tymmur

Oh man, I saw a notification of a post in this thread and the avatar and I ignorantly assumed @dfbreezy replied. Now I'm really confused. Or drunk. There are you of you

ᵯ ⋛ ␛ ☃ ☠ ☭ ꈚ ꊪ Unicode is fun. There is more or less everything there, even Fuwa users. Hello @Rooke ♜♖ ௌ <-- that's one single character I didn't find the dollarpound sign, but I did find this ₠. It's the original Euro sign. They then changed it to € before they actually printed the money, but nobody came up with the idea not to include to old one in unicode. Or more on topic, here are 4 characters: ⁇ ⁈ ⁉ ‼ If you claim there are 8 characters on that line, then you better stop drinking now. They are only 4 according to unicode.

I love your blogging about issues I haven't really considered, but are actually quite important. On top of informative, it forces me to stop and think, which is a good thing. Like with your last entry (about quote marks), I have to point out that most VNs use the character encoding cp932. ‽ isn't included in that one, meaning while we might see it in the wild, it will not be inside VNs, at least not those using Japanese engines. It might appear in engines using utf-8 (those claiming international support). Doesn't look like solving !? or ?! with just a merge to ‽.

I have had decent luck with it. Also a tool can be useful even if it doesn't always work. You can see if it read correctly, meaning you know when to ditch the result. If it fails, try again. Usually accuracy goes up as the number of characters goes down. If it misses a kanji, try to read that one alone and it has a much better chance of working. The part about being able to verify if it read the text correctly is quite essential. The biggest issue I see in machine translations is that while they might work, you don't know unless you compare with a human translation and if you have that, you wouldn't need a machine translation (the word useless comes to mind right now). With Capture2Text or any other OCR tool, you can verify if it got it right even if you can't figure out how to type the kanji yourself, meaning when it gets it right, you know you can trust the result 100%.

It was a joke. It is using a custom engine and totally not worth it to even attempt to run in a browser. Even without the minigames, it would be a quite difficult task with animated sprites, a million conditional jumps and math on the variable, as in real math, not just counters or flags. On top of that it has random number generation, something I wouldn't expect to see in a generic VN reader.

If we aim at names like that, then why not add support for Musumaker? The main heroine is called Mikan.

They have boobs It's actually a hard question because I haven't thought about it like that. Funloving is good and so is long red hair. Strong willed is also nice.

Welcome ex-lurker. Writing on the forum is always more interesting than just reading. Often you have something to say when you read something, then why not say it?

To be honest I kind of hate long descriptions of combat. They can be fun to play yourself, but not that much fun to read.

Villain. Looks very much like somebody on a killing spree. I knew I wasn't the only one to having detected that. Yesterday the very rare thing happened that I fell asleep in front of the computer while watching a video. I was heading for a good nights sleep right until the group's chat started alerting that a new line was written and anther one and another one. It woke me up. It turned out to be Fred ranting about how much fun this forum game is. Obviously the best payback would be to declare him a villain in this very thread because only a villain would be that cruel to me Caroll Kirkland Hero or Villain?

Perhaps it would be worth considering using Ren'Py. I know some people flame the interface, but it allows python code, meaning it should be possible to write some role playing combat simulator. Knowing python, I might be able to do something about that, but I'm too busy with other tasks right now to even look into it. Might consider branching around in the text based on protags heath left or whatever.

Now that is a setup, which could be used for something quite interesting. The setup isn't everything, but it's a good start. Have you considered the more technical aspects as well, like number of choices and how much it should branch? And what about engine? Have you considered heavy use or flags to remember choices for later usage or should each choice lead to a unique branch? I know it's a lot of questions, but I assume it would be nice to know the answers to all of those questions before actual writing starts. I have seen a number of people go "I will write a VN" and then later "now I have written half the prologue and filled in the entire plot. What do I do?". Well they didn't plan a structure. That could be an issue. Writing an entire VN requires way more typing than just a forum post.

Hero or villain?

General rule: make a quick test. If it shows up as expected ingame, then you got it right. Once you know how to do it, you can spend a while editing the images to look nice and stuff.

That's the wrong attitude towards learning. With that attitude we would still be stuck in the stone age. Maybe this will give an idea of why geology is also an interesting topic. It's a bit off topic for astronomy, but not really because they interact quite a bit with each other.

