Phew
Added 2020-08-11 19:51:40 +0000 UTCSo England's pretty hot today. 🥵
Last night I had a Skype call with a stripper from NYC. It was easily the best money I have ever spent on a stripper, and I'm including the ones I fell in love with.*
A secret about me is that I once worked in a brothel, handling security and driving the girls (not really, I made them a website 🤓). So I know a few things about that side of the business, but my experience of strip clubs is purely as a civilian.
The call last night was greta and I learned a lot of surprising and fascinating things about auditioning, performance and workplace politics. Our talk suggested a new, pacier way to handle the infiltration phase of Bangkok (the bit where the heroine has to get a job at the target), and also some interesting sources of conflict, drama and character development that I hadn't considered before.
I'm really excited about incorporating some of her insights into the narrative. She's also smart as a whip and working on her own novel, so she might be available to contribute some club content for us later! I'll keep you posted.
Tuesday report
The simplified avatar is built differently (because we redesigned the layer architecture in Illustrator), so we have to change the character creation UI to allow you to interact with it.
I had a blocker task on that today (i.e. a task someone else is waiting for me to finish so they can continue), so I completed that. I also very nearly finished the game mechanics revision that I expected to finish today, I should crack it tomorrow.
Okay I need to go take a cold shower before my body evaporates. I feel like I could slither off my work chair like a slug. MOAR PROGRESS TOMORROW
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* all of them
Comments
Hot is putting it mildly. 29° to 31°C in the afternoons, all the way down to 15° before dawn, and thunderstorm warnings over the whole island every day for a week. It's ridiculous. If I wanted to be this sweaty, I'd go to Bangkok or Can Tho or Kampala or som- Hey. Kampala's cooler than Britain right now, and it's 0.3°N!
Jumpy James Johnson Junior
2020-08-13 10:14:48 +0000 UTCWell shit, hire great Greta as a writer for the game. Help this shit move faster.
Koopatroopa187
2020-08-12 01:35:16 +0000 UTCHoly. I would love to find out how the politics of brothels work. Always wondered. SOunds awesome :)
Dariel
2020-08-11 21:57:22 +0000 UTCThanks for this feedback, HG, I'll try to address this in tomorrow's report because you raise an interesting point but the answer is a little complex
Crushstation
2020-08-11 20:54:12 +0000 UTCThough the call with the stripper seems insightful and helpful, I can't help but worry that it will result in more feature creep with little progress based on your description of ideas that follow. REALLY try to do your best to not get caught in feature creep with whatever stage follows the avatar restructure.
hornguy6
2020-08-11 20:32:06 +0000 UTC
