The Dreams in the Peacock House is out now on Steam!
Wake up from a never-ending slumber and find your lost dreams in the shadows of the Peacock House, in this short narrative game blending elements of text adventures, visual novels, and point & click games.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4693460/The_Dreams_in_the_Peacock_House/
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I've published my Decker Font Importer deck, which imports fonts in various retro pixel-font formats for use in your Decker decks.
It's not perfect, but it works for me for most things, and I'd like to get some real-world feedback so I know what to focus on.
https://screwtapello.itch.io/decker-font-importer/devlog/1537716/announcing-decker-font-importer
I can now import FontStruct pixel fonts more reliably. I found a really nice one called "Metro Sans" that was CC licensed so I could clone it and get the Glyphs file. Unfortunately, if you look at the test panel on the right, you'll see that "J" is touching up against "K".
I don't know why that is. The TTF export from FontStruct works fine, but in the Glyphs export the J glyph is marked as being 5px wide, despite being visibly 8px wide, and the "character width" guide in the online editor being drawn at 8px. If I add a pixel to the right and re-export, the width is recalculated correctly. If I delete the pixel and re-export, it goes back to being wrong. I guess it's a bug at their end?
Nothing Decker users can't fix with Decker's official font-editing deck, but still a pain.
It turns out I misunderstood. Fontstruct doesn't give you Glyphs file by default, but if you edit a font you can ask it to export a Glyphs file, and a lot of creators on Fontstruct specifically grant permission for other people to clone and edit their fonts. Some creators who distribute their fonts outside the Fontstruct website will even include the Glyphs file for completeness (which is what confused me initially).
Also by an astonishing coincidence, after I posted my complaint above, Decker's creator posted an OpenStep Property List parser as example code. So I figured I'd at least poke around and see how far I got.
So here's the font from Usagi Yojimbo for the C64, as rendered in Fontstruct by @patrick_h_lauke and exported as a Glyphs file, and imported Into Decker. It, uh, needs some work.
I have begun writing a Decker deck that can import fonts from Rob Hagemans' Hoard of Bitfonts. It's been kind of painful because Decker's scripting language is a bit awkward at text manipulation, and the YAFF file format is geared for human consumption rather than machine-readability. Nevertheless, I can now read a sequence of glyphs, with the Unicode codepoint they represent, the strike bitmap, and whatever other properties the font provides.
Still need to actually translate all that into a form Decker can use, of course.
And finally Field of Grass, another one by Erik Houdini of Houdini Magazine. A lament filled with empty, dithered photographs. Haunting
Harlequin Diver
Millennium
Raurquiz
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Renkon