got around to playing The Hive demo, probably the best abdl game I've played even if you disregard soap's top tier art quality, Just gets you fantasizing even when you're done playing which usually only really good stories can. I'm trying to do a playthrough where I stay in around the same mental state as the start of the game but I hope there's an easy way to do that while staying in diapers. My one concern story wise is that the sci-fi stuff might get too heavy, like yeah it's a good premise to get things into place and create a bit of mystery but idk having a dystopian indoctrination class was just kinda cringe imo
As for the development pace I'm unsure. On one hand, a lot of the work so far is on assets like backgrounds and character sprites which can now be re-used dozens of times. On the other hand, the story is currently at a state where it can be assumed all of the character's stats and relationships are near the default, and it's the branching out point where projects like this can really slow down. I dug through the source code a bit and it's not horrendous by the standards of a project like this, like there are definitely things that can be cleaned up, but for someone who isn't from a programming background it's beyond fine