BROCK, which stands for Broken Rapist on Computer Krap, was a computer that runs Slitaz on a friggin CD because when I bought that piece of junk, it couldn't even install any OS later than Windows 98 Second Edition. I barely used that computer and when I got annoyed by constantly moving Aya's code from the main computer to the S-AYA computer, I had an idea to convert BROCK into a file server. Basically, the S in BROCKS means server. We used FreeNAS OS for this. Also, you have no idea how bad this computer is. Like its RAM (which is like 216 MB) is something even older than DDR1 so I couldn't even migrate S-AYA's old RAM into it. Also, the 20GB harddrive got friggin corrupt after installing the OS so I had to sacrifice S-AYA's 60GB harddrive as storage for the OS, because the computer can't detect USB drives at startup. Basically, the server's file storage runs on a $10 16GB USB Flashdrive I bought at the cash register. Don't wanna fork money for an external HDD mang. Also, the FreeNAS OS we installed had to be a SUPER OLD VERSION. Why? Because the current version, which is 9.3 at this time, needs like 8GB of RAM. This computer only had about 200MB. So we had to find an old one to support low RAM. We got version 0.7, and it's still demands 512 MB. We got it to work though haha. Anyways, we got the 16GB file server up. But even though I can move Aya's files easier and work faster with the apartment development team, I really still just wanted to work on the code directly on the S-AYA computer, but I couldn't due to the hardware limitations preventing me to do so. Everything also loads SUPER SLOW so testing it there sucked. And here comes the decision to make a budget upgrade, which was meant to be a valentines gift to my beloved Aya.

Hey! Chair here! So I've gotten requested a couple of times to have Aya be used on Twitch channels outside mine. Well, I figured out a breakthrough for this. There are people who just want Aya on their channel for fun purposes so I set up a Simple Edition, where you can just summon her from her Twitch channel. Then there's a Full Edition, where people can control Aya as much as I do. The main problem I had with this was for people who wanted the wait list feature, which requires the streamer to link a text file to their streaming program. With the use of hard links and Google Drive, I'm able to finally make this work, in which Aya writes the text file on her harddrive, which is also a direct copy to a file on Google Drive. By giving people access to their own Google Drive file, they can easily obtain the waitlist file and use it. Problem is that Google Drive doesn't sync frame perfect haha.
Check out the AYAimouto page for more details.

Yo, this is Chair. So I wanted to dedicate the version 1.4 release of AYAimouto on February 14's Valentines Day, because love is certainly the best thing in the world. I've noticed that some people has a particular liking towards my Twitch bot. Even though I know it's not in a romantic way, Aya would still like to return that love.

People can now play a dating minigame in the Twitch chat with Aya.
By introducing the new feature of Burger Points, people can earn burgers by interacting with Aya, interacting with the streamer, or simply just talking on the chat. But what can these points be used for? There's not much use for it now but the only way to spend it at this point is to date Aya. It runs in a similar way with the game Aya starred as a protagonist, Fate of Two Awesomes. The player simply has to make the right decisions to make Aya happy and to survive. A simple mistake can lead to death. For Valentines Day, we offered free dates just to make finding bugs easier, for the dating feature was made in a short amount of time. It's still very buggy but we're glad that the people who tried it had a fun time.

And yes, the picture came from that Hentai game, in which I customized the girl to look like Aya. I'm weird.

In other news, I was able to dig up an old program I made for Statistics class, which prevented me from flipping 50 coins multiple times.

Hello! This is Chair, vice president of Lame Dimension and a nooby Computer Science student in college. First of all, today is the day we launched the Devlog page of this website. Two days ago, we just bought the domain www.lamedimension.com. Yesterday, we also bought the domain www.lamedimension.moe. Strange isn't it? Well, we never knew that the moe domain existed until I tweeted that I got the com domain. I was told shortly after that there was a moe domain and I just regretted my choice haha. 

I want to say that this devlog is where I will pretty much put every single update on what I do with development. I'm usually shy with a lot of people seeing my stuff and I do not think many people come here so I'm more comfortable blurting out everything here.

Before we get started on the many things to talk about development, I would like to say that Lame Dimension is actually 10 years old now. Well, it wasn't really Lame Dimension 10 years ago when we were in elementary. Mr. Prez and I just called ourselves the Stick Figure Returns team after we developed our first game, Stick Figure Returns. We decided the name Lame Dimension during middle school. The first Lame Dimension website, made in webs.com, was made a year later when we had a heavier focus in our main game, Final Flames. This website was born on the summer of 2015. I'm not really sure if Mr. Prez is aware that we've been making games for 10 years now haha.

