The best one to help him is ( monna_haddid) . Please see his work on Instagram. I don't know him but he looks brilliant
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Yeah - there are some people I don't always agree with but they frame their points in a measured reasoned way and so will take the time to read what they say - sometimes they might change my mind if I understand their viewpoint. But too many make their points either in a childish way or continually repeat the same points over and over - thankfully we have the IGNORE button for those.
I often don't understand L&P's often cryptic public pronuncements - some of it may be down to language difference, some down to his poor communication skills, and maybe sometimes down to him being deliberately vague. I don't know what is this great new addition that he is so quick to trumpet - if it is animation then I prsonally don't see the point until he has sex scenes to animate. I would rather him just crack on and get basic rendering and story done. But if he is belatedly responding to his Patreon's wishes then fair enough.
I have (barely) enough faith and goodwill in him to give him the benefit of the doubt this release. But that is very much dependant on him cranking out the following release in just four weeks. If he can't get a short update done in 4 weeks, then given that some scenes will be ineviatbly be longer and more complex, if he can't hit a short update in 4 weeks then we won't get a full Playable Day out within a year.
That has to be the MINIMUM he achieves going forward unless these 12 Playable Days will take more than a decade to produce, or more realitically lead to abandonment part way through.
On his assistant, for now I will give him the beenfit of the doubt. As yet the assistant has nt produced anything tangible for us to see. Hopefully it will be as good as L&P is suggesting, ut I have learnt the hard way that what L&P regards as "hot" does nt always mean that I agree with his definition.....
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Sure it is, and sometimes shit happens, but certainly the situation is not ideal. The first guy leaving is bad enough, but alone it could be bad luck, but the second guy is a problem. If it's accurate that the second assistant was let go/fired/whatever because he wasn't skilled enough, then that is something L&P should have known from the beginning. So he wasted more time, and is now on his third assistant in less than two months; that's a bad look.
But it really wouldn't be a big deal, except for the fact that whatever these assistants are working on is vital to the next release. That means L&P is learning in real-time while it's also directly delaying the next release. That's just really poor time management. All of these growing pains that should be worked out behind the scenes, in a low-pressure environment, have instead been pushed to forefront. If this new feature is critical for the update, then he should have been working on it and building his team months ago; otherwise he should have delayed its implementation until a later update.
It's just a bad situation overall.
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Well, it could be one of two possibilities. Either all the assistants he's hired so far were just terrible people to work for, or L&P is just terrible to work for. Maybe a little of both? Who knows? You're right though, having to go through this now is bad for the game. Better if he had established some hired hands before he tackled this VN. That way all the kinks could have been worked out and everybody would be on the same page in knowing what to do in producing the desired outcome levels.
I know it's not fair to compare this game to DIK, but I can't help wondering what could have been if he just started small before taking on a bigger game like Dr. Pink did. Pink produces only one update for the game per year with DIK, but that update contains so much work, detail, effort and replayability that people literally don't mind getting just that one update a year. There was a good possibility L&P could have been on that level if he had just started with a smaller project first.
The only plausible explanation would be that he was thinking of a different dynamic for the event but the result was not satisfactory. He realised late that DAZ was not enough.
However, he still had to use something else besides DAZ sooner or later.
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No, the best educated guess remains better animations but nobody here really knows.
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I have been unaware of the revolving door for the 'assistants'. I concur it is a bad look. IF it is real. I think this is rapidly headed toward a fail and this is just another excuse. I do not believe he actually hired anyone. Will the two that were kicked to the curb stand up and just say yeah I got booted. It may almost be a badge of honor considering what so many think of L&P. Not gonna happen for a multitude of reasons. My number one is they never existed. That is OK however as it just keeps going into my dump truck full of reasons to press on.
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I don't think The Christ has anything to do with this. However, some guy named Jesus from Miami or San Ajelo maybe. Back to Na na na na na They don't exist na na na na.
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Progress Report Ver. 0.155. 
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is moving!!. ok
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All we know so far is that it's likely connected to L&P using Blender, and his statement about it being the perfect time to introduce the new feature for part 2 of AWAM due to increasingly hot events. He also mentioned that it's something he wanted to do for a long time. To me, all of this sounds like an effort to include actual animations to the game.
