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Prawnstar69

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And... this is exactly what allows Crush to constantly work on "updates" and "improvements" until he's frazzled since 2017. Because opinions are like arseholes; everyone has one and anyone who denies it is full of literal shit. So he's able to say someone asked for X feature, then drag that out for a year, before someone else suggests Y feature, then repeat / reboot into infinity.

What is shocking is his claim he was a project manager, because anyone with any project background knows Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound (SMART) goals exist. Last time Trump was in office, Crush had a MFAGA plan, which was clearly not Achievable (given his historic output) nor, and this is the ultimate kicker, Time Bound because he's not been bothered to write 200ish words for a regular report.

How to solve it:
1) humble himself to acknowledge his strengths (writing smut) and weaknesses (pretty much everything else), and pick Specific and Achievable plan to stick to UNTIL COMPLETION OR DEATH (whichever comes first). Can we agree that in Year 8 of development, he ought to be clear on this?
2) commit to a Timeline that he can actually deliver (still waiting for the Booth Babe update) in a Measurable way (e.g. wrote 1k words this week, because 1k X 52 weeks is a short novel). Stop moving the goal posts.
3) after delivering a base story, he can go ahead and add all the dice rolls and lifepaths he want because it's easier to add branches if you've got a sturdy foundation eh? Deciding what's Relevant is where he's spending all his time, pitting group A vs group B, when only he knows what capacity and speed he has.

End of day, till his Patreons hold him accountable, his behaviour seems unlikely to improve especially given the salty undertone when asked for even the tiniest accountability. In his words, "I am sticking to producing weekly reports not good reports. ❤‍" because reporting progress (or lack thereof) is beneath him? To illustrate the power of consistency, even if he produced NOTHING but weekly updates of 200 words since FA started in Sept 2017, that's 76,000 words (exceeding Catcher in the Rye).
 
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TBCheese

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D&D is fun, and it's gotten a surge of new popularity in more mainstream circles somewhat recently, but not everything needs to be D&D.

For one thing, FA (as currently implemented) just lets you keep going back and re-rolling a randomized outcome until you get the one you wanted to see. Instead of offering replayability, it often just slows down a single playthrough. While you can try to avoid this by preventing rolling back or saving randomized results, having these random choices actually add to the story instead of detracting is based on the game you make. A fully fledged RPG with nuance and multiple fleshed out routes? Sure. A short porn game that's basically a virtual novel anyway? People probably aren't going to be jumping for joy at the prospect of starting a second playthrough just to see the MC get stopped in customs.

Also, using a D20 and the specific set of stats from D&D really isn't necessary for a game this tiny. There's really nothing that requires anything close to that level of complexity. You can do whatever you want, but you don't have to stick with the system that's designed for a completely different genre.
 

ffive

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I can't tell you how relieved I am to see he's going back to the planning stage again. I almost worried something might actually get done for a minute.
Well, he does seem to be doing something:



Transparency report #3
New
An hour ago
Hey guys! I've been working non-stop on the game for the last 7 days. No peace for the wicked.
This week I put out three new scene tests to the testing group (the last one just a couple hours ago). Those guys told me to sex it up, so that's what I've been doing.
  • Test 1 changed one long sex scene in the previous version to three different short ones
  • Test 2 was non-sexy but good, (a scene for Elite social class Kate where, in her teens, she discovers her grandmother was a secret agent in World War II)
  • Test 3 added an ENF ("Embarrassed Nude Female") scene, a hookup sex scene, and a girl/girl makeout between the heroine and her best friend.
Yes, I've been working my ass off

Transparency reports should be transparent

Honestly: tester feedback has been kind of mixed. I'll wait for more feedback on Test 3, but personally, I'm kind of torn. What I'm adding in is definitely making the Lifepath sexier, but I'm concerned that I'm adding in too much detail and it's dragging the overall pace.
I might just be frazzled from working on this non-stop for weeks without taking a day off I'm going to grab a pen and paper and figure out if I can streamline the design. I just want to get this done and out to you. ❤‍
 

IjjKpoe

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Oct 14, 2020
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Well, he does seem to be doing something:
So since January of 2024 he has done:

1) Re work an already existing scene
2) Decide to waste geniously think that Kate grandma used to be a Secret agent, without this information the story couldn't develop for 8 full years. I mean, WW2 started and ended faster than this game plans to be finished.
3) Create 3 "embarassed nude female" scenes for Kate, a girl who was tasked to infiltrate a Thai prostitution ring and works.... nearly nude is embarassed of ... being nude in front of a girl friend.

Yeah brother Crush is still scamming people harder than Milei with the Libra crypto
 

lucasloki

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Nov 16, 2018
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its a different community but.
January 30 one guy on Patreon say he would post one chapter of his story in 2 or 3 days, February 6 someone post this:
I am going to say it, if no one else is going to. I was fine with the single month break as it was because of family. However when you say you will post in 2-3 days and reply to some 2 day ago that your just finishing the final page and there is still nothing. That is very scummy, and disappointing I expected better. You shouldn't of said 2-3 day if it wasn't going to be posted and add on that there was pretty much a whole month of nothing .


this was on this patreon
 

lucasloki

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Nov 16, 2018
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Is he developing Baldur's Gate 4 or something? Working 14 days in a row but we have nothing. xD
Lost Soul Aside started developing in 2018 with one person, is expected to be released this year
Nintendo Switch was released march 3, 2017... same year FemaleAgent... we are almost getting N switch 2....
 

