u/JackAmpersand

I'm writing a story and there's a character that I'm having trouble naming. He is a mysterious character that wears a mask and wears a magician's cloak and hat. He speaks in a quite verbose/eloquent manner and has lots of secrets.

I'm looking for unusual names with a bit of a magical air to it? So far the names I've came up with are Todd and Zephyr but I don't think those are very good. Todd sounds too common and Zephyr sounds too cliche'd for what I'm trying to go for.

Optional but the name could have something to do with stars or the sun, as to mirror the main character who is symbolized by the moon.

Everyone knows Box of Blessings is among the most slop routes of the Hundred Line... so I wanna know, keeping the main concept of finding the boxes intact, how would you go about improving the route to make it better?

Asking because my computer as of now is massively underpowered, and I could use advice to point me in the right direction.

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I'm new to Ren'py, and I've begun trying to figure out the basics of having multiple character sprites on screen, and having sprites change with fade ins.

I found that the way to do this is to call the sprite, and then fade out the other sprite the same time as the new one

Just for the future, because my game will have tons of dialogue, is there an easier way to do the same thing?

This is a very important question to ask because I see a common complaint where fangans are needlessly violent for the sake of violent, but I'm trying to figure out where that line is specifically

I would say I am moderately okay at writing angst/torment (as it serves the story, of course). One of the routes for my game involves a serial killer, where the characters get picked off one by one in ways that directly reference certain horror movies, but I am concerned whether or not a player would find it to be too much

Probably an abstract question, but at what point does a character death become too graphic/reductive to the story?

In the year 1988, a mysterious company known as "The Company" puts out an advertisement recruiting 12 lucky people from across the United States to work on remodeling and fixing an abandoned, walled-in city known as CLC. CLC was once a famous tourist destination that strangely went abandoned within a single day 17 years ago on June 30th.

The Company promises a salary of $530 per hour, and the applicants will be invited to live within the city walls for the entirety of June, with living arrangements and food entirely paid for. Many people wonder why the job seems too good to be true, with such a high salary and such flexible schedules.

As the applicants go about working, they discover The Company is hiding a major secret, which may turn out deadly for a majority of them. As time passes, you will find yourself having to make harder decisions that might result in life or death.

I have started development on this game, it is essentially a choose-your-own adventure game where your decisions make you go down certain routes which determine who lives and who dies. There will be lots of endings planned.

In terms of gameplay, the gameplay will consist of you working for gifts to which you can buy for your fellow coworkers during free time.

Let me know what you think of this!! Of course since it is very early in development, I currently don't have anything to show for it other than a few character designs, but more is soon to come!

If you look at my last thread, I'm making a presentation on 80s Funk Music Composition and I asked "what are songs that used electric pianos"

If you don't mind I'm also looking for:

- funk songs that have conversations in the middle of them

- funk songs that use Yamaha DX7 Bass (or just the Yamaha DX7 in general)

- funk songs that use the minimoog

- funk songs with talkboxes or vocoders

- funk songs that have a clavinet played

Preferably 80s but 1979 works as well.

If anyone can reccomend me a few songs that fit these conditions then PLEASE let me know!!

This is for a school project where I'm doing a presentation on funk music

I would like reccomendations for songs that feature an electric piano (preferably a Yamaha DX7 electric piano).

I am looking for this alternative/indie rock song that played on a Latvian radio station called Radio NABA in 2007/2008 (more information in comment)

Here's my thought process:

A new invention (being) who is innocent and knows nothing of the world, witnessing people reducing themselves to their most primal instinct as a means of survival in a killing game, learns that humans must be fundamentally corrupt (and would eventually learn the opposite later down the line).

I used Autodesk ReCap to get mesh scans of a site, and then used Blender to edit the mesh and remove the part of the lot I need

I exported it as OBJ and it also gave me a .mtl file, but it won't let me import it with the textures

What do I do?