Hi guys! Last week, we completed the construction of the episode in the game engine. It’s now playable start to finish! 🥳
I’m now hard at work on the final phase, which is polishing and editing the scenes, dialogue and descriptions.
I know that some people are eager for me to release it now, but this final bit of care, attention and love significantly enhances the overall experience and quality of an episode. Here’s where I can tweak pacing, broaden out d...
2023-07-03 15:54:59 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! I had a solid week and was able to convert 73 storyboard slides into working game passages. It’s coming together!
This is a club-heavy episode, with a couple of important plot points. The set piece sex scene is so hot. 🥵
I’ll aim to wrap up this phase tomorrow, then I can move onto the final phase before release: editing, polishing, and coding in artwork.
Okay, short report this week because everything went smoothly. &...
2023-06-26 16:34:28 +0000 UTC
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Hi guys! This episode has one major set piece sex scene. It’s a new scenario for Kate, and a big, big step towards becoming a bargirl, so it’s very important to get it right.
I was pleased with the basic structure of the scene – it’s so fucking hot 🥵 – but the execution needed some reworking.
So that’s what I’ve been doing: taking a fresh pass and re...
2023-06-19 13:42:12 +0000 UTC
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Good morning guys! I’m currently building the storyboard in the game engine. This is the part where the visions and ideas become a working part of the game, so it’s really exciting to see it coming together.
There are 248 storyboard slides, and I wanted to get a significant chunk of that done last week. I worked Mon-Sat and was able to recreate 117 slides.
The storyboard is written to a rough first draft standard, so when I’m doing this I ma...
2023-06-12 08:23:19 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! Last week I completed the storyboard for the next episode. Weighing in at 248 slides, it’s the longest storyboard so far.
That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the longest episode to play, but it is the most thoroughly planned. Hopefully this means that production will be swift and easy, with few obstacles. 🤞🏻😬🤞🏻
“What this country needs is a short, victorious war.” –Vyacheslav von Plehve
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2023-06-05 09:32:09 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! It’s a ‘bank holiday’ here in sunny England, but I’m not a fucking bank, so I’ve been working my ass off.
After two really good weeks on the storyboard – producing 68 slides in week 1, and 71 in week 2, I hit some challenges this week.
The agony
Midway through the week, I felt like I’d suddenly run out of creative momentum. This was jarring, as things had been flowing well, and I had ...
2023-05-29 16:27:45 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! Last week I continued working on the storyboard, adding another 71 slides.
There's now enough story in the storyboard to ask for feedback, so I shared it with various contributors, who will help me improve it.
IMO, a certain scene that I thought would be a minor event on the beat sheet has really come to life in the storyboard. I feel like it's coming out much sexier than I expected. 🥵
It might be the case that we can...
2023-05-22 09:03:40 +0000 UTC
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Hi guys! Last week I started the storyboard for the new episode. This is where I convert the beat sheet into slides with description and dialogue, i.e. go from this:
To this:
We create these in Google Slides, using a template designed to give me roughly the right amount of text p...
2023-05-15 09:31:11 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! Yesterday we released a short beta test of a new feature, Random Bar Encounters, to Operators+.
Feedback is positive so far, with several good suggestions and critiques.
What it is
Right now, the heroine (referred to in internal docs as “Kate”)’s work shifts are scripted. I wanted to test whether the player experience is improved by randomising the bar patrons that the she gets in a night.
How it works
2023-05-05 10:34:59 +0000 UTC
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Greetings, Operator! Here's a short beta test of a new feature: random encounters at the bar.
Create a new character, then use the shortcut on the first story screen (where she's in her office at the start of the game).
Let me know if this has potential, or if we should stick to just scripting all the barmaid scenes. 🤔
2023-05-04 18:03:13 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! Just a super quick note because Franatique correctly pointed out that I've gone quiet.
I've very nearly finished the test of the random bar encounters, and will release it to Operators+ either tomorrow or Thursday for testing and feedback. I'll also write up a proper dev report.
That's it, I'm gonna get straight back to work, just wanted to let everybody know I'm alive and something cool is about to drop! Full report Soon™.
2023-05-02 14:22:37 +0000 UTC
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Good morning guys! Last week I finished the beat sheet for the whole episode. It came out at 38 pages long, which I think is gonna make for a big episode!
I shared it with some contributors and got some really good feedback so far. It's highlighted a couple of areas that will need a little bit of extra work, and suggested a few cool ways to improve some of the planned scenes...
2023-04-24 08:22:19 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! Last week I got to work making a beat sheet for the next episode. It's currently 29 pages of planning, covering 18 new scenes (some in the club, and some introducing new locations in Bangkok).
Completing the beat sheet in detail enables me to spot and fix logic and pacing proble...
2023-04-17 09:12:18 +0000 UTC
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Hi guys! Here's episode 1.18.1P, "Weekend Warrior".
This is a short episode. For story pacing reasons, we needed to send the heroine back into the club between Girls' Night Out and the next planned episode.
Please let me know what you like and what ca...
2023-04-13 11:04:21 +0000 UTC
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Greetings Recruit! Here's episode 1.18.1P, "Weekend Warrior".
This is a short episode. For story pacing reasons, we needed to send the heroine back into the club between Girls' Night Out and the next planned episode.
Please let me know what you like and what can be improved. This episode also has a new feature, two Illustrated Sex Scenes, starring three of the bargirls from the last episode. This is an experiment, ...
2023-04-13 10:50:40 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys, Happy Easter! Last week I started work on the next episode, White Russian.
