Here's my plan for how to fix Female Agent. The details aren't 100% finalised yet, but I wanted to share this today, so patrons can make an informed decision about continuing to support the project.
Please let me know your feedback here and in Discord.
2020-07-31 10:56:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry for the lack of information recently.
Last week was the lowest point in the game's development for me, ever. On Sunday 5th, for the first time since starting the project, I seriously considered bailing on it.
But I want to finish it. On Monday 6th, I was inspired by a quote:
What would you do if you weren't afraid?
This week, I've been working flat out on some big, scary changes to Female Agent. &nb...
2020-07-12 22:51:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! Sorry for the delay in writing this report. It's taken me a while to grasp the problem and come up with a solution. I'll describe things as plainly as I can.
SITUATION
I was aiming to finish and release the "bed branch" of the Dubai scene on Sunday (two days ago). For much of last week I just basically switched off my phone, and stopped checking in on the forums, so I could focus on it 100%.
I knew this wasn't ideal ...
2020-06-16 22:42:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! Apologies for the lack of reports. I've been really struggling with the bed scene; some kind of writer's block, I think. 😕
On Sunday, feeling totally frustrated, I decided to just switch over to writing a different scene. Doing that for a few hours recharged my mojo, and gave me the insight I needed to figure out what was wrong with the bed scene (basically: overwriting).
I've now had two GRETA WRITING DAYS on the bed scene (today and yesterday...
2020-06-09 18:10:53 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys! This is a short experiment with NPC avatars.
It's only a few passages long, but you should be able to call up avatars for two female NPCs. Please let me know your thoughts!
2020-06-03 16:37:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys, quick update!
My current priority is writing the bed branch of the new sex scene. I worked on it last week, but by Friday my writing had slowed to a crawl.
I woke up on Sat feeling listless and demoralised, so I decided to take the day off and see if rest would help. I just took the fucking day off because I'm a maverick crab!
On Sunday I didn't feel any better, though. If anything, I felt moar tired! UH OH!<...
2020-06-01 19:55:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! Patreon are legally required to start charging a sales tax on some pledges, starting July 1st 2020.
The good news is that these tax increases don't seem applicable to your Female Agent pledge. I've submitted our info to Patreon for review and will let you know if anything changes, but for now I don't expect anybody's pledge to attract sales tax.
Okay! Now I've finished my work filling in forms for the government, I can get back to...
2020-05-28 18:54:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! Work continues on various tasks. I'm now busy finishing the bed branch of the Max sex scene, it should be ready in a few days. (When it is, we'll put out a 1.6.3 release with that and some bug fixes.)
We'll be announcing a new dev sprint soon.
If you're a geek...
You might be interested in a couple of rules-y things.
😩 OMG what a day. I'm trying to strike a better balance between working on tasks with my own two claws and working with the team to share out the tasks more intelligently.
My aim this week has been to spend 8 pomodoros (uninterrupted 25-minute time blocks) on my own stuff, and the rest of the day in meetings.
It's going great so far<... 2020-05-21 22:35:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys, quick update!
We've completed some more tasks on the interactive Big Fucking Listâ„¢.
Freckles!
Your agent can now have freckles! Victoria drew the artwork for this ages ago; our new friend Jeff processed it into art layers and uploaded them to the image server, then Hyneman implemented them into the game. It was a ...
Hey guys! Couple three things to report:
Internal Development Wiki created
Game development generates lots of documentation. Putting it all in one single central location has obvious efficiency benefits, but I hadn't prioritised it until now.
Behold...STONEGHOST! We created it using Confluence.
2020-05-18 20:15:52 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys, quick update! If you're keeping an eye on our new task list, you'll have noticed a few items turning green.
I've been focusing on team organisation tasks since Wednesday. Here's a quick round-up:
Dark mode avatar bugs
In the new Dark Mode, jarring white shapes appear behind some clothing items.
2020-05-15 21:20:36 +0000 UTC
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One of the big problems so far has been a lack of team organisation. Right now we're focusing on improving that, in order to make the next development phase run more smoothly.
Getting organised starts with a list! We've set up a new interactive task list, which we can all maintain and keep up-to-date.
It's not yet complete, but it will give you a window into our tasks and progress. Beware of minor spoilers such as location and NPC nam...
2020-05-13 17:46:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! Here's version 1.6.2 of Female Agent. This update has some bug fixes, and new hometown choices for Canadian, Aussie & Kiwi agents.
1.6.2 also has a downloadable image pack version! It's a 193MB download, and you can get it from MEGA.
More updates coming soon!
2020-05-11 22:23:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi guys! Attached is the Patron version of Female Agent 1.6.2.
This version has a couple of bug fixes, and adds some new hometown choices for Canadian, Aussie & Kiwi agents.
You can now download the image pack version (193MB) from MEGA. You'll also need the Patron-only decryption key:
ml-mVzUi-eKpFbbUcPfkWDi7N9UKw3VST7acxP7cadM
More updates soon! We've got some cool stuff on the...
