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l_the_fangirlGoddamn it, I REALLY need to update this more often.
I'm just going to start off by warning you, right now, that my dad has discovered livejournal (er, no offense, tomelwhite.livejournal.com). If he hasn't friended me yet, he will soon.
Life's okay. I've been amusing myself here inpurgatory the Job Corps Center.
yami_no_eyes and xelvinas are tying the knot. (Possibly quite literally, given thier religious inclinations.) There is not enough squee in the world to express my feelings about this properly.
Speaking of Squee...
I've mostly been amusing myself by learning the ins and outs of Ren'Py, a visual novel and ren'ai computer game engine. (The english translation of that phrase is probably 'Electronic Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book, usually with romantic overtones.') Which means as a consequence that I've learned a bit of the Python programming language.
Ren'Py is awesome. It's extremely powerful and flexible, and I was churning out code with ease. You can get it at www.renpy.net, and a metric assload of amateur visual novels at www.lemmasoft.org.
Personal reccommendations are:
"Ori - Ochi - Onoe" by ATP Projects, a really slick professional quality game about the difference between love and lust. BARELY not porn/erotica by virtue of the gallery art not being explicit... suggestive, certianly.
"Black Pencil," again by ATP Projects. Very noir peice. You have a preminition that a woman you don't know will die on January 15th of next year, and try to prevent that from happening, falling in love with her on the way. It evokes your and her crushing lonliness frighteningly well.
"Elven Relations" by the awesome Alex Churchill (aka Chronoluminare). No epic plot, just a diplomatic envoy from the human kingdoms to the Elvenglade. Thank god, someone resisted the urge to write a fantasy story where you save the whole goddamn world... Also, the mage assigned to your squad, Tokho, is a total sweetheart. Or maybe I just like tsundere.
For the benefit of dad and others for whom otaku is a second language: a 'Tsundere' or 'Tsunderekko' is a character archtype that starts out cold or aloof (or 'tsuntsun' - japanese for 'cranky') and gradually warms up to, and admits she loves, the romantic lead (becoming 'deredere' - jp for 'affectionate'). I happen to like those kind of characters in fiction because done well, it's a beautiful bit of character development.
"Pygmalion" by "Mr E." - Short, and the art is extremley bad, but the writing is just that good. If anyone knows the myth of Pygmalion, or for that matter the plot of My Fair Lady, then you know where this peice is going. But gets there in style.
So where am I going with all this? I wrote one myself, that's where. Also on the Lemmasoft forums - http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=3791. It's called Transformation Sequence... and I can already see lichifruit and daemontellama's eyebrows raise.
Yup. It's THAT old saw I was kicking around a couple of years ago.
You are Talia Andrew Black, born Timothy Andrew Black. You're just starting to come out as a transgender girl at college (which is not explicitly but may as well be UC Santa Cruz.) You have a crush on your friend Ethan Sinclair. You are attempting to do something about it with the help of the only friend you've come out to, Isabel (please don't kill me for that name and giving her some of your speech patterns, dae ^_^;) Grist.
There are pictures of the cast by the amazingly talented Deji at this link to it's ToothyWiki page: http://www.toothycat.net/wiki/wiki.pl?TransformationSequence
I'd post it here but the proxy settings at Job Corps don't allow me to upload images. The new icon is her picture of Talia as Talia.
(The striking resemblance of Ethan and Greg to friends of mine from UCSC is ...not at all coincidental. This is based heavily on my own experiences at UC Santa Cruz. Though I personally never had a crush on santacruz!Alex. And the real Greg isn't *DELETED FOR SPOILER REASONS* either.)
Seven endings, none bad, some better, including a True Ending. None of them pornographic (I STUDIOUSLY avoid discussion of the ...mechanics of Talia being physically affectionate). Most of them squee inducing... if I did my job right.
Would any of you mind talking a look? I especially want lichifruit and daemontellama's opinion on this, but any critique I can get is going to help me. I eventually want to make a slick professional version of this and sell it at cons or somesuch.
