HTML Female Agent [v1.20.1p] [Crushstation]

[Deniz31]

And it's just the fucking "prelude" to the first one of three "side quests".

 

[ibizadalton]

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I was trying to get it ready for today, but it's 1700 and I still have lots to do.

What the fuck is going on?
On Discord yesterday, I wrote that I feel like I've kind of "levelled up" somehow in the writing of this episode. I've just got this incredible energy to dive into the things I've glossed over in the past, really think about them in detail, and pull out the things that make them sexy.
Example (mild spoilers): yesterday I was punching up a scene where the heroine is getting ready for her shift, the part where she changes into a thong and heels before going out into the club. Normally I just describe that happening and let the avatar do the lifting, it's sexy because girls in thongs are sexy, right?
But somehow I just kind of knew there was an emotional beat missing from this scene. It's not just about changing clothes, it's about the effect of changing clothes. We have this intelligence officer, stripping out of her normal underwear, slipping on this girly little scrap of lace and elastic, designed to decorate her for the male gaze.
And I knew this would have an effect on her. A psychological transformation accompanies the physical one, as she changes from 'badass intelligence officer' to something more submissive, sexualised and demure.
And all this is happening in like a second, so it can't be this long internal monologue where she processes this and understands where it's coming from. It's just this instinctive little rush of confliction that she has to grapple with when she sees her reflection.

Is it worth it?
I don't know! It's so hot to me that I feel like I can't not do it. But I don't know if you guys are even going to notice all the hours and effort that are being poured into every scene.
I feel like I have to trust my instincts and give myself permission to do this. I'm so motivated for this, it feels like a manic state (except I'm not cool enough to be bipolar).
After this episode I will need your feedback to either rein me back in because I'm over-editing, or let me know this was the right call because it's hotter than usual. I'm too close to it to know.

How long will it take?
It's nearly done. I know I've been saying that for two weeks, but it's nearly done.
There are basically three scenes left that I want to punch up (one of which I've been working on since 8AM today, and is nearly ready). If I finish that tonight, then do both the others tomorrow, it'll be ready tomorrow. If I do one punch up a day, it'll be Tuesday. If one of the scenes takes two days, it'll be Wednesday. Etc. I want it to be tomorrow.
The release won't be perfect, I'm not polishing it to the point where I'm 100% happy and proud of it. Just getting it to the 'good enough' state and pushing it out to you for feedback.

Okay, that's it, I stopped working on it to write this report because I am stressed to fuck about it not being ready for you guys. I hope it is going to be worth the delay. I'll keep working on it with everything I've got, I promise you will have it Soon™.

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[thhunter]

Hasn't she been wearing a thong to work for weeks though?

 

[I-No]

Hasn't she been wearing a thong to work for weeks though?

Yes, she has. And it should be quite "normal" to her by now. All those doubts and that mentioned change into a slut should have impacted her at the beginning of this engagement. But meanwhile she is deep enough into this life to even be fucked by her not really attractive boss practically every night. She is even ready to become a regular bar whore. She's way past regrets by now. Let her embrace that slutty life instead, let her taste the dark side! It's about time!

If you want my opinion, Crush: More action, more story advancement and definitely less over-editing!

 

[Deleted member 5952708]

This game is years old milking patreons and pushing out imaginary cakes every so often and cherry at the top is delayed updates

 

[Toshik73]

definitely, the Girl Spy will be finished before this game.

 

[boobthief]

I predicted

This game is years old milking patreons and pushing out imaginary cakes every so often and cherry at the top is delayed updates

In fairness, the cakes are really fucking good food, but you ordered them on $app tonight and they show up four months later and you long since forgot about ordering the cakes and when they randomly show up it's half a cake and a note saying "Cherry Soon TM I'm re-editing the frosting".

 

[MrAnarchy]

I’ll say it again, this game will never be finished.

 

[allenjohn]

People probably wouldn't be as pissed as they are if he'd just be honest and realistic in his Patreon posts. All he'd need to do is drop in once a week, provide a preview and MAYBE give a BROAD release window, if he's feeling confident in it. As it stands I just get angry whenever I read his posts because all he does is pat himself on the back for how incredibly hard he works and then claim it's "almost done". Nobody that's waiting on something wants to hear it's "almost done" six times before it's actually done.

