Ahh I see, I thought I was going crazy when they mention they finished the last update in like 30 mins or so... It took me a a good few hours to say the least, but, that's only because I am a slow reader, and take time to look at the image, and check evert nook and cranny of the choices given by the game (I know it's linear but I wanna see what kind hilarious shit will the mc end up should I take certain choices), like that instance where Rachel broke the 4th wall iirc.Not really, those 488kB is clean text. It's slightly more than first Harry Potter and slighty less than Hobbit. Just for the last update. And it's not a book that you easily read as whole thing, you get it in lines, one at a time. There's around 5000 lines (100 characters average length), so to go through all of them in half an hour, you'll have average clicking rate 2.7 times per second. And with zero time to look at images.
And the render thingy the dev mention, I think he was referring to heavily modded HS and then I think he also mentioned using photoshop (?), but that's nearly not enough to justify the stupidly slow progress he makes with his updates. I've seen some real DAZ-based games update faster than he does.
All in all, this shyt is really infuriating, and now he still wanted to delay it further cjz apparently he is still not finished on working on something that should've been done already given it is supposed to release months ago... Guh fucking dammit...