Wow! Your insights are so amazing! Please direct me to the games that you have developed and released, especially the ones that are equally complex as this one. I really want to see the experience that is giving you the courage to make these assertions. Or really, anything at all.
There's many game where's there more work on this forum? But this one? Even lain's mod is more complex that the game itself.
I would know what's "complex" about this game? The only "complex" thing is the phone app (That doesn't do anything appart from displaying a small summary about the character. (I already proved somewhere in this thread that someone that never used Ren'py nor Python (like me) could "develop" that phone app in 8h (And I think I was particularly slow), well, it was ugly as hell since I don't know a thing about making something good looking, but anyone can do it)
I can understand that the art part can take time, but for one part he is using HS with the minimum of effort he can (If i'm not wrong, all the animation are HS stock animation, I don't know about the poses, well, he's at least using mods I think to make the game looks better)
But there's nothing "complex" about the game part. He's making the most lambda Ren'py game :
- display an image with the keyword "show" or "scene" followed by the name of the image
- branching -> You put the keywood "label" followed by an identifier and use the keyword "menu" (Yes, the choice menu is already in Ren'py), then put the phrase to display and "jump" followed by the identifier -> You got your branching (There's only that since branching to this day doesn't have any impact at all on the rest of the story).
-> So explain to me why he sometimes take month to correct a bug when there's litteraly nothing that could go wrong apart from synthax or a wrong image?
And the story, well, it's enjoyable, even through it's nothing formidable, there's no real problem with it and it read well (There's a story, you feel that it's more that just the sex scene at least), I'm probably unable to write even something like that, but there's no "complicated world setting", he "only" have to follow his plot in a "modern" world, and while he's doing a somewhat good job, it still doesn't explain the year between updates ^^