14-16 episode will be and now 10 is out
All things considered, expecting the final episode before 2030 is optimistic.
How much is DPC gonna work on this after that? Remaking art for earlier episodes and whatever else he wants? Probably won't stop while he lives.
We're up to episode 10, and the development time keeps getting longer and longer, the chart below shows how many days each chapter has taken so far (we have no gauge for when chapter 1 was started so that's been excluded).
If we extrapolate that out to the projected 16 episodes that have been suggested...
...it'll be about 15 years before the game is done!
My calculations may be a little off, but episode development time is still increasing per episode, and at a minimum, I'm expecting a year per episode from now on.
In the past I would have justified why each recent episode has taken longer, but in the end, I think the developer is just milking it:
- The animations are getting longer, and are of a higher frame rate.
- The renders are getting more detailed, and where 5 renders would have been cycled in a conversation between two people, now 20+ renders are being used for different expressions etc.
- More minigames are being designed and added.
But none of the above is making the game "better", it's just making it bigger and dragging out development time.
