February 17, 2025

Transparency report #3

Hey guys! I've been working non-stop on the game for the last 7 days. No peace for the wicked.

This week I put out three new scene tests to the testing group (the last one just a couple hours ago). Those guys told me to sex it up, so that's what I've been doing.

  • Test 1 changed one long sex scene in the previous version to three different short ones

  • Test 2 was non-sexy but good, (a scene for Elite social class Kate where, in her teens, she discovers her grandmother was a secret agent in World War II)

  • Test 3 added an ENF ("Embarrassed Nude Female") scene, a hookup sex scene, and a girl/girl makeout between the heroine and her best friend.

Yes, I've been working my ass off 🤪


Transparency reports should be transparent
Honestly: tester feedback has been kind of mixed.  I'll wait for more feedback on Test 3, but personally, I'm kind of torn. What I'm adding in is definitely making the Lifepath sexier, but I'm concerned that I'm adding in too much detail and it's dragging the overall pace.

I might just be frazzled from working on this non-stop for weeks without taking a day off 🤪 I'm going to grab a pen and paper and figure out if I can streamline the design. I just want to get this done and out to you. 🦀 ❤️‍🔥

Comments (5)

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Marcel Friedrich · February 18, 2025

What are you talking about working on this for weeks? Bro you work on this single update for months and at this point even years, if we put aside the unfinished beta version which was your last official update. I don't care if some testers have mixed responses, you'll never make everyone happy but I swear to God I will quit this abo if I don't see a version in the next 3 months, I just have enough of this shit... You may say I don't care, just quit, your'e just one guy and youre right, but I'm rather sure many people are as unsatisfied as i'am. Because your testers get at least to see something they see you make progress, we haven't seen anything for over a fucking year by now...

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Maxxy · February 18, 2025

Don't agree with you at all!

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Javier Ricaurte · February 18, 2025

I understand that you worry about the pacing of what's technically supposed to be the prologue but I want you to know... there's no such thing as too many ENF scenes. If at any point you wonder "Should I put an ENF scene here" the answer is always YES, there should be an ENF scene literally every time Kate makes a bad decision with insufficient skill or misses a dice check, like, she decides to go naked under her graduation gown and the dice lands on a 1 then BAM, naked in front of the whole auditorium, first day on the job at the agency and wants to make a good first impression? A bad turn of the dice then for some reason both her skirt and blouse somehow get stuck on the copy machine. I'm only slightly joking.

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Marius Speider Sørum Moe · February 17, 2025

Cool. Please take weekends off. That little distance from work can, in addition to alleviate burnout, be creatively productive as you get to go "out of" the project.

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William O'Connor · February 17, 2025

I personally love more detail and missed the backstory part from earlier versions