3 years into a 6 month project: what scope creep looks like from the inside
my farming game was supposed to take 6 months. it is now year 3. i want to write down how that happened because i genuinely did not notice it while it was happening, and maybe someone reading this is in month 4 right now month 1 to 6: farming, a small town, 5 crops. the actual game. it was fun and nearly done then: "it would be cool if there was fishing". fishing took 2 months because fishing needed a minigame, new…