2015-01-16

Body Gen v 001, Fate Test

Making characters is the thing I spend the most time on. It's always tricky so I keep thinking of ways to get better end results. One tool that I can't go without is Fake Name Generator. I've used it a lot because it spits out a random person that I can shape into what I need. The only downside is that they don't generate physical body information. I'm pretty sure if they did got into bodies, they wouldn't include the ~details~ that I require anyway. It dawned on me that I can create a generator for that stuff myself.



I started with a tool built in Unity, then realized I could easily do the same thing using Fate.



This has the added benefit that I can post Body Gen here in hopes of getting some feedback on Fate. But this is like version 001 of Body Gen so don't expect much. Here are download links:
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LINUX
These are built using Unity so they are a little sizey, but what can ya do. Please keep in mind I have no idea if these will work at all :). Also if your computer explodes it's your fault. (Legal mumbo jumbo here) Okay I think they'll work, but the whole purpose is to find problems that I can fix. This is such an early public test, that I consider it a success if the thing starts up on your computer at all.

Body Gen is very simple right now, but will include more logic and details later. One place that is lacking for example is that the system generates trans-gender characters, but assumes they are all pre-op except for breasts. There are also various skews in place based on race that could/should be modified. For example blacks are more likely to have much larger cocks, but that doesn't necessarily mean that other races aren't capable of similar sizes. In other words, there are a lot of incomplete and or bullshit subjective things that could be changed. Apologies to all the people everywhere.

Assuming the game loads, a major point of the system is that games are moddable by default. This means if you want to customize Body Gen it shouldn't be a problem, given you know how the source code is formatted. It should be familiar to those who have used Twee/Twine. The document page is included in each zip. I use sublime text 3 with a plugin with syntax highlights and code completion for .fate files. Here is a copy of the plugin.

I'm probably thinking too far ahead, but if you are interested in sharing changes to Body Gen, you can send stuff to my email so I can include it in future versions. p4p - a - t - bunkville.com
I'll eventually setup some better way of sharing things, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. Thanks.

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