I find the problem not so much how often the updates happen but how slow the progress is. It took a year to get from 0.17 to 0.18, but there was not much new content to play.
I’m not complaining about this as such, if it takes a year to create such high quality content then that is time well spent.
What portion of development time is spent on writing, still images, animations, redoing old content to improve or fit new narrative, debugging, …
So continuing as things are is OK to me.
Well, my father died between v0.17 and v0.18, and I moved countries as well, so that was a special case. That took months upon months to get through. (The legal nonsense behind it all was a mess. Both from my father's death and moving countries.) v0.18 did have slightly less content than v0.17, but still more than v0.16.
I've thought about this for a while but how close are devs to being able to reliably use tools like chatgpt and other workflows to significantly reduce time to create updates whilst keeping quality the same. Might just be a pipe dream. Surely we're close to tools like blender integrating with chatgpt to assist with asset creation etc. not that I know anything about making games but would love to know your thoughts since I think it may change the industry for the better
