Introduce yourself!

[Cheez26]

A very warm welcome to the forum, Chelsea!

It's great to have someone so young here. Also great to have friends from farther afield, given how "European" the Speccy community is. This forum is also very male - perhaps you can help us balance the demographic?

Well, I guess I can since I'm a trans femme nonbinary, but does that make me female? Trick question btw; the answer will always be yes. :3

[Lee Bee]

@Cheez26 I'd be curious to know how you "discovered" the Speccy over there in the US? Just random YouTube videos or something? Also what kind of games background have you had outside the 8-bit world? Do you have a platform of choice?

Also, just a heads-up that this is a very friendly place here, and in order to keep the peace and harmony, the admins here (lovely guys) are strict about keeping politics and religion out of the threads, to the point where even the most mild, well-intended passing reference can get removed. The former Spectrum community learned the hard way and things got pretty heated which, shattered the community (I am told). So we must all try to leave our politics at the door as much as possible and unite in our love of 8-bit pixellation!

[Cheez26]

@Cheez26 I'd be curious to know how you "discovered" the Speccy over there in the US? Just random YouTube videos or something? Also what kind of games background have you had outside the 8-bit world? Do you have a platform of choice?

Also, just a heads-up that this is a very friendly place here, and in order to keep the peace and harmony, the admins here (lovely guys) are strict about keeping politics and religion out of the threads, to the point where even the most mild, well-intended passing reference can get removed. The former Spectrum community learned the hard way and things got pretty heated which, shattered the community (I am told). So we must all try to leave our politics at the door as much as possible and unite in our love of 8-bit pixellation!

It was through learning about the Spectrum Next, believe it or not. As for political tings, I'll be sure to keep that lowkey; thanks for the heads-up.

[firelord]

...I'm still also wanting to make a text adventure as well using either Lantern or something else.

Welcome,
I have used Lantern for my last projects and manage to do quite compex stuff with it. It is very easy to use but for graphics it uses scr files -so the 48k versions can have very few images. Another option would be Adventuron that outputs DAAD compatible files. Adventuron is very poweful and easy to use but after you output the DAAD file you might find it a bit difficult to polish your game. DAADReady helps a lot at this process!

[Cheez26]

Welcome,
I have used Lantern for my last projects and manage to do quite compex stuff with it. It is very easy to use but for graphics it uses scr files -so the 48k versions can have very few images. Another option would be Adventuron that outputs DAAD compatible files. Adventuron is very poweful and easy to use but after you output the DAAD file you might find it a bit difficult to polish your game. DAADReady helps a lot at this process!

Thanks for the welcome. I've looked at Adventuron, but iirc, that can mostly do Speccy Next games for now. I would love to see it do something for 128k though. :3

[firelord]

Thanks for the welcome. I've looked at Adventuron, but iirc, that can mostly do Speccy Next games for now. I would love to see it do something for 128k though. :3

I used adventuron for 48k games. The drawback is that 48k DAAD doesn't support graphics . Only 128k and Next version support graphics with an extension.

[Cheez26]

I used adventuron for 48k games. The drawback is that 48k DAAD doesn't support graphics . Only 128k and Next version support graphics with an extension.

I almost forgot to mention that I also use Linux mostly, but I do know that Adventuron is basically based in the browser. On my amd64 desktop, I can use Lantern with either Wine or Mono, but on my Raspberry Pi 400 desktop, it's been tough finding some tools that work somewhat natively.

[firelord]

I almost forgot to mention that I also use Linux mostly, but I do know that Adventuron is basically based in the browser. On my amd64 desktop, I can use Lantern with either Wine or Mono, but on my Raspberry Pi 400 desktop, it's been tough finding some tools that work somewhat natively.

Latest versions of lantern won't work on wine 32bit. I notified the author. His compile tools after a version were using some 64bit libraries and I couldn't run Lantern with my wine versions. I'm using a 2022 version of lantern. Don't know if the issue is resolved in latest versions.

[djnzx48]

Welcome, @Cheez26! It’s nice to see more trans representation on the forum

[Cheez26]

Welcome, @Cheez26! It’s nice to see more trans representation on the forum

Thanks for the kindness. I really appreciate it. <3