Reflection

Could we just get to the end of the story in one linear go please? You can always improve and redo and allow branching and different story arcs, but devilfish needs to come into the picture and either get killed, caught or escape.

I feel bad for the patrons who still support this douchbag just to receive this level of sincerity. He is milking everyone with the 'weekly reports' with nothing to show after 2 whole years of wait. What's worse is that the game has downgraded, cutting out parts that made certain scenes interesting.

Hey guys! At one point in time this project was well over 6k a month 3 years ago, now he's sitting at a little over 3K a month. If we ballpark average it, that's an html browser game worth....$162,000 without a single genuine content update in 3 years. What do y'all do for a living lol.

Story Design 101 What is the story? Characters (Who matters, what they want, their roles) Beginning (How the story starts) Major Events (Bullet-point the important things that happen in order) Climax (The biggest turning point/final confrontation) Ending (How everything concludes) To me, it seems like you dont even know what the story you're writing is, WHICH NEVER WORKS. If you dont have a very rough simple draft of what each chapter is going to be about, you will simply not know what the fuck to write. Make a draft could be 2-3 sentences of each chapter, each event etc, then do your writing for each. By the end of it, you'll have a full blown story. Start with Act 1, write it, finish it, pop it into the game, start with act 2 and so on. But do a very quick draft of each act first before actually starting writing. And stick with it.

So...2 years ago you wanted to build a Lifepath and...there's no lifepath at all? Not even one line?

If I may… The original sex scene with the Swede was much hotter, this one is more natural. That said, I feel like tweaks like this could be done after the completion of the game. Something I think creators forget is that it doesn’t need to be perfect to be finished, just good enough. Then perfection comes through the tweaks you add later to make it perfect the way you like it. Any other excuse for restarting is a theft from all the people that have supported you and your game over the years be it from the beginning or just yesterday. If the game is so subpar that you detest it then you should post that and walk away from it all together.

I’m guessing this will never be finished…. Been following this game for over three years now and it was closer to being finished then than it is now

It always going to be easier to rewrite what you've written than write new stuff. The game will never be finished if you don't write anything new. If you really want to finish this game you need to starting create rough drafts that extend more than one or two scenes ahead. This is a story, it will need to be drafted in huge parts, and then if some of the motivations don't make sense for why the heroine is doing what she is, you'll need to be prepared to look at the whole draft and do a polish passthrough. You're trying to write a 30 page essay while getting hung up on how the first two pages sound. Write the damn essay and then go back through the whole thing to see where adjustments need made. If you had been doing this you could have used your supporters for feedback. but now everyone is so pissed that you're going to get negative feedback just from the lack of any progress.

The Malaysia thing is pretty meh, but at least the beta is progressing a bit further 🤷‍♂️.

I guess this was pretty much expected, Crush does this every time. Release the game (with no new content) and then spend another year or two working on character creation mechanics which honestly doesn't matter at this point (the game literally has an option to hide character). Instead of progressing the story, time is being wasted on freaking AESTHETICS??? It is advisable to check on this guy after a year or two, 99% of chance the game won't make any progress even after a year.

Yeah, this was hilarious. BYE NOW

I enjoyed the game mechanic changes and extra content in the Malaysia chapter. That said, the actual honeypot was fine as is in the older version.

I don't think I have written any comment in all the years of being a supporter, I usually wait quiet and patiently in the background. But now I feel the need to say something. I enjoy your work. A lot. Your writing is great. Now comes the But. Someone compared you to GRRM, I think that is a good comparison. I get the need for rewriting, for new technical framework and such. But your are loosing yourself in that things. What people really want is the story moving forward, new scenes and chapters. I am not a writer myself, so it is a bit hard for me to write criticism for something I couldn't do myself. But you asked for a honest opinion and that was mine. Please do not feel discouraged. The story is in a good state right now. Time to look ahead and move on to new content.

Well, I don‘t know what you all are complaining about. I think it is very amusing and highly entertaining game of his telling us basically the same every week for three years straight - and then presenting us with

The past couple years has just been a giant cover for GRRM levels of writers block preventing you from continuing the story. I remember back then you talked a lot about not knowing how to progress the story to working upstairs and I would hazard a guess that is still the case.

