Female Agent 1.4 is out! It's available on the Discord.
This version adds the Lifepath, an absurdly detailed interactive character generator that's been described as "a game within the game" by dev testers. Play through your agent's unique backstory from childhood, through university, to their agency ...
2019-03-11 12:25:55 +0000 UTC View Post1.4.9 P – bug fixes (released 24 June 2019)
Here's Female Agent 1.4.9 P! This is the latest Patron-only version of the game. Thanks so much for your generous support of this project – you make it possible.
Major improvements since the last version:
Sprint target: release 1.5 (avatar upgrade)
Days worked: 1/31 | Pomodoros logged: 12
Task points completed: 0/248
"You can set ten thousand master sculptors to carve a mountain, but if you ask them to make a <...
2019-03-09 18:22:45 +0000 UTC View PostToday was the first dev day of the new sprint – but I only managed to get half a day in (I got a bad headache that made it hard to concentrate). Tomorrow I'll finish the task I started, and get the first sprint report up.
2019-03-08 19:41:54 +0000 UTC View PostCześć wszystkim! Oh, wait, this is not a Polish poll. It's a polish poll.
Today, munificent patrons, you will vote on the first polishing task I'll carry out. I'll set aside one dev day pe...
2019-03-08 11:01:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Sunday 17th will be the first polishing day, in which I improve something that's already in the game instead of just always focusing on the next sprint.
I'll put up a vote for this on Friday, but if you have any suggestions about things you'd like me to improve, let me know here and I'll include them!
My first thoughts were:
In an effort to speed up development, I’m experimenting with the Scrum of One technique invented by Alex Andrews.
Scrum is built around “sprints”, which are 1-4 week bursts of effort aimed at achievin...
2019-03-06 15:21:13 +0000 UTC View PostResults are in on two dev polls.
The first poll asked the usual question: what should we work on next?
359 patrons voted. The result was 60% favour of the avatar upgrade! Female Agent 1.5 will deliver the following improvements:
Magnificent walrus Hyneman fixed a bug in the relationship tables, in which they were displaying the wrong number of partners. To celebrate, I wrote some new relationship table partners, and tweaked a few small bits of code...and totally broke everything. Sorry.
Now all our Bitbucket branches are a mess, and when I tried to fix it I just made it worse...
2019-03-03 22:44:55 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm experimenting with a new way to deliver the avatar, which will make it display more crisply on HD screens. The existing avatar tech suffers from slight blurring, which can make it hard to see fine details like eye colour and makeup.
Check it out and let me know what you think. :-)
2019-03-01 18:17:37 +0000 UTC View PostIn the great discussion in my last sprint reflection thread, Enrico said something that sparked an idea. He said:
...it feels like adding the slightest amount of content (be it new scenes or enriching existing ones with new branches/content) takes you ages and I never understood why...
I think the reason is that, as soon as a system ...
2019-02-28 20:32:54 +0000 UTC View Post
What did we accomplish?
Everyone (especially me) wants the game to get to Bangkok as soon as possible. Before we do that, we need to overhaul 3 systems:
Because the Sex Engine relies on NPCs, I want to upgrade it after we’ve upgraded the NPC g...
2019-02-26 14:45:14 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: 1.4.6 P (bug fixes) uploaded at 0922 on 11 Mar.
Added Slave Leia costume. Improved travel to Scotland scenes. Fixed minor bugs.
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This is a stable version of the 1.4 Beta that was released on Jan 27th. In February, we made the following improvements:
Sprint target: polish 1.4 Beta then release 1.4
Days worked: 20/20 | Pomodoros logged: 166
Task points completed: 161/168
Final dev day! Hyneman and I worked on some final improvements to the relationship tables, and I made some other general improvements.
There are still things to tweak and improve befo...
2019-02-24 18:31:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Sprint target: polish 1.4 Beta then release 1.4
Days worked: 19/20 | Pomodoros logged: 156
Task points completed: 124/168
Today I did some general polishing, and added some new hometowns and some new code related to the hometowns; if your agent's family experiences a change of financial circumstances during her teen...
2019-02-23 20:05:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Sprint target: polish 1.4 Beta then release 1.4
Days worked: 18/20 | Pomodoros logged: 148
Task points completed: 106/168
I was only able to get a half day in due to work commitments, but I finished my editing pass on the Analyst path. (It's not perfect, but I'm happier with how it flows now.)
