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I've submitted pull request that adds colorisation of character text if specified in novel.

Please kindly merge.

[Mikan Engine: ScummVM-like HTML5 VN engine to port everything to]

2 hours ago, mnakamura said:

And, yeah, we still need a VN that has map. I haven't found a good example yet. Any ideas?

https://vndb.org/g297 - help yourself

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11 hours ago, Scorp said:

No, Mikan engine is that mnakamura HTML5 engine, he choosed that name, right?

C's Ware's Mikan is closed source, of course (maybe it have some relation to Entis engine, but seems scenario script format is unique). He would have to hack VM bytecode, find out what each of them does and create a decompiler/converter to make it working with his engine.

Damn, that already became confusing

Judging from VNDB, Mikan is released in Windows era, so probably it shouldn't be too hard to run it in OllyDbg / IDA or something. It's not like debugging PC'98, DOS or PSP games — now that's the nightmare.

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30 minutes ago, Scorp said:

But Mikan engine is not a closed source, so that's the whole point - to implement more features and support more games, right?

Actually, I dunno. I've never ever seen that Cs'Ware before (or whatever they call themselves) — they run some open source engine? Kirikiri?

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13 minutes ago, tymmur said:

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

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It looks easy and fun to add support for right until you play long enough to encounter all the minigames.

 

I believe it would be next to impossible to implement in a *generic* HTML-based engine. Without *lots* of additional programming.

I'm looking at Nakamura's JSON format now — actually, there's nothing like "hot regions" there, or any possibility to interact with graphics at all => no buttons, no custom UIs, etc. And, as for counting stuff, there is obviously a Turing-complete functionality to do the counting (i.e. "var_set") and you can do conditional jumps, but there's no way you can output a variable anywhere - not to text dialogue, not to a image area, nothing.

Lots of games would require that. At least implementing "maps" with clickable areas should be first priority.

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A very cool idea overall! I was thinking of something along the lines. Can you publish any demo versions or whatever?

If you're concerned about copyright, you can just use some CC-licensed stuff like Katawa Shoujo or at least Ren'Py example novel, "The Question".

Where do you people discuss it? You've mentioned that you already work with some translation teams.