HTML Female Agent [v1.20.1p] [Crushstation]
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Refinement of writing is absolutely part of making finished Twine pages work. However, I wasn't talking about refinement. Refinement is when tweaks are made to make things fit, for instance, or fixing a typo, or making an on-the-fly decision to improve part of the writing. That's not the same as going from “Add zingy banter” to actually providing zingy banter where the placeholder is. That is more usefully called writing, instead of refinement.
Still, the subject that I had really wanted to talk about was regarding throughput and productivity. Given that I can write 15 good book chapters in 3 months (I have actually done this recently), I think that I can fruitfully speculate on what could affect writing productivity. Having pointed that out, I can suggest that looking at placeholder text instead of dialogue, and then being concerned with the sexiness of the scene, sounds like a potential cause of productivity issues. Best to consider what exists instead of worrying about what does not exist.
I find this to be a somewhat interesting topic here, since that is the main topic at hand lately regarding this game. It's still a secondary subject to me though, since I'm mainly here to learn about how to make a very effective Patreon page. I can say that the previous 2 Patreon posts before this one seemed noticeably less elaborate, with less communication of emotion. This one also sounds like what someone would post while focused on a stage of the work.
Still, the subject that I had really wanted to talk about was regarding throughput and productivity. Given that I can write 15 good book chapters in 3 months (I have actually done this recently), I think that I can fruitfully speculate on what could affect writing productivity. Having pointed that out, I can suggest that looking at placeholder text instead of dialogue, and then being concerned with the sexiness of the scene, sounds like a potential cause of productivity issues. Best to consider what exists instead of worrying about what does not exist.
I find this to be a somewhat interesting topic here, since that is the main topic at hand lately regarding this game. It's still a secondary subject to me though, since I'm mainly here to learn about how to make a very effective Patreon page. I can say that the previous 2 Patreon posts before this one seemed noticeably less elaborate, with less communication of emotion. This one also sounds like what someone would post while focused on a stage of the work.
- Jul 21, 2017
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I think you are presenting your text poorly, the correct notation is [zingy banter] and in that form its good enough for release.
Thanks so much <3 I hate my own writing, but I know I'm getting better at it.
As stated previously, this wasn't what I was talking about, although it is a consistent trait of yours (watch out everyone, here's the "ad hom") that you habitually either choose an irrelevant tangent or focus on an unimportant distinction that will be the (off-)topic of the next 20 posts that you make. That is except for the 5% or so posts that someone makes with your account that are actually appropriate, on-topic, or tolerant of others, which are out-of-character in a shocking manner. I'm not sure who writes those 5% of decent posts for you.
I think you might have previously implied, in an alternate reality, that the entire writing of "War and Peace" counts as a refinement to you, which does not count among the 5% of posts that I just mentioned.
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- Jan 10, 2018
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Long term, yes. I suspect that it will have maybe 1/10 the output variables as Crush realizes that the story just doesn't need the PC to have all of those statistics. In the meantime, telling the main story is what will keep the patrons happy.
- Aug 20, 2017
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Anything that actually adds content is good lol. I remember when I subscribed to the patreon for like a year and nothing substantial got added.
- Jan 10, 2018
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The game really got bogged down in the "life story" phase as it got written, re-written, restarted, and rewritten. Going with the main Bangkok story was the right move, and progress has been decent since. When the life story part gets updated (many moons in the future) it can be updated knowing what its outputs need to be, rather than just guessing. That will all by itself make the life story more interesting, because players will be building the agent they want to play, knowing what that agent needs to be like in her earlier years to have the skills and proclivities the player wants to use/see in Bangkok.
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- Jan 17, 2019
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All of the links to the newest version are broken, it says server problem when downloading the html file
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Hey guys! I wasn't able to fix all 46 placeholders this week...I did 27, there are 19 left, so this episode isn't ready to release today.
Last week I was hoping that, if it weren't ready today, it'd be ready on the 31st (next Thursday). But I don't want to bullshit you: I need a day to integrate the new art (which is looking greta, lovely Victoria did an awesome job), and I'd be amazed if I can get all 19 placeholders written in just three days. I work long hours but I don't write fast enough.
There is an argument for just releasing whatever I've got, even with placeholders, on the 31st. Then Analysts+ can play the episode in its rough format, and their feedback will help me polish it for the general release 14 days later.
But I want the Analyst+ experience to be hot and interesting when you play it: right now it's still too rough for me to say it's worth your time to play it through. I need a little more time to get it right, so 1.15 will release in April not March.
How's it looking?
It's currently around 10,000 lines of code (with more to come as placeholders and art code are added). For reference: Episode 1.12 (Malaysia) was 6,600 lines; 1.13 (Bangkok) was 8,000; 1.14 (FNG) was 14,000. So this should feel like a big chunk of content.
A big story event happens in the next episode. No spoilers, but 1.15 changes something important for the heroine, and paves the way for a future plot development that is essential. It took some extra time to figure out how to do this and make it hot, but I think I worked it out in the end (with the help of lots of feedback and advice from team and community members).
I lose perspective when an episode is close to release, but I think it's hot when I'm playtesting it. I can't wait to share it with you guys – it just needs a bit more time in the oven before I can do that.
Okay, that's all for this week and I need to sleep because it's 0140 and I want to get in a good day of writing tomorrow! I'm so sorry for announcing a delay but hopefully it will be a short one. I love you guys and I wish I could write faster.
- Aug 18, 2018
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I see things are constantly moving forward, but when are the different "modules" getting tied together into one product? When's the life path and current Bangkok content becoming one game from start to slightly further ahead?
Personal gripe: I'm assuming Crush says greta as a funny injoke. At first I thought it was the occasional misspell, but now it's really grinding my gears. It messes with my reading through
Greta week that didn't start so greta, I got motivated with the lovely illustrator Victoria after I felt demotivated, more news soon™ my crab hands aren't fast sorry I wasn't fast enough.