I mean, imagine you were waiting on a friend to arrive at your house. You'd probably prefer he just text you when he starts his journey, give a rough ETA and then leave you to wait, only messaging you further if there's been some kind of catastrophe or unexpected delay. You'd probably be pretty annoyed if he texted you every five minutes to tell you he's "almost there" and "making SUCH good time" when you know perfectly well that he's nowhere near your house and he routinely drives twenty under the speed limit.

 

[boobthief]

Uh oh, the simps are milding tonight:

"Sorry pal, but you're stalling. Again."

"There's an expression, "Perfect is the enemy of good.""

"You must be a farmer. the teat is getting sore!"

"I’m perfectly fine waiting on perfection."

" I'd also like more definitive deadlines going forward"

"Let the chapters go, there’s no such thing as perfection."

" The best dish on the planet won't taste good if it isn't served when it is supposed to be served."

What they don't realise is that Crush is used to dealing in weekly updates.

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[boobthief]

People probably wouldn't be as pissed as they are if he'd just be honest and realistic in his Patreon posts. All he'd need to do is drop in once a week, provide a preview and MAYBE give a BROAD release window, if he's feeling confident in it. As it stands I just get angry whenever I read his posts because all he does is pat himself on the back for how incredibly hard he works and then claim it's "almost done". Nobody that's waiting on something wants to hear it's "almost done" six times before it's actually done.

I mean, imagine you were waiting on a friend to arrive at your house. You'd probably prefer he just text you when he starts his journey, give a rough ETA and then leave you to wait, only messaging you further if there's been some kind of catastrophe or unexpected delay. You'd probably be pretty annoyed if he texted you every five minutes to tell you he's "almost there" and "making SUCH good time" when you know perfectly well that he's nowhere near your house and he routinely drives twenty under the speed limit.

Depends how hot "your friend" is. Face it: you're here, like 99% of people, because your friend is a fuckup but hot. And so worth waiting for.

 

[Deniz31]

When it's dragged out that long, with the anticipation there's no way anyone will be satisfied when it's out.

 

[slavegal]

I get your point. There will be the defenders to these games that have amassed huge monthly subscriptions. But I'm not sure if all of them are paid trolls. There are people who will spew stupid reasons vehemently in the name of defending their belief. We see that out there not only on the internet.

No matter what, my post was deleted. You are right; not everyone is paid troll, but I guarantee you, paid trolls on this site are extremely powerful, unbridled and rampant. Just read the posts above. The delayed release is absolutely brilliant and ditching you fools is absolutely legit anyway; you have no option but to be fooled again and again, and it's 99% people's own fault to be here.

Sincerely, I don't know what they want, to defend the dev or to defame the dev. They are really incompetent marketing personnel who lack basic knowledge and skills.

 

[slavegal]

Depends how hot "your friend" is. Face it: you're here, like 99% of people, because your friend is a fuckup but hot. And so worth waiting for.

yeah, that happens if you only want to f*#k your hot friend; the game doesn't equal the dev, don't steal the concept. Many people just want to make sense of: "What happened to their friend," that is common sense and a natural reaction of mankind; in academic terms, it is called the Cognitive Dissonance that honourable ones intuitively need to look into; It is nice that they don't only care about their sex organs like primitive animals.

And don't generalise people based on what you are. Many people don't even bother to give a damn about the drama until some make it so stinky that people can't ignore it.

 

[Ripe]

The issue is never over-editing, the issue is that it took 3 months to get to a place where he could have some crap to edit into a diamond... i firmly believe it's fine for editing to take a month. But it's NOT fine for the base update to take 3 months then, if that makes sense to you guys.

So base update should have and actually could have been done in 2 months. The art for it could take 3 months. AND the over-editing can happen in a 1 month period, which leaves us at a more reasonable 3 month update schedule.

