Eva's already created a completed game. A completed game that's recognized as one of the best on this site, with some of the best characters, story, and art. She's pretty hardworking, diligent, and talented as hell. Is this me white knighting her? I don't know, I don't think so, you just have to recognize she's good at her job.
That is also a good a bad thing. GGGB was not a linear game, it had plenty of options but each update had a constant development cycle. Each month there was something new. Sure, sometimes you would get a scene with good Ash and other times with Gang Ash. Was anyone bother by that? Probably not. Now why do I think finishing GGGB can be considered a bad thing. Because you already proved that you can handle this type of game. If she successfully managed that game variables, she can do the same with this one.
These people have no idea how much work it is to develop a game, specially when it is deep in development and it's a non-linear game, where you have to go through all code (horrible in itself) and control dozens of variables.
Do you think the variables rebel against their creator and that is why you need to control them? What do you find so difficult to change a boolean variable or to increment the value of the numerical ones(lust, charm, etc)? Ok ... this wasn't very polite, but this narrative that "people have no idea what they are talking about and that the game is more COMPLEX" is starting to get to me. Nobody has to go through the game in order to find out what variable did what. They are all listed in the
master_script.rpy file with comments that clearly explain what they do.
Since each chapter makes the game more complex (more choices = more routes/possibilities/outcomes), the workload goes up.
Development is a complicated beast, and if you expect it to be linear, prepare to be disappointed (like you currently are). Early chapters are easy - you develop 5 scenes, include a few choices that don't affect much, and everyone's happy. But late chapters are HARD. They're not linear, they're exponential in how the workload grows.
What I mean is, imagine it's now chapter 10, and Eva wants to create some content for 5 specific paths, plus some general content everyone sees. So chapter 10 requires SIX TIMES the work of chapter 1, which just had the one path to follow. So, Eva should actually take SIX TIMES as long to complete the update. That's not milking, that's math.
Guys yes, complex looks like a good argument, but it's really not. I started this message by talking about GGGB and it's not fare to compare the too games. You can't expect an update every month because the art has improved, the writing is better and you also have 2 MC. But let's compare ORS with ORS. More exactly Chapter 6 with Chapter 9. Chapter 6 was advanced enough that nobody will say that it was linear like the first chapter (even though I don't agree at all with the statement that chapter one was an easy chapter; that is where each character was drawn and created), so let's compare the scenes.
Legend: Green = full scene, Yellow = minor scene, Red = no scene
Ian x Alison -
Chapter 6 -
Chapter 9
Ian x Cherry -
Chapter 6 -
Chapter 9
Ian x Cindy -
Chapter 6 -
Chapter 9 (x2 photo shoot & bedroom)
Ian x Emma -
Chapter 6 -
Chapter 9
Ian x Holly -
Chapter 6 -
Chapter 9
Ian x Minerva -
Chapter 6 -
Chapter 9
Ian x Lena -
Chapter 6 -
Chapter 9
Lena x Axel -
Chapter 6(2nd part of photo shoot) -
Chapter 9 (x2 photo shoot & bedroom)
Lena x Seymour -
Chapter 6(1st part of photo shoot) -
Chapter 9
Lena x Mike -
Chapter 6 -
Chapter 9
Lena x Robert -
Chapter 6 -
Chapter 9
Lena x Holly -
Chapter 6 -
Chapter 9
Lena x Louise -
Chapter 6 -
Chapter 9
Lena Solo -
Chapter 6 -
Chapter 9
Jeremy x Alison -
Chapter 6 -
Chapter 9
Jeremy x Emma -
Chapter 6 -
Chapter 9
Jeremy x Louise -
Chapter 6 -
Chapter 9
Lena Stalkfap -
Chapter 6 -
Chapter 9
Ivy Stalkfap -
Chapter 6 -
Chapter 9
Ivy x Holly -
Chapter 6 -
Chapter 9
P.S. Yes I know that some scenes were added later, after the final version of the chapters was initially released; for example Jeremy x Louise in Ch 6 and Lena Stalkfap in Ch 9)
Total
Chapter 6 => around 12 scenes with at least 2-3 images
Chapter 9 => around 14 scenes with at least 2-3 images
I don't try to say that chapter 9 wasn't bigger, but not by much in terms of scenes. The idea that it's normal to take twice as much time to develop it is wrong. The story moved forward just as much and almost both chapter touched upon each game path.
So please stop promoting this false idea that the game is more complex now than it was at the end of 2020. Use something else, say that is harder to write because of writer block or say that each chapter got bigger even though it was not needed. Or go batshit crazy and throw something like: maybe Eva became a mother last year and she had to spend time with a new born. I don't know!
If you think I am not right, by all means, show me that I am wrong.
