Esoteric Update #212 - Gravatar Move Over

Update time is upon us once more. Well, have some lore to start off:

Lore: The Genomancers and Their Gardens

I spent a good deal of the last week writing, so there's not much I can present here. But I can talk about a few things, and I can show something small but visual. In terms of writing, I did some lore, some event writing, and then some more technical stuff (modular).

I've also had some misadventures with Ink; since I decided to use my systems for procedural narration, I had to do a little bit of programming. No problem, really... or it would have been if there were no problems with Ink, but there always are, it seems. If you are interested, most of my malding can be seen on our Discord server, but I'd sum it up with this:

Oh boy, duck typing.

Now then, I said I'll show something off too.

There are 16200 of these icons generated right now, but it struck me later that I can just render them internally in-engine and use them from there (using base64 image encoding). It's a bit of a complicated process to explain briefly, but the reason why I didn't do it like this initially was simply because it didn't click with me that there's a good way to take an Image object and convert it to a base64 string without using a file on the HDD as an intermediate... but it turns out you totally can. And I'm going to do that.

This might open us up to some new possibilities for image generation in the future, but we'll see how it goes.

I'm also only working one more week this month (this one), after which I'll have some more free time, and I'll put that all towards the game.