Fallacy of Dawn Feelies re-load

[jjsonick]

I would tone down whatever 'painterly' filter is being used on the two guys on the cover a bit -- the girl looks fine but the guys are a little too fuzzed out by the effect.

It would be cool to get a shot of the arcade location in there -- maybe replace the gun with it, if you're going to get rid of the gun?

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I would tone down whatever 'painterly' filter is being used on the two guys on the cover a bit -- the girl looks fine but the guys are a little too fuzzed out by the effect.

Yeah, the source material is letting me down. Maybe Dayna has a picture of Brian (the guy who played Porn) in one of her college photo books. (We all went to college together.)

It would be cool to get a shot of the arcade location in there -- maybe replace the gun with it, if you're going to get rid of the gun?

Great idea. I'm going to take a pic of my downstairs area, where there are some arcade games, and place Delarion in front of it. That would totally work and help sell the idea of what the game is about. Excellent! Thank you.

I also ended up writing a large PM to you about the whole Feelies thing. I do have your e-mail address and should have probably sent it directly there. Either way, thanks for hanging in there on Feelies and I do hope to have this thing ready to go before too much longer.

[Vitriola]

Yeah, the source material is letting me down. Maybe Dayna has a picture of Brian (the guy who played Porn) in one of her college photo books. (We all went to college together.)

I dated him for 8 months, ya think? One of them had been obviously cut down to fit the frame. I also have some very nice shots of the girl you were dating at the time.

[bruce]

I also have some very nice shots of the girl you were dating at the time.

Is she naked?

Bruce

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Is she naked?

Like, meaning right now? At this instant? She is in South America last I heard so: probably.

... All right, FoD packs! Oh yeah!

Forgot to mention: I solved the Unix-crashing issue. Some d-bag saw it three years ago and posted on the IF Ratings site that the game, "Quits on launch" but never mentioned it elsewhere or what OS he was on. Not that it's that guy's responsibility, but Jesus Christ, here we have someone that downloaded the game, tried to play it, saw that it crashed and immediately assumed:

1) That everyone else playing it was making shit up. That Fallacy of Dawn was a lie of Roswellesque proportions

2) That he needed to go running off to the IF Ratings site to give the game the poor rating it so richly deserved, instead of expending equal effort to tell me, where I could have fixed it.

I swear, give any community anonymity and everyone becomes a sheer bastard.

So yeah, the game shouldn't crash on Linux any longer. The reason was because I was using the character #241 (referenced as such) to display health and ree levels. Instead, I switched to using color blocks.

Of course, the color blocks for health and ree don't line up perfectly on Windows. They are two pixels off. They match up perfectly on Limux. Good grief.

Anyway, I am playing through the thing on Linux and making record files so I can unit test the thing and ensure quality. I'm also trying to make sure that the game has enough "state," as Bruce put it six years ago. So that characters do not reference stuff they haven't seen. I think I solved it years ago, but being this long away from the game should ensure things.

(Then I need to tell the Home of the Underdogs to update their version.)

Shouldn't take more than a night to do this, the issue is just getting a night with nothing else going on. By this weekend, I hope.