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TigerSauce
Currently developing Freshman Year - an adult interactive fiction game
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Hello hello! I'm a week late with this progress report, but in my defense, I was out of the country on business travel for 8 days. That also accounts for my somewhat reduced progress compared the the previous month or so, but I'm honestly still proud of what I've gotten done while navigating real life stuff.
Progress these past two weeks has mostly been on the same character I mentioned in the previous progress report. In the events I've written, she starts to open up to you, and you bond over your shared love of video games. One thing that I'm very excited for but haven't started writing yet (it's next on my list) is the transition from platonic to sexual friendship, fueled by your shared interest in a specific type of game.
Smut. It's smut.
Lots of fun ideas swirling through my brain for those events, so I'm looking forward to writing them and eventually to having people be able to read them! For now, here's the numbers, and I'll see y'all next week!
  • Version: 0.01
  • Total word count: 64,234 (+3,689)
  • Passages completed: 96 (+5)
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​More modest gains this week, at least in terms of word count, but I knocked out a bunch of relatively shorter passages. Plus, I got started on story events for a new character, which is definitely exciting. I'll have to post a primer on who all the characters are closer to release, but for now I'll just say that she's your shy, goth classmate. A little cliche, but I never set out to fix what isn't broken.

Not much else to say this time. Onward and upward :)

  • Version: 0.01
  • Total word count: 60,545 (+2,720)
  • Passages completed: 91 (+5)
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​Chugging away, making excellent progress! I've settled into a tempo of alternating between one-time story Events and repeatable Activities. I find that it helps me break up the flow of how and what I'm writing, which is useful for keeping momentum.

I also did some work this week restructuring what I call the "punishment" passages. Basically, if you slack off and get bad grades, or if you get caught doing skeevy shit, you'll get in trouble and be sent to the Dean of Students. She'll eventually have some content of a femdom-y nature in exchange for fixing your problems, but for the initial build I'm going to have her be much more shallow. But it's fun to have new character to write! She's actually the last character who will be in this build, bringing the total up to 7 (not counting contentless professors, various unnamed mooks, and your parents who only appear in the intro). Exciting stuff, and I can't wait for you all to meet them!

  • Version: 0.01
  • Total word count: 57,825 (+5,160)
  • Passages completed: 86 (+2)
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​I am unbelievably excited for today's progress report. Partially because this is my first time since July posting an actual weekly report they way I intended when I started these. Partially because I'm excited about the project generally and feeling more energized about it than I have in a while. And partially because I hit a major milestone that I've been holding in my heart since I first started acknowledging word count as a metric: I crossed fifty thousand words this past week.

That's officially a novel, according to plenty of reputable sources. And while it's somewhat arbitrary, and also doesn't account for narrative text versus code, it still feels like a massive testament to the work I've put into this project. I don't know if you can tell from the fitful way I post, but I have a lot of trouble maintaining consistent progress on creative projects. So to be able to step back and say "Hey. I've been working on this for long enough, and with enough persistent effort, to reach over a novel's worth of words?" That feels pretty fucking good.

I think the system I've worked out with a friend to help keep me accountable and make sure I'm writing every day has been a huge boon, and I'm also tremendously thankful for that. Here's hoping I can carry this momentum forward, and maybe I'll even have a playable public version before I know it.

  • Version: 0.01
  • Total word count: 52,665 (+5,672)
  • Passages completed: 84 (+6)

See y'all next week! 

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​Back in the saddle, so to speak! I've knocked out the first actual triggered Event, for Kimberly. The writing for these flows a lot easier than for the Activity passages that I've been focusing on previously, mostly because they're not quite so full of fucking if statements. I don't think I've ever described the passage architecture and how I'm using the terms Event and Activity here, but maybe I'll do that in a future devlog.

I'm also taking steps to ensure that I'm working on this more regularly. Going to try to push for an actual release in some kind of reasonable time.  Feeling optimistic, but we'll see how it goes :)

  • Version: 0.01
  • Total word count: 46,993 (+2,538)
  • Passages completed: 78 (+4)
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Rumors of my demise have been (somewhat) exaggerated! As is obvious, I haven't posted in a while, mostly because I haven't written anything in a while.  Thankfully, that's not because I have fallen out of love with the game, I've simply been really busy. A new expansion dropped for one of my favorite games of all time, then I was out of town for like  a week, then I got super wrapped up playing through My New Life (Revamp) again. If you haven't played it, you absolutely should; it's one of the all time greatest porn games IMO.
Anyway, to business. I was able to clear a bunch of passages this time, because I was doing a lot of work on some of the "non-content" passages: journal tabs, quest hints, etc. Hopefully this will be enough of a springboard that I can start back in on the content again this coming week, though I admit there is also a new update out for Demon Deals, another all time great. So we'll see!
  • Version: 0.01
  • Total word count: 44,455 (+1,187)
  • Passages completed: 74 (+5)
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