Let's Play GenGame

[thereaper]

517 is finished.



Now, one might wonder why I would stop there, seeing as how I've been in the habit of doing exactly 50 each day I make indexes. The answer is simple:

It's done.




Turns out I was closer to being done than I thought.

Only 15 days to do the whole thing.

To celebrate, I went and made indexes for the showdowns, too (turns out there are currently 17 of them; what a funny coincidence, huh?).

You may now worship me and the ground I walk on, so long as AJ and Domo get their 70% cut.

[flabort]

I found an article today.... It seems more than vaguely familiar....
GenRogue.
Apparently features... "Random plots and world generation, random cities and random conversations."

Sound a little familiar?

[averagejoe]

517 is finished.



Now, one might wonder why I would stop there, seeing as how I've been in the habit of doing exactly 50 each day I make indexes. The answer is simple:

It's done.




Turns out I was closer to being done than I thought.

Only 15 days to do the whole thing.

To celebrate, I went and made indexes for the showdowns, too (turns out there are currently 17 of them; what a funny coincidence, huh?).

You may now worship me and the ground I walk on, so long as AJ and Domo get their 70% cut.

Awesome. And thanks again. I hit a bit of a snafu in actually posting it, but with luck that should be fixed soon.

In other news, I set up a tvtropes page for the comic. It's rather unimpressive now - I don't know that site very well - so contribute if anything comes to mind.

[flabort]

Already contributing, thank you.
Found three more tropes it's an example of.

And am looking for more. Soon, Gengame will be a very, very dangerous entry into it's databases.

Edit: Arg. I can't find a trope to cover [Message Redacted|Enjoy Gencola!]. I think This one can be mentioned when describing why Gengame provides an example of Trope X. I immagine it would be somewhere in This category of tropes. But theirs so many, and... well, I can't find any that would apply.

Edit 2: Broken [Color] tag. can't figure it out.

Edit 3: found broken url tag in my post, too. fixed it, now the color tag works. wut?

[thereaper]

You made a tiny mistake on the tvtropes page. It's "Swordmaiden", not "Swordmistress".

[averagejoe]

You made a tiny mistake on the tvtropes page. It's "Swordmaiden", not "Swordmistress".

D'oh! I don't know what I could have been thinking.

[thereaper]

Bad AJ! Bad!

What if you had made that mistake in the actual comic?

Drop and give us fifty!

[Mercenary Pen]

Drop and give us fifty!

But how's he supposed to give us that many updates in a single day?

[Domochevsky]

But how's he supposed to give us that many updates in a single day?

More importantly, how am i gonna draw that many? And why do you have to drag me into this in the first place?! D:

(And to add insult to injury? We might be going for 4 days without a update here, seeing how my birthday kinda interfered with things. )

[flabort]

Bad AJ! Bad!

What if you had made that mistake in the actual comic?

Drop and give us fifty!

Soory. MY bad. Now stop scolding AJ, he didn't type that!

[thereaper]

Ok then, you drop and give us fifty, then!

And happy birthday, Domo!

[Slartibartfast]

Edit 3: found broken url tag in my post, too. fixed it, now the color tag works. wut?

That makes perfect sense actually. If it's trying to parse the entire file (i.e. your post) to compile it (honestly, BBcode is still a compiled programming language, even if the output is less impressive) then any error, especially a missing close parenthesis (or in this case a square bracket) would confuse the compiler about where the commands start/end, and therefore might not even recognize the color tag as a command, let alone parse it. Adjacency bugs are often the hardest to find.

Also, happy birthday Domo!

EDIT: I just wasted a fair amount of time checking out the censorship tropes but they really don't apply. Most of them involve swear words or dodging censorship, as opposed to stopping the flow of ideas. You might want to try looking up books that use similar censorship techniques, like maybe 1984 or Brave New World, things like that. If the trope we're looking for exists, stories like those will reference it.

EDIT2: Against my better judgement, I actually spent another infinite amount of time trapped in the tropes. Still no luck with existing tropes. We may actually have something new that nobody thought of before (for a trope page at least). Flabort, I leave it up to your mastery to keep searching, but if you can't find anything either make a new trope called Corporate Censorship and that pretty much sums up all of the [MESSAGE REDACTED|ENJOY GENCOLA] that GenCorp's been doing.

[thereaper]

Is it just me, or is BH looking more and more masculine as the comic progresses?

[Mewtarthio]

Taking a closer look at today's comic, I have to agree with--

Wait... Is MG wearing anything under that apron?

[thereaper]

I was under the impression that she didn't.

I have a command I'm saving which relates to that (come to think of it, I have several commands I'm holding in reserve).

[flabort]

I always though she was wearing a sleeveless shirt underneath....

Looking back to the early archives, however, I see... maybe not.

[Domochevsky]

Video games, man... always with the skimpy outfits.

(Must be the glasses that give BH that extra masculine touch. I'll need to make some adjustments there, it seems, to counter-act my efforts to have them be physically distinct. >_>)

[Draconi Redfir]

well i don't know about the rest of you, but i noticed she wasn’t wearing a real shirt sometime around seeing the left-side of the bottommost image on this page (Can't find the full image anywhere )

ok so i actually saw the full MG-drinking-wine image here on the giant ITP boards when it was still running here, but you get what i mean.

Also kinda figured that was a one-time thing and she still wore a shirt in the comic... guess not

[thereaper]

Video games, man... always with the skimpy outfits.

(Must be the glasses that give BH that extra masculine touch. I'll need to make some adjustments there, it seems, to counter-act my efforts to have them be physically distinct. >_>)

Yeah, that's how it is. Pre-glasses, the only feminine features she has are the eyelashes and the chest, and the glasses remove the former from the picture.

[averagejoe]

Interesting. I've always thought of MG as wearing just overalls, even before I became privy to inside information.

[thereaper]

So when does the index get put up, AJ?

The longer you wait, the more strips there will be!

[Claudius Maximus]

Is the first panel unfinished?

[Domochevsky]

Is the first panel unfinished?

No, that's just me experimenting with whether or not i can get away with leaving unimportant bits of the scene in raw format.

*cough*

Guess i can't. >_>

[averagejoe]

So when does the index get put up, AJ?

The longer you wait, the more strips there will be!

Funny you should mention that.

[Draconi Redfir]

No, that's just me experimenting with whether or not i can get away with leaving unimportant bits of the scene in raw format.

*cough*

Guess i can't. >_>

Nope, guess not :u

[flabort]

Looks nice. Looks awesome.

For a moment I thought some of the links were broken, because they were black while the other pages were blue, but of course their not, that was dumb human error on my part. I'd forgotten that the links were meant to be different colors.

But, besides me being a stupid-head, there isn't any problem, I should think. That will be very, very useful. To me, and to others.

[thereaper]

I noticed that the link for the infamous detonator strip shows up as 3 separate links, with the second and third having a different color, and the third not having an underline when you mouse-over it.

[averagejoe]

Nope, guess not :u

Oh, that reminds me.

*whips Domochevsky*

More work!

I noticed that the link for the infamous detonator strip shows up as 3 separate links, with the second and third having a different color, and the third not having an underline when you mouse-over it.

Yep. No clue how to do anything about that. Honestly, I'm kind of okay with the format for that one being a little wonky.

[thereaper]

So, I take it there won't be an archive for the Showdowns (at least for now)?

[Domochevsky]

There will be, but we're not quite sure yet where to put the link to it on the sidebar. (Since there is no primary navigation ("first", "last") for Showdowns like for the main comic.)