PitayaPear

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Jan 30, 2022
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And... this is exactly what allows Crush to constantly work on "updates" and "improvements" until he's frazzled since 2017. Because opinions are like arseholes; everyone has one and anyone who denies it is full of literal shit. So he's able to say someone asked for X feature, then drag that out for a year, before someone else suggests Y feature, then repeat / reboot into infinity... End of day, till his Patreons hold him accountable, his behaviour seems unlikely to improve especially given the salty undertone when asked for even the tiniest accountability.
As long as he is raking in a 6 figure income, why would he change? Genuine question. The fact of the matter is if he had actually worked and released the game 3-4 years ago (which he easily could've done) he would've missed out on close to half a million dollars of Patreon money. And he knows this.

Whether or not he is doing it intentionally is irrelevant. What is relevant is the fact that he is making a very comfortable upper middle class income quite literally doing nothing but writing a report every month. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, why would he do anything to rock the boat? And yes, releasing new content is rocking the boat when people are happy to give you money for zero content.

Westerners hate paying for games, but they love supporting game devs. The same fan that happily supports Crush's 6 figure income with a 20-30 dollars a month Patreon subscription for years on end would've foamed at the mouth in anger if Crush had released the game finished all the way back in 2017 and asked for a 30 dollar pricetag upfront. It is to the benefit of all western indie devs to drag out the Patreon process for as long as possible to milk your audience, because you know that once the game actually releases sales will be minimal.

All these suggestions on what Crush should do is worthless because Crush is winning and winning hard right now. If he had worked hard at start he would've lost out immensely. From his perspective, why fix something that isn't broken? Why go down a path that would've ruined you if you had gone down it a few years ago?
 
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As long as he is raking in a 6 figure income, why would he change? Genuine question. The fact of the matter is if he had actually worked and released the game 3-4 years ago (which he easily could've done) he would've missed out on close to half a million dollars of Patreon money. And he knows this.

Whether or not he is doing it intentionally is irrelevant. What is relevant is the fact that he is making a very comfortable upper middle class income quite literally doing nothing but writing a report every month. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, why would he do anything to rock the boat? And yes, releasing new content is rocking the boat when people are happy to give you money for zero content.

Westerners hate paying for games, but they love supporting game devs. The same fan that happily supports Crush's 6 figure income with a 20-30 dollars a month Patreon subscription for years on end would've foamed at the mouth in anger if Crush had released the game finished all the way back in 2017 and asked for a 30 dollar pricetag upfront. It is to the benefit of all western indie devs to drag out the Patreon process for as long as possible to milk your audience, because you know that once the game actually releases sales will be minimal.

All these suggestions on what Crush should do is worthless because Crush is winning and winning hard right now. If he had worked hard at start he would've lost out immensely. From his perspective, why fix something that isn't broken? Why go down a path that would've ruined you if you had gone down it a few years ago?

Before any white knights come with a "very well thought of rebuttal":

Yes, Patreon shows 5k a month.

No, Crush does not get the whole 5k to spend in anything he wants

Yes, there are some fees as with any payment service

Yes, there are taxes (guess what, everyone has to pay taxes on income)

Yes there are other collaborators but anything about payment for those collaborators is pure speculation.
 
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IjjKpoe

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Before any white knights come with a "very well thought of rebuttal":

Yes, Patreon shows 5k a month.

No, Crush does not get the whole 5k to spend in anything he wants

Yes, there are some fees as with any payment service

Yes, there are taxes (guess what, everyone has to pay taxes on income)

Yes there are other collaborators but anything about payment for those collaborators is pure speculation.
The nice thing of Patreon is if you are on USA is that you can declare that money and not be subjected* to federal or statal taxes as they can be declared as donations and/or for working purposes.

*You still pay taxes but you can get a huge discount out of it.
 

orellion

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The nice thing of Patreon is if you are on USA is that you can declare that money and not be subjected* to federal or statal taxes as they can be declared as donations and/or for working purposes.

*You still pay taxes but you can get a huge discount out of it.
Not sure where you read that nonsense. Patreon creators are treated by the IRS as a self employed small business. They are subject to both regular income taxes (about 22-26%) and self employment taxes (15.3%) You can count Patreon fees, your PC, and some other items as a business expense which is one small plus.
 

lucasloki

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Before any white knights come with a "very well thought of rebuttal":

Yes, Patreon shows 5k a month.

No, Crush does not get the whole 5k to spend in anything he wants

Yes, there are some fees as with any payment service

Yes, there are taxes (guess what, everyone has to pay taxes on income)

Yes there are other collaborators but anything about payment for those collaborators is pure speculation.
dont get me wrong... lets say he get 2k from it... 2k a month i pay my bills and with a lot of free time he might have, he could work on something else, making 2k a month extra be very welcome
 
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