Great topic. Sadly I missed it until now. It's more complex than that and distance does matter, though not regarding seasons. There is this physics law (naturally I forgot the name), which states that in orbit, when a planet has moves from A to B in orbit, the area A-B-Sun-A is proportional with the time it takes. (A-B is the curved one, not strait). This mean as the planet gets further away from the sun, the distance it can travel to reach the same area decreases and the planet slows down it's orbit. This is why summer is a week longer than winter because at summer it is further from the sun. That is for the northern hemisphere. It's reversed on the southern because south tilts away from the sun when north tilts towards it. What makes this complex is that the difference in closest and longest from the sun isn't constant. Sometimes the difference becomes much bigger, which will give earth a quick move near the sun and a long slow one away from the sun. Because the distance becomes so much greater than it is today, it actually does affect the global temperature. The term we generally use for this event is ice age. There are plenty of other interesting facts about our solar system. Mercury is the smallest planet and it looks like it used to be a big one and some major event took place and ripped off everything and only the core remain. Venus is a young planet and the surface cooled down to solidify recently in astronomical terms. I can't tell how many millions of years ago it was without looking it up, but it's like 100-150 million after multi cell life turned up on earth. Venus is also the hottest planet, having a near constant temperate of around 450 °C. It's so hot that snow there isn't water. It is some sort of metal. It's the only planet with a sunrise in west because for some odd reason it turns the wrong way around. It rotates slower around itself than around the sun, meaning a day is longer than a year. There is speculation that Venus is the aftermath of a collision between two planets, hence the odd movement/rotation and lots of leftover heat, which is only slowly escaping. Rings are quite common and half the planets have them, though only the ones on Saturn are clearly visible at a great distance. Mars has two moons and the inner moon is spiraling to it's own death. Within a few million years it will crash and crease a new ring and Mars will be the only rock planet in the solar system with rings. Windspeed picks up the further you get from the Sun. The 4 outer planets (the gas giants) have wind speed, which would destroy everything on Earth with the maximum recorded of 250 m/s on Neptune. Neptune also once had a storm so powerful that it made a hole in the planet's surface, like a vortex. Some of the storms on the gas giants are bigger than earth. Something kicked Uranus quite hard at some point. Despite being a big and heavy gas giant, something knocked it over and it is tilted 60°. It's also the only planet with a Greek name. The rest are from Roman mythology. It would seem that the same processes takes place on multiple planets/moons. Take for instance volcanoes. It's lava on earth. It comes up from underground as a liquid, cools and becomes solid on the surface. The surface slowly sinks inwards, heats up and becomes lava again. On one of the moons furthest out, the very same process takes place, only it's too cold for lava. Instead it sprays liquid methane, which behaves like lava does on earth. In between under different pressures and temperatures, different elements acts as source of volcanism. Speaking of volcanoes, the most volcanic active place in the solar system is IO, the inner moon of Jupiter. The intense gravity between the huge planet and the other 36? moons twists IO constantly and the stretch is 300 meters. This movement causes lots of friction, which heats it up and the surface has constant volcanic eruptions, often quite violently. Voyager took a picture of it, which was examined because it looked like another moon was hiding behind IO, but it turned out that lava was spraying out high above the surface and then it went to all sides and fell back, causing a shape, which made it look like a moon was present. Yeah astronomy is quite interesting. There are so many facts, which are far out and absolutely mindblowing.

Not the font, the text encoding. You go into the encoding top menu, character sets, Japanese, shift-jis. That will read the same bytes as a different encoding, meaning they will render different characters. If you try to read shift-jis while notepad++ thinks it's utf-8, you might end up with something, which looks like it is encrypted.

First quick check is to verify that notepad++ is set to shift-jis encoding. That might break the "encryption".

That line instantly made me think of Private Nurse. Played it years ago and wanted to play it again, but the UI is so horrible that I stopped. I accepted it back then because it was the first VN I ever tried, but now I know better. Would love to go through it with a proper UI. This also brings up another question: how do you forward to next line? Private Nurse is really annoying in the fact that clicking the mouse is the only option. I prefer enter. It also brings up the issue of saving. Can you save everywhere? iPad in bed given the URL to a server on the LAN looks like a decent solution. At least that would minimize the issues there would be towards getting iOS to play nicely. However getting it to run from it's own "HD" would be a good thing if you plan to use it while commuting. Even with a good server, connecting from a moving train would cause lag (presumably).

It looks nice, though not perfect. I have a few comments, which are mainly aimed at improving the quality. Why is the settings button visible at all time? It looks quite bad. If you could make something where it vanished unless you hover the mouse on top of it or near it, then it would be way better. What about full screen? If youtube can go to fullscreen in a browser, then you can too. Settings for font, font size and color would be nice. It would be better if you could add support for the textbox png as well as settings for text area to move the text to match various pngs. Also how does it work for the player? Just open the correct html file in a browser?

The only reason to play VNs is for lonely people to gain a fake interaction with people after their cruelty have driven away all real people from even speaking to them.

Not only is this the second time I piss off somebody in this thread, I managed to do it to somebody from my own group. I'm starting to be concerned because I thought I was a nice guy

Yeah the Americans showed up and wrote a new constitution and stuff for Japan (yes USA wrote the Japanese constitution without influence from any Japanese people). Before that the Japanese were really lax in that regard and all onsen were mixed gender. Particularly the common practice of bathing nude with a bunch of strangers of both genders was completely unacceptable to the Americans.

I have a backup, but I refuse to give it to anybody.

My guess is that detailed images will get small mosaic while large mosaic is used to hide that somebody drew everything in no time because "nobody will see it anyway". Sometimes official localized titles end up with problems because the uncensored images reveal they were drawn with the intend to be censored and the censored parts are.... well not worthy of showing.