Hey guys! Last week I finished the 1.13 storyboard, so this week I've been producing actual playable scenes in the game engine. It all started on Monday morning with a certain title card:
I had a great week writing the Bangkok arrival section. Converting it from notes and long-held ideas into actual code feels great.
The storyboard is the blueprint, but while I'm buildin...
2021-07-18 20:56:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! I’m happy to report that this evening I finished the storyboard to a standard I’m happy with. Tomorrow I’ll be able to start actually building playable scenes for the next version of the game!
I made some big changes to the last part of the storyboard over the past few days. Something wasn’t working out in execution: it felt like (a) too much of a reskin of Oceana, and more importantly (b) like the scenes were set up for the heroine to experience, not like how they’d...
2021-07-11 19:31:50 +0000 UTC View Post
On Discord, ExcitedCrawfish asked me why 1.12 took two months to develop. I answered in the channel, but thought that people following here might be interested in the answer as well.
If any of you guys have other questions about anything please just ask, this project is publicly funded so it's important to be as transparent as possible.
Ah! This is something I t...
2021-07-06 20:33:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! Thank you so much for the kind condolences, here and in DMs. I needed a break over the weekend, but was back to work on Monday morning.
Progress report
I was aiming to complete the 1.13 storyboard this week. I wasn’t able to do this, but I did add a major amount of work: now weighing in at 262 slides, it’s more than twice the size of the biggest storyboard so far...and there's still more to come. 1.13 is shaping up to be the big...
Hey guys. I had a family bereavement yesterday; I'm going to take the weekend off, and get back to dev work on Monday.
I want to say thanks to everybody for all the insightful feedback on 1.12, here, in PMs and on Discord. I've been reading everything and your thoughts and ideas have helped shape my thinking on 1.13.
In terms of game dev, this week was good: I'm currently busy doing lots of writing and planning for version 1.13.
One improvement I've made to my wo...
2021-06-26 10:41:49 +0000 UTC View Post
1.12, released last week, was an experiment: here are my thots on how it went.
The situation
1.11 (the university intro) took around 60 days to produce, and still felt rushed. Nearly every scenario was intended to set up some hot optional scenes (like Army cadet heroine getting shagged by half her platoon, office temp heroine flirting with and getting hit on by older colleagues, barmaid heroine being hit on non-stop at work, etc).
But building ...
2021-06-20 16:42:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! Attached is Female Agent v1.12.1.
University was taking too long to implement, so we've skipped ahead to the main mission in this update. This is an experiment: please let me know what you think.
2021-06-13 16:39:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Recruit! Attached is Female Agent v1.12.1P.
University was taking too long to implement, so we've skipped ahead to the main mission in this update. This is an experiment: please let me know what you think.
2021-06-13 16:02:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! The general release of 1.12 will be next week. I can't wait to share it with you. There are a few big design decisions that I want to talk with the community about, but we'll do that after the general release, so all supporters have a chance to play it.
Polishing 1.12
This week we've been polishing the release. We fixed a few bugs, and added facial expressions to the new scenes (something we didn't have time to do before the early ac...
Hey guys! So we just released the early access version of 1.12.
As always, we hit this deadline (which has already been pushed back) without enough time to do everything we wanted in this release.
We have a whole bunch of cool things that are nearly, but not complete: we'll add in as many as we can between tomorrow and the general release of 1.12, which is targeted for June 13th.
Okay...this is a pathetic husk of a dev report because I'm an e...
2021-05-30 20:19:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Analyst. Attached is a playable early access copy of the new version of Female Agent!
This release is a big experiment: university and the lifepath was taking too long to develop, so we've skipped ahead to the main mission. I'll post more about that from a design perspective in the next couple of days, but please let me know your feedback here or in Discord.
There were a bunch of things we started but didn't have time to squeeze into tonight'...
2021-05-30 19:41:55 +0000 UTC View Post
This is it, the final week before the 1.12 early release!
There's still a lot to do – our task manager lists 38 critical tasks outstanding. 😱 I can't say I'm not stressed, but I expect us to hit the target.
This week
My aim was to finish the first writing draft on Monday. This was actually achieved around lunchtime on Wednesday, but I'm happy to report it was achieved!
Five Eyes...
2021-05-23 16:01:47 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! I've had a really solid week on writing for 1.12.
Target
In the past few releases, I've been writing right up to the release: which has led to some very unpolished releases recently. So my aim this week was to finish the writing draft, which would then give me two weeks to polish (and work on other important things, like art and code stuff) before the release target of May 30th.
Result
There's just one chunk of one scen...
Hey guys! I’m sorry to announce that we need a second short extension on 1.12. I was aiming to release it on May 14th, but it’s more likely to come a week or two after that.
What’s the situation?