No, the issue is that it shouldn't take 3 months (and it's not even 3 months... it's over 4 months now) to write a story for a next chapter of text based game with next to no art... art that isn't even done by Crush! There is absolutely no reason for updates to take more then a few weeks, a month at most if we are to believe Crush is working on this full time (as he claims he does). Instead we're closing in on 5 months since last update and we're still at "nearly done" stage.

Hell, there are games here with full 3D graphics and animation that update more often then this and with far more content than what we'll eventually get.

 

[Marlin Brandy]

This new update feels... suspiciously similar to some others he's written. I'm almost tempted to pull up his older excus- whoops, justifications for delaying the release just to compare how much of the content is the same, maybe with a few words moved around here or there. Didn't he post something like this last year, where he simultaneously also said that he got better at writing at a consistent pace but also that it wasn't sexy enough again yet?

EDIT: Yeah, it feels suspiciously similar to the same drivel he fed during the 1.17 October and November updates.

 

[slatts00]

Unbelievable that the output so far represents 6 years of someone's life. We must be looking at not far off an hour a word. I'm not particularly bothered about it, because it's not costing me anything, but I find it utterly amazing that this is the case.

 

[DashaTaran]

soon soon soon soon soon

and again...

soon

wtf

 

[Ripe]

It can take 1 month, but even at that rate as a developer after 12 updates like this I would burn out most likely.

I can name at least two developers on this site that are (or were) releasing monthly updates for their games and have been doing that for 4+ years before they slowed it down to bi-monthly updates... one of them doing an RPGM text based game and the other doing Ren'py fully 3D art one. Not to mention that I can think of one who releases game with 3D animations on bi-weekly schedule (every 2nd and 15th of the month). Granted, I think that one finished most of the game before starting to release it considering his (or hers) 3rd game is not yet fully complete but he (or she) already started working on 4th game...

And all of those developers have a whole lot more content in their releases then Crush have in his.

Also, the idea is to try and get crush into an update schedule that is actually doable for HIM, not that an actual great developer could do. This is why I have decided that a 3 month update schedule is perfectly reasonable, if you've been reading my posts and trying to understand them that is. Most games don't update faster than 3 months, with like very few exceptions like Star Knightess Aura, or some text game that has little or no art overheard / real porn. A 3 month update schedule is bearable, for the developer and for the people waiting for the update. It means 4 major updates a year. Which means the game could actually be completed in 6 more years vs. the 6 years we've had and aren't even halfway there.

No, 3 months update schedule for a text base game is not reasonable or acceptable. Especially not for a game with next to no art. For a game like this, 2 months would be pushing it to the point of it being unacceptable. And we're now at 4 months and it will most likely be 5 before next update gets released...

The base update SHOULD be done in 2 months. CRUSH can have his 1 month of editing. Giving us a 3 month update schedule. Lets have the audience/patreons/crush himself agree with this minimally before we go claiming 3 weeks is enough to do everything. "There is absolutely no reason for updates to take more then a few weeks, a month at most .." Which to me seems like you're pushing on the extreme end if you expect any game on this site to be 3 weeks, you'll be disappointed.

For amount of content Crush releases... yeah, a month is reasonable. As I said, I can name at least three games that have or had at most monthly releases while still adding more new content than Crush does.

Also, I have said for a long time that the story for the game needs to be pre-written in order for updates to be fast and consistent. But there doesn't seem to be any evidence the story for the game from beginning to end is planned and written. It seems like crush does everything on the fly, which is why every update takes so long since the creative process involves sitting and thinking sometimes about where you want to take the story. Ideally crush should post the whole story from beginning to end so we can see that there is some pre-planning involved.

Yeah, at this point it should be pretty clear that Crush doesn't have a plan for what to do with the game... or what direction he want the game to go.

 

[yoloman12]

reminder this guy earns €6,021/month

you can hire at least 2 people to work 40 hours a week on this game.
as a hardworking person i personally find his

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I put in about 80 more hours last week, and was able to achieve the following:

• Reworked the ending scenes so they flow better
• Coded in the new episode art
• Punched up several scenes and made them way better

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just crap but that's just a opinion