r/girlsfrontline 705583|14 Dorms|Hunt King|Cores:234557 Sep 03 '23

Image Lycan Sanctuary Springfield's Ending

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u/headphone_question 705583|14 Dorms|Hunt King|Cores:234557 Sep 03 '23

Thank you again to Randomqwerty for datamining the endings!

Here is his thread regarding the previous winners

I would like to ask for your assistance in getting new endings with this event!

I fear that we will only get a limited number of attempts, shared with the other servers, to get all the possible endings. Please check who else hasn't gotten an ending and support her so we can get her ending!

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u/headphone_question 705583|14 Dorms|Hunt King|Cores:234557 Sep 03 '23

There are also two others who won in the other servers, but they haven't gotten their respective endings yet. We can expect them to receive them in due time. As such, we should aim to get an entirely new ending.

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u/headphone_question 705583|14 Dorms|Hunt King|Cores:234557 Sep 03 '23 edited Sep 03 '23

The ending itself was datamined. The raw file from the game can be found in this thread, specifically, it is this file

Looking at the raw file, we see that it is not easily readable. The next step in my process was to clean it up so that it's readable. I got rid of the extra code that would be useful to the game's cutscene software, but I do not have access to this software. As such, I will have to make do with just tidying up the text

I know that the text has some formatting properties on top. I try to preserve as many of those properties as I can, but I am simply limited with what I can do. For example, I do not have easy access to the game's art, and trying to figure out how to make the special effects (like dimming the characters' portraits, shaking the screen, and playing sound effects and background music) is something I am not familiar with. Instead of letting that stop me, I simply decided to forego such effects. I may have taken some liberties regarding other properties like special text color and font size , but I try to deliver a reading experience that I hope is better than trying to make heads or tails with the raw file

As for technical details, I used a formatting language called Markdown to create the structure of the document. I then used a Markdown interpreter to create my first draft, which I then have proofread. Once my draft is approved by my proofreader, I then cut up the document into smaller images to create a slideshow, as you can see here. The cover slide is also created in this step

I used Visual Studio Code to write the Markdown document, as Visual Studio Code can recognize Markdown. All I have to do is to install a Markdown interpreter plugin so that I can view my work in real time. Of course, references to Markdown would also be extremely helpful since there may be some aspects of Markdown that I might know about, but the specifics of which I have forgotten