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Carcer

11:03 PM

@BlackSpike I installed your app on my phone but it crashes every time I try to actually generate a dungeon

Black Spike

@Carcer oh dear :( have you tried in landscpae rather than portrait?

(is designed for landcape - may have to enforce that ...)

(is also designed for tablets, so phone might not work so well ... but that is what Testing is for :) )

Carcer

ah, I see

yep, rotating the phone made it work

Black Spike

cool

notes to enforce Landscape

Carcer

I guess it doesn't meet minimum res constraints in portrait mode then

Black Spike

I think it is how it measures height/width of screen ... assumes it is wider ...

Carcer

11:12 PM

although having generated a map I can now rotate it any which way I like and it seems okay

Black Spike

yeah, once it has the "array", it should work ...

Single-Room pop-up is poor. Room-List button seems ok, i think

Carcer

I am having difficulty managing to tap on individual rooms in a way it's happy with, yeah

that might need to be somewhat fuzzier

Black Spike

I have fought long and hard with clicking in the right place ... UGH!!! yeah, its still not v good

doesn't help that the Canvas Object is a Known Bug

BESW

DungeonCommandr on how naming conventions communicate culture in worldbuilding.

Black Spike

@BESW Interesting. I've been looking at ways to improve my Random Names app ...

Carcer

11:18 PM

@BlackSpike I feel like you're curating a bizarrely specific shop

Come on down to Black Spike's Random Names and Dungeons Emporium

MikeQ

@BlackSpike Do you have a co-programmer, or at least someone to help proofread your code?

Black Spike

@Carcer Yup! Oh, we got Random! You want Random names, come right in! Random Places? Sure thing! Random Items? What sort ya need?

Carcer

A randomly named place? That's too much. Get out.

Black Spike

@MikeQ No, it's just me. And a very small group of friends who ignore my pleas for help!!

@Carcer Fantasy City Creator has random traits of City (Size, Trade goods, geographic features, architecture, etc) and ALSO random names! (based on English Towns)

MikeQ

Can't hurt to get a code review

Unless the reviewer only communicates by throwing knives. Then it might hurt.

Black Spike

11:23 PM

(I'm working on Random Planets/Spaceports, based on some data from RPG.net thread. Uses combo of Original Elite algae-rhythms and other )

@MikeQ I'd like that. But I know my code is poor! :(

Each iteration improves code a little, but also introduces copy/paste spaghetti

Part of the point of doing "Random" apps is as Inspirational RPG tools ... you need a "thing"? tap the screen, I'll generate one. names, towns, quests, items ... GMs never need to be at a loose end .. also, I can implement all those tables in the DMG (etc) that never get used!

(the Loots in Dungeon are "loosely inspired by" the DMG random Treasure tables, etc)

@BESW My Random names are currently M(blue)/F(pink). I am thinking how to improve it. Step1: chance of M(pink) or F(blue). Not sure where next,

BESW

@BlackSpike I really enjoyed the naming conventions in A Memory Called Empire.

May 17 at 2:23, by BESW

In A Memory Called Empire, citizens of Teixcalaan have names that are a number followed by a noun. Ordinary names are things like Three Seagrass and Twelve Azaleas. There's a guy named Nine Helicopter and everyone thinks that's pretty funny.

Black Spike

@BESW I don't know that one. Interesting title.

BESW

11:38 PM

in The Bridge, Apr 5 at 23:01, by Ash

@ToxicFrog a friend is reading "A Memory Called Empire" and described it thusly: "Enjoying this as much as I'd hoped so far, it feels like a cross between Cherryh's Foreigner series, de Bodard's Xuya series, and Leckie's Imperial Radch trilogy along but not in a derivative way, more just in that niche" which....makes me think it might very be your thing

Apr 9 at 14:02, by BESW

> This book is dedicated to anyone who has ever fallen in love with a culture that was devouring their own.

Apr 9 at 14:02, by BESW

It's about an ambassador from a tiny border nation, trying to navigate the culture of the expanding empire's capital city and keep her nation from being conquered by the empire.

Black Spike

ok. that's worth a read

(unfortunatley, my list of "worth a read" is v long, and my list of "read recently" is v small)

BESW

The worldbuilding is really good, the themes are nuanced and novel, the writing is compelling, it's an amazing first novel.

Black Spike

I forced myself to read "The City and The City" (China Mieville), and was glad I did.

But since I stopped getting the bus-commute, and drive between clients now ... less reading :(

MikeQ

@BlackSpike No audiobooks?

Black Spike

@MikeQ can't do audio books. Not my thing. Spend half my time rewinding them, as I wasn't actually listenign

I need some Audio while I'm coding, but not anything that I have to listen to ... background noise to break the silence ...

BESW

11:48 PM

@BlackSpike Saaaame.

I'm working up to reading The Twisted Ones by reading The White People first.

> “When I was learning the language,” she said, deciding all at once to share, to offer something back for this little bit of cultural exchange—if they were going to work together they should work together—“we had to pretend to have Teixcalaanli-style names, and one of my classmates—the kind of person who scores perfectly on exams and has a terrible accent—called himself 2e Asteroid. The irrational number. He thought he was being clever.”
Three Seagrass contemplated this, and then snickered. “He was,” she said. “That’s hilarious.”

Black Spike

I've lost track of how many times I've had the Bourne (Identity, Ultimatum, Sandwich, Parkrun?) series of films on in the background ... still no idea what they're about! :D

BESW

@BlackSpike Surprisingly good shakeycam technique, mostly.

Black Spike

@BESW I don't get the visuals ... tv is behind me ...

(in a literal, I have to physically look over my shoulder to see the screen, not some kind of "i have progressed beyond your mere 'television', if that's even its real name" thing)

BESW