Dear community,
I'd like to introduce you to the project I've recently started, for now I call it 'Tease AI Awakening'.
I am aware that this project is in a really early stage, but I think that no harm can be done to announce it just yet.
This gives us the chance to discuss about the outcome, i.e. feature wishes or other ideas.
What to expect?
I am planning some milestones for it, having an order of priorities in mind.
- The first version I am aiming for shall be able to play existing personalities, except Fury, functionality will be limited to the necessary.
(I.e.: Design by far not finished, tagging images will not be included - for that you'd still need the original Tai, and so on...)
---> I guess that could be the candidate for a first (closed?) test-/WiP- release, once the first testings are done (I hope for some testers from this community) an open alpha release could be done.
- Once that goal is reached, there will be step by step more features included, like design, more options, compatibility for Fury, new commands and some other fancy stuff I have in mind.
What's it all about:
The most annoying problem with the original Tease AI is the 'line-eating' problem, at least for me.
The more complex a script is, the higher the chance that Tease AI eats up lines of the script, ... in the AliceMerged personality there is an unused script 'stripBlackJack',... it's a modified version of tigrotto's BlackJerk, I never was able to play through the whole game (neither my stripBlackJack nor BlackJerk) without Tease AI eaten up lines.
But of course there are a lot of different other issues in the original Tease AI like the poor performance or the usage of the Windows Media Player.
And since the original Tease AI source code has some major flaws in structre and design ( @ 1885, sorry, but we both know it has ), it doesn't make sense to try to 'repair' it, the only solution is to rewrite the whole thing from scratch, and that's what I've decided to do.
But please don't get me wrong, what 1885 invented with the original Tease AI is from the concept and from the idea pure genius, for me he is and will always be the one who brought this thing into the world, he is the father of Tease AI and all it's successors, my highest respect to him for creating and inventing such a thing.
On my way recreating it, there are of course a lot of chances to make things a bit different, maybe (hopefully) better.
What's already done - just some examples, I don't wanna spoil too much :
- No performance issues
- Portability (in theory you could run it from an USB-Stick)
- Images will be displayed / downloaded much faster
- 'Conntent Removed'-Pictures from Tumblr-Blogs will be detected and sorted out, you won't be bothered with them anymore.
Last but not least, ... probably the most important,... to make the best out of it I will need you / your help (!!!), ... testers, scripters and users willing to give qualified feedback,... as this project grows bigger and bigger each day, there will be endless possible combinations of what a script shall do, what you as a scripter expect using a command, what you as a user tried, what happend then and so on.
Of course I already try to catch and solve as many 'possible unexpected situations' while development as possible, on the other hand I cannot test out each and every new implemented command in every possible combination.
So, this thing has to be tested back and forth, and I'm quite sure that in the first test-versions there will be this or that to be corrected, I guess that's the nature of such a huge project.
Well, that's it so far,... now I'm curious, what are your thoughts, ideas, input, comments, questions?
Btw.,... a first screen of it (totally WIP):
- Spoiler: show
https://mega.nz/file/GNAFTYQZ#FQhhus4HT ... xQyCH3sGBc
As always, best greetings,
Markus