Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time/@comment-7234182-20150322064110/@comment-7234182-20150402011039

Nhoj.awesome wrote:

Wait, so Popcap has a lot of content completed for Lost City but they're making it hard to acsess so we get tidbits of the new world, but nothing clear because they want the new update to be a suprise?

That's the most likely scenario. Development for a new world doesn't start when the one before ends. Refer to my post earlier on the thread:

1Zulu wrote:

I reckon FF was close to finished by the time the game out, but they made some major changes in 1.7 so that held the release back a bit. Remember FF is (and probably will forever be) the only world not to be released in parts. They teased it in August 2013, even though it wouldn't be released until March 2014.

Dark Ages was also already under development when the game first came out. References to DA levels and zombies was already in the code as early as October 2013 (1.3 release)... Maybe even earlier. I'll try to dig up the old files and see when they first appeared.

Bottom line is, development for the next world starts way before the current world is finished. Concept design probably happens much earlier. I'd guess FC concept work was done while they finishing up DA. Which means they knew what the world after FC was going to be while they were making BWB.