Somewhat. The profile pic changes based on the character’s emotions, or their reaction to a situation. Sometimes there’s a reply where the text is blank and the only content is the character’s reaction as conveyed by the profile pic.
That said, it’s a minor enough element that you wouldn’t lose too much if it wasn’t there.
On the other hand, it is important for you to know which character each reply is associated with, as trying to figure out who’s talking from the text alone could get confusing in many scenes. So any format change should at least preserve the names.
So perhaps the character names could be kept, maybe the pictures too (though I don’t know if there’s a good way to include so many pictures in an epub format, it’s not exactly built for having small images beside the text, as far as I know), but not the authors names. Cause though it’s nice knowing who wrote what, it’s also confusing because everyone uses special usernames and I don’t yet know which name is the author’s name and which is the character’s.
The author’s (user)name is always the final line of the inset box. If there are three lines in that box (e.g. “Carissa Sevar // to-let-you-in // lintamande”), then lintamande is the author, Carissa Sevar is the character, and “to-let-you-in” can be ignored (it’s some sort of thematic tag for the character).
Authors other than the main two don’t appear for an extremely long time so I’d worry about that after getting that far :)
Somewhat. The profile pic changes based on the character’s emotions, or their reaction to a situation. Sometimes there’s a reply where the text is blank and the only content is the character’s reaction as conveyed by the profile pic.
That said, it’s a minor enough element that you wouldn’t lose too much if it wasn’t there.
On the other hand, it is important for you to know which character each reply is associated with, as trying to figure out who’s talking from the text alone could get confusing in many scenes. So any format change should at least preserve the names.
Would a play format work? e.g.
“Iarwain (languidly): I don’t know that I am much interested in your family life, Lintamande”
Someone would have to translate the various profile pictures into emotions, but I would expect there to only be a handful of them per character.
Planecrash has 307 images at the time I made this comment, for context.
So perhaps the character names could be kept, maybe the pictures too (though I don’t know if there’s a good way to include so many pictures in an epub format, it’s not exactly built for having small images beside the text, as far as I know), but not the authors names. Cause though it’s nice knowing who wrote what, it’s also confusing because everyone uses special usernames and I don’t yet know which name is the author’s name and which is the character’s.
The author’s (user)name is always the final line of the inset box. If there are three lines in that box (e.g. “Carissa Sevar // to-let-you-in // lintamande”), then lintamande is the author, Carissa Sevar is the character, and “to-let-you-in” can be ignored (it’s some sort of thematic tag for the character).
Authors other than the main two don’t appear for an extremely long time so I’d worry about that after getting that far :)
“Iarwain” is Eliezer, “Lintamande” is his co-author, and IIRC that’s basically it for most of the story.