get work done. You can be sitting at your computer with your fingers on your keyboard, and yet you can find yourself completely unable to type a single letter, as a result of being too depressed and miserable to lift a finger.
“So, what now?”
I can’t think of anyone who has ever been put into a comparable situation, and managed to recover. Once you have been labeled as “This person doesn’t deserve any empathy or compassion and it’s perfectly okay to abuse them as much as you want,” it’s pretty much over. That’s a lifelong label, even if you don’t actually deserve it.
Developing a video game is pointless, if nobody is going to support your game because they’ve been brainwashed into believing in a false version of you that isn’t even real. Thus, if your reputation is being tarnished by false narrative, debunking the untrue accusations becomes a higher priority than game development.
I don’t want to make videos about anything but game development. However, my only hope might be to create a video (or multiple videos) going point-by-point down the list of every single false narrative and systematically debunking them all one-by-one, with receipts whenever possible. However, even if I release a video that successfully dismantles every false thing people say about me, there is a still a chance that it won’t do me any good, for one very simple reason:
If you really, really enjoy the sensation of ridiculing and shaming other people over the Internet, you’ll just plug your ears and dismiss everything I have to say in my defense, and continue believing whatever mistruths you wish to believe in, so you can continue to feel justified in engaging in all the fun harassment that you enjoy. There is literally nothing I can do to stop that.
Harassment isn’t the only problem, either. The Anti-YandereDev community convinces my fans to stop financially supporting me, putting me beneath the poverty line and putting my future in jeopardy. The Anti-YandereDev community even hacks my accounts and sabotages the game’s development in various ways. Every day, there is some new drama that other people have created, some new mess to clean up – something else that takes my time away from Osana.
Under the circumstances described above, is it really any wonder why the game is taking 6 years to develop? It was always going to take a long time because of its ambitious nature, but let’s be real here: it probably would have been finished by now if it wasn’t for all the problems that other people created for me.
Depression, lost motivation, lost enthusiasm, acts of sabotage, minutely hatemail, constant harassment, character assassination, lost financial stability, drama being forced onto me every day – each one of these things slows me down like a heavy weight tied to my body, causing me to progress forward at a snail’s pace instead of moving at my maximum speed.
And that is my explanation for why Osana isn’t out yet. Maybe by August 1st.
Scroll down for a list of bug fixes in the latest build.
Fixes, Changes, Additions
This list is especially short, because I’ve been focusing 90% of my time on Osana and only 10% on other things within the game.
- At the end of the intro sequence, some images rapidly flash onscreen. Those images were screenshots from the Rival Introduction Video that I uploaded in 2016. Actually, in some of those screenshots, you could see 3D models that came from other video games! Oops! Those 3D models were removed from Yandere Simulator a looooong time ago, but I still can’t feature those screenshots in the game; that’d be a copyright violation. The offending screenshots have been replaced with new ones. Now there should be absolutely zero copyrighted content in Yandere Sim. If you actually find a copyrighted model somewhere in the game, please contact me about it immediately!
- Someone recently informed me that Yandere Simulator’s FPS display was inaccurate, and was displaying a number lower than the game’s actual FPS. I am now using an FPS counter supplied directly by Unity, so the FPS number should now be as accurate as possible. It turns out that the game’s actual framerate was about 5 FPS better than what that number was reporting this whole time, haha!
- Fixed bug that prevented Yandere-chan’s character model from showing her new hair color after the player dyed her hair outside of home and school (for example, in the street or in the Kokona Befriend/Betray cutscene).
- Fixed bug that would cause a student’s corpse to burst into flames when being removed from a locker, if that student had died from being set on fire earlier in the day.
- Fixed bug that would cause students to fail to recognize severed limbs if those limbs were inside of a cello case (with its lid open, exposing its contents).
- Fixed bug that made the game fail to activate Yandere-chan’s Club Benefit at the start of the day, if her club benefit was the Occult Club’s benefit.
- Fixed bug that made the game fail to activate the benefit that comes from reading horror manga books (less sanity decrease when committing murder).
