[WEBAPP] The Coolstation Character Creator

[warc]

Ok so you know how the fucking character creator is literally a webpage popup?

Ok so you know how character preferences and profiles are literally just serialised as a JSON in our database?

You didn't ? Well now you know.

I want to see this thing available on the web, on Coolstation.space/spaceman-maker or something. The creator should ideally have some sort of parity with the ingame one, i.e. as we add new hairstyles and options those should be fetched from the same asset silo. It doesnt need to have 5 slots and cloud saves and all that jazz- just the main creation options for making a spaceman, and, critically, a dialogue to copy/paste the resultant JSON.

Ideally this means we also add a way to import characters directly into the ingame version as well, by the same method. This is probably the best place to start in fact, just having a function to export to clipbboard and import from a string- If we can do this first and successfully transfer profiles between player accounts, we can then work on a webapp to generate these strings.

This would, in my opinion, be a "killer app" in the SS13 Roleplay world, open up a lot of possibilites for sharing templates and designer hairstyles on blank bodies, and other fun stuff. It'd also bring a lot of attention to Coolstation by giving the community a new picrew-like toy, with the one and only game that you can one-click play as your new blorbo.

Willing to buy you a pizza dinner from wherever you like.

[Klushy225]