Content/priority poll
So my to-do list is enormous. Like, enormous enormous. There's a huge range of name generators and description generators on there and a lot of other cool ideas, a few of which I've slowly been working on. Now I could continue working on them bit by bit as I've done in the past and release them whenever they're done, but I feel it'd be better to give you all the opportunity to basically tell me which project to finish first.
If all this goes well I'll probably continue to do these content/priority polls and potentially include other non-generator related questions as well, both content and non-content related. But let's not get ahead of ourselves just yet.
Below are 3 projects I've been working on over the past few weeks/months. Each has a short description to explain the basic idea behind it all and what I plan on creating, but note that it is all subject to change.
- Emily
First poll is now closed. The town creator won with 45% vs 43% of the family tree creator.
Project #1: More weapons for the weapon creator.
Right now there are only pieces for maces, war hammers, swords (daggers/etc. depending on scale/context) and axes. However, I'd love to add bows, staves, spears, crossbows and all sorts of other easily adjustable weapons. Out of the three projects in this poll this one will take the least amount of time as part of it is already finished. The coding is in place, so all I basically need to do is create more images. Which is plenty time consuming in and of itself to be fair.
Project #2: Town creator (potentially kingdom/city/etc).
One of the more popular suggestions is a town creator, which could eventually be expanded to include all sorts of pieces to create cities and towns with in all sorts of styles. But the first version will probably just include medieval pieces to keep things relatively simply on my side and in a theme that is more widely used.
In the future I'd love to add sci-fi pieces, Asian themed pieces and pretty much anything else people suggest and are deemed useful.
How it'll work will be very similar to the map creator, except I'd probably give you complete and total freedom to drag the pieces wherever you wish. Since nothing is coded yet this whole idea will probably change a lot as there are plenty of limitations and 'ease of use' issues I can already think of, but we'll see how things go. The basic idea is pretty much just a drag and drop town creator with a few more elements to help customize the overall feel, like the ability to add a custom background image to instantly create a natural floor or grid of your choice for example.
Project #3: Family tree creator.
I personally already love this tool and it's not even coded yet, at least not at the time of writing this. Whether I'll even be able to pull off everything I want to do will be something for the future, but let's say I already have a whole lot of customization in store.
The basic idea is you pick a field, label it ('Mother 1' or 'Emily Fantasy' or 'Crazy Old Lady Who Lives Down The Street') and then add a face, eyes, eyebrows, a nose, hair and a mouth. Ears will always be the same purely for the fact that it makes handling dozens of different hair styles in various colors waaaaaaay easier for me.
Done with this character? Great! Time for the next. Repeat process, link the characters based on relation (parent/child) and on to the next. And so on and so on.
Plus there will be a randomize button and yes, some of the results will likely look like creepy characters you find in games with weird character creation options. Yay!
As for possible future additions, there's always different races (elves, dwarves, etc.), I could add child and elderly specific heads (currently little age difference in faces) and whatever else you all feel would be helpful.
When will the result be done?
I have no idea. Seriously, not a clue. It depends both on what will be picked in the poll and on what life has in store for me. Either way you hopefully have something to look forward to.