DEWELAR'S PROFILE

author=Kevincalanor
I tested the '2' option...

Thanks for checking that out. Seems like there would be a lot of hoops to jump through, so I think it's probably best to go with Mute's suggestion of having two separate files, one for use with Masako and one without. Yeah, I'll have to maintain two files whenever I update Noriko, but I'd rather do that than force someone to install content they might not want.

ps. Yeah I got six mp's, and they even have a speace of time between them. x3

My apologies again. I don't know why RMN kept telling me there was an error. Live and learn :) .

Render was already taking a look at the grammar, you probably missed cause he said into a hide tag, maybe would be better to MP him about his progress, to avoid correcting the same parts twice and save you guys some time. ^^

Ah, okay. I actually sent Render a few things I found when I playtested Megumi as well, and am waiting to hear back from him because I know he's on vacation right now. At this point, maybe I should just hold off on any more playtesting of Eliza & c. until he's finished his review. I had started another batch of similar stuff, so just let me know what I should do with it.

Anyhow thanks for the heads up, I'll get these changes done.

Cool! By the way, I like Eliza's story quite a bit, although admittedly the grammar issues are quite distracting :| .

author=Marrend
With respect to the "easter egg", does Masako's tachie show up on the same screen as Noriko's? If not, I'd be okay if you put in Masako's tachie into Noriko's OTHER slots (that's what ye olde Emiko did, in a kinda-sorta way), and do it that way. Otherwise, I'm thinking that including Masako's non-story content with Noriko could still work for your purpose.

I wasn't necessarily intending to display Masako's tachie. All I'm trying to do is, when Noriko brings up Masako, have <player>'s comments be different depending on whether or not he's actually met Masako.

Meanwhile, I've been trying to send a PM to Kevincalanor with the things I've discovered during my playtesting of the WolfyPack for the past couple of hours, but apparently that part of the RMN system is down. I'm going to post it here instead. It's long, and mostly spelling/grammar stuff, so I'm putting it behind the button:

author=Marrend

author=dewelar
Specifically, I'd like there to be a way to have a story file look for other custom content and not crash the program if it doesn't find it.

Was there not warning that some content would not be playable, and let you play anyway? Has this feature been removed?

Not sure how it worked before, but for me it just says that masako_story.txt wasn't found, and the game failed to start.

The line of code is simply:

A: 3 DONE IN masako_story.txt

...where BRANCH A contains the custom dialogue only, leading to a JUMP to where the two dialogues converge. It would happen twice.

author=Marrend

author=dewelar
Since I have some places within Noriko's file that refer to Masako (both are in the debate club), and I would like to be able to have some custom dialogue that is dependent on Masako having been introduced, just without forcing the player to have Masako installed in order to use Noriko.

Uhhhhh, you could put Masako's tachie, profile, and music into Noriko's directory structure, and not include her story? However, this is not a move I actually support. What I would support is having people require Masako to be installed, and let them decide to disable her story (or not) through the Custom Content option in the main menu.

I am sorta assuming that Masako would have an alternate INTRODUCE event within Noriko's story in the case that her story is disabled this way.

I'm not sure exactly how this would work. The current Noriko story file just has Masako mentioned by name, and if the player doesn't have Masako installed that part would not change, so there should be no need for an actual INTRODUCE event.

I guess what I wanted was for the Masako content to be kind of an "easter egg", and giving the player any kind of clue that he needs Masako installed would spoil it. This was actually motivated by what happens in my current file when the player does have Masako installed. I hadn't run a full playthrough with both Noriko and Masako until yesterday, and when I did I realized how awkward it is when the player is being tutored by Masako, and when Noriko talks about her his inner thoughts are along the lines of "Oh, yeah, Masako, I've vaguely heard about her." It was just jarring. It would just be unfortunate if my only choices were to either spoil the surprise or to eliminate it altogether.

While I'm here, I found a minor issue in the prologue. During the scene where <player> sees Keiko and Akari in the hall, there's a line of his thoughts that reads "(Oh what do I care)" with no punctuation at all. There should at least be a question mark at the end, and probably a comma after "Oh". I've seen a few others, but haven't started a list yet, and was wondering if this was the place to put them, or maybe just submit them to Dozen for the request list. Also, what do I do if I find stuff like this in the finished custom content from the folks who aren't around anymore (e.g., there are quite a number of spelling/grammar issues with Yuu's story)?

ETA: Have now started making a list for the main game :) .

On a completely different topic...

I've been doing some playthroughs with Noriko, trying to see where things might be improved, and also going through some of the custom content that I haven't seen (Why in blazes does Joruri want to block me from raising my attributes? Also, I have discovered that it's a bit difficult for me to go digging for the stuff that needs playtesting, so if anyone wants to point me to where I can download such files I would be grateful...). I know we just had an update to the game, but there was something I'd noted ages ago that probably got lost in the shuffle. Specifically, I'd like there to be a way to have a story file look for other custom content and not crash the program if it doesn't find it. Since I have some places within Noriko's file that refer to Masako (both are in the debate club), and I would like to be able to have some custom dialogue that is dependent on Masako having been introduced, just without forcing the player to have Masako installed in order to use Noriko.

I realize this is probably not possible due to the vagaries of custom content, but maybe there's some way around it? The only thing I can think of at this time is to have the custom code commented out, and someone who wants to see it would have to manually edit Noriko's story file to remove the hashes, but that would kind of spoil the fun :( .

Well, "Mai Waifu" is the Japanese cognate of "my wife", and is often used by fanboys/otaku to refer to their favorite VN/anime/manga/hentai/whatever character. It's often seen as a bit creepy, and can have sexual overtones. I would strongly advise against using that as a character name, robot or no.