Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️what?
Return of the Obra Dinn saves your game as .txt files
containing XML
which contain a date and a <data> element that's a base64 encoded string.
that sounds like binary with extra steps
I'm trying to Death Generator this game but Lucas Pope is known for two things:
1. really neat games
2. caching all his rendered text
1. really neat games
2. caching all his rendered text
this means that if a game has a message box that says "Hello World!" and you memory edit it to read "Cat Sauce" and re-trigger the message box, you still see "Hello World!" because it's still caching the rendered text
oh
I was worried this game had dynamic justification
but no, it's just that I can't spell.
there's only two Rs in "terrible"
I was worried this game had dynamic justification
but no, it's just that I can't spell.
there's only two Rs in "terrible"
the good news is that I can quit to the menu and re-load the save and it empties the cache
the bad news is that automating this is not going to be easy. this game has its own mouse controls, meaning I can't use absolution positioning
the bad news is that automating this is not going to be easy. this game has its own mouse controls, meaning I can't use absolution positioning
absolute positioning, I mean.
ahh, there's keyboard controls. so this is doable.
There's still a nasty memory-search in there, but I'll manage
There's still a nasty memory-search in there, but I'll manage
okay got it doing a full reset.
the best part is that if I set it up slightly too slow, it accidentally clicks quit instead of begin, and the game closes, and I have to set up the IDs and pointers again
the best part is that if I set it up slightly too slow, it accidentally clicks quit instead of begin, and the game closes, and I have to set up the IDs and pointers again
I'm not sure I've ever gotten memory searching to work
got it. the problem was, as always, memory protection
well, that didn't last long. I was trying to skip some steps and figure out what unicode regions are supported by this font, and instead it just hung my extractor
I'll just extract all of unicode!
at 11 seconds a character, that'll take about... 19 days?
at 11 seconds a character, that'll take about... 19 days?
there's apparently a timing bug in my script which means that sometimes instead of quitting, it tries to turn down the volume.
this is less than useful
it turned out to be because minecraft was crashing slowly in a multithreaded manner
this is one of the worst ideas for a game to extract to put in the death generator
it has, like, 7 different character sets in it?
it has, like, 7 different character sets in it?
english (plus extra characters because there's some danish and german in there), hindi, traditional chinese, russian, and probably several more I'm forgetting
frankly I'm lucky this game didn't just invent its own conlang and stick the alphabet up in the private use area somewher
also every time it renders text it looks different.
literally every time.
there are randomly missing pixels. this is intentional and part of the game's aesthetic
interesting discovery: although the game is monochrome, the textures aren't. They seem to be mostly red/pink, with some green used.
The monochrome stuff seems to be done in a shader, but I'm wondering if the colors in the textures are being used for some in-game use?
The monochrome stuff seems to be done in a shader, but I'm wondering if the colors in the textures are being used for some in-game use?
calico liz
KasTas@foone that's.... abuse!
Alesandro Ortiz 🇵🇷🏳️🌈@foone [achievement unlocked]
Kawaoneechan@foone As someone who did exactly that, where else would you put the damn things?
@kawa my own codepage, of course. Fuck unicode
Saphire Lattice@foone ... To-do: do that
Oblomov
a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)@foone pouring gasoline on the fire meme, but it's foone pouring timing rubber bands into the automation
the vessel of morganna@foone THIS FONT IS TOO LOUD
Allan Chow@foone maybe it's just trying to find some passive aggressive middle ground, ok.
Ongion 🥚🐞@foone is it cheating to just ask Lucas Pope?
Briala@foone Now I want to come up with what "absolution positioning" would look like. :-D
Gadfly (-booq-)
Neko 
@foone You are Forgiven.
-dsr- (not a dog)absolution positioning:
a cursor mode that does what you should have done, not what you told it to do
alternatively: any system for fluffing a resume in preparation for a religious interview.
Rather Not@foone that depends how pirate-y ye arrrrre today
Andrew@foone he’s on fedi you could ask him
biggestsonicfan@foone Did you ever Death generator the GameCom Castlevania proto? It released shortly before you exited the bird app.
@biggestsonicfan nah, I never did. I'll have to look into that
agatha 
@foone binary you can copy paste?
now at @
fluffy 💜
Ankit Pati@foone It’s binary, you see.
Every data format out there is either binary (increasingly rare), or binary with (increasingly) extra steps.
None of these extra steps would exist if our ancestors just agreed on an endianness.
Glyph@foone have you ever looked at a mapeditor.org map
seb hanlon 😷@foone no shit, there was a serialization pipeline that turned out base64-encoded binary embedded as a stream of xml <char>0</char><char>A</char>…etc
Dan Hon
Cyber Yuki
Kiloku - Secretário do Caos@foone anticompression
shoofle@foone no....
Kai 
@foone a game about a cursed ship deserves a fittingly cursed file format
James T Monkey@foone If you think about what Obra Dinn is then the encoded string makes sense. Most of the entries in the log will be represented as bitflags, and when not they’re low-value integers. Pack em together and encode.
Sundew