Negrek _Admin

Website: Thousand Roads

Posted November 13 2018 on NaNoWriMon in reply to James Clawk

Oh, cool! I had kind of been thinking of doing like a trainer card sort of thing, but I guess you can actually fit the sprites right on the ordinary image! This would be extremely simple to do, no worries there.

What I really wonder about is how to kind of prompt people to come back and make a new mon if they've already hit 50k. If it's just mentioned in the instructions or at the end when the code is displayed, at least 90% of people aren't going to see it or know that the feature even exists. On the other hand, if I make it an up-front thing, like you start out by selecting, say, up to six mons that will get used in order, it'll make the process more confusing for everyone, for a feature that at least 90% of NaNoers aren't going to use! That's my primary barrier to implementation at this point.

Tzaphquiel

Posted November 13 2018 on NaNoWriMon

Hey- I know it's been a while since you've been on the forum here, but my riolu hasn't evolved, even though I'm over 50,000 words. I made the 'do not evolve' buttons weren't checked. Is there a way to fix this? Thanks so much.

James Clawk

Posted November 12 2018 on NaNoWriMon in reply to Negrek

The way I imagine this working would look something like this: https://i.imgur.com/yghl2ZU.png (I hope links are okay on here). With this design, custom goals or background colors would still work, like you said you'd like to implement. As far as an additional third, fourth, etc. Mon goes, it depends on how you want it to look. This design would comfortable fit four Mon total. After that, if you wanted them to overlap slightly, you could fit a full six. Obviously you could also shrink the extra icons, but given the size, it doesn't look so great if you shrink them even a little. That said, I'm not a coder, so I don't know how easy it is to implement something like this.

Negrek _Admin

Website: Thousand Roads

Posted November 11 2018 on NaNoWriMon in reply to James Clawk

Yeah, I've been considering some different ways to reward people (or for them to reward themselves) for getting more than 50k. One option that I'd like to implement is definitely custom goals, so if someone knows they want to go for a higher word count, like 75k or 100k, they can set things up so their mon will reach 100 at 100k instead of 50k, etc. Also allows people who want to set goals of 20k, 30k, whatever, to have a NaNoWriMon where they'll "win" at that goal instead of it forever getting stuck at a low level, even though they actually accomplished what they wanted to.

Getting a second (or third, or fourth) mon after you reach 50k once is definitely doable. I think it would be nice to give some kind of indication that you'd already "cleared" one, as an additional special thing. idk if a different color background or something, but I do want to make custom colors a thing already so that wouldn't necessarily work, or some kind of little icon, but I'm not a spriter, so my options there are limited... I don't know, did you have any specific ideas on how to implement this? Or would you simply like an option to have a second mon that starts at zero and grows with your words beyond 50k?

One way or another, thanks for the suggestion! I haven't had nearly as much opportunity to work on these guys as I'd like over the past couple years, but there are a number of improvements I want to make, and I'm always open to suggestions for new features or ways to streamline the current system.

James Clawk

Posted November 11 2018 on NaNoWriMon

This is my third year doing NaNoWriMo. Found this and I love the concept. This year though, it looks like I'll probably be passing the 50K mark soon, and was wondering if some kind of feature could potentially be implemented that could give people who pass 50K an additional Pokemon to level. Just something I thought could be cool.

Amanda

Posted November 09 2018 on NaNoWriMon in reply to Negrek

I figured as much but at least I was able to kind of figure out the issue? shrugs I will take satisfaction in that.

But my NaNoWriMon shows up perfectly on the NaNo website so no worries there!

Nanesh

Posted November 09 2018 on NaNoWriMon in reply to Negrek

Azumarill to Pikachu, now that is an interesting evolution, haha! Just updated my wordcount and I have a pretty Marill now, thank you!

Negrek _Admin

Website: Thousand Roads

Posted November 08 2018 on NaNoWriMon in reply to Thalia

Thanks! I'm glad you have fun with it. :)

Negrek _Admin

Website: Thousand Roads

Posted November 08 2018 on NaNoWriMon in reply to Nanesh

It's not you, I just appear to have broken the entire azurill evolution line. Malaika kept trying to evolve into a pikachu, was the problem. For now I've fixed her specifically, will get to figuring out the underlying problem this weekend. She should evolve when she next levels up.

Thalia

Posted November 08 2018 on NaNoWriMon

I just wanted to tell you thank you for this image/widget/beautiful concept. The fun part is jumping levels and realizing that my Oddish has evolved!

Nanesh

Posted November 08 2018 on NaNoWriMon in reply to Nanesh

Correction: I got 26k, which is level 52...Charme

Nanesh

Website: None

Posted November 08 2018 on NaNoWriMon

Hi,

I was here last year with an evolution problem and it seems I have the same problem this year. I'm at level 26 and my Azurill is still that, an Azurill (though cute, I would love seeing it evolve). If I try to create a Marill or even Azumarill on this site, my wordcount appears high enough to have the fully evolved form (I can see a green button with an Azumarill in the preview). I didn't tick the do not evolve boxes, so that can't be the problem. Is something strange up with my account or something?

Thnks in advance! Nanesh

Negrek _Admin

Website: Thousand Roads

Posted November 07 2018 in reply to FallingThroughHeaven

Yes, your NaNoWriMon will work anywhere that allows you to post images, and whether or not you're on mobile doesn't matter. Does the FAQ help you fix your problem?

Negrek _Admin

Website: Thousand Roads

Posted November 07 2018 in reply to kayixu

Yes, the NaNo forums don't offer very much signature space. See my comment here for some ideas on how you could reduce the size of your signature and fit both images in.

Negrek _Admin

Website: Thousand Roads

Posted November 07 2018 on NaNoWriMon in reply to Yuuen

NaNoWriMon mega evolve when you get a lot of words down quickly, so you must have had a big update to make it go straight to the mega evolution! And you're welcome, glad you have fun with it!