Board Thread:Update Hype/@comment-28592066-20170106122430/@comment-28592066-20170110214722

I think Yanderedev said he plans to launch a kickstarter after Osana is complete... are you suggesting that he has second thoughts? Anyway I just hope he doesn't completel give it away - we've already seen what happens when big companies take over independent projects and this is something neither I nor (probably) anyone donating through the Patreon page want to see.

There's a huge difference between the debug builds being an advertisement for the final game and the whole project being an advertisement for a job candidate. I think Yanderedev is an honest person and is comitted to seeing this game being completed. If you know otherwise then please do tell.

Anyway this whole thing is not what I was really talking about - The release of Osana mark a point where the first week of the game is playable, finishable and hopefully final (i.e. will not be significantly changed before the final game). We can also note that the game was more or less at this point a few months ago - Kokona was as close to a real rival as you could get, almost all elimination methods were functional, basically the only thing missing was the "player eliminated rival" check on Friday evening.

Apparently Yanderedev may have gone a little too far with Kokona, since she was only supposed to be a test dummy, but many elimination methods required programming special events for her throughout the week, and there's obviously the incredible befriend/betrayal cutscene. So yes the game looked nearly 1-week complete, but Kokona is not a real rival and now all of these elimination methods need to be implemented for Osana, so at this point the situation is that Kokona still has many of these old events but her role is decreasing with each build, as the game takes shape around Osana.

Already in the January 4th build we've noticed that some of Kokona's scenes were broken, so yes, the game is less playable and more bug-testing targeted. It even looks a little weird unless you mod it and add Osana. Anyway the game will probably "return" to the level it was when Osana is nearly complete. Since Yanderedev doesn't want to release a really buggy Osana I think the next build (or probably the bug-fixing release that will probably follow it) may be the final debug build of the game, with no further builds for a couple of months and then we'll see a complete Osana and hopefully a kickstarter.