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What happened to Team Salvato? Where are they now?

A topic by Colonel Gerard created Apr 18, 2024 Views: 4,037 Replies: 7
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Seriously. They just dropped this VN created with a small modicum of effort and just fucked off forever. This is exactly the kind of interactivity that Visual Novels as a Genre are largely missing.

For whatever reason there is still no DDLC 2 or more Doki stuff beyond merch and he seems to have handed the IP off to whatever publisher made the heretical "DDLC+" for consoles.

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it's one of the first topics about which I asked on Reddit, and now I see it pops up at least once a month... Consider that, as discussed in that page, the Team is smaller than I thought (the graphical artists Satchely and Velinquent are not officially part of Team Salvato), so it's hard to believe that they are really working on three projects at a time.  On the ohter hand, it's curious that a guy that calls himself a game creator did not produce any game for 6+ years. My personal idea is that Dan Salvato has a "normal job" for a living, tops up his wage with the DDLC merch, and works on Magicore Anomala in his spare time (and dreams about the other 2 projects while sleeping - and I really hope none of those is DDLC 2, because a sequel wouln't make much sense). 

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this is pretty rude. i think its entirely fine for someone to make one game and stop at that. i also by they, remember you're talking about like 1 or two people. also, tell me how the fuck a ddlc 2 would work and if you know so much about how easy it is to make games and how someone should obviously add sequels to games whether it makes sense or not, why don't you get me flabbergasted with your new daily ddlc sequels instead of sitting in your chair all day complaining that you're not getting exactly what you want served on a silver platter. fucking disrespectful.

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Sorry thepurplepug, I was confused by the way this discussion system works (I'm an old forum-geezer...) so I stupidly thought your message was a reply to mine, while it was a reply to the OP, Colonel Gerard... 

So, for anybody that happens to wonder what I thought and what I wrote... Since I was confusing the two users with the same profile picture, I apologized because I tried to summarize a wider discussion in a too short post, and said "never meant to be rude or disrespectful, neither to the OP nor to Dan Salvato or any other person who works with him - and if you read the Reddit thread I linked above, you'll see that nobody from that community of hardcore DDLC fans ever called me rude. 

While I unfortunately never made games, I'm a professional computer programmer so I know how hard is to make good software, and exactly for this reason I greatly admire whoever can make great games like this one - with extra kudos points of them being a small indie team, not backed by megacorps. I'm sorry if my English-fu is bad and the received message sounded like exactly the opposite that I wanted to send."

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its fine, i just got a bit confused at first, and like i mentioned before,  its understandable because we have the same profile and what you said too

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EDITED 11/05/2024 because of misunderstanding - I apologize! .

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did you get me mixed up with the person from the original comment? we are not the same person, i can see why you might have thought that though considering we have the same pfp. i wrote a reply to the first guy

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D'oh! Sorry! I tried to make amends...