Ik people prolly asked this a bazillion time but Anyone keep up with the dev and season 2? Just curious haven't heard anything about this game in ages.
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Every two weeks there is a devlog posted in the thread by some heroes. There's a link in the OP to a list of the devlogs so you can check out where the devlopment is at - Ch1 of season 2 is anticipated to be roughly between half to 2/3 of the size of season 1, and this week (Wednesday) Ocean should be releasing a devlog with updated numbers/progress that specifically gives details. Hopefully.
Funny, he got the cable in what, two days? and is now gooning over how much faster he is rendering (70 4K renders a night). Why are you still gooning over the cable fiasco?
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I didn't know there was a fiasco. I'm behind on Ocean's current cum calendar lore.
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Damn RL, well playedI didn't know there was a fiasco. I'm behind on Ocean's current cum calendar lore.
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Short? A regular chapter is ~2200 renders. Season 1 is 5 chapters. The first chapter of Season 2 is equivalent to the amount of renders in three previous chapters roughly. It will be the longest chapter Ocean's released. Very few other devs are dropping updates with chapters/episodes over 6000 renders.
Some of this is linkely branching for path specific content, so not all of it will be seen in one playthrough.
Some of this is linkely branching for path specific content, so not all of it will be seen in one playthrough.
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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.
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..
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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.
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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.
im probably dead before this game is finished lol
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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.