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lilfluff*wanders in and brushes dust of the journal*
Oh, hello there. If you follow me over on the fediverse you might recall that a while back (oh, a month ago already? Okay, a month ago) I commented that I was looking at starting in on a journaling* game and had settled on a game by Dice Problems written for the 2021 Carta Jam, Help! I Have A Crush On My Rival?! Which is basically what it says on the tin. You come up with a character, who has a rival. There is a playing field made up of standard playing cards. When you flip over a card you look up the suit-color and value for a writing prompt about an interaction involving the rival. There's a little more complexity than that, but not much more than that. When you reach the end state of the game you work out how or whether the relationship between the protagonist and rival changes.
So, I had mentioned in the couple of posts I made over on the fedi that I had two things delaying me. First, well to quote myself,
The second thing delaying me was the need to sit down and actually do some research. Basically I decided that if I was going to do something involving rivals I'd go with a character idea I had a few years back who either resides in the Polychrome Heroics universe or in a nearby timeline. The setting was not really the need-to-do-research part (although I should go back and do some rereading in setting), it's that the first mental image I got of the character informed me both that they are a budding gadgeteer/tinkerer and that they have two prosthetic legs. If I was going to write about someone being blind, well that's right in the family, I think I could do a halfway decent job of not embarrassing myself. But no one in close family or acquaintances has a prosthetic limb. Now that I'm posting this here I'll repeat the request I'd made over on fedi, if anyone reading this either uses a prosthetic limb or otherwise has knowledge and they'd like to either pass it along, share a good source of information, or go, "Oh my goodness, please, please don't invoke stereotype/pet-peeve X about this," feel free to comment below or send a message. I think I've read enough not to be utterly ignorant now, but I'm not going to claim to be any kind of expert.
Anyway, I'm going to poke some more python code and work out more about the rival and hopefully not be all that long before I post something.
*Interesting tidbit: Unsure whether the proper spelling would be journaling or journalling as spellcheck doesn't like either, I could have turned to a dictionary but instead went to the ngram viewer to see which occurred more frequently. Prior to the 1990s the prominence of one over the other seemed to flip flop from time to time. Then in the mid 90s journaling with one L shot way up on the graph while journalling stayed about the same. So, yeah, apparently journaling with one L is the widely accepted version. At least in the corpus used by google's ngram thingy.
Oh, hello there. If you follow me over on the fediverse you might recall that a while back (oh, a month ago already? Okay, a month ago) I commented that I was looking at starting in on a journaling* game and had settled on a game by Dice Problems written for the 2021 Carta Jam, Help! I Have A Crush On My Rival?! Which is basically what it says on the tin. You come up with a character, who has a rival. There is a playing field made up of standard playing cards. When you flip over a card you look up the suit-color and value for a writing prompt about an interaction involving the rival. There's a little more complexity than that, but not much more than that. When you reach the end state of the game you work out how or whether the relationship between the protagonist and rival changes.
So, I had mentioned in the couple of posts I made over on the fedi that I had two things delaying me. First, well to quote myself,
Surely there is nothing unusual about ones first thought after considering starting up a journaling game be, "Okay, so first I need to write a python program that creates a card deck, deals them out into a layout and stores the state to disk. Oh, and a CLI for interacting with it." Right?Which I haven't done nearly us much as I wanted with (barely anything in fact). Partly due to getting sick in the meantime (Yay antibiotics? Even if they have un-fun side effects) and partly from getting barely any non-work keyboard time. But I do have a bit of python that will create and shuffle a deck of cards, I basically just need to add a bit that deals out a playing field and then presents it to you in such a way that you can pick a card to flip over (oh, and also store the unflipped/flipped state of each card?). Not difficult. I just need to sit down and actually do it.
The second thing delaying me was the need to sit down and actually do some research. Basically I decided that if I was going to do something involving rivals I'd go with a character idea I had a few years back who either resides in the Polychrome Heroics universe or in a nearby timeline. The setting was not really the need-to-do-research part (although I should go back and do some rereading in setting), it's that the first mental image I got of the character informed me both that they are a budding gadgeteer/tinkerer and that they have two prosthetic legs. If I was going to write about someone being blind, well that's right in the family, I think I could do a halfway decent job of not embarrassing myself. But no one in close family or acquaintances has a prosthetic limb. Now that I'm posting this here I'll repeat the request I'd made over on fedi, if anyone reading this either uses a prosthetic limb or otherwise has knowledge and they'd like to either pass it along, share a good source of information, or go, "Oh my goodness, please, please don't invoke stereotype/pet-peeve X about this," feel free to comment below or send a message. I think I've read enough not to be utterly ignorant now, but I'm not going to claim to be any kind of expert.
Anyway, I'm going to poke some more python code and work out more about the rival and hopefully not be all that long before I post something.
*Interesting tidbit: Unsure whether the proper spelling would be journaling or journalling as spellcheck doesn't like either, I could have turned to a dictionary but instead went to the ngram viewer to see which occurred more frequently. Prior to the 1990s the prominence of one over the other seemed to flip flop from time to time. Then in the mid 90s journaling with one L shot way up on the graph while journalling stayed about the same. So, yeah, apparently journaling with one L is the widely accepted version. At least in the corpus used by google's ngram thingy.
