-
Ever thought it'd be cool to have your art, writing, or challenge runs featured on PokéCommunity? Click here for info - we'd love to spotlight your work!
[Discussion] Curious: How long did it take to make your game?
- Thread starter ShinxHero
- Start date
SpartaLazor
Doofus Lunarius
- 184
- Posts
- 9
- Years
- Somewhere, beyond the sea.
- Seen Apr 26, 2022
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...
PsyShockker
Guest
- 0
- Posts
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.
FL
Pokémon Island Creator
- 2,549
- Posts
- 14
- Years
- Seen May 5, 2025
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.
Last edited:
Olra-Wolfry
Is actually a computer monkey.
- 27
- Posts
- 11
- Years
- Seen Jun 25, 2016
4 months and still working on the first demo.
Mab
fleeting assembly
- 8,707
- Posts
- 14
- Years
- She/Her
- Hyperspace
- Seen today
5 months and I'm 1.1.1 versions in :P
RPG Maker says 482 hours so there's that.
RPG Maker says 482 hours so there's that.
Maruno
Lead Dev of Pokémon Essentials
- 5,286
- Posts
- 17
- Years
- Seen May 3, 2024
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.
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.
