Chapter 7: jumping to conclusions using iffy numbers

The other day, I promised you a little number crunchy, and as usual, I'll just be pulling some random numbers out of the current game build, and see if they tell us anything interesting. Note, a little while back I did a similar post, so I'll try not to cover too much of the same ground there, and just keep it short and simple.

As before, I'll be jumping my conclusions based on the only vaguely reliable metric of number of images. I'm sure it sort of correlates with content (after all, it is a key component of content), but I couldn't tell you if a linear relation exists with factors such as playtime or any other.

Some raw number:

• Number of images in chapters 1-6: ~12k6 (12.600)
• Number of images added by chapter 6: ~5k7
• Number of images currently in: ~22k4

Whoa. That means currently added for chapter 7: 9k6 images. That is 1.7x the amount of images that chapter 6 added in total. 

Last time I looked at numbers, I figured we'd end up at about the same amount of content as chapter 6, but it seems that was an underestimation by a sizable margin. Not entirely unexpected of course, because development time has also been roughly 1.5 times what the development time of chapter 6 was, so that's mostly in line.

So, where did all that new content go? We'll, I could dig in and try and categorize all those new images, but instead imma just seat-of-my-pants it, and that brings us back to this by now really worn out word, but the lewd scenes are the biggest culprits I suspect. 

Where they'd originally take up a dozen images, maybe two, they've been growing in size and scope with each chapter, and by now, they consist of hundreds or even thousands of images, go through multiple stages, have a bunch of different interactions, and of course they come with a ton of dialog. 

And that's it. One final p.s., if you're wondering where the heck the wallpapers have gone, I've been skipping them to try and close up chapter 7 asap. I figured you wouldn't mind, and I plan to make it up once the chapter releases (if for nothing else, my own sanity).