Belser out.
I'm just going to start off by warning you, right now, that my dad has discovered livejournal (er, no offense, tomelwhite.livejournal.com). If he hasn't friended me yet, he will soon.
Life's okay. I've been amusing myself here in
yami_no_eyes and xelvinas are tying the knot. (Possibly quite literally, given thier religious inclinations.) There is not enough squee in the world to express my feelings about this properly.
Speaking of Squee...
I've mostly been amusing myself by learning the ins and outs of Ren'Py, a visual novel and ren'ai computer game engine. (The english translation of that phrase is probably 'Electronic Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book, usually with romantic overtones.') Which means as a consequence that I've learned a bit of the Python programming language.
Ren'Py is awesome. It's extremely powerful and flexible, and I was churning out code with ease. You can get it at www.renpy.net, and a metric assload of amateur visual novels at www.lemmasoft.org.
Personal reccommendations are:
"Ori - Ochi - Onoe" by ATP Projects, a really slick professional quality game about the difference between love and lust. BARELY not porn/erotica by virtue of the gallery art not being explicit... suggestive, certianly.
"Black Pencil," again by ATP Projects. Very noir peice. You have a preminition that a woman you don't know will die on January 15th of next year, and try to prevent that from happening, falling in love with her on the way. It evokes your and her crushing lonliness frighteningly well.
"Elven Relations" by the awesome Alex Churchill (aka Chronoluminare). No epic plot, just a diplomatic envoy from the human kingdoms to the Elvenglade. Thank god, someone resisted the urge to write a fantasy story where you save the whole goddamn world... Also, the mage assigned to your squad, Tokho, is a total sweetheart. Or maybe I just like tsundere.
For the benefit of dad and others for whom otaku is a second language: a 'Tsundere' or 'Tsunderekko' is a character archtype that starts out cold or aloof (or 'tsuntsun' - japanese for 'cranky') and gradually warms up to, and admits she loves, the romantic lead (becoming 'deredere' - jp for 'affectionate'). I happen to like those kind of characters in fiction because done well, it's a beautiful bit of character development.
"Pygmalion" by "Mr E." - Short, and the art is extremley bad, but the writing is just that good. If anyone knows the myth of Pygmalion, or for that matter the plot of My Fair Lady, then you know where this peice is going. But gets there in style.
So where am I going with all this? I wrote one myself, that's where. Also on the Lemmasoft forums - http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=3791. It's called Transformation Sequence... and I can already see lichifruit and daemontellama's eyebrows raise.
Yup. It's THAT old saw I was kicking around a couple of years ago.
You are Talia Andrew Black, born Timothy Andrew Black. You're just starting to come out as a transgender girl at college (which is not explicitly but may as well be UC Santa Cruz.) You have a crush on your friend Ethan Sinclair. You are attempting to do something about it with the help of the only friend you've come out to, Isabel (please don't kill me for that name and giving her some of your speech patterns, dae ^_^;) Grist.
There are pictures of the cast by the amazingly talented Deji at this link to it's ToothyWiki page: http://www.toothycat.net/wiki/wiki.pl?TransformationSequence
I'd post it here but the proxy settings at Job Corps don't allow me to upload images. The new icon is her picture of Talia as Talia.
(The striking resemblance of Ethan and Greg to friends of mine from UCSC is ...not at all coincidental. This is based heavily on my own experiences at UC Santa Cruz. Though I personally never had a crush on santacruz!Alex. And the real Greg isn't *DELETED FOR SPOILER REASONS* either.)
Seven endings, none bad, some better, including a True Ending. None of them pornographic (I STUDIOUSLY avoid discussion of the ...mechanics of Talia being physically affectionate). Most of them squee inducing... if I did my job right.
Would any of you mind talking a look? I especially want lichifruit and daemontellama's opinion on this, but any critique I can get is going to help me. I eventually want to make a slick professional version of this and sell it at cons or somesuch.
Belser out.
