Hey guys! I wanted to be able to report that the scene 6 draft is working in the engine, but it's not quite there, despite my best efforts.
This scene has been so fucking challenging to design and I'm still not sure it will end up as good as it should be. I spent long, long hours this week trying to make it as awesome as I was picturing it in my head, and feeling frustrated and inadequate because I'm not able to do it. 😭 But the current design...
2022-07-10 17:36:56 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! Scene 6 is the most complex scene in the new episode. I’ve been working on it this week and although it started well, during testing I realised that something wasn’t working as intended.
It’s hard to explain without dropping spoilers, but this is supposed to be the freest, funnest part of the episode. In testing it didn’t feel that way, though. 🤔
When something we’re trying isn’t working, I think we all have that helpful inner voice that tells us ...
2022-07-03 11:01:12 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! This week I worked hard and got story scene 5 working in the game engine.
I also got some really excellent feedback and advice on the progress so far from Falloutbabe, The Lost Engineer, lovely Victoria, Behbeh, Captain Chicken Strip and Khal. Thanks guys 🥰
This phase of production always fee...
2022-06-26 20:32:32 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! This week I got story scene 4 working in the game engine.
As reported last week, I felt nervous about tackling this scene: it's unlike anything I've ever written before (or even experienced, really).
It was really hard. But I got lots of help from contributors (especially Behbeh), and I'm excited about how it's working!
Tomorro...
2022-06-19 18:11:15 +0000 UTC
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Hi guys! I had another good week writing and coding. The next episode has 7 story scenes and 3 sex scenes planned:
It's gonna be a big one!
This week, I got story scene 3 and sex scene 1 working in the game engine. Sex scene 1 was just four lines of rough ideas in the storyboard: I ended up writing something that came out kinkier and hotter than I expected.
2022-06-11 16:28:57 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! This week I've been creating passages in the game engine.
What does that even mean
Here's how it works. Each episode has a storyboard that I use as a guide. Storyboard screens look like this:
Storyboards are just Google Slides...
2022-06-05 15:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! This week I started building the new episode in the game engine. It’s really exciting to see it starting to come to life!
The opening scene resolves the cliffhanger ending from the last episode, and is an important plot development.
I find this kind of scene challenging to write, because it’s all about emotion and dialogue (and, as everybody knows, I’m more comfortable writing about food and transport).
That said, I’m excited about how it...
2022-05-28 14:13:03 +0000 UTC
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Sorry I’ve been a bit quiet this week, I’ve been working my ass off trying to complete this episode’s storyboard.
It was quite demanding (sorry to everyone who’s waiting for replies from me, I've been frazzled 😩 ), and some parts are still very rough, but
Plotting vs Pantsing
Some writers argue about whether it’s better to...
2022-05-21 12:54:40 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! I had a good, solid week building up the storyboard for episode 1.16, “Girls Night Out”.
I already have an outline of the “beats” I want this episode to contain. As explained in a previous report, storyboarding is where the outline gets converted to an actual structure.
I added 94 slides to the 1.16 storyboard this week, including two new...
2022-05-13 15:57:06 +0000 UTC
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Spoilers for 1.15 in this report.
The main reason was a rewrite in week 7. I was struggling and struggling to make the first version of this episode work, but as I reported in that week:
I played through it again today and frankly it's just not that sexy. ☹️ I'm not happy with it, especially as a follow up to the previous episode. Frankly...it's kind of boring.
From week 8, the ...
2022-05-07 15:24:25 +0000 UTC
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(This is the free version. The enhanced version for Patrons is here.)
Hi guys! Attached is Female Agent v1.15.1.
Our heroine goes deeper undercover in this episode. Please let me know what you think, here and on Discord!
Downlo...
2022-04-29 18:22:19 +0000 UTC
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Greetings Recruit! Attached is Female Agent v1.15.1P.
Our heroine goes deeper undercover in this episode. Please let me know what you think, here and on Discord!
Downloadable version (166MB)
2022-04-29 18:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! I'm busy editing scenes for next week's general release of episode 1.15. Who says I don't know how to have fun on a Saturday night.
1.15 general release is on target for Friday 29th April. I hope you'll like it! I have a few ideas for workflow improvements to speed up 1.16, but we'll talk about them after this release.
So, ummm...
Y...
2022-04-23 20:21:37 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! After a tough ordeal, I needed to lie down in a dark room for a bit. And today, I have risen. But that's just another coincidence...right?
The good news is that feedback on 1.15 is positive and constructive. Our awesome Analysts have provided some good ideas on how to improve the scenes, and found plenty of small bugs to stomp.
I'll be doing that over the next 12 days: general release of this episode will be Friday 29th April.
2022-04-17 13:46:56 +0000 UTC
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Greetings Analysts+! Attached is the early access version of Female Agent 1.15.
I feel like it's still very rough, and I can't tell whether or not it's good anymore. Please help me improve it by reporting bugs and feedback here or on Discord.
What's good? What sucks? What's sexy? 🤞🏻😬🤞🏻
2022-04-15 16:23:28 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! I've been working my ass off trying to get it into good enough shape to release it today. It's playable, but there's still placeholder text I wasn't able to finish (a couple of the mini scenes are hard to nail) and it still needs editing and tightening up in a few places.
This episode has been dragging on and on so I'm going to just release it, whatever state it's in, on Friday April 15th, in five days.
Sorry it wasn't today....
