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

[Sharpx23]

right now sound matters least in this game, but also in most games. especially when the game can't get down the basics of story, or renders or whatever else... then sound matters even less because there are more serious things that need focus and improvement. but i'd say even in games with good renders or story, half the time i have the sound off. it doesn't matter. voice dialogue also doesn't matter because half the time i can't be assed to wait for the person doing the voice over to say the whole damn sentence or paragraph. it takes too long and 9/10 times i can read faster or skim faster and i don't need to sit there listening to a voice. when it's an auto generated voice it's actually disturbing my uncanny valley thing, and it sucks too.

bottom line is i don't know why people are talking about sound. get good graphics and story and development time in your game. sound can always come later, like last is what i mean by later, or not at all.

 

[Mr_Ainz]

An earlier post in this thread suggests that the engine(s) developed by Crushstation is available for others to use. Is this correct? If yes, how can one download it to try to write a story to progress the old v1.6.3?

I was looking into the avatar system some months ago and it's not really a secret. You can look at the code and copy it, you may get sued or something idk. It's not the only twine game with an avatar system so you may want to look at other examples for inspiration (secretary, blue swallow). Most are just loading art that fits together like puzzle pieces. Load an empty face and then load various elements like eyes, mouth and such on top of it for different expressions.

I believe there should be new systems with the new AI tools at our disposal but I haven't looked into it. You should ask programmers and developers on the twine spaces and/or artist who may know more.

 

[Sharpx23]

I was looking into the avatar system some months ago and it's not really a secret. You can look at the code and copy it, you may get sued or something idk. It's not the only twine game with an avatar system so you may want to look at other examples for inspiration (secretary, blue swallow). Most are just loading art that fits together like puzzle pieces. Load an empty face and then load various elements like eyes, mouth and such on top of it for different expressions.

I believe there should be new systems with the new AI tools at our disposal but I haven't looked into it. You should ask programmers and developers on the twine spaces and/or artist who may know more.

I know everyone is on the AI bandwagon, and or, the type of people here just like AI. But AI CG sucks. Right now to me it's on the level of a 'real porn' game, ie. pretty trash and not worth even looking at. Maybe in 100 years when AI is actually closer to AI rather than just a learning model that is piss poor coded, then an AI game might be good. Until then I see nothing unique or special or even attractive about how AI cg's look. In other words I will ignore them until they actually advance to a level where it's good. Which won't be for 100 years.

 

[Majus]

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Hi guys! ☕ Short report this week, because we’re mostly working on behind-the-scenes stuff at the moment.

Our illustrator lovely Victoria is busy working on new art. In addition to all the avatar improvements, the new episode has a large number of wardrobe requirements.

For example: in the next episode, a few scenes are set in high school. This is where you set the heroine’s high school clique – alpha female, athlete, geek girl, or rock chick. (These will individualise the heroine’s backstory, unlock new dialogue options with NPCs later, and also now have a game mechanics effect, e.g. athletes get the Amazon perk, giving them +1 to all Physical and Firearms skill checks.) Of course, because the Lifepath now supports five different nationalities, we need five different school uniform looks, so lovely V had to draw five times the assets for this scene.

Meanwhile, I’ve been working mainly on scene edits, cutting bloat and adding in new flavour text variations and dialogue options. TLDR; we’re working hard on the next episode!

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There was some interesting talk on the Discord yesterday about different backstories people want for their heroine (referred to internally as “Kate”, for simplicity). Some players prefer a “good girl” backstory, some like Kate to have a more checkered past littered with hookups, drug use, etc. This is actually highly relevant to the writing right now (karan’s comment actually made me realise that a certain scene from the next episode needs another dialogue choice in order to fully support the “good girl” playstyle).

What’s your preferred backstory for Kate? Let me know here, in Discord or in DM if you’re shy – it’ll help me make sure the game has the right options.

Okay, that's all for this report! I'm going to get back to work. ❤‍

 

[orellion]

I am liking that shot of our female agent

 

[gymnopedies]

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Hi guys! ☕ Short report this week, because we’re mostly working on behind-the-scenes stuff at the moment.

Our illustrator lovely Victoria is busy working on new art. In addition to all the avatar improvements, the new episode has a large number of wardrobe requirements.

For example: in the next episode, a few scenes are set in high school. This is where you set the heroine’s high school clique – alpha female, athlete, geek girl, or rock chick. (These will individualise the heroine’s backstory, unlock new dialogue options with NPCs later, and also now have a game mechanics effect, e.g. athletes get the Amazon perk, giving them +1 to all Physical and Firearms skill checks.) Of course, because the Lifepath now supports five different nationalities, we need five different school uniform looks, so lovely V had to draw five times the assets for this scene.

Meanwhile, I’ve been working mainly on scene edits, cutting bloat and adding in new flavour text variations and dialogue options. TLDR; we’re working hard on the next episode!

__

There was some interesting talk on the Discord yesterday about different backstories people want for their heroine (referred to internally as “Kate”, for simplicity). Some players prefer a “good girl” backstory, some like Kate to have a more checkered past littered with hookups, drug use, etc. This is actually highly relevant to the writing right now (karan’s comment actually made me realise that a certain scene from the next episode needs another dialogue choice in order to fully support the “good girl” playstyle).

What’s your preferred backstory for Kate? Let me know here, in Discord or in DM if you’re shy – it’ll help me make sure the game has the right options.

