What The Heck Is A "Dude Level"?
Added 2018-06-25 23:01:50 +0000 UTCThis month, my $1 get the secret answer to a mystery: What the heck is with the Dude Level option in Spartan Fist.
The answer may shock you.
It's....
just a joke option that does absolutely nothing.
BUT! It wasn't always going to be that. It began life as a joke option that would parse all text in the game, and turn it into valley/surfer/skater/etc speech automatically.
Behold: https://imgur.com/PCvY4WE
This was code written by The Turfster for Spartan Fist. The game ended up having much less text than we were thinking it might at that point, so it became less of a priority by launch, but... by god it worked. https://imgur.com/uImBzZa
I fed it The Illiad, because of course I did, and sheer insanity flew out the other end: https://imgur.com/5sSCuif
The code will likely find a home in our next project. To integrate it into Spartan Fist would sort of spoil the gag of the useless option, and introduce a really risky bit of code into the middle of our localization scheme... for a silly gag that only works in one language. Not a good thing to do on a launched game.
Now, I'm betting you're wondering what that code looks like? $3+ tier folks, check the next post :D https://www.patreon.com/posts/19672938
