Senor Smut

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I can't believe man's still drawing this out. I had high-hopes for this, seven years ago. It had such potential, I can't fathom why things have gone the way they have
It's not complicated. Patreon and similar schemes incentivize exactly this behavior. If you can do the absolute minimum necessary to maintain your support base without ever actually achieving anything, you have a steady income stream for essentially no effort. The guy makes a solid middle- to upper-middle class income and most weeks he probably never lifts a finger on this project. Until and unless a results-based funding mechanism comes around and is widely adopted, this kind of behavior will be the norm rather than the exception (although Crush will likely remain an outlier as far as egregiousness goes, because most nonproductive/incompetent/scamming creators can't generate the kind of loyalty over time that he has).
 

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i'd like to ask, is there anyone else that makes a game like this (spy-themed), preferably html but renpy is okay, that has better rate of updates than crushstation?

i joined this site maybe 2 years by now and from then until now, this game hasn't really been updated much, which is such a shame cuz it's pretty good. I really like the adventuring around town and the country celebration part
 
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Ravnen

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i'd like to ask, is there anyone else that makes a game like this (spy-themed), preferably html but renpy is okay, that has better rate of updates than crushstation?

i joined this site maybe 2 years by now and from then until now, this game hasn't really been updated much, which is such a shame cuz it's pretty good. I really like the adventuring around town and the country celebration part
Its a whole other kind of game. But Manila Shaw - Blackmail obsession..
 
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CassieBare

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i'd like to ask, is there anyone else that makes a game like this (spy-themed), preferably html but renpy is okay, that has better rate of updates than crushstation?

i joined this site maybe 2 years by now and from then until now, this game hasn't really been updated much, which is such a shame cuz it's pretty good. I really like the adventuring around town and the country celebration part
Blue Swallow
 

@LonelyWolf

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i'd like to ask, is there anyone else that makes a game like this (spy-themed), preferably html but renpy is okay, that has better rate of updates than crushstation?

i joined this site maybe 2 years by now and from then until now, this game hasn't really been updated much, which is such a shame cuz it's pretty good. I really like the adventuring around town and the country celebration part
If you want to laugh a little and haven't tested it yet, go try "Girl Spy" (v0.1.1) by Lobsterman9999, which is the affectionate parody of "Female Agent". But seriously, yes, I'm agree; "Blue Swallow" remains an excellent choice in terms of espionage for an html game with updates... Uh? Let's just say: more regular (a nice euphemism, not to be too harsh for all this hard work, generously provided by our good old Crush)! :LOL:
 
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okokok

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If you want to laugh a little and haven't tested it yet, go try "Girl Spy" (v0.1.1) by Lobsterman9999, which is the affectionate parody of "Female Agent". But seriously, yes, I'm agree; Blue Swallow remains an excellent choice in terms of espionage for an html game with updates... Uh? Let's just say: more regular (a nice euphemism, not to be too harsh for all this hard work, generously provided by our good old Crush)! :LOL:
It's even turned out to be faithful in terms of update schedule
 

gds21

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On Patreon:


Skin tones increased from 1 to 7
New
Yesterday
Hey guys! The new character generator will feature a choice of seven skin tone options for you to further individualise your heroine.
Each option has its own unique glowing gorgeous tan version, to enable your heroine to convincingly go undercover among a group of bronzed backpacking babes in Bangkok.
(This is mainly a cosmetic change only, but will have occasional flavour text differences during sunbathing scenes, NPCs occasionally commenting on your tanline choices, etc.)


Bargirl beach trips officially confirmed



I was aiming to get all the youth regionalisation finished last week, but I couldn't get it all done, so I'll keep working on it this week. Okay I'm gonna get back to it! ❤‍
 

dasflute2

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If you want to laugh a little and haven't tested it yet, go try "Girl Spy" (v0.1.1) by Lobsterman9999, which is the affectionate parody of "Female Agent". But seriously, yes, I'm agree; "Blue Swallow" remains an excellent choice in terms of espionage for an html game with updates... Uh? Let's just say: more regular (a nice euphemism, not to be too harsh for all this hard work, generously provided by our good old Crush)! :LOL:
Girl Spy is quite good, and I say that as someone who has no real interest in trans stuff. But it's very well written and developed and honestly I think calling it "just" a parody is a disservice.
 