Okay, that's all for this report! I'm going to get back to work. ❤‍

And in a new episode of milking idiots:
We have a new doll that you can dress and customize (it's actually the same doll with a not new dress but who cares) our story moves backwards (it doesn't really move forward or backwards because those stories were already there in old versions of the game that appear and disappear like magician's rabbits) to have more options to go (nowhere because what does it matter if the protagonist says yes, no or maybe the story will continue the same) nowhere yeah

 

[robin312]

We have a new doll that you can dress and customize (it's actually the same doll with a not new dress but who cares) our story moves backwards (it doesn't really move forward or backwards because those stories were already there in old versions of the game that appear and disappear like magician's rabbits) to have more options to go (nowhere because what does it matter if the protagonist says yes, no or maybe the story will continue the same) nowhere yeah

Moving nowhere for 7 years!
Crush (c)

 

[Majus]

Does anyone know where I can find the version of the game with that high school scene in it? Why was it removed?

For example: in the next episode, a few scenes are set in high school. This is where you set the heroine’s high school clique <...>

<...> (it doesn't really move forward or backwards because those stories were already there in old versions of the game that appear and disappear like magician's rabbits) <...>

 

[itachi012]

is this intro sequence similar to the older version of the game. cause i tried that out once i completed the current chapters. it was..... eh

i know we not getting anything at this point but damn... atleast lie to us about actually developing more agent in thailand stuff...

 

[CreativeCritic2]

He's opening a door he's going to regret passing through...

At the moment, the assumption is that Kate is some sort of NATSEC ivy-leaguer and that works dramatically as every beat of the plot thus-far has been about the realities of intelligence work and what you have to do to get the intel.

However, if you allow for the fact that Kate is more of a marginal figure who played in bands, did drugs, and slept with jerks for all the wrong reasons then you remove a lot of the tension from the plot you have. 'I have to suck this guy's dick for my job?' is less shocking than 'I have to suck the dick of a guy I don't really like for reasons of fitting in and I haven't done that type of thing since I was a teenager'

 

[WalkTheEdge]

He's opening a door he's going to regret passing through...

At the moment, the assumption is that Kate is some sort of NATSEC ivy-leaguer and that works dramatically as every beat of the plot thus-far has been about the realities of intelligence work and what you have to do to get the intel.

However, if you allow for the fact that Kate is more of a marginal figure who played in bands, did drugs, and slept with jerks for all the wrong reasons then you remove a lot of the tension from the plot you have. 'I have to suck this guy's dick for my job?' is less shocking than 'I have to suck the dick of a guy I don't really like for reasons of fitting in and I haven't done that type of thing since I was a teenager'

Which is why he's gonna spend all of next year at the least rewriting all of the Thailand content to account for that, before realizing it's all too convoluted and scrap it all and reboot again

 

[Ripe]

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Hi guys! ☕ Short report this week, because we’re mostly working on behind-the-scenes stuff at the moment.

Our illustrator lovely Victoria is busy working on new art. In addition to all the avatar improvements, the new episode has a large number of wardrobe requirements.

For example: in the next episode, a few scenes are set in high school. This is where you set the heroine’s high school clique – alpha female, athlete, geek girl, or rock chick. (These will individualise the heroine’s backstory, unlock new dialogue options with NPCs later, and also now have a game mechanics effect, e.g. athletes get the Amazon perk, giving them +1 to all Physical and Firearms skill checks.) Of course, because the Lifepath now supports five different nationalities, we need five different school uniform looks, so lovely V had to draw five times the assets for this scene.

Meanwhile, I’ve been working mainly on scene edits, cutting bloat and adding in new flavour text variations and dialogue options. TLDR; we’re working hard on the next episode!

Didn't "Our illustrator lovely Victoria" already created all those unique uniforms way back during original lifepath? One that did include all five nations (unlike Lifepath 2.0) we had a bit later on after original version was scrapped?

 

[Kalenz123]

For example: in the next episode, a few scenes are set in high school. This is where you set the heroine’s high school clique

If I wanted to write a sarcastic comment for a fake dev update I'd write something like that.

 

[Cuerv0]

I would like to make a bet if I had any courage to make it, but I know I would lose.

I believe that not before 11/28/24 (one year since the last update) that we will not have a new update and if we get it right, we will pay a month of sponsorship just to highlight that there are people who have the same time and less staff , only 1 person, games like SpaceBourne 2 are released.


And I would lose because I would take it out just to gain that membership.

 

[yurilover8]

Is this game even fappable? It's just text tbh. The art is good though

 

[Lkjhj]

Love to see that this game hasnt changed in like 3 years. lol.

 

[Deniz31]

Star Citizen of adult games.

 

[Deleted member 3236859]

I don't understand giving your money to people like this. Is he even still working on it? Or is he just having someone else do art for it? Blue Swallow was made in a fraction of the time it took for this chyoa pamphlet to flounder. This is ridiculous no matter how you squeeze it.

 

[madtwilek]

Is this game even fappable? It's just text tbh. The art is good though

Some of us actually prefer text games to VNs, because images are either a distraction or a turnoff.

 

[hligahudiaunf]

Some of us actually prefer text games to VNs, because images are either a distraction or a turnoff.

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95+ % of Renpy visual novels based on same plastic skin daz3d heroines that look the same in each game.
Not fun of honey select anime style either.
That makes good unique story text with beatiful avatar much more attractive