That's fine if you think of the games as a test to be completed....@Faerin and anyone else who cares.
Should he be doing thematic uppdates with character focus or a little bit of all?
First i'll start by giving you a real life test that has been done many times and always yields the same resault.
A group of students (More then 1000) was given the choice of doing 5 tests in two diffrent ways.
1. They could have a total of 10 days to study for all of them and then taking all 5 at the same time.
2. They could have only 6 days but then they would have to take 1 test per day every morning.
Obviolsy the 10 days way gave them a lot more time but also split there focus on diffrent topics.
6 days gave them less time but all focus went into next days test. In every similar study of how we work best the more focus we apply the higher the resaults. So the 6 days option had higher test scores on all 5 tests.
Now what the hell does this have to do with MOTH and development?
The same principal will apply for uppdates on a game as the test scores in my example above.
Putting focus on a character or story rather then splitting focus on all sorts of aspects of the game will increase the attention for details and otherwice easy to overlook misstakes. Remember.. We're not looking for a perfect uppdate, we're looking for a perfect finished game. So lets say we are 50+ uppdates down the line...
Do you think a focused attention on every part of the game or a split on all of them will yield the best end resault?
I'm pretty sure where i stand on this
Thats my 2 cents for this topic and obvilosly i respect anyone who might disagree with me. My focus is always on the endpart so whatever character or story Faerin decides to work on next is all fine by me.
Cheers all
But it loses the entertainment value and the big issue with thematic updates is that if your favorite character isn't the focus of the theme then you don't enjoy the update.
The best way to go is to pick one character who will have a major event or milestone completed, while another gets a minor scene or update and the others get setups for what will transpire in the very next release.
So lets say in this game for example...(if the voting holds)
Claire gets the major scene, Ashley gets a minor update on one of her scenes (I would make the stakes higher in the Mall Beauty contest) and Veronica would get the setup required for more sex with the MC and Amy in the next release.
In the next release...
Ashley and Sophia would progress as the main scene while Veronica and Amy get a small update (perhaps where she discovers who has been eating her out and fingering her while blindfolded) and Claire would get the setup perhaps including the introduction to the Aunt we are all waiting for.
Now those are just examples off the top of my head to illustrate the point that if there is a little bit for everyone in each release then no one can complain that there wasn't enough for them to do with their favorite character in any given release.
After all you wouldn't want to go to a movie that followed one character only and then switched to another character only, then switch to another again...
You lose the story and the interaction that way.