He also claimed that he left his job so he can focus on FA full time... but based on the skills he presented over the years, it's more likely he got fired due to total incompetence.
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The man has skills to fool thousands of people for literal years into believing he's competent, and you think he couldn't trick a single boss? /s
It's also kind of ridiculous because the art is already good, Victoria is a good artist and adding in the images (and well-drawn 2D images rather than CGI or AI stuff or reusing existing porn photos) is one of the things that adds to the appeal of the game and sets it apart from other text-based games like Blue Swallow. Especially in recent updates when Victoria has started illustrating other characters, group scenes, sex acts at the club, etc. - that has all added a lot.
It's a classic Crush thing of needing to improve something that's already pretty good rather than fixing some of the many incomplete parts.
What games are similar? I love FA, but good god the lack of updates are insane.
No, because unlike those idiots who still give him money that boss would ask for some actual result... not to mention that a project with a deadline might also have some penalties tied to it if the deadline is not met. If the company he worked for was forced to pay up fines due to his incompetence it's more then likely he would get fired. Especially if it happened more then once.
They have been mentioned here in the past and are regularly suggested at the bottom of the page as a similar thread. Since it is technically against board philosophy to advertise other games I will just point you in the direction of Bob69 and CassieBare
They each take a different approach to the concept, but have achieved more in mere months than Crush has in years.
Except for their bank accounts. I have to admit that is the one thing I really admire him for. He has somehow talked people into giving him ~7,000 every month for years without anything in return. If you take away Patreon's Cut and whatever he is paying Queen Victoria, he is probably making 3-4,000 whilst doing noth-, uh I mean working full time on the game.
You know, people would not even be half as mad, if he was honest. Just come out and say that you can only produce 2-3 pages of text every few months and nobody could blame you for it. But constantly saying that you are working full time for months and still only being able to release the same 3 pages of content, is just insulting. Especially since he keeps delaying them time and time again. If you broke it down, I'd wager that he barely comes up with a single sentence per day. Which is why I am convinced that he does nothing and then goes into crunch time like the week before the release. Just like a lazy student would do in school when a paper's due and then asking the teacher for a bit more time. For him, it has worked so far.
And yet his cultists are paying him and keep defending him; they are actually enabling him. Say what you will, but he has figured it out and you have to give him credit for that.
Funny thing is, this post probably contains more words than he produces in a fortnight. And I am not even getting payed for it! Maybe I should be the one creating a Patreon Account, so I could charge you for writing critical posts every now and then. Think of it as outsourcing! You could do whatever you want with your time and pay me a small fee for doing it for you! Anyone interested? I'd be working full time on it! Promise!
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On Patreon:
MOABS complete
Hey guys! For the past few weeks I’ve been working on the MOABS, the Mother Of All Beat Sheets. The aim is to fix the story and player experience problems in the Bangkok section – too repetitive, heroine too passive, story progression too slow.
I’ve been working on it solidly and I’m happy to report the MOABS is now complete. I’m incredibly excited about converting it into new game episodes! I guess the best way to explain it is that Female Agent was always supposed to be the game I wanted to play, and I can’t wait to play some of the new planned content.
Next steps
I could have kept tweaking and improving the MOABS forever, but it’s now at the point where it needs fresh eyes and new brains.
Reading the MOABS is a lot like reading the fucking Necronomicon – you shouldn’t do it – but a few brave and trusted souls have volunteered to peer into its unfathomable depths.
My hope is that the MOABS can be changed from good to great with some fresh insights. While we’re working on the new Lifepath, I plan to be continually improving on the MOABS in the background, so when it launches it’s even tighter and better.
I made it using h̶u̶m̶a̶n̶ ̶b̶l̶o̶o̶d̶ a combination of the Mac OS Notes application and an offline calender in Thunderbird – it’s not especially accessible or readable in its raw form.
So I’ve been organising it into a readable PDF to make collaboration easier. I aim to finish it off and get it out to collaborators this week.
I know that a lot of people will really really want to see the MOABS (and honestly I’m so excited about it that I kind of want to show it off), but it’s filled with major spoilers, and I want to keep the circulation list very small in order to prevent it leaking out and ruining everybody’s game.
