well it doesn't have to be a prude route if u pass the dice check but definitely gonna be a lot more work when u have more routes.
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Parsifal123123 Best look in to making your own thread for your project. The first mod to stick their nose in here is likely to nuke all this for being off-topic
I thought his most recent post on Patreon was quite revealing of his mindset. To quote: "Ultimately I can’t keep making the game if I don’t love it." (His italics). I thought it was a job, a full-time one at that? Why does this sound like a threat? If he was pausing payments or had structured it so that he was has being paid per release, he might have a point and could allow himself more freedom. Instead, he's being paid a large sum per month and those that are paying have to wait to see progress until he feels enthused again? This is absurd. This is childish. Everyone who writes experiences frustration or a lack of enthusiasm. Writers who deliver a column once, twice or three times or week -- do the words flow easily every time they sit down? Of course not. Is there any novelist or really anyone creative, totally and utterly happy with the end result of their work, and who doesn't wish to sneak a few edits in before it's handed in? There is not. But it's a job, there's a deadline. If I don't write this column, I won't get paid. If I don't hand this draft in, I'll lose my contract. Artists make comprises all the time.
Crush has, quite brilliantly, fashioned a world where he doesn't have to make any, he can just keep restarting, keep searching, and he'll be be rewarded. It's really in his best interests to never commit, never finish, no matter how bad or stressed he might feel about it, because he's being paid for the process never the result.
Crush has, quite brilliantly, fashioned a world where he doesn't have to make any, he can just keep restarting, keep searching, and he'll be be rewarded. It's really in his best interests to never commit, never finish, no matter how bad or stressed he might feel about it, because he's being paid for the process never the result.
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Patreon itself incentivizes this behavior. If you can build up a base of people who'll dump money on you for doing fuck all, like Crush has, then why would you ever make progress in your project? Just go fishing and watch your bank account fatten itself up.
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Having a toggle would certainly solve the issue for me. Sorry for the vehemence of my reply, but it's such a common issue in games on this site that it's gotten to be a major pet peeve for me.
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False choices are such a prevalent tool in H-games that any patience I may once have had for them (and I never had much) has long since been expended. How many games have you played where multiple options are presented but they all loop around to the same result? It drives me bonkers.
He is a good writer, though. I've criticised him a lot but you don't gain the support he has without being able to show promise or write a good scene. I do find his retention of that support remarkable. I mean 7 years! It's insane. His marketing helps, he's always describing a better future where some unspecified thing is going to improve his process and speed up updates. Now he's hyping up the lifepaths again, how easy they will be to implement, and the pages and pages of notes he has written up about the story. That last bit is so funny. Because this is just the beginning of the same process whereby imagination -- in which everything takes its best shape -- has to eventually meet reality, which is ultimately a little dissatisfying and riddled with compromises. He can make all the notes and do all the story planning he wants, and yet when he makes these ideas concrete, things will stick out at odd angles or seem fine one day and awkward the next -- i.e. the same thing that always happens in creative work. And in a years time he'll be singing the same song about wanting to restart or go back and fix this or that because it means going back to the time where everything is possible and nothing is actual.
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Unzip it, copy the files, and paste them into Female Agent folder, then run it from there. It uses FA assets so it needs to be able to access those.
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Absolutely, he is a better writer than average for H-games. Which is an extremely low bar, I know, but I don't mean it as a backhanded compliment. He is a genuinely decent writer.
As for his followers...well, they're a cult, ready to excuse away any broken promises and crushed expectations and keep supporting him with their wallets, mostly because of the Sunk Cost Fallacy, I think. It would be an interesting case study.
Honestly, it's not unusual. I mean, Summertime Saga still has over 30k patrons and the last update of any sort was over 1.5 year ago. Lot of people simply don't pay attention to this level of charges, apparently.
I think he is really good at mundane detail... There was an early build where, if you picked a wealthy background, you could go to a Swiss finishing school and he had researched a real school and found really pretty images of the entire area. You can still see that in the Thai stuff when the protagonist goes back to her room and engages with the local kid who speaks some broken English, then you have the trips to the night market and the low-key racial dynamics and cliquishness within the bar. He's got a real nose for the kinds of details that make a world feel real and lived-in.
