What is the secret of the game? Why is it so popular?
Some cute and smooth artstyle. There WAS cozy and carefree atmosphere in plot and characters ministories. Until DC decided, that he desperately need to f*uck it with drama and such. But to be honest, most of the coziness is still intact. But BE NOT AFRAID! After cutting his whatever it was inside him his mentlity changed, so he could as well, wreck the whole plot in time.
which would be like two years by now
Which would be never from now. He started scenes redraw thing. If you don't understand what does it mean after all these years, I'll give you some hints.
Three years ago the game was lacking about a third of main plot, which was almost ready in text. And some characters questlines. But after all this time there is no major progress.
Instead old frame animation he started that deforming types. It is faster ideed, and far more ugly. But for some strange reasons with quality decreased quantity has too. What is with this familiar feeling?
Instead 0.XX versions new system was introduced - 0.20.XX versions. Looks quite familiar, no?
Then he started to redraw scenes. Familiar feeling intensifies!
And all this time he streams on a regular basis and draws something. Something we never saw in updates. Familiar feeling has reached its peak and formed one simple word - MILKING.
So in the next few years I expect:
After incredibly difficult process of developing a super-duper-mega-tech-update-that-definitely-changes-everything there will be SUDDEN revelation - project became more complex, so its harder to manage and update now. That means - more crewmember needed! But for a poor indi dev its hard to pay a good sum for professional and it is very hard to find a team, that would work for a cup of tea, so - more time to update.
An then there will be another SUDDEN revelation - tech update changed the progect so much that previous 100500 illustrations and over9000 totally completed new characters and stories can't be added - they have to be updated too. What a pity, there was so much content ready to be added to the project.
But be not afraid, the team is more than ready to mil... to work on that. Just a little more waiting, just a little more.
And at the same time - more streams with drawing something we'll DEFINITELY see in the future and adding dozens of v.20.XX.YYY.ZZ "you cant see it, but it is definitely important changes" kind of updates.