Update and new reward tier!
1.5 introduced five new sets of selectable facial features to the game. We intend to keep adding to these, to give you new ways to customise your agent.
Recently we added Face 6 (inspired by Scarlett Johansson) to the game:
Face 7 (inspired by Alexandra D'Addario) is coming soon!
We'll continue building these up slowly, but I wanted to give you guys a way to influence this should you want to. Today we've relaunched the Commander patron tier, which entitles you to pick a face of your choice to add into the game.
How it works
After you become a Commander, I'll send you a message and you can explain the face you want to see. It could be a celebrity, or a selfie, or anything you want! Victoria will draw her version of it, and we'll code it into the game. The new face will be available to everybody in the community to choose.
Disclaimer
The art will be a version of the face you request; Victoria may have to tweak it to make it fit conceptually and technically into the game.
What it costs
It costs $50 to join the Commander tier. This isn't actually profitable (because it involves several hours of illustration and coding), but adding new faces improves the game for everyone, so I see it as an investment in the game (which is defrayed by your hard earned $50).
I love it when people give me money, but please remember the first rule of supporting Female Agent: only support us when you can afford to.
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Progress report
I had another great day on the Sex Engine v2 prototype!
I've been pleasantly surprised by how useful the SURPS rules have been over the past few days. They were designed to allow a writer to quickly gamify any situation, but it feels like that's actually working better than I expected it to.
Again, it's really hard to explain things until I can show them to you, and that's still several days away. For now, let me just reïterate that I'm excited about the way this is going. Moar details soon!
Comments (12)
Hey Crush huge fan of your work haven't checked in on your project in awhile. The improvements to your game seem a little minor for the 5 months that I've been away as far as story goes, but I've definitely seen the difference in the quality of the game play. Did a little research on your roadmap and I'm personally looking forward to how you progress the story and implement your previous choices to how the story plays out. Keep up the great work and congratulations on your success with this amazing project!
Thanks Taco! Sex scenes will be improved in the next update, and from there we'll push on with the story.
On another note, I have an issue with both the 20 and the 50 gold doubloon tier. The support is continuous, but it's a one time reward (one outfit and one face implemented into the game, once). That creates a problem. For how long are you supposed to stay on the 20 tier before you've earned the reward? It's not an unique issue to just those Patreon tiers or to just this Patreon project, since you can hop between tiers to get an reward when there's a new release. Especially visible on the projects with irregular releases. But the releases do happen more than once, turning a continuous patronage into a continuous reward which isn't really the case for the higher tiers. And should a patron who pays $20 each month for a year be more entitled to the $50 reward than a patron who pays $50 for two months in a year, then $1 for the remaining ten months, for example? I should point out that the rewards are secondary to the fact that we pay money so you can spend more time working on the project (and that no reward tier is really worth it in a monetary sense when you compare $50 worth of Crushstation to $50 worth of an AAA game, I think), but those one time rewards could need some clarification.
This is a good observation, Bread, and I agree with it – there's something off about a recurring subscription buying a one time reward. Let me give this some thought, but thanks for bringing it up: I felt the same way about it.
The D'addario one is fantastic, you can recognise here one mile away XD
She's so hot
That's a pretty cool reward tier. I already have someone in mind.
I hope she's not hard to draw :-D
Hearing her name always reminds me of that shirt: https://i.redd.it/xn0j9py23pm21.jpg
I swiped this for my "art inspiration" file
That's a pretty necklace.
I've got a bunch of jewellery assets stacked up and ready to implement. That one was drawn for Elite agents to wear on formal occasions. I need to reïnstate polishing days so we can get some of this stuff actually off my hard drive and into the game