All of that is a real skill... the film Emmanuelle is based on a novel written by a Thai woman who married a wealthy French expat and despite having direct experience of the world that the book is set in, she doesn't capture the little details anywhere near as well as Crush. This skill also carries over into his characterisation as the Scottish manager is a nicely observed wrinkle in the world: A Thai business that wants white waitresses would have a white manager to help recruit and talk to Western girls. It makes sense that that kind of job would attract a certain kind of guy and Crush absolutely nails the character as this sleazy jerk who is just sensitive, clever, and charismatic enough to keep his head above water in that kind of milieu.
Crush's problem is partly that he struggles to write women but mostly that he really struggles with plot and the idea that characters might evolve or change based upon things they have experienced. He would benefit from reading a load of romance/smut novels but instead he keeps getting drawn back to his comfort zone, which is working on background detail.
It's very rare that a writer can do atmosphere and verisimilitude so well and be just so cataclysmically inept at writing stories.
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The eye for detail and the ability to create (or in this case recreate might be more appropriate) detailed, believable, and lived-in settings is definitely his strongest suit as a writer, and it's no mean gift. Lots of professional writers can't do it.
So... I know he said he'd release the episode before the end of the month, but did you notice he didn't say which month?
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1.21 Unfinished Beta
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Hey guys!
Some testers liked playing this episode. But I’m not happy with it. I’m releasing it as an unfinished beta, which means it’s in an unpolished state, and has some missing dialogue branches.
I basically think the Bangkok episodes are getting too long and linear. This isn’t the experience I want in Female Agent going forward – I don’t want to keep making episodes like this.
I want:
- Shorter episodes
- …with more choices, branches and dice rolls that customise your story
- A tighter, faster moving main plot with constant story progression
- Better use of montages and time skips (instead of playing out every single club shift)
- More chances to characterise and customise your heroine
- More cool spy action to balance out her demeaning undercover work
- A focus on sex/nude scenes that are more exciting and novel
My plan to achieve this is:
- Restore the Lifepath. This will enable you the player to customise your heroine’s stats, skills and sexual history before the mission.
- Cut the flab from the existing Bangkok episodes, and add in some branches and decision points to make them more fun.
- Very tightly plot out the rest of the Bangkok barmaid arc.
These last two things are what I’m working on right now. It’s complex and challenging work – I’m throwing myself at it for long days, and by the end I’m frazzled – but I’m really excited by it. I feel like the game will make a huge jump forward in quality and player experience in the next few releases.
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His plan sounds good. I actually would love to see this come to fruition. IF he can get all of it done... and in time...
6 months for this linear update and he wants to make shorter but more complex updates? But, please, for the sake of your Patreons, don't milk them for even longer periods...
It makes me so sad how an actual great concept can get wasted.
6 months for this linear update and he wants to make shorter but more complex updates? But, please, for the sake of your Patreons, don't milk them for even longer periods...
It makes me so sad how an actual great concept can get wasted.
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Honestly, what was there was pretty good. I think the humiliation the MC feels at having to play a dumb, vapid party girl with educated foreigners and Thai women was a good mark.
If that had been only one month's work, I'd be impressed by Crush's standards.
If that had been only one month's work, I'd be impressed by Crush's standards.
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The last time he had a plan (not to mention *any* time he's given a plan) it was to deliver three specific side quests and main quest updates and had deliverable deadlines. None of them were met, I don't think more than...one? was completed to date.
So, as far as I'm concerned, plans are words (he's good at making words). Actions are all that matter.
This was the release schedule he posted in August, 2022
- AUG 31: Episode 1.16 "Fallout" (Early Access)
- SEP 14: Episode 1.16 "Fallout" (general release)
- SEP 30: Episode 1.17 "Girls Night Out" (Early Access)
- OCT 14: Episode 1.17 "Girls Night Out" (general release)
- OCT 31: Episode 1.18 "White Russian" (Early Access)
- NOV 14: Episode 1.18 "White Russian" (general release)
- NOV 30: Episode 1.19 "Big Mac" (Early Access)
- DEC 14: Episode 1.19 "Big Mac" (general release)
- DEC 31: Episode 1.20 "Booth Babe" (Early Access)
- JAN 14: Episode 1.20 "Booth Babe" (general release)