- The Light Music Club / Martial Arts Club will no longer be willing to “Practice” (play music or spar) if it’s lunchtime or cleaning time.
- Fixed bug that would prevent a teacher from noticing a pool of blood while investigating a report of a corpse.
- Fixed bug that would allow the player to dip a mop into any bucket at any time, even if the bucket was empty.
- Fixed bug that would cause camera problems if the player was tazed by the headmaster while crawling.
- Fixed bug that would prevent the player from using the same door as a bucket trap twice in one day.
- Lowered volume of “power up” sound effect when using one of the Gaming Club’s computers.
- Fixed bug that prevented the Martial Arts Club’s benefit from functioning.
- The manga store and game store on the street now have background music.
- Kokona’s Befriend/Betray cutscene now has background music!
- Reduced the filesize of some files that were way too huge.
- Updated Saki Miyu’s hair texture.
I’m really sorry about this
Reading about all this people trying to drive your hard work into the ground,makes me want to drive their face into the ground
Pls don’t listen to those jerks they’re just a lazy bunch that don’t know the meaning of *hard work*
How many times are you going to comment the same thing?
You replied to the FIRST one of the two
I wouldn’t call them lazy jerks, just Gremlins. Gremlins that take everything out of context.
I’m really sorry to hear this
Reading about all this people trying to drive your hard work into the ground,makes me want to drive their face into the ground
Pls don’t listen to those jerks,their just a lazy bunch that doesn’t understand the meaning of *hard work*
Hello yandere dev. I have 1 question. In the final game will there be any ways to raise school atmosphere after it gets lowered? I have an idea of my own
Framing: after you frame someone the other students would think that the murderer got arrested, so the school atmosphere would go back up since students wont be worried about anymore murders.
That’s already a way to bring back school athmosphere
I think that’s already confirmed
I have an idea. Maybe you could add some texture to the outside walls of the school? It may give it a more realistic look. Just throwing that out there. You don’t have to if you don’t want to because I love your game regardless. 🙂
Yandere Dev,
I know there are some really nasty people in the world who want nothing more than to drag you down, but you have always got your real fans here for you.
I’ve personally been following Yandere Simulator’s development since 2015 and am really excited to see the finished result.
Us real fans are rooting for you and send our love.
Hope you see this and that it makes your day a little brighter 😁
It seems like there is only one solution to this issue, and that is that in order to reverse this situation you’re in you’ll have to prove them wrong. The answer is simple: finish Osana. I believe that doing so is the answer to your problems, a lot of the criticism circulates behind the idea of stagnation, and finished that goal point will eliminate at least most of your current criticisms. Ignore the text piles of harrassment, ignore all of that an immerse yourself entirely into creating the content.
She’s pretty much the next thing to be released, he has said that. It’s a matter of he rather release a decent version of Osana that people will appreciate, rather than a buggy mess that people will use to tear into him. I appreciate what he’s done with weeding out all the bugs, because I absolutely loathe developers that release a half-assed game with 500 bugs so they get cash.
You can do it! I believe in you I support you, ignore those haters everything will be alright I hope you are okay 🥺❤️
Hello Yandere Dev, I was just wondering, when the new character models get released will they be able to wear accessories like jackets/cardigans? In some of your videos you have talked about persona 5 doing the same thing, so each character would have originality. You said that you couldn’t do it since of the character models but now since we are getting closer to new ones i was wondering if it would be possible.
I have some ideas that i think would be cool:
The delinquents:
In the delinquents anime art, they are portrayed to have vests and their torso being unbuttoned, I love this since they look too smart while wearing the normal uniforms, so hopefully we could have it unbuttoned and the vest underneath it.
I also think that other students like the occult or Horuda could war longer skirts and big jackets 🙂
I hope this gives you some inspiration, we all love u, thank u so much for working so hard!