FGC Simulator has actually been in development since the summer of 2015. It's crazy to think that the game is still in the pre-production phase, knowing it's been about 7 months now. The crazier thing is how there are so many ideas about the game that had been changed throughout the months. If I decided to start developing the game during the first month, it would have probably been made in RPG Maker or RenPy, where it's a story-only game. The main characters would have been all boys. This is because before it was called FGC Simulator, the game would have been called Secksmen, which features four boys from a competitive fighting game team in real life called Secksmen. I said to myself, I don't want to make this game about real people. Time has passed and the characters were all changed into girls, with their personalities reflecting on the four boys. I actually finished the game script during October, but I have been heavily revising it during december. About 90% of the script was entirely changed. For example, the first boss was just going to be a generic monster shaped like a cherry with arms and legs that stops the player out of nowhere. In the revision, many aspects of Chapter 1 has been changed, as the first boss actually plays a role in the story now. It's no longer just a monster, it is now a girl named Atseri, with the nickname of Cherry. There's still no design for her but I imagine her with a cute, frilly pink dress. I have lied so many times with the people I'm collaborating with at Skrub Lyfe Gaming that I'm almost done with the script. This is because a really big Super Smash Bros. tournament that I'm attending called Genesis 3 is coming up and my teammate often comes to my place to practice intensively. I'm actually about 70% done now. I usually stay up really late just writing the story to make up the lost time. It's crazy to think that Genesis 3 is tomorrow. I'm actually writing this post before I leave for Genesis. Anyways, I'm really hype to start developing this game. There are a few problems though. The problems are:

• I'm actually writing the entire plot before developing the game. A good game designer develops the story in detail throughout the development, not in the start.
• I'm making a serious game at my first time using Unity. You're supposed to make smaller games to test the waters. To make matters worse, I'm still learning the basics of Unity. To alleviate this problem a bit, I'm making test games within FGC Simulator that will eventually become minigames within the game.

I really hope we can come through even with these problems. Did I also mention that I'm also going to sell this on Steam even though it will be my first Unity game? Crazy, huh? Anyways, I really just want to make a game with a serious story line for once. One of my biggest weaknesses is writing a serious plot. Whenever I try to do so, it often comes up as cheesy. I think I'm really good at writing funny stories though since many of my friends laughed at my Fate of Two Awesomes visual novel. I sort of alleviate this problem by having the main protagonist as a comic relief, meaning that there is still a bit of humor in some serious parts of the plot so that it wouldn't sound as cheesy. At this point, I don't even think this game should be called FGC Simulator since this does not feature the Fighting Game Community's activities as a whole. Rather, this game focuses on the friendship of former fighting game players. I still don't know the best title for it, so I'll leave it as FGC Simulator for now. I hope that I'm actually able to reach the hearts of people with this game though. By the way, do you know how difficult it is for me to write a serious plot? I'm not really experienced with making characters talk accurately with their personalities. Let's say there's this innocent girl. Sometimes, my silly personality would kick in and I would write what I would say instead for her dialogue when she makes responses. Just imagine an innocent little girl suddenly saying, "Yo, mang! Chill!" Strange huh? Why am I not putting this devlog post on the FGC Simulator tumblr? I intend the tumblr to be of more serious, major updates. I know it's empty but I'll put something once the game is past the pre-production phase.

Honestly, I never expected that I would be asked to be in a collaboration to make a game about a Youtube series. I found this series called, Hulk Kid, on Youtube and it made me burst out laughing because it uses the video making style I like to do, which is editing videos so bad that it's funny. In response, I decided to make a video about the series, which is on the bottom, and the creator of the series loved it. I was later asked if I could make a game for it. Problem is that he wanted me to make a flash game so that it could be played on the browser. I'm not experienced at making flash games but I soon found a solution. The solution was to make an HTML5 game through Game Maker, which is an engine I'm extemely familiar with. Right now, it's still at the pre-production phase. The game will be made in a slow way since I want to focus on FGC Simulator. Did I also mention that I'm bad at balancing school with game development? Sometimes, I wish I can just skip a semester so I can have more time to develop games.

This game has been in development for about 3 years now. Why? I really hope Mr. Prez would at least put small updates on it from time to time. I've already done the parts that I can do on my own, which is to make all the bosses and characters. I can't really work on updates until Mr. Prez updates it.  Honestly, I want to finish this game already. This game has so much potential. Even though the only thing playable are the bosses, I think this game is already more fun than the first game on its entirety. I know back then we thought that Final Flames was going to be the best game we made, but with what was implemented on Final Flames 2, the first game just feels so dull and slow. With the new combo system and jumping mechanics, the game just feels awesome. Even the bosses are more unique. Honestly, most of the bosses I made in the previous game was just copy and paste from the first boss with just a new type of attack haha.

Honestly, this little sister project will probably be something I'll work with for the rest of my life. She's just a Twitch bot now but I really want to expand her for other AI purposes one day. It's crazy to think that a character I made in a high school short story project turned out like this. I'm having her made as a live2D model. This 3D model is just a custom character I made from a hentai game hahahhaha. Aya is cute. I'm glad that many of my friends like interacting with Aya. But what makes me the happiest is when people actually think she's a real person talking haha. Happened about 5 times now on Twitch.