Announcement: Project on hold + development insights

Hello everyone!

Pleasure Quest v0.5.0 is out and I am pretty pleased with what I've achieved this far. Good stuff altogether.

Unfortunately, there has been a recent development in my life that forces me to put this project on hold until (at least) the end of the year. I have some busy months ahead of me.

For those who are interested in some behind-the-scenes data (that I mostly collected for myself), I have some development insights and statistics to share:

Start date: 18 June 2022
Total time passed: 4 months / 17 weeks
Average work hours per week: 15h
Total work hours: 225h (estimated because I only started tracking my hours after v0.3.0, but I think the number is quite accurate)

Work efforts split as follows:

• 35% coding
• 35% art (2D + 3D)
• 25% writing
• 5% other (game design, deployment, testing, etc.)

Game Analytics (taken from itch.io):

• Views: ~7300
• Downloads: ~500
• Browser Plays: ~3000
• Collections: ~90
• Ratings: 2

I did not really care for marketing but I've posted about my game on reddit twice and each time it caused a significant spike in views and plays.

What surprised me was that not more people rated the game, but I suppose a lot of them still enjoyed it enough to put it in their collection, so I am happy.

Thanks for playing and hopefully until next year!