01 January, 2005

List of named characters and other things

Stardrifter Theme.

Pretty much Noctis, as a roguelike. What WINWARG was created for.

The Main Characters

Doslo. He's a brown Felysian. Phillip the Lithium Eater travels with him.

Doslo was actualy created by another webcomic guy, Ryan Callahan, when he was still part of the Noctis community. Doslo was created for a promotional Flash animation, then used again in other Noctis fanart. When I was considering WINWARG, Ryan suggested that I use Doslo. And here he is.

Phillip the Lithium Eater. He's young, for a Lithium Eater at any rate, having only broken out of the seeder coccoon recently. He travels around with Doslo.

WINWARG's first indigenous character, Phillip was first introduced way back in #1, and then disappeared for a while in #3. I brought him back, and gave him a name, in the second #11.

Other Characters

Quibarsey. A complete idiot. He liked genetics. He made the mistake of breaking the fourth wall and called me stupid. So I let RJ pulverise him, and I fed the remains to a black crawling drooling snarling thing with lots of teeth. He was introduced in #8 and killed off in the first #11. But somehow, I don't think he's gone..

Jim McFood Theme.

See the main entry below. This theme follows the goings on in their largest corpse and clone processing facilities: Processing Facility 44.

Main Characters

Worker 19368. One of the many Jim Mc Food workers. Like the rest of them, he doesn't have a name, only a number. He was "deprogrammed" by Doslo using some odd device, and could be an ally. Although, to be honest, he doesn't appear all that ally-like. But it's possible that the deprogramming was on a level we haven't seen yet.

He was recently reprimanded for being later for his shift (due to interference from Phillip and Doslo, but nobody believes that), and has been reassigned from the restaurant to Processing Facility 44. In addition, he has been redesignated as Processor 203958. Yep, it's a demotion.

Facility Supervisor 1427. A three-claw, formerly in charge of Processing Facility 44. He ALWAYS TALKS LIKE THIS! AND WITH EXCLAMATION MARKS! Do not cross him.

He was recently demoted to Worker 437 as punishment for not getting the facility to meet the impossible-to-meet-without-tons-more-workers quota.

Other Characters

Processor 195867. A processor at Processing Facility 44. He's been there ever since he was forced to maturity - and, in fact, even before then - he was grown in the facility, and should know the ins and outs by now.

Supervisor 6940. A Jim Mc Food supervisor in the Restaraunt section. Until recently, he was the supervisor for the worker formerly known as 19368, but said worker got reassigned.

Supervisor 2724. Another JMF supervisor, this time a higher-up. In fact, he's the head supervisor for the entire planet. He resides in an office guarded by Krebal. Why? I don't know.

Worker 42019. Possibly a former work colleague of 19368. He recently tried to resign, and got sedated and shipped off to Processing Facility 44 with the other transferees. There's a strong hint that he'll be processed... as meat.

Other stuff


Jim McFood (JMF). A fast food chain. They use corpses in their products. But what did you expect for a company who gives designations to their workers (see above)?

Processing Facility 44. One of JMF's corpse processing facilities. This particular facility is built into an impact crater on a desert planet orbiting an orange supergiant star (which you might even see some time).

WINWARG nsFAQ

(That's "WINWARG not so Frequently Asked Questions")

  1. What's WINWARG?
    WINWARG is an acronym for "What If Noctis Was A Roguelike Game?" and is a webcomic created by myself. I try to update every Wednesday and Sunday.
  2. What's Noctis?
    Noctis is a space simulator written by Alessandro Ghignola, and is available at http://anywherebb.com/. I'll let the site tell you better.
  3. What's a roguelike game?
    You mean I have to answer that as well? Well, okay. A roguelike game is similar to an RPG, except that everything is rendered top-down in ASCII (usually - there are a few which differ from this). Also, you generally only get one shot per character. The classic examples of roguelikes are Nethack, ADOM, and Angband.
  4. So what makes WINWARG any different?
    The point is that WINWARG isn't a real game. Noctis isn't a roguelike, and in fact has no fighting whatsoever. I thought I'd try and show what a Noctis roguelike might look like...or at least that was the idea in #0. The plan kind of changed. But anyway.
  5. But I want graphics!
    Sorry, you won't find them here. Graphics aren't what WINWARG is about.
  6. Oh, okay. So how do you make these?
    Simple: I create the strip itself in Openoffice.org in MacOS X, then export it to a PDF. After using Preview to convert that to TGA, I then crop and convert the file into PNG format using the Gimp before publishing. (The beauty of this set of software is that, I could transfer operation to another OS quite easily, since the software is portable. And in fact, I have on one occasion, since my laptop's hard drive failed - remember #25?)
  7. What font do you use?
    Lucida ConsoleP, mostly. Computer interaction is HSP Noctis Display Font. Other characters and/or languages get ther own fonts on an as-and-when basis.
  8. Is this FAQ finished?
    Nope.
  9. When will it be finished?
    Whenever it gets finished.