> Now at 11611039 bytes. Last month was a fairly productive one, and I worked a lot on one of the larger areas of the game that I had just been picking away at for just about the whole span of development. There's just one location left to go with that.
>
> More recently I was doing more documentation-related work, going through old archives of the game files to try to reconstruct a timeline of when things were added to the game or changed, mostly for my own interest. That's just about done now, so by tomorrow I'll be back to regular development wrok.
>
> Also, it looks like my last posted estimate for the game's release was sometime in 2007. Well, I'm going to go ahead and advance that to 2011...sorry about that.
>
> > 37 locations, 319150 bytes (8625 per location) [3/25/01]
> > 54 loc, 438797 bytes (8126 pl) [4/08/01]
> > 80 loc, 573649 bytes (7171 pl) [4/30/01]
> > 95 loc, 794677 bytes (8365 pl) [5/21/01]
> > 115 loc, 949191 bytes (8253 pl) [6/06/01]
> > 132 loc, 1105293 bytes (8373 pl) [6/15/01] *
> > 145 loc, 1259378 bytes (8685 pl) [6/25/01]
> > 152 loc, 1470894 bytes (9677 pl) [7/08/01]
> > 155 loc, 1598537 bytes (10313 pl) [7/23/01]
> > 158 loc, 1746880 bytes (11056 pl) [8/14/01]
> > 166 loc, 1809922 bytes (10903 pl) [9/25/01]
> > 179 loc, 2018080 bytes (11274 pl) [10/18/01]
> > 209 loc, 2188235 bytes (10470 pl) [11/08/01]
> > 220 loc, 2316166 bytes (10528 pl) [11/30/01]
> > 285 loc, 2605419 bytes (9141 pl) [12/19/01]
> > 296 loc, 2794886 bytes (9442 pl) [1/27/02]
> > 301 loc, 2891546 bytes (9606 pl) [2/04/02]
> > 304 loc, 3038874 bytes (9996 pl) [2/15/02]
> > 309 loc, 3146158 bytes (10181 pl) [2/23/02]
> > 311 loc, 3267399 bytes (10506 pl) [3/09/02]
> > 311 loc, 3449854 bytes (11092 pl) [3/23/02]
> > 318 loc, 3714958 bytes (11682 pl) [4/06/02]
> > 330 loc, 3987346 bytes (12082 pl) [5/01/02]
> > 412 loc, 5290126 bytes (12840 pl) [6/25/02]
> > 417 loc, 5534723 bytes (13272 pl) [7/20/02]
> > 445 loc, 5951946 bytes (13375 pl) [9/04/02]
> > 451 loc, 6181927 bytes (13707 pl) [10/08/02]
> > 451 loc, 6337773 bytes (14052 pl) [11/04/02]
> > 454 loc, 6602028 bytes (14541 pl) [12/01/02]
> > 456 loc, 6877294 bytes (15081 pl) [2/15/03]
> > 459 loc, 6953122 bytes (15148 pl) [3/01/03]
> > 460 loc, 7102484 bytes (15440 pl) [4/01/03]
> > 460 loc, 7217654 bytes (15690 pl) [5/01/03]
> > 463 loc, 7410958 bytes (16006 pl) [6/01/03]
> > 464 loc, 7655714 bytes (16499 pl) [7/01/03]
> > 464 loc, 8473865 bytes (18262 pl) [8/01/03]
> > 464 loc, 8101358 bytes (17459 pl) [9/01/03]
> > 464 loc, 8140964 bytes (17545 pl) [10/01/03]
> > 465 loc, 8181632 bytes (17594 pl) [11/01/03]
> > 486 loc, 8197166 bytes (16866 pl) [12/01/03]
> > 486 loc, 8197166 bytes (16866 pl) [1/01/04]
> > 485 loc, 8889647 bytes (18329 pl) [2/01/04] **
> > 490 loc, 9614464 bytes (19621 pl) [4/21/04]
> > 491 loc, 9854149 bytes (20069 pl) [6/13/04]
> > 10063192 bytes [10/23/04] ***
> > 10177700 bytes [11/20/04]
> > 10179362 bytes [1/01/05]
> > 10331884 bytes [1/11/05]
> > 10426354 bytes [2/15/05]
> > 10503046 bytes [4/01/05]
> > 10576958 bytes [5/01/05]
> > 10830199 bytes [6/01/05]
> > 11004821 bytes [7/01/05]
> > 11109205 bytes [8/01/05]
> > 11293249 bytes [9/01/05]
> > 11261072 bytes [10/01/05]
> > 11388432 bytes [11/01/05]
> > 11542625 bytes [12/01/05]
> > 11355007 bytes [1/01/06]
> > 11425523 bytes [2/15/06]
> >
> > *, **, *** = change of metric for game size
I guess this means you're about halfway through writing the game, since you've been writing the game for five years and you've just said you'll need another five years. Here's hoping there's at least one more new AGL game before then. Last year was a very good AGL year; we got three new games that year (The Early Years, Outlaws, and Escape From St. Mary's).

Hmmm, development wrok. Never heard of it. What's it like?