It's hardly failed if he's still developing it, is it? Like I said, even if it doesn't seem like much content, it is being regularly updated, even if it's only a few things at a time.
The loading screen is a great quality-of-life feature so you know your computer hasn't just frozen when starting the game on weaker systems; it came with some performance tweaks to help the game run a bit smoother too.
He made several new characters and scenes for those characters in the latter half of last year, I don't know how you count that as "not much"
He just updated pregnancy so that it advances in real-time, and breeding so that kids are a blend of their parents' colors. That's fairly significant stuff.
As for a team, I didn't mean to suggest that a team-made game would fail, just that it's way more of a headache than Derelict wants to deal with. Also like I said, he's not required to get a team if he wants. There's absolutely nothing wrong with him keeping the money that people gave him. Money that is paid to him (or anyone) money on Patreon is by no means required to be reinvested in the game if the dev so chooses.
"He made several new characters and scenes for those characters in the latter half of last year, I don't know how you count that as "not much"
7 Years of content Breakdown compared to the 1st aplha:
-added 3 new sex poses for the grand total of 7 (still not done with half of the height variations for that)
-added 7 slightly modified new 3d models with 3 base variants and 2 rare variants (all just recolors)
-added Basic sound realy basic like 12 sound effects in the whole game (no music)
-expanded the map by aproximetly +40% (un interactive empty spaces mostly)
-added a few empty unproportional buildings to the "town"
-added the fluid harvest animation / mechanic (no transitional animations)
-added pointless weekly changing objectives (random roll on 4 nehpelym to sell)
-added gates to block progress
-added a wierd mechanic of sometimes instead of suprise sex it will be suprise oral sex (1animation 0 transition)
-added a second currency to slow down progress and artificialy inflate the game time and locked the already few sex animations behind this currency
-added a gray loading screen
-added Suprise sex mechanic for NPCs which is just 2 random nehp start having sex in 1 of 2 poses with out transitional animations for no purpose.
-added traits to the variants
-added another time wasting mechanic collecting orbs to progress
-added 6 "boss type nephelym" that all have 1 animation with the MC for no real purpose (ofc no transitional animations)
-added the "new" pregnancy system that broke the game currently so badly this is the 4th hotfix and its still bugged that is basically: the Preganat belly swels up over time and not in 5 stages... (wow what an amazing huge change)
-added a "Transformation" thing that is pointless where you can transfrom into an existing 3dmodel of a Foxen for no real reason and always into the same model (ofc no animation or anything you just cange MC models in 1 frame after fading to black)
Thats 7 years of development. I didnt include changes that wer meaningless or non content additions like the list below (what i listed below is like 1 year of development but i dont want to link all 7 years of pointless changes it would be too long to read) :
- Fixed some small issues
- Downgraded MSVC compiler version to what Epic uses, might fix some weird behavior.
- Made tab UI more clear
- Blocked off some areas
- Monarch's scene now works with futa disabled
- Levers now animated
- Fixed dialogue lock when futa is enabled
- Male breeding tasks are no longer generated when futa only is on
- Updated translations
- Tweaked game progression 1, Fixed camera issues, and other small things
- The Avatars of the Goddess must be activated, the NPCs will guide you
- Fixed issues
- Added pube improvements, new styles
- Fixed fluids not showing
- Fixed possible random crash
- Fixed various small issues
- Fur FPS performance improvements
- FPS improvements during sex scenes
- Fixed various issues
- Hotfix: Futa x Male uses wrong scene
- Fixed severe frame drops caused by fur.
- Worked around other engine frame drops.
- Added new ranch menu, it's accessed from the house.
- New experimental basic physics for roamers, while they walk around.
- Now including the runtime DLLs, should no longer require installing runtimes.
- Fixed issues from the last build.
- Hotfix: Potential VRAM issue.
- Hotfix: Dick physics override sex scenes.