A year already? Woah, had no idea it had been that long. But of course for me it has been longer.
My journey with Eleanor began in Early 2013 when I contacted Leo with details about my proposed game...
"On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 20:43:06 +0100, Rahvin wrote:
Hi, first of all id like to say i am a big fan of your games as they are easily the best quality stuff that is on the internet right now. Secondly, like probably every other message you get i have an idea for a game.
The basic story line is that you play as a woman named Eleanor (name is not important it just makes identifying her easier). Eleanor is married and lives in a Beverly Hills like place and you take control of her life and lead it wherever it goes. The main part of the story-line is that she is a bored housewife, her husband earns enough so that she doesn't need to work, but no so wealthy that any massive spending can be ignored. To overcome her boredom she spends money such as online gambling or buying shoes. One day she spends too much and needs to find a way to earn the money back and hide her spending.
There are two important game mechanics that would need to be explained now.
Mechanic 1: Bored meter
This shows Eleanor’s boredom, when it gets too high she starts gambling online and loses money or goes on a spending spree and increases your debt. It goes down when you do something that increases excitement
Mechanic 2: Excitement meter
This shows her excitement, or rather her willingness to do sexy things for money or pleasure, for example, she could go online and pose naked on a webcam for some money and gets some excitement as well, this prevents players from just sending her out to walk the streets immediately. Excitement meter does not decrease.
There would be two main story paths that you would choose early on and that is the method of earning money to hide spending, the first would be to work at your husband’s office but in a different department. The sexy events are with fellow workers and your boss perhaps becoming his secretary by working your way there.
The second path would be pole dancing, Eleanor did some dancing at college and figures it would be an easy way to earn money without her husband finding out, the sexy scenes are obvious such as “private” lap dances and earning your place on the stage with a special interview with boss etc
Once Eleanor’s excitement is high enough then she can start to walk the streets to earn money or approach her boss at the strip club (if that is the path chosen) to specialize in home visits.
Possible Random events
One possible event i thought of was Eleanor starts sunbathing by the pool and spots the neighbors son masturbating while watching her, she can decide to give him a show and go further and further depending on her excitement level culminating in inviting him inside and having sex on the bed she and her husband share.
This game aims to be the opposite of Living With Britney
I felt the living with Britney 30 days was to constraining imo while the 100 days of Tori 500 was to long with the story spread out as days were spent clicking buttons. i thought that 50-60 days would be fine for this game if it is done in that style
I have more stuff but i don’t know how long i can make these comments"
Remember at this point we didn't have LWT released either so it was a different time. Over the year many things delayed production including but not limited to: my computer dying and I went to america + other places for a while.
The mechanics were merged into one and became the fidelity metre.
That first random event was removed in the vanilla version and other, more story related, were added, it would make a return in the expansion but cut in two. One part added to the peeping tom in Eleanor's garden and the other added to James the neighbor kid.
After Leo contacted me with interest about this game I emailed him more ideas and things went from there, he offered me the chance to write the script (which totally threw me as I was just a fan offering ideas and didn't expect anything more than an acknowledgement in the game credits) and here we are almost two years later.
It was interesting looking through my early emails and seeing how Eleanor has evolved from this first email to what it is now. If 4th February is her birthday then she was conceived on march 3rd

Anyway I have to go back to Eleanor 2, just wrote a scene that was great. And with that tease, ciao for now.