Proof-reading/editing tool for display texts
I'm a word person. I do words. I feel something close to pain when I see typos, misspellings and grammatical faux pas. Especially when they're my own! I'd love to offer my services to teams looking for a professional level of polish in their delicate verbiage.
Most text in most dreams is handled in text boxes and dialogue boxes. Even if the creator makes a super-human effort to meticulously organise these, it makes for an unbearably clumsy interface for editing and proof-reading. So I sit back and wait for a day that it's easier.
Alex Evans once mentioned a desire to have an indreams.me tool, something like a spreadsheet, that would allow a creator or collaborator to review all of these texts and edit them, perhaps place different translations in separate columns for differently-localised dreamers. I would like to encourage any development in this area. Strongly.
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The spreadsheet idea sounds cool--especially if we could use it for translations!
For now I'd probably just give the creator notes and leave it to them to implement the changes. That tends to be how I give such feedback to writers anyway. And the creator knows which they want to change and where to change them.
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For now
Yeah, did that with Do Robots Dream of Electric Imps, but I'd hate to have to do it for something with a lot of text. I was working with a team using Google Docs to edit/contribute to a script (sadly now on hold) and that's a good way to start but once it's in-game, I'd love a friendlier interface.
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If you use remote play on your pc, you can easily do a copy-paste from your "proof-read" Word/Google Docs file into Dreams' textboxes.
Not the most convenient setup, but still saves quite a lot of work.
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