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That's what happens when you roll a 1 and your DM believes in critical fumbles.
HTML Female Agent [v1.20.1p] [Crushstation]
- May 21, 2020
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This just makes me wish for a Disco Elysium-style h-game, botching every skill check and still making it to the end somehow.
This brings up a question, would MC getting pregnant be tied to critical fumble, or critical success.
Doing my annual check-in here and the funniest thing remains that when it started development in 2017, the game name-checked ISIS as the big bad guy's org. But the game development actually outlasted ISIS and the dev removed that reference by 2020-21 -- now it's stayed in development so long that ISIS is back in the news again.
At this rate the game development might outlast the US/UK alliance.
At this rate the game development might outlast the US/UK alliance.
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Of course, we love FA so we are all wasting time discussing it!
But can we agree, rebooting development every four years, minimal progress despite promises, and reintroducing old features after removing them for 'speed' raises serious questions. This pattern, especially from a former project manager, is concerning.
Creating a game, even a text-based one, isn't just about capability; it requires resources, time, and financial stability. Most critics don't have a steady income stream to fund years of development, but Crush DOES have a decent income which he claims he's using to work full time on this (his words, not mine)
Criticism isn't about personal ability, it's about accountability. Asking supporters to be patient for nearly eight years with little progress and poor communication is frustrating. It's fair to expect professionalism and transparency, especially when financial support is involved. Catch-22: if there was steady progress, these critics would probably be Patreons eh?
How's this for helpful? Write the full CYOA since Twine is built for that; later you can go back and tweak engine and graphics etc till kingdom come. Can we agree this should be doable, working full time on one game for 10 years? See you all in 2027 then, so we'll know for sure whether this was a long drawn scam or not.
In the end, it's about fairness. Everyone deserves to know where their money is going and see tangible results. That's not unreasonable.
Why is the robot still defending as "development nightmare" someone who didn't ... develop the game for 1 year and 6 months?
And still being paid on Patreon handsomely.
18 months of no game develpment, and; How many years since game started? Come on, this is a HTML game not Starfield or Baldur's gate 3... lmao pls.
And still being paid on Patreon handsomely.
18 months of no game develpment, and; How many years since game started? Come on, this is a HTML game not Starfield or Baldur's gate 3... lmao pls.
this sentence can be interpreted in many ways in the current situation
Careful there son. Just because the Assad Curse has been broken doesn't mean it's safe to start speculating about the tenures of non-western leaders again.
- Aug 15, 2018
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cmmon. you can't convince me that majority of one year he spent on avatar graphics. imo it is not perfection but subtle way to extend game life, cash flow and idle private life. no way he is (for more than lucrative ammount of monthly income) spending 8-10 hrs by day working on game in 12 months with nothing to offer. if he is pushed properly (if he is defunded by supporters) he would either develop faster or quit. and i'm sure he would choose faster work
why do we need so many options of blushes, eye-liners, nails colours which we either can't see or it is hard to see any difference. 99% of us would have rather more real content progress than 20 new versions of lipstick.
if he is just perfectionist why he is asking for monthly subscription where only one side is committed while other is even breaking promised schedule, delivering nothing? if he is honest perfectionist he would choose on patreon tiers payment option ''per major update'' instead ''monthly'' as some devs here did for their games.
I don't generally speculate, I just go on the facts that can be seen and leave people to form their own opinion. That delivery is slow is just an acknowledged fact. The perfectionism can be seen in the writing, re-writing, restructuring, re-coding, scope and re-scoping. Now if you want to speculate you could add in:
- Crush never left his normal job and actually does work his ass off on a 9-5 and this game
- Crush has multiple Patreon identities and alternates between them (if I left my 9-5 for Patreon would I risk it all on one account....)
- Crush is a serious pot head and likes the mushrooms from time to time.....
I'm not making excuses for Crush, but building the entire main story out then going back to do window dressing would be tough to get motivated to do as a dev. You want a healthy balance of story progression and window dressing, and I think his customers would be happy with that too.
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Crush doesn't do the art. That's Queen Victoria's domain. All Crush does -- or all he claims to do -- is write and code. That's it. He's been "grinding away, 39 hours a day, 11 days a week" for coming up on a year and a half and so far has not produced a single scene -- not even the one scene that he promised would be released three weeks ago. That's not Queen Victoria dragging things down, it's all on Crush.
I wanna place a bet; Who is going to launch their product first?
a) Patrick Rothfuss "new" book
b) Crush update FA
c) North Stream 2 gets restored by a german lesbian Nazi
I don't believe Crush left his day job for even a second.
I don't believe that Victoria is to blame for the delays either for the simple reason that even if it had taken her 6 months to ship the artwork for eye-shadow, Crush would still have had time to write the scenes and sort the coding. He might not have been able to ship a final version as the assets would not have been in place but a) there were already avatar assets in place and b) he could have turned off the avatar and shipped an alpha as proof that he hasn't spent the entire year avoiding working on the game.
No... Crush's problem is that while he's able to ship code, he can't ship text. He would rather strip a game down to brass tacks over and over again than sit down and write a sex scene. He can plan until the cows come home and spend months tweaking code around the sex scenes but he cannot or will not sit down and actually write. Everything else, from the art, to the skills system, to the avatars, to the (awful sounding) dynamic sex system are displacement activities. He can't write and he's too stubborn to hire someone in to do the writing work for him.
I don't believe that Victoria is to blame for the delays either for the simple reason that even if it had taken her 6 months to ship the artwork for eye-shadow, Crush would still have had time to write the scenes and sort the coding. He might not have been able to ship a final version as the assets would not have been in place but a) there were already avatar assets in place and b) he could have turned off the avatar and shipped an alpha as proof that he hasn't spent the entire year avoiding working on the game.
No... Crush's problem is that while he's able to ship code, he can't ship text. He would rather strip a game down to brass tacks over and over again than sit down and write a sex scene. He can plan until the cows come home and spend months tweaking code around the sex scenes but he cannot or will not sit down and actually write. Everything else, from the art, to the skills system, to the avatars, to the (awful sounding) dynamic sex system are displacement activities. He can't write and he's too stubborn to hire someone in to do the writing work for him.
I won't say the game doesn't have any code (the dice roll code doesn't count, it's literally an external library that, for some reason, has been copypasted instead of lazily imported), but the "code" in this twine/sugarcube is mostly text links.
No really, while there is some (pre existing) CSS and basic JS to make things like the character creator work, the "day to day" (year to year at this point) code is the standard twine text link with a single if.
That's the current build?
What about the build where you had the virtual dice rolling across the page? Was that copy and pasted too?
If he's not writing and he's not coding... what is he doing?
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