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Hey guys! This week was spent writing. I finished the 1.15 plot outline, and built the opening scenes in the game engine.
Next week: it's moar writing! Writing's my favourite thing, even though I wish I could do it faster.
Even though sex scenes are the point of Female Agent, if we just string them together gratuitously they'll stop being sexy. (You hit a point of
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.)Episode 1.14 ends with a sex scene, so the heroine needs a breather while we set up the next one. That's what I worked on this week; I'll finish it tomorrow, and push on with 1.15's actual sexy scene from Tuesday.
Okay, that's it, short report because I can't really talk about writing without dropping spoilers. The next episode's title is Girl On Film. Just saying...
Have a greta week everybody while I work on moar Female Agent! I love you all See you next week!
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Hey guys! Writing week 2 was pretty good. I finished the "setup" scene I began last week, and started on the main sexy scene from 1.15.
Writing is like chess in some ways. You need to spend some time manoeuvring all your pieces into position before you can execute the vision in your head. (Unless you're Rian Johnson, then your characters can just come and go from a chase scene in progress.)
Unfortunately I'm not half-assing a Star Wars film, but working on Female Agent, so that was basically my work this week: getting various characters to where they needed to be in the narrative to make the next scene feel real.
Next week I'll be working on the exciting stuff! Our heroine's like a frog in a pot of hot water, and the point of the next episode is to turn up the heat another couple of degrees.
I'm hoping to get all the writing done in the next two weeks, which would mean the next episode gets released sometime in February.
The amount of progress I make next week will be a good indicator. Sometimes sex scenes flow fast, sometimes it takes me two attempts to get them right. I'll report on progress next weekend. Wish me luck.
Well, I think it's been almost a better part of a decace since I've played the first version, so I guess this counts for lightning speed for this game.
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Hey guys! I'm sorry to report that writing was challenging this week.
Some weeks it's easy and I make fast progress; this wasn't one of those weeks. I had what I thought were good ideas about the scene I'm working on, but the titillating/emotional beats just weren't landing the way I thought they would.
I've experienced this a few times on this project now. It's not exactly writer's block (because I can still write), it's more like a lack of confidence that the words on the screen are the right ones.
I've noticed that these problems tend to creep in when I'm trying to force NPCs to do what I want them to, rather than what they actually would do. Recent examples:
- In 1.12 (Malaysia), I was struggling with initiating the Max sex scene in a way that felt organic and real. The solution was to let Max be Max; once I actually got inside his head, I was able to add in a few emotional beats (like feeling attraction, and the first kiss in the restaurant) that made the scene work.
- In 1.13 (Welcome to Bangkok), the original plan was for Connor to interview the heroine in the management office right away. It felt very, very forced and unrealistic: like Connor was just standing in the bar, eager for sex but waiting for the quest to start. Shifting the interview to a different time and location fixed it.
I feel like I'm on the right track now. But basically I spent a week figuring out how not to write this scene.
I'm sorry I couldn't report better progress, but I always want to be open with everybody about the process. It doesn't always go in a straight line. I took the weekend completely off to refresh my creativity: hopefully next week I'll have a better report.
Coming soon: NPC art!
Speaking of NPCs, I teased something cool on Discord this week! We've started experimenting with
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to quickly create visual references for characters, e.g.:
Our lovely illustrator Victoria is experimenting with recreating them in the game's art style. Here's a sneak peek (WIP):
One of the aims of the game is to have a large pool of NPCs available. (This is so we can explore a wide variety of sexy scenarios.) So I'm excited about these mini avatars, which I think will help make the NPCs feel more different and memorable than just being words on a screen. Let us know what you think, here or on Discord!
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Writing was Challenging this week.
Isn't it always . . .
Isn't it always . . .
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Well, I would guess it is a misspelling of the word "read". It could be:Readed?
1) not a native speaker
2) a typo
... and, bit less likely...
3) a joke
Character creation is mostly out, you reach Bangkok and try to get a job in the club.
Writing is very high quality, but the amount of new content is minimal for the amount of time it took.
You basically have two sex scenes. If the progress continues at this rate, by 2027 the author will have removed the first scene, rewrote the second scene and added a new one.
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Which is why I predict that the game will be finished in 2077.
If we survive till 2077, that is.
Morgan Freeman/Narrator: "They did not".
The year is 2032. Crush has just announced he needs to remake the intro for the 10th time. His mass of patrons shun the few asking him to at least lube up as they bend over once again.
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Hey guys! Sorry for the late report, some unplanned chaos came up yesterday. But I had a much better week of writing last week, and I’m back in it today. Here's a quick update.
Part of the solution involved zooming out and thinking about how episode 1.15 fits into the overall story structure, and I thought it might be interesting to share some of my thinking on that. For me, the most exciting part of the story is actually its next phase, when the heroine is fully undercover in the bargirl role.
I know that some people in the community are worried that we won’t be able to keep it interesting once that threshold is crossed. But I’ve got loads of scenes and scenarios that I’m excited about creating in the game engine.
The problem is that the story isn’t ready for that leap yet – our heroine needs to take a few more steps before she can believably walk (or get pushed) through that door. The next few episodes are about walking her up to the "road of trials".
That's the phase where the heroine is trying to balance being a highly trained intelligence officer with being a working prostitute without losing her mind or blowing her cover, and to me it's the most interesting part of the whole story.
It's also the part where we can loosen the reins on the player. Right now everything feels linear because we're trying to manoeuvre all the pieces into alignment to make the next bit work: once we get there, we can release lots of shorter, self-contained scenarios that you can pick and choose between.
But we're not there yet, and we have to work through a couple of events to get us there. I'm gonna eat lunch then get back to working on it! I hope you guys have a greta week and I'll report back on progress this weekend.
So many red flags in that report. So many weasel words...
Zooming out, Thinking about, I thought, I have loads of ideas, I am excited to create, the next few episodes...
Producing a report like this, full on with graphical aides and making it look like you're saying something without actually saying anything takes a bit of work. There's no need for it. All you really need to do is show progress in an easy to understand metric.
I'd suggest word count.
But, don't mind me. I think I'm starting to enjoy the story around making of the game more than the actual game at this point. Sort of reminds of Star Citizen in that regard.
Zooming out, Thinking about, I thought, I have loads of ideas, I am excited to create, the next few episodes...
Producing a report like this, full on with graphical aides and making it look like you're saying something without actually saying anything takes a bit of work. There's no need for it. All you really need to do is show progress in an easy to understand metric.
I'd suggest word count.
But, don't mind me. I think I'm starting to enjoy the story around making of the game more than the actual game at this point. Sort of reminds of Star Citizen in that regard.