2022-04-10 15:33:57 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! Episode 1.15 is nearly ready for Early Access. As predicted in last week's report, I need to do a bit more writing.
Jeff sent me the processed avatar art yesterday (and it's looking awesome). I'm gonna get that coded in next, then finish the writing! We'll hopefully be able to get it out to Analysts+ next week.
I'm at the point where I can't tell if it's good or bad anymore, which is nerve wracking, but (like Johnny Rico) I always...
2022-04-03 15:35:38 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! I wasn't able to fix all 46 placeholders this week...I did 27, there are 19 left, so this episode isn't ready to release today.
Last week I was hoping that, if it weren't ready today, it'd be ready on the 31st (next Thursday). But I don't want to bullshit you: I need a day to integrate the new art (which is looking greta, lovely Victoria did an awesome job), and I'd be amazed if I can get all 19 placeholders written in just three days. I work ...
2022-03-28 00:58:52 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! This week I transferred the storyboard into the game engine. Episode 1.15 is now written and (basically) working!
Don’t get it right, get it written
When writing this episode, instead of trying to get every scene exactly right, I sometimes used rough/placeholder text instead. (Example: in one scene I wrote “Add zingy banter” instead of actually figuring out the dialogue. This allowed me to keep working on the events in the scene, instead of...
2022-03-20 11:42:34 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! This week, I finished the main writing draft for this episode. At last!
This episode has been through some contortions to reach its final form. In each version, the same plot events take place, but it took me a few tries to make them take place in an engaging way. I'm happy with it now.
I transcribed my draft into a storyboard, organised into 328 passages.
2022-03-13 17:44:43 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! I'm grateful to those who made offerings to Erato on my behalf, because she blessed me with another greta week.
I think the writing will be ready in 1-2 weeks, which means Early Access is 2-3 weeks away (we need a week or so for technical pre-release tasks).
This week I was working on the new sex scene, and I'm really excited about it. It isn't coming out anything
2022-03-06 12:27:04 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! I had a great week on writing, including a long manic session that started on Wednesday morning and finished at 4 A.M. the following day.
I'm normally disciplined in my writing hours, so it was exciting to just work long and follow the muse. After two days of sobriety, I powered myself with booze and just wrote all night, like I was trying to be Hunter S Thompson or something. It was awesome.
2022-02-27 14:30:36 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys. I was hoping to be able to report that we're on target for a release by Monday 28th, but I'm still solving problems with the writing. 😭
Where it's at
Right now our heroine does the following things in the next episode:
- Has a "morning after" scene where hostel guests/staff are curious about her loud first date with her boss
- Has a "tradecraft" scene where she meets her handler in a cool location, and gets a p...
2022-02-20 17:39:28 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys, I love you all!
As you know, this episode's been more challenging to write than I expected. Last week felt like a grind, where everything was difficult; this week feels like it flew by in comparison.
I changed a few things in the structure – basically spreading out some of the emotional beats to reduce the psychic pressure on the heroine. (It's a good thing to put her under high pressure from time to time – that's inherently dramatic – but it ...
2022-02-13 14:19:22 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! I had a tough but productive week's writing. It's getting there! I expect the next episode will be ready to play sometime this month.
I'm finding that this stage of the story is pushing me outside my comfort zone as a writer. I'm not that emotional in real life, so I find it hard to hard to write about girly things like feelings and relationships. (I'd much rather write about guns and missions and safehouses.)
It's just a si...
2022-02-06 15:36:45 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! Sorry for the late report, some unplanned chaos came up yesterday. But I had a much better week of writing last week, and I’m back in it today. Here's a quick update.
Part of the solution involved zooming out and thinking about how episode 1.15 fits into the overall story structure, and I thought it might be interesting to share some of my thinking on that. For me, the most exciting part of the story is actually its next phase, when the heroine is fully underc...
2022-01-31 12:13:51 +0000 UTC
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“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
–Jack Kerouac
Hey guys! I'm sorry to report that writing was challenging this week. 😔
Some weeks it's easy and I make fast progress; this wasn't one of those weeks. I had what I thought were good ideas about the scene I'm working on, but the titillating/emotional beats just weren't landing the way I thought they would.
I've experienced thi...
2022-01-23 14:39:23 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! Writing week 2 was pretty good. I finished the "setup" scene I began last week, and started on the main sexy scene from 1.15.
Writing is like chess in some ways. You need to spend some time manoeuvring all your pieces into position before you can execute the vision in your head. (Unless you're Rian Johnson, then your characters can just come and go from a chase scene in progress.)
Unfortunately I'm not half-assing a Star Wars film, but working on ...
2022-01-16 18:14:21 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! This week was spent writing. I finished the 1.15 plot outline, and built the opening scenes in the game engine.
Next week: it's moar writing! Writing's my favourite thing, even though I wish I could do it faster.
Even though sex scenes are the point of Female Agent, if we just string them together gratuitously they'll stop being sexy. (You hit a point of 2022-01-09 20:25:12 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys, Happy New Year! I felt totally exhausted after the last episode drop, so I had a light week this week – mostly just doing bug fixes, admin and story planning. I suck at resting, but I did my best.
In 2021 – while the rest of us were stuck indoors a lot of the time – our heroine travelled to Bangkok and went undercover in the Hard Cock Cafe. What’s next?
Katabasis
She doesn’t ...
2022-01-02 13:35:21 +0000 UTC
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