Monday transparency report
Added 2025-07-21 20:02:40 +0000 UTCHey guys! I’m really sorry but I need more time to finish my writing task 😭
I worked on it full time every day since the last report, no days off. I desperately wanted to get it finished, but some things I was trying just didn’t work, so I need a few more days to cook.
I’m sorry 😭 I know I’m really slow. I was struggling with some characterisation issues that slowed me down – specifically around Max (the optional love interest in Malaysia), the heroine’s attraction to him, and just the general way he behaves, talks and acts (and, ultimately, fucks). This is related to two of my least favourite things about Female Agent:
Male NPCs (like Max, Connor, Kriangsak, Kolya, Big Mac) all feel kind of samey and interchangeable
The heroine is always just really passive and kind of a doormat
Even though I was trying not to, I felt like I was slipping back into this with Max. But on Saturday afternoon, after a lot of what felt like banging my stupid head against the same wall over and over, I had kind of a breakthrough in both these two areas, and the writing is now flowing much, much better.
It’s nearly 9PM, so I’m going to get an early night and get straight back on it tomorrow morning. Apologies again for taking more time on this than intended, I am doing my best but sometimes I have to put in extra hours to make things work. 🦀❤️🔥
Comments
If only there was some way to make Kolya unique and exciting. A mysterious Russian man in a spy story... A story about sex and deception... A man who seduces the heroine... A whole subplot opened up just like that... A mysterious Russian man in a spy story... No, nothing springs to mind.
ultimate_elephant
2025-08-05 12:18:03 +0000 UTCIsn't the game supposed to be set in a brothel? There's a bit when one of the girls takes six guys up to a room at once. How would you make that work? Maybe the game has changed and there are only five male characters now. I haven't been here for a while.
ultimate_elephant
2025-08-05 11:40:00 +0000 UTCIt's because the heroine doesn't have anything to do. Give her a goal, like she has to make $200 in tips this week or get fired. Now she has to decide how far she will go for the money. Now she has agency.
ultimate_elephant
2025-08-05 11:28:43 +0000 UTCI remember Bonaht! Was that two years ago? Three years ago? How the time flies.
ultimate_elephant
2025-08-05 11:26:07 +0000 UTCI'm sorry this comment is so late. I wanted to get it out sooner, but it just wasn't right. I've been working on it full-time for two weeks, no food, no sleep, no masturbation (well, maybe just a little). CS has forgotten he is writing a sex game set in a brothel. The men are there for sexual exploitation, either pimps or johns. They are meant to be soulless and interchangeable. They want the heroine to do gruesome, degrading things. She doesn't want to know them, and nor do I. The whole premise of this game is a high-value woman in the power of low-value men. Giving them interesting personalities and hidden depth gives them value. So just make them nasty. Give them new and inventive ways to be nasty. They don't need quirks, they need kinks. However, if the game has no actual plot, the writer will bog down in obsessing over minor characters, because there is nothing else to do. AND the heroine will feel like a passive observer, because she has nothing else to do. Hint: the game needs a plot. Or maybe I'm wrong and what this game really needs is a character study of a man in Malaysia, so far removed from the story he isn't even in the same country.
ultimate_elephant
2025-08-05 11:23:35 +0000 UTCI was disappointed when she reacted badly to Bonaht and the blowjob. In previous occasions she seemed to relish giving blowjobs.
Franatique
2025-08-03 15:25:57 +0000 UTCI think the heroine's passivity might be a function of the genre you're in. The passivity might go with corruption or reluctance or both. One way to deal with an element you don't like might be to maximize it and find the joy in excess. Good luck!
Loyola
2025-07-28 03:02:21 +0000 UTCSunk cost is only going to keep people supporting for so long. Also the puritans are probably going to shut you down after getting Steam and now itch.io Edit. Cancelled my membership, might reconsider if you actually deliver *something* before it expires but im not paying more into whats looking like another patreon grift. Hopefully others will join me
Simon Barabash
2025-07-25 02:40:57 +0000 UTCI totally understand your desire to put out a product that you would be proud to play. A polished, edge-of-your-seat kind of adventure with fully developed support characters and a main character that would make men leave their wives and women turn gay, just for a single night of pleasure. But, at the rate you're going, you will be the only person playing it when it finally meets your standards. In the meantime, those of us who have been supporting you in this process, are no different than investors in a business. At some point you've got to provide something more than an apology or excuse for why there is no product. How long has it been since you abruptly ended the original game? At least two years, maybe even more. I'm sorry if this seems harsh, but you've got to release a playable version of this game. You owe that much to the people who have been supporting you all this time. Yes it is a great game and I am really looking forward to playing the "new" Female Agent. I don't want this to be a "bucket list" item that, if I'm lucky, will happen before I finally pass on!
Mark LaPlante
2025-07-23 12:16:18 +0000 UTCCould you give us a timetable on when we can expect the release of the next update? I haven't seen that in any of the transparency reports - which is kind of strange.
Redhand
2025-07-22 13:33:37 +0000 UTCI feel ultimately with each male NPC that Kate needs to interact with there needs to be a central thought about the character ""What makes him appealing?" What can Kate focus on to get the job done and play her role. Is he physically appealing in some way? Does he have enough charisma to get past a girl's defenses? Does he like to spend money to impress? What makes him unique?
Dr. Madness MNA
2025-07-21 22:09:29 +0000 UTCPerhaps she should be like Femme Nikita? https://youtu.be/MploONnAKhI?si=mgM58TUatKtgpvwn It's so good (the actress was the director's first wife) that it spawned a US clone and a series. She's a well rounded character.
gg
2025-07-21 22:00:29 +0000 UTCJust chill out and have a little faith. If this is the top issue in your life then I feel kinda sorry for you.
Greyduck
2025-07-21 21:47:04 +0000 UTC
