Aikoland wrote:Do you have any plans for that struggle of power to tip in favour of any one faction as you develop your nation, or are you always gonna have it be like it is for the sake of storytelling?
- Starting off with a bit of a downer note: The most frustrating thing that you had to deal with on your NS career?
- And to counterbalance this: The best RP or the best thing that you have ever done, and that you are genuinely happy with it? I'm sorry if this was asked before.
- Do you have a running theme, in particular, when you create characters? For instance, bar the obviously long names, people told me my characters tend to be wholesome, tall, or has that adorable look to them... for the most parts, anyway. Like one of those things that you create that made people go "Oh yeah, that's Aiko written all over it." It's not to say people have cliches attached to them; just tropes, and it's okay to have them.
Toreador Loyalists wrote:Q1) Alright, what's with the artillery quote in your sig? What's the context, where's it from?
Q2) Do you identify more with Valentijn or with Clarissa?
Q3) I have noticed that despite Yangon being the capital, Bangladesh has the highest population density, is there any reason for this that differs from real life?
Q4) Alright, how long did it take to make the population by nationality pie graph?
Q5) When did you get into the geometric aesthetic?
A1. So this is a double reference. The song lyrics were from
here! I add it in as a semi-non-sequitur of sorts because while it IS random, I also have a bit of experience in Artillery back in my National Service / Conscription days. ^^
A2. I would say Clarissa more. Sure, Valentijn might be a semi-self-insert (everything is semi- with me). Valentijn is not a whole self-insert, but he definitely has a bit of takes and inspirations from me. With that said, Clarissa is the very first character I have created, and I really do love her more because she makes me happy. Thinking about her makes me happy. ♥
A3. Oh my God, this is going to be disappointing. Truth be told... it was OOCly / meta laziness from me. I know Yangon is the capital and by default capitals have the largest pop, but for this one, I plugged in actual figures from RL countries and adjusted their populations accordingly to the canonical population of Val Z. In other words, I am actually going to redo the population bits in terms of adjusting the numbers.
A4. Several attempts. The data was fine and easy, I got most of the nationalities from Wikipedia. The plotting was... praying to all the Computer Gods to make sure that Excel won't crash on me. Looking back, I can definitely use Python as with some graphs I have done.
A5. I would say as back as when I found the site called Triangify.io. I remembered when you don't have to pay to save the high-res images, but... wink-wink, you can still use a snipping tool for the job. In short, I started making them more triangified back in November of 2019. Then it spread to my other factbooks. I am honestly happy with how it looks because the PhotoMosh effects and Vaporwave-like stuff won't fit Val Z. I found that the liberal use of rainbows and a huge range of colors help in making Val Z more vibrant.
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2021 8:57 am