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WalkTheEdge

Newbie
Nov 29, 2017
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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

Active Member
Jun 30, 2017
912
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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?
 

Cuerv0

New Member
Jun 18, 2023
8
9
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.
 

Vibesy

Member
Nov 19, 2023
155
347
Damn, has it seriously been a year since the last official update for this game? I completely tuned out when Crush announced he was restarting again, but even for him this is pathetic. We are talking about an HTML text game with limited art that he has already rewritten at least twice... and he needs +12 months to code in some traits to give it more of a fake RPG overlay???

And people continue to throw money at this dude like he is some kind of smut Hemingway? Scammers gonna scam I guess, but some threads on F95 really need a big warning label about donations.
 
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So what has he actually accomplished in the year since the last update?

There was the 'mother of all beat sheets' which seemed to take about 4 months and the last 3 months or so has been mostly hair and some vague talk about back-stories for characters from non-US countries? Anything else?
 

orellion

Member
May 12, 2023
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So what has he actually accomplished in the year since the last update?

There was the 'mother of all beat sheets' which seemed to take about 4 months and the last 3 months or so has been mostly hair and some vague talk about back-stories for characters from non-US countries? Anything else?
The updates are posted in this thread every month. Artwork and backstory related updates.
 
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xgrotesc

Member
Sep 8, 2016
372
659
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.
I'm not trying to defend Crush, but this argument here is just pure BS. Blue Swallow writing is extremely underwhelming when compared to FA, so obviously it can get developped a lot faster.
 

Pede rasta 1

Member
Dec 28, 2019
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I'm not trying to defend Crush, but this argument here is just pure BS. Blue Swallow writing is extremely underwhelming when compared to FA, so obviously it can get developped a lot faster.
The quality of the work depends on your skill and preparation, but the amount of work depends on the effort you put into it..
Don't defend him because he has no defense, he is a lazy milker of fools.
The next update will surely be announced for Christmas and will be released for Valentine's Day.... what year? I'll leave it up to you to decide the date lol
 

CassieBare

Lead Developer of Blue Swallow
Game Developer
Jan 25, 2020
519
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I'm not trying to defend Crush, but this argument here is just pure BS. Blue Swallow writing is extremely underwhelming when compared to FA, so obviously it can get developped a lot faster.
Is there some great writing in FA? Absolutely, some A+ stuff. Do I think it's all A+? Far from it.

Do I think that Blue Swallow hits an A+? Probably about as often. (talking sheer frequency here, please)

It's also easier when you're willing to give yourself a year to sketch out and do rewrites on 500 words rather than what I'm doing which is putting out 500+ words every 2 weeks or so.

On this note though: I'd really appreciate constructive feedback and criticism on specific passages or sections of Blue Swallow so that I can improve what might have been on an extremely tired/rushed night, rather than try and guess. Always feel free to reach out! Thanks =)
 

Sharpx23

Member
Aug 15, 2022
102
336
Can we stop talking about blue swallow? The DEV does nothing but write boring pages. Every time I try to play that game I just end up skipping every page and looking at the crappy pixel art from 1997. The dev could have probably asked crush to use art from female agent and modify it. But instead did some pixel crap. The writing isn't actually bad, but it's long winded, and I don't play games to read books. In that sense it's bad writing, because a game developer who writes good would also know how to write a story with less words and keep it engaging and compelling. It's not bad writing again, but probably just average. Something I could write, anyone could write. Nothing about blue swallow stands out for me.
 
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