You can power through the haters and take breaks if you need because we can wait a few months for osana
All of this is so unfair! Everytime I defend you, they said ”Oh so you’re taking his side?!” YES, I am! I unsubscribed from lots of youtubers who stood by A Certain Yandere Sim-Copy Developer. I have been bullied, I know what it’s like, but there’s nothing worse than cyberbulliyng, because you don’t get to make alternative accounts irl. Don’t let those stupid haters take you down, yandev! By the way, why the hell they wanted the SWAT to show up at your HOUSE?! Insane people…
Thank you for sticking with me. I’m really sorry to hear that you’ve been bullied over this.
I just wanted to thank you for everything in the past. Your vids on youtube such as easter eggs, progress updates and mechanics. Not to mention how famous youtubers like Markiplier and the Kubz Scouts play your game and thus bring forth entertainment to people. Honestly in the past 6 years, you have made a lot of entertainment to a lot of people. I still remember those days when I was in Japan and it was late at night like 2am and I’ll be on my bed and have nothing to do, I’ll watch your yandere dev vids of progress or you testing out game mechanics. So in the end, I just want to thank you for making me happy in those times. Thank you Alex:)
We believe in you..believe it or not you have more supporters than haters. Be motivated to finish the game and prove them wrong! I know you can do it. I cant belive people are even salty about “non realistic blood stains”
But its whatever. I know you can do it Arekusu-sama. やったね!
Although the people need answers. You’ve answered most of them. But a big hoopla is circling around you “hunting” for little youtube channels who use Yandere Simulator like GameSleuth and saying you put 2 copyright strikes against him for ‘no reason’. Although from seeing his channel I can see why.
But you can tell us in your own words.
Something new for your debunk page 😀
I updated the debunk page to address that one.
The only times I have ever submitted a copyright complaint were times when a YouTuber re-uploaded my content without making any changes to it.
This is actually what copyright was invented for; preventing people from copying your work and profiting from it.
This is the correct use of a DMCA; stopping people who are illegally re-uploading your content.
People are grasping at straws. But it makes me wonder, what in earth did people say to 911? That there was like a hostage at your home? 😆Or worse! 🤕A paedophilia ring. 😡 Hypothetically in a world where all everything they accuse you of is true, this would bring them down to THAT level.😠 its STILL no excuse!
Oof, I feel that. YouTube, some writing sites In on…and all I can do is just watch. I can’t even fight back. And I’m willing to bet that’s not half the stuff Dev goes through everyday.
That happened to me. So many people harassed me and called me “naive” just because I was defending YandereDev and didn’t want to listen my explanation about all the criticism. Jeez…
Same here, some people I’ve interacted with straight up act psychotic and unreasonable, to the point where they started sending threats and violent imagery. They can’t be reasoned with; they don’t wanna be reasoned with.
Yeah, everytime I see another YouTuber using this drama to rack up views (e.g. Dilian Thomas, ScottFalco, Justarobot, NuxTaku, etc.) I just unsubscribe and ignore their contribution to this cyberbullying.
Once when Osana gets released, can you put yandere simulator on steam. I play on mac and I’ve been freaking DYING for yandere sim to come out on mac. So plzzzzz once when Osana gets released can you put some time into trying to make it able to play yandere simulator on more than just windows.
He said he will try but he doesn’t have mac so he would not know if it would work or not
After Osana is out and her bugs are fixed, I will be interested in seeing if I can put Yandere Sim on Steam.
I have questions about the game (not about spoilers)
Will the demo have different languages?
How come the other rivals profiles are hidden? Yes I know they’re not at school yet but even still we already know who they are! Especially Oka Ruto.
I’m sorry, the demo will be English-only.
The rival profiles are hidden because their profiles serve no purpose until they appear in school.
I wish you the best yandere dev! I cannot believe how stupid some people can get these days…I am sorry for all the harrasment they caused you, I almost believed in their mis-info, and that is why I hate people haha
-fan since 2016 ❤
I’m sorry to hear how the haters have been treating you
Reading about the people that is trying to drive your hard work into the ground,Makes me want to drive their face into the ground!
Pls don’t listen to them,their just a lazy bunch of losers that doesn’t know the meaning of *hard work*
He will!! He’s putting the final touches on Osana!!!
