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by Koveras
Sat Dec 05, 2009 8:54 am
Forum: Creator Discussion
Topic: using emotions as dialogue choices?
Replies: 20
Views: 2451

Re: using emotions as dialogue choices?

While this certainly is an interesting idea, you must think of the technical implications of such approach. Unless you are very careful at maintaining the narrative threads, you will have them multiplying exponentially with every dialogue choice. In other words, with n basic emotions and m choices i...
by Koveras
Sun Nov 29, 2009 12:17 pm
Forum: Other Story-based Games
Topic: Romance mods for Bioware games - what would you recommend?
Replies: 12
Views: 2344

Re: Romance mods for Bioware games - what would you recommend?

JinzouTamashii wrote:
Ramidel wrote:Hey, there's a reason for the term "onee-sama." ^_^
That is NOT what that term is supposed to imply. :lol:

お姉さま means older sister, miss, lady, etc...
"Mistress". ;)
by Koveras
Mon Nov 23, 2009 4:24 pm
Forum: Other Story-based Games
Topic: Romance mods for Bioware games - what would you recommend?
Replies: 12
Views: 2344

Re: Romance mods for Bioware games - what would you recommend?

Now that it's getting back to me and I did a search, I'd probably try out Imoen's and Valen. I think Imoen's was one of the popular and stable mods although I could be wrong but that's something that I vaguely recall constantly being mentioned. Yay imouto incest. ^^; I guess some people are into th...
by Koveras
Sun Nov 22, 2009 4:29 am
Forum: Other Story-based Games
Topic: Romance mods for Bioware games - what would you recommend?
Replies: 12
Views: 2344

Re: Romance mods for Bioware games - what would you recommend?

Have you tried Female!PC/Aerie or Viconia? ;) You don't need a mod for that, a simple gender flip in the character editor after initiating the romance line is enough. :) But you end up having a baby with Aerie... Yes, you can get Aerie pregnant in a lesbian relationship. :D Isn't there some item th...
by Koveras
Sat Nov 21, 2009 2:46 pm
Forum: Other Story-based Games
Topic: Romance mods for Bioware games - what would you recommend?
Replies: 12
Views: 2344

Re: Romance mods for Bioware games - what would you recommend?

Have you tried Female!PC/Aerie or Viconia? ;) You don't need a mod for that, a simple gender flip in the character editor after initiating the romance line is enough. :) And oh, does your last sentence mean that you haven't played BG but are intending to... just for the romance arcs? ^^ Then you are...
by Koveras
Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:17 pm
Forum: Creator Discussion
Topic: Too Much Worldbuilding?
Replies: 18
Views: 1890

Re: Too Much Worldbuilding?

As Tolkien wrote in an essay (can't remember the title), it's easy to come up with a green sun, but it's much harder to design a world where it looks appropriate. ^^
by Koveras
Wed Oct 21, 2009 2:37 pm
Forum: Creator Discussion
Topic: Too Much Worldbuilding?
Replies: 18
Views: 1890

Re: Too Much Worldbuilding?

That being said - he was a well-to-do British professor with a LOT of time on his hands. Don't forget that he was also a WW1 veteran, and his sons fought in the WW2, so when he wrote about war, he knew just what exactly he was writing about. And it shows. Pulling from the world of VNs, I'm reminded...
by Koveras
Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:06 pm
Forum: Creator Discussion
Topic: Too Much Worldbuilding?
Replies: 18
Views: 1890

Re: Too Much Worldbuilding?

I plead guilty of spending too much time on world-building rather than actually writing stories. :D IMO how much world building is required depends largely on the genre. If you are doing an RPG, you'll need a whole lot of it, if it's a linear adventure, you only need what your character directly see...
by Koveras
Mon Oct 12, 2009 1:23 am
Forum: Skill Development
Topic: Writing You vs I
Replies: 12
Views: 1555

Re: Writing You vs I

I guess a game from the second-person view would be similar to Myst and all its reincarnations. Also, there's been a game marketed explicitely as a second-person narrative recently, Experience 112, and I hear it's quite good. You might wanna take a look at those for some inspiration... Also, most pe...
by Koveras
Thu Oct 08, 2009 11:13 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: How do you overcome speech fear...
Replies: 23
Views: 3297

Re: How do you overcome speech fear...

I actually think picturing the audiance nacked IS a good idea - and if your nervous and they are old and ugly it's an even better idea... the point is not to imagine some hot babes as that would make you just even more nervous, right? The point is that under their suits they really ARE nacked and p...
by Koveras
Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:37 am
Forum: Skill Development
Topic: What's more important? Plot, or characters?
Replies: 14
Views: 1476

Re: What's more important? Plot, or characters?

If you're aiming for originality, the easiest thing to look at the combination of plot and character. Every plot and every character has already been done before, but not every character has been placed in every plot. Try writing a rags-to-riches story about a vampire, a romantic comedy about two m...
by Koveras
Sun Sep 27, 2009 7:33 am
Forum: Skill Development
Topic: What's more important? Plot, or characters?
Replies: 14
Views: 1476

Re: What's more important? Plot, or characters?

So the only way to *avoid* all that crack-slash-epileptic-tree-flamewar stuff is to write poorly? :O Or not to write at all. ^^ Good stories always attract fandoms and you know what the fandom's favorite pasttimes are. ;) My universes and their inhabitants want love AND respect... </3 Oh yeah, and ...
by Koveras
Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:05 am
Forum: Ren'Py Questions and Announcements
Topic: How do you change the name of a project?
Replies: 1
Views: 644

Re: How do you change the name of a project?

Try closing Ren'Py, opening your Ren'Py projects folder, and renaming the subfolder that contains the project you want to rename. It worked for me. ^^
by Koveras
Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:23 am
Forum: Skill Development
Topic: What's more important? Plot, or characters?
Replies: 14
Views: 1476

Re: What's more important? Plot, or characters?

b) if you invest a lot of effort into both, you'll produce a lot of flame wars by confused readers who'd try to figure out what you wanted to say all while shipping and slashing your characters in mind-breaking ways. %) And I thought hard work is good... Why couldn't we put lots of efforts in both ...
by Koveras
Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:15 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Harddrive, may it rest in peace.
Replies: 13
Views: 1229

Re: Harddrive, may it rest in peace.

My condolences... Fortunately, none of my hard drives ever malfunctioned. *knocks on wood* But I know how you feel. Last year, I have experienced a major HDD overheating problem and it wouldn't even read the boot sector, so I killed a lot of nerve cells imagining all the work I've lost on that drive...