The refined material is, in fact, refined from where it was before. But I legitimately don't think anyone, even your most ardent supporters and boosters on the discord, really feels like you should be focusing on redoing material you've redone three times over at this point instead of just applying this wider game design perspective to parts of the story you haven't done yet. At best they are going "if you have to do this first to get to the part you're supposed to be working on, okay." I understand a lot of the last couple of updates was changing stuff under the hood so that you actually can have there be choice based and stat based story choices, and that a lot of that work isn't ob vious because you can't push an update just based on that. But I think, generally, a lot of the discontent you might see in these comments is that you did a scene that already worked fine instead of just doing a new scene. To us, it really seems like no matter what you work on, you wont be happy with it, so it might as well be something new as opposed to the same thing again. ETA: I did play though the whole existing game from start to finish again this update, which reminded me generally how good it already is. People wouldn't care if it sucked. It's just everyone is asking for a pizza and you keep giving them lasagna, and the feedback on the lasagna is maybe tinged because they asked for a pizza and are confused why you aren't giving them pizza.

Hello there. I got sucked right back in even with some of the things you changed that I personally didn't feel needed changing (missing balcony scene 🥲). I'm still hopeful to get the lifepath one day because I already liked the old one and am very interested in seeing what you did with it. Also hoping for the wet t-shirt contest at some point and other than that I'm genuinely hopeful for more newer content. But as always: take the time you need, don't listen to the hate bots too much and don't forget to take breaks. 🙃 Greetings

Hey Crush, I love the game and what you are wanting to do with the finished product, I truly believe you can make a great game. If you need to get this bit out of the way first before you can carry on producing more content, then Okay, I will continue to sub and wait for it :) I dont want you to stop making the game at all. I want you to continue! My Critism I think was okay, it highlighted some problems and also highlighted some positive things and advised on what maybe a good idea to move forward. I am not a bot for praising your work. Your work is slow, however IF you need to get what you have planned produced first before you continue with the main story. Then okay mate, I will wait for you to do that as :) As like I said, I dont want you to quit making the game. Its one of the rare games that isnt just nude animations, it actually has sexy and hot af writing and is more akin to smut books rather than porn and thats 10/10 for me! Much love Crush and Hope this positive message helps you feel like you are doing good here!

It's a great game. Thank you for working so hard on it! The haters are lucky you read their comments. Lots of creatives have to get a social media manager to filter out that kind of negative noise

This is kind of his cycle. Weeks and weeks of it's almost ready, I like what I've got. Then when he says it's about to go out. He waffles, says he's now not happy with things. Wants to rewrite things again.

This last "Update" should not have been the main body of the update. The content we got was a majority of reworking old material. which dont get me wrong i do think improved a lot of it (the build up to the mission, more backstory to the agent herself), but then the swede scene got reworked completely when it didnt have to. Seems like your focus is in the wrong place... Your work you have done has been great otherwise people wouldnt have stuck around to support this long. My opinion is you need to sit down and decide to move the story forward a few chapters as the main focus. if while your doing that you have time to rewrite a few old slides then go for it, but dont have them as a priority that would delay the release. Id also ask if your taking advantage of any AI tools to help you out with writing or coding? there are so many great tools out there that can work with what you have and streamline tasks like coding while you focus on creativity. even just to get rid of those placeholder art banners, AI could generate actual material in mere moments and fix that for you. Check out Claude if your not familiar, the project function is built for this type of tasking and organizing

You can't make a game you don't like? Well, maybe it's time to admit that you simply can't make a game. I can practice softball all day long, and I'm pretty good. But the Texas Rangers are NEVER going to invite me to spring training. I've had to make peace with that. If all you are going to do is constantly refine the material that you wrote three years ago, then maybe it's time to admit that you don't have what it takes to complete a game. It's not the worst thing in the world, a lot of people don't have what it takes. But if I asked people to make a monthly donation to my dedicated softball practice that I would totally pay off by one day becoming a starting CF in the mlb, I might get a reputation as being full of shit.

I'm tired of your reflection on things. I don't even have to play the new beta to know you haven't actually offered anything new in over 3 years. Oh great the Swede again? This is what you give us? Anybody who praises you at this point is a bot

I didnt find it all that bad. I enjoyed it.