I’ve been watching Yandere Simulator for my whole entire year as the game being released. Seriously, some people have no patience whatsoever in games? Besides, this is his game.. his choice and decision to make up by how long it takes no matter how much you ask for it. Man.. this is why I can’t understand much about humanity but still.. Hey Yandere dev, if ya reading this.. im gonna support ya all the way until the full game releases! Even to everyone who is a fan of yandere dev, let’s support our best programmer and have some loves for him to Care about owo)/ let’s just say he needed people to at least have some kind and support comments hnnn. What’s past is the past.. even if this year’s brings everyone down.. I know deep in everyone’s heart.. we can get through it all if we just keep going! 💕💕
I love this game so very much
I usually find this bug when I try to do the alternate ending: https://youtu.be/qnfxqYGYDzM
By the way, I know what you’re going through and I give you a lot of encouragement, since I know it’s a very difficult situation.
I and all my friends trust you
I am so sorry for all the harassment you’ve been receiving for the last years, you should be able to work freely without having to worry about what others think :(((( I really hope you get better, take your time
Yo YandereDev!
I’ve been a fan of the game for a few months and I started liking it when i first saw the song, Senpai Notice Me.
Hello Yandere Dev, I think that you make a really good game and should just keep doing it. don’t let the haters come near you and think of it as a game even if it is hard for you. If you need a pause then just give it to yourself even if it takes longer and longer to finish the game, there are many people supporting you. So please don’t take the critique too hard and stay healthy. We all love and support you!
Yandere Dev, do not let those people harass you. The reason why they are acting like this are because they are jealous of your fame. Lovesick game is nothing but a copied Yandere simulator. Maybe the codes are different, but the plot is basically the same. It actually disgusts me. Thumbs up, don’t let those dickheads bring you down! We will always be supporting you, no matter what kind of trash those people will have on you ♥
Since July 1st, have you managed to implement some of these elements that were missing from the demo. I love your game and keep the good work. I’m sure anything about the game will be a success.
-A cutscene that has two branching paths.
-Some voiced lines for Osana/Raibaru dialogue that currently isn’t voiced.
-Give a certain student a task.
-Check on all of Osana’s elimination methods.
– Updating the GUI.
I saw a video on Youtube(I’m not sure if it is real) about these misssing voice lines for Osana and Raibaru and the student’s task.So if this is right he just needs to:
-A cutscene that has 2 paths
-Check all of Osana’s elimination merthods
-Updating the HUD
YandereDev I hope you’re okay,you are doing a great job with YandereSim and I hope you can get through this,have a nice day or night!!!
Hey Yandev! I know that most the things people are saying about you aren’t true, but, that doesn’t mean all of its wrong. So if you did anything that anyone has tried to “cancel” you for you should just own up to it and be the bigger person. No hate though.
Yandere dev tell the truth! We love you! 😀
Thank you for giving us an update! I just got into the game YESTERDAY and im already completely in love with it! Personally I believe this game has great potential and I see no reason for people to harass you about it…that said, Im super excited for Osana to be introduced into the game!
That’s really great to hear – thank ou!
Hi Yandere Dev I have just heard the Game Sleuth that he is apologizing to you and that supposedly, this war of hate and rage to you is ending. I mean some people of course can’t believe that somebody who was so against you is now apologizing. Some people even believe that you are holding a gun to his head, forcing him but I do not care for that. I heard that he talked with you and you sorted things out. I’m not trying to pick sides here and I consider being a neutral in this war but… I just want to thank you for everything you have done in the past. I remember watching your Yandere Sim vids on youtube such as your progress updates and comparison to persona 5 and Yakuza and of course your game mechanics. I remember in 2015, Markiplier made youtube vids of your game and he brought a lot of fun and entertainment to other people including me. When I was in Japan and couldn’t fall asleep, I would be on my bed watching your Yandere Sim vids and I always enjoyed seeing your progress on the game. I don’t bother about all this tension and conflict now but more of my purpose to making this email is just to thank you for making me happy at times and all the fun and entertainment you have brought us in the past 6 years. Thank you Alex for your past you left behind. It has been a long journey Alex 🙂
hey yandere dev can you make it so if you downloaded the game o n the website when the full game is out or demo you can download it from the website i really want to or i have to ask my dad for a steam account if that is the only thing you get it on
PLZ
Hai Yandere Dev! Think Positive always and Enjoy your life!
