Hey guys!  This week I finished the scene I was working on, and started work on the next scene.  Ten tasks are now complete, nine are in the pipe.

Like I said last week, it’s really fun working on totally new content.  This last scene was pretty cool, with two short branches, and some pretty cool (and IMO subtly sexy 🥵) characterisation of the heroine. The writing feels like it's going great.

Our illustrator lovely Victoria has been doing some really gorgeous avatar art, check out this cute little playsuit the heroine can wear in Bangkok!

Okay!  I’m done for the day.  Back to work in the morning!  🦀❤️‍🔥

Hey guys!  I’ve been doing more writing this week.  I finished the scene I was partway through last week, and nearly finished the next scene on my to-do list.

It’s exciting working on totally new content!  I’m really enjoying it.  I created a couple of cool new scenes with a popular NPC (Ian), and created some new NPCs for the heroine to interact with on her all-new side quest in Pattaya.

The writing experiment from the recent Malaysia beta seems to be making everything easier and faster to write now.  Hemingway said the first draft of anything is shit, and he’s right, but my first drafts feel a lot less shit than usual.  It’s pretty exciting.

Okay!  I’m gonna eat some food and take the evening off, then get back on the kanban first thing tomorrow.  🦀❤️‍🔥

Hey guys!  I’ve been working on the new episode this week.

After the writing experiment in the last beta, I’m really excited about finding some changes to the heroine’s voice.  I think I made her too nervy and overwrought, and too much of a doormat in a lot of previous drafts; I’m enjoying making her a bit spunkier and cooler.

A lot of the work I was doing this week was related to characterisation and planning.  But I also finished two tasks from the kanban board, and 90% finished two more.  It’s actually been a really great week, I’m really excited about where we are creatively right now.

Okay that’s it: short report because there aren’t really any problems to describe, I’m just trucking away.  I’ll get straight back on the kanban tomorrow morning.  🦀❤️‍🔥

Hey guys, thanks so much to everyone who played last week’s beta and gave me feedback, either in the community or in DMs.

Like I said, I worked really hard on it.  I was pleased that most people seemed to like the scene and thought it was hotter than usual.  Several players messaged me with constructive criticism and specific suggestions for improvements, which I really appreciated.  I’ll definitely squeeze in some of these changes.

The main feedback was to move the story forward to Bangkok, and this is now what I’m working on.  The new writing techniques I developed for last week’s beta are already being used in the next episode.  I’m in a really exciting, excited creative place right now and I am hard at work on the next ep!  Meanwhile our illustrator lovely Victoria is working on art updates created by the beta.

Okay gotta finish for the day but I’m gonna get straight back on it in the morning! 🦀❤️‍🔥

You guys didn’t like me cutting the Max date/sidequest – so I restored it, with some improvements.

Based on your feedback, I put the balcony and room service parts back in.  But I also tried to solve a bigger problem: a common piece of feedback is that my writing is hot until the sex starts.  So I tried to make the sex scene hotter than usual for the player.

Sorry this took so long.  It got much bigger than I planned or expected:

It’s also a lot more branched and reactive now: 215 passages (121 before), 291 link points (186 before), 323 conditionals (171 before). What I thought was just an edit turned into a major piece of work.

But the point wasn’t making it longer or wider.  I really tried to change the way I write these scenes – more player agency, less railroading the heroine, more focus on male/female energy, scenario and “tableaux”, and less of the shit I normally write about stiff/wet body parts and “waves of pleasure”.

If this worked, it matters beyond just this episode, because it means I’ve figured out an approach I can reuse in future sex scenes.

I’ve been staring at it way too long and I need fresh eyes, so: here’s the beta. Candidly: I pushed myself hard on this one, so I hope some of that comes through the screen.

If you play it, please tell me if it’s actually hotter than normal – or if I totally failed – here or on Discord.  🦀❤️‍🔥

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