I feel your pain... I also have to do thing solo but double the work that's all.
its not just only scripting and sprites and ui stuff, its always just always the question on every step is, "how and where do I go from here?" and "how would this effect the story" and "what should I do to lesson the strain on players" and "what would I do in these situations and If I was Female, how would I proceed from here?" and ALOT of other questions that i constantly ask myself and trying to make this game as much interesting as possible. not only that, but changing Johto as a whole since its a year later from the original setting and how would it effect the game and what would make since for the other generations of games. for example, a big one is Gen 4. hence the update posts says so.
every new thing I add, i get another load of questions that needs to answer and have the best course of action to proceed.
its freaking hard and very challenging. and all i got going with is constant progression in character development and world history. and plus my job is killing me with a tight schedule and its a pain in the butt to even get done. stalling and stalling and more people are getting very impatient.
but as much as I could, I post every so often how the project is going and every time i say, omg its almost here! i end up making more things to do and add them in the game. its great at the end of it all, but its constant stalling and promise breaking and it really sucks...
I would've released it alot sooner at just at the top of tin tower, but it felt that i left a few things unanswered and have more time on certain characters before ending the first release. adding and adding and all it does is just stalling. I hate it... but its worth it in the end. (has what i keep telling myself that...)
All i wish to have right now is a bit of help, but i cant ever ask that because all the ideas i have arnt in this community yet and i want to create that first so people can see that and hopefully by then, i can get some help. because at the end of the first release, its legitimately 10% of the Entire 1 Year Later 3D project. and its alot...
planning on 2 Arks is 50% each. and the end of Ark 2 is the end of 1YL3D. with all the endings and love put to it. and as of right now, im WAAAAAAAY far off to that goal. and its a pain in the butt...
anyway... thanks for reading the lovely readers to so happen to read this long post.
imma go get some sleep.... its been a long night from work...