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10 months ago
Just some random thoughts while I'm debating on how I want to write this.
Working with a character that has three separate voices that speak at the same time, but say *slightly* different things (a couple of words replaced)
Originally I was going to just have this happening at the ends of sentences and finish each statement off by adding additional lines for the extra voices, but then I started writing lines where I wanted to change around things in the middle of the sentence. I've got a couple of possibilities I tossed around that I figured I'd put here, but I think I know which one I'm going to go with.
Option 1: Cut off when they split and treat them like I was originally going to treat them.
I do *not* like this option, I feel like it breaks the speech up way too much and just awkwardly fill space.
Option 2: Include the whole line three times, once for each voice
I also don't like this option, I feel like it's better than option 1 because it doesn't break the speech up but I don't like the extra repetition
Option 3: Include the extra voice changes in different notation, (voice 1) [voice 2] {voice 3} or voice 1 (voice 2) [voice 3].
It's a little clunky but I think this is the best way I can think of to do it with just text, and probably what I'm going to do. I'm leaning towards the ()[]{} style to make it clearer where the voices differ, will see how it ends up
Option 4: I have been messing with manually creating PDFs for a couple of weeks now, and I think it'd be cool to make a PDF export of it and then like... overlay the additional voices slightly offset from the original in a way that they're all readable. We'll see if I end up getting it done, I definitely have the *technical* knowledge to do it but will have to play with getting it to look good and be readable. Maybe even use a different font for each in that case?
Working with a character that has three separate voices that speak at the same time, but say *slightly* different things (a couple of words replaced)
Originally I was going to just have this happening at the ends of sentences and finish each statement off by adding additional lines for the extra voices, but then I started writing lines where I wanted to change around things in the middle of the sentence. I've got a couple of possibilities I tossed around that I figured I'd put here, but I think I know which one I'm going to go with.
Option 1: Cut off when they split and treat them like I was originally going to treat them.
I do *not* like this option, I feel like it breaks the speech up way too much and just awkwardly fill space.
Option 2: Include the whole line three times, once for each voice
I also don't like this option, I feel like it's better than option 1 because it doesn't break the speech up but I don't like the extra repetition
Option 3: Include the extra voice changes in different notation, (voice 1) [voice 2] {voice 3} or voice 1 (voice 2) [voice 3].
It's a little clunky but I think this is the best way I can think of to do it with just text, and probably what I'm going to do. I'm leaning towards the ()[]{} style to make it clearer where the voices differ, will see how it ends up
Option 4: I have been messing with manually creating PDFs for a couple of weeks now, and I think it'd be cool to make a PDF export of it and then like... overlay the additional voices slightly offset from the original in a way that they're all readable. We'll see if I end up getting it done, I definitely have the *technical* knowledge to do it but will have to play with getting it to look good and be readable. Maybe even use a different font for each in that case?
"These enemies are tough/armored/formidable. Use appropriate weaponry/firepower/DEATH."
And yeah, I've got a couple ideas of varying difficulty I want to try, had to learn pdf formatting by hand for stupid reasons for work so might as well put that knowledge to work!