Two weeks ago, I reported that I wasn’t happy with how the planned sex scenes for 1.12 were turning out. Since then I’ve been working really hard on a rewrite.
The rewrite’s going well: I think you guys are going to like it (and will especi...
2021-05-09 17:56:27 +0000 UTC View Post
From time to time we promo other adult games here. Especially ones created by fellow crustaceans.
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Hey guys! Last week I announced that we needed more time to work on 1.12. It felt like the scenes weren't landing, which really bothered me.
Female Agent has always been my effort to make the RPG I want to play; so when I found myself playing the scenes in the testing environment and not really enjoying them, I knew I needed to go back to the planning stage and try something different.
I spent last weekend and Monday purely on thinking and sketching out new, b...
2021-05-02 21:42:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys. Sorry to deliver bad news, but I need moar time to work on 1.12.
I was hoping to release it (to Analysts+) on April 30, but unfortunately we need to push that target back to May 14.
The good news
We completed several technical improvements this week:
Hey guys! This week I finished the prototype of one of the new sex scenes we’re planning to release in 1.12.
I wanted to finish it on Wednesday…but ended up finishing it today. It introduces a few new innovations: mainly a new way to use dice rolls in sex scenes (which affects the whole way the scene is structured and plays out, which is why it took me longer to figure this out than I’d expected).
How is it looking? Well, like Hemingway said...
2021-04-18 20:51:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! And happy -133rd birthday to humanity's joint gretest hero.
This week we continued work on the writing and artwork for our 1.12 experiment. On Discord, jkl asked: "Will the next version be starting in Scotland, Dubai or Thailand?"
To which, of course, my answer was: "Yes." That's how fucking funny I am! But the real answ...
2021-04-11 19:17:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Easter, guys! This week was challenging but productive.
Firstly, we’re hoping to reintroduce a few features from 1.6 into the next version: avatar rear view and player wardrobe control. These were really cool 1.6 features that we had to cut for time reasons: we’re hoping to have them back in 1.12.
We’re also planning to restore the US, Australian, Canadian and Kiwi ori...
2021-04-04 15:37:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Two weeks ago we released version 1.11, the university year 1 update. Like I said in last week's report, I’m not crazy with the way it turned out.
I really like the avatar art in 1.11; I think Victoria did a great job with all the wardrobe changes. Hyneman, Lara and Mihail also did really good work on implementing the new character sheet, and Hyne also significantly improved the dice UI.
In terms of the story, I liked how it set...
2021-03-28 18:53:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! Next release target is April 30th. (I know making Female Agent looks easy, but 2.5 weeks between releases just isn't enough.)
Thinking about MFAGA
Late last year, we made a big change to the way we were working – the MFAGA plan. Adopting it led to some big improvements, most notably content r...
Hi guys! Attached is version 1.11.1.
In this release, your agent arrives at university! She can:
We also added avatar facial expressions, a character sheet, and better dice roll UI in this version. Please let us k...
2021-03-14 21:27:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings, Recruit! Attached is version 1.11.1P.
In this release, your agent arrives at university! She can:
We also added avatar facial expressions, a character sheet, and better dice roll UI in ...
2021-03-14 20:48:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings, Operator. We haven't released any beta tests in a while, so please enjoy this sneak peek of an upcoming scene from the next version!
Is it good/meh/bad? Let me know your thots, either here or on Discord. Your feedback helps me improve the game!
2021-03-14 10:27:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! I was feeling kinda frazzled on Friday, so I took the whole weekend off to recharge. I basically slept, did some adulting, and binge watched Community. It was fucking great (although seeing Joel McHale take his top off made me want to eat better and exercise more). I’m raring to get back to work tomorrow morning!
Here’s the plan for the next few weeks:
14/3 – v1.11 General release
In seven days we’re aiming to release 1.11...
Hey guys! We just pushed out the early release version of Female Agent 1.11.
It's currently really rough, so we'll be polishing it over the next two weeks until the general release on Mar 14.
I'll make an announcement soon on the release of 1.12.
Okay now I need to sleep bye guyzzz
2021-02-28 22:32:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Good evening, Analyst! As promised, here's the early access version of Female Agent 1.11.
This version is very rough – you'll notice lots of placeholder text and "to do"s throughout. But it's playable and you get to do some cool things:
One week left until the 1.11 early release!
Last night Victoria finished the wardrobe art. There are more than 30 wardrobe changes in the next section! They look greta, she worked her ass off. :-D
Next week we have a bunch of tasks to complete:
Happy Valentine’s Day chooms! This week our lovely artist Victoria started work on the wardrobe for the next release.
Her reaction when she saw the storyboard
I was hoping to complete the entire university section by Feb 28, but Victoria gave me a reality check this week: there’s no way we’ll have the entire storyboard written, coded and illustra...
2021-02-14 18:03:24 +0000 UTC View Post