That depends on whether he is spending all his time on a more profitable project/job or lives off his passive income. All we know is that he is using the game to improve his skillset, is a pathological liar and releases screenshots every couple of months. If it is more profitable than his other options then odds are that he‘s going to put out a updates to keep the money flowing.
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- May 27, 2024
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I looked at the quality of the preview images and was shocked to see why it was abandoned
Lurking around these forums gave me the info I need
Crazy how much effort was put in just to milk patreon supporters, I wonder if this mf will ever actually release the complete version if ever that is.
Lurking around these forums gave me the info I need
Crazy how much effort was put in just to milk patreon supporters, I wonder if this mf will ever actually release the complete version if ever that is.
dont hope for anything, really, dont expect anything, really, komi did announce something a while back, but its been the same thing since last year, so, dont get ur hope to high so u dont get disappointed if there's no update til next year
My prediction is it'll have one more update around the size of the prologue (not double the size like he's promising) sometime late 2025/early 2026 when his patrons finally wake the fuck up to the milking, and then there probably won't be another update ever (though he'll probably keep saying there will be and the milkees will eat it up cause they got something). Till then, we just gotta cope, and there is always the distinct possibility that there will just never be another update.
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ngl is kinda crazy devs clearing over 4k/mo on patreon according to what they tell us anyway, and this game has all but halted in progress and is not showing any signs of promise. Meanwhile so many other just flat out incredible devs that I've found through here, multiple completed titles... Barely clear 500 a month and drop updates every 2 weeks or so still. This Dev struck when the iron was hot I guess but it is a shame, would be nice to atleast wrap it up for your supporters in a timely fashion.
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I've heard that Komisari definitely isn't ripping off his backers. He just forgets to post regularly because he's working so hard on the game.
His last Twitter posts were from March 14th. Before that, things were looking a bit bleak. But I still think he's putting a lot of work into the game. Especially since I read on the Itch.io site that he's reworking all the scenes and the game is getting a ton of improvements.
You can also check Discord to see if you can get more information there. (I'm not on the server myself.) But I can certainly imagine it. Besides, I think it's really lousy to criticize people who work hard just for lack of information.
His last Twitter posts were from March 14th. Before that, things were looking a bit bleak. But I still think he's putting a lot of work into the game. Especially since I read on the Itch.io site that he's reworking all the scenes and the game is getting a ton of improvements.
You can also check Discord to see if you can get more information there. (I'm not on the server myself.) But I can certainly imagine it. Besides, I think it's really lousy to criticize people who work hard just for lack of information.
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Okay, let's quantify "A lot of work." It has been almost two years since the last update. Let's assume Komi is working at 40ish hours a week, or 8 hours a day, roughly standard across the globe. Despite the successful patreon, we'll assume again they are still treating this as a side gig. Adding more assumptions, Komi likely has to commute approximately an hour a day, another two hours for food preparation/ordering/cleanup. Sleeping eight hours a day, we now have about five hours free for everything else they'd do during the week, not counting weekends.
How many hours a day is average for something that is only a passion project? Three? Two? Lets be super generousness with our assumption lasagna, and say on average, Komi gets about two hours of work done a day on HHG. (Note, this is not saying that he works two hours every single day, but that on average, the aggregate amount he spends per day across only the last two years is around two hours.) Removing weekends and holidays, we've got about ~250 days in a year they're working on the game, for a total of approximately 500 days, or 1000 hours of work.
In that time, there is no feasible way Komi has not been able to come up with an idea for the story, write it, edit it, animate it, code it, as well as bug test it without having something better than a myriad of random screenshots. In a thousand hours, we should have easily been able to have seen even a single update with the most minor of character dialogues or quests or anything.
That is to say no, I don't think that Komi is "working hard", and I think I can easily criticize him with a lack of information based on a very basic extrapolation that was incredibly charitable with the numbers I gave. While there is a decent amount of content in the game already, in 1000 hours he should have been able to rework and re-release the entire thing by now.
This is before I even factor in the part where he's been raking in cash for months on end now. The burden of proof is on him to show what he has been doing in 22 months.
I recommend taking a look at Goddess' Whim, similar type of game, active dev, good plot, and great graphics.
- May 27, 2024
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The only way a man aint done with 5 years of work, disregarding the christmas thing which he himself said it wasnot worth 2 years of work is that he is going to do the entire rest of the game in one go rather than chapter 1, but I highly doubt he would do that and he could easily release at least chapter 1 or 2 in that time to appease the waiting fans
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Nice try, Komi alt account.
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I thought he is in Spain? many full-time Developer have less than 4000$ per month in Spain.
but I think Komi is in development hell he reworked Chapter 1, game play mechanics etc. Project executives are quite helpful against such things
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Ok, Argentina is 20.000 - 180.000$/year, I guess he has ~80.000/year (~5 years experience), but more likely it is 50.000$.
And his Patreon has ~50.000$ after taxes, could be 30.000$
> but I think Komi is in development hell he reworked Chapter 1, game play mechanics etc. Project executives are quite helpful against such things
No. Development hell can excuse months.
How long would someone have to go without releasing something for people to accept it? Ten years? Fifty?
If he doesn't release something by 2100, how many people will still be defending this asshole?
but this is Development hell, you could develop a Software for decades with poor Management and wrong Technology? I still don't know, why he reworks mechanics for Ren'Py instead of switching to another Engine.
at this Point I would even say, Hero's Harem Guild is Vaporware.
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If it takes months, though, it isn't development hell? I'm pretty sure you've gotta take a whole year to claim that, at a minimum.
I mean, MOST games have at least one period, usually more, where there's little significant progress for months due to one thing or another. The bigger the game the more likely and often that happens.
But at this point HHG may as well be Duke Nukem Forever for how long we're gonna wait for it.