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Just so everyone understands why it has taken so long to update this game, since a lot of you don't seem to understand.

1. Scripting

2. Coding

3. Animation

4. Funding

For the 1st 3, to get done what has been done, the scripting would take about a month.

The coding would take a couple months.

The animation would take several months.

So for a full time developer, it would take them around 6 months (1500 hours) to make what has been made on their own... the problem is #4.

I highly doubt Komisari is making enough each month to be able to live on; I would be surprised if he/she told me they make more than $400 a month off this game.

This means that in order to live, they need an actual job.

Job + Sleep + Social life + Entertainment + Eating & Hygiene... meaning each week Komi probably only has about 10 hours to work on the game at best.

Meaning it would take them around 3 years to create the game they have so far... and the next update will pretty much add on to the game about as much as that's already there.

Now I'm not well off, so I can't actually support you Komi (which I'm really sorry I can't) but this was a terrific game.

Usually I just skip the dialogue, but I actually felt obligated tk read it this time around.

And that ending sequence? When our favourite demon was talking to us? Very well directed. You have my applause.

I look forward to the next update; however long it may take you👍👍👍

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Great you decided to defend a dev, some people don't realize the hard work they do and think code and renders grow from trees or smth.

I'm with you most of this post, but stating he only earns about 400$ means you probably didn't check his patreon, did you?

I'd rather speculate that Komi is taking his time with updates, because he wants them to be actually done before releasing, no one likes a half baked cake. However only he can tell us his reasons, anything else is merely speculation.

I think Komi's work is commendable to say the least and I really enjoyed the current version. Keep up the good work!

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I can respect wanting to release your best work, just make sure to avoid the route of star citizen (extreme ambition and delays).  Dev wants release all of chapter 1 in a single update because we played through the prologue.  Understandable.

That being said, before Patreon cuts, they make $8400 a month or just over $100,000 a year.  I heavily doubt funding is an issue.

100k in my country is huge 😅.. Maybe you can survive for abou 3 years with that money.

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Oh, I see now! Thanks for the info! :-)

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Thank you for trying to help me understand but I still have questions.

Since Komi is, in fact, bringing in around $7000 a month though this game, and they claim that they are working on it full time, I'm not sure how a lack of any kind of deliverable in over a year is justifiable.

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Mate Komisari is a human. Spending more than 5 hours on a screen and programming, it's just hard. Monospace (programmer's favourite font) will strain your eyes real bad (personal experience) and he has a personal life, too ya know. Not targetting you in particular, but many people here are impatient.

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Funding isnt an issue. you probably arent aware of his patreon. people can also support it here and other places too.  the biggest reason its taking so long other than the fact hes practically a one man army making the game is that hes dead set on releasing each major chapter in full, rather than parts with monthly updates like alot of other devs do. And during that time hes making a bunch of other qol improvements to just about everything else. The story is very long, if you havent already noticed from the prologue, it takes alot of time especially to develop this kind of content on your own, and its not even about defending the dev, its just facts. Im surprised at how alot of devs in general do it. Personally I couldnt do more than 2 lines of code without screwing everything up and having a completely dysfunctional result. It has been a little over a year since the last HHG update, but i love the game and anyone who feels the same will have patience and wait as long as we need to for the next huge update to come out. Honestly the longer I have to wait the more pumped I am ;D