l am Alpharius.Are you Crush?
It's not a game, it's never going to be a game, it will always be a kinetic novel.
As a programmer after looking into the code I confirm itHe keeps saying that we're on the edge of the sandbox part of the game
The discord is incredibly toxic.I wasn't around when the game began or MFAGA was written, and reading it now is just...dear God, it's sad. To me it seems plain that Crush didn't start this project out with any ill intentions at all, he was just a gamer who wanted to make a game (and which of us hasn't had that desire?). But he was inexperienced and stubborn and wandered deep into the weeds, and on the way out he realized that he could get paid to do basically nothing and not have to have a real job: the resolution to his personal anguish was fraud.
Well, the road to Hell and all that.
When he talks in that document about streamlining things that are still not streamlined, it makes me think of all the times over on Discord where I urged him to abandon the idea that this is a game. It's not a game, it's never going to be a game, it will always be a kinetic novel. And again, being a kinetic novel is not bad or an insult, it's a neutral descriptor. Recognizing this project as a KN will immediately manage audience expectations in a positive way and align his rhetoric (which up until now has been nothing but pure, refined, highly concentrated bullshit) to reality. He keeps saying that we're on the edge of the sandbox part of the game, but...seriously? Sandbox? If he finds absolutely linear writing as difficult as he claims to find it, then a sandbox would make his head explode.
Seriously, if you aren't familiar with his Discord, you should check it out. You've got people over there clamoring for the return of the Lifepath, and Crush is always like, "Oh yes, that's definitely in the works"; you've got people suggesting new mechanics when the existing ones do nothing and likely never will do anything; you've got people suggesting new traits when existing traits only very occasionally let you see a little different text that has no bearing on the course or outcome of anything. The lack of contact with reality over there is cultlike.
And the worst part? Crush keeps saying that we're still in the Prologue of the game. Five years in and we're still in the fucking PROLOGUE? His squeeing fans get very upset when you point out how utterly repulsive that statement is.
I stick around because it's got a decent Memes page.The discord is incredibly toxic.
Blue Swallow looks to be following up on the promise that Female Agent failed to deliver, and produced in six months a volume of content that Female Agent has barely exceeded in, what, coming up on six years now. Girl Spy is a parody but still shows how a competent dev who isn't trying to milk the process can produce FA-style and quality content; Lobsterman9999 said he hadn't worked on it very long to get the release out the door, and while there haven't been any updates since the initial release, one can hope.At this point, I think it's important even a squeeing fan ask, is there a plan to reach at least one ending? And if so, how many updates before we get there? Doesn't matter lifepath, dice roll, avatar with a million expressions... At a historical rate of 3 releases per annum, assuming ending is at version 1.30, that's easily 3+ years away.
When we started this journey, FA was worth a fap. I'm legit worried that by the time it ends, the equipment may not work. By equipment, I mean my laptop of course. Let's Make FA Great Again Once Again (MFAGAOA)! Might I suggest a key difference is to pause Patreon after each missed deadline until delivered? I repeat, Crush is NOT a scammer. Because I say so.
Go make your own game if you disagree, but not Blue Swallow or Girl Spy.
Go make your own game if you disagree, but not Blue Swallow or Girl Spy.
Ideas and their implementation are very different things. And FA is the best example of it. I am very happy that some more competent people want to make something similar to FAAlthough I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes
- Bernard Show
The writing style might be different, but I think mostly it is the presentation that is different. Other than that BS offers everything FA does and most importantly: kinks and skills matter. Decisions matter. Even the prologue offers multiple variants that make the game replayable. One can argue that there are bugs or that not everything is balanced out, but everything the game offers, actually does something. That and they have done more in six months than Crush has in 5 years. Depending on where they want to take the story, it is not unreasonable to think that they will have caught up to Crush or will even overtake him by the end of 2024. And that includes an entire lifepath, multiple choices, paths, skills and what not. So in terms of who is more competent, it isn't even close, even if BS stopped development tomorrow.Not sure I agree that they are more competent. Quicker perhaps, to get content out. I think Female Agent's writing is significantly better than Blue Swallow, even with its flaws (not into trans stuff, so I haven't bothered with Girl Spy).
I'll admit 1.6.3 seems a bit better in my eyes,
Though I've yet to come across a link for it (download) in order for me to play offline. Was wondering if anyone here knew if the offline version still exists
Thanks
Yes. No sexual content, but quite fun."short standalone mini-episode, Zero Kate Thirty" available on patreon for free, but it looks like it has no sexual content at all, just a bit of see thru