I started collecting cards from the Fire Emblem Cipher card game a few years ago, solely because of the art. I may have gone a little overboard, especially for a game I don't actually play, since I can barely read Japanese.

Exhibit 1: A little overboard

To deal with the aforementioned translation issue, I'm developing a small AR application that will scan FE Cipher cards and superimpose the cards' translation on top of them. Here is a sample scanned output:

The superimposed text auto-adjusts based camera position, and generally maintains its world-space position unless the user moves the camera far away from the initial scanned position of the card.

I'll probably be releasing the application to android over the next few days, and I'll add features based on feedback.

I've been working on a Tactics RPG game for a few months now, and decided writing about it would help keep me motivated and might bring in some new ideas. So here I am. Writing about it.

A lot of this project is based on the excellent tutorial on TheLiquidFire's Blog, where he details how to implement a Tactics RPG with heavy inspiration taken from Final Fantasy Tactics. I enjoy a lot of mechanics from Fire Emblem as well, so I decided to base the mechanics of my game around both Fire Emblem and FF Tactics.

This isn't meant as a tutorial or a project to program along with - I'll mainly be detailing the high level mechanics of various systems in the game, along with an occasional code snippet. At best, maybe something I write about here will be applicable or inspire something in one of your own projects.

Cliche first post is cliche ¯\(ツ)/¯