Game Dev Question...

[onecalledNico]

Wasnt sure which part of the forum I should post this on. I have a question for the Stardew dev. I read that this game was built by just one dev. I'm currently at the concept prototyping stage of my first game after studying game design in school. I'll probably be starting off doing this by myself. I was wondering, what part of making Stardew took up the most amount of dev time and why? Thanks

 

[Lew Zealand]

Check out the Dev notes as I found them very illuminating into ConcernedApe's intentions and execution of the in-game content over the period of many years. Link courtesy of Odin in another post:

https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Dev_Blog

 

[Odin]

I'm not sure what the odds of ConcernedApe answering here are, but in addition to the developer blog that Lew linked about, he has done a few reddit Q&As over the years that you may be interested in looking through:

2016: https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewVal...concernedape_developer_of_stardew_valley_ask/
2017: https://www.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/75ag0g/im_concernedape_creator_of_stardew_valley_ask_me/
2019: https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidGam...oncernedape_creator_of_stardew_valley_ask_me/