gds21

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MOABS complete

Hey guys! For the past few weeks I’ve been working on the MOABS, the Mother Of All Beat Sheets. The aim is to fix the story and player experience problems in the Bangkok section – too repetitive, heroine too passive, story progression too slow.
I’ve been working on it solidly and I’m happy to report the MOABS is now complete. I’m incredibly excited about converting it into new game episodes! I guess the best way to explain it is that Female Agent was always supposed to be the game I wanted to play, and I can’t wait to play some of the new planned content.

Next steps
I could have kept tweaking and improving the MOABS forever, but it’s now at the point where it needs fresh eyes and new brains.
Reading the MOABS is a lot like reading the fucking Necronomicon – you shouldn’t do it – but a few brave and trusted souls have volunteered to peer into its unfathomable depths.


My hope is that the MOABS can be changed from good to great with some fresh insights. While we’re working on the new Lifepath, I plan to be continually improving on the MOABS in the background, so when it launches it’s even tighter and better.

I made it using h̶u̶m̶a̶n̶ ̶b̶l̶o̶o̶d̶ a combination of the Mac OS Notes application and an offline calender in Thunderbird – it’s not especially accessible or readable in its raw form.

So I’ve been organising it into a readable PDF to make collaboration easier. I aim to finish it off and get it out to collaborators this week.


I know that a lot of people will really really want to see the MOABS (and honestly I’m so excited about it that I kind of want to show it off), but it’s filled with major spoilers, and I want to keep the circulation list very small in order to prevent it leaking out and ruining everybody’s game.



Okay, that’s it for the report, I’m gonna get back to work! Have an awesome day everybody. ❤‍
 
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If someone still wasn't convinced that this patreon isn't specifically to sell an idea and build hype after that post, I don't know what will.

Any decent "Support my work and see how it gets built" Patreon offers sneak peeks, ideas, keypoints on the product. Doesn't matter if it's pure software or "simple" art. Artists will in fact quite often post rough sketches, lineart, basic (no shading) coloring and so on.

Nothing of that sort here! Only hype
 

vicaddict

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So his achievement is to have taken down notes and putting them in a calender so that everybody can read them and see the schedule at all times?

I mean, what is next?
"Guys! I made a cup of coffee! I put it on IG, so everybody can participate and have a looksy! Give me more money!"
 
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Multiverse theory suggests that for every possibility, every choice, every random event down to the quantum scale and every possible physical value there is a universe for it. Furthermore the universe is likely infinite with stars and galaxies continuing on in all directions, so even within our one universe you should be able to find every possible combination of matter, energy, choice and random chance. An infinite number of Earths with this very game dev. There should be at least one version of this game where the dev does everything he sets out to do. Mash together all the previous versions and content flawlessly and even create new content and scenes all throughout.
I somehow doubt our little patch of spacetime is that version.
 

Arkady

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So, this week, he completed what he had completed last week, and apparently it took so long because he change the font to 12 pt.

Seriously, at this point, if you don't think Crush is a pure scammer hype marketing genius, you probably don't have brain cells.
 

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I mean, what is next?
"Guys! I made a cup of coffee! I put it on IG, so everybody can participate and have a looksy! Give me more money!"
Look, some people make money selling their alleged bathwater. At this point a screenshot of a cup of coffee would be actual step up.

(can only hope the bathwater doesn't become the next step)
 

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I played the "unfinished beta" update a couple days ago after basically giving up on the game when he announced what will become yet another reboot. The weirdest part, to me, is him complaining about how the most recent content "wasn't hot". Imo it was the best update, even unfinished, of the last 3 or so.
 
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So, this week, he completed what he had completed last week, and apparently it took so long because he change the font to 12 pt.
That means if you are charismatic enough you can always find idiots to fund you :WeSmart:
 
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Really hope someone leaks that beat sheet, honestly I'd kind of prefer to just read the 178 page outline and see what he envisions the general remaining plot to be than wait half a year to see a couple of those pages turned into an update.
 
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Crush has moved his game into previously-uncharted territory: the Meta-Scam. In this, his third reboot, he is no longer scamming about making a game. He is now scamming about writing about a game he will never make. In a few months he will be scamming about writing a guide to his beat sheet because the beat sheet is so long. I swear, I don't even resent the lying fucker anymore because he is so damned good at this.
 
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Crush has moved his game into previously-uncharted territory: the Meta-Scam. In this, his third reboot, he is no longer scamming about making a game. He is now scamming about writing about a game he will never make. In a few months he will be scamming about writing a guide to his beat sheet because the beat sheet is so long. I swear, I don't even resent the lying fucker anymore because he is so damned good at this.
In early 2025, you can expect him to post about a book called How To Make Money On Patreon that he is writing (he won't ever finish it).
 
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In early 2025, you can expect him to post about a book called How To Make Money On Patreon that he is writing (he won't ever finish it).
You mean in early 2035. Enough sheep eager to pull the wool over their own eyes to keep the previous scams hype projects going until then.
 
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