whatever project #2 was or is planned to be i still years and years away and DC changes his mind about things all the time so who knows if it will ever exist. still it's fun to speculate about it. could it be related to summertime saga or be some sort of sequel? will it still be based on the renpy engine or not? will it be another visual novel style adventure or change genres? will it even still be an adult game (the answer to that question is probably yes)?
It's indeed interesting that he never really mentioned anything substancial I'd know of. Though he did say that it'll have nothing to do with SS and that he won't use Renpy. To me that's fine, SS will have gone more than long enough by then and everybody will be tired... it'll be great to have something new.
Edit: Though I have to say that I have really no idea what his next game could be about. With some guys you just know what they are interested in and what they'd like to work on but in his case I don't think he's got a clear preference out of personal interest.
he could even hire some other artists that would do his usual work for him while he would take more the position of a game director which would enable him to still work on summertime saga.
I think we can safely say that won't happen, given that this basically seems to have been his old actual job before he started working on SS game and given that it seems like he doesn't want to go back to that. To me it's pretty clear by now that he wants to draw his own games. If the perfect artists who doesn't need (m)any instructions/corrections/etc. comes around to help, he'll hire him, if not, then it'll be himself until the very end. I'd be happy if he'd find somebody but I totally don't expect it.
Then again, as said in my post above, back when he thought he'd finish SS quickly, he once talked about adding another patreon goal which would have included to hire somebody to do some groundwork with the new engine etc. but he never did it and instead focussed on SS.
