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Status Report

Hey guys! I’m sorry this report is so late. The truth is that I’m really struggling with the writing at the moment. I don’t know what to say except that I’m sorry it’s taking so long.

[1.21] Skinnying down the episode

Hey guys! I'm sorry for being quiet here, and on Discord. I've been struggling with the writing in this episode, and it wasn't clear to me last weekend how to fix it.

For story reasons, we ne...

Deep in a scene

Hey guys! Sorry for being quiet, I’ve been deep in a scene.

Sometimes writing feels fast and easy, sometimes everything's difficult and it feels like a slog. This scene has...

[1.21] Prototyping [8/15 complete]

Hi guys! Just a quick update, as I’ve been very busy prototyping more scenes. It’s hard to talk about without spoilers, but:

• A scene that wasn’t working got simpl...
  2024-01-29 09:29:46 +0000 UTC View Post

[1.21] Prototyping (5/14 complete)

Hey guys! I had another good, solid week of writing. I added two more scenes to the prototype build, (so that’s now 5 in total, of 14 planned), and nearly finished the third. I increased the numb...

[1.21] Work started on the new episode

Hi guys! This week, I started production on episode 1.21 of Female Agent.

After the glam date with Kolya, and the empowering, action-packed Christmas episode, we need to get our heroine out o...

Zero Kate Thirty debrief

Zero Kate Thirty, the standalone Christmas mini-episode, is available here.

I feel...

Zero Kate Thirty

Hi guys! Lovely Victoria and I have been working on a small Christmas present for you all.

It was ready on the 24th, but I know that the period after Christmas can sometimes ...

10 Dec Dev Report

Hey guys! Sorry for the lack of reporting, but it hasn’t meant a lack of work.

Reflecting on the release of 1.20…I feel like my aim has been off in the past couple of episodes. So instead...

Episode 1.20.1 available to everyone!

(This is the free version.  If you're a patron, get the enhanced version here.)...

Episode 1.20.1P available to Recruits+!

Hi guys!  This is the (late) general release for episode 1.20.1P, "White Russian".

I tried to improve the sex scene by adding some new decision points.  Honestly, I don't think it c...

[1.20] Public release is running late

Hi guys!  I aimed to drop the general release version today.  But I'm editing something to try and improve it (based on Early Access feedback), and it's not quite ready to release.  ...

Episode 1.20 "White Russian" early access

Happy Halloween, Analysts+!  Attached is the early access version of episode 1.20, "White Russian".

I wanted more time to edit, but everybody told me that I overedited t...

[1.20] Final week

Hey guys!  Last week, our illustrator lovely Victoria finished with the episode art.  It looks amazing!  We've coded most of it into the new episode.  (I always...

[1.20] Neaaarly ready

Hey guys!  Here's an update on the task list:

We're just beavering away.  Our illustrat...

[1.20] Nailing down the details

Hey guys!  Working on the finickity final things before this episode can be released.  Here's a peek at my to-do list:

2023-10-09 09:42:21 +0000 UTC View Post

[1.20] Short report

Hey guys!  Short report, because everything's moving smoothly: I'm working on edits, our illustrator lovely Victoria is working on art.

I had lots of good feedback from ...

[1.20] Prototype fully playable

Hi guys!  Yesterday I finished building the episode prototype in the game engine.  A basic version of White Russian is now playable, start to finish!

I made some changes ba...

[1.20] One step back, two steps forward

Hi guys! This week I had to do some rewriting, based on feedback of last week's prototype. As well as being our illustrator, lovely Victoria is also involved in story planning, and...

[1.20] Rapid prototyping

Hey guys!  Work on episode 1.20, "White Russian", is going well.

This episode is a lot less complex than the last one.  It's a side quest featuring Kate's (optional) date with Kolya...

Characterising Kate

Back in the early days of Female Agent, 59 players told me how they liked to play their heroine (called "Kate" in internal dev discussions, for convenience).

Four broad archetypes em...

Episode 1.19.1 available to everyone!

(This is the free version.  If you're a patron, get the enhanced version here.)

Hi guys!<...

Episode 1.19.1P available to Recruits+!

Greetings Recruit!  Here's episode 1.19.1P, "The New Girl".

This was a controversial episode, receiving by far the most negative criticism of any episod...

[1.19] Feedback

Hi guys! Before the new episode released, I said I’d need feedback from the community. I certainly got it. 😔

This episode received by far the most negative criticism of ...

Episode 1.19 "The New Girl" early access

Greetings Analysts+!  Attached is the early access version of episode 1.19, "The New Girl".

I'm sorry this took so long; the writing was challenging for a number of reas...

Soon™

I was trying to get it ready for today, but it's 1700 and I still have lots to do. 😭

What the fuck is going on?

On Discord yesterday, I wrote that I feel ...

[1.19] Nearly there...

Hey guys!  I desperately wanted to release by today, but it's still not quite done.  Sorry.

I put in about 80 more hours last week, and was able to...

[1.19] Still not quite ready...

Hi guys!  Editing is going great but I need a little more time before it's ready to go out.

I'm going through scenes and lifting them up with better description, pacing ...

[1.19] Still polishing...

Hi guys!  I wanted it to be ready, but I'm still working on a few scenes.

If I release it now it'll be shit but if I can just take the time it needs to make these scenes...

[1.19] Almost there...

Hi guys!  It's almost but not quite ready.  I've been working hard every day, punching up dialogue and description.

It's infuriating that I need to do so much editi...