Thread by @Foone, I thought about adding Among Us to the death generator, but it's [...]

I thought about adding Among Us to the death generator, but it's a very generic font and scalable vector interface (maybe flash?) and also I usually hack games using cheat tools to get the images and fonts out.
that's not gonna be well-liked in a multiplayer game

apparently there's a practice mode and currently no anti-cheat. ok, maybe I can do it

yeah, I can take screenshots here. there's a timelimit which isn't great, but it works

what the hallucinatory madness is this font?

wait, are they encoding a monochrome font in a small image by using each of the R/G/B/A channels separately?

here's the R channel, then the G channel, then the B channel, than the A channel.

YEP.

ok none of the font images seem to match really. I think the game is doing some funky rendering with the fonts, so I'm gonna have to fall back on text injection.

with a time limit! that's fancy.

and by fancy I mean I'm already screaming

oh wait. the timeout doesn't matter on freeplay mode.

dang it I'm RATELIMITED!

oh god it's not pixel-accurate and it's right aligned

does the death generator even support right-aligned text? I'm not sure it does

oh it does.

either my text injection isn't yet 100% accurate, or the alphabet goes abcdeghiik0074ik0075ik0076mnopik0081ik0082ik0083TUVik0087ik0088ik0089z

I couldn't make it reliable so I just cheated and made it check that the pixels look like what I expect. it now inserts something like "| U ||||" and it matches on the ||||

and if it has all of unicode (it doesn't. it doesn't even have all of ASCII!) that'll take, uh, 5 days to extract.

ahhh yes the alphabet.
bdefghkmnopqrstwxz

I fixed it!

well, that's... almost progress

this game is so exciting

weirdly the font for the names is the same base font, but it has way more characters.
Like the one for chat doesn't have square brackets! it doesn't have a + either.
the name font? it does.

in chat: why would anyone need a + symbol?
in names: yeah of course we support ÷, what do you think we are, cavemen?

I tried extracting the name font. this is what I got

that's how people talk in among us , right?

the amongus wiki has pages for each of the colors and some of them are trending

this is how the chat goes, right?
all these people are me. I'm just extracting the colors.

progress

just testing how twitter crops this

ok I have it generating. the only problem is that you can only set the color of the first character for Reasons, and also it has to be five, and you can't say more than one line, and also this is completely not how the chat works

look at the first post: all the talking is on the LEFT side, it just switches to the right when it's you. https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1319377603208204288

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1319377603208204288

I had to take a screenshot of a real game to build the chat image. I lost.

also I only played two games of this and got called the N-word twice. gamers are fun

I joined another game and they asked me how old I am and then left the game

this is 2020: we can't even A/S/L, we only get as far as A

Testing cropping of a real screenshot with some minor editing

it'd make more sense centered, I think

half of making death generators that aren't for the NES are just variants of shouting "FUCK IT WE'LL DO IT LIVE"

this game has some text on the same screen that's left-justified and some that's right-justified. can the generator do that? well, kinda, but only for the first line. so do I add explicit justification per line as a general feature?

or just do manual justification for every single line?

FUCK IT, LIVE

I should add some kind of special code to make it easier to paste IRC logs into it

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