Fleaux-Ecosse: This is a physical copy of prequel. Inside this case is a dvd-r with the complete website in an HTML format, readable offline. I tested it and it everything reads from the disc, no internet required (not even javascript!). For content that is flash-dependent, the playable executables are included, but supplementary video files are also added for the now-broken ones (as well as the working flash files, incase the device cannot run flash). Any other broken content was accounted for and video-recorded/patched together for readability.
It took several hours to compile everything together. Hope you think it's cool!
rollanan: holyshit this is extremely fucking awesome af, ive always thought that someone should make an offline archive of this comic but this takes it on a whole new level, now if theres only a Prequel music cd/vinyl
AMKitsune: This is functionally pointless (assuming the site doesn't spontaneously combust), and I'm all for it! There's always something strangely satisfying about taking something that only exists digitally, and making something physical out of it.
How much of the site did you manage to scrape? Just the comic itself, or also the additional stuff, like the side stories and other miscellaneous pages?
Fleaux-Ecosse: @rollanan that's all it is, an offline archive of the comic. I felt that printing it on paper would not do justice to the original format, since prequel is one of the rare few webcomics that can't just be put on paper and not lose any effect.
@AMKitsune It's not functionally pointless- I live in a place with poor infrastructure, where power/internet go out every few months for various reasons- so having physical copies of things is something i've been taught is wise, from experience.
As for how much of the site I got, I was able to get pretty much everything aside from a few hiccups- one page insists on linking to the internet instead of other saved pages, and the king + staircase in the first nightmare scene is broken, so I recorded a video of it for readability.
I used the fan archive to find all the secret side pages and all that- everything was saved with no problem except for the Aggy: Pass Down side story, which refused to load images.
Glad you guys like it!
And I can see how the Aggy page would break offline. I didn't play any part in it's production, but if I recall, it did something with querying an external site before deciding how much of the page to display.
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It took several hours to compile everything together. Hope you think it's cool!
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How much of the site did you manage to scrape? Just the comic itself, or also the additional stuff, like the side stories and other miscellaneous pages?
@AMKitsune It's not functionally pointless- I live in a place with poor infrastructure, where power/internet go out every few months for various reasons- so having physical copies of things is something i've been taught is wise, from experience.
As for how much of the site I got, I was able to get pretty much everything aside from a few hiccups- one page insists on linking to the internet instead of other saved pages, and the king + staircase in the first nightmare scene is broken, so I recorded a video of it for readability.
I used the fan archive to find all the secret side pages and all that- everything was saved with no problem except for the Aggy: Pass Down side story, which refused to load images.
Glad you guys like it!
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And I can see how the Aggy page would break offline. I didn't play any part in it's production, but if I recall, it did something with querying an external site before deciding how much of the page to display.
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Still hope it's not "complete" collection and we will eventually have more updates thoXD