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I dont think anyone is going to be able to do one full playthrough, this VN has 30 chapters planned and look how long each chapter is taking.
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That's why I asked if he was short on money cause otherwise I feel like he would've hired people to speed up the development.
If it's 30 chapter then oh boy..
- Jun 25, 2017
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The guy is a perfectionist and probably thinks nobody is able to meet his standards, both of his games are doomed if he stays a solo dev IMO.
If he is solo I'm quite sure he will get burned out eventually and if he's making 2 games then prolly will abandon one in the future.
- Jun 25, 2017
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At this pace is going to literally more than 2 decades to complete his games, Burnout will for sure eventually happen.
That's rough hopefully he will hire people and speed up the process Really like the game.
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im probably dead before this game is finished lol
- Dec 5, 2020
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I would suggest you to read this dev log, particularly the section that begins with the phrase:
"Why don't you just hire someone to help you with the art?"
https://f95zone.to/threads/summers-gone-s1-steam-dlc-oceanlab.29981/post-15807653
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Maybe Summer's Gone was the taxes we paid along the way?
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I dont think having a team means a faster development, see, one of the developers that delivers the biggest amount of content is Dr. Pinkcake, hes a solo developer. Ocean also releases a lot of content, even more considering hes producing 2 games at the same time. Now take Oppai Man's example (Fresh Women developer), he has a team working for him, at this point we can say they are a company, yet their updates has small amount of content and cant match Ocean or Dr. Pinkcake update size...i remember they even downgraded their renders with A.I some time ago...and they have people working and make a lot of money.
About being burned out, having a team doesnt means this will not happen, each member has their own work to do and it can still happen, i know they can hire someone else but the quality of the work can change and having more people brings some work-relationship problems, ppl in this field tend to not be the best ones to work with.
I personally think that Ocean and Pinkcake being solo developers is what gives their games the chance of reaching the end, because they seem to have the drive to finish it, i would add Nyx (Intertwined) to this mix too.
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