Im your fan since i am Grade 7 and now i am Grade 11! I hope that you will be ok soon 🙂
Btw. Sorry for that grammar
Hello Yandere Dev, I know and I understand what you are being through right now. I’ve been experiencing a bullying, manipulation and harrasments these past few years that sometimes I just don’t want to go out to my bed and just sleeps all day. Loosing everything all of your hard works including your reputation must be a really pain. Truest fans and people that have better understandings will always be here with you. Sometimes, people need to get educated on the situation you are in right now. We can wait for Osana for months, mental health and physical health is more important. Without you, Yandere Simulator wouldn’t exist, so, I am really thankful for that.
Hey, YandereDev? I’m honestly kind of confused as to why I’m banned from the r/yandere_simulator subreddit and Official Discord. If I did something wrong, I’m really not sure…
E-mail me and let’s talk about it.
You debunked about the leaked code right? Because dyc3 the real programmer you linked says he has the leaked source code. Just confirming.
One “leak” was fake, so I debunked it.
Another, future leak was, unfortunately, legitimate.
These haters are reaallly strange people. You’ve done so much progress in the game. Please continue.
Okay, so I created an account just to post this comment because this is a very serious matter and I’d like to help you or inspire you a bit. My mother language is German so plz excuse some faults. First of all, thank you so much for talking about this to us! It’s very brave of you and it’s the beginning of getting a grip of the situation. I’m sorry that you’ve been abused like this and it’s probably still going on. I can understand this at least a bit because my mother used to hit me almost everyday for 18 years of my life and completely destroyed my mental health. On top I’ve been bullied in grade school. This is not about me but I’m showing you what happened to me and that it’s possible to recover. It’s not hopeless to stay alive, it’s the opposite; your life is just starting, you’re living your dream job and can develop your very own unique game, WOW! But you should consider taking a break after you’ve implemented Osama, maybe hire a person to continue work for you. Breathe in deeply. You got this. You just need the right set of mind and maybe some professional help. I could do it without a psychologist but not everyone can, that’s okay because every human is unique. I’m still considering this because yes, this whole thing can change you a lot but you’re still you and you got control. Definitely take legal actions against those people. Consider getting help to prevent hacks if that’s possible. I’d like to write a lot more but idk if there’s a limit here. You can dm me on IG if you’d like @mdn8t ; I’m here for you. We (your fans) are all here for you. You are just seeing the heaters because they’re doing bad things and got a big impact but you still got a lot of fans, just look around you! Those people are all that counts.
i feel super bad for you but don’t let negative people make you down! I’ve felt the way you are feeling and its horrible but i believe you can get through it, just believe!
I’m not good with words. But i actuallly looking up to you as an artist, i remember a few years ago i think to myself “Woah this guy really planning make this big project, planning everything alone and look how cool this game now!” no matter how bad those people said you were, i ignore them because i know how hard you work in this game. Still everybody needs a break, we’re not robots that do labour non stop and i respect that. Especially on a big project– Any projects. I follow this game since 2015 and i saw this game make “Yandere” genre popular and i believe what this game can become. You wouldn’t wanna know how i broke my monitor when i know they make “better yandere simulator” when they clearly using yansim assets! “better code” they said– THE GAME STILL LOOKS THE EFFIN’ SAME!! -_- ( I will always support you no matter what other says! although this is not much i hope our supportive comments could make you day a little bit better <3. (Oops sorry, didn't mean to write this long but i want you to know that i wanna tell you this for a long time) #STANDFORYANDEREDEV
Yandere dev, I am amused on how you survived all of those. I’ve been experiencing bullying and harassment last year through online that makes me don’t want to leave the bed. Cheer Up! We, your fans will keep supporting you. Just think that, without you, yandere simulator would not exist! ^^ Cheer up and relax, leave all those haters around. When you’re good at something people will keep finding the wrongs in you. Prove them and slap them in the face with it! We, the truest fans of your will always be here to support you and Yandere Simulator!
