This game has become so bloated in my opinion. I lost count of how many new mini games there are. I know some people like them but a year long update for mini games and free roam events and stuff like that. Lots of bells and whistles. Graphical improvements and stuff are awesome sex scenes are still pretty good. Story is interesting. But still There's alot of stuff in here that feels like it doesn't need to be here.
Dont be mistaken here... it wasnt the minigames or free roams that took 12 months.
You can pretty much be very sure... from 12 months every month was needed for the animations. While they were in the render queue he did the other things.
If he didnt lied to us... The render queue was running from day one to the last day of development, and in the last 2 months it was waiting ONLY for the animations cause the rest was already done.
Without animations? He could release an episode like episode 10 in about 4-5 months.
But i think he likes to work like that now... filling up the render queue, and use the time they need to render to work on the game a bit. He doesnt have to hurry that way cause until the animations arent done, he cant release the game anyway.
I mean... what was it for the math-minigame? 3 days until he was finished with it? He posted it in a dev report. Something like that... "next week i start with the math minigame" and one week later "finished the math minigame and tokk the other days for posing renders" or something close to that.
The coding for the minigames are not really that complex. (iam not a good coder, the only thing iam capable of is a little C++... and even i can make something like the math minigame in about 12 hours or so, fuck you can do that even in excel that fast
) And if he wouldnt have done animations for those too, he could have done every single minigame in less than a month for the whole episode. Mini-games are not the reason for the long delopment... those are just a little distraction for fun for DPC.
Posing nearly 6k renders seems to be a lot at first sight too... but he managed to get more than 300 done in ONE week at some point. So... again, not the reason for the long development. No... its the animations. Simple as that...
He was able to render 7 animations per week, 50 weeks later, they were done... and guess what, thats the time he needed to complete the episode. So he filled the time while his PC slaves rendered the animation with work, not the otherway around.
