Cac0nym
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8/6/2015
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Gadzooks! Beta!
A miscellany of adornments, accoutrements and other such trappings for Fallen London.
Gadzooks! is in no way associated with Failbetter games. Use of this browser script is entirely at your own risk.
Here be dragons, and so forth.
- Tons of CSS hacks!
- Extremely configurable!
- Mobile support!
- Funny name!
- Beta!
I've been using a number of custom hacks to make the otherwise excellent game a little easier to use. The biggest of these is (highly experimental) mobile support.
Please see https://github.com/hash-bang/gadzooks for full installation instructions, FAQs and various other information.
I'm looking both for feedback and a potential helping hand with tidying up some of the visual appeal. If anyone can offer some help please post something either here or at the issues page.
edited by h4nchan on 8/7/2015
edited by Cac0nym on 8/10/2015
edited by h4nchan on 8/10/2015
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Nigel Overstreet
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8/6/2015
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Has this been whitelisted?
If not, you should request it be done so before running it.
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Saharan
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8/6/2015
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marcmagus wrote:
[I'd note with sympathy that your timing is unfortunate, as FBG recently announced a closed beta for a mobile app for the game, but that this is available immediately is still exciting.]
I would hardly consider it unfortunate, considering that the upcoming mobile app is Apple-only at current.
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Nigel Overstreet
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8/7/2015
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marcmagus wrote:
Does FBG have a history of coming down hard on this kind of thing? Those sorts of terms are typically much more focused on the automation part, with scripts which modify the UI in a helpful manner but never act on the player's behalf left alone, particularly when the author has taken pains as Cac0nym clearly has to reduce the risk of stray bug reports.
"is a violation" rather than "may be a violation" in your warning is a very strong statement that reads, to this add-on writer, as quite hostile to publication of modifications to the game without advance permission from FBG. Given that FBG is understandably slow about responding to such things as it's a low priority for them, and that their current script policy explicitly says to publish with a forum link before emailing a whitelist request, I'm finding it counter-productive.
I don't think that's your intent; I think you want to protect players from the risk of getting in trouble. I know you've been an active member of this community quite a bit longer than I have, so I'm wondering if you know something about local enforcement of the rules that I don't.
I couldn't say how "hard" FBG comes down on unauthorized scripts. I presume that's kept between violators and themselves.
But I know they have specifically asked players many times, both in the linked ToS and on the forum, not to use any non whitelisted scripts and stated that their use is a violation of the ToS.
I don't know if you will have an account removed, but you certainly could. It is unlikely. But some folks might want to do it out of respect for the policy, rather than out of fear of punishment.
If you believe that their response to whitelisting scripts is too slow and would like to ignore their request and use scripts anyway, you are free to do so.
However, I feel players who aren't familiar with the ToS should be given fair warning if they choose to ignore the policy.
EDIT: Also, let me say that I love Userscripts. I think they're awesome and I use a couple. A few years ago we used to have a lot more of them and most were really cool. Alexis asked they follow only a few, very simple guidelines.
Then a couple of people decided to ignore those guidelines and, unfortunately, all scripts were banned. It wasn't anything anyone wanted to do, but they were just getting out of hand and the devs made a choice. All scripts banned. No exceptions. It sucked, but I had to stop using a bunch of those cool scripts.
So when whitelisting came out, I was elated. It's a very cool and reasonable compromise.
My concern is that if too many folks start ignoring the white list and just run whatever they want whenever they want, Alexis may be forced to just ban scripts all together. Which no one wants.
I think waiting a week or so for a script to be whitelisted is a reasonable request and it would not only be polite, but beneficial to the game as a whole, if that request were respected.
edited by Nigel Overstreet on 8/7/2015
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marcmagus
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8/7/2015
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Nigel Overstreet wrote:
This is why it is important that you whitelist your script before running it or advertising it to others.
Never would have found that, thanks for bringing it to my attention. I'd note the follow-up to you from Alexis is fairly consistent with my working assumption, "As I say, we're not going to pursue this kind of trivial automation aggressively, but you're basically voiding your warranty.", but is also more unambiguous that non-script and non-automating extensions are also forbidden (barring whitelist).
That said, if you look at the whitelist page, the process laid out is quite clear: First create a thread for the extension (thus advertising it to others), then email FBG requesting it be added to the whitelist. This is....incompatible with your advice.
In light of this, I'd suggest, and I'm going to do this for my own styles as soon as I'm done posting it, that any extension authors include a note with their disclaimers to the effect that the extension is not at this time whitelisted (approved by FBG), and that potential users do so at their own risk knowing that "unauthorised use of automation or scripting to interact with the site" is a violation of the ToS.
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Cac0nym
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8/10/2015
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I've updated the whitelist advice to include adding 'pending approval' to the thread title, which fixes all, I think.
Thanks for updating those guidelines - they did seem a bit fuzzy on that point.
To everyone else - FB has been in touch and have requested some minor stuff. All being well Gadzooks! should have the "white list green light" in the next email cycle.
To celebrate I've added in a Mist effect animation for the header image as a Zook.
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