Comic for Wednesday, September 1st
…Kepler?… Could it be he’s heard that name before? 😉
Voting Incentive!
New month, new voting incentive!
Will try to do them a little more regularly; we’ll see if we can get back under the #200 mark this month 😉
Choose Your Own Adventure?!
So this is something I’m definitely going to regret, but I decided to pull the trigger on; I wrote the first bit of a Text Based (currently) CYOA (Choose Your Own Adventure) for The Far Side of Utopia; I sort of wanted to do something that would let people explore the world and Levenworth a little more through the eyes of a regular student at the Academy. Currently let’s call this a demo/prototype – it doesn’t have any graphics, I’m fairly certain there are lots of typos, and probably actual bugs, but if you want to try it out (which I can’t recommend…)
http://pastutopiaproductions.com/gt/ADayAtLevenworth.html
Anyway… 😉
It’s very short currently; the delay from Monday to today in putting it up was despite supposedly being a web-savvy developer and all I was have a little trouble embedding it how I wanted; none of the CMS’s I use on my sites wanted to play nice with it. The current solution is not what I would call graceful 😉
I can’t guarantee I will finish it; originally I’d planned to do it as a Patreon incentive/reward, but decided I’d leave it open to any brave soul that wanted to wander through it. It’s subject to lots of change; this is pretty much just a draft to test the tech.
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The Far Side of Utopia, Day one.
So far, so good. Time to put a marker and go to sleep.
I noticed the recent chapters don’t have covers, wonder if the first ones always have or were added retroactively, I’ll check later.
Congratulations on making it his far in your perilous journey through the archives!
I’ve always intended to go back and draw the covers, but I haven’t. The original ones were done before I had many readers, so no one yelled at me if I drew a cover instead of an update page 😐
I think I will do draw more covers eventually, but the chapters are… very arbitrary. In my plot out of the story, it isn’t really in chapters, so they are only really mostly just a distinction of convenience.
Glad to hear you’ve enjoyed it so far, and look forward hearing about the continuation of your archive trek in the future 😀
So is Peter running a DLL shell game on them to prevent reverse engineering, or is he just kludging around?
Tyler’s boss is probably familiar with Peter’s Uncle Aaron–a daunting concept indeed. 🙂
I predict that sniffing around Peter’s affairs will be spectacularly unsatisfactory. “Mr. ‘I’ll be discreet’, meet Naomi Atarah” ^^
Several factors. For starters; he definitely just hacked together pieces of things he already had – mostly to rip out functionality probably.
Further, a lot of “Peter’s” code is generate by Mium; unless you specify you want it readable; it’s not going to.
As for Tyler’s boss recognizing the name… well, it does seem plausible he’d know the name of an IDS Director operating in his region 😉
He just doesn’t know what he’s in for, or how Peter’s entourage handles affair’s sniffers… the track record for them isn’t that good. You bring up a good point of what has happened to the last two people got a little too interested… 😀
I thought he was extra sneaky by misusing the libraries.
Well, it seems my commentary is damaging his mystique 😀 He’s crafty, but he’s overconfident and doesn’t take Tyler particularly seriously; in this case though, he really didn’t have to try very hard to make his stuff almost impossible to understand – Tyler’s society is still a solid full step back in magical engineering (using computers to interface with magic). While with enough time to really decode Peter’s stuff it could be a pretty big breakthrough, decoding something you don’t understand that was hacked together from other things is a challenge and half 😉
Though I wouldn’t quite bet Tyler out on that front in the long run. 😉
On an unrelated note, that was a sort of interesting article to read though.
That’s going to be an awkward phone call.
“Hi – don’t suppose you know anything about this guy running our country selling your secrets? Is he your kid? Oh, your nephew. I see. Than he does know what his talking about right? Thanks. Bye.”.
Maybe he’ll be more discreet than that? One can hope. ^^
Well, all the way back on page 2 Arron seemed to somewhat perplexed by Peter using his real name to enroll…
He, at least, probably saw this coming. One can only imagine that Peter did too… I’m fairly certain that he would have to… err… creative add his real name to an identity just the same as a fake one, considering his background 😉 Let alone that he also got Mium in… 😀
“Personal Devices should ALWAYS be considered to already be hacked.” – looks like someone in charge understands some basic security principles. How unrealistic.
Haha 😀
It’s disappointingly practical isn’t it. Don’t worry, if I know anything about office buildings enforcing that sign is hell on earth 😉