Hello Yanderedev!
I’m sorry for the harassment they made on you and for the false rumors they did but I think you did an incredible job,
I’ve been watching some YouTubers playing their game for about four years and I confess that I wanted to play immediately.
In my opinion, the story is excellent and very interesting, the design of the characters and the school is also very good.
As for the negative comments, I think you shouldn’t mind because you did an incredible job over the past 6 years. Do not let them demote you with these comments, I believe that you will not give up on the game and that one day you will end the game.
Yandere Dev,
je suis vraiment choquée ! Et pour vous dire, ne vous inquiétez pas, les fans sont toujours la pour toi, ces gens qui font ce genre d’harcèlement devront crever en enfer, ils sont juste jaloux ne les écoutes pas!
Nous tes vrais fans sont la pour et t’encourageons !!(❁´◡`❁)
Ta fan qui joue Yandere simulator !
Un français 😁
Oui ils sont tellement épais les haters
Translation:
je suis vraiment choquée ! Et pour vous dire, ne vous inquiétez pas, les fans sont toujours la pour toi, ces gens qui font ce genre d’harcèlement devront crever en enfer, ils sont juste jaloux ne les écoutes pas!
Nous tes vrais fans sont la pour et t’encourageons !!(❁´◡`❁)
Ta fan qui joue Yandere simulator !
i really can’t understand people who keep saying “OOHOH WHERE’S OSANA???”. yandev isn’t a big studio. thanks yandev for the hard work in the game.
And even then big studios take years to sometimes release a demo for game
You should screenshot your messages, like the entire messages that went down that people had been sending to you, to give context to the situation which it seems like they’re not giving the context. And record the stuffs sent and the actions done to your house, even those phone calls. For e-mails, screenshot the ones sending harassment towards you sent to you and even the spamming images on discord. And screenshot and record other people’s accusations towards you.
I remember seeing a video titled something along the lines of “The embarrassing development cycle of Yandere Simulator”. I saw who it was by and thought “oh yeah, that’s the guy who suckered me into watching a video on the ‘history of horror games’, where he just bitched for 40 minutes about not liking FNAF.”
It really sucks to be on the butt-end of loud people with clout.
All of these goblins are just a bunch of squirrely looking shit stains that probably spend most of their day wacking off all day to pornos.
lol, if Osana comes out on August 1, then this will be the best gift, because my birthday is August 1
And even then big studios take years to sometimes release a demo for game
Games like Halo and Zelda took 6 years to come out, and they had a team! Yandere Dev made this game himself, six years is not long, its impressive! Those haters don’t think, they only talk trash. It’s so annoying when they say “Ew a Yandere weeb” or “Oh so you’re taking HIS side?!?” YES, I AM!!! They have absolutely no evidence backing up their claims!!
I’m super sorry for what you’re going through! People have been super rude to me as well because they’ll ask why I’m on your side and im adding more to the problem. I don’t care! Anyways I hope that you are doing ok and I want to ask: how is everything going so far? Like has the hate gone down at all or has it increased?
Also a few days ago, I saw a post by Shinah Hoakin showing a screenshot of possible new models you posted somewhere but I’m not really sure where, cause I don’t have any social media. So, will there be new models? If so, YAY cause first of all that means you ARE working hard and stuff so the haters really can’t say anything bad about that and second, I personally think it will make the game look much better! The models we currently have are kinda… ehh. Like they aren’t bad, but they aren’t good either.
Anyway, hope you’re doing better and remember that there are over 2 million or more people supporting you! For proof look at your subscriber count.
