NO... He said that he would have been done a month ago already but there was a lot of organizing. Finding people working with Animations, looks at a voice actress etc.
Also I do m not get the render count. THe most games on here take also 3 month for 350+ Renders as well. But not in this kidn of quality at all. Thats why your graphs are bullshit since there is a lot happening BEHIND the scenes as well.
My graphs are not bullshit at all, they are simply projecting the date he will comlpete 4x100% based on L&P's self-reported progress. They are not prejudicial one way or the other.
I don't track other games' progress or do render counts for any of them, but I'm fairly confident that 5.5 renders per day is piss-poor for a full-time dev.
The stuff happening behind the scenes would be worth considering if this was a one-off. Problem is, the last two updates were very straight forward in terms of production needs and his pace wasn't much better. The last update had about 800 renders if I recall, and he reported 2x100% after 130 days. That's averaging 6.1 renders per day. That is not exactly the mark of a pro.
Talcum Powder graph is very close to being accurate. The problem here was the Project Management, Communication Skills, and Organizational Skills on L&P. L&P injected this animation after the fact and didn't incorporate this into his progress report. So if you look at the timetable, here it is to follow.
- 11.23.21 - Overview and set the expectation that the updates will be faster.
- 12.9.21 - First Update/Teaser of v0.155
- 12.17.21 - Informed Patreon of a thought something "Special." with a possible delay.
- 01.09.22 - Intermediate Update
- 01.29.22 - Another Update
- 02.14.22 - Important Info Update
The problem here was poor planning. At the start of this update, L&P had already set the expectation that the update would be quick. However, he changed his mind after he started the update and went in another direction. He didn't have anything lined up to support it until one month after production began. He told us that he had the help in place in January but had a problem; from there, it took another month to get every in place finally. He was already completed with his portion of the work, and the help was starting from what I can tell when reading this new information. And if you believe in the progress status, One could say that he didn't add in the "Animations" into his progress, which now will cause even more problems for tracking.
Overall, I have no issues if he wants to improve his novel with animations and voice acting, and these animations and voice acting
could be excellent. Still, the implementation and execution were horrendous since he had already set the expectation that this was supposed to be a quick update. If he wanted to add animations with this event, he should have planned these several months prior (v0.0130 6.14.21 release) to the start of this update or waited and used this in a future update like the evening event for this PD to give him his team some time to work on the animation. Also, he needs to let people know that if he is going to add special features, don't do it during production and don't set the expectation of quick releases from the start.