TL;DR: Game still isn't done
This is not how you do it.
- "First, I should mention that the 10 Rivals Update is going to involve lot more than just the rivals; the next build will add a tremendous amount of new content to the game. There will be new elimination methods, new environments, new characters (who don’t attend school as students), and even a new club." It's not like the base game had useless clubs already. He is dragging it further under pretense of "making it better"
- "The next update is also going to involve changes to some of the game’s old systems / elimination methods to make things less scripted and more “fluid”."Yeah, the only problem is that no one is going to see that.
- "I’m really proud of all the work I’ve done so far, and I desperately want to give you a list of all the changes and additions that I’ve made to the game recently…however, I want the nature of the 10 Rivals Update to be a surprise" Oh my fucking God, it's straight from his videos about Raibaru and before that he was shilling Lunar Shite with the same remarks.
- "1 new Persona, 1 new environment for beat-em-up gameplay, 1 new menu to the street scene, containing 3 sub-menus., 8 new “bring from home to school” items, 1 new club and clubroom to the school., 12 new posters to the school hallways, 1 new elimination method, 1 new NPC at school." ALL OF THIS HAS FUCK ALL TO DO WITH RIVALS, IT'S "From now on I'm 100% working on Osana" ALL OVER AGAIN!
- "Added 46 new voiced lines to the game. (Wait, what? Wasn’t this update supposed to involve 0 new voice lines? Yes, that was the original plan! But, in the end, I decided it would actually benefit from having some voice acting in a few places…" In a "few places"? Yeah, it's not like fucking rivals should have their own interactions with that plank of wood. Hope Micha-whale-ah Lawless suffered while recording those.
- "That’s nowhere near the full list of everything that changed over the past 2 week" Nothing else is done.
- "There is not a single aspect of the game that will not be changed or adjusted in some way in the next build." Why would he change things that are somewhat intact already?
- "It might sound boring to hear that I “updated 12 posters,” but when you learn the reason
why the game
needed those 12 new posters, I think you’re going to be pretty excited!" NO COMMENTS
- "I feel guilty giving you a vague description of upcoming content, and not showing you any actual proof of my work."
A week earlier
"I’m really sorry that I can’t show off any super thrilling screenshots or video clips in today’s blog post…but, I want you to know that I’m really happy with the progress I’ve made so far," Yep, no one is trying to call him out, so he sees no problems with that.
- "However,
everything I’ve added to the game recently is a spoiler, and even if you only saw a blurry screenshot, you’d still probably be able to figure out what it was, and the whole surprise would be ruined." Yeah, nothing stopped him to spoil the half of the shit from the game with his videos, but here it is somehow all spoilers.
- " I could say “Added 69 new panties to the game” or “Added 420 new flowers to the school” and you’d just have to trust that what I’m saying is true. It’s a bad feeling. " Ok, he is just fucking with them at this point.
- "All of the work I’ve done so far has been related to the new content, not the 10 rivals. I haven’t actually started on the rivals yet."
A week prior
"I’m happy to say that I’ve been able to make progress much faster than I initially expected!"
And
"However, I will say that the 10 Rivals Update involves a lot more than just programming some new girls to spawn;" AND NOW TURNS OUT HE WASN'T EVEN WORKING ON RIVALS LOL
- "At this point in time, I’ve implemented about 90% of the new content that I want to include in the 10 Rivals Update." Yeah, EXCEPT RIVALS THEMSELVES. Keep in mind, that Osana was 90% ready FOR YEARS
- "I anticipate that it will be fast and easy to put the rival girls into the game. After all, the framework is already there. I’ve already developed the tools that make it quick and simple to spawn a character, design their routine, give them events, etc. "
A week prior
""However, I will say that the 10 Rivals Update involves a lot more than just programming some new girls to spawn;" How can one man be so full of shit?
- "That’s part of what I was working on for 7 years, you know!" Yeah, that's why he needs "special fast way to add rivals", when he has a toolset to do that properly. And remember his "I was working on Osana for
some small percentage of that time"? Yeah, here we go again.
- " I’ll have to thoroughly test all the new features, and make sure that all elimination methods are working for all girls. " It's too late to start, pal.
- "After all of the new content and new rivals are in the game,
and after all testing is complete, there will still be one final task I must complete before I can release the update: Creating the announcement video. The speed of video creation is somewhat unpredictable;" Spoony needs a lot of time to finish his movie too...
- "Thank you for your patience, and as always, thank you very much for continuing to follow the development of Yandere Simulator!" Here is what I'd like to point out. What he "always" says is "thank you for following the development", but this time it's "for continuing to follow". He knows he is fucked.
TL;DR of TL;DR - Alex keeps bullshitting his way through, even though by his own words he hasn't even begun working on rivals and wasted this time on some other shit no one asked for, but of course it's crucial for his "10 RIVALS update". Promise to work on "something really crucial, no updates till it's done", work on other shit instead - it's Osana all over again.