Geffe

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White Russian seems like it should have just been cut. The other two sidequests at least have some connection to the agent theme. With Big Mac she might get intel about Conner, and with Booth Babe it fits her cover i.e a girl like the one she is pretending to be isn't likely to turn down good money that doesn't even involve anything sexual. But going on a date with some random guy she met at a club? Why would her handlers even agree to that? She's in Bangkok on a mission, not to socialize.
 

ffive

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But going on a date with some random guy she met at a club? Why would her handlers even agree to that? She's in Bangkok on a mission, not to socialize.
Going on a date with a guy met during girl outing looks like a good way to maintain cover of a regular girl who does regular girl things during her stay as a tourist in foreign country. Also gives her something extra to talk about with said girls she's trying to get closer to.

Not seeing any real issue here. There's also no say if it doesn't evolve into some actual spy work, similar to first casual contact in the game.
 

Geffe

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Eh, I guess. Still feels kind of superfluous to me. Especially since there still seems to be a great many existing avenues for story hooks and sex scenes. There's Tid and his mates, Paul and Sam, Wun Sen/Noodle, Ian and Clark, Bonaht, Kriangsek. Then there is still the actual bargirl stuff to come.
 
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Hey guys! I spent last week polishing and improving the second half of the episode.
This is the explicitly sexy part of the episode, and I’m currently weaving in some hot new ideas (many suggested by Behbeh and xGrotesq – thanks guys) to make the experience sexier and more vivid. I can’t say much without dropping spoilers, but the improvements are making it much, much hotter.
I got the bulk of it, the most complex part, done last week. I’ve got some more polishing to do (basically the second half of the second half), and also several testers seem to agree that we need to add a small extra “wrap-up” scene at the end where the heroine can, uh, process some of the events from earlier in the episode. IYKWIMAITYD
Our illustrator lovely Victoria is finalising the artwork (which is nearly all implemented, and is looking great in-engine). Last week I also spent some time planning the next episode, White Russian, which is really exciting, and I can’t wait to get started on it!
But wait I must, because I need to finish up this episode and get it out to you ASAP. I’m very excited about this episode now! It was originally intended to be just a kind of filler, to get the story pacing right before jumping into the side quests, but I think we’ve added a cool story event, some good characterisation, and a hot new scenario for our heroine. I’ll continue polishing now, and report back with a release date very Soon™.
 

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Hey guys! I was hoping to complete all the writing last week, but I wasn't able to do so. I've been having problems with a sex scene coming out a little flat and forced (and not in the hot way, forced as in it felt like none of the characters in the scene wanted to go through with it).
Fixing it was complicated a bit by the fact that two testers had told me they really liked a certain vivid part of the scene, so I was loathe to edit it out. I ended up trying to build a slightly different scene around that one vivid moment, but it didn't really work.
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector. –Hemingway
Fuck it, I deleted it (we can always repurpose it for a later scene where it'll fit better). Yesterday I just wrote a different outline for the scene, focused more on the character relationship and the heroine's internal emotional state, and I think it'll be hotter. I'm aiming to get this new version of the scene rewritten today!

Other stuff
  • After it's done, I need to write one more coda scene, then go through everything for one last editing pass
  • Artwork is nearly all done – lovely Victoria is working on a few last minute changes
  • There are a couple of bugs I need to fix
  • The secret art experiment is looking good!


Okay, that's it, I'm gonna get back to writing! We're almost there!
 

vicaddict

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Well, while he does have a history, I believe he has made some progress from the last release to being close to releasing the next one. I don't think we've ever had this much progress in such a short amount of time.
 

Vengeance_11

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there was a problem that needed to be addressed.
The problem is that Crush suffers from extreme perfectionism that cripples his writing. Rather than just write the scene and go back to it later, he would rather delay his already behind schedule update rewriting the whole thing from scratch.

An entire update held back because he doesn't like one scene in it. You can't make it up.
 
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ffive

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The problem is that Crush suffers from extreme perfectionism that cripples his writing. Rather than just write the scene and go back to it later, he would rather delay his already behind schedule update rewriting the whole thing from scratch.

An entire update held back because he doesn't like one scene in it. You can't make it up.
But if he released it and then "went back to it later" then people would complain just the same that he's "wasting time" on revising already released content instead of making more. So it's not like doing it this way is making things any worse for him. People who are determined to complain will complain regardless.
 

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The problem is that Crush suffers from extreme perfectionism that cripples his writing. Rather than just write the scene and go back to it later, he would rather delay his already behind schedule update rewriting the whole thing from scratch.

An entire update held back because he doesn't like one scene in it. You can't make it up.
TBH I'm all for it I think this game is more than just a quick fap material. I see great passion and hard work. The people who can't wait because the artist wants his creation to be good are being childish.
 

ffive

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anyone has any idea about how to enable the back button ?
It is enabled for Patreon build of the game. Internally, it's governed by a variable in the .html file, if you search this thread a few pages back you might find a hint how to set it.
 

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The problem is that Crush suffers from extreme perfectionism that cripples his writing. Rather than just write the scene and go back to it later, he would rather delay his already behind schedule update rewriting the whole thing from scratch.

An entire update held back because he doesn't like one scene in it. You can't make it up.
Yeah... But evidentially they are trying to improve. And when they hit it really fucking bangs. Which is why we're all still here.

Can't make it up? GRRM, TWOW, 12 years now.

Probably releases 2nd-ish of April, soon after the billing cycle.
 

luccia87

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Así que para estar un poco de tu lado con las críticas. Diría que tengo curiosidad por ver la parte con la que no estaba satisfecho y la sacó y la comparé con lo que le gustaba y la reemplazó. De esta manera, las personas pueden determinar si a) en realidad es una mejora b) había un problema que necesitaba ser abordado.

Sin embargo, en la mayoría de los casos, la gente solo querrá una actualización y sacrificará la calidad, y generalmente es el escritor el que se preocupa por ese tipo de cosas de todos modos, la gente solo quiere material divertido y puede hacerlo de cualquier manera, probablemente.

Pero también, si se retrasa 1 semana, no es realmente un gran problema. Me preocuparía si este retraso progresara a 2 o 3 semanas.
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:) LOL I´m sure will be 2 o 3 weeks, probably one moth
So to be on your side with the criticism a bit. I would say I am curious to see the part he was unsatisfied with and took out and compare it to what he liked and replaced it with. This way people can determine if a) it is actually an improvement b) there was a problem that needed to be addressed.

Though, in most cases people will just want an update and sacrifice quality, and it's usually the writer who cares about those sorts of things anyway, people just want fap material and can fap either way, likely.

But also, if it's delayed 1 week, it's not really a big deal. I'd be worried if this delay progressed into 2 weeks, or 3 weeks.
:) LOL I´m sure that probably will be 2 or 3 weeks, maybe a month? Bets open!
 
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