Chapter: 2
Status: All major scenes are built. I just have go back and fill out missing content from the middle.
Development Time:10 months so far

And I don't mean that I did lots of procrastinating and it could have been finished a lot quicker if only I'd had more discipline.

i mean. it. took. ten. months.

do you know that I specifically started a pointless little Elder Scrolls fan-game because I was tired of enormous projects that burn you out? It was supposed to be a break from massive life-consuming projects. it was supposed to be a fluffy dumb little thing that could be all done in maybe a couple years. that's why i was fine with it being a fan game full of stolen material which can't possibly be made commercial or anything.

It's only after I was knee-deep into the commitment that the Project Gods whipped away the curtain and said, "Oh, your little Elder Scrolls game? It's actually a 10-months-to-make-one-chapter game. Oops! Surprise! Hahaha! GOT U"

https://rpgmaker.net/media/content/users/546/locker/testimonial.mp3

But I keep coming up with rationalizations to feel better. I.E. future chapters are going to reuse a lot of older areas/graphics/content. Even-numbered chapters are in a completely separate "world" from odd-number chapters, so it makes sense that ch2 would also take a long time because every character and major area has to be designed. Yeah, that's it. So after this the chapters will just start piling out

So at this point you can "walk through" the entire chapter, and I just have to go back and flesh out things like skill trees and cannon fodder dungeon monsters which I neglected the first time through. And then balancing. And sorry to be a font of misery in the journal. But I have to let out the misery or I will die. Thank you for listening to the misery.

STICK IT TO THE PROJECT GODS.