Hey guys, super quick dev post because I've worked right up until the second I have to rush out the door! I had a great sprint day today, things are going great, and I am excited because I have a full day's writing planned for the next sprint day, which is tomorrow. I...
2019-11-29 20:35:21 +0000 UTC View Post
A consultant advised us to trying working in two-week development "sprints". This is our first attempt!
Hey guys! I set up a new Trello so you can follow along with the progres...
2019-11-28 21:00:57 +0000 UTC View Post
A consultant advised us to trying working in two-week development "sprints". This is our first attempt.
Hey guys! Here's the plan for the next two weeks.
The main goal is to release a Beta version of the Sex Engine Playable Prototype to Operators+. <...
2019-11-27 23:22:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Firstly, I want to say that I feel uncomfortable when I spend time organising instead of working. It feels much more comfortable to spend time writing a sex scene than it does to write rules for sex scenes.
After having just taken a fortnight out of production...
2019-11-26 20:56:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! I was able to get back to work on the new sex scene prototype today. I adjusted the prototype so it now has basic versions of the new sex scene mechanics, and got back to writing.
Now I have all the rules I think I need, I'm hoping that progress will be quite fast. &nb...
2019-11-25 18:32:57 +0000 UTC View Post
While I worked on the Big Fucking List™, Hyneman set up a new project management app for us to use.
The Dev Trello is getting cluttered, and the Big Fucking List™ is just a document on my hard drive ...
2019-11-22 18:35:53 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm absolutely certain that important things are missing from it, and we'll definitely need to add more to it as we move forward. But, for the first time since I started working on The Big Fucking List™, things have stopped popping into my head when I look at it. <...
2019-11-21 17:20:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! Sorry I didn't post yesterday, as planned. The team at my Real Jo...I mean, my old job, took me out for drinks instead of letting me just slip away unceremoniously. The main handover's now done – I still have some outstanding meetings and tasks (for exa...
2019-11-20 20:25:46 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys! I spent today at what used to be my real job – before I resigned in order to work on Female Agent full time – doing a handover day with my replacement.
We were supposed to finish today, but IT problems ate up a lot of our time. So now I'll need to also spend some t...
2019-11-18 18:07:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I worked more on the Big Fucking List™ of all tasks today. It's complete enough to call finished, but World Famous Game Designer specifically instructed me to complete the list, so that's what I'm gonna do before I publish it and move on to the next task.
WFGD wants me to t...
2019-11-17 21:45:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! I had a good day today. My main effort was writing a big fucking list of every dev task, as suggested by World Famous Game Designer. I made good progress on this today, and should finish shortly.
I also spent some time responding to more great fe...
2019-11-15 18:45:29 +0000 UTC View PostOperators+, thank you for your generous support. Here's a mini dev test version for you to try out.
THIS IS NOT THE FULL PROTOTYPE. It's just a few passages, to give you guys a feel for how we're changing the structure of sex scenes in the game. 2019-11-15 14:04:33 +0000 UTC View Post
I expected to receive one or two comments in yesterday's rules draft. I was surprised to see dozens and dozens of comments, questions and ideas!
I want to say a sincere thank you to everybody who's contributed feedback so far. We'll be taking a few days to prope...
2019-11-14 17:37:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, I've finished the first draft of the new Sex Engine ruleset!
This draft is 35 pages long. At first glance it may seem like overkill to write rules for things like Vaginal Penetration.
But imagine trying to write a penetration scene without being able to get...
2019-11-13 20:17:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi guys! The documentation is now very nearly finished. I've typed up:
Hey guys! It felt so great to be back at work today. I'm sorry again for the long break, I felt like shit Wednesday afternoon to Saturday. I'm fine now, though.
I finished documenting most of the new rules, and am expecting to publish them very soon. ...
2019-11-11 18:24:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! Sorry for being out of action for so long. I think I had 'flu. :-(
I felt okay today, so I did some work documenting the rules. I'll do some more this evening and get in a full day tomorrow.
Just wanted to post and let you all know I ...
2019-11-10 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, sorry but there's no dev today because I'm sick. I'll aim to get right back into it tomorrow. Sorry for the delay.
2019-11-06 15:25:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, it's done! I've drafted a new set of rules that govern attraction, mental & physical arousal, various sex acts and NPC AI during sex scenes.
I was having some challenges making them all fit together in an elegant way, especially the NPC AI rules. When I playtested them...
2019-11-05 18:49:48 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys! Sorry for the late (and short) dev report. I've been struggling a bit with some final issues today - having some second thoughts about mechanics that I thought we'd need but may in fact be overly complex.
I need to look at it with fresh eyes which I'll do tomorrow 2019-11-05 00:04:49 +0000 UTC View Post
A few days ago, I had a call with a World Famous Game Designer* who gave me some advice on how to run the project better.
He had lots of positive feedback for the game, and he said that the things I'm struggling with (e.g. features taking longer than planned to implement) are things that bi...
2019-11-01 20:19:48 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm on the last part of designing the new Sex Engine rules: working out the exact mechanics that differentiate a blow job from anal (and therefore making your agent's bedroom decisions meaningful).
As I've been saying for a couple of days: it's very nearly done. I thought I might be a...
2019-10-31 01:22:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! I had another solid day of working on the new rules. They're very nearly ready to publish.
I also had a mentoring call with an actual World Famous Game Designer*, who had lots of praise for the project (yay!) and some fascinating advice on the changes I should make. 2019-10-29 21:07:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! I'm nearly done with the improved Sex Engine rules. There are two big new mechanics – firstly a kind of sluttiness/"corruption" scale, and secondly a way to use mutual attraction to tweak seduction/sex/morning after/reflection scenes.
There are also lots of little ne...
2019-10-28 18:44:51 +0000 UTC View Post
The comments section of this post featured an interesting talk started by Vysirez.
This all seems massively complex considering there is currently not a whole lot of... 2019-10-27 17:14:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Solid day working on game mechanics today, everybody. I'm very nearly ready to publish the new rules for the Sex Engine, and then get to work building them into the prototype.
Again I'd like to thank the community for some really good and thought-provoking posts here ...
2019-10-25 19:21:31 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys! I had another solid day designing the new Sex Engine mechanics. Everything's clicking into place. I'll share some details very soon.
I want to say a quick thanks for all the great comments posted here in the past couple of days. I'll put out a post tomorrow...
2019-10-24 18:18:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! I had a very productive day working on the Sex Engine rules. I can tell this was the right move because I felt so excited and productive.
The rules are all inter-related*, so I was working mostly on mapping out the relationships between them today.
Quick e...
2019-10-23 21:28:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The branch I’m currently working on – the condom section – has been slower going than the previous sections. Today, I felt a lot of internal resistance at the prospect of sitting down to work on it.
I’ve come to recognise that feeling as a warning from my subconscious that I’m on ...
2019-10-22 17:31:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, my little technical glitch is resolved and my computer is working again. (Better than before, actually – I get why Bao-Dur wanted to give T3-M4 a memory wipe now. 🤓 )
Today was kind of half a dev day. I got in 5 pomodoros of writing, which is less than I aimed fo...
2019-10-21 17:10:39 +0000 UTC View Post