Monday project management report

Hey guys!  I finished three writing scenes this week, we’re moving into the final stretch.  It’s nearly ready!

(The eagle-eyed amongst you will notice that one of the three scenes is a different one from the three that were planned.  This is because the writing can’t always get done in a sequential order, like you’d expect – sometimes you need to jump forwards or back to work on a different part.)

Writing transparency

There's a common piece of feedback, which I agree with: sex in Female Agent is hot right up until the sex scene.  The build up is (humbly) great, the sex scenes themselves are kind of meh.

I’ve tried lots of things in the past to fix it – branching, mechanics, dice rolls, etc.  An early version of Female Agent even included a working Sex Engine, which totally randomised every sexual encounter, (and made them all really boring).  “{NPC_name} puts his {male_body_part} into your {female_body_part}!  You {feminine_enjoyment_noise} in pleasure.”  Computer generated slop, before AI was even invented!

I tried something totally new this week, which I started two weeks ago by jumping back into an earlier scene and tweaking tone and character motivation, and executed in the last 7 days. It was really fast work for me – parts of scenes that would normally take a lot of blood, sweat and tears just kind of flowed out fast. Felt like I wasn't grinding at it for once, which I hope is a good sign.

I’m not gonna say it's perfect (not by a long shot), but I’m happy with it and I think might be the first hot sex scene in the game.  Your feedback will really help – if this works (or nearly works and can be improved based on your feedback), then all the sex going forward can be pretty hot.

Next steps
Our illustrator lovely Victoria has been holding off from her last few tasks on this ep – she needed me to finalise these scenes before we could nail down the exact art briefs.  I’ll work on those first thing tomorrow then move back into the last three writing tasks.  But I’m hungry and frazzled now, so I’ll call it a day and get straight back to it in the morning.

Okay, that's it! How are you guys liking the new style of project management reports?  Are they an improvement?  Let me know here and on Discord. 🦀❤️‍🔥