YandereDev,
I know that there is a big chance that you won’t read this, but even though that there a lot of people who absolutely hate you, there are 10x the amount of people who care and love the work you do. I have never seen anyone so devoted to a project that they love so much and spend hours and hours on it. I hope the game and you self-esteem comes into fruition
Around July of 2018.
i was watching markiplier play DDLC. Then youtube recommended a yansim video he made. i ignored it, because that’s what i was used to doing when random videos pop up in my recommendations. but one day i finally decided to check the video out, and without even finishing the video, i was completely addicted. i wanted to know more about the game, i wanted to download the game and play it, i wanted to find out who made it. two full years have passed and i have not lost even a BIT of interest in the game you’re making, despite all the false accusations people are trying to spread. i don’t care how long it takes!! yandere dev, i know it’s much easier said than done, but please, try to keep on moving. i know it may seem like all hope is lost right now, but there is always a light at the end of the dark tunnel. the game is going to do GREAT!! you have thousands of fans including me who love you and support you no matter what! here, have a big warm virtual hug~ ❤️❤️❤️❤️
i’m sorry if my english is not the best here
I had a friend who Made a coment about something when they were 9-10 years old, she became a teenager and people hated them for their past. The cyberbullying was too much si they ended off ending their life. That’s why I don’t judge no one by the things they’ve done years prior.
I’ve always seen the hate towards you since 2017, and I couldn’t believe why, since we, the people who’ve been following you since 2015, liked your game.
After seeing everyone saying bad things about your past and seeing people get manipulated into hating you I kept in the shadows, since as a minor I couldn’t help you with anything at that time.
I was a literal kid and even I could ser that they saying you were “acting as a victim” wasn’t the truth, or atleast the whole truth.
I was a literal kid and I knew people where putting si much work on your shoulders and you would, someday, collapse.
I was a LIITERAL KID seeing adults acting like children…
I’m just here to Say that, the people who matter Will stay and you should consider hiring a replacement so you could rest mentally.
And the First time I heard about the whole “two week game” thing the first thought that came into my mind was “They just grabbed all the models, animations, environments, mechanics, display, etc. And changed it a little bit, slapped some different clothes to it and called it a day. You can’t compare all the time it took yo write that code yo just simply doing Ctrl + C, Ctrl +V. That’s straight up robbing their Game”
You Are So Right, Im Saying This As A 14 Y Old, I 100% Agree With What U Said, I Had The Exact Same Thought. And Just Like You Thought, It Is A Complete Rip-Off. The Worst Part Is That Some People Are This Desperate To Insult YandereDev That They Are Using This As An Opportunity. If They Don’t Like What He’s Doing Then Just Dont Comment At All.
I just wanted to chime in again and say that the people who are harassing YandereDev do not listen to reason. I defended him in multiple videos (admittedly, I misspoke in one and because I was rambling, now I’m being accused of lying) and now there’s a whole thread about me specifically where I am being misgendered and threatened with death. That is what type of people these Anti-YanDevs are. Abusive bullies who don’t care to listen to reason.
I’m sorry you had to go through that.
I wasn’t fairing much better defending him either because they just act unreasonably and parrot the same thing to eachother all the time, but the moment I debunk their claims using Yanderedev’s own words, I’m the “parrot” here.
One guy even threatened to kidnap and rape Dev while trying to “own” me in an argument.
These people are not humans, they’re demons.
Seeing all this harassment you take kinda makes me want to denounce gamers as a whole. Hurting their own kind like this.. now when I find out someone is a gamer I immediately think they’re the type to harass you. I love talking about Yandere Simulator but I find that I can only talk about it to my non gamer friends because of course they wouldn’t know or care about the drama.
People need to give him time because it’s really hard to code sometimes
This game is incredible! I will never turn my back on the magnificent people working for this game!
Yanderedev, You really need someone to manage your social media/internet presence so you won’t have to be subjected to the BS day in and day out. I seriously doubt that the haters are going to stop no matter what you do, hating someone for making a video game too slow is not rational, so logic isn’t going to change their minds. There are several people who are making a living on youtube by posting videos critical of you and your game. Any video you make debunking the hate will just be fodder for more reaction videos to make them even more money. You’ve got to protect your own mental health and disengage from mob.
Exactly.