Suegen

[amielleon]

"The upper echelons of irony should always include measures of sincerity. And if the satirical practice is executed faithfully it will achieve something bona fide in its own right regardless." - Homestuck

The Self-Insert Story Generator ("Suegen")

I. Introduction/FAQ

II. On Contributing/Bug Reporting

III. On Modifying Saves

IV. Credits

V. Links

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I. Introduction

I started writing Suegen in June 2011 after some furious brainstorming with blankspectrum and raphiael. At the time I had imagined that it would take a month to make. Ha ha ha.

Although originally conceived as something for Fire Emblem fic, as the project neared completion I saw that Suegen did a pretty good job of working with characters outside of Fire Emblem, too -- and it does okay with canonical couples as well as Sues. (Which makes me wonder about the incredible backlash against the presence of a "Sue" as opposed to mediocre fluff, but that's an essay for another day.)

So, in the end, Suegen is probably just a Cliche Story Generator. But I like calling it Suegen better.

- You may share the stories you've generated with Suegen if you like. However, you must credit Suegen (preferaby linking either the game page or this page). Although the level of writing is unimpressive, my contributors and I spent a lot of time putting this together without earning a single cent¹. So we'd like the exposure and e-props, at least.

If you'd like to take some bit of code/host this elsewhere/whatever: Sure, just let me know and link back.

¹ And we're not allowed to under the ChoiceScript license. Nor can we make an arrangement with the Choice Of team because we involve copyrighted material in our presets. Besides, I'd feel a little weird asking them to host a niche parody.

- Who are Sue and Chris? No one in particular.

- I found a bug! See below for bug reporting. If you'd like to salvage your session, try using the synonyms button. There's one bug I've been trying to catch that can be fixed by doing that.

Last updated
March 21 2012: Suegen Beta 0.5 released.




II. On Contributing/Bug Reporting

If you find any bugs, please tell me (fesigenerator-at-gmail-dot-com) so I can fix them. When you report, please copy paste both the error message and exactly what the generator has made on that page before the error. For example,

"Sue," Chris said simply with a smile on his face. His cerulean windows to his soul complimented his cobalt coiffure, brushing against his ears, belying his spotless heart. He was dressed in refined garb refitting his station. He had a toned but slender body covered with rouge-flushed alabaster skin. As Sue drew nearer, she caught a note of his familiar scent of lingering iron and steel. She smiled to herself. It always reminded her of the time they shared. "Oh, Chris! You came!" Sue said breathlessly, reaching out to take him into an embrace. He laughed and put his arms about her, holding

The place where it cuts off is invaluable information to me, and sometimes the error message fails to provide this information for some people.

I would also appreciate it if you reported other mistakes (for example if you find a "her" where it should be "him", or if a preset's hair is the wrong color).

If you would like to contribute...

Presets: If I've overlooked some important fictional character who is the object of adoration of hordes and hordes of fangirls/boys, I would certainly like to add them. You can "create" this character in-game and send me the save file -- that'll give me all the information I need to know. If you're setting out to create a lot of these, let me know and I can give you a more efficient method.

There are some Fire Emblem characters left out mostly because we figured no one would want to use them, or just because they're too minor to be bothered with. If you'd like to see them, go ahead and do the above. (Does someone out there adore Valencia?) If you ask me for Gheb I will punch you.

On the other hand, if the character isn't nigh-memetic nor from Fire Emblem, I'm not sure I could justify adding them to the presets given in-game. However, you are free to alter your save file and pass the character around that way. If you amass a lot of saves (For example, a full set of Ace Attorney characters?) and post them somewhere, I'll gladly link to you as a resource.

Writing: I consider Suegen a mostly finished project, but it could probably be improved. The more writing, the more capable it is of expressing nuances, after all. Writing for Suegen is a bit tricky and I don't think you want to do it, but feel free to shoot me a proposal if you do anyway. I reserve the right to modify anything before it's put in.



III. On Modifying Saves

You can easily share presets, songs, and other things in Suegen with other people by modifying save files and sharing them. The guide is here.



IV. Credits

Hi. I'm amielleon. I did the vast majority of the writing and all the coding. I conceived of Suegen in a shady IM room with raphiael and blankspectrum. These two helped shape the initial concept, and later helped lot of the presets.

WET NOODLES wrote one scene (the one that starts "As they proceeded tenderly down the shoreline" -- you'll find it if you date Tormod with a submissive angsty character) and I took bits of her writing and threw them all over the place elsewhere too, and traincat wrote another ("The air was salty and warm, the sun sparkling bright" -- try Tormod and a submissive kind-hearted character).

The four people above in addition to xirysa, mark_asphodel, writerawakened, and magehenry helped out with beta testing and offering valuable feedback. Without them, there would be no songfic option. The defaults would have crimson-red skin. You would be all be my guinea pigs. All of you.

Of course, I owe FFN the most -- without which I would know nothing of Sues.


Presets by:
Archanea: mark_asphodel
Jugdral: amielleon
Elibe: FE7 by blankspectrum, FE6 by raphiael and amielleon
Magvel: amielleon and raphiael
Tellius: blankspectrum
Awakening: amielleon and blankspectrum
Classic/Other: raphiael and amielleon

Default songs:
"You Raise Me Up," Josh Groban
"My Heart Will Go On," Celine Dion
"Crawling," Linkin Park
"My Immortal," Evanescence
"Iris," Goo Goo Dolls

The generator was created using Choicescript, developed by Dan Fabulich (2010), used under a non-commercial license. I don't know the guy personally but he deserves props for making coding easy without having to learn a coding language. You should also try some of their multiple choice interactive fiction games, for example, Choice of Broadsides. I like them a lot.