Late report
Added 2023-01-11 18:28:34 +0000 UTCHey 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 mini story episode first.
The purpose is really just to set conditions for the side quests (and the next main quest episode later). I’m picturing something much smaller in scope than the past couple of episodes, so hopefully it should be ready much more Soon™.
I just finished outlining this new mini-episode today, but I haven’t yet shown it to anybody for feedback, so I'm not sure if I'm a genius or a fool.
I’ll get it into a shape that other humans can understand tomorrow, get feedback, and publish a solid plan here once I’m sure it’s not a crazy/bad/unsexy idea.
Other things I’m working on
– Public release of 1.17. This should’ve happened last week! (But I figured it wasn’t a big deal, since everybody got the Early Access version anyway.) This will be ready in a few days, I got distracted with planning 1.18.
– Opening up the source code to other developers. This has been suggested a few times (most recently by q5 on the Discord). In theory, this could speed up development a lot, but there are also challenges to it that we discussed on the Discord. I’m not exactly sure what the best thing to do is, but I'm looking into what's required technically.
– Investigating AI generated location photos. Nobody talks much about the location photos, but I think they save me a lot of descriptive writing, and also set the scene better than words alone could.
Finding the right images can be time consuming (because the scenes in my head don’t always come up in image searches), so I’ve been seeing if AI can help.
Early indications are good! Example image created by Stable Diffusion:
“A dark SUV, with tinted windows, pulling over on a street in Bangkok, at night.”
I feel like the AI isn’t exactly sure what road markings are but, like they say in the army, “that’s close enough for government work.”
Okay, sorry there’s not much to report, just wanted to let you know that I’m only radio silent because I’ve got my head down on game work. I will report again Soon™ with the firm plan for the next episode.
Comments
I feel I speak for a lot of us when I say, We want more sex for the MC female agent. Please don't waste time adding 'ways' to AVOID sex for her. If you wanted to rework or spend time working on an already released part, please use it by adding MORE ways for her to be sexually used, and abused. This game isn't about a female agent avoiding sexual exploitation. Don't miss the mark, this game is about a sophisticated intelligence agent with an exhibitionist, or submissive or masochistic tendency who goes undercover in a brothel and ending up being thoroughly used and abused sexually, most of it on her own volition. Please don't make it about her avoiding all this.
Sammy J
2023-01-25 16:29:16 +0000 UTCJust chiming in to say that open-sourcing the engine is a great idea IMO. The great thing about Female Agent isn't the engine (though the engine is pretty good for twine), but rather the story, characterization, and world-building. Sharing the engine code doesn't endanger that, and it doesn't mean that you couldn't have a closed license on the assets FA needs to run. A strong copyleft license on the released engine code would mean that any development others do on the engine would have to be open-sourced as well, allowing you to incorporate additions/improvements others make, and give you more time to focus on the meat of FA development, rather than the bones. Should be a win-win, and will also mean that FA can be supported years and decades into the future.
Joe McLeod
2023-01-17 20:53:01 +0000 UTC