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Ravnen

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Girl Spy is quite good, and I say that as someone who has no real interest in trans stuff. But it's very well written and developed and honestly I think calling it "just" a parody is a disservice.
Aint that game rather short? Ive played it a few times, and every time it seems to end at the same spot..
 
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Skin tones increased from 1 to 7
New
Yesterday
Hey guys! The new character generator will feature a choice of seven skin tone options for you to further individualise your heroine.
Each option has its own unique glowing gorgeous tan version, to enable your heroine to convincingly go undercover among a group of bronzed backpacking babes in Bangkok.
(This is mainly a cosmetic change only, but will have occasional flavour text differences during sunbathing scenes, NPCs occasionally commenting on your tanline choices, etc.)


Bargirl beach trips officially confirmed



I was aiming to get all the youth regionalisation finished last week, but I couldn't get it all done, so I'll keep working on it this week. Okay I'm gonna get back to it! ❤‍
Spending an entire week's worth of work on that, considering most of the art work is done by someone else, is absolutely wild.
 

ffive

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Spending an entire week's worth of work on that, considering most of the art work is done by someone else, is absolutely wild.
Oh, you vastly underestimate the amount of jerking off involved in the quality control and ensuring the tanlines look hot enough. We're lucky he didn't suffer dehydration severe enough to put him into bed. :whistle::coffee:
 

cleanfeel

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We got a graphical update to the release schedule before we got another step forwards in the story. did he get Victoria to draw this too so the fancy colours and pretty pictures would distract the supporters?
Mother of All BS is right on the money.

I wanted to take this chance to remind everyone that White Russian was supposed to be released on the 31st of October, 2022
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Woah. I just started checking out this game randomly. It's really good, but looks like there's some problems with the plot not moving along at all?

I finished the Club scene where you go out with the girls to learn more about Sadie. Can you tell me how much more is left?
 

ibizadalton

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Lifepath youth regionalisation complete
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Hey guys! I finished the regionalisation for the youth section of the Lifepath today.

This is, of course, the least sexy part of the game. But it's used to set some important backstory flags like her social class, whether she was a rock chick or a track star at high school, etc. It also includes the character creator, and is where the first skills are awarded and added to the new character sheet.
Revisiting it, I felt like the existing version lingers a bit too long in the youth section, so I've tried to make it faster moving and more fun in general.

Next steps
  • I'll push the test version out to contributors in order to get their feedback and improvements
  • While waiting for that, I'll pivot to tech work – the new hair and skin system has broken the youth avatar so we need to fix that and do some testing
  • There are now new art requirements for the youth section (e.g. Aussie schoolgirls don't wear English school uniforms), so our illustrator lovely Victorianeeds some time to create the new assets required
    • note to speed up production we're going to disable the rear view for the lifepath avatar (but it will still work in the main story)
    • note 2 Victoria couldn't start on this until the exact structure was firmed up

She's been busy hand drawing haircut rear views anyway.



It really does


Okay! Sorry for the delayed report, but the regionalisation was so close to being done I felt like it was best to complete it, then report.


Bedtime now but I'll be back to work on it tomorrow morning! Goodnight everybody ❤‍
 

cleanfeel

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That's like the saying it's a little damp in the middle of the ocean.
I took a quick glance at the Patreon, it seems like he's developing interesting systems. For example, the character sheet and the stats system seems to be new since the 2022 release? I think it's fine to polish the game with new code + features to make the customization better since technically the content won't further the plot but will enhance the existing content and make future content better.

Did the dev ever give an explanation for the delay on the White Russian chapters which according to the people here, is still not finished? I didn't subscribe since I saw over 5k a month
 
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