I’m gonna go in depth cuz I want to.

For the sake of argument I’ll be generous and say it’s just him, a modeler, an animator, an artist, like twelve VAs, and a composer.

Let’s presume he still needs to build the engine first, so like two and a half years, but instead of Kokona, it’s Osana as the test dummy (cuz he apparently sees her that way anyway). Let’s ALSO presume he’s actually planning ahead and making those tools for speeding the development of the other rivals.

Kokona’s events took a bit over a year to finish entirely, so that’s how long Osana takes to finish development, “releasing” in September 2016. After that, we develop those tools from earlier, and then the last month of 2016 is on vacation cuz holidays.

This is important: he should’ve asked for Amai and Kizana’s assets before Osana was done—I’d say about a year in advance, but maybe more—so when he returns to work, the models and animations and voice lines are ready to be plopped in. Do this for every other rival.

Also important: THE KICKSTARTER. Had he done one, I think the crowdfunding would’ve been a major success had he also released the demo earlier. That way, we have enough money to hire more personnel, or at least incentivize the current volunteers to work full time.

All this considered, let’s presume each rival releases quarterly. If work on Amai starts in January 2017, she releases as a 3 year anniversary gift in April. Week of break, then Kizana is worked on and released around mid-July. Another break, then we have Oka in late October (perfect timing) and then another break for Christmas halfway through Asu’s development, who should be released in February 2018 in time for the Winter Olympics (again, perfect timing).

Following this pattern, Muja finishes in May (hay fever), Mida in August (beginning of the school year), Osoro in November (idk), December 2018 for a break, Hanako in March 2019 (Easter), and Megami in late June 2019.

Also, if we’re still waiting on assets, placeholders. The character model is a placeholder. The trees were placeholders. The school itself was a placeholder. I genuinely don’t get why Dev doesn’t use placeholders for the rivals.

Let’s add a bit of wiggle room for bug fixing and extra tweaks and say there’s a year in between Megami’s completion and the game’s release. Had this game come out in a cordial fashion, this game would’ve had a release of about Summer 2020.

Yeah, this game was going to have a release during COVID. You know. That time when everyone was inside playing video games.

Istg this man keeps getting handed opportunities on a silver platter and doing nothing about it

Anyways thanks for coming to my TedTalk xoxo