[Discussion] Curious: How long did it take to make your game?

This is nothing but a curious question to those who finished their game/demo.

How long did it take you guys to make your demo/completed game?

Well, I'm only about a third of the way through my game, and I've been working on it for well over a year now. So there's that. Still a little ways to go...

Many games have taken more time than one year. Most of them is because the creators didn't hace much time to make them, because they have a job.

3 years and i've only done 1/17 of my game...Mind you I have drawn every sprite myself. That by far takes the longest.

3 years and it's almost done.

364 days for Island V1.0 (counting around 40 days that I didn't touch on game). Some time fixing bugs, two months for V1.1 extra content, plus more two months for V1.2 extra content.

Lightning yellow was originally posted on March 9th, 2011, so over 5 years ago, and its still have stuff done to it now, mainly bug fixes and post game content

4 months and still working on the first demo.

5 months and I'm 1.1.1 versions in :P
RPG Maker says 482 hours so there's that.

~2 years for a decently polished 2 gym demo. 1.5 years for a sloppier one. Dunno how long it'll take me to finish.

The time elapsed between starting and finishing a project is only one element. The other is how active you were during that time.

I can spend months on end doing nothing at all for Essentials, and when I do work on it, it can either be a quick bug report-inspired tweak taking 15 seconds, or I could spend 4 hours on something - both would take up one day of my timeline, but the latter is obviously more effort spent (which may roughly equate to productivity). So yeah, activity level is another aspect people should be talking about.

I would say that another aspect is how often you found yourself doing work you ultimately rejected, but actually, I don't think you could just subtract that time and end up with "how long I took to make my game". Even if a particular feature or graphic or song you worked on ended up being rejected, you still gained experience and knowledge doing so, which undoubtedly had an effect on other things. Your game wouldn't be the same if you hadn't done the stuff that isn't in it.

Creating the first 20 minutes of gameplay took 3 hours...