thx
George Martin was just an example. And age is not the single factor, unfortunately. There are so much ways to die, get in some accident, become a disabled person, and whatever else. While he is doing his job great being alone, it's also the biggest cons in this case. A couple of people/team may continue work if somebody gets off, while single person - not.
Or eaten by a shark during vacation But fortunately, all this is unlikely. And we hope for the best. DPC is not the type of person who will work in a team or share a project with someone else - he is a fanatical individualist with a control freak. He reminds me of Andrew Ryan in this way.
The main slogan of this man, which shapes his work, was heard in the credits of Acting Lessons:
"Wether the storm and follow your vision, anything else and it's no longer your vision."
I've been here for a year now, sharing a bit of modern history: There were a few problems during the development of Ep.9. Someone close to him died, DPC also suffered Covid, then the Friday Prophets, whose songs were the main soundtrack, demanded that treir songs be removed from the game. It took a week to patch, plus it ruined his mood and stifled motivation to work for that time. And literally after that, a week later, some scammer created an account on his behalf on itch.to (a platform for selling indie games), sold illegal copies, earning money on his project. DPC is very jealous of its intellectual property (it wasn't always like this) and it pissed him off. Development again froze for a week and DPC even asked fans for help to bombard the scammer with reports. Even on F95, through his discord moderator. It worked and everything got better. But at the end of the cycle, there was a delay again. DPC finished work with posing art, but there was a large queue of animations for rendering. He improved the quality of the visual and began to make long animations, his old hardware could not cope with them. I hope after upgrading to the RTX 4090 this will no longer be the case.
I agree with your estimations. 5.5k would be a reasonable number. But, tbh, he need to make just +1 render more than EP9 had and he is would be eligible to say the same
Knowing it, the Episode will be bigger for a few hundred renders. But I am sure that game doesn't allow him to make them smaller. Now game is divided into branches, more and more exclusive content for each route, this content is mutually exclusive. Plus the possible routes of girls who are not MGs are added. Everyone needs to pay attention. Do episodes as before, 3500-4000 renders each? Then one run will take 2.5 hours, no more.
Of course, he can cut non-essential content that many people talk about. I would cut useless characters like Sally and Madame Rose, also not sure about Nora, another potential teacher+student drama, why is it necessary when there are already three of them? This is my little criticism, mostly I am delighted with this project.
Yeah, it's great that this time will not be wasted. And knowing him, I bet that he will work periodically for little things like dialogues or some episode scheduling tasks, when he will have "free" time on his vacation, lol. Previously, he continued to work even when he was sick.
fingers crossed for August
I will cross my fingers too, but I will keep a little pessimism in myself so as not to be disappointed. I was also looking forward to Episode 9 on Halloween, how wrong I was.
I think he'll be doing some work on vacation, plus if he's going to travel, he needs remote control of his PCs via TeamViewer or something like that. PCs running at full capacity unattended, anything can go wrong.