Okay, that’s it for the report, I’m gonna get back to work! Have an awesome day everybody. ❤
MOABS complete
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Hey guys! For the past few weeks I’ve been working on the MOABS, the Mother Of All Beat Sheets. The aim is to fix the story and player experience problems in the Bangkok section – too repetitive, heroine too passive, story progression too slow.
I’ve been working on it solidly and I’m happy to report the MOABS is now complete. I’m incredibly excited about converting it into new game episodes! I guess the best way to explain it is that Female Agent was always supposed to be the game I wanted to play, and I can’t wait to play some of the new planned content.
Next steps
I could have kept tweaking and improving the MOABS forever, but it’s now at the point where it needs fresh eyes and new brains.
Reading the MOABS is a lot like reading the fucking Necronomicon – you shouldn’t do it – but a few brave and trusted souls have volunteered to peer into its unfathomable depths.
My hope is that the MOABS can be changed from good to great with some fresh insights. While we’re working on the new Lifepath, I plan to be continually improving on the MOABS in the background, so when it launches it’s even tighter and better.
I made it using h̶u̶m̶a̶n̶ ̶b̶l̶o̶o̶d̶ a combination of the Mac OS Notes application and an offline calender in Thunderbird – it’s not especially accessible or readable in its raw form.
So I’ve been organising it into a readable PDF to make collaboration easier. I aim to finish it off and get it out to collaborators this week.
I know that a lot of people will really really want to see the MOABS (and honestly I’m so excited about it that I kind of want to show it off), but it’s filled with major spoilers, and I want to keep the circulation list very small in order to prevent it leaking out and ruining everybody’s game.
Okay, that’s it for the report, I’m gonna get back to work! Have an awesome day everybody. ❤
If someone still wasn't convinced that this patreon isn't specifically to sell an idea and build hype after that post, I don't know what will.
Any decent "Support my work and see how it gets built" Patreon offers sneak peeks, ideas, keypoints on the product. Doesn't matter if it's pure software or "simple" art. Artists will in fact quite often post rough sketches, lineart, basic (no shading) coloring and so on.
Nothing of that sort here! Only hype
Any decent "Support my work and see how it gets built" Patreon offers sneak peeks, ideas, keypoints on the product. Doesn't matter if it's pure software or "simple" art. Artists will in fact quite often post rough sketches, lineart, basic (no shading) coloring and so on.
Nothing of that sort here! Only hype
So his achievement is to have taken down notes and putting them in a calender so that everybody can read them and see the schedule at all times?
I mean, what is next?
"Guys! I made a cup of coffee! I put it on IG, so everybody can participate and have a looksy! Give me more money!"
I mean, what is next?
"Guys! I made a cup of coffee! I put it on IG, so everybody can participate and have a looksy! Give me more money!"
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Multiverse theory suggests that for every possibility, every choice, every random event down to the quantum scale and every possible physical value there is a universe for it. Furthermore the universe is likely infinite with stars and galaxies continuing on in all directions, so even within our one universe you should be able to find every possible combination of matter, energy, choice and random chance. An infinite number of Earths with this very game dev. There should be at least one version of this game where the dev does everything he sets out to do. Mash together all the previous versions and content flawlessly and even create new content and scenes all throughout.
I somehow doubt our little patch of spacetime is that version.
I somehow doubt our little patch of spacetime is that version.
So, this week, he completed what he had completed last week, and apparently it took so long because he change the font to 12 pt.
Seriously, at this point, if you don't think Crush is a purescammer hype marketing genius, you probably don't have brain cells.
Seriously, at this point, if you don't think Crush is a pure
Look, some people make money selling their alleged bathwater. At this point a screenshot of a cup of coffee would be actual step up.
(can only hope the bathwater doesn't become the next step)
Gotta say, not trying to kinkshame anyone but I do find it kind of funny that he's pushing his preggo woman fetish on his announcements.
I played the "unfinished beta" update a couple days ago after basically giving up on the game when he announced what will become yet another reboot. The weirdest part, to me, is him complaining about how the most recent content "wasn't hot". Imo it was the best update, even unfinished, of the last 3 or so.
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That means if you are charismatic enough you can always find idiots to fund you
Really hope someone leaks that beat sheet, honestly I'd kind of prefer to just read the 178 page outline and see what he envisions the general remaining plot to be than wait half a year to see a couple of those pages turned into an update.