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Ideas

This lingered around in my Documents folder and in a Github repo, and I felt like my website is a better place for this. I don't care what you do with the stuff here.

Forge of Empires clone:

• city building game like Forge of Empires, made for people who have nostalgia for old (2015-2019) FoE and who want to have control over the game, their data, want the game progress to be saved locally
• completely offline, without DRM, without online requirement, no addictive elements, no incentive to login at a particular time, completely public domain/non-copyrighted software and assets, no restrictions on what you can do with the game, self-hostable
• multiple ages to go through, with a research tree that requires weeks to go through one age
• fighting system with isometric map, different units that each have an optimal enemy for each for defensive and offense, different o/d values for other enemies, each unit type is the same in each "age"
• written in C++17 or newer and Raylib/OpenGL, very portable, has to run on Windows, Linux, OpenBSD/NetBSD/FreeBSD, minimal depedencies
• local Sqlite database for game data, can be opened and read by humans, can be modified by the user easily
• hacking, modding, and additional texture encouraged, no artificial limitations
• no multiplayer, this would be too difficult, and would suck, since you would need to rely on the server for months and years (ideally), so that is bad
• be playable with custom frontends (server + frontend structure), possible to change values with the command line, graphical main game
• more detail and historic accuracy
• goods are depedent on the map you get and you have only two viable goods for each game session, improved good production for these, poor production for all others
• Currencies: Coins (Production, streets, etc.), Supplies (military, houses), Metals (expansions), diamonds are part of the game, but obviously just possible get through playing, no p2w
• Always the option to solve problems and getting map regions with either goods/trading or battles
• autobattles, which purposefully are worse than manual battles, the bot has the upper hand when in autobattle and there is no insane descrepancy between the fighting units
• No events, no special buildings, only buildings from the ages and great buildings
• Great buildings require "forge" points to level up, blueprints required to build them
• fair negations for side quests
• side quests to get blueprints for great buildings, get game points

Common Lisp IRC client

• IRC client, no compatibility with IRCv3, IRCv3 suxx
• written in Common Lisp
• log history compatible with irssi
• very simple, no sidebar, for neither nicks nor channels
• switching between channels like with irssi
• doesn't require more depedencies than the networking library, potentially only /dev/tcp/host/port, so bash, and no other requirements, purely TUI or CLI application, like irssi

OS project

• make something for the Kotori command, nini command
• make some weird black voodoo magic POSIX compatability layer that makes running POSIX stuff possible, but doesn't make the OS require to be UNIX-clone (probably impossible, particularly impossible for me, but I like the idea of it)
• write a shell language that can be used for most standard unix utilities
• have the standard utilities be one executable that acts according to the symlink it has been called by, think busybox/toybox
• not be a retard and fix my IDT before I fantasize about things that will never exist.

FORTH OS

• implements a reasonably well-featured FORTH
• 32-bit, x86
• text editor with Emacs bindings (think mg or e3)
• made to be fun, includes games, includes a lot of documentation
• has its own mini bootloader

eternal-monologue.net self-hosted

• Self-host it from a RPI/Starfive Visionfive 2/other SBC
• use NetBSD as the OS, use wireguard-go instead of the native NetBSD wireguard implementation (for the reverse proxying)
• Minimalist web server that only serves static HTML pages over HTTP (without HTTPS, since the reverse proxy already is encrypted), research viable software for that, use nginx when anything else fails
• Host birdsnest.moe and eternal-monologue.net both from home, use the VPS only for reverse proxying
• …

Gameboy emulator

• graphical debugger, no print-debugging, use that to work with the emulator, and do this first and foremost

Gikopoi2 modifications

• add Gondola, Kotori characters
• make more rooms

Offline noise generator

• use a longer audio track for the cafe
• make a pleasant-to-use UI (bigger volume/play buttons)
• use only public domain audio pieces, audio that I can use freely without copyright restrictions
• maybe record some of the sounds myself (when I get the opportunity to)
• make a nice animation for it (either a fireplace in the forest at night, or a cyberpunk cafe gif)
• Maaaaaybe make it an offline program that can be used on the desktop without any browser

Quest textboard

• textboard/BBS meant for interactive, creative writing
• in principle the same as `/qst/`, but its own imageboard
• with other boards related to facilitate discussion regarding creative writing, maybe an imageboard to draw pictures for the quests, but generally a textboard
• maybe runs Kareha, but with a public moderation log, if that is possible, although I don't like Perl, so that's still questionable
• moderation containing itself to only allow quests on the quests board and nothing else, no spam, nothing illegal, duh, like every other textboard in existence

Tcl utility for music player daemon

• works like mpc, but written in Tcl
• autocompletes songs in the library when choosing to play one
• configured within Tcl

Walkable window manager for Linux

• game-like 3d representation of any given computer desktop (Linux)
• the floor is the wallpaper
• the icons on the desktop are DOOM-like 2.5d pictures that you can click on to open the related program
• Perhaps written in C++/Raylib (I think raylib might have the least issues)
• maybe make it a whole file manager

Kotori Robowaifu

• 160cm tall humanoid robot with movable arms, head, and legs
• cannot walk, but can sit and stand
• Can be talked to and respond appropriately
• Has a hook in her hands, that can be attached to the upper legs to stabilize her while sitting
• Most parts 3d printed (PETG)
• Wig and light, soft clothes to make cuddling and hugging more convenient
• has a screen as her eyes that changes according to her mood
• completely offline, and free software, free hardware
• has a single board computer as her """controling unit""", either a raspberry pi or an equivalent
• claw as her hands
• <spoiler>Some way to make her hands be usable for simple handjobs in such a way that it isn't dangerous</spoiler>
• made to have very low power consumption, rechargable batteries
• resembles Kotori in appearance
• can be controlled by voice commands, but also by a remote bluetooth connection
• bluetooth speaker for voice, ordinary TTS for voice