On the Development Pace

I won't blame you if you believe development is too slow but, as with everything else in this world, there is a reason for it. I'll take some time to explain it now because, since I'm finished with the next release's features, I don't have any interesting game development to report.

As you know, Anamnesis is kind of an oddball compared with other games, so it's hard to compare its development with that of other games or even visual novels.

Coding new systems is the easy part, the technical part of the basic politics was done in less than 5 days. The hard part is writing the content. The new content written in the last 2 months accounts for about 130 pages in Open Office's standard page and font size. Yet still, it cannot be fairly compared with the writing of visual novels, for example, because of the modular nature of the text.

When you are writing a standard storyline, once you come up with the general immediate direction for the plot, you can get at least a couple pages out of it, what with the dialogues and all. In the case of Anamnesis however, each idea gets me a line. A lot of time is wasted with me staring at the screen trying to figure out how would a particular unit or organization think in a given situation and how they'll try to achieve their goals.

This is fun when you are in the mood for it, but it can get frustrating under certain circumstances, both external and internal ones.

And since we're talking about writing, I'd like to remind you that I'm very interested in hearing about any typos or even poor grammar you find inside the game. I'm not a native English speaker, and all my English is self-taught, so the chance remains that I got something wrong without even realizing it.