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Status Report

Hey guys! I’m sorry this report is so late. The truth is that I’m really struggling with the writing at the moment. I don’t know what to say except that I’m sorry it’s taking so long.

I’m working on it full time every day to get ...

[1.21] Skinnying down the episode

Hey guys! I'm sorry for being quiet here, and on Discord. I've been struggling with the writing in this episode, and it wasn't clear to me last weekend how to fix it.

For story reasons, we need to send the heroine back into the club for a ba...

Deep in a scene

Hey guys! Sorry for being quiet, I’ve been deep in a scene.

Sometimes writing feels fast and easy, sometimes everything's difficult and it feels like a slog. This scene has definitely been a slog, requiring sacrifices of m...

[1.21] Prototyping [8/15 complete]

Hi guys! Just a quick update, as I’ve been very busy prototyping more scenes. It’s hard to talk about without spoilers, but:

• A scene that wasn’t working got simplified and rewritten
• A new scene, with two...
  2024-01-29 09:29:46 +0000 UTC View Post

[1.21] Prototyping (5/14 complete)

Hey guys! I had another good, solid week of writing. I added two more scenes to the prototype build, (so that’s now 5 in total, of 14 planned), and nearly finished the third. I increased the number of lines in the code from 2209 to 4355.

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[1.21] Work started on the new episode

Hi guys! This week, I started production on episode 1.21 of Female Agent.

After the glam date with Kolya, and the empowering, action-packed Christmas episode, we need to get our heroine out of combat boots, back into heels, and back into the...

Zero Kate Thirty debrief

Zero Kate Thirty, the standalone Christmas mini-episode, is available here.

I feel like my aim’s been a little off in the past cou...

Zero Kate Thirty

Hi guys! Lovely Victoria and I have been working on a small Christmas present for you all.

It was ready on the 24th, but I know that the period after Christmas can sometimes be an anti-climax, so I kindly held it back until ...

10 Dec Dev Report

Hey guys! Sorry for the lack of reporting, but it hasn’t meant a lack of work.

Reflecting on the release of 1.20…I feel like my aim has been off in the past couple of episodes. So instead of doing what I wanted to do – which was jump i...

Episode 1.20.1 available to everyone!

(This is the free version.  If you're a patron, get the enhanced version here.)

Hi guys!  Here's episode 1.20.1, "Whit...

Episode 1.20.1P available to Recruits+!

Hi guys!  This is the (late) general release for episode 1.20.1P, "White Russian".

I tried to improve the sex scene by adding some new decision points.  Honestly, I don't think it came out as the big improvement I was excited about...

[1.20] Public release is running late

Hi guys!  I aimed to drop the general release version today.  But I'm editing something to try and improve it (based on Early Access feedback), and it's not quite ready to release.  It'll be ready very shortly.

In the meantime...

Episode 1.20 "White Russian" early access

Happy Halloween, Analysts+!  Attached is the early access version of episode 1.20, "White Russian".

I wanted more time to edit, but everybody told me that I overedited the last episode, so...here you go.  Is it hot...

[1.20] Final week

Hey guys!  Last week, our illustrator lovely Victoria finished with the episode art.  It looks amazing!  We've coded most of it into the new episode.  (I always love it when you can play through with the actual...

[1.20] Neaaarly ready

Hey guys!  Here's an update on the task list:

We're just beavering away.  Our illustrator lovely Victoria has finished m...

[1.20] Nailing down the details

Hey guys!  Working on the finickity final things before this episode can be released.  Here's a peek at my to-do list:

Some of the contri...

[1.20] Short report

Hey guys!  Short report, because everything's moving smoothly: I'm working on edits, our illustrator lovely Victoria is working on art.

I had lots of good feedback from story testers!  Their suggestions are helping...

[1.20] Prototype fully playable

Hi guys!  Yesterday I finished building the episode prototype in the game engine.  A basic version of White Russian is now playable, start to finish!

I made some changes based on tester feedback from the previous week, add...

[1.20] One step back, two steps forward

Hi guys! This week I had to do some rewriting, based on feedback of last week's prototype. As well as being our illustrator, lovely Victoria is also involved in story planning, and she pointed out some characterisation problems th...

[1.20] Rapid prototyping

Hey guys!  Work on episode 1.20, "White Russian", is going well.

This episode is a lot less complex than the last one.  It's a side quest featuring Kate's (optional) date with Kolya, the broody Russian guy she met in the skybar in ...

Characterising Kate

Back in the early days of Female Agent, 59 players told me how they liked to play their heroine (called "Kate" in internal dev discussions, for convenience).

Four broad archetypes emerged:

WAIF (dutiful, res...