The side quest itself is outlined, but around it we want a few more scenes in the club (so the main quest also advances). I planned out what all the scenes should be, and spent some time working out how to make them hot and interesting.
One scene in particular – which I think could have been quite ‘meh’ if we took the obvious path with it – has been made surprisingly hot w...
2023-04-10 09:30:12 +0000 UTC
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Greetings Analysts+! Attached is the early access version of episode 1.18, "Weekend Warrior".
This is a short episode. For story pacing reasons, we needed to send the heroine back into the club between Girls' Night Out and the next planned episode.
Please let me know what you like and what can be improved. This episode also has a new feature, two Illustrated Sex Scenes, starring three of the bargirls from the last episod...
2023-03-30 20:46:58 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! Just working on some finishing touches, it's very nearly ready! Expect a release some time this week.
I wasn't even going to post a report because it's so close, but thought it was better to stay in comms even so. Okay, gonna get straight back to it! 😓👌🏻
2023-03-27 08:57:28 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! Last week I rewrote the uncoöperative sex scene. Stripping it down to the basics seemed to work. (I was trying too hard to make it sexy in the original version.) I also wrote a first draft of the 'coda' scene that a few contributors thought the episode needed.
I shared the new version of the episode with a few contributors and got some good feedback. There are still a few tasks on the list before it's ready to release:
– There are some ar...
2023-03-20 09:07:53 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! I was hoping to complete all the writing last week, but I wasn't able to do so. 😔 I've been having problems with a sex scene coming out a little flat and forced (and not in the hot way, forced as in it felt like none of the characters in the scene wanted to go through with it).
Fixing it was complicated a bit by the fact that two testers had told me they really liked a certain vivid part of the scene, so I was loathe to edit it out. I ended up trying...
2023-03-13 09:40:28 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! I spent last week polishing and improving the second half of the episode.
This is the explicitly sexy part of the episode, and I’m currently weaving in some hot new ideas (many suggested by Behbeh and xGrotesq – thanks guys) to make the experience sexier and more vivid. I can’t say much without dropping spoilers, but the improvements are making it much, much hotter. 🥵
I got the bulk of it, the most complex par...
2023-03-06 09:35:43 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! I had a really good, productive week. 🤓
I spent some time on Sunday night and Monday morning developing plans for the next three episodes – the side quests White Russian, Big Mac and Booth Babe. I shared some new outlines with the team, and got some great feedback from Behbeh, The Lost Engineer and Captain Chicken Strip. I’m now really excited about two out of three of these (and I’m confident we’ll make the tricky...
2023-02-27 09:12:53 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! This week I converted the remaining 78 storyboard slides into working game passages. 🥳
This means the episode is now playable start to finish in the engine! But there are some critical tasks before we can release:
- Our illustrator lovely Victoria also finished all the required avatar art this week!
But it's currently in Illustrator format. Each new item needs to be exported as a separate asset, and coded into the game - Some placeholde...
2023-02-19 21:18:43 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! This week I continued converting storyboard slides into working game passages.
Last week, I converted 76 slides; this week 58. I hit some difficulties with a nude scene, which kept coming out kind of flat and unsexy.
I was struggling with it, but last night I figured out why. I was sticking too rigidly to the plan, not allowing myself enough space to adjust things ‘on the ground’ to make them work. I stopped writing it, and challenged myself to think...
2023-02-12 23:52:59 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! This week I started converting the storyboard slides into working game "passages". Basically, turning this:
into this:
The storyboard has 212 slides. This week I converted 76 of them into game passages, so the next episode is now about 33% playable.
I'll continue...
2023-02-05 18:03:32 +0000 UTC
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“Visible ink.” This term refers to writing that is readily “seen” by the reader or the viewer, who often mistakes these words on the page as the only writing the storyteller is doing.
But how events in a story are ordered is also writing. What events should occur in a story to make the teller’s point is also writing. Why a character behaves in a certain way is also writing.
–Brian McDonald, “Invisible...
2023-01-30 23:04:02 +0000 UTC
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Hi guys! Here is a small update to Girls' Night Out.
This version has a couple of scene improvements – you can now avoid the BJ with Kob, and there's a new option for exhibitionist heroines to join in with Zoe and Amanda when they take topless selfies at the skybar (written by The Lost ...
2023-01-24 20:23:02 +0000 UTC
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Hi guys! Here is a small update to Girls' Night Out.
This version has a couple of scene improvements – you can now avoid the BJ with Kob, and there's a new option for exhibitionist heroines to join in with Zoe and Amanda when they take topless selfies at the skybar (written by The Lost Engineer).
There are also some minor bug fixes, and the offline version is now working.
🦀 ❤️
2023-01-24 20:14:51 +0000 UTC
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Hi guys! Last week I pushed my outline for a short interim episode out to some kind contributors who don't mind spoilers.
I got some great feedback (special thanks to Behbeh, Aybee, Lost Engineer, Dissonant Soundtrack, Falloutbabe, Captain Chicken Strip, Thorson, Maid.Queen.Mariam and Mano2) and started work on the storyboard for the episode!
2023-01-20 18:03:31 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! Sorry for the late report. I’m part-way through four different Female Agent tasks right now, and none of them are complete because I suck at multi-tasking. 😕
My priority is finalising the plan for the next episode. I was intending to jump straight into one of the three side quests we’ve set up in the previous two episodes (White Russian, Big Mac and Booth Babe). But after a few days struggling with outlines, I think we need to insert a...
2023-01-11 18:28:34 +0000 UTC
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