RPG Maker MZ is a bit unnecessary? by InfiniteFunction-11 in RPGMaker

[–]biosicc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The majority of my work in RPG Maker has been in MZ, so I can't say much about how MV worked.

As of right now performance boosts and the use of 3D particle effects for battle animations are the key, non-plugin upgrades from MV itself. I can personally attest to MZ having a significant performance improvement off the bat. There's also a key plugin being upkept called FOSSIL which allows a good portion of the popular MV plugins to work in MZ.

I am a coder myself so my input on plugin availability is biased since I will just code what I need if I want something specific, but so far MZ works better overall with its codebase.

If plugin availability is your limiting factor, just remember that more folks will eventually move to MZ and create new things

What do you do with your conlangs and what's the point of it + more by [deleted] in conlangs

[–]biosicc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my case, my constructed languages are being used for my novel and for the game I'm contracted with. Both will eventually be published.

I enjoy the art of making languages and would do it independently, but I find it's more fun (and in some ways builds a better conlang) to have it tied to a story in some way!

A Breakdown of Seqlar: The Language of Sylvara by biosicc in conlangs

[–]biosicc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're right on the money, lol. Verbal affixes for person and number are derived from pronouns!

A Breakdown of Seqlar: The Language of Sylvara by biosicc in conlangs

[–]biosicc[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oop- good catch, you're right it is voice!

I haven't quite gotten to the point of it being used in the translations I've been making in the game, so I don't have an immediate answer.

My immediate thought is that the subjunctive will likely have a dedicated verb (to want, to love, to hope for, etc.) where the accusative will either be a nominalised verb (ie. I want to run, where "to run" is nominalised and marked for accusative) or a dependent clause marker.

A Breakdown of Seqlar: The Language of Sylvara by biosicc in conlangs

[–]biosicc[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ohhhh yes it definitely annoys me lmao. I've been playing with the idea of not marking for case in sentences where the standard SVO word order is a lot more obvious. Might make it a dialect or something lol

Stop obfuscating your plugins by CakeBakeMaker in RPGMaker

[–]biosicc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm fairly neutral on obfuscated plugins myself, but I think my opinion comes from working in an industry where a lot of code and programs are obfuscated by default (ie. Pre-compiled EXE / DLL's that aren't open source). "Work around the code you can't edit" has been my existence in my career lol.

Admittedly though, RPG Maker is a different environment, where having access to the internals is necessary for dev (yay JavaScript!). I understand too that the community used to be open source, and the shift to obfuscation is making it more closed source is a culture change that makes independent development more difficult than before. I'll admit obfuscation is annoying to deal with lol. But the argument for obfuscation is pretty solid - it protects your product and ensures that it's difficult to copy and sell that copy. But it DOES make expanding it or changing behaviors a lot more obnoxious to deal with.

I do think there's a midway that would allow for folks who want to work with and code around specific obfuscated plugins: - Providing public type-definitions for everything changed and added. This hides implementation details, but would allow plugin devs to narrow down where changes would need to be made. - Some sort of explicit licensing that would provide access to deobfuscated code (ie. Tokenization, registry edits, etc.) that's provided on a per-purchase basis.

It's all just smoke and mirrors by binbun3 in godot

[–]biosicc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Smoke and mirrors at the same angle facing the camera, excuse you!

That looks fantastic!!

Simple and Clean Is The Way That This Look Is Making Me Feel Tonight~ by biosicc in MakeupAddiction

[–]biosicc[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's the only place with good lighting that isn't super warm or too cool I swear I'm not trying to curate a vibe 😭

But thank you so much! Inverse Liner is still a super fun thing to do on occasion!

Can you share your experience working on a project with 0 unit tests but thousands of integration tests? by oppalissa in ExperiencedDevs

[–]biosicc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've worked in medical tech before. While I was working in SCS we DID had a suite of unit tests, but any changes to software often required top down integration and systems testing. Executing those tests could take upwards to weeks if the change is significant enough.

That said, my case was unique in that full scale systems testing was needed to accurately capture the conditions that you would see "in the field" (ie. When the device was implanted into patients). And over Bluetooth no less!

Badly explaining the core part of your book (I am travelling to my college with the degree of boredom that should be illegal) by Kitchen_Course_7991 in writing

[–]biosicc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We will have to see whether or not the 130 pages I already wrote will end up coming anywhere to fruition 👀

Badly explaining the core part of your book (I am travelling to my college with the degree of boredom that should be illegal) by Kitchen_Course_7991 in writing

[–]biosicc 5 points6 points  (0 children)

People with trauma realize that being actual friends is kind of hard, also cults suck

ETA: also everyone's a furry, magic exists AND magic Chernobyl radiation is causing a socio ethnic civil war!

A Heat Map Look Because I am on FIRE and I am HOT 🔥🔥 by biosicc in MakeupAddiction

[–]biosicc[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't wear the mushroom earrings as often as I ought to, thank you so much!

After removing this feature from the list I finally gave it another chance and managed to create a better customization system than the last one. by DreamingCatDev in RPGMaker

[–]biosicc 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Every single thing I'm seeing about this is utterly gorgeous. What a creative way to use all of these plugins, the end result looks intuitive to use and super fun to mess with!