[Ep 1.17 "Girls' Night Out"] Fixing the start
Hey guys! This week I’ve been writing. I know it was disappointing to push back the release date for this episode, but I’m confident the improvements I’m making will be worth it.
This week I worked mainly on the opening two scenes of the episode. When you’re firing a rifle, tiny adjustments to your starting position can have a huge effect on where your shot ends up. I’m trying to do something similar with the improvements to this episode: making some subtle changes to everybody’s characterisation (the heroine and the bargirls) and some of their early interactions will make all the later scenes work better. 🤞🏻😬🤞🏻
As well as improving the story, I’m also trying to sex the episode up a little bit (without jumping the shark). This week I added a new topless scene that I hope you will find quite…titillating.
Announcement on upcoming side quests
After this episode is released, I plan for the following three episodes to be side quests that will hopefully be released at a quick and satisfying pace. These are Booth Babe (unlocked in the last episode if you agree to help your Thai bar regulars at their conference), Big Mac (unlocked if you let Connor give your number to his friend, Mac) and White Russian (unlocked in the next episode).
An issue that Bread Pitt and Irioth raised is that it might feel like the heroine is just off doing side quests instead of advancing her main mission. So I’m now planning to include a short club shift with each side quest: this will give us the feeling that she’s working regularly in the club, and also allows us to do some more sexy barmaid stuff between side quests. (Also I find the switch between her real life and the club shifts subtly, inherently sexy for some reason, so I'm excited about getting to explore that a little.)
Okay, that's it for this week's report! I'm going to get right back onto writing tomorrow morning. Have an awesome week guys and hit me up on Discord or in DMs here if you have ideas, questions or worries, it really helps.
Comments (4)
Who are you talking to? Who is the "you" in that diatribe? If it is supposed to be me, you probably want to reread my post, which was about side quests, not release dates. I've supported Crush here for YEARS, so don't try to tell me that this isn't a game for me.
If the side quests are something that you want to do because you want to do them, then that's great. If three side quests are going to result in a five-or-six-month delay in the main story, then that's not great at all. You should undertake them ONLY if you are confident that you won't be stalling in the making of them like the last few main story releases, because if I really want to play a booth babe, I can play the game Booth Babe. I'm interested in the main story that we've seen slooowly unfold for years now. Side quests can be added later.
Sounds good to me, 100% agree on the shift between the regular and work stuff. Would be interesting to see her attitudes / options evolving depending on her previous actions too
I’m super excited! Keep up the good work.