I told you after last release - the next release will be after 1 year. No one believed. This 2D type of games in 2023 doesn't worth waiting 1 year. People are ready to pay 60-140 $ per year to get update with 1-2 characters. If you plan to release 1 update per year, at least make 1 scene per character. If I was dev of this game with 7.000 per month, I would hire workers to do separate stuff. I think devs choose hard way to work with this game, otherwise I have no other idea why it takes so long. I think 1 animate scene and plot with 1 character takes 1 month to develop. So at least I expect 12 animated scene, but I have bad thoughts it is not gonna happen. /Imagine waiting scenes for your fav character 3 years because other character in queue.
Now about positive things =
- Nice scenes for 2D game
- Good that there is no 20 $ ABOVE pledge in Patreon
- Beautiful arts
- Interesting story
You understand the game releases for FREE? As in the Dev actually give it for free, not just someone pirates it.
While I agree with your sentiment, and frustration, and I would add that the scope of this game is ridiculous in a very BAD way*, it really isn't that easy. Firstly, hiring someone to work on any project is hard, more so when it is 'Adult' themed. You have to worry about pay, quality, reliability, work culture compatibility and since this project is artistic in nature, artistic compatibility. After all, if you're going to hire someone, you want to hire a person who BRINGS something to the table, not just a human robot to draw and code for you. Then you run into the problem of laziness. People with drive and talent tend to be workign on their own projects. Some you probably can only find a worker with one or the other. Not ideal.
All that being said, I do feel like the game's development is going to slowly peter out, and that's on the Devs. i know they just had a kid, but that's just an excuse. We've all got our dependents and our priorities. This is clearly a major revenue stream for them, but it's treated like a hobby. I do wish them the best of luck and much success though.
*There are eight different cities, each with multiple sub sections, each brimming with girls to seduce and fuck. While on the surface this sounds like a great problem to have, it means the game will A never ever ever be finished, because it's not like the main plot is chugging along, is it? And B, no one can keep track of more than ten love interests. There's no point to more than ten. There aren't ten distinct personalities to have. So pretty soon are just having LI for the sake of numbers.
A better system would be to focus on just ONE area, say Old Capital and maybe new Capital for the climax (hehe I'm funny). The capital of a given nation is likely to be the most diverse anyway, it usually has representation from all the major groups (races in this case) living there. If you really need to, you could have there be a demonic quarter, a water quarter, etc etc. Just like there's Little Italy and Chinatown on many major urban hubs (in the USA). This lowers development time, so we don't need a rather superfluous entire new city, which has to be hand drawn, which takes fucking forever.
