Give Us A Time Frame
Just to be clear, I'm not asking for a release window/release date for Episode 2. I know that this information has already been provided by Kevin. What I'm asking for is an official estimated release schedule for the remaining episodes after that. Something a tad more specific than "periodically."
With The Walking Dead, we were given 4-6 weeks as an estimation of the waiting time between episodes. That gives us fans a sense of assurance that the episodes would be delivered in a timely manner. If development runs longer than that, we'll know that it's a delay caused by some snafu (although it would also be nice if you told us directly that there's a delay a little earlier than 3 months after the previous episode).
Without an episode release time frame for The Wolf Among Us, we're only just making guesses as to how long episode production is supposed to take and any worries about a delay can be brushed aside because "Telltale never said it would only take 6 weeks." Fine. Then I want you to tell us how long it's going to take.
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The typical rule of thumb is to expect an episode each 4-6 weeks, or possibly bi-monthly if there are any problems.
Telltale, believe it or not, typically doesn't know until shortly before we do since they have to account for multi platform releases with Xbox, Playstation, Steam, the iOS App store, etc. Also, Telltale works on episodes "live" during a Season so they are not typically able to give a formal, guaranteed timeframe.
Kevin stated that the circumstances for this particular delay were "unusual and specific" and that he didn't see them occurring again, so my unofficial guess (as a community mod) would be to stick with the 4-6 week timeframe. The series is still intended to end around "Summer 2014" just as before if I recall correctly.
I know this isn't the exact answer you want and there is no harm in wanting an official/formal schedule, but even in Telltale's older days of monthly episodic series, I don't recall them having a timeframe outside of the month they expected an episode to release.
I know they can't give us anything set in stone, but they could at least declare their intentions to us. Right now we don't even know how far the unexpected delay set them back. I don't need to know all the juicy details about what happened, but it would be nice to be clued in on when they were originally planning to release the episode. That way, we can have an idea of what they were trying to go for with the concurrent TWD/TWAU season releases and to what extent the problems forced them to deviate from that plan. Currently, all it looks like is poor planning on their part.