Sprint 004, day 9

A consultant advised us to trying working in two-week development "sprints".  This is our first attempt!

Hey guys!  Things are going really well.  The biggest task of the sprint – creating the sex scene – is nearly finished.  With 35% of the sprint left, it feels like we're in a good place.

If we can get everything done, here's what the next few weeks look like:

• Wed 11th Release of Beta version of new prototype sex scene to Operators+.  This will be a playable mockup of the sex scene, with new sex mechanics, avatar poses, storyline & decision options, etc.  The text will be in outline form: I am writing things like Max kisses the agent instead of actual sexy descriptions of kisses.

• Thu 12th Sprint 005 starts.  This will mainly be a writing sprint, as I (and other writers) go through the bare bones text and write sexier and more evocative words.

• Tue 24th General release of prototype scene with as much writing as is ready.

I'm learning a lot as I'm working on this.  My objective isn't just to get this one scene out, it's also to develop a faster way of creating, storyboarding and writing the new sex scenes, one that involves the team and community volunteers better.  We're already doing some experiments for that in this sprint (like having community volunteers write some NPC profiles) – more on this soon.

Okay, I'm gonna get some sleep and have an early start on the next dev day, which is tomorrow!  See you then.