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by LRH
Mon Jun 02, 2014 5:22 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Love to design games... Can't math.
Replies: 16
Views: 3601

Re: Love to design games... Can't math.

The most important thing you need to know before you advance from basic mathematics to algebra is the Order of Operations. I was taught to memorize it as BODMAS. B - Brackets: do everything in brackets first O - Orders: powers and square roots next D - Division: do all your division M - Multiplicati...
by LRH
Sun Jun 01, 2014 1:56 am
Forum: Asset Creation: Writing
Topic: Does fanfiction improve your writing?
Replies: 21
Views: 4829

Re: Does fanfiction improve your writing?

Wow... I can't believe I actually found some of my old stuff! Here's the only fanfiction I posted online prior to 2010. It was written for a Star Wars gaming/writing club, from a prompt - the name of the target, and the operation name was One Shot One Kill. I know the upload date says 2002, but I ac...
by LRH
Sat May 31, 2014 3:26 pm
Forum: Asset Creation: Writing
Topic: Does fanfiction improve your writing?
Replies: 21
Views: 4829

Re: Does fanfiction improve your writing?

I'd have to do a bit of digging. I don't tend to keep my drabbles, or publish them anywhere, they're just writing practice and warm-up for me, pretty much disposable from the beginning. I think I have a couple of pieces of my early Star Wars fanfiction I could share, but I warn you now, I've had alm...
by LRH
Sat May 31, 2014 5:41 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Get that thing off your chest... Now...
Replies: 5264
Views: 566029

Re: Get that thing off your chest... Now...

^^ count your lucky stars it's an enormous ant, not an enormous hornet queen. One wintered in my house, fertilized queens being the only hornets that survive winter in the UK, and scared the bejeebus out of me when I found it in my bathroom one early spring morning. Sure, the variety found in the UK...
by LRH
Sat May 31, 2014 4:52 am
Forum: Asset Creation: Writing
Topic: Does fanfiction improve your writing?
Replies: 21
Views: 4829

Re: Does fanfiction improve your writing?

The wonderful thing about writing fanfiction is that it allows you to just write; the setting is established, the characters are established, and all you have to do is create the story structure itself. Fanfiction is also character consistency 101, because if you get it wrong, fans of the original w...
by LRH
Wed May 28, 2014 9:27 pm
Forum: Other Visual Novel Engines
Topic: DateNighto HTMLVN (HTML5 Visual Novel Engine)
Replies: 3
Views: 3947

Re: DateNighto HTMLVN (HTML5 Visual Novel Engine)

I would definitely be interested. I'm a longtime Starfighter reader, going all the way back to the early pages of chapter 1, and when I saw Starfighter's Visual Novel kickstarter, it got me very curious about Date Nighto. Unfortunately, since the company is still very young, looking at your website ...
by LRH
Wed May 28, 2014 9:17 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What's your reason for making a visual novel? Since when?
Replies: 35
Views: 5658

Re: What's your reason for making a visual novel? Since when

I came to creating VNs about a month ago when I was searching for a way to create a Myst-like point-and-click adventure. I was dissatisfied with limitations on the free software available for creating such adventures, and a little digging brought me to Renpy, where I'd be able to learn the basics of...
by LRH
Wed May 28, 2014 5:15 pm
Forum: Creative Commons
Topic: Long Road Home Studio Resources - New Clock Chime!
Replies: 2
Views: 1717

Re: Long Road Home Studio Resources - New Clock Chime!

Thanks for the compliment Broodelin. :)
by LRH
Tue May 27, 2014 10:28 pm
Forum: Creative Commons
Topic: Long Road Home Studio Resources - New Clock Chime!
Replies: 2
Views: 1717

Long Road Home Studio Resources - New Clock Chime!

:!: = new

Sounds (links to my Freesound account)

How to Attribute my sounds:
(Title of sound) by adrilahan at Freesound.org

Sound Effects
Big Wolf Howl
Turn signal click
Grandfather clock chime :!:

Ambient Sounds
Evening above the city - coming soon

Music
None yet
by LRH
Tue May 27, 2014 10:03 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What does your dream house looks like?
Replies: 29
Views: 4144

Re: What does your dream house looks like?

A long, slender, two story rough stone house blending English farm cottage with southwestern adobe architecture, the roof is bedecked with solar panels, the gutters leading to rain barrels for watering the garden. A post and rail fence separates the classic English herb/medicinal garden at the back ...
by LRH
Tue May 27, 2014 8:41 pm
Forum: Asset Creation: Writing
Topic: Desgning a great female character (Extra Credits)
Replies: 1
Views: 763

Re: Desgning a great female character (Extra Credits)

Interesting video. It gave me a few thoughts looking at creating great male characters too - if you can look at the issues surrounding societal pressure on females to create a great female character, you can also do the same with male characters, having them both accept and reject the societal press...
by LRH
Sun May 25, 2014 12:30 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Meal ideas? (Lunch and Dinner)
Replies: 20
Views: 2758

Re: Meal ideas? (Lunch and Dinner)

I don't know how you feel about ramen noodles, but my family's been eating them stir fried with ground beef and vegetables smothered in teriyaki. We were watching My Girlfriend is a Gumiho when we first served it, and it's been dubbed Mi Ho Ramen for the gumiho's constant demands to "buy me cow...
by LRH
Fri May 23, 2014 1:03 pm
Forum: Asset Creation: Writing
Topic: Super effective writing tips from Pixar
Replies: 34
Views: 6008

Re: Super effective writing tips from Pixar

#17: No work is ever wasted. If it’s not working, let go and move on - it’ll come back around to be useful later. So true. To give an example, I wrote a throwaway short story way back in high school, more than ten years ago, then stumbled on it on an old CD-ROM labeled 'writing' that I'd completely...
by LRH
Fri May 23, 2014 12:53 am
Forum: Creator Discussion
Topic: Loading up Renpy VS Typing up a document
Replies: 15
Views: 3524

Re: Loading up Renpy VS Typing up a document

I'm following the same process I do when writing a regular novel - it starts off as an outline typed in notepad on my computer. At this point, I put in the most basic structure in Renpy (with a real novel, I do my rough page formats, creating my chapter headers and the like). Then the story itself g...
by LRH
Thu May 22, 2014 1:05 am
Forum: Anime, Games, and Japan
Topic: Favourite Final Fantasy?
Replies: 64
Views: 26042

Re: Favourite Final Fantasy?

Omg, LRH, I super duper loved 8! It's my favorite. <3 Hahahaha. I even loved the characters. Lol. Rino and Squall. <3 Ooooooooh. (Btw, off topic but... I wonder where I heard LRH before...? Hahaha...) I'm so glad I'm not the only one who super duper loved 8, it seems to be a very unpopular game, as...