2020-05-11 21:59:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Version 1.6 is now available to play for everyone! The main focus on 1.6 is the introduction of new sex scene mechanics. We rewrote the Dubai Dinner Date to showcase the new system.
But Wait! There’s More!
Don’t want to start a whole new game just to try out the Dinner Date scene? You don’t have to! With the New Scene Test Drive System, you can now jump directly to new scenes so you can experience new content without having to start a new ...
Hey guys! Here's the Patron version of 1.6.1. Thank you so much for supporting Female Agent.
I was aiming to get the bed branch of the Dubai sex scene into this version, but it's not quite ready. It'll be in a 1.6.x version soon.
This version does have:
The rituals are complete and our image server has returned from the grave. It is protected by strange new magicks (i.e. Cloudflare – whatever the fuck that is) and I am assured that it will never fail again.
Our service provider apologised to me for how long it took them to resolve – there was apparently some kind of technical problem related to the restoration of the DNS records after the DDOS attack, which took them more time than expected to i...
2020-05-05 17:44:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! Quick update on a couple things:
1). IMAGE SERVER
Hey guys! Unfortunately, the image server is down again. The hosting company just confirmed that Female Agent is the target of the attack that started last night, and the site is down again for now.
Oscar Wilde wrote that "You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies," which doesn't speak well of me, since in this case my enemy is obviously a total fucking loser. If there's anything more pathetic than a crab quitting his j...
2020-04-30 19:53:09 +0000 UTC View Post
The image servers are now back up and seem to be working okay! Hopefully this was just a one-off problem, but I'll discuss it with the hosting company and see if we need to upgrade anything.
We're working on a few things at the moment:
Prepping the 1.6.1 public release
We've done some bug fixing, and we're adding some more content in preparation for the 1.6.1 public release next Friday. Today we added a new black dress to the game, which looks great...
Hey guys! The game's image server has been down for about 15 hours. I've been advised by the host that it will be back up soon.
Apparently the problem was caused by an attack on the host's servers (not believed to be related to Female Agent).
Apologies for the outage; I'll post again when I have an update.
2020-04-30 09:26:52 +0000 UTC View Post
The last two weeks have been a fucking nightmare. I'm so sorry for not posting progress reports since last Tuesday. The truth is I was embarrassed and stressed out about not having version 1.6 ready, and every day it wasn't ready made it worse.
My plan on Tuesday was to finish up in a day or so, then things could go back to normal. But I didn't accurately judge how long it would take, and "a day or so" turned into 10 days.
I fucked up and ...
2020-04-24 22:06:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you so much for supporting Female Agent during this last difficult couple of weeks. I'm humbled and grateful – you rock.
Attached is version 1.6 P, which adds new sex scene mechanics to the game. They're showcased in a reïmagining of the Dubai dinner date scene with Max.
Previously, sexual encounters in the game simply reüsed the exact same scene (with a few cosmetic details changed, like the partner's name and distinguishing features)....
2020-04-24 21:42:22 +0000 UTC View Post
1.6 is nearly but not quite ready.
Situation
The problem is that parts of the scene worked fine when I was testing them separately, but now I'm testing them as one coherent play-through I keep spotting problems.
The plan
The new scene has two broad paths – a sex scene on the balcony and a sex scene in the bed. The balcony path is working pretty well, so here's my plan:
Hey guys, sorry for the delay, I'm just resolving a few final problems. It will be ready very soon.
2020-04-12 17:20:34 +0000 UTC View Post
The new sex scene adds around 10,000 lines of code to the game. Most of it works, but there are some bugs that need to be ironed out before we can release it.
I'm currently working through the scene, fixing silly problems (like a certain path that allowed the agent to have sex without taking off her underwear), broken links, and dead ends.
There are also errors that you can't really detect from just looking at the code, but which do emerge during playtesting. For insta...
2020-04-07 23:11:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Great news, I've finished the last writing task of version 1.6!
The doggy style, cowgirl and missionary options are now all written and implemented, using the new structure I mentioned on Friday. This new structure is much faster and easier to write, while still ...
2020-04-06 17:22:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I was expecting to finish the last writing task – the bed sex scene – yesterday. But every inch of progress was excruciating. It was a bit like the Somme Offensive, but worse, because it was happening to me and not just some guys in a photo.
The whole bed scene just felt sluggish and overcomplicated. I kept grinding away at it, even though progress was slow. I've been warned about perfectionism, so I wrote myself a Post-It note and stuck it...
2020-04-04 00:33:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! Sorry for the lack of updates – as I reported previously, the last chunk of work (the bed sex scene) is all interconnected, so I'll finish it all at once.
I've made good progress and expect to finish it either tomorrow or Thursday.
Once tha...
2020-03-31 18:23:16 +0000 UTC View Post