M...
2019-02-22 18:49:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Sprint target: polish 1.4 Beta then release 1.4
Days worked: 17/20 | Pomodoros logged: 144
Task points completed: 106/168
Today I worked on editing and generally improving the Operator path; making some things less wordy, breaking long passages up into shorter ones, etc. I think the whole experience feels a bi...
2019-02-21 19:35:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Sprint target: polish 1.4 Beta then release 1.4
Days worked: 16/20 | Pomodoros logged: 134
Task points completed: 106/168
This morning I wanted to work on new avatar clothes for the lifepath, using the new 3D meshes, but after reviewing the Trello I decided that wasn't the best use of my time.
Instead...
2019-02-20 20:43:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Sprint target: polish 1.4 Beta then release 1.4
Days worked: 15/20 | Pomodoros logged: 123
Task points completed: 96/168
Today I started the general editing of the Lifepath. This is the process where I just play through the game and make general improvements to scenes, or the flow of scenes.
Quick ex...
2019-02-18 18:33:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Sprint target: polish 1.4 Beta then release 1.4
Days worked: 14/20 | Pomodoros logged: 115
Task points completed: 94/168
There was lots of placeholder text in the Beta. Today I went through it and converted it to actual words.
I finished this more quickly than I expected to, so I took a look at something...
2019-02-17 22:45:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Sprint target: polish 1.4 Beta then release 1.4
Days worked: 13/20 | Pomodoros logged: 102
Task points completed: 84/168
I had a writing day today! I first added a new path to the Likes Rough Sex Kink Vignette; previously you could only complete this if your agent actually enjoyed rough sex, but now y...
2019-02-16 19:40:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Sprint target: polish 1.4 Beta then release 1.4
Days worked: 12/20 | Pomodoros logged: 92
Task points completed: 62/168
I completed the "Failed Operator" path today. Now your agent can go into the mission as a field agent, a desk jockey, or something in between. :-)
Next dev day is tomorrow...
2019-02-15 19:06:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Sprint target: polish 1.4 Beta then release 1.4
Days worked: 11/20 | Pomodoros logged: 86
Task points completed: 52/168
I worked on the "Failed Operator" path today. The idea is that the PC can fail to make it as a field agent, and be retrained as an analyst, which we thought was a cool potential backstory for...
2019-02-13 19:38:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Sprint target: polish 1.4 Beta then release 1.4
Days worked: 10/20 | Pomodoros logged: 79
Task points completed: 52/168
Today I finished my reworking of the Norway interrogation scene (for agents with the "Operator" agency background).
This ended up taking more time than I was anticipating, but I added a lot m...
2019-02-12 18:25:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Sprint target: polish 1.4 Beta then release 1.4
Days worked: 9/20 | Pomodoros logged: 71
Task points completed: 48/168
Today I worked more on the Norway interrogation sequence. I was feeling creative, so I added in quite a few more paths and skill checks.
It's nearly complete now, but I need to do a litt...
2019-02-10 18:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Sprint target: polish 1.4 Beta then release 1.4
Days worked: 8/20 | Pomodoros logged: 63
Task points completed: 48/168
Happy Year of the Pig, everybody!
Today I finished adding avatar makeup to all the relevant Lifepath scenes. This is one of those little things that makes a big differen...
2019-02-09 18:31:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Sprint target: polish 1.4 Beta then release 1.4
Days worked: 7/20 | Pomodoros logged: 56
Task points completed: 44/168
Today I finished working on the agent's "first boyfriend" tables, making the available options a bit less generic and more tailored to her individual Lifepath (also, by popular demand, I restored th...
2019-02-07 18:56:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Sprint target: polish 1.4 Beta then release 1.4
Days worked: 6/20 | Pomodoros logged: 50
Task points completed: 37/168
Today I updated the hometown code, and solicited contributions from the community. We already have Kelowna and Nottingham added to the game, keep them coming!...
2019-02-06 22:25:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I've just tweaked the "hometown" code, and we can now accept requests for which hometowns you'd like to see included. Post them here or PM them to me on Discord.
Rules: they must be in the USA, England, Canada, Australia or New Zealand. An immigrant Lifepath option is something we wou...
2019-02-06 12:10:42 +0000 UTC View Post