POLARCACTUS'S PROFILE

@HikiNeet: Disma and co don't even feature anymore. The storyline has been changed completely. The plot was just way too cliched back in late 2013.

@macblo: No, I was just using a general FF example. But I do have Meteor as a multi-hitting, AoE spell that serves as one of Dante's overdrives.

lmao, what a coincidence. XD

I've only confirmed two canon couples, so you never know about Perc's prospectives. ;) And let's face it, there are more guys than girls in the cast. But I don't do yaoi. ><

That 'stache is probably a graphics editor fail. I'll fix it up.

Also, Craze. I only realised now that that's Silas in your avatar. I still don't know all of Fire Emblem: Fates characters. XD

Really depends on the type of game I'm developing:

Short contest games (30 mins - 1hr): Around two weeks to get about one hour done. I've calculated that I do about 50 hours of game development a week, which more or less gives me anything from 30 minutes to an hour of gameplay if I'm on a roll.

Medium-length games ( 10-15 hours ): I've only done one, and that took me the better part of four years to complete, but only because it was my first serious RM project ( before that, I was working on a fan-game that clocked in at 12 hours as well but I never released it ). But I got caught in that cycle of constantly redoing things, which meant not only did I do a lot of unnecessary work but I ended up doubling the dev-cycle itself ><.

Magnus opus': My current magnum opus has been in development since late 2013, but again, I've rehauled it over and over again until I was happy with it. It was only around January this year that I really decided where I wanted to go with it. It's projected to have around ten long chapters averaging around 4 hours in length, and it excludes filler content and I hope to have it finished by late 2017.
So yes, long projects take me about 4 years.

I've realised that planning a project in advance ( or indeed, having a scenario writer ) helps a lot when it comes to mapping out points A to B for larger projects. I was never a planner before ( I always did things on a whim, and added stuff as I went along ) but now I know it is a massive time saver and stops me from going back and redoing older parts of a project.

But to be honest, the length of a game doesn't matter to me. I'll take a game with a solid plot and little to no filler that clocks in at under 15 hours than a 100 hour epic filled with useless sidequests and all the JRPG stuff I couldn't care any less about ( like fishing, cooking, mining etc. etc. ).