What abandoned projects were you hoping would get finished?
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Does the Xenomorph tf project count as abandoned? Really just want some form of Giger-like TF in TiTs.
Not officially, but considering it already burned out three writers I think we can drop it in that bin.
I'm working something vaguely similar but extremely unaffiliated. Watch this space.
Care to elaborate on that? I guess you talk about FoE and while I only took a quick glance at the source it did not seem particularly complicated to me. But I'm interested to learn what non-programmers perceive as "nightmare"/difficult when coding their scenes.
Think they were talking about the coding mess of CoC and I'm going to assume that TiTS is in a similar manner of mucked-up-ness though not nearly as bad as CoC.
Haven't looked into the CoC source so far but I did a fair bit of reading in the TiTS code: Yes there are some issues with the code but most of the issues should not affect scene writers (in contrast to engine expansion). You have a fairly compact set of function for text output and menu management and a rather rich api to query and manipulate characters that should be straight forward to use once you have learned what is available.
The biggest problem I see is the lack of modularisation - most code is stuffed into one class and many things (eg room names, flags) need to be globally unique which makes it easy to step on each others toes. Together with using strings for things like flags (where a typo usually does silently something different instead of crashing and burning - preferably during compilation instead of at runtime) it is relatively easy to make errors that can only be caught during play testing.
The last thing is scene complexity - the more variations you add to a scene (based on characters traits and appearance, quest states etc) the more complicated the code will get but I'm curious if there are any ideas how this can be made simpler/better or what is seen as the biggest obstacle by writers.
(if someone wants to discuss these topics maybe it is better to create a separate thread for this as this thread is mainly about content not code)
The biggest problem I see is the lack of modularisation - most code is stuffed into one class and many things (eg room names, flags) need to be globally unique which makes it easy to step on each others toes. Together with using strings for things like flags (where a typo usually does silently something different instead of crashing and burning - preferably during compilation instead of at runtime) it is relatively easy to make errors that can only be caught during play testing.
The last thing is scene complexity - the more variations you add to a scene (based on characters traits and appearance, quest states etc) the more complicated the code will get but I'm curious if there are any ideas how this can be made simpler/better or what is seen as the biggest obstacle by writers.
(if someone wants to discuss these topics maybe it is better to create a separate thread for this as this thread is mainly about content not code)
Careful Cap'n, that sarcasm might not translate all that well over text, you could fool newbies into thinking that's true.
Considering how many writers were burned out trying to add new scenes to old characters I reckon it ain't true, unless you mean the original author continuing their work by adding more scenes, in which case that becomes much more true.
i remember at one point there was talk of a glove that let you shoot lightning at enemies like Palpatine, i think there was Roman Lorica as well
I think those are a part of the Fantasia Foundry mentioned earlier, though I could be mistaken.
It has nothing to do with coding, nor are writers even expected to code their own stuff. Quite the opposite, really, unless they're incredibly familiar with it. News flash, fam; a lot of people say they're gonna do a thing and flake out, whether it's the "I'm gonna get into writing for this slowly by adding stuff!" or the "Here's my idea Imma do it" folks.
I misunderstood that it was about coding, I thought the conversation was about just writing in general, not specifically coding. Though writers do tend to at least set-up their works to be codded with parsers and what-not, which is helpful if nothing else.
Many probably get their will to write eroded by not kind comments so they slowly giving up on continue working. Thou having own work only praised is bad as then will come Fen/Savin hammer to smash delusions.
And the ones that finds balance between both are our forum writers ^^
Sadly path to Dao of High Quality Smut Writing is way to hard for many many more of us
And the ones that finds balance between both are our forum writers ^^
Sadly path to Dao of High Quality Smut Writing is way to hard for many many more of us
I'm not talking about FoE or CoC or TiTS specifically. Look into Terry's coding. Every pronoun is a parser call. That is what I mean by nightmare.
I'm making my own game and before I whip up some kind of design document with any form of cohesion rather than ramblings, hopes and dreams, I need to look into what is within my limitations to produce. Since I don't want writing for a very moddable character to be said nightmare, I want to find workarounds/shortcuts to making this less of hassle to both write for and code.
yeah, I don't really see how this can be made easier without reducing the number of variants. Looking at the foe source I'm not a fan of this add()/nl() noise and would use \n/<br> or some other markup instead. Also setting up the parser could be made less frequent with better syntax (eg understand [terry.HisHer] and [pc.HisHer] etc) while keeping the ability to define parser calls on the fly for less frequently used replacements. You can't even replace this stuff automatically because of hisher himher hishers ambiguities...
That said - if you have ideas I would really be interested in discussing this.
That said - if you have ideas I would really be interested in discussing this.
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not even a green light for modders?
I'd infinitely rather stab myself in the eye with a dull spoon covered in AIDS.