This game probably had the most potential of any game here for me. But the updates taking so damn long just kills the interest. I don't understand why they can't hire extra help with the patreon money, surely faster development means more paying customers.
There is a FAQ item on their Discord about this:
Why don't you add more members to the team?
- The tasks that take the longest are also the stuff we have the most fun doing (art, posing), and prefer to do them mostly ourselves.
- We have already commissioned and continue to commission a talented artist to help us design the backgrounds and the environments.
- We're a married couple, work in the same physical space, work well together, change things all the time, test new ideas, and have an established work routine. I would consider hiring people to work with us in an office or a studio, but given the NSFW nature of the game, that's out of the question, and I prefer not to change my work routine.
- We're happy working on the game full-time, people have been happy so far with the result of our work, and our patrons have expressed they prefer us to keep doing what we're doing. Changing what works seems unnecessary and unhelpful.
- Assuming that we wanted to add new members, it is not easy to find people who can say produce artworks that exactly match the styles of the game, and we do not want there to be two different art styles. What that means is that Chestnut will still have to be doing the finishing works, and extra coordination, that is likely to take her as much time as it does now.
- Some tasks are easier to outsource (e.g., the coding), but those are the easiest and the fastest parts of our job.