Problem with that is, if it's indeed animations, the huge delays don't make any sense. L&P himself said the update is gonna be short, and no skilled artist (the multiple skilled artists he's apparently found, and something about missing a guy for "the last part", whatever that's supposed to mean) would need several months to add a couple animations to a short update. There's not even gonna be enough "hot" content to implement an amount of animations justifying the huge delays.
Another thing that doesn't add up is his latest statement about moving on to update 2/10 without releasing the first one, as his "helper" apparently still needs more time to complete the task. UNLESS there is no other developer, which could explain why he's not ready to release update 1/10 if he still couldn't manage to create a solid animation matching his standards.
Anyway, in the end we don't know what this new feature's supposed to be. All I know is that it's gotta blow my head off my shoulders after all the hype he's produced regarding this "special" addition to the game, which I doubt is gonna happen.
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It will probably be good, nice, and notable but not enough to justify the hype. Maybe raise an eyebrow or two, at best ...
Thank you, am I seeing incorrectly or that is way more than 1 episode per year?
Hype!
- We recently hit the 3 Years Anniversary of Being a DIK with today 1,100 Days of development.
- The production ratio are clearly underwhelming but let's not forget DPC also had a COVID incident and it's a side-story.
- DPC now seems to assemble animations, they could be around 60. Would need investigation after release.
- As raw numbers, to hit the Ratio Average it would be supposed to be rush in 40 days total. So it's not relevant.
- Estimated game size breakdown.
- The side-story might be released in 20 Days. Which project the release of EP9 around September.
Complete Table with the help of Holy Bacchus† previous post. — Being a DIK in development since 3 years, 0 months, 4 days (36 months / 157 weeks / 1,100 days / 26,400 hours)
EP Renders Animations Music* Size Release Date Development Time Ratio* R/D A/D EP1 1301 51 — ≈1.1 GB 07 Feb 2019 — days — — — EP2 1709 (+31%) 77 (+51%) — ≈2.3 GB (+1.2 GB) 04 May 2019 087 (2 months, 28 days |≈12 weeks) 20.5 19.6 0.89 EP3 2289 (+34%) 99 (+29%) — ≈4.1 GB (+1.8 GB) 16 Aug 2019 105 (3 months, 13 days |≈15 weeks) 22.5 21.8 0.95 EP4 2532 (+11%) 134 (+35%) — ≈6.1 GB (+2.0 GB) 10 Jan 2020 148 (4 months, 26 days |≈21 weeks) 18.0 17.1 0.91 EP5 2456 (-3%) 157 (+17%) 17 (3.4K$) ≈8.0 GB (+1.9 GB) 29 May 2020 141 (4 months, 20 days |≈20 weeks) 18.5 17.4 1.11 EP6 3336 (+35%) 162 (+3%) 24 (4.8K$) ≈11.1 GB (+3.1 GB) 13 Nov 2020 169 (5 months, 16 days |≈24 weeks) 20.7 19.7 0.96 EP7 3723 (+12%) 250 (+54%) 18 (3.6K$) ≈14.5 GB (+3.4 GB) 23 Apr 2021 162 (5 months, 11 days |≈23 weeks) 24.5 23.0 1.54 EP8 4158 (+12%) 358 (+43%) 34 (6.8K$) ≈19.5 GB (+5.0 GB) 19 Nov 2021 211 (6 months, 28 days |≈30 weeks) 21.4 19.7 1.70 SS1 793 36 19 (3.8K$) ≈2.6 GB (new .exe) Early March 084 (2 months, 23 days |≈12 weeks) 9.8 9.4 0.43 EP9 — — — — in development — — — —
* 199$ Premium Licensed Music — Ratio: (Renders+Animations)/Development Time [Average: 20.9] — Renders/Days [Average: 19.8] — Animations/Days [Average: 1.15] — EP7+ New HW
L&P is making 15% progress on Art and PS and it may be because this way the patreons can feel the game progress faster even though it's already almost 3 months in development for a smaller part of the game (1/3 of the updates from before), maybe this way their patreons accept the new 100% of the Addon (a highly possible DRM) in a less angry way.