ALICE 1.0 Released

[Cazel]

Looks good. Though I'm guessing the file menu is normally in English, so I probably need to find out what foreign language settings on my comp are screwing that up.

[PyTom]

Eclipse >> Sure. I'm kinda hoping people will distribute azip files separately, so I don't need to keep including data in the ALICE zip file. (And so I have to do less work to maintain ALICE, a program which I find less interesting then Ren'Py.)

I think we also need to resolve what license the various images are under. I suggest one of the Creative Commons licenses, although some of the more infectious ones could be problematic if they can apply to an entire game, rather than a single image.

Lemma >> KISS was certainly an inspiration, moreso classic KISS then any of the later interactive variants. Notable is that the numeric layer ordering is taken right from KISS, albeit I made it floating-point rather than integer. ALICE has some major differences, though: hiding is done under user control, there is more control over scaling and cropping, and there will (if interest persists, as defined by more dolls being made) be the ability to recolor things, as opposed to picking one of a number of fixed palettes.

[Ren]

XD The menus where in Japanese at first for me(because i had the non unicode programs in that language to play some demos)

although some of the more infectious ones could be problematic if they can apply to an entire game, rather than a single image.

I'm sorry, i didn't quite understand what you mean>_>;;

[PyTom]

What I mean is that if a work is licensed under a Creative Commons sharealike license, it means that the entire game would need to be covered by the same license, which would be a bit harsh, as it dictates the license to the entire game, rather than just the one image.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/

I would suggest as a preferred license for images the Creative Commons Attribution license, which simply requires that people attribute your images to you.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/

Alternatively, there's the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license, which prevents people from putting your work into games that they then sell. (It would also prevent commercial distribution of your game, and perhaps would prevent me from bundling a game made using your images onto a Ren'Ai Archives CD. So I don't recommend this at all.)

CC-Attribution-Sharealike is probably too viral, and modification is required for an image to be used with ALICE, so licenses that do not allow that are right out.

Finally, there's Public Domain, which isn't a license but is where you can place your images if you don't want any credit (or blame) for them.

I personally think the Creative Commons Attribution license is the way to go, and if I was hosting an archive of ALICE dolls I would probably mandate that every doll was either CC-Attribution or Public Domain.

I may add attribution tracking to the next version of ALICE.

[monele]

Very promising so far and I haven't had any problem launching it. It just seems my system is missing the default font... weird ^^;.
As it is right now, recoloring seems like it would give the most freedom to the user : only a few haircuts would become hundred of possibilities. More so if they're separated as with the betty doll

[A Random Passerby]

-pokes head in-

I downloaded ALICE, and it gave me an error message about not having "libglib-2.0-0.dll"...where may I find this DLL file?

[PyTom]

glib is part of gtk+.

[A Random Passerby]

glib is part of gtk+.

I installed that, but it still said it wasmissing...

[Dis]

Have you tried putting Alice into the GTK directory?

[A Random Passerby]

Have you tried putting Alice into the GTK directory?

No...

But I discovered what was wrong - I didn't install the whole thing - only what was required. ^^;

Thanks for all the help anyway! ^^

[If I finally stop getting lazy, I'll register and make some ALICE stuff...]

[ShiraiJunichi]

That would be great- I don't think we've had any contributions to ALICE for quite a while

[rioka]

Yes, more contributons would be fantastic! Btw, Junichi - what happened to the ones you were working on?

[ShiraiJunichi]

Did people actually like those? Maybe I should stop being so critical of myself...
I guess I just never really finished. And I didn't know exactly how to distribute what I had, since I didn't have my own base.
I still have the files somewhere, I'm pretty sure...

[Watercolorheart]

Um, I posted some templates earlier on this board. Somewhere.

[Freya]

I'm confused on how to edit the images. I tried opening the files in photoshop CS2, but it says it's not supported.