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Yes, in terms of production it could be, but you have to remember that the game time in a normal episode is constituted by story, mini games and free roams, here you would have 60 minutes of game time only with story...I've been thinking February for a while. He seems to be using his time wisely, or at least his machines wisely. at 40-60 minutes i'd say that is 15-20% the size of the last couple of episodes. He took some time off before beggining work on 8 and then also had the season 3 save system to develop, as well us upgrading the version of Ren'py the game used. I think we'll see episode developement time return to closer to 6 and 7 for the next 2 or 3.
So here's some sums for fun. Episode 8 took 30 weeks to develop (Week one the first Friday after 7 was released). 15% of the time for this would be 4.5 Weeks rounded up, 20% would be 6. That would be the 24th-31st December. We end up with the same time frame for 15-20% of content.
- On average he produced 358/30=11.93 animations per week.
- On Average he produced 4158/30=138.6 static renders per week
- 15% of statics would be 623.7, 20% would be 831.6
- 15% of anaimations would be 53.7, 20% would be 71.6
So that means to produce the statics it would take;
- 15% - 623.7/138.6= 4.5 weeks
- 20% - 831.6/138.6= 6 weeks
So that means to produce the animations it would take;
Yes, this doesn't take into account writing or coding, however, I do think it would be reasonable to expect Interlude to arrive in January or early February. At a 40-60 minute production any longer wouldn't make sense. I'm going to go with February 4th. In turn i'm going to predict July 22nd-29th for Episode 9.
- 15% - 53.7/11.93= 4.5 weeks
- 20% - 71.6/11.93= 6 weeks
And this is a guess on my part, maybe DPC uses more words than renders, but to fill those 60 minutes, at least as we are used to, would be more than 800 renders.
As for episode 9, I only speculate that if there is a real branch, if there is, the size of the episode in itself would have to be gigantic, since the previous episodes had a lot of common path for all the characters, and again speculating too much, if DPC is going to split the path a lot, it should have a lot of content for each path, so you would fill the average play time of each episode.