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by Spiky Caterpillar
Mon Jan 04, 2010 11:24 pm
Forum: Creator Discussion
Topic: OELVN - the rationale behind the name
Replies: 31
Views: 3480

Re: OELVN - the rationale behind the name

That being said - Why is the OELVN community so keen on, well...adopting the term OEL? We aren't that keen on it. It's vaguely useful to distinguish a native Anglophone project from a translated project, that's all. In my mind, OEL has a number of negative connotations thanks to a certain Los Angel...
by Spiky Caterpillar
Mon Jan 04, 2010 7:46 pm
Forum: Ren'Py Questions and Announcements
Topic: So...errors.
Replies: 2
Views: 419

Re: So...errors.

[quote="Aurelia-Aurora"] hide bg kitchen with dissolve jump school 'jump school' doesn't need an extra indent; you want: hide bg kitchen with dissolve jump school And here, the spaces in the label are confusing Ren'Py. menu: "Nah, I'm gonna walk home with Kiruiko.": jump walk kiruiko "Sure, I'll be ...
by Spiky Caterpillar
Mon Jan 04, 2010 6:44 pm
Forum: Creator Discussion
Topic: Slow upload problems! Solution?
Replies: 21
Views: 1993

Re: Slow upload problems! Solution?

Hmm, can I ask you Lanna? When I convert the MP3s to OGG, the file size turns out to be bigger. Any help? Change the quality settings on your ogg encoder and set it to lower quality. (In Audacity, the big 'Options' button at the bottom of the export file dialog lets you set the quality.) I'm not su...
by Spiky Caterpillar
Mon Jan 04, 2010 4:50 pm
Forum: Development of Ren'Py
Topic: Android RenPy?
Replies: 64
Views: 11732

Re: Android RenPy?

What's an .apk file and how is it encoded? UTF-8, CCS, HTML, exe, or dll? Hopefully none of the above. (Though I hope they're using UTF-8 for text, as locale-specific encodings are a nuisance everywhere they pop up.) My money's on it being a zipfile with specially constrained contents... *websearch...
by Spiky Caterpillar
Mon Dec 21, 2009 8:32 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: In 2050, your lover may be a ... robot
Replies: 205
Views: 19161

Re: In 2050, your lover may be a ... robot

I would say that the human lover is still human despite the replacements until they are completely replaced by nonorganic material, thus they have lost their previous selves and have become a new self; So what about Kurzweil's projection that around 2020 we should be able to download our personalit...
by Spiky Caterpillar
Mon Dec 21, 2009 11:44 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Date Warp (GxB)
Replies: 46
Views: 6335

Re: Date Warp (GxB)

The first pathway is complete, and the story stands at 30,316 words and fifteen not-menus.

Now for the next...
by Spiky Caterpillar
Wed Nov 25, 2009 8:16 am
Forum: Development of Ren'Py
Topic: Android RenPy?
Replies: 64
Views: 11732

Re: Android RenPy?

I wouldn't mind at all even if the Ren'Py iphone exporter will be a commercial option (since getting going through the process of acquiring hardware and getting approval from Apple is still costly and time consuming). It's not that the devs releasing games for the platform think it's a wise investm...
by Spiky Caterpillar
Fri Oct 30, 2009 6:01 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Date Warp (GxB)
Replies: 46
Views: 6335

Re: Date Warp (GxB, recruiting demo testers)

(Status so far: The game contains 1578 screens of dialogue. These screens contain a total of 18727 words, for an average of 11.9 words per screen. The game contains 0 menus. grep -c WiresMenu plot.rpy: 11 - that last because I'm using a custom Python function instead of Ren'Py's built-in menu. ) alb...
by Spiky Caterpillar
Sun Aug 23, 2009 10:30 pm
Forum: Ren'Py Questions and Announcements
Topic: Creating custom fonts
Replies: 2
Views: 503

Re: Creating custom fonts

Now that I've figured out how to change the text window, I would like to learn how to make a custom font, preferably an SFont, that I can use. I guess I should be thanking my lucky stars that I'm not Chinese or Japanese... While I don't know if it'll help with SFonts, Fontforge is free and can be u...
by Spiky Caterpillar
Sat Aug 22, 2009 7:49 pm
Forum: Development of Ren'Py
Topic: Transformation Language Design
Replies: 14
Views: 2042

Re: Transformation Language Design

Ooh. I think that this will be quite cool. Is 'pause' a pause between transformations, a pause during which transformations take place, or the duration of a transformation? If the lattermost it might be better to call it 'duration'. In the definition for parallel: The blocks within a set should be i...
by Spiky Caterpillar
Sat Aug 22, 2009 7:18 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Date Warp (GxB)
Replies: 46
Views: 6335

Date Warp (GxB)

Five days ago, Janet left her dorm to go on a date. She never returned. Was she kidnapped? Murdered? Did she run away? Will she ever be seen again? datewarp-title.jpg Looking for story/character feedback from otome fans - if interested, PM me or use my alphatester form ( http://spikycaterpillar.drea...
by Spiky Caterpillar
Thu Aug 13, 2009 8:36 pm
Forum: Ren'Py Questions and Announcements
Topic: Pygame surface from an Image
Replies: 4
Views: 1040

Re: Pygame surface from an Image

Oh no no, that's surfarray, PixelArray is another way for accessing pixel data, without any additional dependency. Even so, it doesn't matter if you include it or not. My question was whether you can get an Image to return a Pygame surface without adding any code to Ren'Py itself. Have some bad exa...
by Spiky Caterpillar
Mon Jul 20, 2009 6:32 pm
Forum: Completed Games
Topic: Science Girls! - a hybrid RPG in Ren'Py
Replies: 25
Views: 10324

Re: Science Girls! - a hybrid RPG in Ren'Py

One of my distributors is considering translating Science Girls! - I've changed the code to accomodate translations, but it involved an awful lot of small changes, so I think I should do another round of beta testing before releasing the new version. The first Linux user to PM me gets a free test bu...
by Spiky Caterpillar
Mon Jul 20, 2009 6:23 pm
Forum: Completed Games
Topic: Science Girls! - a hybrid RPG in Ren'Py
Replies: 25
Views: 10324

Re: Science Girls! - a hybrid RPG in Ren'Py

I'm curious, what level should the girls normally be to beat the last boss? I had the main character at 15, nicole at 14, and the rest at 13. I'm not sure (as the developer, I'm incapable of judging difficulty properly) - most people seem to report average character levels between 10 and 13 by the ...
by Spiky Caterpillar
Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:22 pm
Forum: Development of Ren'Py
Topic: Surgery
Replies: 25
Views: 3978

Re: Surgery

Ow. What type of surgery are you getting? If it helps any, I survived my hernia surgery (though it HURT when I woke up. A lot. And I had to sleep on the couch for a while because it was less painful to get up from than a bed.). And now I get to tell people about the mesh plate implanted in my groin,...