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by Alessio
Mon Jan 05, 2009 8:55 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Fantasia, Realm of Thanos--DONE!--
Replies: 144
Views: 26338

Re: Fantasia, Realm of Darkness. 2nd DEMO IS UP!

Also, if your songs are in mp3 format, I'd recommend you change them to ogg, because you'll get the same quality but it will take less space Uh, careful with that one. Re-encoding from an already compressed format to another (mp3 to ogg) is generally a bad idea due to the loss in quality. You'd hav...
by Alessio
Thu Dec 11, 2008 5:39 pm
Forum: Creator Discussion
Topic: WIPs with huge lists of character details
Replies: 22
Views: 3748

Re: WIPs with huge lists of character details

But I don't see what the purpose is of posting all that data in the WIP thread . Easy answer: Instant gratification. Finishing a VN is hard , and reward/recognition (if any) awaits at the end of a very tedious process. Whereas it's easy to whip up a 5-minute WIP post with character descriptions to ...
by Alessio
Thu Dec 11, 2008 6:26 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Modus Operandi - UPDATE: Colored Portraits!!
Replies: 44
Views: 12850

Re: Modus Operandi - Recruiting!

Thanks to AlphaProspector for the precious tip of printing out and editing offline. Sounds like a very good idea. Surely most people would agree that writing is as much creative work as any other art form. But obviously there will always be someone who dismisses others' efforts. The same person woul...
by Alessio
Mon Dec 08, 2008 6:10 pm
Forum: Ren'Py Questions and Announcements
Topic: can I change the font of Centered text
Replies: 4
Views: 781

Re: can I change the font of Centered text

Maybe this helps:
http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/ref ... #Text_Tags
# {font=filename.ttf}text{/font} renders the enclosed text in the supplied font.
by Alessio
Mon Dec 08, 2008 7:05 am
Forum: Creator Discussion
Topic: Ideas Dump
Replies: 1532
Views: 218936

Re: Ideas Dump

papillon wrote:Guardian Angel

You play a girl blessed with mystic powers, but not to save the world - to protect the pure-hearted boy who IS supposed to save the world. (Basic gender reversal... You're Tuxedo Mask, as a girl.)
Hey, that sounds like the plot of GO! Magical Girl. :)
by Alessio
Sat Dec 06, 2008 4:57 pm
Forum: Completed Games
Topic: GO! Magical Boy [new release including source files]
Replies: 61
Views: 38360

Re: GO! Magical Boy [new release with sources & help request]

Wow, thanks a lot for the compliments and the encouragement. Nice to hear G!MB is still fun to play! The story elements were pretty clear to me already in the beginning, but figuring out the details and writing them down took about one year (bearing in mind I wasn't writing full-time). Most parts I ...
by Alessio
Thu Dec 04, 2008 2:58 pm
Forum: Creator Discussion
Topic: The Ren'Ai Archive (renai.us, RAA) all-in-one thread
Replies: 258
Views: 49749

Re: The Ren'Ai Archive (renai.us, RAA) all-in-one thread

Hi, may I ask you to upload the latest version of GO! Magical Boy to the RAA? The version on the RAA is the old release 004 for non-Vista Windows only ( http://www.renai.us/game/gomagicalboy.shtml ). I've just released 006 for all platforms ( http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?p=13193#p1...
by Alessio
Thu Dec 04, 2008 2:45 pm
Forum: Completed Games
Topic: GO! Magical Boy [new release including source files]
Replies: 61
Views: 38360

Re: GO! Magical Boy [new release with sources & help request]

Thanks, that's good news! Good luck with the candidate, you have a 50% chance to succeed! :)
by Alessio
Wed Dec 03, 2008 2:56 pm
Forum: Completed Games
Topic: GO! Magical Boy [new release including source files]
Replies: 61
Views: 38360

Re: GO! Magical Boy [new release with sources & help request]

Small update - G!MB is confirmed to work on MS Vista, thus I'll upload it to download.com. Any info about the Mac and Linux versions, anyone? Pretty please?
by Alessio
Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:00 pm
Forum: Ren'Py Questions and Announcements
Topic: How to change the size of this darker area where text is?
Replies: 1
Views: 445

Re: How to change the size of this darker area where text is?

Check file options.rpy, after the following section you can find the settings:

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        #########################################
        ## These settings let you customize the window containing the
        ## dialogue and narration, by replacing it with an image.
by Alessio
Fri Nov 07, 2008 4:59 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Backgrounds - your thoughts on this style
Replies: 12
Views: 1561

Re: Backgrounds - your thoughts on this style

Sketchup is quite okay IMHO, at least I got better results with it than by trying to draw things myself (I'm pretty bad at drawing backgrounds). I've got some examples in the Screenshot contest thread and in this post of my the Cyberlin development thread . It does offers some basic lighting feature...
by Alessio
Fri Nov 07, 2008 4:54 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Cyberlin - work in progress
Replies: 21
Views: 10717

Re: Cyberlin - work in progress

Well, next update: The four chapters that make up the story are done, and re-writing/editing is proceeding well (at snail-pace, as usual). Two chapters are final, and I'm halfway through on the third. I've also copied the first chapter plus some finished graphics into Ren'Py 6.8.0 to see what it loo...
by Alessio
Fri Nov 07, 2008 4:43 am
Forum: Creator Discussion
Topic: CONTEST: Project Screenshot(s) DISCUSSION
Replies: 78
Views: 10767

Re: CONTEST: Project Screenshot(s) DISCUSSION

Heh, just entered by accident really. Yesterday I threw the first part of the script plus some finished graphics into Ren'Py 6.8.0 and this competition just happened to come up at the same time...
by Alessio
Thu Nov 06, 2008 7:41 am
Forum: Creator Discussion
Topic: CONTEST SUBMISSIONS: Project Screenshot(s)
Replies: 18
Views: 7261

Re: CONTEST SUBMISSIONS: Project Screenshot(s)

http://www.kolumbus.fi/sapora/RSC/Cyberlin0001.png http://www.kolumbus.fi/sapora/RSC/Cyberlin0002.png Project Name: Cyberlin Link: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1701 Content: Sprites drawn/colored by me, in-game backgrounds made with Google SketchUp, menu backgrounds by ...
by Alessio
Wed Nov 05, 2008 1:56 pm
Forum: Ren'Py Questions and Announcements
Topic: A question about sound files
Replies: 4
Views: 686

Re: A question about sound files

The reason why ogg is preferred is that it's a free format, whereas mp3 is not. Also, ogg is more efficient (smaller file size for equal quality). Also, re-encoding from one compressed format (such as mp3 to ogg) to another is generally a bad idea due to the loss in quality. Encode from the original...